A Discussion on Time Management and Goal Setting - Sayed Saleh Qazwini

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[0:14]today for today's lecture we're going to be talking about time management

[0:19]and setting multiplayer and daddy is going to start us off with

[0:29]oh [Music] [Music] [Music] oh please let us know i don't know

[2:09]so that will know who will recite the quran wow are we

[3:00]ready muhammad [Music] respected brothers and sisters these days during the holy

[3:52]month of rajab we are celebrating the births of our imams and

[3:58]the tenth of the holy month of rajab coincides with the birth

[4:07]anniversary of the ninth imam of advaith who can guess who the

[4:10]ninth imam of added bait is quickly who is the ninth imam

[4:16]of that invades no that's the 10th imam jawad imam and we

[4:35]are celebrating his birth his birth is on the 10th of rajab

[4:46]is the youngest imam to have lived the youngest imam who is

[4:52]the oldest imam that was a trick question but alhamdulillah you guys

[4:59]know imam and mahdi is still alive so he is considered to

[5:03]be the oldest of the imams and the youngest of the imams

[5:09]is imam who lived for only 25 years he lived only for

[5:17]25 years he was born in the year 195 after hijola and

[5:23]he was martyred and poisoned in the year 220 after hijab making

[5:30]him the youngest imam to have lived he only lived for 25

[5:34]years however during those 25 years imam muhammad alain salam was the

[5:45]leader of the muslims the divinely appointed leader appointed by allah and

[5:52]of course in the shiite beliefs we believe that an imam is

[5:57]an imam not because this person is chosen by people not because

[6:02]this person has more money but the imam becomes an iman because

[6:06]they are appointed by allah because they are divinely appointed by allah

[6:13]that's when you know that they are an imam and imam muhammad

[6:20]was appointed by allah to become an imam when he was seven

[6:25]years old can you believe it he was seven years old and

[6:30]he was the imam of the muslims now of course what are

[6:35]the signs of imam how does he prove that he's an imam

[6:38]one of the ways is to be appointed by his father we

[6:47]know that his father imam and he tells his followers my son

[6:54]after me is the imam and some people couldn't believe that some

[6:57]people said how could a seven-year-old be a leader how could a

[7:05]seven-year-old be an imam appointed by allah so they began to test

[7:09]the imam they began to test imam and jawad they started asking

[7:13]them questions and they brought the biggest scholars of the time the

[7:18]kharifa and mahmoud and abbasi the keros who poisoned him he brought

[7:24]the biggest scholars of the time and he tells them ask him

[7:29]questions so one of the big judges of the time a man

[7:31]by the name of yahya evin he comes to the imam and

[7:36]he tries to ask him a difficult question he tells him what

[7:44]do you say about someone who's in the state of iran when

[7:49]they're doing hajj they're in the states of iran he went hunting

[7:55]and he killed he was expecting the imam to either tell him

[7:58]i don't know or the amount to give him one simple answer

[8:02]he was surprised to see this young child he comes to him

[8:09]and he tells him what kind of what describe the circumstances was

[8:14]the hunting during day or at night was it inside the haram

[8:19]or outside the haram was it a cattle or was it a

[8:21]bird type of animal and he gave him nine different questions and

[8:27]the head judge was shocked that he didn't even expect that this

[8:32]question would be this complicated so he tells him you tell me

[8:40]began to clarify and began to explain exactly the rules and the

[8:48]laws of hajj and everyone the sunnis and the shias and everyone

[8:51]they were amazed by the knowledge of imam muhammad another story from

[9:00]the life of imam and joad one day he went hunting and

[9:07]he comes back from his expedition hunting and he has his entourage

[9:13]with him he has his people with him and there are people

[9:18]in the street when they see the entourage of the king right

[9:20]away they run away they get scared because this is the king

[9:24]you don't want to bump into him you don't want to bump

[9:26]into his soldiers so everyone is running away there are kids they're

[9:32]also running away on the side of the street he didn't run

[9:36]away he didn't react like all the others so some people they

[9:43]were shocked he recognizes that this kid didn't run away from me

[9:48]so he comes to him tells him come to me he doesn't

[9:52]know that this is the man of johaddyas because imam jawad was

[9:57]born in medina and he lived in madina and mahmoud in current

[10:02]day where imam how come you didn't react like all the other

[10:14]kids all the others they ran away and they were afraid you

[10:18]didn't react in that way he tells him the ones who run

[10:24]away because they have done something wrong i have not done something

[10:28]wrong or you have to get out of the way if you're

[10:29]standing in the middle of the road i'm not standing in the

[10:33]middle of the road the road is big enough for you and

[10:35]i to stand here so i said this person he has courage

[10:39]and he's different from anyone else he tells him what's your name

[10:44]imam allah by the way had only one son and that was

[10:45]the man of joan so alma moon he tells imam and joad

[10:51]he tells him what's your name he says my name is muhammad

[10:54]what's your father's name adi what's your grandfather's name musa so right

