Mirza Yawar Baig – Power of Vision
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salatu salam O Allah should be able to serene Muhammad Rasul
Allah and Allah Almighty Who
does live on cathedra and cathedra. From my brother
my mom and sisters
I also realized I seldom
call this life
mother our Astra.
He said this life is the tilt is the fields is the agriculture, the
farming for the
in 1631,
a building, the foundation of a building was lit.
In 1636, which is five years later,
the foundation of another building was laid in another place across
the world from the first building.
Today, almost 380 something years later, both buildings are there.
They both stand they are both well.
The first building has two occupants, both are dead.
And the second building has been churning out global leaders
for 380 years.
The first building was built by a man
whose
net worth cannot be calculated.
But hos Kingdom
produced 40% of global economy at that time,
global GDP
40% of global GDP came from that one gainer.
And since he was an absolute monarch, you can say well, you
know you want it or
the second building was
built and started and named after a man who was a Protestant
minister.
And he invested 300 books.
And 779 points really
those of you who are not who don't know what I'm talking about,
that's actually the district.
The first building is the Taj Mahal.
And the second building is Howard University.
So it's not how much money you have.
It's what you invested in.
Legacy is a product of your mind. It's not a product of your
resources.
Because no matter how much money you have, more or less,
what you do with it, and my money, I just mean money as one of the
things but it's your money, your resources, your time, your effort,
your energy, your power, your authority, all of this, your
knowledge.
What you invested in is a factor of your mind, what does your mind
tell you to do?
Because the reality of life is that Allah subhanaw taala is an
idol, Allah is just
and one place and one way in which a lot is just is that he has given
all of us
the same amount of time, which is 24 hours.
The duration of life is different, but the day the length of the day
is the same for everyone. No matter where you live in the
world, it's the same thing.
Some people achieve more, some people achieve less.
So it's not a factor of time. It's a factor of how you manage
yourself. That is why when I teach my time management course,
I usually begin by asking people, can you give me one more hour
today?
And usually people will ZSL given so how
how can you give me one more hour? How can you give me one one minute
today?
It's not in your control. Time is not in our control time is a
factor of the revolution of the Earth has nothing to do you can
stop it.
You can accelerate it, you can slow it down.
So when you're saying I will give you one more hour what are you
really saying? You are saying I will rearrange my priority in such
a way that I can give one more hour to this class.
So what
are you controlling time or yourself
this is the problem this is the whole problem is that people try
to control time which they have no control over.
And they forget that the only thing they can control it
themselves.
So how I structure my day
this decide by productivity
now, so it's a question of how do you arrange your same same number
of hours?
So how do you arrange your priorities? What do you do?
The reason I gave you the example of
your know this our hands on is think about this
$2 million
right? It may seem like a lot of money to most of us but it's not
an automatic $2 million is
there are there are houses which in America you call homes.
There's a big difference between the house and home.
A house you buy a home you make
you cannot buy a home because I bought a home you didn't buy hope
you bought you bought a building. You bought a house home is what
happens inside their home is loving home is affection and
always mutual respect. Rove is an OB Serbia and who is children and
obeys the relationship between the spouse all of this is not money
can't buy this.
Money cannot buy this.
So there are people who have houses which are worth three times
that $6 million $10 million, right
$2 million is what $2 million will buy you a McLaren car which is GTX
track only, which means you can't drive it on the road
you might say well you know it's not a it over time. It appreciates
it it goes against my value unlike most cars, McLeod's but
same $2 million dollars if you invest, it will get you an endowed
chair in a university. Usually you can say chair for what so say
suppose you say Endowed Chair for Islamic Studies.
And our chair for
like for example, now what's happening in Philistine so
Palestinian studies.
Right now that $2 billion would get you in perpetuity
which means supposed to be forever. So whatever, whatever
means
a full professor,
all the staff,
students doing PhDs, papers being published.
Lots and lots of very high quality work.
Within course, whatever means that same 2 billion CEO it's your call
is a 2 million worth flooring the well on a McLaren on a track
gives you a kick
or setting up a chair in a university which will leave a
legacy of honor for decades and decades and God I just gave you
Harvard University 380 years and still going well.
Largest endowment of any university in the world $50
billion
started from 770,000 thoughts
the power of vision
the power of thought
the power of thinking beyond
my life right now you know I must have nice food and this and that
or whatnot whatnot
so my submission to you, Sisters is we all have the same amount of
time. Nobody's got more.
Don't waste it.
Think about it, and use it
in a way that is best for this dunya when
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