Is it Possible to Leave the Vessel of Life Empty?

No, You Cannot Dare!

“Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you” -Timothy Ferriss

We doubt this. Even our free days spent in amusement and vanity fill the aging vessel with sighs, sorrows, and regrets on a Day called by the Almighty, “The Day of Sorrow and Regret.” It is a day in which all people are gathered in the presence of the Lord of the Worlds – from Adam up to the last creature – to be judged on how they spent “their lives” which is entrusted as a deposit with them.

Did they spend it with seriousness, striving, and performing righteous and good deeds? Or did they spend it doing vicious and bad actions that caused long and permanent sorrows and regrets? Or did they mix a good deed with an evil deed and in their actions, were they among the losers, like a businessman who spends all his life in trading and the end, finds himself bankrupt?!

The Importance of Time:

If we look for the best one who evaluates time for us, do we see other than the maker of time, himself, and is it not the Almighty, Exalted and Glory be He?!

Indeed, this delicate division of moments, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years, is just like a cultivated field and the farmer is me or you. According to the endeavor of each farmer, the harvest will be yielded. And it is during the time of harvest that an active and diligent farmer will be pleased, and a lazy and inactive farmer will be driven away.

It may happen that man’s needs become more numerous and varied, but the division of time aims to organize it so that one action does not extend over another action, or use up all time while other actions remain unperformed or left half performed.

Therefore, striving towards gaining one’s livelihood is required to meet material needs; approaching to Almighty through worshipping and glorification is required as a spiritual need; visiting one’s friends is required as a social need; enjoying what is lawful is required as a psychological need; and besides these hours, there should be another important period for seeking science and knowledge to meet one’s theological and ideological needs.

What is important to mention here is that there should be a balance between these units of time in a way in which worldly actions should not cause us to forget the deeds relating to the Hereafter. And the wise among us are the ones who make all our deeds an obedience to God, the Almighty; even worldly actions. However, who sits before a computer without previously deciding how much time he should spend in that sitting, will surely find himself still sitting before its magic, small screen, after many hours passed.

And he who lets the doors of the meeting with his friend be wide open will surely see that some conversations lead yet to others, and the meeting which was supposed to be finished in half an hour, lasts two hours or more.

Indeed, while organizing time, we learn the following benefits:

1. The abundance of time and blessings were unknown before the organization of time.
2. It drives away from us both disorganization and the confusion in which we live due to the penetration of time and its negligence.
3. It gives us a respected personality by our friends, companions, and those surrounding us.

4. It makes us live in a state of psychological contentment and spontaneous happiness in what we have achieved.

5. It makes us control time and not be controlled by time, itself.

Each of us can prepare a sheet of paper for himself in which he records the timetable for his daily work. It is necessary to acknowledge the seriousness of observing the articles of the schedule; otherwise, it will become mere ink on paper.

This method teaches us the following:

1. Time should be organized in such a way as not to be scattered in digressions and forsaken conclusions, and where one can be wholly engaged in a particular work which, as a result, affects the rest of the work.
2. The above-mentioned paper acts as a calendar that reminds us of the deeds which wait for us to be performed without delay, because tomorrow will impose on us a list of other new deeds, and a moment of our daily schedule will surely be affected on the timetable of tomorrow.
3. It is possible to schedule even preparatory time for each action. This may seem difficult because it is impossible to estimate the time of some actions properly and exactly, but, with the passing of days, it will become a beautiful habit with which one gets used to.
4. There is no harm in putting aside time we call “free” just for unexpected emergencies.

Thank you for reading Shameem Anwar and your valuable time which is highly regarded.