[SPEAKER_00]: brothers and sisters that all of the people of the past who were successful in being of a good influence to the people around them.
[SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, just before we continue apologies, if I am raising my voice, I think there was a hiccup with the microphone that I was supposed to be using.
[SPEAKER_00]: So pardon me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Every individual of the past who was considered to be an exemplar, a role model, a person who did something useful with his life, a person who was seen with the light of positivity, every one of those individuals of the past brothers and sisters, beginning with the prophets and messengers, moving down to the Sahada and every other revivalist and reformer, you will find that every single one of them
[SPEAKER_00]: possessed a reoccurring trait, a characteristic that was present in every single one of these individuals.
[SPEAKER_00]: This characteristic is the following, that they were all extremely stingy and tight-fested when it came to their time.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is amazing Subhanallah.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were not generous at all with their time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very stingy with their time.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Subhanallah at a time when we find the most precious thing that we possess is time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yet with many people, Subhanallah, the most generous thing that they are in terms of issuing is not their wealth.
[SPEAKER_00]: Subhanallah, it is their time.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the issue outside of us here at the moment is a prime example of this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not to accuse that the people is at the issue right now are wasting time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe they are doing something useful.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe they need a break, but we can say safely for the most part, time is considered a very cheap commodity.
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of Hanoate, he says in the Quran,
[SPEAKER_00]: Lita Alamu'a'ada, the Sineenahu al-Hisaba.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah says, He was the one, listen carefully to this beautiful verse.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was the one who placed the sun as a shining lamp.
[SPEAKER_00]: And He made the moon a diffractor of that light, or a borer of light.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then He said, and Allah proportioned these planets in phases,
[SPEAKER_00]: Why?
[SPEAKER_00]: So that you may know the number of years and the account of time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Focus, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is saying the creator of the Sun and the Moon.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's saying that one of their prime functions which I have endowed them in the universe is so that oh you oh man, you may recognize the value of your time.
[SPEAKER_00]: You may able to recognize what year you're in and therefore not fall into the pits of uselessness.
[SPEAKER_00]: so that you are aware of your hours and your seconds and your days and your weeks.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allahu Akbar.
[SPEAKER_00]: Rather, and this is even more amazing.
[SPEAKER_00]: The people of the Hellfire and ask Allah to protect you and I from the fire.
[SPEAKER_00]: We are told Subhanallah that as they rose, as they burn in the Hellfire, it will be said to them, this is your fault for wasting your time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine?
[SPEAKER_00]: They will be spoken to and they will be blamed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Blame for what?
[SPEAKER_00]: For wasting their time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Out of all the other things that they could have been told, the aspect of time is mentioned.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah says, and as they burn in the hellfire, they will scream.
[SPEAKER_00]: May Allah protect us from this.
[SPEAKER_00]: They will scream, and they will say, O Allah, please allow us to exit from the fire.
[SPEAKER_00]: We will do righteousness, not like what we used to do in the past.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen to the response.
[SPEAKER_00]: It will be said to them, O Alhamdulillah, I am Mirakum.
[SPEAKER_00]: May Allah be pleased with Him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Unless the eye that will save to them, did we not give you a life long enough?
[SPEAKER_00]: You want to go back now when you want to sort your affairs out now?
[SPEAKER_00]: Did I not give you a life long enough?
[SPEAKER_00]: So that a person who wants to receive admonition, could receive it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah will save Azuqu, therefore, taste the fire.
[SPEAKER_00]: There will be no helper for the wrongdoer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it will be said to them.
[SPEAKER_00]: To bring to surface these meanings that we are speaking about now pertaining to the hours and seconds which Allah has endowed you with.
[SPEAKER_00]: He would say, as was narrated by Imam Uttar Medi with a sound chain of narration.
[SPEAKER_00]: On the authority of every barzat al-Assalam-e'ith, listen to this Hadith, He would say, Laat Azul, lukkada, Ma'a, Abid, Niyahu, Malkaya, Matihata, Yus, Al-A'an, Arba.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your feet will not move on the day of resurrection until you are asked about four questions.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your feet will not move.
[SPEAKER_00]: Meaning you're not going anywhere until you provide an answer.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you are asked a question, naturally this means that you are required to provide an answer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah Allah, what is the first of the four?
[SPEAKER_00]: And Ramodihi Fima Afna.
[SPEAKER_00]: about his life and how he used it.
[SPEAKER_00]: About his life and how he used it, focus if one Subhanallah, how the very first question that you will be asked as you stand in the court of Allah, Yomun Qiyana, will be about your time, about your life, not about your Hajj, not about your Umrah,
[SPEAKER_00]: Not about your hijab or your beard, not about your salat or your Zekha even and all of these things are important without a doubt.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the first of them is about the time, what did you do with your time, your Islam?
