Following
up with our beloved these creative tips in the art of time management
effectively, and learn about new ways to invest time in the light of
Quran and Sunnah…
Time
is a great boon of the Creator's Almighty blessings. Allah has given
every one of us a limited life span to use it in good deeds to gain
pleasing Allah. Life is limited and very short. So, to ensure happiness
in life and the hereafter, the believer should make himself a plan,
determine his priorities and keep away anything that may affect this
plan negatively.
Music and its negative effects
After
an experience with music for years, I realized that listening to songs
is a big waste of time. I have wasted three-year term with the music on
the grounds that it “refines the soul” so I spend ten hours playing and
hear the singing and sometimes influenced. I think that listening to
music is food for the soul, as some people say, but the devil was happy
and decorated me this way. Then I left music for the sake of Allah, and
the Prophet saying had the greatest impact on this transformation.The Prophet peace be upon him say: (Whoever leave something for the sake of Allah, Allah compensates him better) Allah has already compensated me by the Quran, I have memorized it without any significant effort
Music
is associated with exciting feelings and emotions. Man cannot control
the 'consumption of music'. He can not only hear music, but it will
evolve to hear singers, and be affected by them and their words ... Just
like alcohol, a person cannot control abuse of alcohol. He starts
drinking little and by time becomes addicted to alcohol. Also, smoking
cannot be confined to use a little, but it develops into addiction. It
is of paramount to quit smoking, music and looking at the forbidden...Allah will help you to do so, but on condition that you make your work for the sake of Allah.
Supplication is the shortest way to invest time
Have
you ever asked yourself why the Prophet peace be upon him pray to God
in everything, in the morning, evening, before eating and after and when
entering the market and ... Man's sense of proximity to Allah in every
moment, makes him surer of himself and more able to make the right
decision.
For example, there is a lot of time youth loses in search for a wife!Have you tried asking Allah to help you choose the appropriate wife He wants her for you?! This is what I called Allah for.My wife has been a great help to me to gain time, and this research, articles are only the results of this prayer!
A better pleasure of this world is a good wife.Look
with me how many young people spend hours on the Internet, at the
university and among relatives in search for a suitable wife.He may have to experience failures, or a prohibited emotional relationship that fails ... The solution is simple, it's prayer.
This
is what happened with Moses, peace be upon him when he saw two women
and he watered for them, turned back to a shade of a tree and called
Allah: “O my Lord! truly am I in (desperate) need of any good that Thou dost send me!" [stories: 24]. And immediately Allah responded to his prayer: "Afterwards
one of the (damsels) came (back) to him, walking bashfully. She said:
"My father invites thee that he may reward thee for having watered (our
flocks) for us." …) [Stories: 25]. Thus, Allah has provided him with a righteous wife who will help him in this world.
If
we think about stories of the Prophets, we will find them resorting to
prayer in all their affairs, problems and difficulties.Why not you resort to prayer in every aspect of your business, and Allah has vowed to respond?Prayer
will save you time wasted in the search because Allah will facilitate
and achieve what you want with less effort and in shorter time!
The experience of putting our trust in Allah Almighty
At
one stage I did not have any program for managing time!! However, after
I memorized the Quran, I decided to leave all things to Allah, who
makes me causes subservient, and He who will bless in time, blessing
time is more important than the time itself! I will give you an example
from my experience: When I was at the beginning of my journey in writing
scientific articles, writing a scientific article takes me one full
month of effort and preparation, reading and re-formulation and
correcting, but after having relied on Allah and delivered Him
everything: my time, will, choices and decisions ... Writing an article
takes only one day. If you save 29 days, is not that a pool it is a
blessed time, which is more important than the time itself?
In this sense, we realize the meaning of the words of Almighty:"
Whoever submits his whole self to Allah, and is a doer of good, has
grasped indeed the most trustworthy hand-hold: and with Allah rests the
End and Decision of (all) affairs. “[Luqman: 22]. Whoever submits
his whole self wholeheartedly to Allah Almighty, not afraid of the
future and mourn the past, for that Allah Almighty said:" Nay,-whoever
submits His whole self to Allah and is a doer of good,- He will get his
reward with his Lord; on such shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve."[al-Baqarah: 112]"
Time management by using the good word
A
good word does the effect of magic! Through courtesy without lies,
hypocrisy, fraud or deception, but spoke the good word, you can comfort
the others and this will help you gain confidence, and thus provide the
time you waste in sterile debate of no benefit.
A
person may lie to you sometimes, do not waste your time in convincing
him of his lying to you, but it is enough to say to him, for example:
this is a point of view, or: God knows ... Or any words to end the talk
and save your time. However, in the call to Allah, you must correct
others information to as much as possible.
Tolerance
is a free method of time management. Promise yourself to tolerate
others, be patient of the harm and forgive those who insult you. This
method saves you a lot of fruitless discussions, the give and take, so
when one considers many real-life stories, which could end in tragedy,
we find most of them were susceptible to a solution process which is
very simple: tolerance.
Perhaps
I am reminded of a story of a student in the Faculty of Engineering
defrauded by his friend after "eating" an amount of money on the pretext
that it would give him a huge profit. This young man asked me to advise
and I told him to complete his studies and Allah will compensate him
better than what was taken. Whoever leaves something for the sake of
Allah, He will compensate him better.His answer: "Whoever is silent on rightness is a dumb devil" and he will complain in court!I
told him that his time is more important, because the man who cheated
on you and take some of your money is a bad guy with no morals and does
not fear Allah.So, instead of
wasting your time in court, if you win this time in the practice of
engineering, you will earn more money. Let your trust in Allah be more,
but unfortunately he was confident in the court more!
