Time is our most precious commodity. Nothing we covet and desire in life can be obtained except by spending time, and spending it properly, in its pursuit. We maybe spending our time to seek pleasure, to earn money and worldly possessions, to work, to enjoy, or we may simply idle it away - doing nothing.
Time is the first thing that Allah demands of us. It takes time to fight in the way of Allah. It takes time to pray. It takes time to do Da'wah. It takes time to read the Qur'an. It takes time to visit the sick. Every moment should be spent in seeking His pleasure, in fulfilling our commitment to Him. But, if we reflect more deeply, we will realise that what we are really required to sacrifice is not our time. It is the things in whose pursuit our time is being spent, things which may be contradictory to our goals in life, meaningless, unimportant or less important compared to Allah's cause. Therefore to give our time for Islam, before anything else, we must be ready to sacrifice many other things which claim our time.
How can we bring ourself to sacrifice these things and devote our time to Allah?
Remember that time is one thing we cannot hold on to even for a moment. It must continuously slip away from us, in whatever way we choose to spend it. Its value to us is simply what we gain from it. Time will melt away, what we earn will stay.
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