[11:00]away he realizes that this is muhammad ibn ali and al-mahmoon he

[11:07]knew him very well and he knew his the grandfather of imam

[11:12]allah very well so right away he realizes that this is an

[11:17]unusual child and he's the son of allah but in mahmoud he

[11:24]knows that the imams of the maids their knowledge is not like

[11:26]your knowledge and my knowledge their knowledge is different they are given

[11:30]knowledge from allah subhanahu ta'ala so he has a bag in his

[11:37]hand he has a bag in his hand and the bag has

[11:41]something in it who knows what's in the bag the bag is

[11:42]covered it's sealed he tells him what's in my bag tell me

[11:48]what's in my bag he's trying to test the imam so imam

[11:55]is created fish that swim in the ocean and these fish they

[12:06]are hunted by the falcons of the kings and these kings they

[12:13]come to the sons of the prophets to ask them what's in

[12:17]my bag so it was a fish that was hunted by the

[12:20]falcon of the kharifa of the king and imam he gave him

[12:27]the whole story he tells him you went hunting and you used

[12:31]the falcon and you cut this fish now the fish is in

[12:32]the bag and now you're questioning me the grandchildren of the prophet

[12:36]the grandson of the prophet you're questioning me what's in the back

[12:40]was very impressed and once a man of joan became older he

[12:45]ordered the imam to marry his daughter oman the daughter of and

[12:50]she was according to some reports not such a good lady just

[12:56]like her father and mahmoud who poisoned the man of allah but

[13:01]subhanallah who we just celebrated his birth a few days ago was

[13:05]not born from umanfal he was born from another lady she was

[13:12]the mother of imam now my dear brothers and sisters since we're

[13:18]talking about imam and joad and we're talking about an imam who

[13:25]lived for only 25 years he was poisoned at the age of

[13:27]25 he didn't live very long what did the imam achieve during

[13:35]25 years and what have we achieved today you find some people

[13:42]successful people at the age of 25 you see that they've achieved

[13:48]so much they're so productive and other people you find that they're

[13:51]almost 40 years old and they're just sitting on the couch not

[13:56]doing anything right different people have different levels of productivity some people

[14:03]are not productive at all some people don't do anything some people

[14:08]day and night an hour an hour passes by and they're just

[14:14]sitting not doing anything not achieving anything and this is one of

[14:19]the biggest ways to waste your life because at the end of

[14:24]the day a day that is wasted this day we're not going

[14:26]to see it again that day is not going to come back

[14:29]can i have yesterday come back again no that's it so that

[14:34]day that was wasted that was an opportunity that was wasted for

[14:40]you and it's not like we have an infamous hours or days

[14:44]that we have our days are finishing and some people they just

[14:49]let their days pass they let their hours pass while they're wasting

[14:55]time and other people they're productive other people are able to achieve

[15:01]so much within a very short time span within a very short

[15:08]life one of our great scholars a scholar who they call him

[15:13]allah the great scholar one of the great scholars of his time

[15:15]one of the great scholars of the shia school of thought he

[15:18]lived around over 700 years ago they say became reach the highest

[15:29]levels of filth and uh being a scholar of islam before he

[15:35]was even bothered before he reached the age of puberty so he

[15:42]was always focusing on knowledge focusing on seeking knowledge where he became

[15:47]a much tagged before he became bothered so they say sometimes he

[15:52]was a kid he's a kid where he became such a he

[15:54]reached such high level of knowledge he used to do some naughty

[16:01]things sometimes and his father would chase him his father would get

[16:04]upset with him and begin to chase him so he would recite

[16:08]a verse of the quran that anyone who hears it has to

[16:14]do so his father being that his father is bottom his father

[16:20]is meaning there's someone once you read once you go through once

[16:24]you become mature go through puberty upon you but if you're not

[16:31]you haven't gone through puberty you don't have to do things it's

[16:33]not it's not wider upon you so in order to escape from

[16:37]his father he would recite the verse of his father has to

[16:41]do so do it while he runs away this was this is

[16:47]what is narrated you know some a story from his life now

[16:50]of course when you remember this is not the only story that

[16:54]you should remember you should remember all the other contributions the other

[16:59]you know good things that he did so my dear brothers and

[17:03]sisters one of the greatest blessings upon a person's life as time

[17:07]time is something that goes by and it's not going to be

[17:14]returned and believe it or not everyone and everything in your life

[17:21]is competing to take away that time from you the social media

[17:25]that you're scrolling on they're they're competing with one another facebook instagram

[17:32]twitter tick tock all of these social media sites and apps they're

[17:37]competing over your time they're competing who's going to use who's going

[17:41]to spend their time one hour two hours three hours coming and

[17:46]using this app television entertainment industry so many so many programs or

[17:57]organizations governments are competing over your time your time is so precious

