The Clock Is Ticking | Al-Sirat Al-Mustaqeem EP.8 | A Journey With Shaykh Alauddin ElBakri

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1. 0:00Assalaamu 'Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh
2. 0:01and welcome back to this journey on "As-Sirat al-Mustaqim"
3. 0:05I want you to imagine with me this "Sirat"
4. 0:08this path that Allah SWT
5. 0:11defined for us the purpose defined for us the goals.
6. 0:15Now, in order to be able to fulfill the purpose
7. 0:19and accomplish the goals, we need resources.
8. 0:24And listen to this beautiful Hadith that the Prophet PBUH
9. 0:28defined for us 4 resources that Allah gave us.
10. 0:32Today, we will deal with the first one of them.
11. 0:35The Hadith says:
12. 0:36لا تزول قدما عبد يوم القيامة حتى يسأل عن أربع
13. 0:43عن عمره فيم أفناه؟ وعن جسمه فيم أبلاه
14. 0:49وعن ماله من أين اكتسبه؟ وفيم أنفقه؟
15. 0:54وعن علمه فيم فعل فيه؟
16. 0:57The translation:
17. 0:59No one will move on the day of judgment from his site.
18. 1:03You're not going anywhere on the day of judgment.
19. 1:06You're not going to heaven or anywhere else until Allah asks you
20. 1:11about four things that you have to answer about.
21. 1:14Number one, about your entire lifetime,
22. 1:18how did you spend your lifetime? About your health,
23. 1:21how did you use your health
24. 1:24and exhaust your health? About your knowledge,
25. 1:28what did you do with your knowledge?
26. 1:30You knew so many things,
27. 1:31did you apply them? And about your wealth,
28. 1:34from where did you earn it, and how did you spend it?
29. 1:39Now that puts us with the first element, which is the element of time,
30. 1:44one of the greatest blessings upon us from Allah SWT
31. 1:49Time is all what we got.
32. 1:51It is because of time that we are alive.
33. 1:54Allah the Mighty and the Majestic spoke about time in the Quran
34. 1:58and swore by it:
35. 1:59(By the ˹passage of˺ time!
36. 2:01Surely humanity is in ˹grave˺ loss)
37. 2:03Allah swore by time "Aser" which means, time this passing time
38. 2:07but not only that, so many times in the Quran
39. 2:10Allah used that day and night,
40. 2:13which are the units that we use to calculate time
41. 2:17as we all know in the beautiful short Surahs in Juz' Amma:
42. 2:21(By the sun and its brightness, and the moon as it follows it,
43. 2:24and the day as it unveils it, and the night as it conceals it!)
44. 2:29By the sun and its light by the moon
45. 2:33when it comes after at night, by the day, when it clarifies everything.
46. 2:38And by the night when it over covers everything.
47. 2:41When Allah in the next Surah says:
48. 2:43(By the night when it covers, and the day when it shines!)
49. 2:47when the night comes
50. 2:50and covers everything, and when that day comes
51. 2:54and clarifies everything. Look how Allah constantly in the Quran
52. 2:58is talking to us about time, Allah SWT
53. 3:02told us in The Noble Quran that He created the Sun
54. 3:06as a source of energy and light, and the moon as the reflection of light,
55. 3:12and He, the Mighty and the Majestic, also created for us:
56. 3:16(And Has subjected the day and night for you)
57. 3:20Here is something that you need to know.
58. 3:22Allah Has subdued and subjected time for you.
59. 3:28It is at your disposal.
60. 3:31You can control it.
61. 3:33You can manage it.
62. 3:35You don't have to be a victim of time.
63. 3:38You can be the master of your time.
64. 3:42And that is a very empowering statement:
65. 3:44when Allah says that I have subdued to you the day and the night.
66. 3:48And I created the sun and the moon, and I made the moon go into stages.
67. 3:53(So that you may know the number of years and calculation)
68. 3:57So that you know the number of years
69. 4:00and you know math. Interestingly, when you study the history of math,
70. 4:04they will tell you math started when human beings started looking
71. 4:09and the stars
72. 4:10the stars and the sun and the moon and tried to figure out its movement.
73. 4:13That was the earliest movement of learning complicated math.
74. 4:18Subhanallah, Allah mentioned it in The Noble Quran
75. 4:21So time is under your control. Now, when it comes to figuring out
76. 4:26what is time, you will find that even physicists
77. 4:31and mathematicians are so much puzzled by this time.
78. 4:35What is time?
79. 4:36Finally, Einstein said it's the fourth dimension. Width, depth, height and time.
80. 4:42Now, Subhanallah
81. 4:44I want you to think about how interesting this concept of time.
82. 4:47If I brought a basketball in my hand and I started spinning it and I said,
83. 4:51Look at it, look at it.
84. 4:52And then suddenly, while I'm spinning it, I told you: "While this basket
85. 4:56ball is spinning because it's spinning, you're getting older"
86. 4:59you'll be like: "Huh? Why?"
87. 5:02But that's our story with time. Earth,
88. 5:05a rock, is spinning around itself and is spinning around the sun.
89. 5:09And because it's spinning, we're getting older.
90. 5:12Subhanallah, only Allah understands what time is,
91. 5:16because he's the one who created it.
92. 5:19Now, I want you to think with me, why
93. 5:21we need to be very alert when it comes to time?
94. 5:25We are preparing ourselves for the day of judgment,
95. 5:29and on the day of judgment, Allah will ask us, how did we spend our time?
96. 5:33I'm going to give you an example that will clarify things.
97. 5:36Let's say you lived 60 years, Inshall'Allah
98. 5:39you live longer.
