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Abu Sa'id Al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that the Prophet (ﷺ) planted a stick in front of him, another beside it, and another farther from it, and said: "Do you know what this is?" They said: "Allah and His Messenger know best." He said: "This 1 is the human, and this is the term—I think he said: and this is the aspiration. He pursues the aspiration, but the term catches him before the aspiration."
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(۱) قوله: هذا الإنسان: أي العود الأول مثاله. وقوله: «وهذا الأجل أي وهذا العود الثاني المتصل إلى جنبه أجله، أي انتهاء عمره وانقطاع عمله. وقوله: «وهذا الأمل» أي وهذا العود الأبعد هو طول أمله. كذا في «المرقاة».