Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – How to be Productive
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The speaker discusses the importance of efficient scheduling and remembancing oneself with Allah. He explains that the most efficient people have a time for everything, and the most productive ones have a fixed schedule. He also emphasizes the importance of learning and taking on a subject of Islam, and the need for sustained study.
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What can you do for barakah in your
time, Allahu Akbar? That is the magic elixir
everybody is looking for,
and I can say that the only magic
there is
are 2 or 3 things.
Number 1,
you have to have a time for everything,
so you have to be efficient
in your scheduling.
If you don't have a time for what
you want to get done in your day,
or your week, or your month, or your
life,
then it's just going to be random. And
in randomness,
you might get something done, but you won't
get everything done, so you have to have
it by design that this is what I
wanna do. If you look at any of
the efficient people and productive people, they have
time for everything.
When we come in a morning, they know
they have to do x, y, and z,
and the most efficient ones are those who
actually have slots for everything. That's what Imam
Ghazali
says, well, you have a time for everything,
and you don't then transgress that time. That's
number 1.
Number 2, you could have you could be
very efficient like this,
but if you really want the time to
be expanded for you spiritually from Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala because time is in the hands
of Allah, is you dedicate some of that
time of your 24 hours to the remembrance
of Allah
and the dua.
Allah, Allah has time in his possession. It's
his control.
Sometimes you have a day when you can
do so much, and other days, the day
flies by.
Why is that? It's the same number of
hours, same number of minutes and seconds. Why
is that happening? Because there's an element of
barakah and blessing.
So barakah and blessing comes from, number 1,
efficient
scheduling
and timetabling,
but number 2, even bigger importance
is given to remembrance of Allah. I've seen
this from experience.
I tried to be as productive as possible,
but I wouldn't attend a dhikr gathering,
because I said that's gonna take 20 minutes
of my time, I could be reading a
book in that time. Then for some reason,
I started attending, and I realized that I
could get a lot more done in the
other time that I had. Allah gave me
a blessing
that in the other times, I could get
a lot more done. It sounds a bit
unscientific and counterintuitive,
but if you dedicate time of your 24
hours
for some remembrance of Allah,
you will see that the other time will
be more
productive
and fruitful as well. So you just keep
asking Allah, and you'd have a scheduled time
for your remembrance as well. Don't miss that
out.
The point of a lecture
is to encourage people to act, to get
further, and inspiration
and encouragement,
persuasion.
The next step is to actually start learning
seriously.
To read books, to take on a subject
of Islam, and to understand all the subjects
of Islam, at least at their basic level.
So that we can become more aware of
what our deen wants from us.
And that's why we started Rayyan courses. So
that, you can actually take organized lectures,
on demand whenever you have free time. Especially
for example, the Islamic essentials,
course that we have on there. The Islamic
essential certificate, which you take 20 short modules.
And at the end of that Insha'Allah, you
will have gotten the the basics of,
most of the most important topics in Islam.
And you'll feel a lot more confident. You
don't have to leave lectures behind. You can
continue to leave, you know, to listen lectures.
But you need to have this more sustained
study as well.