[SPEAKER_00]: And in another narration, the Prophet ﷺ said, and shabab, he is Imam Afna.
[SPEAKER_00]: The first he will be asked about is about his youth.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the first was speaking about time, generally, this one is specifically to the time of youth.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I believe every one of you here falls under that category by the permission of Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Youth is a privilege.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it is a very flating and temporal privilege which will not remain forever.
[SPEAKER_00]: Rather, youth, yet Islam, I compare it to a period of strength which is shrouded with weakness.
[SPEAKER_00]: Focus with me.
[SPEAKER_00]: These are important words about love.
[SPEAKER_00]: The spirit of youth that you are enjoying right now, and it seems to feel as if it's eternal.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is a period of strength, a transient period of strength, but it's surrounded with weakness.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is a period of weakness before it, and a period of weakness after it, as Allah mentions,
[SPEAKER_00]: then instantly what the Maja alam in bhaad iquhwati in bhafam was shaybat i then after that period of strength you return back to weakness and grey hair Allahu Akbar, a period, a transient period of strength and enjoyment Subhan Allah but it is shrouded with weakness a weakness before it i.e.
[SPEAKER_00]: when you were still a child dependent on the breast and the milk of your mother
[SPEAKER_00]: And the period of weakness after it when you shall become like a child.
[SPEAKER_00]: But now dependent upon the machines of the hospital that you are in.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Subhana Laiya Ikhuan and me and Brother Ihan were just speaking about this a moment ago that hard work now, hard work now whilst you are still in your prime, hard work is an enjoyment, hard work is fun, feeling that you need to catch up on sleep because you're doing something productive and useful, that's fun while life is enjoyment, despite that it is a little bit difficult.
[SPEAKER_00]: But a few years down the line, this hard work, it will become hard work.
[SPEAKER_00]: It will become a back aid.
[SPEAKER_00]: It will become sleepless nights.
[SPEAKER_00]: It will become pills that you need to take.
[SPEAKER_00]: Enjoy it to ask you, Kenya.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you want, this is very transient.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, La, he, there was a old man, who's a panellat, he was very senile and old, and he had become fragile.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in fact, his back had bent over, developed a hunch, and now it looked like an arch, or like the shape of a bow.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he was walking this poor old man who came across a youth.
[SPEAKER_00]: A very deviant youth, a waste full youth of his time.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the youth he began to mock the old man, and he says to him, you are such an old man.
[SPEAKER_00]: At the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning, at the beginning,
[SPEAKER_00]: Because if Allah ta'ala gives you life long enough, Allah will give you a bow for free.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't worry.
[SPEAKER_00]: But at the moment that you're in now, your body responds to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you say to your body, let's go, let's pray extra.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your body says, I've got your back, let's go.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm ready.
[SPEAKER_00]: You've got the strength.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you want to fast extra days, one day's and Thursdays, your body says, let's go.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm ready.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you want to lower your gaze, you'll put out about habit.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have the ability now, because you're still strong.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you want to tour and travel the world and do something useful for the sake of Allah, Subhanallah, Alah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or for the sake of your world, the affairs, your body allows you to do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Even if you want to commit a sin, your body allows you.
[SPEAKER_00]: You want a phonicate, may Allah protect us.
[SPEAKER_00]: You want to drink alcohol.
[SPEAKER_00]: You want a flat.
[SPEAKER_00]: You want a boy ride.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your body helps you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is why the period of youth is something that Allah will ask you firstly and foremost about your Malkyama, because it is a very temporal privilege, but in this period of time, many things in your life are decided.
[SPEAKER_00]: What are you doing with your time, Makhwan?
[SPEAKER_00]: It is an remarkable observation that everybody of the past who was successful in being, I could influence to those around him or her and left a very strong mark behind him an allegacy
[SPEAKER_00]: Subhanallah all of them, as we mentioned, were stingy with their time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen to the words of Al-Hasan on Basireen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Al-Basireen, who was one of the Tabi'a'in.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they would say, Subhanallah, the speech of Al-Hasan, Qan'a, Yusbe, Qalam al-Anbi'a, the words of Al-Hasan was similar to the words of the prophets and messengers.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah waqa.
[SPEAKER_00]: He would say, Laqad al-Draq to Akwa man.
[SPEAKER_00]: Qanu ash-shad-d-d-hero-san'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'
[SPEAKER_00]: He would say, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: A transaction that he failed, a child who passed out, and he could have done something to... What is the most regretful thing for Abdel life in Masaloud, the Sahab, the companions who were raised by Muhammad Sassan, and he says, it is to see the son of a day setting, knowing that a day of my life has left me for good, and my good deeds did not increase during that day.
[SPEAKER_00]: This was the most regretful thing that could ever happen to us al-Habi, Allah al-Aqwa.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen Subhanallah to the words of Ibn Al-Jawzi.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ibn Al-Jawzi, have you heard of him?
