Principles of Time Management - Sayed Mehdi Qazwini (Night 1 Muharram 2019)

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[0:00]a barakato audhu billahi Samia Ali min ash-shaytani r-rajim bismillahi rahmani raheem

[0:09]alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen wa sallahu wa salam ala al anbiya wal mursalin

[0:17]Habib Allah al al-amin a bell cozumel Mustafa Muhammad wada halibut Abena

[0:30]tahun en el marzo min al muntaha beans allah llahu assalamu alayka

[0:39]ya rasul allah o allah assalamu alayka ya abdullah yah rahmatullahi wa

[0:45]ba Baba OJE loom Yelena Kumar come ced hanafuda thousand Alima audhu

[1:00]billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim bismillahi r-rahman r-rahim Wallace in l-insana la fille

[1:11]hosel ll Adina a manure amylose Allah hot water also bill happy

[1:16]waha soba soba sadaqa allahu allahu allah ma sha allah muhammad wa

[1:22]ala muhammad it has been narrated from our if Imam Imam Ali

[1:37]Abunimah Sahaba salawatu lava salam wa ali that he observed his father

[1:42]al imam moussa al karim salawats allah wa sallam wali that when

[1:51]the eve of the first of the month of Muharram would show

[1:57]up that his father le man with calamari salaam was never to

[2:08]be seen publicly displaying joy and happiness and that he would who

[2:15]would not smile and he would not laugh he would not display

[2:19]that and every day from the first all the way until the

[2:31]10th of Muharram his public display of sorrow and grief would increase

[2:38]day after day until the tenth day the day of Muharram the

[2:42]day of ashura in which he was most sorrowful in which he

[2:48]would be overcome with grief he would be overwhelmed with sorrow and

[2:57]he would teach the followers of a debate that on that day

[3:00]the Day of Ashura was the day that Imam Hussain Hadi Saddam

[3:06]was massacred and that intentionally it was not a day of happiness

[3:11]not a day of rejoice but rather a day of sorrow and

[3:17]a day of sadness so from the beginning of the month of

[3:20]Muharram there is a build up there is a there is an

[3:28]anticipation all the way up until the tenth day which is the

[3:31]Day of Ashura and the Quran reminds us of this in a

[3:39]very general sense in Chapter number 103 solet Allosaurus Mila rahmanir rahim

[3:44]well as in l-insana leve horse so there is the mention of

[3:53]time us and of course God swears by time the Wow in

[4:00]the beginning of the first verse is wha will possum which is

[4:04]when God wants to swear by something he uses Wow Wilkinson while

[4:08]a so he swears by time and if you notice that word

[4:16]awesome in the Arabic language it is used to describe the later

[4:24]portion of the day the afternoon when the day begins to wind

[4:27]down so the the ass or prayer for instance is the prayer

[4:34]the the final prayer of the day that is done before the

[4:38]mother lip time before the Sun sets its during the afternoon portion

[4:45]of the day the final portion of the day and within that

[4:51]name we understand what it means so if you take the word

[4:58]awesome I mean Saad Allah the verb isara in Arabic means to

[5:03]squeeze so if you have a product that you're you know it's

[5:10]like squeezing the toothpaste out of the tube it's whatever is left

[5:16]the final part it has to be squeezed out and so in

[5:23]that meaning there's a meaning of scarcity meaning that there's not a

[5:29]whole lot which is left so if you were to apply that

[5:32]to the general meaning of the word awesome which is time because

[5:38]when God is swearing by while awesome in this verse it's not

[5:42]just by the afternoon but by time in general well us in

[5:50]l-insana let me host built into that meaning is the idea that

[5:56]this time that you humanity have on earth in itself is already

[6:01]scarce it's not in abundance it's not something that lasts forever there's

[6:09]a certain portion of time that you live on this earth that

[6:13]humanity lives on this earth and that this earth exists we know

[6:20]that this universe cannot be infinite in this world that we live

[6:24]in and this earth that we live on cannot be infinite it

[6:26]doesn't continue in an infinite matter I mean putting just putting religion

[6:34]aside and putting faith aside and looking at it from a purely

[6:41]biological and geological point of view allah subhanaw taala says because of

