have to find the right time to give the advice, the right time and right setting to
give the advice. I’m not saying that setting has to be the masjid alone, but you
have to be intelligent enough to know when is a good time to talk about
something that will actually carry impact. You’re trying to give a brother advice
and he’s on the phone. That’s probably not a good time. Let him finish his
conversation; let him not be busy with something else when you talk to him.
Even that is embedded inside
wa-ḍrib lahum
.
(O Prophet), propound to them the parable of the present life: it is like
the vegetation of the earth which flourished luxuriantly when it
mingled with the water that We sent down from the sky, but after that
the same vegetation turned into stubble which the winds blew about.
Allah alone has the power over all things.
(Al-Kahf 18: 45)
And what does Allah do at the end of this example of the two gardeners? He
says:
mathal al-ḥayāt al-dunyā
let me give you
an example of worldly life
altogether; all worldly life. The word
al-ḥayāt
itself—‘life’—when you say life
to anybody, for example, when you say to a non-muslim, ‘How’s life, man?’
He’s not going to think life in the hereafter. When you say, ‘How’s life?’, what
they are thinking of is this life—how is your life right now? Every human being
understands when you say
al-ḥayāt
, it means life right now. But Allah says:
al-
ḥayāt al-dunyā
—He adds the word
al-dunyā
, and some ulama, like Ibn ʿĀshūr,
comment:
fīhi maʿānī al-ḥaqārah
—it actually includes
the meanings of putting
something down. Allah says give them the example of the lowest form of life.
Dunyā
actually comes from
adnā
—it’s the feminine form of
adnā
, and the verb
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