Muhammad West – Chasing Time

			bIllahi min ash shaytani R rajim Bismillah R Rahman Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa Salatu
was Salam ala it should have been more serene Sadie. Now Muhammad, Allah Allah He also has he
married my beloved brothers and sisters I said Mr. Alec Maura how to live with regard to
		

			Al hamdu lillahi rabbil aalameen always we will begin with appraising the thanks of Allah and I
should alert you know Allah will testify that there is none worthy of worship besides Allah subhanaw
taala and we send our love and greetings salutations so beloved, that Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam conspires with your family because companions and all those are following suit and until the
end of time, may Allah Subhana Allah bless us to be amongst them. I mean, while hamdulillah Al
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			there was a lot of positive feedback so we say just like look at those majestic and inshallah we'll
hope to see them visit us regularly. I mean, when hamdulillah last time we saw you and his dad joke
because last year, you know that old dad joke, but another new year. And we make the other this year
2023 Is publicity is one of goodness, that the worst of all years are behind us in the best of our
years and time is ahead of us and with every new year and we'll talk inshallah perhaps next week
about optimism and setting goals and setting our near thinking about where we want to be with every
passing moment. Understand, and I don't want to be depressing, but with every passing moment, it's
		

			one less year that we have on our on our balance, as hustle and bustle. He says,
		

			as my boss is the gate Dabiri. He said no, you know, guys, we are only minutes and seconds. That's
what we are made of. And every time a minute we're sick and disappears, part of you disappears and
it never comes back. And so we all have a finite number of years 60 7080 Very few reach 90 or 100.
And as time goes, we reach close to the expiration date. And that is why Allah Subhana Allah says
over lacer Allah swears he takes a vow by time interval in Sanllehi, closer, all of you, you are
losing Allah says all of you are going to lose against time. There's not a single person that is
going to beat the clock. It's a promise Allah has made there is no way you're going to win. Even the
		

			most successful, the most
		

			wealthiest people, even the people that achieved the most with a time eventually time will catch up
with him and they will pass away so nobody is going to beat going to be time. Allah mentions in the
Quran in so many places. He likens this work these calls it Mata
		

			On the road, it is a passing mirage that this dunya is just a moment that it will disappear. And he
describes Allah describes the dunya like a flower. Now, even if you buy the best quality flowers,
like from Willis, after a week, it looks beautiful. And then after a week, it becomes weathered, and
he dies. And Allah describes this is how life is going to be. And so without being too depressing,
we understand the reality of time. But of course, this is a way of maximizing and benefiting the
most of it. Now all of us must have experienced this and said, Yeah, Allah, how quickly the holidays
go. We back again and into work again, the sometimes seems to fly and other times take so long, like
		

			waiting for that paycheck. And in the end of Jan takes very long, but the fun of December because
very quickly, sitting in traffic takes so long, but other things go very quickly. And so the passing
of time is something which is very interesting, and we'll talk about how we make most of it. Then it
also mentions
		

			one of the consequences of Kia, one of the indications of Qiyamah is that people will appear to
appear that years and years go by very very quickly. And if you compare ourselves to our
grandparents and our forefathers, it seems like they were able to get a lot more out of the time
when we were alive. But then at least some says Qiyamah will not come until time seems to pass very
quickly. So that a year is like a month a month is like a day or like a week a week is like a day a
day is like an hour and an hour. It's just like a moment like a blinking of an eye. It seems like it
went so so quickly. If you also wanted to be doing 2022
		

			COVID salted and ended in Malaga wanted to end completely how quickly years went by yours was like
two and a half years went by and life moves on. So time goes very, very quickly. And as I mentioned
the psychology to time. And Allah mentions this in the Quran, where Allah says Allah will ask the
people of Kia on the day of karma coming up is to fill out the added scene in Allah will ask people
on the day of karma or the angels will ask how long did you live on the dunya. And the people will
say color color. They said, We sit Yeoman Obadiah we spent a day maximum well a few hours of the
day, it would appear when you think about your life. My Life couldn't have been 70 years. 50 years.
		