[6:49]that nature of the fact that this this time is scarce because

[6:55]of that in al-insana la vie hora understand that if you are

[7:00]not moving forward you are moving behind you are falling behind and

[7:05]there's really nothing we can do to control time even the word

[7:14]time management when we say time management time management is a misnomer

[7:19]because you can't manage time the only thing you can manage is

[7:23]yourself nobody has more than 24 hours in a day there's not

[7:30]a person on this earth that has 27 or 28 hours in

[7:32]a day someone who's very special or or very lucky in that

[7:39]regard and so there's there's very there's very limited time and so

[7:43]when your time comes to pass from this realm to another there's

[7:47]nothing really that you can do in order to prevent that allah

[7:54]subhanho wa taala says in the quran Farage elohim la coruna saw

[7:58]attend well I have sucked the moon if they're agile and some

[8:05]translate this word agile into doom if their doom is imminent if

[8:14]it's impending there's nothing that you can do in order to extend

[8:17]or even to haste in it which is interesting because if you

[8:22]think of the loss of life you would think well most people

[8:25]when they're faced with this reality they want to extend it they

[8:30]want a few more hours a few more days a few more

[8:32]moments but there are people that are on the other side that

[8:39]life becomes so painful for them that they don't want it they

[8:42]don't want to live for another month they don't want to live

[8:46]for another week they don't want to live for another day they

[8:49]want their life to be taken away from them right now in

[8:56]fact I was I was looking this up just recently and there's

[9:01]a medical terminology that they use in in some circles they refer

[9:06]to the cases of imminent doom doom or impending doom and there

[9:15]are certain situations where a person is is faced with with certain

[9:21]challenges health-wise that even though it's not life-threatening in itself but they

[9:30]feel like they're about to lose their life so if you've ever

[9:33]seen someone go through a very intense panic attack or an anxiety

[9:37]attack or intense depression which is a state of mind which also

[9:47]has its physical barring but physically they're far from death however they

[9:52]see themselves as close to death in fact there are even some

[9:56]toxins and poisons which when they enter the body give the person

[9:59]a feeling that they are about to die even though it's very

[10:04]treatable there's a certain type of jellyfish that if you're unlucky enough

[10:07]to be stung by it it's poison doesn't only affect your body

[10:11]doesn't only make you incapacitated and unable to move but mentally it

[10:16]makes you believe that you're about to lose your life that's the

[10:19]effect of the toxin it's the effect of the poison and this

[10:26]state is called imminent doom or impending doom sometimes even when emergency

[10:32]responders when they when they arrive to a scene of an accident

[10:36]some of them are there they are trained to deal with a

[10:44]situation called imminent doom where they know that nothing that they can

[10:47]do for this patient is going to extend their life there's nothing

[10:50]that they can do for instance they know that they're about to

[10:53]fall into cardiac arrest or that they're losing so much blood that

[11:00]there's nothing that you can do for this person imminent doom imminent

[11:04]death the agenda home life that fairness I attend what I stuck

[11:09]the moon so it's really not guaranteed this time that allah subhanho

[11:14]wa taala talks about it's not there's no quantifiable measure that is

[11:21]guaranteed and I'll give you a personal story I shared this story

[11:25]actually a week ago within our own community in in Southern California

[11:29]I had a friend a classmate who I went to school with

[11:36]who was the same age as me who only 10 days ago

[11:40]was in the Kern River near Bakersfield California and this was a

[11:45]young man who was athletic he put his feet into the river

[11:48]and the river took him away it was on a Saturday and

[11:53]they found his body on a Thursday he passed away nobody expected

[11:56]it to happen nobody knew that it was going to happen he

[12:02]was an athletic young man it had nothing to do with his

[12:04]ability to swim or not swim because once the river takes you

[12:10]that's it the type of river that he fell into so none

[12:13]of us are really guaranteed the Quran tells us the story of

[12:23]the Prophet Sulayman a man who was a king a man who

[12:25]had authority over men and jinn as well if you read surah

[12:31]tauba in the Quran so let's see Bert tells us the kind

[12:35]of power and the kind of authority that the Prophet Sulayman had

[12:38]but when he died he was leaning over on his staff he

[12:44]was overlooking his armies of men and jinn and Allah subhana WA

[12:49]Ta'ala says fella maka bina Allah he'll motor model Allahu Allah Monte

[12:54]he in la da battle arleta column in serrata that when we

[13:02]decreed qivana when we decreed his doom his imminent doom there was

[13:08]nothing that could save him and there was nothing that was an

[13:11]indicator to the armies of jinn that were working for him except

[13:19]for the fact that a termite began to eat away at his

[13:21]wooden staff and finally after a few days he came crashing down

[13:27]like a tree the way a tree comes down you know when

[13:29]they call out timber in the forest and it falls down this

[13:34]was Suleiman the king of kings so nothing nothing Hastings it and

[13:44]nothing delays it nothing that's within your control when your time has

[13:56]come time is the common denominator between everything in our life which

[14:03]is dear everything which has value so if you look at the

[14:06]things in your life that have value what are some of those

[14:13]things relationships relationships have the highest value number one our relationship with

