Are You Investing Your Time or Merely Spending It ?

Are You Investing Your Time or Merely Spending It ?

by Nisaar Y. Nadiadwala on Friday, June 24, 2011 at 11:19am

 

   The average  age of this ummah is 65 years...out of that 15 years are passed away in chidhood and early teenage, from the remaining 50 years almost one third is lost to sleep.... so substract 16 years approximately from the remaining and you get  34 years as balance to live. ..What we do in this 34 years will shape our life after death. The choice is ours, whether we waste it away or use it forour seves and others. In simple words, are we merely  spending our time or investing  it?

That draws our attention towards the common term we use " Time Pass". In fact there is nothing like time pass, either you are wasting your time or using it. The time is passing any how and you cannot control it by slowing it or fastening it. 

 What is the difference between time waste and time invested ?

Imam Bukhari, the author of the Master piece in Islamic literature Sahih al Bukhari invested his time. He invested 18 years to compile a book that gives him extra ordinary dividends while he sleeps in his grave...Day in and day out he analysed through his  sets of strict rules before picking up around 2230 hadith. The book explains in detail the Islamic juriprudence since 1200 successive centuries! He travelled extensively throughut the Arabia in cross examing the 2,00,000 hadith that he had memorised during his tenure as a student ! Amazing feat ! Every year hundreds and thousands of madrasas across the world quote Bukhari to learn and teach Islam . NOte the following hadith...When a man dies, he leaves behind three things that benefits him even after  his death,.. Righteous children who would pray for him, a  Sadaqa e Jariya (continuous charity) and the knowledge that he leaves behind for the people to benefit.....

   How do we use out time? Are we merely spending or investing? Time is wealth and you cannot buy it, nor can you transfer your time from your life to some one else's life. It is a thing which yuo can never get it back. If you loose  you welath you can earn it back. but lost time can never be recalled back. If you fail in exams yu have next year to try again but if yuo failin your life yu never get another chance. The follwing hadith will make it clear how precious is this life ..The Martyr will be allowed to roam in the paradise any where he wishes to.. and he will be asked by Allah.."Do you desire any thing more ?".. "Yes My Lord ! I want to go back in the world and get martyred again", he will desire... "NO! you cannot go back" !

  The people before us lived for centuries.. Noah (pbuh)worked among his people for 950 years! Yet we are assured that though we are the last to come yet we will be the first to enter into paradise ! How come! The answer is simple : Our lives may be shortened but our rewards are mutliplied.. for example... If we pray five times we  are rewarded for praying 50 times ...If we pray in congregation we  have prayed  27 times.. if we pray isha and fajr in congregation we have prayed whole night.. if we get one Laylatul  Qadr we have worshipped for 1000 nights....

  There are many things we want to do in our lives yet unable to do it. They maybe big dreams  like building a school or a hospital and we never get money to fulfil our dreams of sawab e jaariah... but have you noticed that there are many things which we can, which we are suppose to do and yet we are not doing it ? Make a listofyour pending good works that you desire to do and squeeze out time to do it..it may that you want to write a useful book or memorize the Qur'an or learn Arabic Language.. it can be any good thing andyou are delaying it...Pick up your pending work and start doing it and that is what we say time invested properly....

  Remember. Time is not wasted in hours but in minutes which we let it slip doing nothing and  then .. "When death approaches one of them he say. O my Lord give me send me back. That I go back and work righteousness in the things I neglected...  NO! you cant go back   !!!!"  Surah al Mo'minoon ch 23 verse 99-100

Author : Nisaar Nadiadwala speaks and writes on socio-educational issues from Islamic viewpoints. He can be reached at nisaar_yusuf@yahoo.com

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