			It was only a few years. When you think about it. The relativity of time. A psychologist mentioned
if you think about all your high school your schooling from when you started sub eight for those of
you in seventh grade one until matric you think how long that 12 years felt. Now the last 12 years
was basically since the last Soccer World Cup in South Africa until now it didn't seem like 12 you
compare the two, it seemed like my schooling was like hundreds of years, whereas the last 12 years
felt like it went so quickly. As you get older, subhanAllah
		

			time seems to speed up, it's a psychology time goes faster. So that as you get later on in your
life, your decades and your years don't run away from you very, very quickly. Why? One reason is,
your brain is actually slower. As we get young. As we get older, we become slower, and everything
moves faster, everything becomes faster. And secondly, and perhaps another reason, when you are five
years old. One year added to that is a lot one out another year or two, five is big. But when you're
50 and you add another year, percentage wise, it's not that much. And so the years become less and
less important as time goes on, which means as you get older, your life the meaning of your life,
		

			the passing of time becomes so much quicker, and the psychology of time. And this is something we
it's important. We're going to talk about how we can maximize it. Because the hour that you have the
hour I have the hour that the Wali has the hour that the Senate has the same hour, we have the exact
same watch. But what one person gets out of his hour is so much more than what another person gets
out of his hour. And the idea of the purpose of our life, the test of our life is how much can we
use and squeeze out of our limited amount of hours. So amongst the psychology of of time,
		

			as we see it certain moments in our life seems to go by very very quickly. And certain moments seem
to take very, very long and hours sitting in traffic feels like an eternity. An hour watching a very
exciting soccer match or a rugby match. Very, very quick. You know for the you and your wife go
shopping for you that our shopping felt like Kiama for her. It's so quick it's time.
		

			Why Subhanallah same people same time do exact same thing.
		

			Because the things that we love and the things that engage us the things that stimulate us, the
things that our brain becomes attached to we almost lose consciousness of time and how many of us
have done this and we are all guilty of this. We watch something or we playing a game and we don't
realize yet Allah
		

			Six, seven hours like disappeared? What happened to it? What happened to it? But if the Imam stands
another six minutes longer, that could be six minutes too long. It feels like yeah, Allah, when is
this guy going to keep quiet. And it's an important assessment of what our hearts are attached to.
The things that feel like boredom and a pain and an agony takes long its does not engage our mind or
brain and things that disappear very quickly, Time moves really fast. Those are the things which we
are attached to in the things that we love. So it's sometimes we could be attached to bad things.
And that's why how life gets wasted, people are attached to things and the years go by, squandered
		

			whereas other people hamdulillah they could be attached to some beneficial stuff, reading a book for
example, they can spend hours reading time disappeared, some Subhan Allah Allah grant is to be like
that time disappears when the making Salah
		

			you know, the weenies the workmen to come, dodge it was very quick, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah grant
us to be of those, those those levels of people. And so Allah subhanaw taala mentioned that no
matter how busy you are, or how occupied you are, where your heart is, do not forget, we all have
enough time to beat this exam. There's one very, very important point. Nobody has too little time.
Allah says in the Quran, about the people of Kiama or whom yesterday who Nephi ha that the people of
gentlemen Allah protect us from them they will be screaming in Jahannam they are crying out Robina
origina Oh Allah, let us come out of this nominal Saudi ha we will do good deeds we will be bit
		

			different Vedanta. The Kuna nama we will do the live a different life. And so Allah will ask them
		

			Oh, I will know I'm miracle Maya Kofi humans that occur, Allah will ask them, but did we not give
you a long enough life so that you could have been mindful if you wanted to, Allah is going to ask
the people of Jana, that you had enough time. Again, I don't want to be depressing here. But every
single person has enough time in this exam to attain Jana.
		

			Whether you live 30 years, whether you live 100 years, Allah subhanaw taala has given every single
one enough time to win an intergender. And that is what Allah will ask the beautiful Jahannam Why
are you here? What did you had enough time, and Allah will mention that you had enough life. And so
some people, as we said, Alhamdulillah their life and the quantity of good deeds and the quantity
and the impact of their life seem to go a lot further than the 60 years that they lived.
		

