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2333. Mujāhid narrated that Ibn 'Umar said: "The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ grabbed me on part of my body and said: 'Be in the world like a stranger or a passerby, and count yourself among the inhabitants of the grave.'" Ibn 'Umar said to me: "When you wake up in the morning, then do not concern yourself with the evening. And when you reach the evening, then do not concern yourself with the morning. Take from your health before your illness, and from your life before your death, for indeed
O slave of Allāh! You do not know what your description shall be tommorow.” (Sahīh)
(Another chain) with similar narration.
This Hadīth has been reported by Al-A’maṣh from Mujāhid, from Ibn ‘Umar [from the Prophet ﷺ] similarly.
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Just as a traveler does not regard the foreign territory or the path that he traverses as his home, and makes no elaborate arrangements for himself there, it behooves the believer residing in this world as well, not to consider it as his permanent abode, but take this worldly life as transient, and prepare himself for the abiding life of the Hereafter as seriously as though he were seeing it before his eyes.