[SPEAKER_00]: Ibn Al-Jawzi, you all know of the sheer number of books that he has author.
[SPEAKER_00]: This guy has author, no less than thirty titles, and he has a big legacy behind him.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, actually, when he came to pass away, he left the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a strange world.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, please, when you come to wash my body,
[SPEAKER_00]: I want you to heat up the water that you will use to wash my body using the sharpening of my pencil.
[SPEAKER_00]: Meaning that he had authored and written so much and he had kept the sharpening that it was enough to burn it and create enough heat to heat up the water to wash his body and so panellow when he passed away.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is exactly what they did and there was sharpening left over as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nojouzi, hundreds of years ago, but we still speak about Him today.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen to the words of Him, nojouzi, Himself, and how He took care of His time on His seconds, and He will find out why.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, speaking about the time oysters, speaking about those who reside at the Shishalanges, speaking about those who have nothing to speak, but so I leave, check chat.
[SPEAKER_00]: And nojouzi, listen to what He says.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, well, I have a moment there, Lika, a namomiyakzuna na fiboyotina.
[SPEAKER_00]: Leantahib Umin, O Kati Nala, Yajim wa Adaihan.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, What is even worse?
[SPEAKER_00]: About these time-waters is that they invade our house sometimes.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they want to visit us and say hello.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, This is the calamity.
[SPEAKER_00]: They want to come to my house and visit me to steal from my time, too.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, I tried my best to read of them, but I really couldn't.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why?
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, because some of them are validators.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some of them are in laws, and some of them are neighbors.
[SPEAKER_00]: We have a right upon you, Abnal Joseph.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we want to sit with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he says, well, Anala, Astafid, Umin, Mojal, Astafid.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't benefit from sitting with them.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what was the solution?
[SPEAKER_00]: What does Abnal Joseph do?
[SPEAKER_00]: Look at, look at an individual.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, if one who was very awake and very aware of his seconds and his hours.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah will acquire a man who understood that time is a privilege.
[SPEAKER_00]: Time is a commodity.
[SPEAKER_00]: Our irreplaceable commodity, as we shall hear about in a moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: What was the solution for Ebb Nojouzi?
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, what I did was that I began to dedicate the matters which do not require much mental thought to do when I have these guests.
[SPEAKER_00]: So when they would not be here, I would author, I would pray, I would think, I would contemplate, I would do these mentally exhausting things then.
[SPEAKER_00]: But when I would have visitors coming to visit me, I would sharpen my pencils.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would sew my books because the books needed sewing back then.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would prepare my papers.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, therefore, these things don't need massive amounts of mental faculties, so I can do it simultaneously and speak to them as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allahu Akbar.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is why we still say, if Nuljouzi said, if Nuljouzi, if Nuljouzi, if Nuljouzi's opinion is because of his preciousness and how he deemed his time as precious, how many of us have heard of if Nuljouzi said, and had belly?
[SPEAKER_00]: Abu Dwarfah.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is the author of the biggest book in history.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah Allah, what I must say, Abu Lwaffa, I'm not telling you how big was the book, does anybody know?
[SPEAKER_00]: How many volumes?
[SPEAKER_00]: Take a guess.
[SPEAKER_00]: Take a guess, throw out the number.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nothing?
[SPEAKER_00]: Throw out the number.
[SPEAKER_00]: One volume.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we know that there are books bigger than one volume.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ten volumes.
[SPEAKER_00]: No.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anything bigger.
[SPEAKER_00]: Eight hundred volumes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Each volume is about four hundred pages.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I will leave you to work that out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right?
[SPEAKER_00]: I would even not appeal.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not like he was some sort of worship or up in the mountain, somewhere by himself or nothing better to do than to write his book called Alfonon the Sciences.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now he was a father, he had kids, he was a judge, he was a scholar, he was involved with the community's affairs, he was problem solving.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah, what he had to wife, but he had time in his spare time to also the biggest book in history.
[SPEAKER_00]: How was he able to do that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen, I'm not saying he explains himself and he says,
[SPEAKER_00]: I have condemned it, I deem it in permissible upon myself to waste a single moment in my life.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, he says, he says, I am so eager and so conscious about where my time goes, that I eat biscuits and drink water straight after.
[SPEAKER_00]: So instead of eating pizza, instead of eating bread, which requires a lot of time to chew, and then swallow, he says, I eat biscuits, and then I quickly drink water afterwards to soften the biscuit, and therefore I can just swallow it without having to chew, and he says the time that I make out of that, I can read forty extra ayat of the Qur'an.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah wa Akbar.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he says, I would place a pair of shoes on every one of the doors to my house.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if I ever need to leave the house quickly for something, I don't have to go looking for shoes.
