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

Bismillah your man you're walking um

another thing is

we're speaking about Baraka blessing.

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

benefited from.

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

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

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

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

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

pray off a daily press that will

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

spirituality is extremely important. What one scholar says

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

mind, you need a generous and compassionate heart to balance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

of his other work.

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

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

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

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

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

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

says, Look,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

to 50 as well.

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

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

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

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

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

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

baraka and the blessing in your time.