99. 5:40the Prophet PBUH
100. 5:42lived 63
101. 5:44honorable, lunar years.
102. 5:46Peace be upon him and upon all his Family and Companions
103. 5:48Now, when we talk about these 60 years,
104. 5:52if you, on average, between the first few years of your life
105. 5:56when you slept a lot,
106. 5:57and the last few years of your life, if you are on average, slept 8 hours
107. 6:01a day, do you know that you would have slept 20 years
108. 6:04out of the 60 years? You're laying on bed, sleeping
109. 6:08if you worked, on average, and went to school when you were a kid
110. 6:13and adult, and the work time, on average 8 hours a day.
111. 6:18Do you know that's another 20 years of your life gone, just working?
112. 6:23Do you know if you just spent
113. 6:25around 4 hours taking a shower, putting on your clothes,
114. 6:28taking off your clothes, driving to work, driving back from work,
115. 6:32doing the things in the middle, 4 hours a day.
116. 6:35Do you know you have just spent 10 years of your life doing that?
117. 6:40And do you know if, Masha'Allah,
118. 6:42the 5 daily prayers take from you one hour a day,
119. 6:47meaning, 10 minutes on average, 15 minutes, let's say one hour.
120. 6:51You are meeting Allah on the day of judgment with two
121. 6:55and a half years of worship out of 60 years.
122. 7:00Do you know how miserable is that?
123. 7:02We have to wake up now. Most of us,
124. 7:04it doesn't take us even 10 minutes to pray.
125. 7:07Maybe 5 minutes.
126. 7:08Which means you just met Allah with one year
127. 7:12and about three months of worship out of 60 years.
128. 7:16How do we change that?
129. 7:18Now, here are two tips that going to make you Insha'Allah master
130. 7:22time, they are driven from Quran and Sunnah. Number one,
131. 7:27"Neyyah" your intention
132. 7:29Prophet PBUH taught us
133. 7:33how to turn every normal act
134. 7:36which we call habit, into an act of worship. How?
135. 7:41With the intention.
136. 7:43And that's why you'll find that the Prophet PBUH
137. 7:45will make the intention, and to remind himself
138. 7:49he will say it out loud, before going to sleep.
139. 7:52I want my 8 hours of sleep to be counted as worship.
140. 7:56(In Your name my Lord, I lie down and in Your name I rise)
141. 8:00(Oh Allah, in Your Name I die and I live)
142. 8:03He will say a Dhikr before sleeping
143. 8:06to intend his sleeping for the sake of Allah SWT
144. 8:10He even showed you another way, you went to sleep,
145. 8:14but you prayed Isha prayer in the congregation, and you prayed
146. 8:17Fajr prayers in the congregation, the Prophet PBUH
147. 8:22says: Allah will count it for you, as if the whole night you were praying.
148. 8:26This is called turning a time
149. 8:30into something bigger, turning a habit into a worship.
150. 8:35The second thing that I want you to know, that when you take time
151. 8:40and make an intention before we eat, we say "Bismi'Allah"
152. 8:44After we eat, we say "Alhamdulillah"
153. 8:46Before we sleep, we say "Bismi'Allah" after we sleep,
154. 8:50the first word comes from the mouth of the Prophet PBUH
155. 8:52(All praise belongs to Allah Who has restored us back to life after causing us to die; and to Him shall we return)
156. 8:56Thank God who gave me life after death and to him we will be resurrected one day.
157. 9:00Subhanahu wa Ta'ala
158. 9:01So this is beautiful.
159. 9:02Before you enter the bathroom, you say a prayer after you get out of the bathroom,
160. 9:07you say a prayer. When you enter your car, you say a prayer,
161. 9:11when you get out, you say something.
162. 9:12You say "Bismi'Allah"
163. 9:13When you enter the Mosque, there is a prayer,
164. 9:15when you leave the mosque, there is a prayer
165. 9:18Look, every movement that is not perceived as traditional
166. 9:23worship, Prophet PBUH, turned into worship,
167. 9:27including when a husband and wife go to bed
168. 9:31and they just enjoy their pleasure in Halal, Allah SWT
169. 9:36counts it for them as the Hasana because they did it in the name of Allah,
170. 9:40in a Halal way.
171. 9:41This is revolutionary. This is unbelievable.
172. 9:45Alhamdulillah, I'm so inspired and impressed by Prophet PBUH
173. 9:51and how Allah SWT taught him.
174. 9:53Now, the second thing, when you take any moment of your life, our life is finite.
175. 9:59We have a birthday, we have a death day, and in the middle, that's a limited time.
176. 10:04Now you come to any moment of your finite life.
177. 10:08You have an intention, or you follow the intention with action.
178. 10:12So whether it's an intention alone or intention
179. 10:15plus action, and that action takes you 5 minutes.
180. 10:18Let's say, you went you saw someone that needed help,
181. 10:21you went, you bought food for them, you helped them.
182. 10:24You would drop them off where they need to be dropped off.
183. 10:26Whatever is the help, these 5 minutes, you have just transformed it
184. 10:31from being finite to being infinite. Why?
185. 10:36Because that time turns into Hasana.
186. 10:39What does a "Hasana" a good deed do for you
187. 10:41on the long run? It gives you eternity in heaven.
188. 10:46This mechanism of intention plus action
189. 10:50turns that which is finite, to that which is infinite, which is very awesome.
190. 10:55Alhamdulillah Rabbu Alameen
191. 10:57Insha'Allah, tomorrow we will learn about two things
192. 11:01how to maximize your time that you have now in this world
193. 11:05and how to prolong
194. 11:07the effect of your time, even after your death.
195. 11:11Insha'Allah. So see you tomorrow.