[SPEAKER_00]: I quickly pick up the shoes and I leave.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is how they reached what they reached and this is why after all these hundreds of years we are still speaking about these names and their reward is perpetually increasing in their graves.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because they were clenched about their time.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were very aware about their time.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you have Subhanallah, the lunch of Salih Marazi, the author of the famous Stephster.
[SPEAKER_00]: My Fatiha La Reib, and we will be quoting something from Mr. Serra in a moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: Subhanallah, he would be authoring and authoring and writing.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then Subhanallah, when his pencil goes blunt, he would be seeing working up and sharpening his pencil and his lips would be moving.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then his students understood that he was moving his lips with the remembrance of Allah, so that the moments he spends sharpening his pencil do not go to waste.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Iqwah and Subhanallah, this is amazing.
[SPEAKER_00]: They understood the reality of time.
[SPEAKER_00]: This moment that you are witnessing right now will never come again.
[SPEAKER_00]: This moment here now, okay, seven or six to three.
[SPEAKER_00]: It shall never ever come again.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ever.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what have you done with that moment?
[SPEAKER_00]: Alhamdulillah, this is a gathering which you can aspire that it will be rewarded.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is nilla.
[SPEAKER_00]: But when you hear what will you do?
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, when we hear these examples of Ibn Al-Ahti and Hanbeli and Salimarrazi and how you know precise they were about where they have channeled their time, a lot of us may think, yeah, Huang, come on, I mean, this is too much.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I mean, those extra seconds that you get by swallowing your wet cake as opposed to chewing bread.
[SPEAKER_00]: Does it really make all of that difference?
[SPEAKER_00]: And the response is, yes, it makes a big difference.
[SPEAKER_00]: It makes a difference to a person who knows the value of his time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because a person who does not value his seconds will not value his what?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because minutes.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you do not value your minutes, you will also find yourself not valuing your hours.
[SPEAKER_00]: And usually those who don't value their hours also don't value their days and their years.
[SPEAKER_00]: So year upon year, upon year paths, upon individual X, and you speak to him and he hasn't changed one bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: You meet him and then you meet him again after two or three years and his memorization of the Quran is exactly the same.
[SPEAKER_00]: And his manners with Allah and his messenger and the Muslims is exactly the same.
[SPEAKER_00]: And his fear and thought and his level of iman is exactly the same.
[SPEAKER_00]: And his knowledge about Islam, it hasn't changed one bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: And his ability to lower his gaze and her dress hasn't changed one bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: But these individuals valued their seconds, and that's why they were always in the state of better minutes.
[SPEAKER_00]: These were the people whom the Prophet Alaihissalatu was salam love and admired.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those amongst his Sahaba whom he saw had a thirst and an eagerness to invest every one of the breaths which they take.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those amongst his companions when he saw were always asking, useful and productive questions pertaining to their e-man and pertaining to their grave and pertaining to their he wrapped up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those were the Sahaba whom the Prophet ﷺ loved.
[SPEAKER_00]: Abu Huraira once poses a question to the Prophet ﷺ. Imam Al-Mukhari narrates only authority of Abu Huraira.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ was asked,
[SPEAKER_00]: Who will be the happiest person with your intercession on the day of judgment?
[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ admired this question a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said to Abu Huraira,
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, Abu Huraira, I suspect that nobody would ever ask me about this question before you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because I saw how eager you are to learn my hadith.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then he said, he happy with person, with my intercession on the day of judgment will be Manakalala Ilahah Allah Khalis Al-Minqalbe, will be a person who says, La Ilahah Allah sincerely from the heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look at the admiration of the Prophet ﷺ of Abu Hureira because of how eager he was to make use of his time, a person who looks at his schedule on his day.
[SPEAKER_00]: will find that he has time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even those who are genuinely busy, even those who genuinely got a lot to do, they got a family that they've got to provide for, maybe they're even students of Islamic knowledge, maybe they are the presidents of an ISO.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe she is responsible for a husband and a children and a home, but she is taking care of, maybe this person is busy with their studies, et cetera, et cetera.
[SPEAKER_00]: Regardless of how busy you are, if you look at your schedule with an eye of honesty, you will notice you can free up an hour at least.
[SPEAKER_00]: You would look for example at your eating.
[SPEAKER_00]: You will find that you spend about maybe forty minutes behind the table.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you don't need to spend forty minutes eating.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can spend maybe twenty minutes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: That's twenty minutes already freed up for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now you look at your sleeping patterns.
[SPEAKER_00]: You sleep eight hours a night.
[SPEAKER_00]: For example, you can deduct from that half an hour surely.
[SPEAKER_00]: Take from it just thirty minutes.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to say an hour if it adds too optimistic.
[SPEAKER_00]: I won't say stay awake after Virgin if that's too optimistic.
