dear brothers and sisters there's a very

famous narration where the prophet

sallallahu alaihi wasallam said

that time the hour will not come

until time shrinks

time

literally shrinks so the prophet

sallallahu alaihi wasallam said

that a year will feel like a month

and a month would feel like a week and a

week would feel like a day

and a day would feel like just an hour

and the the hour would feel like a

burning bush or like the flare of a fire

quickly everything goes by so quickly

you don't feel

baraka in time you don't feel blessing

in your time and there's a collective

manifestation of that and then there's

on the individual level when you start

to look at yourself and you say where is

it going and i read about people that

are so productive in the past and in the

presence where is the blessing in my

time and the messenger sallallahu alaihi

wasallam in another narration also in

bukhari he directly tied the shrinking

of time

to the decrease of good deeds and the

increase of certain types of corruption

so he says

that time would shrink and so the deeds

the output of good deeds would be less

and greed miserliness stinginess would

be placed in the hearts of people

and the prophet saws said and murder

would become prevalent murder would

become prevalent and so there's a direct

connection between the shrinking of time

and the shrinking of the output of deeds

and of course

the battle with time to make the best

use of your time is one that even the

sahaba felt

and

most people do not realize the value of

their time

until things start to become different

until you start to get older and still

until you start to get busier until your

health starts to wither as well

until you see some of the consequences

of your wasted time later on in life and

then you go back and you say subhanallah

i should have done things differently

and that's why the prophet salallahu of

course mentioned

he said that there are two blessings

that people just do not take advantage

of

and they are health and free time so

what does it mean to have barakah to

have blessing in your time the technical

definition

to be able to do more with less time to

be able to do more with less time that

doesn't always mean more in terms of

quantity

but to do more because allah azza says

that he tests you to see who will do the

best with their deeds not necessarily

the most so it's not always something

that's quantifiable

but to do more

with less

than one of his

one of his wisdoms he says

beautiful saying he said that some

people live a very long life

but bear very little fruit

and some people live a very short life

but bear much fruit so there are long

fruitless lives and short fruitful lives

and so if a person is sincere with allah

subhanahu ta'ala

and takes the amana of time the blessing

of time seriously then what they can

accomplish in a week is what someone

else can accomplish in a day even in a

time

where overall time has shrunk

even now right so this isn't just

something that we lament the past and we

say yeah they used to be able to read

that much quran and do all of these good

deeds but they were different than us

because even now

even now with sincerity and

steadfastness and taking your time

seriously

you can accomplish more with the same

amount of time as someone else a person

might even in today's world accomplish

more at the age of 18 than someone else

at the age of 80

right it is still a thing

if you take the amana of time seriously

the trust of time seriously and so i

wanted to just go over seven things that

i extracted from the sunnah of the

prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam about

how to have barakah in your time how to

have blessing in your time what do we

learn from the messenger salallahu about

having barakah in our time and the first

thing is that the prophet saws was a

morning person

and that wasn't just by accident

he was a mourning person

and there is an authentic hadith

a companion

he said rasulullah sallam heard or i

heard rasulallah saying allah

bless my nation in its early hours bless

my ummah in its early hours put barakah

there and he said i didn't just hear the

prophet saw it some say this when he

used to send out a battalion or an army

he always sent them at the beginning of

the day anything he did sallallahu on an

individual basis

and anything he commanded within the

ummah he started early in the day are

salatwa

it was always the morning hours with him

sallallahu alaihi wasallam starting with

his fajr prayer and the vikir that came

after the remembrance of allah that came

after the fajr prayer and the

conversations and the commands and the

work that started at the early morning

hours and some other also mentioned that

allah swears by al-fajr

allah swears by the two timings the

beginning of the day and the ending of

the day

because most people are either waking up

or winding down
and the believer can take advantage of

those times to get ahead and allah has

put special blessing in those times of

the day so that's the first thing

starting early

number two

avoiding sins and drama

and they are interconnected

so i'll start with the obvious here with

sins

when he met imam shafer

this amazing child

who

at the age of eight years old just

clearly was way ahead of everybody else

one of those kids that would make

multiple world records happen

that there would be coverage of the

brain of a shafter

and what he was doing he was clearly a

genius

he clearly had something special going

for him

at a young age and his teacher imam

rahima says to him listen to me oh young

man

i see that allah has put a light in your

heart he didn't attribute it to his

upbringing he didn't know he said allah

has clearly put a light inside of your

heart

don't extinguish that light with the

darkness of sin allah gave you something

special

don't mess it up with sin

so whether it's your memory

or it is as allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

says

had the people of the town

believed what taco avoided sin they

feared allah they avoided sin the the

implication of taqwa is avoiding sin

then barakah than the blessings of what

was coming down upon them would have

been present but it was the sins that

took away

the blessing of what was given to them

and so

sins decreased the barakah of wealth

