Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – How to get more out of your time
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the right way and spend time for Islam. The speaker also mentions the success of Islam in the United States and the importance of taking time for God.
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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.