 وَأَقُولُ فِي القُرْآنِ مَا جَاءَتْ بِيهِ أَيَاتُوهُ فَهُوَ الْكَارِيمُ المُنزَالُوهُ وَأَقُولُ قَالَ اللَّهُ جَلَّ جَلَالُوهُ وَالْمُصْطَافَ الْهَاديِ وَلَا أَتْ أَوَّالُوهُ الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثناء الجميل وشدوى الله إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقول الحقا وهو يهدي سبيل وشدوى أن سيدنا ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بحسان إلى يوم الدين أما بعد today insha'Allah تعالى seminar is about the importance and the value of time and the way that I plan to go over this topic and I hope to discuss it is as it shows insha'Allah تعالى on your slide so as it shows on the slide I have divided the lecture into two sections I have divided the lecture and the seminar into two sections insha'Allah تعالى the first part I'm going to be speaking about value and the importance of time as you can see the value and importance of time how important is time what does it mean to us what did Allah and His Messenger say about time I'll speak about that insha'Allah تعالى and the second is practical steps how can we now then benefit from time once we've acknowledged and we've accepted that time is very important and it's very valuable then give us practical steps of how to benefit from it and that's what we're going to do I'm going to give you practical steps of how to benefit from time the first segment or the first section of the seminar which is value and importance of time value and importance of time I'm going to give five or six points six points I think تقريباً بإذن الله الكريم will go through each one بإذن الله الكريم all of them is going to be on the slides for you of five points five points are going to be the importance and value of time point number one insha'Allah تعالى so this number one falls under which segment which section section one which is the value and the importance of time you write you write you write these five points insha'Allah تعالى the first one is blessing our primary and secondary الله تعالى تعالى blessed us we all acknowledge that right الله سزن القرآن وإن تبعدوا نعمة الله لا تحسوها إن الإنسان لا ظلوم ونكفار إذا كنت تساعد وكنت تحاول أن تساعد بلسن الله عز و جل لا تستطيع أن تستطيع إذا يمكنك أن تترك with these slides يمكنك أن ترى إن شاء الله تعالى فقط تترك with the slides بإذن الله إذا كنت تساعد وكنت تساعد بلسن الله والله we will never be able to put a number on it لا نستطيع أن نقول أن الله تعالى بلسنه إنه 10.000 2.000.000 إنه too much إنه too much for us to count ولكن المسجدين they divided the blessings of Allah into two the primary and secondary blessings the primary is the most essential and the most important the foundation of your existence is connected to these blessings and the second one is secondary blessings you will still exist you will still live but you will struggle but you will still live the foundation the primary blessing from them is health or first of all let me put it in sequence the first one of them is الإثلام الله says اليوم أكملت لكم دينكم وأتممت عليكم نعمتي ورضي تلكم الإسلام الديناء اليوم أكملت لكم دينكم اليوم أكملت لكم نعمتي وأتممت عليكم نعمتي وأستابلت my complete blessing on to you what is the blessing Allah is talking about here إسلام إسلام is a blessing it's a blessing and that blessing is a foundation it's a foundation the second blessing which is a foundation is health health is a fundamental foundation for human existence for you to exist and to be you have to have a type of health the third and the one that concerns us today is زمن الوقت time time is a primary blessing primary it is time that allows us to do righteous actions it is time that allows us to get closer to Allah so time is primary you are time that came together some people they say time is gold no that should be corrected time is your life and your life is more valuable than gold with somebody today if someone came up to you and said to me give me your finger and I will give you a million dollars would you give it you wouldn't give it right because your body parts mean a lot to you true or false then each and every one of us here are we're rich we wouldn't sell our own body parts for a million dollars a million pounds we wouldn't do that because our body parts mean a lot to us you are time that came together time is very valuable it's a fundamental نعمة from Allah let me mention some verses from the Quran try to write them down Allah says in the Quran الله الذي الله is the one خلق السماوات والأرض الله created the samawat the heavens and the earth Allah created it وأنزل and Allah sent down من السماعي from the sky ما أنوتا سأخرج به من التامرات رسق اللكم ومن ذلك الله خلق السماوات من الأرض لماذا؟ رسق اللكم لكي يمكنك إتك لكي يمكنك إتك الله سبحانه وتعالى الله سبحانه وتعالى وسخر لكم الفلكة لتجرية في البحر في البحر بأمري وذلك الله تبارك وتعالى خلق السماوات ونقذت على الوحيد مع الوحيد كل هذا يحدث لأن الله يجعله يحدث وسخر لكم الأنهار و الله يجعله يحاولك يجعل الله يجعله وسخر لكم يجعله يحاولنا يعملنا يجعلنا أن نرى شيء إذا كانت مخيفة في الوقت الوقت سيكون جيدا لنا to walk around الله يجعل كل هذا يجعلنا ثم الله يقول وسخر لكم الشمس والقمر الله يجعل السن ومون سابس وسخر لكم الليلة والنهار الليلة والنهار وأعطاكم وأعطاكم وأعطاكم من كل ما سألتم كل ما سألتم ونظر ما يقول بعد ذلك وإن تعدوا نعمة الله لا تحسوها إذا قمت بسيط وحاولت to count the blessings of Allah you will never be able to في الوقت الوقت did Allah say that you will never be able to count the blessings of Allah in what context was it time day night sun moon الله has mentioned the blessing in this context so we learn from this time is a fundamental primary blessing brothers the blessing the blessing will only remain if we show gratitude gratitude is one of the things that allows us to keep the current blessing that we have I want every one of you to remember this the scholars they say that gratitude is قيد للمودود وصيد للمفقود gratitude is something that will allow the current blessing that you have remain and gratitude brings you what you don't have whatever you didn't have will come your way الله will bring it for you and what you already have الله will let it remain for you and stay consistent and continuous for you did he not say in the Quran لإن شكرتهم لأزيد النكم if you show gratitude to me I will increase it for you increasing means what I will let what is already there to remain and I will give you more addition so the blessings they will stay and they will be continuous if we show gratitude time is a blessing if we show gratitude to time it will remain for us how would time remain for us الله will give us the ability to benefit from it and I will be speaking about that at the ending of the at the ending of the seminar بيذن الله و سبحانه و تعالى he removed excuses there is no excuse for the individual who's been allowed to live for 60 years in the eyes of Allah there's no excuse the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم يسالحين حريت ألمام البخاري you narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira أعظم الله عز و جل Allah made a person without excuses the day of judgment there's nothing you can say you have no excuses on the table إلى مرئ الأخر عمره حتى بلذه 60 سنة that Allah allowed him to live for 60 years if Allah gives you time to live for 60 years what type of excuse can you come with the day of judgment you can't there's nothing for you to say the day of judgment Allah has removed that from you سبحانه و تعالى there's no excuse for you and that's why we come to the next point الله سبحانه و تعالى he scolded he told off the disbelievers also the Muslims who waste their time Allah told them off it's on the slide Allah told off he reprimanded سبحانه و تعالى the disbelievers for wasting their time what did Allah say الله تعالى و تعالى he said in Suratuh Suratuh Fathir Suratuh Fathir آية 37 الله says أولم نعمرك ما يتذكر فيه من تذكر و جاءكم الدرير الله says أولم نعمرك have we not given you a light span have we not given you time أولم نعمرك did we not give you عمر a time a life in that time what could you do أولم نعمرك ما يتذكر where you can become conscious and aware of your actions a time you can be contemplating pondering over your own doings have I not given it to you some of the scholars they said this means if you reach age of puberty أولم نعمرك ما يتذكر فيه some of the scholars they said it means if you reach age of puberty anyone who's reached age of puberty الله has given them the time to contemplate and ponder و جاءكم النوير and the warner came to you some of the scholars they said the warner is that Allah brings a white hair in your beard or your hair white hair I'm a gray hair white beard this is the warner what is he telling you your time is coming to an end soon you will meet your Lord الله عز و جل so anyone who those two has been given to him first of all you reach age of puberty that was a time and then after that just in case you forgot الله gave you a sign a white hair came out and here you're saying no no this is just stress man it's just stress سبحان الله I'm not old it's just stress it's the sign that was sent to you to be heedless to be aware and not to be heedless and to take you're like this is just stress work it's the workload that's doing this to me no it's a reminder telling you your time is coming to an end you're about to expire you're going to meet your Lord soon so a person who's been given age of puberty who's reached age of puberty has no excuse based on this ayah and then if his beard becomes white then he's been given what a wuna telling him that his time is going to come to an end الله swore by time we're talking about the importance of time and how valuable time is الله سبحانه وتعالى he swore by time swore by it let's look at some of the verses of الله تبارك وتعالى swearing by time الله says the night الله سبحانه وتعالى والنهار إذا تجلّى الله سبحانه وتعالى والليلي إذا أدبَرَ والصبح إذا أصفر الله سبحانه وتعالى and then he swears by the mooning والليلي إذا عص عصا والصبح إذا تنفس والفجري والليالين عشر والضحة والليلي إذا سجع والعص إن الإنسان لا في خصم كل من هذه اللهم يتعلم بها نيل نهار الفجر الضحة لماذا يتعلم بها؟ لأهلياتها لأنها مهمة لأنها مهمة اللهم يتعلم بها يجب أن يتعلم بها يظهر بأنها مهمة ومهمة مهمة ونحن هنا نحن مهمة ونعلم بها لا نعلم ونعلم بها ما هو معنا هذا الضحة اللهم يتعلم بها إذا لم تتعلم إذا لم تتعلم نفسك هذا الضحة أنت لا تفعل أي شيء أنت تتعلم أنه ستفعل منك وأنه ستفعل أنك تفعل الشيخ الإسلام يبني تيمي أخبرتني عندما تتعلم يجب أن تكون رتنة في المنزل ما هو؟ نفسك يمكنك أن تقول في أي طريقة إلاً تشغلها بطاعة شغلتك بالمعصية إذا لم تتعلم موقعك في موقعك يجب أن تكون رتنة في المنزل إذا لم تتعلم وأنك لا تتعلم مع المنزل يجب أن تكون رتنة في المنزل نفسك إلاً تشغلها بطاعة أنك رتنة إذا لم تتعلم يجب أن تكون رتنة مع المنزل شغلتك بالمعصية وأنك لست بزي with the disability وعلم أمي يمكننا أن نقرأ أن عندك لا تبزي يجب أن تكون رتنة وإنك لا تجد التصميم إذا تدعك في المنزل هذا المنزل يجب أن تكون رتنة في المنزل يجب أن يتوقف سوف يجب أن تساعدك سوف يجب أن تقوم بفعلك سوف يجب أن تكون رتنة يجب أن تذهب مجردًا و يجب أن تجعلك تسبيع الله عزو جلًا أريدك أن تكون هناك المجرد أن يقول وَنَّفْسُكَطِفْلِ إِنْتُهُمِلْهُ شَبَّعَلَا حُبِرْ رَضَاعِ وَإِنْتُفْطِمْهُ يَنْفَطِمِهِ مجردًا أن يكون like a newborn baby يجب أن تذكر هذا هذا مجردًا of yours is like a newborn baby like a newborn baby the newborn baby the child when it reaches two years of breastfeeding the mother has to say to the child now it's over there's no breastfeeding for you anymore based on the ayah وَالْوَالِيْدَاتِ وَالْضِعْنَهُ عُلَى دَهُنَّ حَولَيْنِ حَولَيْنِ كَامِلَيْنِ the mother breastfeed the child for how many years two years after two years the mother stops breastfeeding the child the child if the mother doesn't stop breastfeeding him after two years and she carries on the child will still carry on the breastfeeding five years he'll still take it the scholars they said it is upon the mother to say nope it's over the nafs is like that your nafs will just drag on and it will do what it wants you have to say to your nafs stop when nafs will catifly your nafs is like the child if you forsake it it will be like the child who's being breastfed they'll say okay I did this same can I do another one what about this one don't worry just let's have a one hour fun I want to play with this game or I want to do this and tomorrow you see yourself ten hours you're sitting down every day wasting your time it started from what one hour the nafs will go on you're sleeping too much you're relaxing I'm just going to talk on the phone I'm just going to use my gadget my mobile phone for this much when nafs will catifly you have to grab yourself you have to grab this nafs and restrain it or it will go out of place it will another poet he said the youth the youth who has time free time the youth and free time and money these three مفصيدة للمري they corrupt a person a great corruption three things being a youth generally the youth he is what he is hasty he wants to do so many things there's a Somalian proverb there's a Somalian saying which is a youth my Somali is not that good so I'll say in English the youth he jumps from decisions like when he's young he can jump fast the youth he's young so he's fragile he's athletic so he knows how to jump he jumps like that from wise decisions when did I come the youth the youth if he doesn't have any deficiencies that the youth normally have if he's an upright child Allah is amazed with him the Prophet ﷺ حديث إن الله لا يعجب الله is amazed and he is fascinated سبحانه وتعالى من الشاب يسأل له صبوة الله is amazed with a youth who doesn't have the deficiency of a youth because generally when you're young and you're a youth you don't have that tranquility that wisdom to think a lot of the times you're hasty and you're fast in things Allah is amazed الشيخ الإسلام التهيمية great in this hadith بحسن in his كتاب العقيدة الاصطية Allah is amazed and fascinated and that's why the youth the day of judgment he has a shade when no one else is going to gain a shade except seven types of people and he's from one of the ones who get سبعة يوضلهم الله في ظله يوم لا ظل إلا ظله seven الله is going to give him a shade the day when there is no shade from them is who شاب نشأ في طاعت الله a youth who was nurtured who grew up in the obedience of Allah the reason is because the youth hasn't had enough time to think he hasn't had enough time to experience things in life so for him to know how to benefit from the little time that he's lived this world and to be wise inside it has allowed him to have the shade of Allah the day of judgment الله is going to give him a shade it goes back to the concept of time it really goes back to the the concept of time brothers in رمضان I came across an ayah many of us have already read this ayah الله تباركو تعلي he says in the ayah فلا تعجل عليهم إنما نعود لهم عدا the last part is what concerns me from the ayah الله says we will count it fully we will count it fully فلا تعجل عليهم إنما نعود لهم عدا the scholars they said that this thing that's going to be counted is your life the minutes seconds they will be counted إنما نعود لهم عدا it's all going to be counted it's all counted for Allah some of the scholars like sheikh al-Islam ibn al-Qayyim he took it a step further and he said إنما نعود لهم عدا means their breathing is counted for us when you breathe in and when you breathe out it's all counted for Allah it's not the angels are aware of your situation الله is aware of it you're the one who is heedless