they decreased the barakah of time

they decrease the barakah of intellect

they pollute everything that they are

present within because all of those

things those faculties and those

those blessings that allah gives to you

are gifts from him and he will not allow

you to keep those gifts if you tarnish

them with disobeying him

so the light will be extinguished in

your time the light will be extinguished

in your mind the light will be

extinguished in your wealth also and so

many other things some of the scholars

also say and this is why i said avoiding

sins and drama there is

a there is the the hem the the anxiety

that sin causes when you're a messy

person you get yourself into a lot of

messy situations don't you

when you're a messy person you get

yourself into a lot of messy situations

and so you only have a certain amount of

head space and a certain amount of heart

space

and a certain amount of time space

and if you occupy that with sins and the

consequences of sins the messiness of

sins then naturally that's going to

paralyze you from being able to be

productive with your time because you're

always trying to get yourself out of a

sin that you committed they're mostly

self-inflicted right grudges take up

heart space

drama takes up time space all of it

takes up head space right it just takes

away from what time you have and so if

you're a person who's not messy who

generally avoids

drama and causing drama and inflicting

wounds and gossiping and things of that

sort you likely have a lot more time to

focus on what's important rather than

always trying to climb out of something

that you've inflicted upon yourself so

that's the second thing the third thing

and there's something very interesting

about this

spending time with your family

you say wait a minute

that's why i feel like my time is going

right i can't find time to spend with my

family i can find time to do all this

other stuff

but i can't find time to spend with my

family

narrates that the prophet salallahu

whoever wants to be granted more wealth

and have their life extended

then let them keep a good relationship

with their family ties let them

establish their family ties think to

yourself wait a minute family pulls me

away from being able to make money

properly i've got to do more in my

career and that's why i don't have time

for my family i don't have time for my

family because i got to do this you

still find time for the leisure you

still find time for all the but i don't

have time for my family because i got to

do this important stuff

okay and the prophet saws is saying that

in the design of

allah spending time with your family

being good to your family actually

increases the barakah of your earning

and the barakah of your time

and we trust in allah subhanahu wa

ta'ala with that and that's why you read

about the prophet saws and you say how

was he able to balance

allah blessing in what the prophet saws

did in his time in every way possible

and

starts with your parents

starts with your parents if your parents

are alive

right it starts with your spouses then

your children then you know the closer

your uncles your aunts and so on so

forth there's blessing that comes from

that blessing that comes from the dear

out of those people blessing that comes

from the rib from the pleasure of those

people

and so
all of us should take that as a sign you

know what no i'm not going to relinquish

those family ties in the name of what in

the name of making more money or making

better use of my time because the

prophet saws said the opposite is in

fact true and subhanallah you look at

the the way the scholar scholars pointed

to this or explain this idea of the

prolonging of life

the prolonging of life some of them said

that allah blesses your health

and blesses your ability expands you in

that sense some of the scholars say bill

barakati umrihi with

allah blesses them by just putting more

in their time barakah in their time

and and guides them to do

actions of good deeds of obedience some

of them said and this is beautiful

allah extends his life with the good

memory that he leaves behind

with those people that you loved

so they have vikran jameel they have a

beautiful way of remembering you and

that extends you because when they

remember you beautifully

then they do things in your name that

encourages them to make dua for you and

to give sadaqah in your name and that

allows for your extension on life to

exist and some of the scholars said of

course that this is the actual extension

of years that allah puts in his books on

a person when a person has barak in that

sense the fourth thing

acts of gratitude

allah says

if you are grateful i will increase you

now

is in regards to faith as a whole your

perspective but also in regards to the

specific thing that you are showing

shukur with what does it mean to be

grateful with your health allah will

increase you when you're grateful with

your health

when you use your health to work acts of

gratitude sadaqa

is a means of gratitude with wealth it

increases your wealth

and so gratitude with your time

sparing your time for service to do acts

of

volunteerism some people think well i

can't find time for the volunteerism and

doing the acts of gratitude allah

extended the years of

who worked acts of gratitude

and it extends his life ali salam

and so

a person should always have some notion

of sadhaka with their time and so you

know i want to be very clear here

this is not just swiping a credit card

or now whatever you know doing it online

and just donating something

sadaqa with your time acts of gratitude

with your time will put barakah in your

time volunteering your time for

something good in an act of gratitude

will actually bless your time as well

number five

a daily recitation of the quran

specifically surat al-baqarah is where

we find the prophet saw some talked

about al-baqarah when it comes to baraka

in time

the prophet saws

when you do so you are unlocking all

sorts of barakah and to abandon it is a

form of regret

allah and it cannot be penetrated or

overcome by al-batala but allah can can

be as

as neutral as laziness and as uh as as

nefarious as

as sorcery and magicians

okay
it's it's somewhere there as well so

some of the scars say that a person who

is lazy

will not be able to read surah

