Mirza Yawar Baig – Structure your time
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The importance of critical thinking and staying focused on one's life is emphasized in Islam. A free seminar is being offered, but the caller expresses concern about losing focus and losing their life. The speaker suggests focusing on critical thinking and spending time for personal benefit, as well as tracking time and making daily activities. The importance of technology and technology is also emphasized.
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والحمد لله رب العالمين
والصلاة والسلام على شرف الأنبياء والمرسلين محمد رسول
الله صلى الله عليه وعليه وسلم وسنوا تسليما
كثيرا ومع ذلك if you
think about this life think about it in
the context of say for example if you
are sitting in front of your computer and
you move your mouse two things happen one
is of course the movement of the mouse
but two things happen one is the cursor
moves on the screen right and then whenever
you click something happens it performs some operation
now life is like this which is that
we do something here and it has an
immediate effect and then it has an effect
in the hereafter right so you smile at
somebody it has an immediate effect which is
you know that person feels nice you feel
nice and it is Sadaqah so it goes
in your account as a good deed just
smile similarly everything else if you have some
charity you are kind to someone you are
respectful to the elders, parents, whatever is the
good also vice versa the opposite that is
sins something you do wrong it causes its
effect here plus it is a debit in
the hereafter right so it is very important
to keep this perspective in mind and to
live our lives and to decide our actions
based on this not just go by I
am doing something I like it I don't
like it it is fun it is not
fun what is the effect of that in
this duniya as well as in the hereafter
that is very important because things can be
almost as a rule not always but almost
as a rule we have this is a
sad commentary on our society and how we
have structured it almost everything which is fun
almost I don't mean doesn't apply to everything
but almost is either useless or it is
a sin either it won't earn you any
benefit or it is a sin so we
need to even fun activities we need to
look at it from the perspective how can
I do something which is fun and which
I enjoy plus it is giving me some
benefit because the time you have is the
same if I spend one hour here or
I spend that one hour you know watching
something on television one hour one hour same
60 minutes and it goes from my life
it is not going from somebody else's life
I can't say let me spend one hour
out of your Isha's life no it is
my life so how do I want this
how do I want to spend this because
the most important thing somebody asked me what
is the critical difference or distinguishing feature of
Islam I said critical distinguishing feature of Islam
is that we are accountable to Allah SWT
for everything that we say or do we
are accountable to Allah no matter what it
is no matter who the person is I
am accountable you are accountable everybody is accountable
so therefore obviously it makes sense that if
I am then doing something I will do
it with that perspective I have to give
account for this is it something I want
to do is it something that I want
to do or I should not do and
with that in perspective believe me there is
absolutely fantastic you can have a beautiful life
have great fun enjoy yourself but as long
as you keep that focus if you lose
the focus then we go off somewhere else
right now in the question in the context
of using it when we say Akhira also
think in terms of what is the effect
of my actions today in my life itself
here like I was asking why are you
guys coming for the seminar I was saying
here is a free seminar that is happening
in UBAS right no limit that kind of
a seminar for that duration two hours usually
if I was doing that commercially you would
be paying $1500 per person right go look
up AMI international catalog see what the seminars
cost the dollar value of that is $1500
per person you are getting it for free
benefit is the same somebody getting $1500 is
not getting anything more he is getting the
same thing which I am teaching if you
don't go it is your loss and I
say clearly loss because you are at a
stage when how to get a fast track
career is something which should be a life
question for you if it is not then
there is something seriously wrong right at your
ages you are starting out in life you
are starting out in business you are starting
out in your careers you must know what
should I do what should I not do
what does help me you will discover I
am not saying that if you don't go
to my seminars you will fail no you
won't fail you will learn maybe you go
somewhere else but otherwise there are two ways
of learning one you learn from somebody who
knows the second one is you learn on
your own the problem with learning on your
own is that it is expensive and it
is painful because you have to make the
mistakes when you make the mistake you suffer
and not everyone learns from the mistake this
is the other big problem people make mistakes
and they make the same mistake again and
again and again so if there is somebody
who is presenting you those lessons as an
extract makes sense to take benefit of that
so think about this think about your actions
your time how do you spend it how
do you track it before you say spend
you have to track the time I have
24 hours so my 24 hours how are
they going how many hours of sleep how
many hours in what I call maintenance activities
bathing and this and that then what happens
to the rest of the time so sometime
you must spend in your physical development for
example you go to the gym go for
a walk go for a run play some
games sport whatever so it is physically you
are fit and you are moving and so
on then what else what else do you
do with the time even if you are
in college so you have some schedules and
you have to read some books but your
own orientation to how will I use this
time for my benefit take all the I
mean I am giving you names of business
people but the same thing applies to anyone
take for example a guy called Sameer Bhatia
did you hear his name Sameer Bhatia anybody
knows no have you heard hotmail anyone who
doesn't know hotmail right Sameer Bhatia is the
guy who invented hotmail and sold it to
Microsoft for half a billion 450 million pre
-internet internet based email so here was a
guy sitting in college obviously he was thinking
same story with Mark Zuckerberg of how Facebook
got invented sitting in college here is co
-inventor sitting in college in Harvard and saying
how can we communicate with each other and
so on and create a program same people
I mean he didn't go to college alone
right I mean they must have been how
many thousand people in college not everybody made
Facebook I am not promoting Facebook here I
am just saying that here are things where
same people have people have the same opportunities
some will leverage their opportunities some will get
additional benefit from it what does this time
pass time will pass time doesn't stop for
anyone time will pass for you time will
pass for me the question is what do
you do with the time so for that
it is very important to track the time
so as I said make a daily timetable
and strike it off and say so many
hours of sleeping sleeping you have to sleep
some of us not necessarily as long as
you sleep but some hours plus some time
for maintenance activities beyond that what do you
do with that time how do you use
that time this must be clear right and
every night write down write down literally write
I am saying not on your keep a
notebook next to your bed write down three
things that you must do the following day
in order of priority that's very important three
things that you must do the following day
in order of priority then next morning you
already have a checklist of say ok I
have to do these things start with that
start with the first one finish it go
to the second one finish it go to
the third one if you get interrupted go
back to the same thing until you finish
it and make a new list every day
don't take the if something got left over
the previous day don't put it back don't
put it into the next day's list unless
it has value there you have to do
that as a conscious decision simple exercise I
am teaching you a very it's a very
simple thing right there is no no technology
involved you don't need money nothing just structure
your time make this list of things to
do three things normal three things in order
of priority for the next day in the
night before you go to sleep write it
down make it an absolute rule you don't
sleep until you write that list then see
how your life will become hugely productive that
I will guarantee you you can think about
it you can tell me later how your
life changes but this will happen if you
follow this Inshallah hmm Asalaamu ala Nabiyyil Kareem
wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ilayhi wa barakatuhu