Time Management

Time Management: 

By UstadhaAwatif al Hashmi

While the non believers in Allah think what their whole time should ne spend to manage Wealth?

The believers know that it should be spend to manage our time instead

Allah swear by the Time in Surah 103 of the Wise Quran saying

-1. By Al-’ASR (the time) وَالْعَصْر

And He swear in many other ayah in the Quran Few examples below

		·      1. by the sun and its brightness.  وَالشَّمْسِ وَضُحَاهَا
		·      1By the dawn;      وَالْفَجْرِ
				·      By the night as it envelops           . وَاللَّيْلِ إِذَا يَغْشَىٰ
			·      By the forenoon (after sunrise). وَالضُّحَىٰ

Every o these creation have been make to serve human beings

So the Real question arises as t why Allah created us and makes all the creation subservient to us?

It is so that we can Worship Him

For those who believe that if everything is predestined or like the deviant sect the Jabarites, who hold that people have no free will, and are not responsible for their actions, rather they are forced! The question is why even do an effort?

But the fact of the matter is that we have to do the effort, take the means, and value our time, which is an Amana.

Allah will ask regarding it!

Time is equal to life time=life

Every breath we take is= A bit of life that went away

Money goes and come back but time only goes away and does come back around

This prove the importance of time

Even some non-believers rightly said:

Don’t listen; time will never be Just Right! - Napoleon

Live each day as the last- Steve Jobs

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.    Sydney J. Harris

While we are postponing we are wasting the time without using it

Because delaying is indeed a waste of time.

Between   success and failure stand 1 sentence!

I don’t have time!!

Unfortunately we can’t recycle time so always remember that a wise person does what a Fool does at last (both do the same thing but at different time)

A man who wastes 1 hour of his life has not discovered the value of time. Now let us do a little math here how many years have we wasted, days or even part of the day

On the day of Resurrection we will be asked

Time is a treasure

W has limited time

Here we can do amal=action

Then the hissab- how much time wasted?

Our main goal is to seek the pleasure of Allah

To worship him the way His wants.We should learn how to please him

One Bedouin said "im very kind to my father I don’t beat him”

We have to take knowledge and many thing we enterprise to be successful in dunya .day and night we strive to reach it. Naturally it can’t be a success if we did not put an effort in it

Whatever is our goal we must do the steps and do our own part of effort?

Whatever ALLAH has decreed for you could never miss you and whatever isn’t could never reach you.

WHY ARE WE RUNNING?

Many run behind the dunya – worldly gain

And few also run behind akhera –

People charge so much money for time management classes but no one can teach it better than Rassul

"The two feet of the son of Adam will not move from near his Lord on the Day of Judgment until he is asked about five (matters):- 1) about his life - how he spent it; 2) about his youth - how he took care of it; 3) about his wealth - how he earned it; 4) and where he spent it; 5) and about that which he acted upon from the knowledge that he acquired."

In another narration Our Beloved Prophet warned

The Prophet (pbuh) said:
“Take benefit of five before five:
your youth before your old age,
your health before your sickness,
your wealth before your poverty,
your free-time before your preoccupation,
and your life before your death.”
(Hakim)

What is it to spend time in the pleasure of Allah

Even to be in a majlis ilm is a fadl

Read Quran

Ebada

Stop doing and unlawful action due to fear of ALLAH

Fear of doing something which is not for the sake of ALLAH

Work ('amal) and Fear both without Love = No slave

 (And if you did remember the best of those who do mistakes are those who repent) so starts a new life for yourself with this formula

 FEAR +HOPE+LOVE= MUST BE BALANCED AT all time!

You will never waste time.

There is two moments in the Quran when people will expert regret for having wasted time

·      At the time of death

Then one is supplicating ALLAH GIVE ME Chance

The doors of forgiveness are open until the rooh (soul) reaches the gharara- throat

Allah was calling all your life to be humble obedient

·      At the time of  judgment

وَمَنْ أَرَادَ الْآخِرَةَ وَسَعَىٰ لَهَا سَعْيَهَا وَهُوَ مُؤْمِنٌ surah 17 ayah 19- And whoever desires the Hereafter and strives for it, with the necessary effort due for it (i.e. Does righteous deeds of Allah's Obedience) while he is a believer (in the Oneness of Allah

The life after death after the 1st day of akhera

So beware of running after good deed with bad niya

Allah will thank the sincere ones

Allah will never waste the believer deeds, he is the owner of this day to whom we ask

اللهُمَّ أَرِنَا الحَقَّ حَقّاً وَارْزُقْنَا التِبَاعَةَ وَأَرِنَا البَاطِلَ بَاطِلاً وَارْزُقْنَا

اجْتِنَابَهُ، بِرَحْمَتِكَ يَا أَرْحَمَ الرَّاحِمِينَ.

