We have all heard this advice time and time again. Yet, often we won't even give it a second thought. 17 seconds, that's all it is! Don't just listen to the words that Abu Suhailah 'Umar Quinn (hafidhahullah Ta'ala) narrates for Abul-'Aaliyah (rahimahullah Ta'ala) from the Tabi'een adivised. Rather, reflect and contemplate over the much deeper mean and the apply it to your own life to see how close or far your reality is from it.
It was extracted from lecture that I posted titled: Learn Your Religion.
Possibly the most famous narration from Abul-ʿAaliyah (rahimahullah Ta'ala) is the following, where he said:
"There are two blessings I have been blessed with, I know not which of them is greatest: that Allah guided me to Islam, and that he did not make me a Ḥaruri (from the Khawarij extremists)." [Abdur-Razzaq as-Ṣanʿani, al-Muṣannaf, Hadith 18667]