[18:02]that they're spending millions and millions of dollars just so you could

[18:06]sit and watch how much does a super bowl ad cost what

[18:08]is the number right now does anyone know on top of their

[18:14]head for 30 seconds of your time they're willing to pay millions

[18:19]of dollars just so they they could get your attention when some

[18:23]people think of this they they don't think of it from this

[18:26]perspective that my time is so precious that these major corporations are

[18:31]willing to pay millions of dollars just so that they could have

[18:37]my attention span for 30 seconds for one minute they're willing to

[18:40]pay millions of dollars what does this mean this means that your

[18:44]time is precious this means that every second of your life is

[18:47]worth so much don't let it get wasted don't waste your life

[18:54]don't waste a single second from your life your time is not

[19:23]being wasted how do you summarize a person's life it says your

[19:42]life could be summed up as a number of days you only

[19:49]lived a number of days [Music] and every day that passes by

[19:59]takes a portion of you every day takes a portion of you

[20:01]until you have one year left but you don't know that you

[20:05]have one year left because no one knows when they die you

[20:08]might have 30 years left you might have 60 years left and

[20:13]you might have one hour left you don't know no one knows

[20:16]when their time is but our life is summed up in two

[20:24]days and every day that passes a portion of me is passing

[20:26]a portion of me is finishing a lot of us we don't

[20:31]even realize that a lot of us we don't even live our

[20:35]life in that sense acknowledging that this is why we have to

[20:40]take advantage of our time this is why we have to take

[20:41]advantage of our days our moments our hours our seconds i want

[21:01]everyone to pay attention to this i want everyone if you could

[21:06]write this down if you could memorize it whatever it is this

[21:09]is very important if we use it in our life take advantage

[21:15]of five before five he tells him take advantage of your youth

[21:26]before what before old age many of you are youth here go

[21:34]and talk to some of the older people they're going to tell

[21:38]you that time is gone that's it and once you become a

[21:43]little bit older then you start having the back pain and the

[21:45]leg pain and the headache and all of these problems every day

[21:50]they start coming up you go to the doctor they come and

[21:52]they keep telling you you have this problem you have this problem

[21:54]you have that problem take advantage of your youth this is the

[21:58]time that you're healthy this is the time that you have the

[22:02]power you have the energy you can do whatever you want right

[22:08]now nothing could come in your way you're strong you're healthy shall

[22:13]you all remain healthy and strong so take advantage of that this

[22:20]is one and your health before you fall ill some people i

[22:29]remember you know sometimes when we go to hajj i've been to

[22:32]time for many times sometimes you see people that come to hajj

[22:35]they have heart pain they have back pain they have leg pain

[22:38]they can't do anything okay why didn't you go to hajj when

[22:43]you were younger why didn't you go to hajj when you were

[22:46]healthy why didn't you go to hajj when you were when you

[22:48]were able to stand on your own they wasted that time they

[22:54]wasted it sleeping they wasted it doing so many other things now

[22:57]at an old age where they won't even enjoy it anymore they're

[23:00]not even going to feel the energy of it anymore well every

[23:21]day don't think that allah has is not giving you every one

[23:28]of us is making a millionaire every single one of us is

[23:33]giving us more money than we could imagine how so the hadith

[23:40]says when a person does you know sometimes some people lay that's

[23:44]all they gather i want a million dollars i want 10 million

[23:47]dollars i want this much do you realize that allah subhanahu wa

[23:54]ta'ala has answered your dua how maybe god didn't send down a

[23:59]million dollars on you but throughout your whole life from the day

[24:04]you were born until the day you die how much have you

[24:09]spent probably you spent over a million dollars right probably you spend

[24:14]more some people less depends on which country you're living in where

[24:18]society you're living in so allah is answering your dog the only

[24:25]difference is sometimes divides it up so that he gives you every

[24:28]day your share isn't that doesn't that seem fair if someone comes

[24:33]and tells you i can either give you all your money at

[24:37]once right now but you might go ruin it you might go

[24:38]and gamble it all you might go in and throw it all

[24:42]in the ocean or i give you what you need every day

[24:46]that's also a good deal to have right what i need comes

[24:50]to me every day allah subhana wa created us allah has promised

[24:55]us that we won't go hungry allah has promised us that he's

[24:58]not going to leave us in need this is why everyone everyone

[25:02]receives a list everyone receives sustenance the hadith says be like the

[25:07]bird the bird that leaves its nest and it finds bird it

[25:14]has reliance on god when you leave your home in the morning

[25:17]appreciate allah the same lord who gave me yesterday and the day

[25:19]before and the day before that will also give me today and

[25:24]tomorrow right but some of us we worry so much we stress

[25:26]out over things that are not even in our control rely on

[25:31]allah subhanahu wa and your father when you don't have time when

[25:41]you're when you're not as busy take advantage of those moments before

[25:45]you come you become very busy and your life before your death

[25:55]so we have to improve our lives my dear brothers and sisters

[26:00]we have to know how to have some time management because if

[26:04]we manage our time correctly then our time will be blessed then

[26:09]we're not going to have problems if your days are equal to

[26:26]one another then what has happened then you have cheated yourself if