Allahumma arinal-haqqa haqqan warzuqnat-tiba'ah, wa arinal-batila batilan warzuqnaj-tinabah, bi rahmatika ya arhamar-rahimeen.

O Allah! Let us see the good as good, and bless us with following it. And show us the falsehood as falsehood, and bless us with staying away from it, with your mercy, O Most Merciful!

Beware!!

I f we take a classic day for most of the people it will give approximatively the hours used and wasted below

There is 168 hours in a week we should always try to analyze what we achieved

7 hours of sleep/d x 7= 49 hours/wk

8 hours of work /d x7 -56 hours/wk

1Prayer /d =7 hours/wk total is 112 hours

The difference 168 – 112= 56 hours wasted

Tips

 Make a chart everyday

Set your priorities and secondary ones: what are the tasks to be finished in the week and the minor task to accomplish.

Monday – Thursday

Ramadan

Shaban

Muhram

Hajj

The special month as well as day how it will change your pattern all should be noted

5 times adhan read your adhkar

1/d beautify your eyes with Quran (By reading)

Be blessed to be under Allah’s Ebadah all the time

RE-SET – RESET YOUR NIYYAH though you are doing normal things do it for the sake of ALLAH

Allah said in the Blessed Quran”

3 major types of emptiness

Mind empty or faraq aqli

Heart empty or farad qalb

Soul empty or farad nasl

How does the Empty Mind waste time?

When 1 listens to haqq but don’t heart it as there is a difference between the 2 listen and hear

Surah Mulk verse 10

وَقَالُوا لَوْ كُنَّا نَسْمَعُ أَوْ نَعْقِلُ مَا كُنَّا فِي أَصْحَابِ السَّعِيرِ

And they will say: "Had we but listened or used our intelligence, we would not have been among the dwellers of the blazing Fire!"

How does the Empty Heart waste time?

LISTEN TO what Allah SAYS- their heart is locked

Abu Hurairah (raa) narrated: Allah’s Messenger May peace be upon Him said :
“When a slave (a person) commits a sin (an evil deed) a black dot is dotted on his heart. Then if that person gives up that evil deed (sin), begs Allah to forgive him, and repents, then his heart is cleared (from that heart covering dot); but if he repeats the evil deed (sin), then that covering is increased till his heart is completely covered with it. And this is Ar-Ran that Allah mentioned (in the Quran),
“Nay! But on their hearts is the Ar-Ran (covering of evil deeds and sins) which they used to earn” (83:14)”

 If one is not spending time in a right way that took can affect by sealing the heart

This type of people doesn’t understand Quran/they have hearts that don’t understand. Cells connected

To the brain

UstadhaAwatif al Hashmi   gave homework about the connection between a heart/brain

Sometime heart become weak (envy hassad shirk grudge arrogance (worst disease) we don’t accept the truth from people

فِي قُلُوبِهِم مَّرَضٌ فَزَادَهُمُ اللَّهُ مَرَضًا ۖ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ بِمَا كَانُوا يَكْذِبُونَ

In their hearts is a disease (of doubt and hypocrisy) and Allah has increased their disease. A painful torment is theirs because they used to tell lies.

You do thulm,shirk, bida slander

How does the Empty Soul waste time?

Surah Shams verse 9 and 10

قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَن زَكَّاهَا

Indeed he succeeds who purifies his own self (i.e. obeys and performs all that Allah ordered, by following the true Faith of Islamic Monotheism and by doing righteous good deeds).

وَقَدْ خَابَ مَن دَسَّاهَا

And indeed he fails who corrupts his own self (i.e. disobeys what Allah has ordered by rejecting the true Faith of Islamic Monotheism or by following polytheism or by doing every kind of evil wicked deeds).

How much our heart is busy in dunya it will be the same in Akhera

How much you make things hard on yourself in the bad way

Disliking your husband – but obeying him for the sake of Allah

Imam Shafi said we always criticize time but there is no defect in time

When we curse the time we are actually cursing actually cursing Allah

5 important things

Haraqa-Focus movement –whatever you do

If you go somewhere (what is the aim, why?) charity, teaching

Socialize in the jama’ better than 1

Jalis saleh (hadith on good companionship) the prophet says (salla Allahu alaihi WA sallam) “The likeness of a righteous companion is that of the seller of musk. Either he will give you a gift, or you will buy something from him, or you will smell a pleasant fragrance from him. And the likeness of an evil companion is that of the man who works the bellows, Wither he will burn your garment or you will smell an unpleasant odor from him”

In PARADISE the people will have regret for the time wasted in Dunya

Every mn which goes it is your life which is going dear readers!