the only one who is heedless he was just wasting his time and he was saying don't worry I will do it when I grow older it's you everything else is working it's doing their job they are doing their job it's just you who's not who's not benefiting from your time and who's not taking his time very serious and there will come a day brothers where you will regret the time that you have forsaken that you did not benefit from the messenger told us عليه الصلاة والسلام the messenger told us صلى الله عليه وسلم عليه he said ما جلس قول مجلس لم يدخل الله تعالى فيه there is not a group of people who sit in a gathering and they do not remember Allah they sit there and they just talk إبن الملكين said that what they are talking about is good things are normal things مباحات not haram they just talking about normal things how are you is everything fine yesterday I did this just a normal conversation but they don't bring Allah into the conversation they do not talk about the deep they talk about business and dunya normal things that are not haram because they did not mention خير and good in there إلا رأوا يوم القيامة حسرة the day of judgment they will regret the fact that they wasted that time imagine those who are wasting their time on haram and disobedience of Allah imagine those these people were sitting there they were talking about things that were permissible that was allowed and they will come at day brothers before the day of judgment before you regret it the day of judgment when you regret it the fact that you did not benefit from your youth when you were young a poet said مالي إذا جدبتها صايته أكيبرا علي أن بيتوا ليت الشباب أنبوع فشتريتوا ليت وهلي أن فعر شيئا ليتوا he said he grew old everybody when they are young they are strong they are enthusiastic they have the strength and the ability but this man has become old he was a very old man so he threw the bucket inside the well and then he wanted to get water out and he pulled it and he pulled it up and as he was pulling it his arm and his hand could not pull the bucket out because he is old and then he said مالي إذا جدبتها صايته why is it that when I try to pull out the bucket and I try to bring it out why am I saying why am I feeling pain I never used to feel this pain أكيبرا علي أن بيتوا is it old age is it family responsibilities is it that which is making me heavy and old like this and then look what he said لأيت الشباب أبوع فشتريتوا I wish that being a youth was something that was sold in the market I could go and buy it just to become young again and then he said to himself لأيت وهلي أن فعر شيئا ليتوا it's just wishful thinking it ain't going to happen so you're going to regret it one day you're going to regret it one day that you didn't benefit from your time it's a blessing the believer is the one who takes heed from that and realizes okay I've heard of this and I'm now going to change my life I'm going to make sure I benefit I benefit from my time I want to mention the importance of time in the sunnah of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم the messenger told us علي صلى الله عليه وسلم إن حديث الايمام الايمام البخاري ونريتل الالباب الترمذي وان ابن ماجه the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم وعند ياثرويته من العباس نعمتاني مغبون فيهما كثير من الناس الصحة والفراغ two blessings two blessings many people they don't really benefit from it they only recognize it once it's long gone they don't benefit from it when they have it what are they time and a health time and health those are the two things that people don't recognize it when they got like a health when do people realize the health that they have once it's gone when they got like a the Arabs they say الصحة تتاجل على ووس العصحة health is a crown it's a crown on the heads of those who are healthy لا يراه إلا لا يراه إلا البرضة no one else can see it except the sick one health is a crown on the head of the one who is healthy no one else can see it except the sick ones have you not seen a rich man I've seen it with my two eyes a rich man very very rich and he looked at a poor man and he wished that he could have what that poor man has you might think to yourself what is he talking about this poor man could eat any food he wants this poor man can eat whatever food he wants but this rich man the doctors have told him don't eat this food he's going to diabetes and this is going to do cholesterol and this and that so he's on a what does the food contain this yeah I can't have it he wishes he's like this poor man who what who has health like him healthy you will know the three men you will know the story the famous story the three men where the angel came to them the one that was bold he had no hair one he had leprosy and the other one was blind do you remember the story when the angel came to all three of them what was the first thing that they asked for that Allah removes the deficiency and the illness from them first before they asked for wealth health is what they asked for first صحر of course health is very important health is what is very important many people don't realize it until they lost it they don't have it they can't stand up anymore because their back is broken or they have mental health issues the second one is time free time many people have free time but they don't realize it what they had how much they had to realize it later اليمام البخاري he said something very powerful فَاِغْتَنِمْ فِي الْفَرَاطِةِ فَضْلَ رُكُؤِنْ فَعَسَةَ يَأْكُونَ مَوْتُكَ بَغْتَا كَبُ الصحيحِنْ رَأيتَ من غير سَقَى منْ ذَهَبَدْ نفسه الصحيحة فَلْتَا بخاري said benefit from your free time by doing one hacka بخاري he said this in his sahيح اِغْتَنِمْ فِي الْفَرَاقِ هناك مواركة أنت فتح your job أنت لديك مرحلة تستطيع أن تقوم برغة رقم لا تتبع لأحد من your life بدون أن تكون لديك جيد ومفيد منك فأس أن يكون موتك بغطة لأنك يمكن أن تكون موتك يمكن أن تكون موتك بغطة أنت لا تعلم كم صحيحين كم so many people who were healthy or ate them in غيري سقام which we saw them become sick they were not sick they were healthy and they died with no illness suddenly they went to the hospital you don't know so just pray increase in it the more you increase in righteous actions the chances of you dying in that state is very high isn't that not true it is it is true one needs to know that the day of judgment before I mention this point the day of judgment one of the things that we're going to be asked is time we're going to be asked we're going to be interrogated by who by a supreme court the one that knows what's in your heart before you even vocalize it the one you cannot get away from this the creator of the heavens and the earth الله عز وجل the hadith of ببرزة الأسلامي لا تزول قدمائي عبد يوم القيامة a slave's legs will not move from his position the day of judgment حتى يسأل عن أربع four questions you're going to be asked four and from them is عن عمره فيما أفنه one of the four is how did you spend your life what did you do in your life Oh Allah I was playing games is that what you want to say youngsters you want to say to Allah I was playing games all day you're going to be asked the day of judgment what did you do with your time get that answer ready now today you have that chance to get it ready today today is your opportunity make sure you get the answer for that if you don't then get ready the prophet said in another hadith اغتنم خمسا قبل خمس benefit from five before five happens I'm a five and from them is or the first one that the messenger mentioned was what شبابك قبل هرامك benefit from your youthfulness before age hits you now I want to speak about something very important I'm going to now go into all of those evidences I gave and all of those quotes and all of those hadith some of you might say can we see it practically is there any people who practice this can you show us a people who have lived by the value of time yes I have one thousand one hundred and twelve situations but I'm not going to go through all of them how many did I say one thousand one hundred and twelve each one more shocking than the other how they sell it the early generation they benefit from their time now I'm going to go to stories of how they benefited from their time and pay attention to me I want to show you all of these ayahs and all of these hadith how they internalized it and how it impacted their life the celebs keenness to gain time and fill it with goodness this is what I'm going to go through now the early generation the pious pre-people I'm going to start it off by a quote I'm going to start this with a quote ألمام الشافعي رحمه الله he said صحبت الصوفية ألمام الشافعي ألمام الشافعي he said I accompanied I went to the Sufis he said فمن تفعتوا منهم I did not benefit anything from the Sufis ألمام الشافعي إلا بكلمتين two words are the only things that I benefited from the Sufis what was it? الوقت سيفون قاطاعة قاطاعة فإن قطاعته if you cut it then you benefit from it وإلا or if you don't قاطاعة قاطاعة will cut you time is a sword you have to cut it and slice it I will speak about that later when we come to setting yourself goals at the ending of our seminar and the second quote was what? وَنَفْسُكَ يُعْنَفْسِ إِلَّمْ تَشْغَلَهَا بِالْحَقِّ if you do not busy with the truth وإلا شغالتك بالباطل it would busy you with falsehood and I mentioned that quote from the sheikh of islam ibn Taymi as well let me give you some stories إن شاء الله وتعالى that has truly amazed me صراحة amazed me I'm going to mention them إن شاء الله وتعالى and you all will be amazed with me بيذن إلهي الكريم you'll all be amazed with me the first one is the striving and the hard work of the seraph hold the sun so I can talk to you this is عامر ابن عبد قيس who was one of the tabi'een a tabi'een is the student of the companion one of the tabi'een one of the students of the companions his name was عامر ابن عبد قيس أمان ستهم كلمني talk to me فقال له عامر ابن عبد قيس ستهم أمسك الشمسة hold the sun so I can talk to you hold the sun don't let time move and then I'll talk to you he didn't want to waste his time he believed talk into that person would waste his time so he said if you want me to talk to you and engage with you then make sure time is not moving عبد الله المسكود رضي الله تعالى عنه the noble companion of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم look what he said ما نديم تو I never regretted شيء I never regretted anything ندمي على يوم غربت شمسه a day where the sun set نقص فيه أجلي and my time was reduced meaning I was closer to my brave and the meeting of Allah ولم يزيد في عمني and my actions did not increase that was the time I regretted the most I never regretted anything else the greatest regret for me was my time meeting Allah was close and I didn't benefit from that day عبد الله المسكود he regrets a day that passes of his life but he didn't benefit from but he didn't take from it النهار الليل والنهار يعملان فيك فعمل فيهما night and day are ever working on you they are doing their thing why are you not doing your thing why are you not exerting effort عمر بن عبد العزيز was the one who said this he said الليلة the night والنهارة and the day يعملان فيك they are working on you they are doing their course they are doing what they were commanded by Allah فعمل فيهما work in them how are they working they are reducing your life the day and the night that is going by is taking away from you your work it's taking away your life you are growing older every day why are you not benefiting from that time why are you not exerting efforts in the good and getting closer to Allah سبحانه وتعالى oh son of Adam you are days حسن البصري was the one who said this he said يا بنا آدم oh the children of Adam إنما أنت أيام you are days فإذا ذهب يوم if a day goes by ذهب بعضك some of you will go with it if a day goes by remember that some of you went with it every day حمادي بن سلامة حمادي بن سلامة before I go to حمادي بن سلامة there was something I didn't mention in my power point presentation that I want to mention now and I want you to look at this it really amazed me I think this was one of the most amazing ones that I came across سوفيان الثوري write this one down سوفيان ابن السعيد الثوري رحمه الله خطيب البغدادي he mentioned in his kitab الجامع لأخلاق الراوي وآداب السامع that سوفيان الثوري he entered onto حمادي بن سلامة he entered onto حمادي بن سلامة سوفيان الثوري as his teacher and he didn't give him no salams he entered and he sat down and he asked him a question straight away okay when he asked him the question after that he gave him salams and he hugged him and so حمادي بن سلامة was amazed with him and he said to him من أنت who are you because he didn't know who he was he said who are you this was the first time سوفيان الثوري met حمادي بن سلامة two great imams two great imams سوفيان الثوري walks onto حمادي بن سلامة and what does he do he asks him the question straight away once he's finished asking the question he gives him a salam and he hugs him حمادي بن سلامة said to him من أنت who are you قال أنا سوفيان I'm a Sufian حمادي بن سلامة said to him ابن سعيد are you the son of Saeed he said yes الثوري are you the son of Sufian قال أنا قال أبو عبدالله are you the son of Abdullah قال أنا حمادي بن سلامة فما منعك أنت سلم علي what prevented you from greeting me why didn't you greet me why didn't you say Salam عليكم to me and then why didn't you then ask me the question ثم تسأل عن الحديث and then why didn't you ask me about the hadith قال خشي and you died قبل أن أسمع الحديث منك before I could hear the hadith from you I'm scared while I'm greeting you and hugging you you might drop dead and then I don't get the hadith I came for so I asked you quickly you gave me the hadith then I shake your hand and I greeted you it doesn't want to waste time he does not want to he doesn't want to waste time here I'm going to mention حمادي بن سلامة was either narrating look at this man's life the one I just spoke about now the teacher his life was either narrating حديث of the prophet or he was reading or he was glorifying Allah or praying he would either be narrating a hadith or he would be reading or he would be glorifying Allah by saying سبحان الله سبحان الله ألمان مدهبيو he says about حمادي بن سلامة البصري الإمام المحدث النحوية الحافظ القدوة الشيخ الإسلام he was an imam he was a grammarian he was a scholar of hadith and he was a role model his life he divided into those types he narrates a hadith he reads he glorifies Allah or he prays this really shocked me listen to this أرحمان من المهدي he said أرحمان من المهدي the student of حمادي بن سلامة please brothers please ponder on this إنه اللي الله وإنه اللي الرجم this is shocking أرحمان من المهدي he said لو قيلا لحمادي بن سلامة إنك تموت غدا tomorrow you're gonna die ما قدره he was not able أن يزيد في العمري شيئة لن يكون أكثر في حياته if he was told that tomorrow the angel of death is coming he's gonna take your nuts you're gonna die حمادي بن سلامة had already exhausted himself there was nothing else you could do أرحمان من المهدي said this about him his own student أرحمان من المهدي was the teacher of إمام الشفعي great imam the last moment آخر لحوة your last moments in this world we don't know we don't know when we're gonna die when we're gonna meet Allah we work hard every day this is what we do the most burdensome time for خليل إبن أحمد was his meal time خليل إبن أحمد الفراهيدي was the teacher of the father of grandma the father of grandma are you right خليل إبن أحمد