 when we take a look at this and this is all research being done today if you go read papers especially if you read the business magazines like Forbes magazine for example Forbes other magazines they have a whole bunch of these articles about time management how much it costs for example per year or etc to not manage your time and so on so forth the hadith I started with from Imam Al-Kawam alaihi salam. Allahumma salli ala Muhammad wa Ali Muhammad. In essence is what those guys are saying but again in a different language Imam Al-Kawam alaihi salam says itj tahidu he says in the hadith itj tahidu fi ani yakuna zamanakum arbaasaat put in the effort itj tahidu put in the effort that's exactly what those guys are saying put in the effort you know develop the habit you know that's what those experts are saying you need to develop the habit to manage your time because time management is a habit if you start accepting too many tasks that's a bad habit you got to learn at some point that you have to prioritize you have to delegate some tasks you know sometimes you cannot do you cannot do everything on your own and that sometimes you know they say what makes a really good leader a good leader sometimes is one who can who knows how to delegate because a leader cannot do everything on his own but he knows how to delegate the tasks so he knows how to accept or what to accept and how to delegate the tasks Imam sallamullah alaihi almost saying the same thing he says itj tahidu put in the effort in other words turn it into a habit put in the effort that your day is divided into four slots again time management but in a different language in a language that was used back then not in today's modern world corporate world itj tahidu fi ani akuna zamanukum arbaasaat try to make your time into four hours four hours does not mean literally four hours but four slots first a slot saatan limunajatillah a slot for ibadah worship worship Allah subhanAllah you need to take time to worship Allah you know interestingly one of the things that they recommend also when they talk about time management they say you need to take breaks you know i tell people subhanAllah we work so hard we put in so much time but you know what work will never end but your life will our life will end finish and then once we die you think the work is going to stop the company is going to shut down the corporation is going to shut down no khalas they'll hire somebody else and life goes on that's it all the inheritors will just grab everything they sell the corporation liquidated and ma'a salama khalas life goes on that's it so let's invest a little bit of time for our akhira that's what the imam salamullah says one time of your day a slot of your day should be for ibadah so when you want to come to the mosque just khalas say this is mosque time i want to come to the masjid i want to hear dua i want to read surat yasin i want to pray salatul jama'a this is part of my weekly schedule people who tell me i am too busy to come to the mosque i tell them then make the mosque part of your busy schedule if you say i'm too busy khalas put this part i have to attend this particular slot i'm busy just like you make a slot for food you make a slide to sleep then you have to make a slot for attending the masjid or attending the majalis that's a time for also salat salat is important make a time for salat in the day khalas everything stops i do my wudu and i stand in the muhrab and say allahu akbar this is my time between me and allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that's it this is something important this is one slot slot of ibadah what else the second one another time another slot for work okay you have to work that's right so work does not take your whole life work is a part of your life that's what people in the past they used to work to live not live to work if you remember our maybe i would say the elders here maybe your parents the younger ones maybe your grandparents you remember the time when they had like that little shop that little tiny shop and he used to sell you know i don't know some groceries vegetables whatever and subhanallah he had his children he raised his family and he was happy he was not a millionaire but alhamdulillah he's happy that's his life he's working to live that's it he earns his living so he can sustain his family his children himself then you find this older man too he comes to the mosque he has time to go for ziyara he has time to go for hajj because work is not the whole thing of his world it's a part of his life especially back if you go back 50 60 years ago when people used to go to hajj on camels the shop is closed for six months halas nobody's at the shop that's it business is closed six months until he goes on a camel to hajj and he comes back that's if he makes it back hello people used to make that time and they used to live happy do you remember i don't know some of you when you were young you remember the elders they used to be happy they they didn't complain as much as we do we're complaining complaining they used to be happy and they didn't have much maybe that's a problem we have too much that's why we complain so it's another time for work so you need to work but don't make work your whole life get enough so that you can also invest time with the family travel have fun