[SPEAKER_00]: They deduct from which it's not a minute.
[SPEAKER_00]: So instantly you've got fifty minutes that are open up for you to do something useful in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now look at your for example.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your interactions.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look at the phone because you make throughout the day.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look at the unnecessary browsing you do on Facebook.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look at etc etc etc.
[SPEAKER_00]: You will find that there is a lot of time wasted there as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: Did that from that say another twenty minutes?
[SPEAKER_00]: That's all.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah who Akbar.
[SPEAKER_00]: Low and behold in just this quick build of analysis related together.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have over an hour-free golden and pure hour waiting for you to invest it in something useful, maybe in the memorization of Nakodaan, maybe in the study of the book of Tafseer, maybe in the reading of a book, which you want to finish, you have an hour now waiting to improve yourself, to improve your manners, to improve your e-man.
[SPEAKER_00]: So everybody can do that, can you pose this upon yourself?
[SPEAKER_00]: We mentioned that Arrasi said something beautiful,
[SPEAKER_00]: in his tafseer which pertains more to the topic of today's specific lady chapter of Al-Asar.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why Allah so Hana wa Ta'ala takes an oath by time?
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen to his words in his book, Mathati Hularei, and these are really beautiful words.
[SPEAKER_00]: Focus with me because they need your attention and thought.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, Laubayata, Al-Fasanatin min Omurika, Fimaleani, Al-Fasanat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Minoram or Iqa.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: And then just before this individual passes away, he repents to Allah because of his wastage of his time.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, what happens?
[SPEAKER_00]: Does this person go to Paradise or Hell?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because to Paradise, for eternity, if he is lucky enough to repent before he dies and before his soul reaches his throat, despite the one thousand years that he has wasted,
[SPEAKER_00]: his place will be in paradise forever.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says therefore we conclude from this that that flash of a moment before he died when he repented to Allah was the most beneficial moment in his entire life because now he is in paradise.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you see what Imam Razi is saying?
[SPEAKER_00]: He's saying that if an individual who waste all this time of his life not doing anything useful with his body and his soul and his ears and his ability to write an author, you waste all those years.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then just before you die, you repent.
[SPEAKER_00]: And because of that moment, you enter Jenna, imagine an individual, so Hanna La, who spends his entire life doing what that man did at the last moment of his life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Imagine your status with Allah, so Hanna La, imagine if every night you are repenting to Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Imagine if every day you are doing something productive with your time.
[SPEAKER_00]: How will your status be with Allah, so Hanna La, the Hanna?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is the meaning clear about the ancestors?
[SPEAKER_00]: And that is why Imam Arrazi, he conclude and he says, Khalid Ali Qaqsam Allahul, Bill Wakt.
[SPEAKER_00]: Khalid Ali Qaqsam Allahul, Bill Waktul, Bill Waktul, Bill Waktul, Bill Waktul, Bill Waktul, Bill Waktul, Bill Waktul, Bill Waktul, Bill Waktul, Bill Waktul,
[SPEAKER_00]: How many times in the Qur'an does Allah the Almighty take on oath upon time?
[SPEAKER_00]: When Allah's Subhanahu wa Ta'ala makes an oath upon something ye Iqwan,
[SPEAKER_00]: It is not just to show you the value of what is about to be said, but it is also drawing your attention to the value of the object of oath.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is important when you read the Quran.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you say, I swear by Allah, when you say this, we understand that you are about to say something important, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: But we also understand the greatness of the object of oath, Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because you chose to take an oath by the name of Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nobody takes an oath on something fleaable.
[SPEAKER_00]: I swear by the banana.
[SPEAKER_00]: I swear by the bottle of water.
[SPEAKER_00]: Putting aside that we're not allowed to do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: We can only swear by the name of Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you swear only on the things that are very important and impressive.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we hear people hear saying, oh my mama's life.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I buy my dad's life, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because your mom's life is very expensive to you and very dear.
[SPEAKER_00]: Although, as I mentioned, it is only upon Allah we can take an oath.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is why Allah takes an oath upon time to show you the value of the object of oath, to draw you attention to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah is saying, wake up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wake up, oh Muslims, wake up to the reality of time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah says, what Buhah?
[SPEAKER_00]: I swear by thee, by the morning hours.
[SPEAKER_00]: Time.
[SPEAKER_00]: I swear by the night.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, Fajr, I swear by dawn.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wala Asa.
[SPEAKER_00]: I swear by time, I swear by time.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is to draw your attention to the importance of time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Al-Hasanul-Basri.
[SPEAKER_00]: Once again, Al-Hasanul-Basri.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, you have been an Adam, O son of Adam.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen to these words, it is a cure, Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you have been an Adam, in the name of the ayam.
[SPEAKER_00]: either they have a young man, they have a baby, a son of Adam, you are but days.
