31/05/2026
You wake up with fajr, a reminder of your Lord for whom you live. Then, spend the most blessed and efficient part of the morning working at your most important tasks. Not long after, as you begin to experience your afternoon slump, Allaah calls you to pray again, a refreshing reminder of your purpose. With renewed vigour, you finish up your tasks, and then you have, asr, maghrib, and isha in close proximity of each other. Then sleep.
Let's compare a day in the life of a believer to an average lifetime:
Between fajr and thuhr you have a long period. Perhaps we can compare this to the time early on in life when the youth are busy preparing for life and usually not too close to Allaah.
Then comes the time between thuhr and asr, closer together, where you are still building the dunya, but your religiosity increases, bearing in mind that your life is not getting shorter.
As we age, we become ever more conscious of the expiry date getting closer. Hence, the asr, and maghrib prayers are in quick succession. The longest, most difficult prayer just before we expire for the day. The longest, most intense, most difficult prayers, in old age, before we die.
Conclusion
The winner is he who uses his most productive period to build and prepare his paradise, knowing that with old age (if he lives long), it becomes harder to work towards his/her goals. Use your youth and good health to prepare for the life that never ends.