[14:18]allah subhanho wa taala number two our relationship with our nearest of

[14:24]kin our parents our grandparents our family members our siblings our children

[14:31]and then number three our relationship with everybody else our neighbors our

[14:38]smaller community our larger community think about relationships and what enriches relationships

[14:44]the number one factor is time you can't purchase a relationship with

[14:54]God you can't purchase a relationship with the parents you can make

[14:58]them happy if you buy them certain things and they appreciate gifts

[15:02]but that's very temporary you can't purchase your relationship with your neighbors

[15:10]or your community what is it that enriches your relationships is time

[15:16]when you look at for instance your career which is important to

[15:23]you it's how much time you give to your career which determines

[15:28]whether you have a fulfilling career or you don't have a fulfilling

[15:34]career some people they give to less time too little time so

[15:37]that they're not being productive and some people they're giving too much

[15:42]time to where it is being counterproductive in other areas it's being

[15:46]damaging in other areas so if you think about it the most

[15:54]expensive asset that you own is time but unfortunately it is the

[15:58]asset which is most elusive meaning that it is running away from

[16:02]you the more that you try to run after it the more

[16:07]it seems to slip from your fingers so I want to talk

[16:09]about time from a number of aspects number one is the aspect

[16:19]of worship obviously as Muslims we understand that Allah subhana WA Ta'ala

[16:25]has mandated five times a day for our obligatory prayers and those

[16:30]five times a day are spread throughout the day of course there

[16:35]are other prayers which have specific times of the day and the

[16:43]night that they can be performed and those are not mandatory even

[16:46]though they are highly recommended such as Salah to Lael the night

[16:51]prayer and the best time to perform the night prayer is between

[16:56]midnight and right before the federal prayer right before the morning prayer

[17:06]that is primetime when it comes to prayer what we are taught

[17:11]from the school of thought of a debate is to give primetime

[17:18]it's a prayer just like how primetime there's primetime on TV if

[17:23]you turn on the TV from the hours of 6 p.m.

[17:27]to 9 p.m.

[17:27]that's primetime if you're producing the show it's gonna cost you more

[17:33]to have a show be broadcast during those hours then for instance

[17:38]the shows that are broadcast at 12 p.m.

[17:41]or 1 p.m.

[17:43]when most people are at work and you notice a difference in

[17:46]quality if you turn on the TV at 12 p.m.

[17:49]versus if you turn it on at 7 p.m.

[17:53]there's a difference in quality in programming that's called primetime that's why

[18:00]you don't see major sporting events broadcast on a Wednesday at 3

[18:06]p.m.

[18:07]because most people artwork they broadcast them on a Saturday or a

[18:10]Sunday when most people are chilling at home and they want to

[18:16]watch something on TV and sort of escape from their weekly responsibilities

[18:19]physically and mentally and emotionally and spiritually just detach from everything likewise

[18:26]when it comes to your prayers the practice of the Prophet and

[18:31]from the practice of the Prophet and the annual beta alehissalaam we

[18:34]learned that there is a prime time and I'll share one example

[18:37]with you and this comes from the masterpiece truly a masterpiece which

[18:45]is the letter that amirul mumineen Allium never thought about I said

[18:48]I'm wrote to Maliki Lester he says the following he says watch

[18:52]Alan f-ck FEMA vena cava bein Allah your relationship with God place

[18:57]within that of volatile kalma repeat were ideological exam take the best

[19:05]times now who is amirul mumineen communicating with he's not communicating with

[19:11]a layman is communicating with Mallika Ashta who was to be his

[19:18]representative who is his right-hand man who is his general who is

[19:22]his administrator who is his who was to be his governor he

[19:27]says that even though you have major responsibilities ahead of you because

[19:31]it's not like Malik Ashtar was also coming to a position where

[19:38]everything was peaceful no there was there was political turmoil there was

