{"id":994,"date":"2020-03-10T22:21:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T14:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wanahmadnajib.com\/?p=994"},"modified":"2020-03-15T17:52:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T09:52:30","slug":"five-before-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wanahmadnajib.com\/?p=994","title":{"rendered":"Five Before Five"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s been a long day &#8211; after a long haul the night before comforting my one and only special son, followed by continuation of public worry on COVID-19, which is at the verge of being declared a pandemic, and last but not least, back to back meetings &#8211; I\u2019m low on fuel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>the health panic, which actually represents everyone\u2019s worry of unprepared death (which is never certain in the first place),<\/li><li>the forecasted economic crisis expected to be just around the corner with market crashes and actual impact on people (sudden salary cuts involving three airlines) already happening,&nbsp;<\/li><li>the busyness of work at the office where time just passes by without you noticing,<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>reminded and got me reflecting on this famous hadith:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>The Prophet (PBUH)\u00a0advised to: \u201cTake benefit of five before five:\u00a0Your youth before your old age,\u00a0your health before your sickness,\u00a0your wealth before your poverty,\u00a0your free time before you are preoccupied, and your life before your death.\u201d<\/strong> <\/p><cite><strong>Narrated by Ibn Abbas and reported by Al Hakim<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Such an apt advice for what we are facing &#8211; to reflect back on what truly matters and what exactly are we living for today.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a long day &#8211; after a long haul the night before comforting my one and only special son, followed by continuation of public worry on COVID-19, which is at the verge of being declared a pandemic, and last but not least, back to back meetings &#8211; I\u2019m low on fuel.&nbsp; But: the health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-notes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wanahmadnajib.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wanahmadnajib.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wanahmadnajib.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanahmadnajib.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanahmadnajib.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanahmadnajib.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanahmadnajib.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wanahmadnajib.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanahmadnajib.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanahmadnajib.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}