			We look at our we don't some we first we talk about the great, pious people. If you look at the
books, for example, that certain of the scholars wrote Imam nawawi, for example, he lived 40 years,
40 years, if you pass away at foot, it's young men. He wrote over 40 books, almost 100 100 books,
like two books a year he wrote, who has the time to do that, but Alhamdulillah, he found the time to
do it. We look even at our grandparents, they raise six 718 12 Children, we think it's impossible
for us now. It's impossible. And so the relativity of time and how to get Baraka in time is
something which is very real, something which in our conversation, that just as we talk about how
		

			you can maximize your money, how you can maximize your wealth, Allah subhanaw taala can maximize
your time, that the 70 years that Allah has allotted you, you can end up with many, many hundreds of
years of impact of good deeds of benefit, even of productive life, not just about chiama good deeds,
but even in the dunya having success in your life. So how do I get Baraka in my time? How do I make
it extend? How can I look at by the end of 2023? I look back at this year allah how much I've
achieved in this year. I can't even understand how did I do? So what I did in this one year is more
than I've done in the last 10 years. We all want to have that conversation this time next year. I
		

			mean, I mean Allah, I mean, when we look back and say what a productive year, all my objectives and
my goals are far exceeded them. I can't some people Subhanallah you know, you speak to them, you say
how do you do this? How are you able to do ABCD and do all of that. And I'll tell you what, I don't
know how. There is some Baraka that Allah has blessed some people in their time to really, really
excel and other people. Subhanallah they will say what did I do this last week? The weekend came and
when I didn't do a single thing I don't know what I did. I can't even keep track of the nothing that
I've done. And so, how do we get Baraka in our time, three practical steps Inshallah, the first one
		

			and this is with all aspects of Baraka. There's all aspects of Baraka, Baraka is a spiritual thing.
It comes from Allah subhanaw taala. If you want baraka and your money, first tip is give some of it
feasability law, you want Baraka in your health, use some of your strength visa vie the law. You
want baraka and your time, make sure
		

			Make sure that Allah subhanaw taala is given his you know, many times when we come busy and while
I'm, you know, suspect number one guilty of this will become so busy what do we do? We you know, we
push on Salah right to the last minute. And it's very quickly because I need to get back to the
meeting I need to get back to, you know we should change Allah subhanaw taala thinking why to save
time, you cannot save time when you neglect the one who's given you the time, and the one who can
make things extended and put Baraka in it. And so the first Nia for 2023, let us spend a little bit
more in our ibadah. I'm not saying add another hour to three hours to already rigorous Ibadah
		

			routine, but when we make our salah, maybe another five, five minutes, so a lot, maybe one minute
extra of a scar, yeah, Allah I'm going to invest a little bit, one minute, one minute each walk
that's five minutes a day, each what I'm going to add phi one minute, that's five minutes a day and
see how Allah will bless you with hours, if not the years in your life, prioritize Allah subhanaw
taala and his time never ever take away from Allah Sangha time and make a conscious effort to be to
give Allah a beautiful you're gonna prioritize your time. You know, we always talk about husbands
that say to the wife, you spend all you know, you sat on the couch the whole day, the weekend, but
		

			we didn't spend quality time together, we physically set to give us no quality time your mind was
elsewhere, your heart was elsewhere. And it's about giving Allah quality time. And then Allah
subhanaw taala will always repay you with something better, then you will see Baraka in your time at
work baraka and your time with your family. So prioritize that time with Allah subhanaw taala. The
second tip, which is both a practical one, and also spiritual one, was very, very amazing and
beautiful Hadith which you mentioned before, a hadith which doesn't have something parallel to it or
equal to it. I don't know of another Hadith that gives you this reward with enemies and says,
		

			Whoever wants his risky sustenance, and his life to be extended, you want more years on your clock.
		

			There's no other Hadith I have found, maybe someone else can find it for me that there be some says
if you want more years, you are given a set number of years when you are born, when were born, the
angel brought your hero and with it, there was a stamp. Muhammad is going to die after 50 years. But
you can extend your your life your warranty can be extended how the only Hadith that mentions is by
keeping good relations with your family, keeping good relations with your family. Now many times we
might feel spinning, having an extra conversation with the wife about something mundane is a waste
of my time. Or look, look watching the kids do something trivial is a waste of time. No, that is
		

			actually extending your time. That is quality time. It will from a spiritual sense, Allah will
increase your life, Allah will increase the meaning of your time, but also from a practical sense.
At the end of the day, subhanAllah if we just looked at the dunya the thing that ultimately matters
the most in this dunya we don't think about the Earth era is really your family. What good is it to
your life if you've amassed wealth or success or power, but you have no one in this dunya that loves
you. Nobody on Earth cares about you, when you die, no one shed a tear for you. The really the thing
that ultimately matters the most is the quality time with your family. And so do not ever forfeit
		