الفراهيدي is the teacher خليل إبن أحمد الفراهيدي the time that he hated the most that he found to be the most burdening was the time he would eat he hated it أبو هلال العسكي للمنشن للمنشن في جمعه he said كان الخليل إبن أحمد الفراهيدي and he was born 100 years at the 100th year of the hijriha and he died 170 hijriha خليل إبن أحمد الفراهيدي he said أثقلوا الساعة عليها the hardest time on me the burdensome time on me was ساعة أأكل فيها my meal time it was the hardest it was extremely hard فالله أكبر we enjoy meal time we get ready the family ready sit on the table roll up our hands and we love it we chat we spend time we coffee these these women and these women and these women these amazing people amazing people and that's why they reached what they reached that's why they reached the station that they reached أبو يوسف the student of Imam Abu Hanifa this one shocked me he discussing a matter of a fake on his deathbed he's on his deathbed he's dying last moments of his life he wants to know it let me mention the story for you he's student he said he said أبو يوسف became sick إيو فأتيتوا أعودوا so I came to visit him أبو يوسف I came to visit him فوجدته مغماء when I entered onto him when I entered onto him he was unconscious was feinting unconscious فلما أفاق so I stayed I sat next to him and then he became conscious again he regained consciousness as soon as he saw me he said to him ما تقولوا في مسألة what would you say about an issue and then أبو يوسف في مثل هذه الحالة at this situation you're on your deathbed you're going to ask me a fake question and then he said to him ولا بأس بالعليف there's no problem in this ندرسو we will benefit from one another and take benefit from this moment لعله ينجوبه ناجن we may need to save ourselves from this particular situation and then he asked a question he said في رمل جمار the one who is throwing the stone in the pilgrimage when you're throwing the stones which one is better and يربية ماشير that the person throws the stones while walking or whilst he's mounted on his riding beast which one is better قادي إبراهيم ابن حرب he said I said to him whilst mounted on his riding beast he said أخطأ that you also got it wrong and then I said then say what you think is right and then he said if he comes to a situation where he needs to make دعاة it is better that he is أما ما كان يقف عن دعاة يربية ماشير he should stand at those particular places and make the دعاة whilst he's standing but if it's situations where he's not in a state of دعاة then it's better to do whilst he's mounted and meaning the issue has تفصيل and then القادي إبراهيم ابن حرب he said أشترب أنا لفته فلما بلقت بابا داري when I reached the door of his house سمعت الصراق علي I heard him passing away I heard him passing away وإذا هو قدمات and he died رحمة الله علي ومن الموقع لا هذا ليس شكرا يسمع هذا أبو يوسف أتمنى أنه سيكون أمازيئا أمامهم أبو يوسف هو قد يموت ولم أردت أن يتعرف في جنازه ولم يفعله يمكنه أن يتعرف أبو يوسف شديد الملازمة أنه really stuck with ألمام أبو حنيفا until he became the shade of ألمام أبو حنيفا شديد الملازمة he never left ألمام أبو حنيفا they said he left him once he became sick and even then he asked his children to carry him and bring him in the masjid ألمام أبو يوسف he mentioned روى محمد من القدامة شجاعة من مخلد أبو يوسف أبو يوسف one of my sons died one of my son he died فلم أحضر I did not participate جهازه I did not participate in the washing of his body ولا دفنه and not also in his burial I did not participate وتركت and I left that responsibility على جيراني my neighbors وأقربائي and my relatives مخافاتا because I was scared أن يفوتني أن يفوتني من أبي حنيفا تشيءوا لا تدهبوا حصرته عني that I might miss a lesson ألمام أبو حنيفا and the regret for this missing that lesson will forever haunt me I couldn't his own flesh and blood he didn't participate in his funeral he didn't wash his body would a man like that waste any time in anything this is his own son okay another student of Imam محمد من الحسن الشيباني ورحمه الله لا يناموا من الليل إلا قليلا he would only sleep little at night العلامة طاش خبري زادة he mentioned this in his kitab افتاح السعادة ومصباح السيادة he said كان محمد بن الحسن الشيباني الكوفي البغدادي الإمام الفقيه المتشتهد المحدث تلميذ الإمام أبي حنيفا رحمه الله تعالى لا يناموا الليل he wouldn't sleep at night he wouldn't he wouldn't وكان يضع عنده دفات رح he would do his books and he would read محمد من الحسن الشيباني he would read so much فإذا ملا if he becomes bored he picks up another book and then he reads the other one and when he feels tired and he can't keep his eyes open he will stand up and he would wash his shower with cold water and he would say إن النوم من الحرارة they sleeping comes from heat so I'm gonna and he used to do that رحمه الله تعالى عصام البلخيه عصام البلخيه he bought a pen for one dinar because he heard something and he didn't want to waste his time running around and looking for a pen he said can anyone give me a pen I'll give them one dinar one dinar is equivalent to today $100 تقريبا does one waste time he just wants a pen because his current pen finished الله مطاش كبري mentioned that in his كتاب مفتاح السعادة he bought a pen for one dinar some of those great scholars they actually they will sell their houses so they can travel to an imam they will travel they will hear an imam is alive and he has a hadith one hadith imagine his brothers and sisters one hadith one hadith he wants to hear the hadith from the mouth of the sheikh he doesn't want this long chain and so he will sell his house to get the money so he can do what so he can travel and go to the sheikh so he would come home to his wife and he would say to his wife I've sold the house come out of it I've sold the house it's not ours anymore bring the children out all because he wants to go and get one hadith he wants to hear it from one imam if those people did not do that if they did not sacrifice their life like that we will not have had this religion the way that we have it today Allah protect this religion through them the poet said it was those scholars who stood up and what did they do they served this religion they sacrificed their life today so this religion came to us the way it came to us is it then fair that we play with the religion that they fought for the religion that they got beat for they got lashed they lost their lives is it fair that today we just play around with that religion we dismiss it we dismiss it we distort it we choose it we pick what we want to follow from it it's a religion that that Prophet Muhammad his front teeth was broken because of this religion he lost his noble companions his family members his uncles it's not a religion you should play with honor it until we couldn't raise his hand anymore Abu Hatim Al-Razi he traveled so much to gather the Prophet's حديث so much so that they hit his head and he urinated blood those people their legacy and their hard work we should honor it by taking this religion extremely serious by respecting it I'm now going to go into another example This story it shocked me because it's not one or two years 30 years عبيد من العيشن 30 years his sister would give him food his sister so he can just write حديث he doesn't want to waste his time to not benefit for 30 years his sister will give him food to eat and he would eat رحمه الله الله انه these great scholars ألمان with the heavy mentions that he said أقمت 30 سنة I stayed for 30 years ما أكلت بيدي بالليلي I never ate with my hand at night never كانت أختي my sister تلقمني وانا أختب الحديث I would write the hadith that was her role الله انه his sister who served the religion in her way as well this was not unique to him only same was أليمان نوي I came across أليمان نوي رحمه الله that when he was on his last moment in this life and he was about to die that his sister said to him she used to feed him أليمان نوي never got married his sister used to feed him she used to give him food and he would write the hadiths and she would prepare everything for him and when he was on his last moments his sister said to him I love you نوي I really loved you and you're going to depart from me and you're going to leave this world why didn't you leave a offspring a child of yours so I can cherish that child I can remember that child through you all you did that for me I forgot to get married and if I did remember it I would have done it حجيب أنا استغربت حرقتا when I look at these people's biography and the way that they were it is not something normal the way they are now I want to talk about there was another Imam I didn't write his by example but there was another Imam his sister she said to him the food is ready come eat it and he said I'm busy I'm busy I can't so pay attention to this and he sat reading, reading, reading and she called him again and she said come eat and he said I'm busy and so after she called him twice she just came the third time the food and then she took the plate back when he had finished his research he stood up and he said to her now bring me the food that you promised to bring me the food that you promised and then she said to him but I fed you the food I don't really give it to you their minds went now I'm going to spend some time on one great Imam I'm going to really go into his life and examples of his this man is called يحياب المعينة يحياب المعينة you know who يحياب المعينة first of all let me give you an example of how he saw the value of time يحياب المعينة he came to his teacher محمد ابن الفضل محمد ابن الفضل was a great Imam his memorization was accurate he was strong يحياب المعينة is the friend of أحمد ابن حنبل very close friends we'll see that later and يحياب المعينة is the teacher of ألمام البخاري are we all together he's who he's بخاري's teacher this great Imam يحياب المعينة he came to his teacher محمد ابن الفضل he said tell me this Hadith and the sheikh said okay let me tell you it and then he said to him can you tell me it and dictate it from your book that you wrote the Hadith in because every scholar they had a book in which they would write the Hadith and they would memorize it from there and then they would read it from memory he said can you narrate it from the original source on where you read it in why would he say that he can get accuracy and so محمد ابن الفضل he said okay I'll do it for you he stood up he quickly thought he grabbed the sheikh محمد ابن الفضل and he dragged him down he said first tell me it first tell me the narration he said to him أمليه علي فإنلي أخاف I am scared ألا ألقا كدر I may not meet you and where was he ألا بابي داريه the front of his door they had a porch in front of the door that's where he was narrating all he did is going to his house get that book out come it's in front of his door he said I am scared that I may not meet you again tell me it now ثم أخري جلكتابني and then bring out the book if you want to okay he told him the Hadith from memory and then he went in and he brought him the book and he read it from the book again let me mention who يحيب المعين please take this down and look at who this great Imam is يحيب المعين he was born when the year was 158 158 and he was raised in Baghdad he wrote he started to write Hadith from the age of 10 he said from the age of 10 until the age I am in now I have been writing the Hadith of the Prophet I have been writing the Hadith of the Prophet I have been writing the Hadith of the Prophet I have been writing the Hadith of the Prophet 10 10 he was writing the Hadith what are our 10 year olds doing we actually consider our 10 year olds to be what hey you know baby man don't worry you'll get there inshallah 10 يحيب المعين was writing the Hadith rather يحيب المعين his father was his father was a scriber his father was a writer and apple doesn't fall far from a tree and apple doesn't fall far from a tree like father like son يحيب his father was a writer for عبد المريكي بنور مريكي الجرح he was a writer for him يحيب المعين his dad left behind for him one million dirham one million dirham one million one million he's a millionaire that dirham is valuable money I tried to calculate it but I forgot to finish off the calculation but one million dirham his father left it for him you know what he said he said all of that one million dirham I spent it all in the Hadith of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم every single one of it يحيب المعين the scholars that took Hadith from him was أحمد بن حمبر أحمد sat down and used to write Hadith from يحيب المعين ألمام البخاري used to write from him مسلم wrote from him أبو داود أباس الدوريو who could مدهبي the one who spread the Madhab about يحيب المعين أبو زرعة الرازي عثماري بسعيد الداريمي أبو يعلى المصري all of these they wrote from him this is not the point the point I want to come to is he said I wrote one million Hadith with my hand يحيب المعين كتبتوا ألفة ألفة حديث one million Hadith each one 50 times يحيب المعين I wrote it 50 times يحيب المعين he reached a level in دقة how detailed and how sharp he was that ألمام أحمد أحمد said كل حديث in every Hadith لا يعرفه يحيب المعين يحيب المعين doesn't know فليسة بحديث and it's not a Hadith if يحيد said I don't know this Hadith consider it to be fabricated or made up who say this أحمد محمد رحم الله يحيب المعين يحيب المعين رجل خلقه الله this is the man Allah created him for a purpose لهذا الشأن الله يحيب المعين into this world just to serve the Hadith that was his purpose in this dunya you threw كذب الكذابين يحيب will cleanse the Hadith from the liars those who will try to lie about the prophet he made it his job he made it his job to say you're a liar the prophet didn't say this to defend the religion now comes the most powerful part of يحيب المعين's life please ponder here يحيب المعين what did I just say his role was to defend the prophet's Hadith when the year was 233 Hijriah when the year was 233 Hijriah when the year was 233 Hijriah when the year was 233 Hijriah يحيب المعين he made the decision to go to Makkah for Hajj he said that year I'm going to go Hajj and when he went to Hajj he took the route of Medina he went through the meqat of the people of Medina and he took that road to go to Makkah and when he came back from Hajj he went to what to Makkah and then from where he was from علاق he wanted to go to Makkah when he reached Makkah an illness strike him an illness strike him رحمه الله تعالى and he became sick severely and he died he died when he died he died when he died in Medina for the first time they brought out the the table that the messenger was washed with صلى الله عليه وسلم and they washed a body of يحيب المعين on the same place as the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and the people kept saying when his body was being washed يحيب المعين كان يضب الكذب this man used to deflect lies against the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and today he has sat in the place of the prophet's body when he died من عملة على شيء مهت عليه ومن مهت على شيء بُعت عليه anyone who spent his life doing something will likely die in that way and anyone who dies in a particular way will be resurrected the day of judgment in that way that's something we all have to remember what we do in this world for this religion and the sacrifice that we give to this deen will without a shadow of a doubt become insha'Allah تعالى the way that we will die and if we die in that way will be resurrected the day of judgment in that way