[SPEAKER_00]: A son of Adam, you are made up of days.
[SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, when a day leads you, part of your body has left you.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is beautiful.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, the analogy of this, you know, when we were still kids, we used to love to maybe, you know, take out the dandelion, when the stalks of this dandelion had dried, and we used to like to run with this dandelion across the streets, and we would marvel at how the little white puffs would fly away from the dandelion.
[SPEAKER_00]: Remember, I used to do that myself.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it was a bit of a girly thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: It made a loss of panel with all of her give me.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're running with the Dandelion and these puffs are falling away from me.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, Panalaya Ekwarnis analogy really is how we are as human beings on earth.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're all running.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody is running.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, for a cause.
[SPEAKER_00]: For better or for worse, somebody chasing after his D, somebody chasing after his dunya.
[SPEAKER_00]: Somebody, everybody is running and stressing for a cause.
[SPEAKER_00]: And guess what?
[SPEAKER_00]: Part of you is leaving you behind and you're not even aware.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you know Adam, you are made out of days.
[SPEAKER_00]: And therefore, one part of you, one, one of the days, goes part of you has gone.
[SPEAKER_00]: In the name of Allah, the name of Allah, the name of Allah, the name of Allah, the name of Allah, the name of Allah, the name of Allah, the name of Allah, the name of Allah, the name of Allah, the name of Allah, the name of Allah, the name of Allah, the name of Allah, the name of Allah, the name of Allah, the name of Allah, the name of Allah, the name of Allah, the name of Allah, the name of Allah, the name of Allah, the name of Allah, the name of Allah, the name of Allah, the name of Allah,
[SPEAKER_00]: How would it be then if Allah da'ala has given you both of those blessings and we are wasting them both?
[SPEAKER_00]: He's given you health, but you're wasting that health in idleness, in uselessness, in apathy, destroying your health with cigarettes, with drugs, with phonication,
[SPEAKER_00]: How would it be if Allah has given you health, but also the second blessing is well-time?
[SPEAKER_00]: And that blessing is also being wasted.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not just the last brothers and sisters.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the meaning of loss.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the pinnacle of loss.
[SPEAKER_00]: Rather, this is suicide.
[SPEAKER_00]: We say that we're killing our time, you're killing yourself.
[SPEAKER_00]: The problem is that we only see suicide as constituting
[SPEAKER_00]: of a person who takes out a gun and puts its barrel on his throat and pulls the trigger, that's suicide to us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or suicide is a person who purposely takes an overdose of medicine.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or suicide is a person who plunges himself out of a window of a skyscraper.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or suicide is a person who leaves in front of a speeding train to us.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is what constitutes a suicide.
[SPEAKER_00]: But a person who waste his time, which we said is his body and his life, we don't see that as suicide, perhaps because there's no blood involved.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you know the latter, I eat the wasting of time, that's more horrific than the examples I just gave you.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know why, it's one?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because it's a slow death.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a slow and gradual death.
[SPEAKER_00]: The one who is wasting his time, and that is how I want you, my brothers and sisters, to see those who waste their time, as committers of suicide.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, forget about the Harakiri, forget about the Surti,
[SPEAKER_00]: and forget about the kamikazis.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the suicide.
[SPEAKER_00]: You see, in the visual wasting his life when a shisha lounge put aside that this is Haram?
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a person who was committing suicide.
[SPEAKER_00]: You see, a person who was spending his God-given hours behind the mirror checking out his hair all the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is suicide.
[SPEAKER_00]: An individual who spends his or her time checking out the latest fashion in the industry is suicide.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whether we see it or not, it really is, yeah, it's what?
[SPEAKER_00]: Salimarrazi mentioned that the most valuable part of a person's life is that, where you are doing something constructive, something useful.
[SPEAKER_00]: Remember we mentioned this quote from his deathseer, he is saying that the true life of a human being is not measured by the number of years that you live.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a very important principle and we have almost finished now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your true life, your real life is not measured by the day in which you are born to the day you shall return back to the grave.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not your true life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your true life is what you spend amidst those years doing something productive for your dean or your dunya.
[SPEAKER_00]: You may have an individual who has lived one hundred years, but his account with Allah is zero.
[SPEAKER_00]: Rather, he may be in minus because he's committing sins and he hasn't repented from them.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's in debt, even.
[SPEAKER_00]: To the other hand, you may find an individual who's twenty-five years old.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, seventy-five years younger than the former example, but his account with Allah is packed out in a way which only Allah knows.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because he may use of those twenty-five years.
[SPEAKER_00]: Tell me, if you want for the sake of Allah, who lived longer for real?
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you want to hunt it, you won't?
[SPEAKER_00]: or the twenty-five year old.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your true life is measured, not by the number of years that you live and extend, it's what you do in those years even if those years are few, that is your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ, how old was he?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is one when he passed away?
