Dealing with Difficulty #26 Time Management

My brothers and sisters,

wasting time

has become a difficulty.

How to deal with it? We find ourselves

without much time. We're always busy. We always

have something. We don't have the time for

the right things. Well, the distractions

are so many. So if you want to

deal with the difficulty, you need to look

at the course and you need to see

why it has happened.

Why did the difficulty come about here? We're

talking of time management,

people who

don't have time

because they're wasting it. So the Prophet Muhammad,

peace be upon him, tells us.

There are 2

gifts of Allah that many people take for

granted.

The first one is your health.

So when you lose your health, you realize,

oh, I should have done this and should

have done that when I was healthy.

The second one is

your free time, your spare time

or your time in general.

Al Farah

refers to the free time. But your time

where

when you're occupied truly, then you realize, oh

gosh, when I was free, I should have

done this and should have done that.

So Allah Almighty draws our attention to those

2 gifts. So free time is a gift

of Allah.

Are you just going to spend it on

the distractions of this world or do something

meaningful?

Number 1.

To deal with this difficulty, don't compromise your

5 daily prayers. You'll find Allah will help

you manage the time.

I'm going to give you a few tips.

The first one is your 5 daily prayers.

If you get up in the morning and

you really make sure you wash yourself and

pray to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala salatul Fajr,

Allah will bless your day with lots of

means blessings.

So there are unique blessings. One of them

is time management.

You have fajr, dhor, asr, maghrib, and isha.

You know the prayers right through the day.

You pray those prayers

and you make sure that you enjoy them,

even if it is only the bare minimum.

The fact that you've done that, Allah will

bless your day with regards to many things,

one of them is time management.

Similarly,

start your day with a portion of recitation

of the Quran.

Tip number 2. So if you've read a

portion of the Quran, even if it is

2 minutes, again,

the Quran Quran is a unique

gift of Allah, the Word of Allah

If you think you don't have time to

read the Quran, let me tell you one

of the miracles of the Quran that you

may not have realized

is

that

when you sit to read the Quran,

it makes

the time for you in a miraculous way.

Try it out. It's amazing.

That means if you think you don't have

the time and you stop what ever you're

doing and you spend a moment with the

Quran, you will have the time.

You won't realize that, you know what? Wow.

I thought I didn't have the time. Where

did this time come from?

Because Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is the one

who gives blessings.

Allah is the one you spent time with

Allah. Allah says we won't let you down.

You can never have wasted

a time that you've spent with Allah

in prayer. The 5 daily prayers, the recitation

of the Quran.

So those two things will help you manage

your time. The problem with us is

the distractions of today are many. The biggest

of these distractions is social media. Unfortunately, we've

talked about it quite a bit, but that's

because it dominates our lives. Let's face it.

So with us on our phones and our

devices,

we actually lose track of time to the

degree that an hour passes, 2 hours pass,

and we're still there. And people come and

go, and we're still there. And people come

back and go back and we're still there.

And what happened to your prayer? You lost

track of it. That's why you don't have

the time management. Put an alarm on your

phone. Let it cut off and switch off.

Switch the phone off, switch on your connection

with Allah. But if you switch on your

phone, do not disconnect with Allah.

The Quran,

you do something good on your phone. And

the third tip is

the remembrance of Allah.

Keep your tongue moistened

with the remembrance of Allah. What is the

remembrance of Allah? Well, it's a very broad

words,

Meaning these are very broad words, broad sentence.

The remembrance

of Allah.

Any good word is the remembrance of Allah.

The 5 daily prayers are a remembrance of

Allah. Recitation of the Quran is a remembrance

of Allah. But generally when we say Dhikr

and we've already spoken about those 2 things,

then it's referring to words of praise of

Allah.

Subhanallah.

Praise be to Allah. Alhamdulillah.

Praise be to Allah.

La ilaha illallah. None worthy of worship besides

Allah. Allahu Akbar Allah is the greatest,

and so on. Glory be to Allah. Praise

be to Allah. There is none worthy of

worship besides Allah. And there is no might

besides that of Allah,

and no power besides that of Allah.

Allah is the greatest.

So when you moisten your tongue, even subhanallah,

subhanallah, subhanallah, and you repeat these words,

these words are blessed.

Allah blesses you with so much that

what you see, what you do, what you

say,

everything

is actually

transformed

into a beautiful,

beautiful

act of worship.

SubhanAllah,

you become conscious of so many other things

and automatically

Allah will help you stay away from that

which is displeasing to him. Imagine a person

who is conscious about their prayer,

started the morning with the Quran,

remembers Allah. Do you really think that they're

going to fall straight into major sin?

I'd like to think if they were genuine

about all of this, then this would not

actually happen. Because

Allah will not allow the 2 to come

together

in the heart of a true believer,

something which is

stark contrast.

Allah blesses you with time management.

You're able to manage your time.

The daily prayers,

the recitation of the Quran,

the remembrance of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

and not wasting your time with the distractions.

Identify the distractions.

Some people sit late at night and they

don't realize their friends

or whatever they're busy with sitting late at

night, even games.

People play

games.

And the addiction to games, as far as

a few studies that I've read, is similar

to the addiction to pornography.

You can read it. I've read so much.

I'm convinced by it, and I do believe

that

that requires help.

You need someone who's an expert at dealing

with behavioral addictions to help you come out

of it.

Because to be honest with you, people are

addicted to games in in an even bigger

way than they would be addicted to pornography

because they see nothing wrong with it. Yes.

The one might be

outside the values and morals of a believer.

This one here you might argue is in

the values and morals. But

the fact that you're addicted is what would

actually make you a cabbage.

It would make you a cabbage because

you lose everyone

and everything

around you over time and you blame them

for it.

You don't know you're an addict. That's what

it is. You need help. You must reach

out for help. So gaming has become a

problem. You lose track of time. Today we're

talking about time management.

You set aside a time. I'm going to

play a game if I really have to,

Alhamdulillah,

if it's not Haram like the other stuff,

but it needs to be within a limit.

I need to go to bed early in

order to get up early, in order to

have a blessed day ahead.

But no, you're up all night. And what

you're going to do all day? Sleepy.

You're going to be upset. You're going to

be emotional. You're going to get cross.

You're gonna start yelling and shouting at the

people who you live with. You're gonna be

on edge all the time. Be it children,

be it spouse, be it parents, whoever it

may be, Be it those you work with

or work for and so on or those

who work for you. And you're not a

nice person

because

your time management.

Similarly, your health is affected because of the

time and so many other things

that you would not realize

are actually damaged because you haven't managed your

time. So Allah tells you be disciplined, fulfill

your prayers, do whatever you have to sleep

on time. That's another tip. Sleep on time.

Push yourself to sleep on time. Initially, it

won't be easy. You'll toss and turn because

you're not used to going to bed early.

Go to bed early. It's a sunnah, and

a sunnah will bring about so much of

goodness. You'll get up early as well, but

push yourself to go to bed early. Come

what may and see how Allah blesses you.

So these are some of the ways of

dealing with this difficulty of time management.

May Allah Almighty grant us

blessed days in his obedience. When we have

fun, let it be limited to a specific

time that is not going to come in

the way of us and duties and obligations

all goodness.

all goodness.