and instead of just working night to you know the whole week that's a second third a time a slot make it to spend with mu'mineen with your brothers thukat trustworthy brothers people who the imam gives two criteria those brothers that you hang out with they should tell you about your shortcomings subhanallah we get upset when somebody criticizes us don't tell me i have a problem no i am maasum i'm infallible i'm perfect i'm an angel Allah created me as an angel that's it that's who i am i have no shortcomings whatsoever that's how we are unfortunately in this day and age i remember once my supervisor told me alhamdulillah i didn't listen to that advice he says if you want to be successful in this business you have to be arrogant says that's that's the way if you want to be successful you have to be arrogant you know when i thought about this there is a difference between being proud of your work versus being arrogant about your work yes i'm proud of my accomplishments i'm proud of my work alhamdulillah but that doesn't mean i'm arrogant about it where i think all your work is nothing and i'm the only one who deserves all the credit but if we have such a mentality where if you want to be successful you have to be arrogant if that's our mentality in this world then what do you think this world is turning into i mean there's no surprise that the world is turning into whatever is turning in today we don't care about the whole world and you see that man in that big position he doesn't care about anything in this world all he cares about himself himself just today they say when he met our prime minister he's boasting about making up facts you know i don't know if i call them facts fabricating you know and he's like yeah yeah yeah i didn't know but i made them up yeah the guy doesn't care about anything no wonder the whole world is turning into chaos imam salamu alayhi says that people you hang out with they should tell you your shortcomings that's one of their criteria you have a they should tell you what your problems are but of course privately and that's why he adds and they should really be sincere to you on the inside in other words they love you they care about you people who care about you but at the same time they tell you your shortcomings you should invest a lot of your time with such people that's three four and he says and the last slot the fourth slot is something where you do to relax then you relax yourself and something that is not haram no relaxing doesn't mean you go to haram things i have to do parties i have to do this i have well i have a lot to drink in order to relax no that's haram but spending time with the family you know unwinding as they say and and interestingly the imam says it is with this last hour when you unwind is when you are going to be capable to perform the other three slots subhanallah you read this and that's exactly what those researchers are saying you need time to take a break the brain needs time to unwind you go relax and then come back and solve the problem that's why they say take a break don't work be a workaholic every single you know day you need time off time off relax and that's why i tell the mu'mineen go to ziyarah go to umrah go to hajj if you are able to if not take your family with you of course taken with the family go into hajj and umrah if you have a family with you if not then take the family go for a vacation even a one day take time invest time with them in fact invest time with the family even if you don't go on a vacation just relax together as a family khalas you know one researcher says once in a year for one week i go off to an island a remote island i turn off my mobile phone email for a whole week and and she says this week kind of re-energizes me khalas you know i get really re-energized and come back and start doing my work you know but look at the work of the imam salamullahi aleyh people who talk about time management time management ahlu al-bayt touched on this concept on this issue first of all the imam salamullahi says put in the effort and that's what researchers say try to make it a habit second of all the imam salamullahi says divide your time into slots in other words he's not talking about task shifting or multitasking he is saying no concentrate on a particular task at a particular time when it's time for bunajah ibadah time for ibadah khalas you don't do ibadah and for example i don't know think about your emails and think about your business at the same time no khalas separate ibadah ibadah business is business and so on so forth family time family time friend time friends time try to divide your time concentrate on your that's what the imam is saying that's what those people are saying try to focus on your task stay away from the distractions well that's what the imam salamullahi is also saying take a break that's what the imam salamullahi is saying take a break the only difference is the imam is saying it in a language that is suitable for 1400 years ago or 1200 years ago whereas today they're using this fancy nice language a modern language for example contemporary language that's the only thing and therefore brothers and sisters if we really hang on to the teachings of ahlu al-bayt aleyhim and to the words of ahlu al-bayt we will achieve the happiness and the success in dunya and in akhir