[SPEAKER_00]: Sixty-three years old.
[SPEAKER_00]: How long was his period of Prophethood?
[SPEAKER_00]: How long?
[SPEAKER_00]: Twenty-three years.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's all.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yet look at what he did in those two twenty-three years by the permission of Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: He managed to gather and honour that was scattered and fighting and quarrelling.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he brought them together to pray to the same piblah Allah wa Akbar.
[SPEAKER_00]: And honour, who was ignorant and he educated them by the permission of Allah and they became the scholars of this Allah wa Akbar.
[SPEAKER_00]: And people who are at each other's throats
[SPEAKER_00]: Fiting over a camel and now Subhanallah that brotherhood between them is inseparable.
[SPEAKER_00]: An Asian of leaders, a nation of imams, praying to the same Allah, sacrificing to the same Allah, calling upon to the same Allah in twenty-three years.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah?
[SPEAKER_00]: Abu Bakr-e-Nen-Siddir, Ya'ikh-wan, how long with his Qilafah?
[SPEAKER_00]: Two years, three months and ten days.
[SPEAKER_00]: yet look what he did in those two years, which we consider nothing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Two years is how a lot of us, or as long as long as some of us spend, praying is Dihara, because I intend to ensure Allah memorise the Qur'an.
[SPEAKER_00]: Two, three, four years past, and you still praying is Dihara.
[SPEAKER_00]: You had one, we need to begin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Two years, and look what he did in those two years.
[SPEAKER_00]: Subhanallah, he took out all of the false prophets.
[SPEAKER_00]: He fought Musayla Mel Qaddad,
[SPEAKER_00]: He took out the tribes of Arabia whom the majority of which apostated the left Islam and the Prophet ﷺ died.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was the first to gather the Qur'an, or he commanded Zaytib Uthab to gather the Qur'an before the Qur'an was scattered.
[SPEAKER_00]: He alhamdulillah managed by the permission of Allah to turn every trial and ablution which this only experienced into ablution.
[SPEAKER_00]: In how long twenty- thirty years and two years, that's a person's life.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what counts for my life.
[SPEAKER_00]: You look at all of them, Qatar, and it gets even more amazing, man.
[SPEAKER_00]: During this Khilatha, two thirds of the globe entered the fold of Islam.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not just that, Kisra, the Emperor of Prussia, Prussia itself, which was like a legacy to the Arabs.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah?
[SPEAKER_00]: It was like a fantasy.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you say, when you say, Prussia, you're talking about the untouchables.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're talking about something that you can even go near, forget about America and Russia today.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Emperor of Persia was something much bigger in the eyes of the Arabs.
[SPEAKER_00]: And those who were given the privilege to stand maybe twenty or thirty meters away from the Emperor of Persia, he would be taking pride of this for the rest of his life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah wa Akbar.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right?
[SPEAKER_00]: During the last time of Ramadan, the entire Persian Empire falls to its knees.
[SPEAKER_00]: and the treasures of Qisra, the emperor of Persia, are transferred from Persia to the gates of Medina to now be spent in the path of Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: How long was the Hina of Allah?
[SPEAKER_00]: This must have been hundreds of years, man.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ten years, six months and eighty days.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you chose to do something productive now you memorizing that your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you come now, for example, to take notes on your notebook about something productive, you want to do that's your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you're praying or attending a lecture or giving a lecture, that's your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you with me brothers and sisters?
[SPEAKER_00]: You look at sad even the more ad.
[SPEAKER_00]: How many of you know sad even the more ad?
[SPEAKER_00]: Sad even the more ad, the more slim.
[SPEAKER_00]: A sahabi who became Muslim at the age of thirty.
[SPEAKER_00]: and died at the age of thirty-seven.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he only lived seven years despite that when he died the throne of Allah the Majestic Shuk.
[SPEAKER_00]: What must He have done in those seven years for the throne of Allah the Adat to shaykh upon the death of one of His slaves?
[SPEAKER_00]: Seven years, He proved Himself to His Creator, Allah O Akbar.
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of the Abu Abdel Aziz, one of the Hulafat, one of the righteous Hulafat of this Umna.
[SPEAKER_00]: During His time, He returned the Muslim Empire to how it was back in the age of Prophethood.
[SPEAKER_00]: When they saw Omar, Abdel Aziz and how he run the Muslim affairs, the Muslims were reminded of the days of Prophethood because of the justice that he preached because of the principles of Islam he applied.
[SPEAKER_00]: And wealth, there was a surplus of wealth and they were given out wealth and nobody was taking it.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, there was no people to take the money.
[SPEAKER_00]: And a corner would go out in the streets saying, if there is anybody who wants to make heads, but cannot afford it, the Muslim treasure we will pay for your heads.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if there is anybody who wants to get married from the Shabbat, but cannot afford it, the Muslim treasure we will pay for your marriage.