			your opportunities with your parents. You can never replace your mom and your dad. They're going to
be one year and they're not going to be here for those who have lost their parents Marla Grantham
janitorial dose, you will never be able to replace a loved one. You can always replace any other
barrel blessing, but not a family member. And so ensure that you spend quality time with your
family. What hamdulillah there was an extra you know, there's a very famous YouTube video, and I
wanted to do it yeah, but I thought it's gonna be about missing them as it were the scientists or
this professor, he stands in front of the class, and he has a empty jar. You've seen it, he has an
		

			empty jar, and next to the jar is got a few golf balls. And he's got a few stones, and he's got a
jar of sand, golf balls, stones and sand. He says if I fool the jaw, my empty jaw with the sand to
the top, I can't put the stone to the golf balls in the joyful. I can't put anything else in it.
		

			But if I start with the golf balls, I put the golf balls in when I put the stones in, and then I put
the sand in it kind of all of it can fit. And he says this is how your life is. The golf balls are
the important things in your life, your family, your health, your religion, things that you can't
replace. There's only a few of them. You don't have hundreds of golf balls, maybe five, six very,
very important things. Those are the important things that must go in first. The stones are
important but not so important things that your work. Like things that can't be replaced but they
need to be prioritized. You need to put them in and the sand is the waste of time trivial things
		

			that God
		

			Some social media. Now if you fill your life with those things, you will not have time you will not
have place for your family and your work. Always follow the jaw with the important things first,
they will the things that Waste Time is endless, and will take up as much time as you allow it to
take up, it will take up as much space in your life as you allow it to take up. And so Subhanallah
Do not ever substitute the things you cannot replace in your life, your deen your health, your
family, with things that are meaningless and trivial and won't count for you at the end of the day.
And so, family time, if you're not prioritizing it, if you really want a long life, a happy life and
		

			Baraka in your life, both from a religious perspective. And from the dunya perspective, spend more
time with your wife take her shopping, even though it's torture for you, Hamdulillah, it's good for
you spend more time with the kids, even though maybe it's boring, but hamdulillah is baraka in it.
And it increases your life. And of course, it increases your well being. We see this so many times
before scientists have found those who have good family relationships, they are happy when they come
home, they actually really live longer, they do live longer, Allah has given them more life because
of that. And then last, and these are productive tips. Now these are practical tips.
		

			Why time seems to disappear for most of us, is when we do not have a structured program. So time we
get a lot done when we have a routine. And we have structure. And when we don't have routine where
we just have a lazy week weekend where we wake up anytime we don't really have anything on the
agenda, that day just disappears. And these nothing that you hold on to when it's over, it's gone,
and you never get anything in return. And that is why then a resource alum had a very, very
structured life. Yes, everything was around Ibadah he Salah times, but he was very, very meticulous
and structured. It is part it is part of the Muslim DNA to be a structured productive person,
		

			something which we've lost, because we should be the most structured and productive people. Our days
must have be rigorously planned. We don't have time because we know will say look, I don't have time
to waste, I don't have time to waste, I need to give 100% to Allah, I need to give 100% to my
family, I need to give 100% to my boss, I need to make time for myself, we don't have time. So every
single moment becomes precious when it is structured, be structured in your life. And subhanAllah is
a very famous book called The 5am Club. And if you heard of it, it's one of these self help books,
you know. And one it's called the 5am club where this guy looked at all the many of the successful
		

			CEOs in the world. And he said what one habit that they all have is they all wake up early in the
morning, and they start the day before the employees start. Many of the billionaires in the world
they all part of the 5am Club, they wake up before 5am And they're really starting to work at 5am.
And against Panama. We don't have to look at these people for guidance when an abusive person says
		

			so hobby, soccer comedy, he says, then a resource and later to listen to the rock. There are
promises made to ISIS, Oh Allah, bless my ummah, in the early mornings, with Baraka in the morning
of the Fajr. So whenever they do something in the morning, when you start studying in the morning,
you start going to work early in the morning, I'm I go to gym in the morning, Allah I mean, I mean,
right? You go early to the morning to the gym, these Baraka in those in those activities. Allah puts
goodness in it goes to those who are going to be Salam Ismar. And so there is something special
about starting your day early. They're going to be early SubhanAllah. And this man, the Sahaba,
		