[26:32]today is the same as yesterday that i have cheated myself how

[26:36]so because my days are finishing my days are numbered and i'm

[26:41]not taking advantage of the new day that i have my day

[26:46]is just like yesterday that means i lost a day and i

[26:48]didn't become a better person during that day so therefore i cheated

[26:51]myself so this is why my dear brothers and sisters since we're

[27:01]talking about imam and joan and how he lived for only 25

[27:03]years but he was productive how do we become productive how do

[27:10]we manage our time correctly one you have to know the value

[27:16]of time if you don't realize the value of time then you're

[27:19]never going to appreciate it then you're never going to manage it

[27:24]in order to manage something you have to know what it is

[27:26]you have to know how to deal with it you have to

[27:29]take care of your time and here we need to know the

[27:37]value of our time these are moments these are seconds these are

[27:41]hours that are passing by who knows if we're going to be

[27:46]around tomorrow or in a week from now or in a month

[27:47]from now or in a year from now we have to manage

[27:53]our time properly and second know the value of time second divide

[27:59]your time accordingly allah has given you 24 hours throughout the day

[28:06]24 hours is a lot of time you could do so many

[28:11]things during 24 hours some people they know they wasted sleeping they

[28:16]wasted on their phone they wasted on their playstation and xbox while

[28:20]other people they divide their time accordingly and it's not haram to

[28:26]have some fun allah wants you to enjoy your time allah subhanahu

[28:29]wa ta'ala wants you to have some fun but it becomes a

[28:34]problem when people all that they're doing is having fun all that

[28:37]they're doing is playing you know some people i saw one of

[28:45]the young guys he came to me he said this last summer

[28:48]a few months ago he said this last summer i spent the

[28:54]whole summer on my xbox all summer day night day night i

[28:59]spent the whole time on my xbox i didn't do anything else

[29:01]i didn't do anything productive i don't know whether he was proud

[29:07]of him or he was not proud of it but i told

[29:10]him you wasted your whole life you wasted your summer you could

[29:13]have done so many things now i'm not against xbox and playstation

[29:17]and all these things no have fun but set a time okay

[29:22]you played for an hour you played for a time now turn

[29:26]it off and go do something else go move on to something

[29:29]else divide your time accordingly how should we divide our time in

[29:38]a beautiful hadith from imam musa strive to divide your time into

[30:04]four categories this also takes some mental notes if you want to

[30:09]write it down this is something very important strive to divide your

[30:12]time into four categories one-fourth of your day or a part of

[30:26]your day let that be a time dedicated to speaking to allah

[30:29]a time to feed your soul a time to give your soul

[30:34]what it needs wasabi meaning you have to go work you have

[30:45]to go you have to struggle to make money to bring food

[30:49]to the house this is something that is also considered as a

[30:51]hibada as well this is something that is considered as a form

[30:56]of worship if you're bringing thank you if you're bringing wealth and

[31:00]you're bringing money to the house that means you're taking care of

[31:05]the family allah will reward you for that if your intentions are

[31:08]pure wasab come he says in a third hour divided to spend

[31:26]time with the gods the good brothers and sisters the third hour

[31:39]just to have fun spend time with friends no he said spend

[31:42]that time as a time to spend it with good friends who

[31:47]are the good friends those are the ones who tell you what

[31:52]your faults are your friend a real friend is someone who comes

[31:56]and he tells you listen what you did that was wrong and

[32:01]i advise you to not do that again that's a good friend

[32:04]a good friend is not someone who sees you do something wrong

[32:07]and he starts clapping for you that's not a good friend because

[32:11]a good friend is one who wants you to be successful in

[32:14]this life and in the afterlife so if you've done something wrong

[32:18]tell your friend let your friend tell you in a hadith the

[32:25]imam and another hadith the imam he says my best friend is

[32:28]the one who ah you will be the one who gifts me

[32:33]my faults what does that mean the one who comes and takes

[32:36]me on the side of course not publicly some people they try

[32:38]to do something good but in front of the whole community hey

[32:41]what you did was wrong no that's also not a correct way

[32:45]to come and tell someone what they're doing is wrong but if

[32:48]you have a good friend or you know a good friend who's

[32:51]doing something not so proper you take them to the side and

[32:57]you tell them you tell them so he says spend time with

[32:59]those group of people and deep inside they are loyal to you

[33:08]they are devout they are sincere they're not two-faced there are some

[33:14]friends that are two-faced there are some friends that they just want

[33:17]to be with you when it's fun but at times of difficulties

[33:20]they're going to leave you they're not going to stand with you

[33:36]personal time that is not haram this is how you divide your

[33:45]time into four hours into four segments and the key my dear

[33:49]brothers and sisters to my time management is a balanced lifestyle if

[33:54]you live a balanced lifestyle then everyone's going to be happy with

[33:57]you god's going to be happy with you because you're going to

[33:59]give time to god your family is going to be happy with

[34:03]you because you're going to give time for your family your work

[34:05]is going to be happy with you because you're going to dedicate

[34:09]your time the time of work is time for work and you

[34:12]will be happy for with yourself because you're spending some quality time

[34:18]some own personal time you need to have balance today why do

[34:22]you have some marriages falling apart why do you have some businesses