today we think about the money that we need to make and the risk that we need to come with brothers your risk and your money is in the hands of Allah الله said in the Qur'an وما من دابه في الأرض إلا عال الله يرزقها ويعلم مستقرة ومستودحها there is no person on this earth except your risk is in the hands of Allah وفي السماء يرزقكم ومتعدون your risk is in the hands of Allah my sheikh told me he said to me that there was a man once in Somalia he owned a shop he owned a shop and what he did was when at night the shop will be closed the owner who owned the shop when his workers would leave he would count how much money was made and the profit and the loss he would busy himself with that so one day he was in the shop and he was counting the money and he had the snoring of a man snoring of a man snoring heavily and so he came out and he saw that he was one of his employees sleeping in front of the shop snoring in a deep sleep relaxed so he woke him up he said what are you doing here he said I've been sleeping here there's no point in me going home and coming back in the morning and spending the money on my travel so I sleep here and I get up for work and I come to work from here the owner was shocked who owns this place I'm the one who gives this man provision keeping money his monthly bills I'm the one who gives it to him and he is less stressed than I am sleeping lying down enjoying himself I'm here stressed counting the money is it now the calculation doesn't meet up what happened to this the difference is richness is not how much money you have how much wealth you have or how much is in your bank or the richness is if you're rich inside it's what you have inside and it's what is with you or the brothers and sisters the Prophet told us ما ملأ آدمي يلوعا من بطن بحسب ابن آدمي بحسب ابن آدم أكلات يقبن صلبة this stomach of yours nothing can fill you ما ملأ ابن آدمي وعا there is not a vessel that you fill worse than your stomach it's the worst place to fill and the Prophet said enough for you to put into your stomach is that which you can straighten your back all you need to put in your stomach is the amount that you can straighten your back because remember when you become hungry what happens to you the person calves that's what happens to you right if hunger hits you the person gets a hunch back صح all you need from this dunya is to straighten your back the poet he said you can remove hunger with a dry bread so why are you stressed why are you so stressed if I ate today a dry bread and water and you had a nice meal what about the same no one knows we look the same so why are you so stressed your provision was written for you before you came into existence the thing that you need to focus on is your time and the way to benefit from your time and then I now go into one other story that I didn't mention that I think it's worth mentioning before you came to the Tabari is the great grammarian this one shocked me as well ثالب and we spoke about him in the introduction to the grammar that we were doing in essentials you know what the cause of his death was the cause of his death was he was reading a book and he fell into a ditch and he died from it he had a book in his hand and he was walking he had a he had a he had a book and he was reading the book and he was walking and he was walking and he fell into a ditch and that was the cause of his death the great grammarian doesn't want to waste his time رحمه الله let me go to إبن جنيل الطبري he came to his students one day they came to his students one day أما جعفر الطبري قال لأصحابه he said to his students أتنشطونا لتفسير القرآن he said are you guys enthusiastic how would you guys feel if a tafsir of the Quran was written إبن جنيل الطبري saying this to his students what do you guys think what about the tafsir they said to him كم يكون قدره كم يكون قدره how big is it going to be what's the length of this tafsir book he said 30.000 ورقه 30.000 pages that's my plan these guys they had high aspirations 30.000 and then they said to him هذا مما تفن الأعمار ما تفن الأعمار قبل تمامي before it can be completed people's lives will go meaning if you wrote that people won't even be able to finish reading it they will die before they can read it فاختصره he summarized it في 30.000 ورقه to 3000 pages and his tafsir today is considered to be the biggest tafsir book تفسير مجنيل الطبري or one of the biggest tafsir books it's about 12 or 13 volumes that's left now he how many he did it 3000 pages right how much was his plan in the beginning 30.000 he then said to his students okay okay maybe I'll ask you guys another question I'm going to write history من آدم from the time of آدم إلى وقتنا هادا until this time what do you guys think they said come qadru how big is it going to be and how lengthy is it going to be he said 30.000 and then they said to him the same thing that they said before anyone can finish it people's lives will come to an end and then he summarized it into 3000 pages again it's one of the biggest history books ابن جريد الطبري from the time of the time that he lived he wrote it it was said that every day ابن جريد الطبري without exception without no excuses he authored 40 pages every day 40 pages every day يكتب كل يوم 40 ورقة تأليفا ربما means you have to have a draft you have to have a draft you have to know what to take out what each day he came out with a final edition of 40 pages daily رحمة واسعة these are our scholars I want to say to you all إِلَّمْ تَكُونُوا مِتْ لَهُمْ فَتَشَبَّهُ if you can't be like them then try to imitate them إِلَّمْ تَشَبُّوا مِتْ لَهُمْ فَلَهُمْ imitating the righteous people is on honor do something benefit from your life الحاكم الشهيد رحمه الله it was said he would not he would not talk to the guests that would come to him and his visitors and that he was busy with writing because he was busy with writing if guests came to him he wouldn't talk to them and if he did he would pass them inks and he would give them pens to sharpen for him and he would say sharpen this for me organize this for me that's what he would do to them so he could benefit from his time and that's the reality many people will come to you when you're trying to benefit from your time and they will try to busy you from it so he would make even the people who visited him get reward now we're going to go into the second part and the second segment of our lecture now this is going to be the longest and the most detailed one the reason I say this is going to be the longest and the most detailed one is because a lot of us will already agree on all of that which I mentioned the importance of time the value of time and how the Quran and the Sunnah honor time and value time but the overwhelming majority of questions that I get is how can we benefit from our time and so I'm going to do it with these 3 slides which will take 3 to 4 hours so how to organize your daily routine how does a believer organize his daily routine there are 3 points that I've written each one that's going to come out so much points out of it but I'm going to start with the 3rd one and I'm going to make that the first one if you want to benefit from your time and you want to bring the best out of it you have to eliminate and get rid of gadgets that steal your time a lot of people and I say eliminate it if it's going to take away from your time eliminate it you have the discipline to use your gadgets accordingly then insha'Allah و تعالى use it in that which will benefit you in and don't waste your time if it's not going to help you this point I tend to find a lot of people don't discuss when it comes to the concept of benefitting from your time a parent will come to me and he will say to me my child I'm a Qur'an teacher I have exerted every effort in my child and I say to them I do not question I don't doubt what you're saying but what other things are in the house oh yeah he's got a game okay note that these things brothers and sisters will work against you they will distract you and they will take away from anything we're going to say today are we all together one of the statements that my sheikh said and it sticks with me greatly is if these gadgets were of so much value Allah would have given it to the Prophet to aid him to spread Islam true this is it call the companions converse with them don't waste time sending a horse and I come no but Allah didn't want that rather these gadgets to an extent have brought out laziness from many people if you want to find a hadith what do you do google it up google it up is now a term in the dictionary you just look it up quickly the hadith that you got that fast are you going to remember it is it going to stick with your head you traveled months and you got to your destination and you found that the Imam that you went to this is his janaaza and they said you lead the janaaza and then that hadith when you find another Imam who's narrating it are you going to forget it so anything that comes easy generally goes out easily so brothers technology and social media has sucked our time and if everyone of you here right now has a mobile phone and you got an iphone iphone will tell you how long you spent on whatsapp it will tell you how long you spent on the safari the internet it will tell you how long you spent on instagram facebook what other all of them it will tell you exactly and then it will tell you how long you spent on the Quran app so how many percent you spent on the Quran app it will show you all one sheikh said if the ummah were to hold on to the Quran just the way that they hold on to their mobile phones it would have been an honored nation true or false when your phones battery is low how do you feel you feel قيام is happening you find a person who generally never used to ask for favors starts asking for favors do you have a charger brother do you have a socket I've seen people who carry around their charger right people carry their charger with them in their bags in their pockets they have their charger in case the battery phone goes off because they can't stay away from it another benefit that I came across was it was better when the phones had wires stuck to the wall now we've become the wires stuck to the phone it's the reality so if you want to benefit from your time social media gadgets phones all these distractions learn to push them to the side and stay away from it الوقاية خير من العلاج برائع is better than cure to prevent takes presidents over thinking about bringing good you want to teach your children Quran first of all get rid of all of the problems all of the things that can distract them television get rid of them mobile get rid of all of this once you do you're now free to say I'm going to set myself all of this and you will benefit sorry the companions they said it was narrated from some of the Sahabas that they said أكبر أما أعظم سلاح إبليس التصوف the biggest weapon of Iblis is procrastination the biggest التصوف tomorrow watch I will do this tomorrow that's the biggest and Iblis had against the children of Adam and tomorrow does it ever come now it doesn't next day is tomorrow again and in another days and tomorrow just keeps it's a mirage it never comes tomorrow never comes and so the person keeps pushing the deadline and whatever he wants to do gadgets eliminate it get rid of it another point I want to mention before I go into the other points is that what has happened whatever has happened in the past brothers it's gone let's not cry over spilled milk it's gone and as for the future that you're discussing and you're saying yeah I'm going to do that in the future don't worry don't think about it too much that's the future it's not in your hand the only thing that you possess is the time that you're in the past is gone the future is not in your hands if you're going to reach that time that you think you are the thing that we can talk about is what? the time that you're in okay now I'm going to go into my main point if you want to benefit you have to be smart if you want to benefit what do you have to be what do you have to be you have to be smart S stands for something M stands for something A stands for something R stands for something and the T stands for something write it down the A stands for you have to be specific if you want to benefit from your time you have to be specific each one we're going to discuss in great details it's called a smart goal anything you want to achieve you have to be smart about it it's called smart goal it has to be measurable, meaningful wherever you take some say it's measurable some say it's meaningful some say it's motivating it's all different different narrations number A what is it and there's another achievable and there's another attainable achievable or each one we're going to discuss in details the A is achievable the R is relevant different narrations reasonable, realistic resourced all of them and last but not least T which is time based time bound time limited those five is the of time benefitting if you want to truly attain your goal in something you have to do these ones these points but let's start with the first one the first one is be specific your goal should be clear if you want to achieve something the goal has to be very clear I I I'm going to memorize the Qur'an that's not specific you have to be very specific when you say you want to memorize the Qur'an what do you mean I'm going to memorize this much daily in three months I'm going to have to finish this specific so the person should be clear and specific or you will not be able to focus on what you do and a lot of people those they mention general points and never detailed issues are we all together whatever you're trying to attain and you're trying to achieve it has to be very very specific narrow it down what's the thing that you want to do how should you be specific write this down this is generally something you don't find even in the academic world is define what you're trying to do define it give it a definition what does it mean to you are we all together somebody says I want to be a student of knowledge okay define it he might say a student of knowledge to me is not to memorize the Qur'an maybe that's his definition of student define it write it are we all together when you define it when you define it when you define it what do I accomplish what do I accomplish you need to write what you get from this what you need to write the benefits that are in there for you you have to write the you have to write you have to write the goal the objective what is the goal what is this goal important مهمة؟ ماذا يفعله؟ أيضاً، يجب أن تسأل، ماذا يفعل؟ هل أنا في هذا المساعد؟ هل سأتذكر القرآن بي myself؟ أو هل أحتاج إلى أجدار؟ حسناً، هل أخبر أحد أخر؟ أنه يكون جداً مخصوصاً المساعدة هو أن يكون أفتحك بإمكانك أخبر إذا أعرف أخرين يجب أن يتفعل فأنت يجب أن تسأل أنه ماذا يفعل؟ ماذا يفعله؟ أنه سيخ يتعلم القرآن؟ هل يكون فرصة مخصوصاً؟ هل يكون وقتاً؟ هل يكون وقتاً؟ نحن نحن مع أخبرنا يجب أن نفهم بسكولات الحديث ما يفعله؟ لماذا يجب أن يتحفظ على المساعدة؟ لأن المساعدة تصدر بحالة أنها تصدر بحالة لذلك يجب أن يصدر بحالة لذلك عندما يأتي إلى المساعدة أكثر يمكنك أن تتعلم المساعدة المساعدة تصدر بحالة أنك تستطيع أن تصدر بحالة تذكر ذلك أكثر المساعدة تصدر بحالة ومساعدة أنت أن تصدر بحالة إذا كنت تريد أن تفعل أين تصدر بحالة؟ أين تصدر بحالة؟ مثلاً أحب أن أخبر myself إذا أردت أن أردت هذا القرآن هل سأردته في my house؟ هل سأردته في كتابة؟ وفي بعض الكتابة أردت في كتابة وفي بعض الكتابة أردت في my house هناك مسبقاً why I changed it حسناً أين تصدر بحالة؟ إذا كنت تصدر بحالة كل هذه المساعدة يمكنك أن تصدر بحالة أنا لا أردت بحالة بحالة أنا أردت بحالة من أين أردت الإسلام أردت الإسلام ومساعدت بحالة أردت المساعدة ما are the resources do I need أني أصدر بحالة ألما أحب أن أصدر بحالة ألما أصدر بحالة ألما أصدر بحالة ألما أصدر بحالة أولاً أن أصدر بحالة المستقبلمثل مرة عبارة عندما يفتحون بالنسبة وما تعالين تحاولوا هل يجب أن يتعلم ما هذا بالنسبة أنا بسعر أخضر أسلللللللل종 أنا مثلك أردت التحلق لتأتي مع التقلق ماذا أفعله is that I try to avoid that I buy hard copies of whatever I'm using I know myself بل إنسانو على نفسه بصيح ولو القامعا يلا أحدهم يعرفوه نحن نحن معه وحد of the things I want to mention here is بردس اللي تعباره بطاعده يفايف الناس وليس جميعا الإيمام التي ترى في الإسلام ، some of them were masters in one field and they were weak in what? In other fields. الإيمام و أبو حنيفة was an Imam in what? In فق. الإيمام و أبو حنيفة was an Imam in فق and he was weak in hadith. Are we all together brothers? This concept of I have to be a master of all is important. You may not necessarily be that. Okay. You may not necessarily be that. So you have to understand I'm going to do what I am best at. What did they say? Jack of all trades. A master of none. So the person has to be what? He has to make sure what resources he needs. What books I need. A lot of people they don't have the basic requirements before they even go forward. And what are the resources that I'm talking about here? If you want to memorize the Quran one of the resources is that you have to make sure you know the alphabet. Because the Quran when the teacher teaches you the Quran and he makes you memorize the Quran. You would have to go home and what? Revise yourself. So you have to be able to open the Mus'haf and read it yourself. Am I making sense here? So you have to have basic knowledge of the alphabet. All of this is being you being specific. This is all of you being specific. So the five. The five W's. Remember these five W's. This is being specific. Number one. What? What do I want to accomplish? The five W's. Two. Why is this goal vitally important? And you know the long poetry. إن مبادئ كل فن العشرة. الحد والموضوع ثم ثمرة. ونسبة والفضل والوادر. ونسمو الاستمداد حكم الشارع. مسائل والبعض بالبعض اكتفى. ومن در الجميع حاضر الشرفة. I always look at those five. Which is what we're going to look at now. Why is this goal important? Three. Who is involved? Who am I going to have to do this task with? Am I alone? If it's a business. Okay. Do I need a website designer? Okay. Somebody else is involved. It's a website designer. You need to find a right website designer. Are we all together? I need to find a person who could update information on my social media. So okay. That's another person involved. So you need to find out who you're working with. Who is involved? The fourth W is where is it located? And this where is it located? Sometimes is another question I ask myself. If it's knowledge that I have to memorize or if it's knowledge that I have to understand. Where is it located in my body? Is it the part of my mind or is it the understanding part of my brain? All these are questions I need to ask myself. This book I'm reading. What is the purpose behind it? Am I trying to memorize it? Or am I trying to understand it? فرق بين هذا و ذاك. Because the whole reading changes when I want to memorize and when I want to read. What resources am I in need of? Which is the fifth W. What resources are involved? What other resources do I need? Me personally my resources is I have to have a whiteboard in order to memorize things. Because I write everything on my whiteboard. And I like to see it all day so I can memorize it all day when I wake up as soon as the whiteboard is right next to my bed where I sleep and so I have to see it on the whiteboard. I have to keep hitting my eyes my way of memorizing. If I can't then I like to stick papers on the wall. And we all together if I don't have a whiteboard. That's my resource. Are we all together? Also my resource is I have to record whatever I'm memorizing on my phone so I sit down and I record it. And then guess what I do? Whenever I go on taxis or I happen to drive what do I do? I plug my headphones into my phone and I keep listening to it. And I bring out a written handwritten of whatever segment of a حديث or a poetry that I want to memorize. I write it with my hand and I listen to it in the taxi. And if the taxi driver tries to talk to me a lot I give him the sign that I'm busy. Brother, I'm very busy. So I memorize. I do that. So my resources are recording on my phone so I have to have a recorder I have to have a whiteboard I have to have a paper I have to have a pen. What happened then? Resources. Very important. That's what makes you now specify what you're doing. If you don't do those five W's you're just talking and you're not going to get anywhere what you're trying to do. You are what? You're just saying it. It's just cannot and it won't get anywhere. So what's the first one that I say? What is the first one? What. So what is it? What do? What do I want to? What do I want to accomplish? Every single thing that you're doing you can answer that question. If you don't have an answer for that then you're not specific or you're most likely not going to achieve something because you don't even know what you're going to accomplish from this. The second one is what? Why? Why is this goal important? Why do you find it very important? If you don't have an answer for that generally you're not going to go forward with it. Generally. Okay. The third one is who is involved. Remember the people that are involved with you are your companions. And that's where the Prophet ﷺ said The person is the what? The religion of his? Companion. One of you make sure who they take as a companion. Your companion who's involved with you in this task will either make you flow and reach your goal or he can destroy you. He can make you and destroy you. صح? What is our aim in life? We want to go to Jannah, right? You generally need a what? Someone to work with you to get to that goal. I want you to ponder here. Is there anyone greater than the Prophet ﷺ? No one, right? The Prophet ﷺ was he not aided with the message of Islam? Was he not aided by Allah with everything? Allah was helping him with everything he needed. Even then Allah ﷺ told him to have companions. He said محمد be patient with the ones who call on to their Lord day and night they supplicate to their Lord أبو بكر أعمر ربه these noble people and علي these noble people so it's important if you're doing something you generally try to find someone like minded who can encourage you. It really does help. If you're memorizing something somebody to compete with to say hey how much you've memorized سبحان الله I'm going to I'm not going to tell you I'm passing you. That is very good. وصفست بقول خيرات to compete with one another in good. And personally two things have always helped me me personally. Reading the biography of the scholars and what I just read now it encourages me. It makes me get up and say these scholars were born 9 months just like I was born 9 months. How did they get to where they got to when I couldn't and it gets me energetic and enthusiastic and concituous and I focus on my goal. And the second thing that helps me is to see somebody who's actually progressing in life and achieving something in the Dean. When I look at that person I become very eager to be like him or even pass him. The Prophet said There is no jealousy except in two. رجل علم A man who Allah gave him knowledge and he's teaching the people ورجل فصلطه or a man Allah gave him wealth and he's spending that money in the Dean of Allah Those two people they are deserving to be jealous of. Without hoping that Allah destroys them but you want to get what they got, right? That's been very important. We'll help you. Where is it located? Location plays a role when it comes to achievement. Are we all together? Some people try to learn the religion or they even try to do their business program business idea and in the middle of the living room with their children around He wants to memorize a hadith or he wants to memorize an ayah or he wants to read even if it's dunya stuff but where do you want to read it? Where is he trying to read? He's trying to read it in the living room where the children are jumping up on them and daddy grabbing his bed you're most likely not going to get what you're looking for in that place You want to choose the right location Brothers make sure you say to the wife I have to go to the library I need to go revise If the wife wants to study the husband should help her and say I'll look after the kids go and do your study for this moment don't worry I'll take that because she won't be able to do it in that kind of environment location is very important and where you try to memorize are you with me? some of the books that I read that I benefited from helped me a lot in where I read them in like the I read it in the countryside in the UK in the greenery I went I drove I was I was I sat in those greenery and what he took my little picnic sandwich tuna sweet corn my thermos and I read Saeed Al-Khater a book that really is heart softening I still remember the things I read and a greenery that I saw very helpful it really helps you and maybe another seminar should be made about about how to read another seminar would be good of how to read we'll leave that for there Insha'Allah which resources with the fifth one right which resources do you need make sure you get the right resources that you need let's go to the next one after the specific what is it measure measure it's important to measure your goals you track your progress you have a way to track your progress and stay motivated two points I just mentioned what did I just say track your your progress and two things you need in this place track your progress and motivate yourself so everybody has a way to track their progress are we all together can anyone here maybe volunteer and tell us how they track their progress so we can share ideas as well how do you do it if someone is trying to do this week they're going to the gym okay every week or so so you go on a treadmill so you go on a weigh a machine or something okay صح anything else in terms of business dunya how do you measure your your progress how do you look at your progress or you track your progress are you a bubble a checklist very important checklist is very good but you tick off what you've done is very important are you again a checklist a track holding a checklist any okay what are you doing weekly progress tracking it down based on weekly through motivating one of the things I just said right now is tracking your progress is a form of motivation if you know I have accomplished this makes you really want to do more are we all together now I want to stop here and I really want to say something that really many people bring up which is if you're tracking your progress don't look at what you haven't done but if you look at the most half like this and you say I just memorized this much I've got this much left it's going to take away the motivation don't look at that just look at what you've memorized be grateful also what motivates and it really helps is as I said two things I always make these two things reading stories of those of those who have preceded you who've done it the imams of the sunnah these great scholars that I just mentioned for me it's very motivating every week I have to read one or two stories of these great imams because you have to keep up your momentum I like to do that and also I like to call a few people who I know that I like minded I could just kind of discuss things with them and see what I can like and kind of test them oh have you memorized this much no you haven't well I have shame on you motivation this is very it really helps the poet he said ومن تكون العلية همة نفسه فكل الليل يلقى فيه محبب anyone whose aspiration is high who has high aspiration every pain that they endure or on the way they will find it as what joy you will enjoy it when he died because the scholars they used to say may Allah have mercy on the body of a person who has high aspiration he's going to destroy the body he's going to drag his body into the the mud he's going to drag his body through the heart he's going to put it through everything because his mind is on another level and he wants the body to keep up with it motivation is very important you need to motivate yourself all the time and you have to assess you have to assess yourself based on that these are the three questions that you need to ask yourself if you want to measure your track your progress these are the three questions that you ask yourself questions are very important brothers and sisters asking yourself question it comes from Islam ودي عمر رضي الله عم يسيح حاسبوا أنفسكم قبل أنتوا حاسبوا وزينوها قبل أنتوا زنو وقبل أنتوا وزينو وقبل أنتوا before you are accounted وقبل أنتوا before you are scaled the day of judgment يدعوك أن تساعدون أن تساعدون أنفسه صحب عندما جيبريل يأتي إلى المسجد عليه صلاة وسلام ما فعل جيبريل لتعلم about Islam كيف يتعلم about Islam سؤال السؤال لم يأتي جيبريل ويقوم بحاجة لكل مكان جيبريل ومعرفة إسلام في ميط؟ ومعرفة ومعرفة ومعرفة الأمر يأتي من ذلك so the first question you ask yourself is how much how much have I accomplished how much have I achieved how much have I gained how many and how many generally is used for money and etc the third question is a question I want to ask you all how will you know what you accomplished which is the third question how will I know what I accomplished how does one know that they accomplished something how do you know you've attained something and you've met your required need how would you know that so how would you know that you've met your progress that you've the checklist some people might say you know some people generally like to be nice to themselves and they will just take the box when it's half baked effort or a half baked word how can you truly determine if you've accomplished your goal and if it goes back to you just assessing yourself and a lot of us are very nice to ourselves right do you guys see the point I'm trying to bring here put your hand up if you agree with my point that if you're the only one who's judging himself that you generally sometimes might just take it say SubhanAllah I don't want to depress myself or stress myself out just just take it do you agree do you agree you can't be the you can't be the judge and the jury صح do you agree so how can you determine that you've accomplished your goal how do you know you've attained what you wanted someone else somebody who's got more knowledge taking you something so it brings us back to the concept of companionship are we all together it brings us back to that point you have to have A if it's the religion what do you have to have I teach you have to have a what for example I'll give you an example of my situation I read a book and when I read books this is what I do every book I read and I'll be speaking about how to read a book InshaAllah another session or another seminar I have to summarize that book if it's three volumes two volumes I have to make it into one volume if it's already one volume summarize the book when I summarize the book I have to summarize it in a way where the book does not become what I don't get rid of vital information I only get rid of what the author repeated the second thing I need to do to that book is I have to write the content page again the content page comes from me so when I need to reference that book I can quickly reference it because I wrote the content page are we all together I'll leave that for another time of how to read a book now I've read the book I summarize the book I've read the content page based on me what did I just what am I going to do I'm going to take the accomplishment but how do I really not have accomplished what I wanted what about if I've misunderstood the whole book it cannot not be the case so that's where a higher authority is vital all the time so I call the Shuiyuk so I call the Sheikh and I say Sheikh I've read this book and can I just have a discussion with you regarding the book and he gives me what he I give him what I think and he tells me if he agrees with my observation and if he doesn't are we all together brothers and this is very important many people when they want to measure their tasks and their progress they say they only take it from three people me, myself and I are we all together and so that's it I've progressed I've done my task الحمد لله but really when someone sits with you they're like yeah you haven't haven't you didn't do it another point I want to give you if a person takes a qualification does that mean that they've progressed just because you've graduated from an institution because one of the tasks that insha'Allah I'm going to mention when we talk about the other ones is a person might graduate from a prestigious university doesn't just it doesn't necessarily mean that you've attained what you went into that institution for and then progressing sorry looking at your progression you need a higher authority to determine you personally very important a brother will say yeah I need to I need to become an engineer so I'm going to get a qualification five years he's out he comes out and then he gets the certificate for it but then before they take him for the civil engineering job they say we're going to take a test from you and bam he fails the test five years of hard work he thinks he progressed but what did he do he's in a lot of trouble so it's important that you get someone to look at your hard work what's the three that I mentioned how much how much and the second one was how many and the third one was how would I know when I when it is when it's accomplished how would I know third one achievable your goal also needs to be realistic and attainable to be successful your goal it also needs to be realistic and it has to be attainable if you want to be successfully what you're trying to achieve pay attention to this a person says in one month I want to finish the whole entire Quran I don't want to can it be done yeah it's possible somebody can't do it out there but is that realistic is that realistic to finish the whole entire Quran in one month I mean there's some people who have done it if you don't give yourself a realistic measurement and something that is realistic and that is attainable if you don't do that what happens you become depressed stressed and heartbroken if you don't achieve it achievable that was the point that we were around your goals need to be realistic and attainable to be successful in other words it should stretch your abilities but still remain possible that's very important it should stretch stretch your ability but it has to be possible if it makes you tired and exhausted and you become that's good put a lot of hard work on yourself stretch your abilities that's what it should be but it has to be possible and a lot of people they can flay these two they think if you stretch your ability and it be impossible is one and the other and that's not the case sometimes it's not going to happen what you're trying to achieve so you have to be very realistic some people this is what causes them stress they become very stressful even depression everyone else is better than I am I can't achieve this because in the beginning you did not set yourself a realistic goal and it was not achievable does that make sense and I'm going to expand on that later إن الجبال من الحصر this mountain that you see is from pebbles and the English they have are saying Rome was not built in it wasn't built in one day so in order to achieve what you're trying to achieve it's خطوات it steps شايتان look at this he doesn't misguide the person one time and throw them off even he applies it here he's got realistic measures he sniffs the person's characteristics if he realizes that you're a hard working person شايتان will push it extremism and he will make you go overboard and if he sniffs from you that you're relaxed easy like this just relax take it easy tomorrow is going to come if he sniffs that from you he will throw you into negligence and أليمام الأوزاعيو he said وَلَا يُبَالِ بِأَيِّهِ مَا وَفِلِ and he doesn't care which of those two he achieves whether he throws you into extreme exaggeration or extreme negligence he doesn't care because he takes you away from that ميروبا وَلِذَا لِكَوَدِ اللَّهِ سَيْ وَلَا تَتَبِعُوهَ خُضُواة الشيطان الشيطان has steps gradual he does it bit by bit الشيطان sets himself a realistic goal and he achieves it very well he's mastered he's mastered us and why haven't we mastered him why haven't we studied Iblis and why don't we know him the point I want to come back to is you as a person have to give yourself a realistic measure now pay attention how can you give yourself a realistic and achievable attainable goal number one you have to know yourself that's important you have to study yourself know who you are be honest with yourself don't lie to yourself and say yeah I'm very I'm good with my timing be honest with yourself so because you know yourself then you will set yourself a realistic goal because you know yourself you've been honest to yourself if you know that you're not a good memorizer and you're a slow memorizer and you see another brother and you say how long is it going to take you to memorize and he goes two days okay I'll do two days as well now actually be real with yourself this man Allah gifted him this is a blessing from Allah Allah give it to whoever he goes and who said it's a race who said it's a race it is not a race you're not racing with anyone the issue isn't who gets to the finish line first is who is on that path to the finish line that's what matters now we all together so realistic measure realistic goals if it happens that you stretch yourself or you stretch your ability no problem but it has to be something that can happen something that can occur or else to know what you do you give up and you turn away from it and you don't want to do it ever again you're like you know what I tried and it wasn't for me I'm going to leave and that happens to a lot of people they seek in knowledge they come and they see this isn't big this is not for me I'm not going to do this I'm going to go for something else so if you don't want to lose your aspiration make sure you do realistic when he died at the school as they used to say when he died at the school when he died at the school when he died at the school when he died at the school anyone who tries to take knowledge all at once it leaves him all at once so even if you do achieve it and you do attain it it's most likely going to go out of your hands quickly this gradual it's amazing it's powerful now remember this an achievable goal must answer two questions if you can answer these two questions then it's achievable the first one is how can I accomplish this goal if you can answer that question it's achievable it's attainable how can I accomplish this goal if you can answer that question then masha'Allah you have an idea of achieving it and it's something attainable if you don't know how it's impossible to do them for you number two how realistic is the goal based on other constraints and other issues in my life I'm a mother of three kids I'm a mother of two kids I'm a mother of four kids I'm a father who has to work for four or five kids I have a low financial budget struggling to make ends meet how much time can I really exert coming to seek knowledge or memorize be realistic with yourself look at your growth look at the context of your life and how you are it's very important don't be absent from all of that one of the things I learnt in my life is one of the greatest characteristics of a person who wants to achieve something who wants to gain something is one thing does not get in the way of the other nothing should get in the way of the other each thing should be consistent and continuous it should be going and everything is flowing if one thing gets in the way of the other then that means it's not realistic are we all together you either have to stop one of the things that you're doing or you have to reduce the amount in order for it to be balanced very vital reduce it again like for example if you want to memorize the Quran why do you have to say yourself one year ago why do you have to say yourself two year ago why do you make it four don't worry take your time if you say to your sheikh I want to learn the Quran I'm going to do one ayah a day one ayah a day look at that and say that's really little but you don't do that now and so this is the problem that we have and it's common amongst the people they either want to do a lot or it's nothing do you agree and what did our Prophet tell us أحب الأعمار إلى الله أدو مهوائن the action that is most beloved to Allah is what that which is consistent even if it's little it's consistency that Allah it's consistency and so it's very important that you make sure that you take something realistic and that's generally what you can carry on you can carry on and you'll be able to get somewhere with it point number four which is relevant right is it number four yeah we did three right we did specific we did measure and we did achievable right right now so it's the fourth one relevant right relevant relevance is very important if you want to achieve your goal for it to be relevant this is to ensure that this matter means something to you I give an example I am a person who is into for example business and I'm a businessman what do I need to know I need to know the أحكام related to what the rule is related to business because it's relevant to my life right now I'm a businessman I'm into business and I have to study because it's relevant to what I'm doing رضي الله تعالى عنه he said let him not come close to our market the one who doesn't know the أحكام don't come close to the market don't try to do business don't try to trade if you don't know if you don't know don't come to the market don't be a businessman don't trade, don't sell, don't buy why he will fall into a river whether he likes it or not unintentionally you didn't know what you're doing what you're doing right now is called what it's called so you're trading what brought you to this problem الجهل so if you now look at business and you study أحكام rulings regarding business it's relevant to you right is it not it is relevant to you then studying something else that's not relevant to your life at that moment so some of the ways to benefit is to start something start with what is relevant to you when it comes to a lot of Muslims they talk about things that are not that are not relevant to them that doesn't concern them that doesn't benefit them and so because of that they burn out and they don't carry on practicing the religion because they were talking about and they were indulging into what that which doesn't benefit them the prophet SAW ترقوا بلا يعني the excellence of a person's Islam is that he concerns himself with that which is relevant to him that which concerns you that which is important to you you learn that بحارة do you need that of course you do صلاة do you need to know it of course you do صوم do you need to know that yes you do yes you will need all of that that's called عبادات every one of you has to know that when you study that which you then go home and you apply straight away you'll be able to achieve that goal whereas if it's what if it's Arabic grammar when am I going to need to know what I'm trying to say in my day to day life it may not be something you do because it's not it's not relevant to your life right now صحيح you don't use that work so relevant is very important and you become it increases your motivation for you wanting to pursue this even more because you went work and you're like I actually knew a matter and the person is happy I've seen people who call me and say you know that course that you did I've shared my notes with all the people at work and they are using it and etc because he found relevance in it it was something that he can execute and he can do straight away so anything in the religion that you're learning try to take out the first thing that you do after you look at the obligatory sciences start with what is relevant to you what concerns you what do you need علم الحال the knowledge of now what do you need now and forget what the future holds because there are some knowledges and some Islamic sciences that you it's not for you to learn at this moment of your life leave it to the people of knowledge that's their field of dealing and that's what they have to do so anything you want to see if it's relevant to you it has to answer the following questions a relevant goal can answer yes to these questions it has to be yes number one does this seem worthwhile does this seem worthwhile if I say yes it seems relevant again when we say does it seem worthwhile some issues you don't determine that you can't say is it worthwhile is it worthwhile or is it worthwhile no no it is worthwhile are we all together it's not always what you say that it's worthwhile for me to learn but this does apply of course in your dunya you know your worldly affairs you look at what you're relevant what you're good at I want to help some students who are now going to apply for university this year and it happens to a lot of kids in university they go to university and they take a science that they didn't even like they didn't even find it relevant in their life and they do it and it's not something they feel connected to and so they don't do it with aspiration are we all together I did linguistics in university I hated every minute of university class I hated the teacher and the class and the walls and everything I would walk in and so I want to share this I bring my slavic books in the back and I read it and Salah I would I bring my slavic books and I take notes I heard the teacher say something very important I put my attention if it did I'll quickly take a note but I would fully fully rely on the power point presentation that they would put on the Moodu no himmah no aspiration you see but if I took a science that I was ambitious about I would walk into that class at the front of my finger up I would but it wasn't I just wanted to get the degree and how much did I get for the exam and so the truth is many of you have to look into this what you're taking in university the degree that you want to pursue the path that you want to set yourself it has to be relevant to you and I'll tell you something if you if you learn medicine this might upset some parents but trust me I believe in this trust in conviction if the child pursues okay learning medicine because he was forced to do it and he does it heartily he may do a better job if he was to study Art with conviction Love and passion just an example must you are you with me what you have you do a better job يجب أن يجب أن يدعوه المعرفة ولكن إذا كانت كلهم يجب أن يفعلوا المعرفة يجب أن يدعوه المعرفة هل ترى my point؟ كل one plays a role in this religion سلاحة هدافو كل one plays a role but you need to find your place where you find you enjoy you find relevance in it's very important the second question it should answer with a yes is this the right time is this the right time is it the right time for me to do it it might be good but not necessarily the right time the third question that it should answer is does this match my other efforts and my other needs does it match up to it what did I say before I said that the wise person is the one whose efforts do not they do not push one over the other or they don't get in each other's way a wise person is the one who has a mother and he has a wife and he has a daughter he's strong enough to make sure that his mother and his wife they're not getting at each other strong wise man they know how to make everything makes mom happy makes the wife happy makes the daughter happy makes everything go smoothly that's a smart person he's able to do that he's also able to keep his business running and he knows how to keep his household running some men are very weak they come home from work and what do they do they let out everything onto who to the wife they think she's the business partner the investor who's and so he's yelling at her and he's like are you doing anything it wasn't me because it's a sign of weakness it is if you look at the Prophet's life one of the things that he had was the way he dealt with everybody everything just ran smooth his companions his wives his children everything that's a strength so any task that you're doing anything that you're doing in the business you need to have the ability to not let one hit the other or come against each other what's it going to do it's going to slow you down are we all together if you have a problem at home with the wife and you're the خطيب who's meant to do the خطب and in the خطب you're like oh she's doing it and you're writing the خطب and then you go and you stand on the pulpit and you have that issue with you and then you do it you have to be strong enough to keep that out now it's the خطب time now it's the work time now it's the family time and I need to get I just need to stop thinking about the work relevance it falls under that if you do have that ability brothers and you work on it and you master that and I'm telling you it's not easy it's a hard thing to do we react to our nature and the things around us we do but those are one of the things that slow down a person from attaining their goal for example if your business goes down that whole day you're at home you're grumbling you're in bed you're not coming out just being me tea in bed are you going to do anything that day if you react to everything around you every time are you ever going to achieve your goal are you have to be strong and say that was life you know you have to keep moving am I the right person to reach this goal am I the right person to reach this goal and the reason I say this is because sometimes when you have a business the person some people are very bad when it comes to delegating responsibilities he takes everything he runs the website he does the social media he's the investor everything he's the security he does everything and he doesn't delegate the responsibilities and I've seen this by all two eyes especially in Dawah a brother will come and say I'm going to be the CEO of the project you're a good speaker but you're not a good manager you're not a strong expertise well together you're not good at running a project you have to admit that it's not a bad thing Allah didn't make me perfect I'm a good teacher best of all don't ask me to run a company I'm not a good security I'll let everybody in I'm a bad security guard you see don't ask me to to prepare a day out for the center I'm sorry nothing's going to be prepared that's not my field of expertise and people get angry if you say actually you're not good at that but you don't know this this is not something you're good at he thinks he's good at everything and so he takes every responsibility and he always collapses it always collapses every project that you do with this person is collapsing so one of the to show maturity and a wisdom of a person is when he says actually with all due respect I know I like this can you take this wrong it's very important because what you want brothers at the end of the day it's things to happen okay who does it I just need goals I just need goals at the end of the day whether I do it whether I land does it whether full land does it I really don't care it has to be done so you ask yourself that question am I the right person and be honest with yourself be honest with yourself those are the questions those are the questions that all of it has to be yes yes yes yes yes and then it's relevant it's relevant the fifth one that I want to mention before the Salah because I'm going to move on to another point Insha'Allah تعالى is time bound the time bound how long do you want to spend on this task a lot of people don't write down deadlines for themselves they have no deadlines when are you planning to Insha'Allah تعالى launch this project when are you planning to author this book when do you want to finish the recording of this book where I personally with myself anything I haven't given a deadline and tend to never finish doing it I don't have a deadline I generally don't finish I don't generally give my fullest because I have no deadline it's open so I'm just going to keep going but when I know there's a deadline I have to leave I make sure it's done now if you do not write again the achievable deadline a realistic deadline you're going to stress out that deadline if you say to yourself three months then just make it four or five months extra have you ever ordered food when you're hungry have you ever ordered food when you're hungry and everything can I have this yeah I don't think I don't think the burger is going to be enough can you make it three burgers can I have extra chips you order a lot and then later you just start nibbling through the first burger and you're like who's going to eat the other two when a person leaves when a person's aspiration comes out from reading these books and seeing someone they go home and when they go home they set themselves what the time that you set yourself is not realistic and you get what you get stressed out subhan Allah I'm a failure in life I can never do it so time a time about goal will usually answer these questions when you ask when you say to the person what am I going to do when is it going to happen when is it going to be executed when number two and some people just think if I answer that when oh that's good الحمد لله I've actually given it a time bound no because in that time what did I said that you need to do task progression you need to see how much you progress right so you say so if you say I'll do it in two years you have to say what can I do in three months in three months while I'm doing that task where should I have to see that I reached are we all together so within three months and I generally use the word three months the reason is because I call three months the probation period like probation period generally three months after the person gets the hang of things in the UK it's three months if they want to give you a job صح صح that's how it is three months probation period those three months you see okay yeah my routine after generally three months you get into the habit الحمد لله what do you do you get into the habit so you set yourself a three months you say what can I do three months from now the ultimate goal is maybe one year or two years but three months where do I have to be where do I have to be that's not enough then what do you do you make it less because again when it's three months it's going to be like yeah three months is far that you say it less you say what can I do three weeks from now are we all together and the reason why I say three weeks is because after three months so let's just make it three weeks and I love and last but not least which is the most important question what can I do today because if you say the word tomorrow we fail again if you just say I'm going to start everything from tomorrow anything you tend to say tomorrow never comes it'll just never come so you say what am I going to do today are we all together sometimes you might say I'm going to sleep early which is a good thing because I'm going to get ready for tomorrow maybe you're good that might be what you have to do today but you have to set yourself something has to happen today a little movement has to happen today are we all together anything that you want to do if that same day you don't start something then the procrastination problem starts صح am I making sense now I am it's important okay now that I've finished those five I want to come to a very important thing that generally I really want you brothers and sisters to pay attention and this is where our religion our Deem comes with a solution for this please pay attention to this all of that I mentioned are efforts the smart goal that I just mentioned are all efforts that you need to come with two of all yeah you will agree in terms of your what in terms of the work that you want to do صح there's something else that you have to personally do to Allah and you and Allah have to have for any of that ever happen none of that will happen if Allah doesn't want it because all of those words I just mentioned smart it falls under the ayah وما تشاونا إلا إلا إن شاء الله أنت تريد أن تفعل all of this لا يحدث إلا أن الله سبحانه وتعالى so the question is the golden question for today's seminar is what can I do to earn that privilege from Allah to be able to accomplish my goal to benefit from my time to be all together that's what we're going to talk about right now the first thing is you have to be sincere sincerity الإخلاص sincerity these six that I'm going to go through now six points are all الوسائل المعينة the means that will aid you and support you in benefiting from your time and making sure you achieve what you want in life these are things that you have to do are we all together الإخلاص sincerity brothers and sisters are a very big thing sincerity means إخلاص إلي الله صاف القلبة you clean your heart you purify from your heart you cleanse from your heart from what anything other than Allah from the minute you get up the minute you go to sleep all of it is for Allah and Allah told us in the Quran إن الله لا يُضيعه أجر أحسن أعملنا الله ليس بحق إذا الله كان دعا أع the sincere person is what like this is not what did I just say who is the one that procrastinates us who did I just say Shaytan is the one who is trying to make us procrastinate صح so pay attention Shaytan promised when we were taken out of Jannah he said to Allah I'm going to this guy all of your creation إلا أحبادك منهم المخلصين إلا السلسين الذين هم ماذا؟ سانسيا إذا كنت لديك شيطاق من طريق ماذا لديك بلدك؟ أنت بلدك أنت جيد بلدك تأكد من ماذا؟ تأكد من سرتي أيها الله أنت بلدك نبي الله يوسف عندما يريد أن تفعل حرام معه ماذا يفعل الله؟ الله يفعل يوسف منه لماذا؟ الله يقول إنه من عبادنا المخلصين لأنه من سلسيننا من سلسين من سلسين من سلسين اللي تفعل اللي يفعل اللي يفعل اللي يفعل اللي ينحو الخروج عندما هو أخفض الج clouds من إنه هو عقبات seesaw حفظونه من أمر��ج برسائق إذا كانت تساتحك ستدفح أخوص كيف أجر بمحمل إذا ما بيتم ف papel جrar ماجر it mouth وإ spricht Majesty فبقر فصلي مرحباً تأكيد هنا الشخص who has a motive evil mindset it doesn't get any way be مخلص and Allah will make everything work for him the sincerity is amazing do you know what he said عبدالله العباس والله this word write it with God if you haven't what did he say he said إن المرأة ينال العلمة بقدر اليتي a person will attain knowledge and understanding all based on his intention be sincerity Allah will just open your heart for everything in there your business you'll understand everything you want to do at work your first day at the training Allah opens your heart you're a sincere person you're a sincere person your heart is clean there's nothing in there it's a clean vessel everything is just going to go in there be sincerity about this clean your heart surrender it to Allah Allah never forsakes a person who surrenders to him give it to him and Allah will control your affairs الي خلاص are we all together about this what's the first thing that we have to commit be sincerity number two is اصدقف الطلب اصدقف الطلب means you are truthful in what you're doing some of you might say isn't that sincerity? no no it's not sincerity means that you're doing it only for Allah لكن اصدقف means this thing that you're doing you're not associating partners with this thing if you've got a business project that you're trying to do do it by itself don't try to run a little business on the side as well you know what I mean another thing just do it by itself don't multitask ما جعل الله رجل قلبين يش you don't have two hearts brother you can only do one thing at a time you can't hear two people at the same time the same way that you can't hear two people at the same time is the same way that you can't what you can't do two tasks at the same time you came up with this word multitasking is that even true can you multitask at the same time do two things at the same time the minute that you do it it's impossible you're doing one and then you're doing the other one are we all together you can't breathe and eat at the same time can you? from your mouth of course even when you swallow something you don't breathe you stop breathing your body parts don't do things at this and who came up with this term multitasking it's not going to happen brothers it has to be a sit-off of fun to give your heart, your mind, your energy everything to this are we all together a sit-off truthfulness don't associate partners with whatever you're doing do it by itself put your head to it plan it out execute it and anything that you give all of it to it it will give you something back in return when they are looking at the scholars they used to say من أعطى العلمة كلها anyone who gives knowledge all of his heart and his mind what does knowledge do it gives you something back in return something but if you give something to knowledge it gives you nothing in return you have to give your heart, your mind your wealth, your everything that's when it's going to look at you and say okay I feel sorry for you do this then are we all together the third one is الهيم العالية high aspiration high high aspiration the person has to have these are characteristics that you need to come with you have to have high aspiration and patience high aspirations of what a person with high aspiration is patient it's a given up easy if you are trying to achieve something you're going to have to come with