[19:41]a lot going on during that time especially in Egypt where he

[19:45]was appointed to lead even with that Ameer al-mumineen with his wisdom

[19:50]he said look even with everything that you have going on take

[19:56]the best of your times and establish a community or communion with

[20:00]allah subhana wa ta'ala he says even though when it comes to

[20:03]your times there's no such thing as your time with God because

[20:09]all time belongs to allah subhanho wa taala all of your time

[20:12]when you're in the service of allah subhanho wa taala all of

[20:16]it belongs to him sometimes we tend to compartmentalize our life you

[20:22]know work is here family is here friends are here hobbies are

[20:25]here each one has their own space each one has their own

[20:30]compartment and none of them are allowed to interact with one another

[20:34]that's why sometimes you see the father who when it's his hobby

[20:36]time when it's his fun time he wants nothing to do with

[20:41]the family anymore because in his mind he says I've given enough

[20:43]of a responsibility to my family now it's me time if you've

[20:49]ever heard of me time I need some me time and that's

[20:51]fine we we do need some me time but but the point

[20:56]is is that is that the reason why a lot of people

[21:02]get disappointed and upset and burnt out is because they think that

[21:05]they have to have all of these separate compartments in their life

[21:09]and there's no interaction with them at all and nothing can intrude

[21:12]on my hobby time nothing can intrude on my work time I

[21:20]can't sacrifice family time no matter what even sometimes with family time

[21:27]there is sacrifice and I'll get to that but I mean what

[21:30]minion says take the best of your time because you know you

[21:36]don't always feel good you don't always feel at your prime throughout

[21:39]the day there are some times if they were you're tired there

[21:42]are some times where you're slacking sometimes where you feel lazy he

[21:49]says take the best of your time make it a priority and

[21:54]we learned this from the life of imam hussain ali setup amount

[21:58]for saying even on the day of ashura where there was fighting

[22:06]going on in the battlefield even when there was not access to

[22:11]water for him to perform although he sat on the floor of

[22:19]the battlefield alone and performed his prayer even though the enemy was

[22:23]surrounding him why because that time in his opinion was the best

[22:33]time so number one when it comes to our worship and this

[22:37]is based on the idea that look you're never too busy for

[22:44]something something that we have these days a challenge and it's really

[22:48]a mental cop-out if you think about it when someone asks you

[22:52]to do something you say I'm busy instead of being busy you

[22:59]need to ask yourself am I being productive it's easy to be

[23:02]busy life is gonna get you busy if you don't have something

[23:07]to do you're gonna be busy but you need to ask yourself

[23:09]the question rather than am i busy is am I being productive

[23:14]most people they're busy but they're not really being productive so this

[23:19]is time in one area in the area of worship another area

[23:23]is in the area of family and we all understand this common-sense

[23:28]idea that to enrich your time with family it's not about quantity

[23:37]it's about quality it's not about how much time is spent with

[23:42]them it's about the time that you spend with them are you

[23:48]present are you there are you listening are you are you open

[23:51]are you understanding or are you doodling on your phone speaking to

[23:56]somebody else now you may think okay well this is common sense

[24:05]right quality time you need to spend quality time with your family

[24:08]but common sense is not really common practice if you've noticed common

[24:13]sense has not come in practice otherwise we wouldn't really need to

[24:17]talk about any of the basics any of the common sense things

[24:22]because common sense is not common practice then you need a reminder

[24:26]now here's the challenge with quality time quality time is not something

[24:35]you can necessarily plan for sometimes a conversation that a father needs

[24:42]to have with his son or a father needs to have with

[24:46]his daughter or a mother needs to have with her daughter or

[24:49]her son sometimes it's a spontaneous event it's not like you can

[24:56]plan you know I'm going to have this important conversation on Wednesday

[25:00]at 5:45 p.m.