The
fraudster lured the engineer again of more money and in a smart way
took more money from him. This young man came again to me for advice.I
told him "Leave this bad man and Allah is able to give you two fold of
what he had taken. He said, "From where?" I said to him, "Allah,who sustains the infidel, atheist and the sinner, is capable of giving a believer who says", "there is no god but Allah"Nonetheless,
he returned again to court….His story dragged through a number of years
and the fraudster went to prison…. Then, the young man went to prison
on the grounds of an orchestrated fabrication by the fraudster.Thus, the young man missed time and money and at the end he did not get his rights but wasted a lot of time…
Here, we are aware that man when he finds himself in front of several options, he should choose what pleases Allah.Allah Almighty commanded us to practice tolerance, forgiveness,pardon
and forgiveness, and vowed that he is going to compensate us better
than that, why do not we trust Allah and his tender and living? The
Almighty says: "The recompense for an injury
is an injury equal thereto (in degree): but if a person forgives and
makes reconciliation, his reward is due from Allah. for ((Allah)) loveth
not those who do wrong."[ Shura: 40]. He also says:" let them forgive and overlook, do you not wish that Allah should forgive you? For Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.[Nur: 22].
Applying the "Separation Principle"
Perhaps
the most important process by ( but the most difficult) what I call the
"separation principle" to decide any issues of concern to thinking,
fragmented, and address each case individually, not overwhelm them on
that, this will save your time and a half at least. I will give you an
example from my experience, and how I have achieved many, many wonderful
application of this principle.It is difficult to apply only at the beginning, but then you feel fun and strength.
At the beginning my interest in research I used to go to a public library.I
spend hours reading books, but sometimes I encounter a situation or a
problem with a friend, I leave the reading and start thinking about this
problem: What happened, what the result will be, how I will address
this problem, what I expect to happen in the future, how I will face
this friend,why this friend told me this way, and what was intended ... Half of the time allocated for the study is lost innegative thinking that can only lead to worry, anxiety and fatigue
Therefore, I resorted to the principle of separation in time management.Time devoted to reading a book was given to this book.If I encounter a problem or a situation, I postpone thinking about it for another time.I assign time that commensurate with the magnitude of the problem.Often,
man gives the problem much more than it deserves. Therefore, you should
promise yourself not to integrate the daily problems with each other,
but these problems should be separated from each other.You should assign each problem a short time to solve.Otherwise
leave the worries and problems and seek the help of Allah Almighty, who
will resolve them for you, because Allah Almighty is capable of solving
your problems no matter how great they are!
The principle of anticipating events
This
is a very wonderful principle. It is summarized that your fears that
something will happen, such as illness or the prospect of losing a job
or loss of trade or fail in a course in the university, or failure in
marriage ... These things consume a significant portion of your time,
which will occur on each event, and your fears and your mind will not
prevent it from happening! So what if I could think of other things
useful, this means a substantial savings in time. Here, we find a
wonderful verse says: "Fighting is prescribed
for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing
which is good for you, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you.
But Allah knoweth, and ye know not." [Al Bagara, The Cow: 216]
Effective Time
This is the time that can be invested in the work of a useful new.Effective time = (24 hours - the number of sleepinghours - the number of feedinghours,getting rid of wastes andthe time givento the family, children, etc.)Each
one of us may compute the effective time based on his daily needs. In
the best cases the effective time would not increase of ten hours per
day.This is the time a person can invest in new and useful work.
If
we assume that one of us spends his time each day for two hours in
following television programs such as sitcoms and other non-beneficial
ones.Thus, the rate of time loss is 2 / 10 = 0.20 or twenty percent of the time.Consider that fifth of your time is lost in negative thinking.If this period is exploited in something useful, you will gain fifth of your time without feeling!
I used to waste several hours each day in negative thinkingwhich
is not useful, such as fear of failure or fear of disease or thinking
of what a friend of mine said about a problem occurred with another
friend, or why he did it well or did not do as well as ... And so on.
I have applied this rule every day.I
have invested these two hours in reading a book, an article, memorizing
new verses from the Quran, learning a Prophet saying, or learn a new
prayer ... Over the whole year I was able to exploit a large number of
hours in positive thinking (more than 700 hours), So each one should
consider for himself: How much waste of his time in negative thinking
and anticipating calamities, though you like it or not, it will happen.
And now here are golden tips
·Consent of what Allah has decided and gave us, even if it is poverty, hunger, disaster, or disease…
·Trust in Allah and that He always chooseswhat works best and benefitsourselves
·You
should stick to received prayers of the Prophet peace be upon him,
because supplication is what achieves what you want, and without it, you
will suffer a lot to do the work itself!
·Consideration and memorization of the Quran helps you make the best decisions!
·Forgiveness, forgiveness and then forgiveness! This is my advice to those who likes to invest their time freely.
·Do not get angry except for Allah. Do not strain your nerves for something fleeting in this transient world.
·Remember that your life could end at any moment, and then you should not become depressed, sad or worried.
·Finally, if one of us went to meet one of the rich people, he spends few days preparing, thinking and dreaming!So
how would be if it is meeting Allah Almighty? What should we prepare
for this meeting? Is this the meeting to think about and prepare for it?
It is undoubtedly the most important meeting in the life of any
creature who will see his creator and sustainer...
·The
best way of time management is found in the Quran and the ethics, life
and behavior of the Prophet who is the best example to follow, and
imitate him without thinking of loss. Since you are imitating the best
human, you are always the winner… It was enough that his ethics were the
Quran… and it was enough he was of great ethics...
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