al-baqarah if they have that

characteristic of just not being

motivated is a condition i just don't

feel like doing anything

and the other and then you have a

narration from

uh

what i was taught is that

refers to asahara the sorceress so it's

a protection of the house and we know

the prophet saw isaac told us to read

through

in the home as a means of protecting it

from anyone that tries to cause you harm

and so the scholars say in regards to

walked here in regards to time here

right the longest surah of the quran is

al-baqarah if you read it the blessing

that it unlocks in your life is

significant a significant

and so there is a general rule here that

if a person has a daily recitation of

the quran it will increase the blessing

of their time and specifically of course

here surat al-baqarah that has been

given to us and it is as long as it is

subhanallah as long as it is you will

find many people able to memorize

through the baccalaureat can't memorize

the whole quran

but you will find many people that were

able to memorize suited baccarat and

that's something that allah subhanahu

has placed within it as a bushra as a

glad tiding that it's not as hard as you

think to approach the quran with

memorization it's not as hard as you

think and when a person memorizes it in

the night it will unlock much barakah

much blessing for them number six

incorporating remembrance into your

routine

into your actual routine

the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam

was once walking with the companions

he said that we reached a mountain on

the outskirts of mecca called jumdan

so the prophet saws

is a mountain that's all by itself

it means frozen right so it's it's all

by itself there's nothing around it and

it's it's it's it's a staple there so

the prophet saw islam is saying go

those who have

lived a life of being alone

have preceded al-mufaridun have gone

ahead al-mufaridun have gone ahead and

have gone ahead so they said ya

rasulullah what do you mean the loners

what do you mean they've they've

proceeded they've gone ahead of

everybody else

and he said that

the men who remember allah frequently

and the women who remember allah

frequently now there's so much to take

from this the prophet saw some mentioned

this in the context of what

they've they've gone ahead they have

succeeded

they've beat the bunch in the race

they're ahead of the lines

and what the utima say here is the

emphasis of the prophet saws right if

you look at his life is that vikir was

not something that was isolated to a

place or a time of worship

vikir was in the prophet's gatherings

his tongue was moist with it

vikkir is when you're cooking

vikir is when you're walking

wikir is when you're working out wiki is

when you're doing anything that is not

haram you don't want to be doing viking

while you're haram unless you're doing

it to get you out of the haram zikr is

something that you incorporate into your

daily life

and you set those goals you don't have

to separate like i can only do viking in

the masjid after salah

vikir is something that you bring into

your routine and that's when you find

the story of the baker and the time of

imam

whose were all answered why because as

he was baking his dough subhanallah

allahu akbar

the output in the dunya that you saw was

some loafs of bread the output in the

site of allah subhanahu ta'ala was a

bunch of palaces and trees in jannah at

the end of every day and answered to ask

for him so for the brothers and the

sisters incorporate wicked into your

actual routine don't just relegate it to

a place and that will increase what you

earn in the hereafter as well as what

you bless in this life the last thing

dear brothers and sisters keep the

company

a productive people

righteous people are of categories

but specifically productive righteous

people keep their company where allah is

keep the company of those who are

calling upon allah night and day

seek patience through them keep yourself

resilient by their company and there is

a story i'll end with here it's the

story of a bin abbas

one of my favorite stories of a young

man who had a vision

the cousin of the prophet saws

loved by the prophet saws he used to

sleep in the home of the prophet saws

used to be

behind the prophet salaam on his camel

and on his horse

he was always with him sallallahu sallam

from the age of 10 to 13 shadowed him

brought his wadu

it was very traumatic for him when the

prophet saw some passed away

but he also had an eye

and he had a heart that was looking for

the pleasure of allah so when everyone

came back to medina

after the death of the prophet saw islam

all these sahaba that had gone on

journeys were all there in madinah tells

his friends 13 year old friend 13 year

old ibn abbas he says hey

the ashab the companions of the

prophet's life some are everywhere today

let's go seek knowledge from them

they're all here in madinah let's go ask

them to narrate us their hadith their

time with the prophet saws let's get

something for them

and his friend is narrating the incident

he says that

i told him you know you go ahead and do

that i'm going to keep playing and you

know and relaxing let's go play with the

pigeons instead

he said i let him go i left him i went

and i started to sleep on the doorsteps

of the companions of the prophet saws

collect a hadith collect

their knowledge their jurisprudence

years later

they've grown up and that man is walking

by and he's still playing with the

pigeons

as an adult and even

has become the first university in the

history of islam

they're saying you know that young man

knew better than i did he got it it

clicked

keep the company of productive people

keep the company of people that are

goal-oriented keep the company of people

that are trying to get ahead work with

them together

we are all in loss except for those of

us who enjoying one another push one

another towards the truth push one

another towards enjoining good and

forbidding evil and patience and

prosperity may allah put barakah in our

lives barakah in our time baraka in our

wrist and our sustenance barakah and our

deeds

to be embedded with his pleasure with us

until we meet him and we enter into

paradise in the company of his beloved

prophet salallahu

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