[25:00]sometimes it doesn't happen like that if you've ever needed to have

[25:06]a crucial conversation with someone you realize that it doesn't always go

[25:12]in the way that you plan sometimes you a lot 5 or

[25:17]7 or 10 minutes to a conversation but then that conversation extends

[25:21]itself to 50 and 70 and 90 minutes there was a an

[25:24]author one day he was writing about time management and he was

[25:29]giving an example of his own son he said that I had

[25:34]taught my son how to manage his schedule that from the day

[25:37]before manage your schedule so that when you wake up that day

[25:40]you know exactly what's on your schedule and it's proven by the

[25:44]way if you try this if you plan your day or plan

[25:48]your week one day or one week in advance you're much more

[25:52]organized you thoughts are much more organized and you know what you

[25:55]need to do and you're more likely to get the things that

[25:58]you need to get done throughout the day or throughout the week

[26:00]if you plan it in advance but if you wake up in

[26:03]the morning and you have no idea what you want to do

[26:05]that's why most people don't get anything that they want to get

[26:11]done so he was teaching his son so one day his son

[26:13]had set up his schedule you know run this errand make this

[26:19]phone call go to the grocery store all this stuff within that

[26:24]he had written he was planning to call someone to break off

[26:32]a relationship and he had planned about 15 minutes for that you

[26:36]know sometimes we get very very legalistic with with the way that

[26:40]we want to do it we get very managerial with the way

[26:43]and and sometimes it's a carryover from the way that we were

[26:47]taught to you know accomplish at school or at work so we

[26:49]carry that into our home or we carry that into our other

[26:54]relationships so he had set 15 minutes in order to call this

[26:57]person and break off a relationship with them well what do you

[27:01]think happened with the 15 minutes 15 minutes became almost 15 hours

[27:05]because something as delicate as a relationship you can't just a lot

[27:10]a time and say this is the time that I'm going to

[27:14]dedicate and this is not something which is a science it's more

[27:18]of an art it's something that you understand not just through knowledge

[27:21]but you understand through wisdom the more that you deal with people

[27:27]the more that you work with people the more you begin to

[27:30]develop grace and relationship skills and leadership skills in that regard so

[27:36]one thing that I want to mention is that two principles when

[27:47]it comes to family time number one is a very very simple

[27:51]equation the equation you don't have to be a rocket scientist or

[27:55]or or a math genius to understand this but the equation is

[28:03]that time equals influence if you want influence within your family if

[28:07]you want influence within your community what's the x-factor there it's time

[28:13]so the opposite of that becomes what less time less influence why

[28:18]do I mention that so if you've learned the history of the

[28:26]United States let's let's go back in time for a little bit

[28:29]there was a time where children were for the most part raised

[28:35]by their parents throughout the entire day throughout the entire week throughout

[28:39]the entire month throughout the entire year if you go back before

[28:43]the Industrial Revolution let's go back to the 1700s here in the

[28:49]United States before there was a formal schooling system before you had

[28:53]you know industries like factories that needed manpower here in the United

[29:01]States four out of every five positions the most famous or I'm

[29:06]sorry the most common position the most common trade that a person

[29:10]had was what if you can guess four out of every five

[29:17]what was it does anybody know here in Ohio you haven't much

[29:21]more in California in different areas well actually I take that back

[29:27]no in California it's much more farmer most people were farmers four

[29:31]out of five so what was the one out of five everything

[29:33]else blacksmith goldsmith tailor in both of those situations the way child-rearing

[29:43]happened was that from a time the child was born up until

[29:49]age five or seven they were taken care of by the mother

[29:52]once they reached around seven years old the son became an apprentice

[29:56]to his father so if his father was a farmer the son

[30:03]was working side-by-side with him if the father was a blacksmith or

[30:07]a goldsmith his son was working side-by-side with him and it wasn't

[30:12]until now the earliest document is in the 1600s where the formal

[30:17]schooling system began where children had to be put in school and

[30:22]separated from their parents so now that six hours a day or

[30:29]five hours a day or eight hours a day of time that

[30:33]chunk of time was given somewhat somebody else not the parents so

[30:37]young men and young woman who were raised by their parents didn't

[30:42]have the social issues that existed today such as what such as

[30:52]the identity crisis the point is to make a long story short

[30:55]that the more time that you spend with someone the more you're

[30:59]able to influence them that's why as you're growing up and my

[31:04]advice is to young people is pay attention to the people that

[31:07]you spend the most amount of time with some people say well

[31:11]I can spend time with this person and they can't influence me

[31:16]you're not that special trust me there is no way that you

[31:21]can spend amount of time with a an amount of time with

[31:27]someone without being influenced by them by some way shape or form

[31:30]so think about the people that you're spending the most amount of

[31:33]time with now some of you are thinking well I don't spend

[31:37]time with anyone I spend time with my room you're on your

[31:39]phone you're on your laptop you're on your iPad the person that's

[31:43]on the other side of that you're spending a lot of time

[31:44]with the person that you're following on snapchat and Instagram that's your

