The Blessed Life of Old Age
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: "The lifespan of my Ummah is between sixty and seventy years. Few of them exceed this period." [Sunan Ibn Majah]
A hadith that highlights the blessings of reaching old age: "No one reaches forty years in Islam, but Allah protects him from three: madness, leprosy, and vitiligo. When he reaches fifty, Allah makes his reckoning lighter. When he reaches sixty, Allah grants him to return to Him in a manner He loves. When he reaches seventy, the inhabitants of heaven love him. When he reaches eighty, Allah records his good deeds and erases his sins. When he reaches ninety, Allah forgives his past and future sins, permits him to intercede for his family, and he becomes the prisoner of Allah on the earth." [Musnad Ahmad]
"If a young man honors an elder person on account of his age, Allah appoints someone to show reverence to him in his old age." [At-Tirmidhi]
The Prophet (ﷺ) used to say, "O Allah! I seek refuge with You from helplessness, laziness, cowardice, and feeble old age; I seek refuge with You from afflictions of life and death and seek refuge with You from the punishment in the grave.".[Bukhari] May Allah have mercy on us. Aameen.
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