Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Imam Al Ghazali Advice on Time Management
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The speaker discusses four ways to stay alive: seeking useful knowledge, acting in a way that brings happiness, living in a busy zone, and not being a person of harm or inconvenience. They also advise against avoiding distractions and not overburdened by busy schedules.
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Your time is your life and much like ice it is constantly melting
away. Do not let time go to waste.
Know that time should not be without structure.
You must audio day and night organizing your routine of worship
and assigning an activity to each period.
This is a method for constant remembrance of God, a necessary
ingredient in attaining spiritual happiness.
Try to awake from sleep before dawn a noble time and let the
first words in your heart and on your tongue. Be the remembrance of
God. Purify your body and get dressed appropriately with the
intention of obeying God.
Pray in your home, then make your way to the mosque in tranquility
and with remembrance of God. Pray with the congregation which is 27
times better than a prayer alone. Do not fail to complete this
profitable act. For if you are negligent, then what benefit is
there for you in the pursuit of knowledge. After all, the fruit of
knowledge is enacting upon it.
Use your time until sunrise in four types of remembrance,
supplication, glorification, recitation, and reflection.
Reflect upon your mistakes and the nearness of your end and carefully
plan your day with the intention of obeying God.
By the light of day you should strive to occupy yourself with
what benefits you in the hereafter. Use your time in one of
four ways. The first is seeking useful knowledge. This is the best
use of time and highest form of worship. useful knowledge
increases your god consciousness.
If you are unable to acquire useful knowledge, use your time in
extra prayers, or one of the four types of remembrance mentioned.
The third use of time is to act in a way that will bring happiness to
the hearts of believers will make it easier for the righteous to
accomplish good works such as visiting the sick and feeding the
poor. Finally, spending your time earning an honest living to take
care of yourself and your family is also a form of worship.
However, beware of worldly greed for it will ruin your religion.
When the sun turns red, try and spend your time glorifying God,
the sun should set while you are seeking forgiveness.
One must also set aside time for worldly necessities family and
community.
Before you sleep, review your knowledge do not end your day in
entertainment for actions are according to the last of them.
Know that sleep is like death and waking is like resurrection. Be
ready to meet God by sleeping in a state of purity with your we'll
call it your works. And if there was a Muslim psychologists like no
other it's Imam Ghazali. I'll give you one selection, you know from
the United Healthcare from he starts off by speaking about
organizing your day, the hours of your day, he says you should not
have anything that is you should make sure that every moment of
yours is accounted for. And all your activities are monitored and
organized according to your timetable. And you should never
you shouldn't you should never overcome that time and do
something else in that time. You should keep it as particular as
possible. And then he says will be he does horrible Baraka twill o
caught that is how you get Baraka in time. Many of us are struggling
with Baraka in time and blessing in time. Our days, just fly by our
days just pass and we don't get anything accomplished. So he tells
us that if you have your day organized, where you do everything
in its allotted time. And he says this is what he then says he says
don't be like animals who do things as they come gave them a
tough luck. Right as they come along. They do it. So this comes
along. Okay, let me take care of this. Oh, that looks green. Let's
go there that that looks nice and fancy. Let's let's do that. Have a
time for everything. And then after that on another disk. In
another discussion, he says that you should always strive to do to
be doing good and never to be doing bad. Right? So you should
always be a person of benefits and not a person of harm or
inconvenience to others. And then he says in the midst of that
discussion, he says that look, if you can't help it, no, because
there's going to be a lot of people and you know, when you've
dealt with a lot of people, they come in the excuses. You know, I
can't help it. I just can't help talking to him. I kind of talk
into I can't help bothering him. I can't help lying. I can't help you
No cheating. So he says, Look, if you can't help it, if that's what
you say. So he's pre empting your thoughts. That's why I call him a
great psychologist. So he says
is that if you can't help it, then go to sleep?
He says, Why? Because sleep is a neutral state, neither do benefit
and neither will you harm anybody. It's a neutral state. Now,
again, look at where his mind is where his mind is. There's going
to be many people even now thinking man, that's a good fatwa.
Right, I'll go to sleep. So then he suddenly says, he says, but
then sleep is the sister of death. And what good is there in life in
which so much part of it is death, so that he jumps you back to
reality? So essentially, coming back with the argument that the
only way is to be good and not to do anything bad because even sleep
is not a good idea. I just find him that he just talks to your
heart He's just gets right to the bottom of things. He doesn't beat
around the bush he keeps it gives it straight.
Bla Allah