[31:50]primary influencer whether you like it or not even if you're following

[31:54]them out of curiosity they begin to influence your subconscious mind whether

[32:00]you know it or not so the simple equation is that time

[32:08]equals influence the more time you spend someone the more you're able

[32:13]to influence them now what does that mean does that mean that

[32:17]we've stopped taking our children to school well some people have moved

[32:21]towards the model of homeschooling and that works for them that's not

[32:27]the point the point is that we have to become very very

[32:31]intentional with the time that we spend with people some parents and

[32:36]I'll speak about parenting cells and in one of the coming nights

[32:39]they believe that it is their responsibility to be their child's best

[32:43]friend your child doesn't need another best friend your child needs a

[32:51]father figure your child needs a mother figure a nurturer your child

[32:56]needs someone who if the world shuts them down you lift them

[33:00]up your child needs someone who if the world teaches them falsehood

[33:08]you teach them truth your child needs someone who if the world

[33:14]shows them darkness you show them light and you're not willing to

[33:19]compromise on those values so time my friends this commodity that is

[33:24]slipping away from us on a daily basis time is what enriches

[33:30]our life it is what it riches our relationship with Allah subhana

[33:34]WA Ta'ala at time is what enriches our relationships with the people

[33:39]around us the point is is we have to become very very

[33:45]strategic with our time one one writer he says the following he

[33:48]says there's a lot of things that you like to do in

[33:54]your life he says write to lists a lot of us we

[33:56]write a to-do list right and most of the time the to-do

[34:00]list does not take it does not get taken care of he

[34:04]says instead of just writing good to-do lists be a little bit

[34:10]more specific write two lists write a like to-do list these are

[34:14]the things that I like to do and then write a half

[34:19]to-do list these are the things that I have to do and

[34:21]most of the times we don't get through our to-do list it's

[34:27]because we don't know or we can't differentiate between the things that

[34:30]we have to do versus the things that we like to do

[34:34]and the reason we can't do that is because we don't know

[34:37]what our values are and what our principles are most of the

[34:42]time we're behaving out of desire so we mix desire with value

[34:45]and sometimes the things that you value are not necessarily the things

[34:53]that you desire we can dedicate another lecture to that that's a

[34:58]much much deeper talk but understanding that you need to be strategic

[35:01]with your time I'll give you an example is everyone familiar with

[35:08]the name Richard Branson you know who Richard Branson is the owner

[35:13]of Virgin America Virgin Atlantic multi-billionaire there is a there's a story

[35:19]they say that one time he was asked to come into an

[35:24]organization and give a speech give a talk for an hour and

[35:26]a half and so because this organization could not get through him

[35:31]directly they went through another party so this party contacted him they

[35:39]said that there's this organization that wants to invite Richard Branson they

[35:42]want him to give a talk for an hour and a half

[35:45]they want an hour and a half of his time and they're

[35:49]willing to pay him $100,000 the secretary said no sorry he can't

[35:54]do it so you know it's uh I go up you go

[36:00]down they thought it was that sort of thing they said okay

[36:05]two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for an hour and a half

[36:09]of his time the reply came back no no can do they

[36:15]said okay we can play that game five hundred thousand dollars were

[36:19]willing to give him and we will fly out our own private

[36:23]jet to go pick him up and as soon as he done

[36:25]drop him back off he said no absolutely not so at this

[36:28]point they were frustrated this organization what's going on they explained the

[36:33]people that were representing him they said that he has three strategic

[36:37]objectives that he wants to complete now it's on his has to

[36:42]do have to do list and we've been given strict instructions that

[36:46]whatever comes across his way if it's an idea a project a

[36:53]business investment a speaking opportunity whatever that comes across that has nothing

[37:00]to do with his strategic objectives we've been given strict orders to

[37:04]reject it no matter how much there is in compensation this is

[37:07]somebody who has focus this is somebody who knows his priorities in

[37:11]life this is someone whose time is so valuable it's worth to

[37:18]him more than $500,000 now you don't have to be the CEO

[37:21]of a company to think like this you don't need to own

[37:25]an airline to think the way that he is thinking there are

[37:27]certain objectives that allah subhanho wa taala has placed within your life

[37:31]that you need to get done in your life and that nobody

[37:36]else is gonna get done except for you and time awesomer is

[37:40]constantly being squeezed away from you it's constantly becoming more scarce and

