وَ الْعَصْرِۙ(۱) اِنَّ الْاِنْسَانَ لَفِیْ خُسْرٍۙ(۲) اِلَّا الَّذِیْنَ اٰمَنُوْا وَ عَمِلُوا الصّٰلِحٰتِ وَ تَوَاصَوْا بِالْحَقِّ ﳔ وَ تَوَاصَوْا بِالصَّبْرِ۠(۳)

Translation from Kanz-ul-Iman: By this era of the beloved (Prophet Muhammad). Indeed mankind is surely in loss. Except those who believed (in Islam), and did good deeds and advised one another towards truth (i.e. all kinds of good deeds), and advised one another to have patience (i.e. at the time of any kinds of suffering) (Part 30, Surah Al-‘Asr, Ayah 1-3)

The renowned commentator of Glorious Quran, Mufti Ahmad Yar Khan Na’eemi رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه has stated: The man is wasting his true capital, (i.e.) his life, in Kufr [disbelief]; sin; heedlessness; seeking the world and in fun and amusement. He does not make it a mean for making his Hereafter better. Man is a trader, life is his shop and his deeds are the products of his shop. If the products [i.e. deeds] are good, then Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ buys them and Paradise is their price. If they are bad, then Satan is the buyer and Hell is their price. Who the buyer is, depends on the product. (Noor-ul-‘Irfan, pp. 994)

Similarity between age and ice

Imam Fakhruddin Raazi رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه has quoted a blessed saying of a blessed saint رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه: I understood the meaning of Surah Al-‘Asr from an ice-seller who was calling aloud in the marketplace, ‘Have mercy on the one whose capital is melting. Have mercy on the one whose capital is melting.’ Listening to it, I said to myself: This is the meaning of ‘اِنَّ الْاِنْسَانَ لَفِیْ خُسْرٍۙ(۲)’ (Translation from Kanz-ul-Iman: Indeed mankind is surely in loss). (He further states): Therefore, the one whose life is being spent uselessly will be among those who suffer a loss. (Tafseer Kabeer, vol. 11, pp. 278)

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب    صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد