The bodily weakness will also come along with them...

The bodily weakness will also come along with them, with this difference that these movements and spiritualities are sweet and attractive when they are from the side of children, because they are some glad-tidings unto their future hopeful lives and that is why they are completely tolerable. But in relation to the old persons, they are pungent, not beautiful, and, sometimes, hateful, or pitiful.

Verily, there will come some days which will be very painful, so much so that the depth of its inconvenience is hardly considerable. This meaning has been pointed out in Surah Al-Hajj, No. 22, verse 5, where it says: “…and some of you are kept back to the worst part of life so that they know nothing after having known (much)…” .

(They will not recognize even their nearest members of their family.) However, the Qur’anic sentence /’afala ya‘qilun/ (do they not then understand) gives a wonderful remark in this regard and it tells men: if this strength and power that you have were not temporary it would not be taken from you so easy. Do know that there is another might over you which is capable of doing everything.

You must be careful of yourself before reaching that stage, and before that the mirth and beauty turns into sadness and withered state, make the best of it and provide the provision of the path of the next world in this world, since in the term of weakness, senility, and wretchedness mostly you are able to do nothing. So, one of the five things that the Prophet (S) recommended Abuthar to be careful of this very thing.

“And We have not taught him poetry, nor would it beseem him; it is naught but a Reminder and manifesting Qur’an,” One of the accusations that the Prophet (S) was charged, besides accusing him of being sorcerer, insane and soothsayer, was the accusation of being a poet. Contrast to revelation, poetry is the fruit of imagination. Contrast to revelation, poetry arises from emotions and feelings.

Contrast to revelation which is from the side of Allah and originates from the source of existence and turns on the pivot of realities, poetry is usually mixed with exaggeration.