Make the most of your time and use the 5 things The Sahaba were doing

Jama’

Ittiba sunnah

Majsed

Tilawat Quran

Jihad including jehad nafs especially nowadays

We are bombarded by fitnah- so for these ideologies we have to do all time jihad ( striving) and seek Allah’s istiana

Beware of Hypocrisy

Handara-use to know the prophet’s secret he even had the list of the munafiq

He used to be behind the prophet in order to learn tactics of fitnah as I see paradise and hell he’d say

If you could be like you are when you are with me on the deathbed the angel shake hand with you

Munafiq ebadah is habit not worship

Always remember the destroyer of pleasure-Death

How do you want to go and face your lord?

We know that we are not perfect and that is between us and our Rabb

But we must have high goals, not just want and abandon on the way

Let it rain or come what may we must be firm on the path of righteousness just like

Recalled a famous quote by Ibn Taymiyyah (Rahimahullah):

"What can my enemies do to me? My garden and my Paradise are in my heart; wherever I go they are with me. If my enemies kill me, I become a martyr and if they banish me from my country, I go abroad as a tourist; and by imprisoning me, they allow me to have solitude (so that I can worship Allah)."

                                                                    

What will waste your time is following your Hawa

When we make our desires our God. Allah said”

أَفَرَأَيْتَ مَنِ اتَّخَذَ إِلَـٰهَهُ هَوَاهُ”

Have long hope

One man whose cousin was admonishing him regarding the prayer he said” Ya fulan

You are 40 years, start praying do not delay you have everything you should wish for you just inherited you 70 years old parent what prevent you to submit.

The friend responds I’m 40 but I still have 30 years left (as his parent died at 70 yrs)

But 3 days later he dies.   False desire no one knows when the end comes

Abu jahal, Pharaoh were too following their hawa (desires) look where it led them they spend their wealth fighting.

When you know your Rabb and submit to him instead of the desires you will reach a Soul mutma’inah

There is a Paradise in Dunya

If people don’t know that there is a paradise in dunya, then they won’t have it in Akhera

And it is by knowing Your Rabb

Hayya Tayyiba-where you see The Baraka (blessing) in your Mal (wealth) family time and anything you do for the sake of ALLAH

REMEMEBER IT IS NOT A MATTER OF QUANTITY BUT A MATTER OF QUALITY

ALLAH’S BARAKA

Anything you are doing in life should be about quality not quantity

SO TODAY MY DEAR READERS START TODAY” YOU ARE IN COMPETITION FOR AKHERA

Moosa (عليه الصلاة والسلام) cried when Mohamed went to Miraj + followers

Dunya oriented people are not truly happy as the sabiqoon those who cared about Akhera

Quick Advices

Time is treasure

Do not make of a small matter more than it deserve life is more valuable

Always plan strategize your time

Tasks: Always make dua=Asking ALLAH

The day you give up hope= kafir

Don’t postpone –Do good deeds in day and night

Train ourselves to upright moral and character

·       Arrogance comes from ignorance

·       Ask Allah to show our mistakes 'Umar Ibn Al-Khattaab (r.a) said: “The most beloved of people to me is the one who points out (to me) my mistakes.“ ..

·       Never envy of hold grudge against anyone Before you sleep forgive everyone

The Messenger of Allah (sallaAllahu 'alayhi wasallam) was sitting with a group of the sahabah (RAA) in the masjid and he said "A man will now enter [who is] from the people of Paradise." and a sahabi walked in. Later it happened again, and then a third time. 'Abdullah ibn 'Amr ibn al-'aas (RAA) wanted to find out what was so special about this man, so he asked the man if he can stay over his house for 3 days. (He made up an excuse). The man allowed him to stay. 'Abdullah noticed that the man didn't do anything out of the ordinary: He didn't fast all the time, he slept some of the night and prayed some of the night, and so on. So after the 3 days, 'Abdullah told him the real reason why he requested to stay with him, and he asked him what it was that could be the reason why he was from the people of Jannah.

The man (RA) couldn't think of anything, but after a bit he said "Every night, before I go to sleep, I forgive whoever has wronged me. I remove any bad feelings towards anyone from my heart." (Something similar to that

·       Never mock Remember the Sahaba laughing at another cause he had thin legs but Rasul (saw) said they will be heavier than mount Uhud on judgment day.

·      Or use time gossiping Allah praised such action in the Quran: "If they hear gossip, they walk away" (Quran 28:55).

·      Leave what Has nothing to do with you “Do not concern yourself with things about which you have no knowledge. Verily, your hearing, sight, and heart -- all of them will be called to account" (Quran 17:36)

·      Refrain yourself from argument  Rasul Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) said: Whoever does not argue when he is in the wrong will have a home built for him on the edge of Paradise. Whoever avoids it when he is in the right will have a home built for him in the middle of Paradise. And whoever improves his own character, a home will be built for him in the highest part of Paradise. (Tirmidhi)

·       Refrain from disobeying

·       Use your time as saddaqa