Article On Time Utilisation Thinkpad In Islam
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Released 16th November 2013
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيم
الْكَلِمَةُ الْحِكْمَةُ ضَالَّةُ الْمُؤْمِنِ. حَيْثُمَا وَجَدَها، فَهُوَ أَحَقُّ بِهَا- الحديث
{‘A wise word is the lost property of the Believer; wherever he finds it, he is more worthy of it.’}—Al-Hadeeth
وَٱلۡعَصۡرِ (١) إِنَّ ٱلۡإِنسَـٰنَ لَفِى خُسۡرٍ (٢) إِلَّا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ وَعَمِلُواْ ٱلصَّـٰلِحَـٰتِ وَتَوَاصَوۡاْ بِٱلۡحَقِّ وَتَوَاصَوۡاْ بِٱلصَّبۡرِ (٣)
‘By the Time. Verily Man is in loss, except those who have Faith and do Righteous Deeds, and exhort one another to Truth and exhort one another to Perseverance’ ِِ. (Sooratul ‘Asr 103:1-3)
(١٧) يَـٰٓأَيُّہَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ ٱتَّقُواْ ٱللَّهَ وَلۡتَنظُرۡ نَفۡسٌ۬ مَّا قَدَّمَتۡ لِغَدٍ۬ۖ وَٱتَّقُواْ ٱللَّهَۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ خَبِيرُۢ بِمَا تَعۡمَلُونَ (١٨) وَلَا تَكُونُواْ كَٱلَّذِينَ نَسُواْ ٱللَّهَ فَأَنسَٮٰهُمۡ أَنفُسَہُمۡۚ أُوْلَـٰٓٮِٕكَ هُمُ ٱلۡفَـٰسِقُونَ
O you who believe! Observe your duty to Allaah, and let every soul look to that which it sends forth for the morrow. And observe your duty to Allaah! Lo! Allaah is well informed of what you do. And be not like those who forgot Allaah, and as a result He caused them to forget (what is good for) their own selves. Such are the evil-doers.’ (Sooratul Hashr 59:18-19)
1. ‘The breaths of man are his steps to his death!’ (Imaam Ibn al-Jawzee, Laftatul Bismillah Walhamdulillah Was Salaatu Was Salaam 'ala Rasulillah. As-Salaam Alaikum Wa-Rahmatullahi Wa-Barakatuhu
Praise be to Allaah; we seek His help and His forgiveness. We seek refuge with Allaah from the evil of our own souls and from our bad deeds. Whomsoever Allaah guides will never be led astray, and whomsoever Allaah leaves astray, no one can guide. I bear witness that there is no god but ‘’Allaah’’, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger.
Let us briefly address time utilization thinkpad in accordance to the Islamic concept:-
Let us briefly address time utilization thinkpad in accordance to the Islamic concept:-
- ‘The breaths of man are his steps to his death!’(Imaam Ibn al-Jawzee, Laftatul Kabd)
- ‘My child! Know that days are made up of hours, and hours of breaths. Each capsule of breath is a vessel. So be careful not to allow a vessel pass by empty on the relentless flow-line of Time. In that event, you will regret it on the Day of Resurrection. Watch out how you stuff each hour of your life as it passes by, and do not bid her farewell except in the best possible manner. Do not ignore your Self: train it with the practice of good and noble deeds. Send what would please you to the Eternal Storehouse of Tomorrow: you’ll be the happier for it when you eventually arrive there.’ (Imaam Ibn al-Jawzee, Laftatul Kabd)
- ‘What’s man but a rider on the back of his Lifetime, On a journey which by Day and Months accomplishes he, Somnolent at Night, awake in the Morning and each Day removed Away from the World, closer to Death: a moving grave!’(Culled from Shaikh al-Qaradaawee’s Al-Waqtu fiy Hayaatil Muslim)
- ‘Wasting of Time is far more disastrous than Death. For Wasting of Time cuts you off from Allaah and the Hereafter, whereas Death cuts you off from this Life and its Inhabitants.’(Imaam Ibn Qayyim, Al-Fawaa’id)
- ‘The greatest profit in the world is to every moment engage your Self in what befits its status and is most useful to it in its final destination. How can he be said to be sensible and rational who sells off the Paradise for the pleasure of an hour!’(Imaam Ibn Qayyim, Al-Fawaa’id)
6. ‘O son of Aadam! You are but a bundle of days. As each day passes away, a portion of you vanishes away!’ (Imaam Al-Hasan al-Basaree, from 125 Tareeqah li Hifz al Waqt)
7. ‘Time is the most precious thing that you should well look after, But, paradoxically, I see it as the easiest thing that you squander!’(Al-Wazeer, Yahya bin Hubayrah, from 125 Tareeqah li Hifz al Waqt)
8. ‘Never sit down idle, for death is constantly running after you!’(Imaam Shu’ubah bin al-Hajjaaj, from 125 Tareeqah li Hifz al Waqt)
9. ‘Life is no more than three days long: Yesterday, which is gone forever with its events; Tomorrow, which you may not get there; and Today, which is yours: seize it and work!’ (Imaam Al-Hasan al-Basaree, from 125 Tareeqah li Hifz al Waqt)