[34:24]falling apart why do you have some people that they themselves are

[34:30]falling apart why because they didn't know how to balance their time

[34:35]either he's a workaholic there are some people that are workaholics that

[34:40]says all that they work for all that they think of as

[34:44]money they wake up they think of money they sleep they think

[34:47]of money they're dreaming they think of money it's always money okay

[34:50]you made money alhamdulillah now focus on other things there are some

[34:58]marriages are falling apart because they're all thinking about money the husband

[35:03]is always out thinking of money and he's neglecting the wife he's

[35:07]neglecting the children he's neglecting the family he's not spending time with

[35:11]the family so you need to give time to your family you

[35:15]need to give time to your children you need to give time

[35:19]to your parents many of you are young you have parents give

[35:22]time to your parents spend time with them an hour a day

[35:26]is not going to hurt you it's not going to be taken

[35:29]away from you half an hour a day sitting with your parents

[35:31]talking to them seeing what they need this is something good for

[35:36]you you're going to remember these precious moments later on and also

[35:41]spend time with allah wants you to live a balanced lifestyle if

[35:52]you live a balanced lifestyle you're going to be happy even during

[35:58]the time of the prophets there were some people who were praying

[36:01]the whole time the whole time they're praying they've neglected their families

[36:07]they've neglected their children their job their duties they're always praying what

[36:12]you're doing is wrong even if you're praying the whole time you're

[36:16]not balancing you're not you're not giving you're not dividing your time

[36:21]accordingly even if you're praying the whole time that's wrong yes there's

[36:25]a specific time for prayer and then there's a time for work

[36:28]this is why even in salat the verse says after you remember

[36:34]allah subhanahu wa ta'ala then go and work go in work don't

[36:38]sit in the masjid the whole time brain once the sun comes

[36:43]up that time you break budget before the sun comes up once

[36:46]the sun comes up that's it you have to be up and

[36:49]running you have to be up don't worry go stride because that's

[36:54]how you balance your time but some people they don't balance their

[36:57]time accordingly they either focus on ibadah and they neglect other things

[37:03]or they focus on money and they neglect the family or they

[37:06]focus on family and money and everything else and they neglect the

[37:10]masjid they neglect spirituality they neglect all of the other important things

[37:15]you have to balance your life he was what is equivalent of

[37:23]a leader of 50 countries in the middle east today he was

[37:27]the leader he was managing them and he was a good leader

[37:32]because he made sure that there was no poverty he made sure

[37:35]that human rights were appreciated and people's human rights were respected the

[37:45]big general in the army of emir he says i was and

[37:51]he was in the market he goes to these people he's talking

[37:56]to them these people is there an issue this one is there

[37:58]anything wrong the whole day he's talking to people and he's managing

[38:01]their affairs he's taking care of their needs he says when we

[38:08]go he went to home or wherever he went he saw imam

[38:11]as soon as he goes he goes to pray and he looked

[38:15]tired emily but he goes to pray so malik he tells him

[38:21]why don't you give yourself some time to rest the whole day

[38:26]you've been taking care of the affairs of people the whole day

[38:29]you've been fulfilling the needs of people people have been asking you

[38:32]for them give yourself some time to rest so he tells him

[38:47]if i rest during the day then i will lose my people

[38:51]meaning i won't fulfill my duties towards my people and if i

[38:57]sleep at night then i will lose myself because that is the

[39:01]time that i want to connect with allah that is the time

[39:06]that i want to build spirituality with allah subhanahu wa so my

[39:11]dear brothers and sisters when we're thinking of time management think of

[39:17]sometimes there are certain things that have been neglected in our lives

[39:21]a lot of people one of the things that has been neglected

[39:27]is family people they're busy making money busy working doing so many

[39:33]things that they don't even have time for their own family one

[39:36]of the major reasons for divorce one of the major reasons for

[39:42]families falling apart is what one person comes and says my partner

[39:47]was not giving me equal time my partner was not spending good

[39:49]time with me they're only thinking of money we need to spend

[39:54]time with one another set some time it's okay to turn the

[39:56]phone off it's okay to turn off the computer it's okay to

[40:01]let go work let go of work you have the weekend you

[40:04]work for five days the weekend go and focus on your family

[40:09]go and do something productive this is one and of course family

[40:15]it's not like oh yeah you know what today i couldn't tomorrow

[40:19]i will today tomorrow i couldn't then the next day i will

[40:21]family is the most important investment that a person will have in

[40:28]life more important than the house more important than anything else that

[40:31]you have is your family so spend quality time with your family

[40:34]if you don't spend quality time with your family believe me you

[40:40]will lose your family and once a family member is lost it's

[40:43]very hard to replace that family can you replace a family member

[40:48]you can't a few days ago a lady calls me and she

[40:55]says i've lost my son that's it my son his mind is

[41:02]thinking all of these things in his life they're not the way

[41:04]i want i want it to be i've lost him i told

[41:09]her you called me right now now that it's too late you

[41:14]had hours and hours and days and years of opportunities to raise

[41:18]your son to spend time with your son but everyone is busy

[41:21]running after dunya running after work where they sacrifice their own children