[SPEAKER_00]: And anybody who has a debt, which they cannot pay, the Muslim treasury will pay off your debt, Allah will aqua.
[SPEAKER_00]: How long must it have taken honor of Nabdel Aziz to restore the Umma to this level?
[SPEAKER_00]: Not long, if one, two years and a half.
[SPEAKER_00]: Two years and a half.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what constitutes as your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Every one of us here, if one, has the ability to pinpoint those void, those empty gaps in your day, and invested in something productive, you can.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you do not awaken and myself to the reality and the importance of the seconds that you are experiencing and the breaths that you are inhaling now, then there is good news.
[SPEAKER_00]: The good news is that you and I will come to discover one day but not now.
[SPEAKER_00]: We will discover at a time when regret will not benefit us.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you come to die and when you are resurrected from your death.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you see the reality then, then you will begin to reminisce and think about those hours and those seconds, which we thought weren't that valuable.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I have too many, I need to kill a few of them as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah Subhanahu Wa'Tala says in heart trembling ayat.
[SPEAKER_00]: O Allah, the best of all!
[SPEAKER_00]: that the people will whisper and say to one another, how long did we live on life?
[SPEAKER_00]: How long?
[SPEAKER_00]: How many years that I did at the ceiling?
[SPEAKER_00]: How many years did we spend on life?
[SPEAKER_00]: What will the response be?
[SPEAKER_00]: They will say to one another, I think we lived about a day or part of a day.
[SPEAKER_00]: So go and ask those who have kept count.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah, Allah, Allah, we, I think we only lived in life a day or half a day, you forget.
[SPEAKER_00]: You forget everything and a lot of Alice says when the day of judgment begins, the criminals will swear by Allah that they did not spend in this world more than an hour.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allahu Akbar, all those university degrees and all those ambitions you had and all those eyeshells that I wills that I hope to and those procrastinating words
[SPEAKER_00]: And all those empires that you saw in this world, all that seeing you, all this beauty, the men and the women, and the cows, and the hotels, and the jobs, and the Allah who Akbar, you forget all of this Yomul Qiyana, and you think that you only spent in this world maybe an hour at the most.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we can either awaken to the reality of the importance of time now,
[SPEAKER_00]: That is the smart thing to do, or we can leave it until the day of Kiyama, which is not the smart thing to do because no change and no amendments can be made them.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Juan that is closed by saying, look into your schedule.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look into your daily routine and provide and make for your skills a schedule of productivity.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do it from today from now.
[SPEAKER_00]: set yourself a target say I want to for example on a daily basis I need to read twenty books twenty pages of a useful beneficial book choose the book wisely don't go reading any book
[SPEAKER_00]: Choose the books that you want to read over the span of the year wisely, and say I will read twenty pages a day.
[SPEAKER_00]: For example, or thirty, or ten, depending on your ability.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: How many pages will you have read throughout the year?
[SPEAKER_00]: Over seven thousand.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ta'iyyim.
[SPEAKER_00]: Set yourself a target.
[SPEAKER_00]: How good is your memorization of the Qur'an?
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll allow him.
[SPEAKER_00]: My memorization is strong.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: A page of the Qur'an, a day.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will memorize a page a day.
[SPEAKER_00]: Begni Laitha'ala in less than two years.
[SPEAKER_00]: You'll have the entire Qur'an memorized.
[SPEAKER_00]: If your ability to memorize as less, decrease it proportionally, but set yourself a target, a program of productivity from now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Always keep it, you may be a set of lectures, MP-three lectures on your MP-three plan, or on your iPod, or on your phone.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that when you have the slack hours as we call them, for when you are working to work, for when you're working to university and back, you're making use of those hours.
[SPEAKER_00]: Keep perhaps with you a note pad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Always, in your hand bag or in your pocket, keep with you an old path and a pen.
[SPEAKER_00]: And every thought that comes into your head, in terms of how to be a more productive, a more beneficial Muslim to yourself and to be around you, take note of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah, I think I can organize an Islamic exhibition.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me take note of that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah, that point that brother mentioned was very important.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I would like an article about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Keep a book, keep a book with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: An invest in the God-given breath that Allah Tala has given you and make the amendments and changes that you can, whilst you are still looking at me and whilst you are still inhaling the air of Allah, as long as you are doing these things, it means that you are still alive and thus it means that change is still possible.
[SPEAKER_00]: Start from today iqwan and I ask Allah Subhan Allah to reward you for your time and your attention and I ask Allah Subhan Allah to make us amongst those who listen to the advice and take from it what is best
[SPEAKER_00]: May Allah Subhanahu ala reward you for your humility and your kindness for hosting me.