[37:46]more scarce so when you think about what I need to do

[37:51]one way is to put pen to paper which is a tradition

[37:55]that most people have forgotten today because we have a phone but

[37:59]there's a difference between writing something on your phone and writing something

[38:03]using a pen and putting it on paper what are some of

[38:05]your objectives in life what are some of your objectives when it

[38:11]comes to your relationship with allah subhanaw taala with your wife or

[38:16]husband you with your children with your parents with your community what

[38:20]are some of those strategic objectives that are so valuable that even

[38:26]if someone gave you 1 million dollars you would not walk away

[38:28]from them that it requires your prime time it requires your most

[38:38]prime energy what are some of those objectives the season of Ashura

[38:41]is a season in which we constantly remind ourselves of our objectives

[38:46]as individuals as family members as community members and this is where

[38:52]we draw the vision you know in pop culture there's a there's

[38:57]a a New Year's resolution our New Year's resolution doesn't necessarily take

[39:04]place on January 1st it's on the first of the month of

[39:06]Muharram which marks the new year a year in which amam personally

[39:16]salaam understood what his principal objectives were and if you study his

[39:23]life you realize that he was so clear with his intentions there

[39:33]was no room there was no room for vagueness I mean nobody

[39:35]can look back to the life of imam hussain now and say

[39:39]well he really wasn't clear on his objectives he was completely clear

[39:43]on his objectives he was crystal clear on his objectives and imam

[39:50]hussain Hadi Salaam knowing who he was knowing what he stood for

[39:58]when the offer came for him to pledge allegiance to you as

[40:03]edom in mahalia he was summoned to the home of the governor

[40:07]to the palace of the governor in medina and he was asked

[40:13]to pledge allegiance and he took with him the young men of

[40:16]banu hashim and he understood his position he knew the household that

[40:22]he was born in and where he came from and that's why

[40:25]when they made the offer to him he refused and his justification

[40:34]was that look at his heed look at the type of person

[40:37]that desi this Yazidis a murderer he is a drunkard he is

[40:45]a womanizer he has no sanctity and no respect for life he

[40:50]does not honor the basic human freedoms and he listed a number

[40:56]of his open faults open flaws and he says were Mythili lie

[41:04]you buy your Mithila a man like me does not pledge allegiance

[41:07]to a man like him because I know where I am from

[41:11]I know the family that I emerge from I know the principles

[41:14]I know what my priorities are in life and how can a

[41:19]person like him who dances with the monkeys expect someone like me

[41:23]to put hand in hand and to pledge allegiance to him and

[41:29]of course imam hussain ali salaam at that moment he realized that

[41:34]time was slipping away from him that it would only be a

[41:38]matter of time because of the prophecy that rasulullah sallallahu alehiwassallaam had

[41:42]given so many years earlier he knew that it was only a

[41:46]matter of time that he had to face that ultimate reality but

[41:50]he still had a mission he did not give up and that's

[41:52]why before departing from medina to Mecca he went to the grave

[42:01]of his mother Fatima he went to the grave of his grandfather

[42:04]rasulallah he wants to the grave of his brother and imam hassan

[42:10]and moosh tabali sallam and he spent some time there he knew

[42:13]that this was going to be his final time narrations tell us

[42:17]that as he was spending time there because of his exhaustion he

[42:22]was so exhausted that he fell asleep and in his sleep he

[42:29]saw a dream he saw acerola rasulallah said to him ya Hossein

[42:34]enter ah hello Elena Angela he said you are you are on

[42:43]your path to us in a very speedy way it is only

[42:45]a matter of time before you come to us before we meet

[42:50]to one another and it is in this state brothers and sisters

[42:53]that imam hussain ali salaam gathered his Caravan his loved ones his

[43:02]family members to embark on this journey of course not everybody could

[43:05]embark on this journey there were a number of family members who

[43:08]stood behind now traders mentioned one of his daughters fatima Sola who

[43:13]stood behind who was too sick um will been a mother who

[43:19]was like his own mother who was not his biological mother but

[43:22]was like his own mother who loved him like her own son

[43:25]also stayed behind his brother muhammad abu hanifa who he had written

[43:32]his wasiyyat to his directive these were the people that stayed behind

[43:36]as imam hussain ali said i'm prepared for that final journey never

[43:43]to return again to Medina nod allahu alayhi roger own or say

[43:46]Alamelu deen of allah more am uncle opinion cally boon voila our

[43:50]capital ilmu cioppino salli ala muhammad wa ala muhammad

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