[41:26]for the sake of the dollar for the sake of benjamin franklin

[41:32]right they sacrifice their children is it worth sacrificing your children now

[41:37]of course your children are not only your responsibility towards your children

[41:41]it's not just to feed them some people they think oh i

[41:45]felt my children that i did my job as a parent no

[41:47]your job as a parent is to guide them to spend time

[41:51]with them to build bonds with them to befriend them these are

[41:57]the duties that you have second we said one of the duties

[42:03]that's neglected is family and time we don't manage our time with

[42:06]our family we're probably very good in time management at work probably

[42:11]at work i'm very efficient but when it comes to family no

[42:17]i'm slacking i don't care about my duties and my responsibilities within

[42:21]the family so we have to make sure that just as i

[42:23]show up to work nine to five i don't go late to

[42:26]work i have to make sure that when it comes to my

[42:30]family duties i also show up on time i also have to

[42:32]make sure that i'm efficient when it comes to my responsibilities towards

[42:35]my family this is one second one of the things that we

[42:42]have neglected and unfortunately many of us have neglected this as seeking

[42:49]knowledge allah has given you 24 hours a day use one of

[42:54]those hours use half an hour to pick up a book and

[43:00]read use some of that time to learn about your religion use

[43:03]some of that time to become a better person right now and

[43:09]and all professions whether you're a doctor you're an engineer you're uh

[43:17]whatever it is you're a lawyer they come and they tell you

[43:20]you need time to have some continuing education right they come and

[43:26]they tell you even if you're a doctor even if you're the

[43:30]very high achieved person you studied for years they tell you take

[43:33]some time off and go and read these you know brochures go

[43:35]and continue your education because there's always something new coming up you

[43:39]have to go and learn about it so what does this mean

[43:44]this means that we always have to improve ourselves and one of

[43:47]the ways to improve ourselves is by seeking knowledge by going and

[43:54]learning and the best knowledge to learn is a knowledge that brings

[43:59]you closer to allah and that is knowing what's knowing about your

[44:04]faith knowing about your religion on the day of judgment allah is

[44:09]not just going to ask you what did you believe allah is

[44:11]going to ask you why did you believe in what you believe

[44:15]today how many muslims can stand up and tell us why they're

[44:19]muslim why are you a muslim the first thing people say is

[44:23]because my parents are muslim i was born in a muslim household

[44:25]that's not enough you need to know why you need to have

[44:29]conviction and the knowledge is out there there are websites there are

[44:33]lectures there are scholars that are waiting for someone to ask them

[44:36]but no one turns to the scholars unfortunately no one turns to

[44:39]the books no one turns to seeking knowledge of allah he says

[44:52]i don't want any of the shabbat any of the younger people

[44:56]to do other than these two things i only want these two

[45:01]things either you become a knowledgeable person where you educate others or

[45:10]you become a person who is seeking knowledge make it a duty

[45:14]make it your job to seek knowledge learn set a time set

[45:20]a few hours a week set some time that this is what

[45:26]you will achieve he says well the prophet says if you are

[45:29]not either a knowledgeable person or someone who's pursuing knowledge if you

[45:36]do not do that then you are wasting your time you're doing

[45:40]and then and if you are and if someone commits a sin

[45:59]then this person will live in the hellfire and the fire will

[46:02]levy he says i swear by the one who sent me as

[46:06]a messenger i'm telling you this i'm telling you this don't waste

[46:12]your time go and seek spend some time to learn spend some

[46:15]time to learn about your faith my dear brothers and sisters we

[46:20]have a duty it's not oh if i didn't know it's okay

[46:23]you know no you need to know especially things that concern you

[46:29]you don't you have to do every day you need to learn

[46:33]how to do you pray you need to learn how to pray

[46:36]fasting you need to know the laws of fasting when it comes

[46:40]to business for example you're in business you need to go and

[46:42]learn the laws what's haram what's accepted what's not accepted so this

[46:49]is one seek knowledge set some time to seeking knowledge third something

[46:56]that is neglected is time for spirituality time for attending masjid time

[47:05]for attending religious programs you asked many people why didn't you come