patience I'll tell you a story there was a young boy his teacher he said to his teacher teacher I want to come to the masjid a young boy he said sheikh I want to come to the masjid and I want to be at the front row and I want to make it for the first row in the salah and the sheikh said to him you have to come early so the young boy at night he told his mother wake me early up before the salah and so his mother woke him up early he woke up early he left the house without his mother's knowledge he went to the masjid and he found that the door of the masjid was locked being a young kid he was able to go through a small hole that he stole from within the masjid and when he went in he fell inside the masjid and there was a sharp object facing upwards and he went into his leg and he bled and then he sat at the front row bleeding and so the sheikh came into the masjid saw the young boy but the young boy did not say anything he prayed the salah and when he prayed the salah the sheikh turned around and there was a puddle of blood and so he said to him what happened to you and he said sheikh this is the story I tried to come to the masjid I wanted to make it for the front row and the sheikh said to him you have to come to the masjid my son write down what I'm going to say to you he said he said when he sat with his young boy he said you wanted to achieve something you wanted to pray at the front row and it wasn't something easy it had a cost and a price to it don't ever think to yourself oh my son he said لا تحسب ان المجد تمرن انت اكلو don't ever think to yourself that honor and status and position is like a flute that you take from a tree like this no you have to go and sacrifice time and effort لا تبلغ المجد حتى تلقق الصمار you're never going to gain what you're looking for unless you exert a lot of hard work and a lot of patience شيخ ابنو باز he was what he was the he was the second musty of Saudi Arabia the first musty was and the second one was ابنو باز a man came to ابنو باز after many years of da'wah and calling the people to the deal of Allah and this man exerted so much effort and hard work and then he gave up and so he came to ابنو باز شيخ I have done everything to call my people to the deal I've tried I've exerted every effort there is but they are not willing to listen so شيخ ابنو باز he said give me your hand give me your palm and so he grabbed him by the palm and شيخ ابنو باز he said يا ايو النادي لأانو سبيرو وصابرو ورابيطو واتقوا الله معلك when was success mentioned means you're going to attain success when it comes with four things from those four things is patience from those four things is patience and you guys look at the other three the ayah is I have 200 I have 200 I have 200 I have 200 I have 200 so the ayah I have 200 that's the first if you're not patient how are you going to attain how are you going to find success that you're looking for are you going to gain it you're not going to gain it in order to gain it what do you need you have to come with these four from them is patience from those نبي الله نبي الله يوسى when he went with Khabib what was the thing that نبي الله يوسى did not show patience and if نبي الله يوسى showed patience we would have known even more true or false huh we would have known more and so sometimes lack of patience makes you not get what you're looking for just by patience things become clear for you when in Alikah أصدر مطية لا يضل راكبها if you go on you will never get lost you will never get lost you will reach your destination one way or another you will reach your you will reach it sometimes you will have to sacrifice wherever you're trying to achieve so much effort until you say I haven't eaten for days haven't eaten for days and that's what Imam Malik said in this matter this religion لا ينالوا a person cannot gain it حتى يداقة فيه طعم الفقري until the person tastes poverty I'm back into Imam Shafiq and he said I want to become a scholar of Hadith I want to take the path of Hadith and Imam Shafiq he said to him I'm going to give you the glad tidings of poverty that's not going to leave you after he told him he wants to become a scholar of Hadith he said oh this is what comes with it this is price this is its price the fourth thing that a person needs to come with is العمر بالعمل whatever you've gained it has to show on you it has to what? it has to it has to show it has to be on you العمر بالعمل even if it can be applied on your university and whatever qualification if you study at university and whatever you studied it goes back to the concept of relevance if you go back home and you don't use that qualification and you just stick it on the wall are you going to remember what you studied whatever training that you did if you don't use it into your day-to-day life it goes so in order to gain what you're looking for you have to start using it are we all together when it comes Allah gives you the knowledge of this religion He'll give you something you won't be given anything else unless you implement what was already given to you remember that whatever was given to you first we'll implement that then here's more just like a mother when she feeds her child when she puts a food in his mouth he first of all has to swallow or give it to her would she keep putting things in his mouth yeah would she yeah no, not at all she wouldn't she will stop until he swallows what's already in there that's the same with implementing knowledge Allah will not give you more unless you've taken in what was given to you in the first place let it show on your limbs or else you're just going to be a person who's gathered information when Imam Shafiq said knowledge is not what's memorized it is what knowledge is what benefits you how does it benefit you it shows on your limbs it shows on your it shows on your limbs the fifth one I want to talk about إن شاء الله تعالى is عدمه الاستعجال عدمه الاستعجال بطلب النتائج والفبار don't hasten brother don't hasten sister somebody comes to a class for the first time and they want to be able to understand it like the teacher rather this is your first class you've just come in and you're a newborn baby in the field it's going to take you time to understand this information you you want to take it all at once you want to be like a mutamia in two, three lessons and I'm not going to blame a lot of people for feeling that way because it's some of the courses that the way that they are promoted is after three weeks you're going to be an expert in Arabic language three weeks you're going to be an expert in Arabic language 30 years you won't be an expert in Arabic language I remember one sheikh said to a student who graduated from the university and the student was leaving and he said to the sheikh I'm going to go back to the UK the sheikh gave him many wise advices and the first advice that he gave him was عبدالمحس عباد he said to the brother my son after he graduated from the university those six years in the university I was there to teach you that you don't know nothing now your journey to seeking knowledge has started six years was to show you you have nothing now you learnt what you lack and what you don't know you're going back to the country you were from now you need to learn knowledge are we all together brothers that brother left his family for six years imagine that in the Arabian Peninsula and he stayed there and that's the truth the reason why he is teaching him that is a lot of people when they graduate when they study when they learn for a couple of years or they go to a course or intensive course here and this and that they think that's it don't be hasty whatever you're trying to do hastiness is not a good characteristic are we all together brothers one of the things that really shocked me when I read is that hastiness is never never praiseworthy that نبي الله موسى عليه السلام what did he do he hasten to Allah and he left his people without nurturing them he didn't nurture his people correctly and he left and so Allah said to him when he came to نبي الله موسى فما عجلك عن قومك يا موسى موسى what made you hasten from your people and then he said قال لهم أولئي على أثري وعجل إليك رب الى ترضى أو الله those people were guided they were on the right path I have come to you I hasten to you and some scholars they took from that that نبي الله موسى did not finish off the mission he hasten without finishing the mission the goal that was set to him and remember who he was running to الله عز وجل and then Allah told him no no no the people that you left behind they got misguided they got misguided then if you hasten something you will do a good job you don't و لذلك الله صلنا القرآن و قال الذين كفروا لو لا نزل هذا القرآن جملة واحدة كذلك للنثبت به فؤادك وردتناه ترتيلة these believers they said محمد why is the Quran all of it come down at once quickly just happen once and then what did Allah say the reason why the Quran was sent down in stages gradually is فذلك لنثبت به فؤادك so it can stick to the heart it will resonate in the heart more and people can memorize it better something that is done gradually it is done step by step will remain and it will last then something that is done fast and quick so if you want to achieve your goal take your time one of my شريخ my مشايخ I truly benefited from took great knowledge from he used to in his he would he would he would compare manuscripts old Islamic manuscripts he wants to make them a published book and so the masjid at the top building the sheikh would be at the top the top top building and down you come is the masjid so I went with him one day when I went with him I used to go to him every day I used to read every day I used to come to him and I used to read the kitab and he would explain it for us or explain it for me it was just me and him when I go up he's got a couple of manuscripts and the way he compares the manuscript is so hard he looks at word for word and this is like volumes of books he looks at this word he puts his glasses down he looks at it and then he looks at that manuscript and then he looks at the other manuscript and then he writes it down and once he writes it down he verifies what he wrote and in my head I'm like when are you ever going to finish this book and you know what he said to me العجلة من الشيطان and he said to me it's not authentically attributed to the prophet but the meaning is correct hastiness is from shaytan but Subhan Allah he brought out that book and it's amazing amazing are we all together and so I learned from that Subhan Allah تأني and تروي is a noble characteristic to be calm to take your time do a quality brothers and sisters it's not quantity quality take your time so that that's common in the Muslims I'll give you an example the prophet he came by his companions being bashed and being hit and murdered in Makkah it's true of all it's happens we've been killed عمار ابن ياسر he came by him and when the prophet said اصبروا يا آل ياسر فإن موعيدكم الجنة be patient جنة is your final abode and the messenger came by other companions and so one of the companions that came to him was خباب he said be patient for this problem that we're in and then the messenger said something very powerful what did he say he said that a riding beast will come from صنعاء and it will go to حضر موت a riding beast camels and sheeps will go from there صنعاء إلى حضر موت or a person will come from صنعاء to حضر موت لا يخافوا he doesn't fear إلا رئيب من غنمي only the wolf to eat his goats the road is so safe everything is safe he's not scared of anything and the companions the prophet said to them he said to them ولكنكم تستعجلونك you guys are hastening you quickly want to see the victory of Islam like that give it time and sometimes when the muslim looks around the world and he sees what's taking place today answers have to be made now this minute this second ولكنكم تستعجلون you're hasty it takes its time are we all together ولكنكم تستعجلون hastiness never brings a solution it doesn't bring solution what brings solution is التأني والتروي it's important well if that a lot of people they push themselves forward when they're not qualified is the concept of استعجان hastiness the poet when the scholars say من استعجل شيء قبل أوانه رقبة بحرماني التمشخ the person making himself a sheikh before their time has actually reached it came from what hastiness you just want to see the results quickly it takes time and it needs patience it needs patience the last point that I want to conclude with is ملازمة العلمة stay with the scholars and stick with the people of knowledge وأخذ العلم عنهم and take the knowledge from them at this point I want to say something which is the علمة I'm talking about is the scholars of the religion the deen go back to them they are the ones that can bring us out of the problems that we're in the harm that we're in they will guide us through the Quran and the sunnah and their wisdom and the age that they are in that's why the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم من علامات الساعة from the signs of the hour is that knowledge will be sought from the youngsters a young person will be the scholar of the town and he will be the scholar of the village the knowledgeable people who when calamities fall issues happen is the scholars أهل العلم the senior people in age in wisdom they are the ones that we go to and we ask them and that can be used for our worldly knowledge as well we go to the if you want to do business you should always have experts that you go back to true or false because business is not going to flourish and it's not going to go forward you need experts on the committee who can tell you that's wrong don't do this those people that you're going to choose they're going to be very senior in age they're going to have deep knowledge they're going to have insight isn't that not the case isn't that not the case so why is it that many people that have businesses they consult expertise in the field they take strategies and they consult these experts but they never have scholars on their board that they ask questions are we allowed to do this are we all together brothers why is that not done why we don't do that in our day to day life why don't we go back to these senior people of knowledge I believe all of those points that I mentioned those 6 points if a person comes with it and all of the other points that I mentioned and you will see results إن شاء الله تعالى and as I said to you before this life that we have today is an opportunity one time you're never going to get this opportunity again don't come the day of judgment and you regret what you have seen it becomes clear to you the day of judgment that which you were not expecting don't let that happen to you work exert effort Allah has given us a chance today today He has given us a chance an opportunity we can work hard we can do good now so when we go the day of judgment we have good that's waiting for us on the other side I ask Allah from the bottom of my heart that He سبحانه وتعالى gives us the strength and the ability to show that which pleases Him and to come with righteous actions and stay away from that which He is that angers Him and is not pleased with anything I might have said in this whole seminar any mistakes or shortcomings that I have come from me is from me and Shaytan and Allah and His messenger are free from it سبحانك الله بحمدك أشدو الله