Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – How to be Productive

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.