Time Management
طُوبَى لِمَن طالَ عُمُرُهُ، وحَسُنَ عَمَلُه
Glad tidings to the one whose life is long and deeds exemplary.
—The Prophet Muḥammad
[Tirmidhī 2251, 2252, Kanz al-‘Ummāl, Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ 2270, authenticated by al-Albānī]
Stay away from the busying aspects of life, and surely, life has abundant busying aspects. Every man who indulges in an aspect of life that fills this time, then that door he opened will open ten more doors of busying aspects for him.
—Al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī [d 110H/728CE]
Az-Zuhd, Abdullah bin Al-Mubarak, p. 189
(Read on pg 15, Abdul-Malik bin Muhammad ibn Abdul Rahman Al-Qasim, Life is a Fading Shadow. Darussalam Publishers. Riyadh:1999.)
Stay away from the busying aspects of life, and surely, life has abundant busying aspects. Every man who indulges in an aspect of life that fills this time, then that door he opened will open ten more doors of busying aspects for him.
نِعْمَتَانِ مَغبونٌ فيهما كَثيرٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ الصِّحَّةُ ، وَالفَرَاغُ
The two most undervalued assets by people are good health and leisure time.
—The Prophet Muḥammad
[Bukhārī 5933, Tirmidhī 2226, Ibn Mājah 4160, Aḥmad 2224, 3038, Dārimī 2591, Riyad al-Saliheen #97]
Losing time is worse than death, as losing time keeps you away from Allah and the Hereafter, while death keeps you away from the worldly life and people.
—Ibn al-Qayyim
(Read on pg 55, Ibn al-Qayyim, Al-Fawāid: A Collection of Wise Sayings. Umm Al-Qura For Translation, Publishing and Distribution. Egypt:2004.)