[47:09]well i'm busy i'm working then you come the next day you

[47:14]do a program at night you tell them why didn't you come

[47:17]i had guests why didn't you come every time there's an excuse

[47:20]when are you going to give yourself some personal time to get

[47:26]closer to allah when are you going to give yourself some time

[47:30]to grow yourself to feed your spirituality just like our body needs

[47:34]to eat our soul needs to eat as well it doesn't eat

[47:39]food the soul what it requires what it needs to grow as

[47:46]salah as quran as the remembrance of allah and give your soul

[47:57]that which it needs and ask allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to bless

[48:03]your time we all recite your aquaman right thursday night by the

[48:08]way if you don't recite the aquaman thursday night set that time

[48:12]it's one hour at night thursday night after a month of prayer

[48:16]if you couldn't do it right after give yourself half an hour

[48:20]after half an hour after before you sleep give yourself some time

[48:24]to recite document one part of that beautiful dua he says what

[48:48]does he say he says oh allah i ask you by your

[48:52]glory and honor that you make my time let my time be

[49:01]filled with the remembrance you let my time be occupied and serving

[49:11]you because if you're not getting closer to allah that means you're

[49:15]getting away from allah if you're not serving god or anything that

[49:20]brings you closer to god then you're serving shaytaan and you're serving

[49:24]something else so make sure because when you work for god when

[49:30]you remember god allah is going to give you happiness allah is

[49:32]going to give you blessings allah is going to increase your risk

[49:35]your wealth but if you're working for others they're not going to

[49:38]appreciate you they're going to take advantage of you they're going to

[49:43]use you and waste your time your days and your nights and

[49:47]your months and your years and then once they're tired of you

[49:51]once they don't need you anymore they're going to kick you away

[49:53]right people take advantage of you people want your time just to

[50:01]use you says use your time to remember allah that will build

[50:05]that will build the afterlife that will bring you closer to allah

[50:13]we have to always ask allah to bless our times and make

[50:20]our time bring us closer to allah so now if anyone has

[50:38]any questions any comments anything they would like to add any tips

[50:43]on time management please go ahead and share so that we all

[50:47]benefit how do you how should we spend our time and of

[50:56]course come to mention as much as you can it's always a

[50:59]benefit okay what else spending time with the family time of the

[51:09]family okay masjid and family work work is also it's not a

[51:17]wrong thing as we said work is not haram no work make

[51:19]halal income this is something that allah wants from you but balance

[51:24]your time some people are working they're workaholics that's when it becomes

[51:27]a problem yeah sisters go ahead yes the teacher is in the

[51:35]back so time management or organizing your time uh i work well

[51:41]with having a list like the things that i would want to

[51:43]accomplish that day so i try to manage my time by creating

[51:50]a list of things okay so have a list that's something very

[52:05]good and i read somewhere and i wrote it down here that

[52:08]you're supposed to have smart goals you know the acronym smart goals

[52:14]one is be specific so define exactly what you want second is

[52:20]measurable be rich versus set an amount you have to measure what

[52:25]you want when you set a goal attainable so you need to

[52:30]when you set a goal let it be something that is attainable

[52:33]relevant consistent with your lifestyle and time balance timeline so that when

[52:40]it comes to setting goals yes brother the new year's resolution i

[53:01]always say i'm going to for example run i'm going to exercise

[53:05]then i just look at the treadmill and nothing happens yes sister

[53:17]go ahead i agree but also looks like you have to set

[53:22]your priorities like and how important is that goal in order to

[53:26]achieve that goal like especially for the example of exercising it's like

[53:29]you have to you know set willpower but you have to make

[53:34]sure it's a priority to you once you make it a priority

[53:36]and you will achieve whatever you have set forth yeah yes i

[53:42]think it's also important to make sure your goal is realistic because

[53:46]if you set this huge goal for yourself and you're not going

[53:50]to like do like end up finishing that goal you're just going

[53:53]to kind of give up by myself so like [Music] very good

[54:00]and this even some people when it comes to amanda when it

[54:04]comes to worship some people they come and they say whoa this

[54:06]is so much for me like they come and they say you

[54:12]know what this is too much then therefore i'm not going to

[54:14]do it and here i always give people this advice is don't

[54:19]have the all or nothing attitude some people are like either i

[54:24]do it all or i don't do anything at all no either

[54:26]i read the whole quran in the month of ramadan or i

[54:30]don't read a single page this isn't how it's supposed to be

[54:35]if you couldn't read the whole quran read half the quran read

[54:37]the fourth of the quran read as much as you can of

[54:43]the quran better than not reading at all or sometimes some people

[54:47]they come and they say you know what i'm i don't really

[54:49]feel i've done something bad in the past and i don't know

[54:53]how to pray really well and all that so therefore i'm not

[54:55]going to come and attend the programs i'm not going to pray

[54:58]no come and learn you have to have it at one point

[55:04]in your life you need to come and learn you need to

[55:05]start and then the progress increases yes sister um very good very

[55:40]good yes not you didn't you do this i know you have

[55:49]something to say well i guess you can just say um just

[55:54]remembering to just balance everything okay balance yes i think it's really

