And Allah Most High says:

“We await for him the vicissitudes of fate.”
[Al-Tūr: 30]

That is, the vicissitudes and calamities of Time.

He, glorified and exalted, also says:

“They say, ‘There is nothing but our life in this world. We die and we live, and nothing destroys us but Time.’”
[Al-Jāthiyah: 24]

He thus described their practice of attributing Allah’s decrees and actions to Time. The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, therefore said:

“Do not curse Time.”

That is, when calamities befall you, do not attribute them to Time, for it is Allah who has afflicted you with them, not Time. Yet when you curse Time, it is not Time that has brought these things about.

Abū Bakr al-Khallāl said:

I asked Ibrāhīm al-Harbī about the saying of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace:

“Let none of you say, ‘Woe to Time!’ for Allah is