10. ‘I certainly do hate to see any of you idle: neither engaged in the pursuit of this world, nor engaged in the pursuit of life hereafter!’(‘Umar bin al-Khattaab, from 125 Tareeqah li Hifz al Waqt)
11. ‘O son of Aadam! Your day is your guest. Therefore honour it. If you honour it, it will depart full of praise for you; and if you dishonour it, it will depart with a blameworthy record for you. Likewise your night.’(Imaam Al-Hasan al-Basaree, from 125 Tareeqah li Hifz al Waqt)
12. ‘There is not a day that begins but it announces: O son of Aaadam! I am a new creature and I am a witness over your deeds. Therefore, take your provision out of me, for if I pass away I shall never return to the Day of Resurrection.’(Imaam Al-Hasan al-Basaree, from 125 Tareeqah li Hifz al Waqt)
13. ‘I have never grieved as much on anything as I do on a day that has ended in which my appointed lifetime has reduced, yet my deeds have not increased.’(‘Abdullah bin Mas’ood, from 125 Tareeqah li Hifz al Waqt)
14. ‘Anyone whose day compares with yesterday, has been duped; and anyone whose day turns out worse than yesterday, has been accursed! (Anonymous, from A-Waqt aghlaa min Kunooz al-Arld)
15. ‘Each day that passes takes a portion of me away, She leaves a bitter taste of regret and goes its way.’
(‘Abou ‘Ali Ad-Daqqaaq, from Al-Waqt aghlaa min Kunooz al-Arld)
16. ‘Time makes you decay; strive in it without delay!’(‘Umar bin ‘Abdul’azeez, from Al-Waqtu fiy Hayaatil Muslim)
17. ‘Days and Nights, the trading capital of a Believer, Paradise is his profit, his loss the Hellfire.’(Tayfoor Al-Butaamee, from Al-Waqt aghlaa min Kunooz al-Arld)
18. ‘If you survive to the evening, do not take it for granted that you will survive to the next morning; and if you survive to the morning, do not take it for granted that you will survive to the next evening. Take advantage of your health against your illness; and take advantage of your life against your death.’(‘Abdullaah bin ‘Umar, from Saheeh Al-Bukhaaree)
19. ‘If you grieve over the loss of your wealth, then you should weep over the loss of your lifetime!’
(As-Sarree bin al-Mughlas, from 125 Tareeqah li Hifz al Waqt)
20. ‘Everyone of us carries a blemish on our knowledge and intelligence. It reflects in our behaviour: we rejoice over the increase of our wealth but do not lament over the incessant dwindling of our lifetimes. What a catastrophe! Of what benefit is the increase of wealth when our lifetime decreases?
(Abou Ad-Dardaa’, from Kaifa Tateelu ‘Umraka al Intaajee)
21. ‘Time is more valuable than money, more precious than gold and more expensive than any merchandise. For Time is life!’(Imaam Hasan al-Banna, Ahaadeeth al- Jum’ah)
22. ‘Time is money! This is true, from materialistic point of view, for those who do not evaluate existence except in materialistic terms. However, Time is life, for those whose vision transcends matter!’
(Imaam Hasan al-Banna, Ahaadeeth al- Jum’ah)
23. ‘I have lived with a people—he means the Companions of the Prophet—who were more stingy with their time than they were with their money.’(Imaam Al-Hasan al-Basaree, from Al-Waqt aghlaa min Kunooz al-Arld)
24. ‘Foolishness in spending Time is more serious than foolishness in spending money…For money, when lost could be replaced; Time, however, once lost has no substitute…Whoever kills his time, has indeed killed himself.’(Dr. Yousuf Al-qaradaawee, from Al-Waqt fiy Hayaatil Muslim)
25. ‘Days are a notebook of life; write it up in gold. Opportunity knocks at your door, but it soon vanishes away like the cloud. Procrastination is a lifestyle with those who lag behind in life. Those who ride on the back of Incapability get thrown down by it. Loss is a child born out of the marriage between Procrastination and Indolence!’(Imaam Ibn al-Jawzee, from Al-Waqt aghlaa min Kunooz al-Arld)
26. ‘The Night is long, do not shorten it with sleep; the Day is pure, do not sully it with sin!’
(Yahyaa bin Mu’aadh, from Al-Waqt aghlaa min Kunooz al-Arld)
27. ‘With regards to longevity, there is really as much to celebrate as there is to commisserate. For, at any moment, man has died as much as he has lived for!’(Abou Maimoonah Ahmad bin Muhammad Bello)
28. ‘Life is but minutes and seconds of events, That’s the message to man from his heartbeats,
Your posthumous repute you’d now raise aloft, That’s, for man, a second lifetime without a doubt!’ (Ahmad Shawqee, the King of Poets, from A-Waqt fiy Hayaatil Muslim)