[56:03]important that you have to be accepting of failure but that doesn't

[56:07]mean it like deters you from the ultimate goal like if you're

[56:12]wrong and like let's say you're not very um active in your

[56:18]salah so like obviously the goal is to do five days at

[56:24]least and so or even like let's say the gym you miss

[56:27]a day you miss two days you miss a week like that

[56:32]shouldn't you should be more accepting of failure and like realize okay

[56:35]well what did i do before that okay i at least prayed

[56:40]three days in a row consistently that's a lot better than six

[56:43]months before i set that goal you know six months ago i

[56:47]was doing zero so you have to like really be more accepting

[56:50]of failure and be able to move you know allah is the

[56:55]most forgiving allah is the most compassionate sometimes some people because of

[56:59]one sin one thing that's wrong they don't go back to allah

[57:01]and that's a wrong mentality because we're not dealing with someone who's

[57:05]greedy we're not dealing with someone who's hateful and wants vengeance from

[57:09]us we're dealing with someone who's merciful someone whose mercy towards you

[57:16]is greater than your parents mercy towards you so if you did

[57:18]something wrong go back to allah because you have no one else

[57:23]to go back to yes brother i just want to talk about

[57:27]also you know the physical aspect of keeping a schedule very important

[57:36]it might sound weird if you don't stick to if you don't

[57:42]sleep at the same time wake up your body doesn't get used

[57:45]to sticking to any type of skin you get a little bit

[57:49]during the certain time of the day i wake up every day

[57:51]between 8 and 11 that's a big time frame where between another

[57:56]thinking hey i'm supposed to be asleep and you're not you're not

[57:59]able to stick very important to a schedule especially for sleep you

[58:13]know the sleep schedule is very important but right now with these

[58:17]phones um you know you're on your phone your mind is somewhere

[58:21]else it becomes hard to sleep so that's why we need to

[58:26]also you know sometimes we have to change our habits with the

[58:28]way we use our phones right before we sleep that's why the

[58:34]hadith says before you sleep there are certain things that one should

[58:39]do a lot of us the last thing that we're looking at

[58:41]before we're sleeping is what our phone but there are other things

[58:47]that one should do before they sleep for example reciting recite before

[58:53]you sleep verse 255 34 times above 33 times alhamdulillah 33 times

[59:03]subhanallah when you do that that helps you kind of you know

[59:08]even those couple of minutes that you're reading those that gives you

[59:11]some time to just you know turn off and separate from all

[59:19]that which is distracting you yes guys what question do you have

[59:26]no question okay so oh sorry i didn't see you go ahead

[59:36][Music] can you guys please keep it down we're listening yes six

[60:00]two months and during the study like one of the women there

[60:03]was like something broke in the basement like a fight or something

[60:07]and uh the lady managed to two hours a day to fix

[60:11]it so like the moral idea the main idea is that we

[60:23]mentioned his name earlier this great scholar they look at his books

[60:29]he's written hundreds of books and so he lived in a time

[60:32]there was no internet there were no computers he has to write

[60:36]everything if he wants to go do research he has to go

[60:37]right now you just put it on google and you'll find what

[60:41]you want immediately you find out yeah i'm looking for a hadith

[60:44]i'm looking for a verse right away you just put two words

[60:48]of it and the whole thing comes up before you have to

[60:49]go and do research it was harder but you managed to write

[60:55]hundreds of books and these books are useful they look at some

[60:59]of his books they see his handwriting is very sloppy why because

[61:03]he used to when he's traveling from one place to another is

[61:07]writing a donkey or a mule while he's writing on the donkey

[61:12]on the mule he's writing so that's why his handwriting is not

[61:16]very you know it's kind of it looks like it's sloppy not

[61:21]because he writes lobby but because he's traveling because he's traveling from

[61:25]one point to another he's using that time to write so that's

[61:29]when you make it a priority you make it a priority you'll

[61:32]be able to do it i know some scholars you know scholars

[61:37]and boom and najaf the houses that they're teaching these difficult classes

[61:41]the classes that they teach are not easy you have to know

[61:43]the hadith the quran all these things between the classes you have

[61:48]about 10 minutes you have about 10 minutes during those 10 minutes

[61:52]either they have a notebook out they start writing and then at

[61:56]the end of the year you see this person wrote a book

[61:58]within those 10 minutes or they would during that time they would

[62:02]get up and read quran and they would memorize the quran in

[62:06]those ten minute segments or they would memorize surahs of the quran

[62:09]they're in those ten minute sentence it's all about the attitude that

[62:12]you have it's all about what you prioritize but it begins with

[62:18]appreciating and knowing the value of your time once you know the

[62:20]value of your time then you will take care of it anyone

[62:27]else okay [Music] foreign [Music] team

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