			soccer, soccer family, he says when he heard this too, he was a businessman, he made sure that US
business he would do his trade early in the morning, and he became a very, very wealthy business
person. So it's not just about Baraka in terms of your DUA, but Baraka in your business. And so if
you're going to structure your routine, make sure make sure that you start early, and then be
mindful of those thieves or those time that you lose time thieves. As an amusement says there are
two blessings that people squander one of it is good health, you only realize your good health when
you become sick in your free time. What did we do with all today? All of us what did we do the
		

			holiday it's gone now. And now we back to the directories and you think what could I have done? How
many of us have that thought? What could I have done when I was younger? I could have done this I
could have done that. And you can never ever get that time back and so never ever regret the time
that you spent and the time that you you've unfortunately wasted do not let social media take from
your time do not lead gossip take from your time do not let pity drama take from your time you know
sometimes people drama this one see that one that one's it occupies your mind. Spine Allah you can
occupy your mind with something so much more beneficial not only about a beneficial you could at
		

			least done something you enjoyed.
		

			You occupied Your time is something you don't enjoy. And so it's a double whammy. So avoid these
time thieves and engage in productive life and in make sure that your days each day is productive.
When you look at the end
		

			of the year it was a productive year, and you have productive years, you have a productive life. And
that when you close your eyes and Shalini we all go to our mouth. We all have regrets. We will look
back and say, Wow, I loved more than 60 years, I had only 6070 years. But I had a wonderful life. I
made I was true to my Deen as best as I could. I was part of the community. I had good times with my
family. I traveled the world. I had my ups and downs, but Hamdulillah, my 70 years, whatever it was,
was a wellspring to Al Hamdulillah. All of us want to have that all of us want to have it. And so to
be time, yes, Allah begins with Lhasa Lhasa in Al Insana, la vie, who said, Allah says all of you
		

			are going to lose in this life in LA, except there's only one type of person that's going to really
win, Ill Alladhina amanu.
		

			Only the believer will actually win a person who does not believe in Qiyamah, you only have six
years, and that's it, you die. And that's it. Whereas we believe there is an eternity on the other
side, there will be a day, when we will outlive time, we will be on the day of Kiama Allah will take
note in a hadith, and no matter which was always majesty, and he will convert death into a sheep.
And Allah will sacrifice that sheep and says today, time basically has ended, there's no moment is
only eternity. And so this will increase the people of Janas happiness, because now it's forever, as
part of the agenda. Make them sad, because if you increase the there's no time limit. And so the
		

			believer is going to be time, if you believe in life after death. And while I'm you know, solid, and
you have to be productive, you can't be a believer and lazy. That's unfortunately that can go hand
in hand. So I believe in Kiama, but I'm gonna do anything about it. You have to live a productive
life. Yes, we all want to sit and veg and watch TV for you know, years and just go by and do
nothing. That's not going to cut it. We have to make hierarchy, we have to be active. And so be
loved doing good deeds, whatever was open hockey, but to also be sober and then encourage others to
do good. And to be patient. This Allah says will be time. My last point and I conclude with this,
		

			hon Allah. I said to you many times, that of all the things of Jana, I mean, he also the whole lions
or whatever that blows your mind, and that you look forward to coming back from a holiday you think
yeah, lights over again. And you have to work another year to get to another holiday. The beautiful
thing of Jana is that it's endless. When you get the you will never ever have to work again. You
will never ever have to experience struggle again. And the beautiful thing of Jana is even though
Allah will give you eternity, no limit to your time. As we said so many times there is no sleep in
Jannah. Why? Because sleep is going to be a waste of time because of all the fun. You cannot do all
		

			the fun in Ghana. You cannot see all the places in Ghana. You cannot eat all the things in Ghana,
even though you have eternal time. Jana gets better all the time. And so if we really want to get to
a place where we'll be time, Aspire Allah, I want to enter Jana, and never come back. I mean, Allah
bless us in this year. And Allah forgive us the sins of the past year, Malaga and mock funeral for
those who have passed away in the last year. And I look granted our best of days and our best of
time, be ahead of us. And may Allah take us in the best of states. I mean, slug Muhammad was Allah
say Mohammed, Islamist Abdullah Abdullah Minister