Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – How to get more out of your time

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			Bismillah your man you're walking
um
		

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			another thing is
		

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			we're speaking about Baraka
blessing.
		

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			This is just some simple advice on
a personal level that I have
		

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			benefited from.
		

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			If especially if you're, I mean,
this will benefit both those who
		

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			are very studious they or they,
you know, the swats, they just
		

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			fully study, right in a good way.
And also those who are not
		

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			studying too well, right, they're
not focusing, what we need to do
		

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			is we need to spend time for Allah
subhanaw taala, which means we
		

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			pray off a daily press that will
		

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			keep us Morrow, it will keep us
connected to spirituality. And
		

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			spirituality is extremely
important. What one scholar says
		

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			is that if you have a very
intellectual mind, a very fiery
		

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			mind, you need a generous and
compassionate heart to balance
		

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			that smartness that you have in
your head. Otherwise, it will lead
		

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			to arrogance. Think about it.
Somebody who's just so arrogant,
		

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			when he walks in the room, he
thinks he's the best doubt out
		

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			there that he knows more than
anybody who's so self conceited.
		

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			If he doesn't have a heart of
compassion, humility, then that's
		

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			not going to be balanced, you need
to balance both the mind and the
		

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			heart. And that's extremely
important. And the way we do that,
		

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			is to learn the arc of our
forbearers and approximate love by
		

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			yourself, and to spend some time
doing vicar and remembrance of
		

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			Allah subhanaw taala. I give you
an example. There was a student in
		

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			our mother's in our seminary, a
very studious student, I mean,
		

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			didn't play football or anything
like that. It was just always
		

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			studying, you know, a very smart
student, there's only study.
		

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			They used to be a gathering of
vigor of remembrance that used to
		

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			take place in the motherland. And
he would avoid that he would go,
		

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			you'd say that waste half of my
half an hour of my time, I'd
		

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			rather be studying something in
there. All right. So it's just the
		

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			proper studio students. On one
occasion, he decided to go.
		

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			Right, he decided to go. And he
sat there for half an hour, in the
		

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			remembrance of God, half an hour
for somebody who really values
		

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			their time for studying is a is a
big thing to do. Right? It's like
		

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			saying half an hour without
checking your email. I mean, how
		

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			bad would that be? Right? So what
he noticed, though, was that in
		

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			the subsequent days, he carried on
doing that for a week or so he
		

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			found that he could get more
accomplished in the day. In terms
		

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			of his other work.
		

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			I will tell you from personally,
when I went when I finished my
		

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			third world, when I graduated, my
own started, became an imam of
		

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			Masjid in California, I found that
I just didn't have any Baraka in
		

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			time, any blessing in time thing
that day was just whizzing past as
		

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			the Hadith mentions that close to
the Day of Judgment, that's what's
		

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			gonna happen anyway, I call one of
my teachers. And essentially, he
		

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			says, Look,
		

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			time is in the hands of God, to
make it seem like you've done a
		

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			lot, or that you've done less,
it's in the hands of God, give
		

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			some time to God, he will open
your time up for you. Remember
		

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			these words, these are these are
really powerful, believe me, that
		

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			you give some time for God.
Remembrance, and he will act to
		

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			your benefits. How is it possible
that somebody like has early he
		

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			died at the age of 55. And yet, he
becomes such a celebrated scholar
		

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			that in Liverpool today we
mentioned him and he was a scholar
		

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			of bothered and Deus which is in
Iran today. And we're saying May
		

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			Allah forgive him. Because of the
work that he did as being the
		

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			proof of Islam and the work that
he did. We look at Imam nawawi and
		

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			who hasn't heard of Imam Nomi. He
died at around the age of 40. And
		

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			he wrote the Riyadh the Saudi him,
he wrote a commentary on Sahih
		

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			Muslim, he wrote this huge works,
he was only 14 When he passed
		

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			away. And there are so many other
examples, or whatever it is, the
		

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			famous hadith is another example
he died before he died around 40
		

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			to 50 as well.
		

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			Allah make them Allah allowed them
to do so much more in the short
		

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			amount of time that they had
because time is in the hands of
		

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			Allah, squander your time away and
you will see that it will just fly
		

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			away and nothing will happen. And
they say that you do sins in the
		

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			day, your time will just go. But
if you spend some time for God,
		

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			you will see the baraka and the
blessing in your time. I see the
		

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			baraka and the blessing in your
time.