Commonplaces from The Value of Time by Shaykh Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghuddah
Posted on February 18th, 2017
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if one knew how to benefit from it, if one managed one’s time well, and avoided falling into excessiveness in speech, food, gatherings and meetings. Thus one would achieve the most eminent legacies and the best and most lasting of deeds.Read more at location 86 • Delete this highlight
For the value given to time by philosophers is unlike that given to it by merchants, which is yet different from the value given to it by farmers, craftsmen, soldiers, politicians, young, old, and is yet valued differently by the students of knowledge and scholars. I am only concerned—in this book—with the value of time to students and people of knowledge,Read more at location 98 • Delete this highlight
the resolve of students has weakened, and the industrious students have become negligent, and where it has become rare to find a student burning with desire to acquire knowledge. Thus, genius qualities have disappeared and idleness and lethargy prevail, and failure and backwardness have become apparent in the ranks of the people of knowledge and the works that they produce.Read more at location 102 • Delete this highlight