UT… Time passes

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, and peace and blessings be upon him. And many, many. And after that, my brothers and sisters, today I am planning to start a series of khatiras, inshallah, over the next few weeks, called the Universal Truths. These are the fundamental universal truths, and they don't depend on whether you are Muslim or non-Muslim, whether you are Pakistani or Arab or what, whether you live in America or you live in the moon. They are true for all time, and they are true for everyone. The importance of universal truths is that it is very important to know what they are, and it is extremely important to remember them and to live by them. Because... If you don't, then you pay a very, very high price, both in the dunya as well as in the akhira. So, first of the universal truths is that time passes. Time passes. The only thing you get by waiting for it is death. Nothing else. Everything else has to be worked. You have got to work for everything else. So, time passes. No matter what you do or don't do, time will pass. And it will not return. You cannot make time. Nobody can create time. You cannot save time. Get all these terminologies out of your mind. I am saving. You are not saving time. You are doing something else, which is good. But it is not. You are not saving time. I will make time for... No, you can't make time. Nobody can make time. Allah makes time. You can't save time. You can't keep it for another day. You can't store it. You can't stockpile it. You cannot manage time. Also, another thing we say, how are you a good time manager? No. No. When I do my class on maximizing the benefit of time, I ask this question. I say, how many of you are good time managers? So, usually a couple of people will put up their hands. They are good. Fantastic. You are a good time manager? Yes, sir. Okay. So, today, in today's time, give me five minutes extra. Can you do that? You cannot do that. How will you do that? The day has 24 hours. You can make it 24 plus 5? No. So, if you are telling me you will give me five minutes, what are you really doing? You are managing... You are teaching me to manage your priorities. That's all you are doing. Rearranging how your day is. That's all. Nobody can manage time. Nobody can create time. Nobody can save time. Nobody can stockpile time. Nobody can bring it back. What you can do is to value or add value to your time by using the time intelligently and maximizing. So, you're adding value to your time. That's all. That's all. So, if you are doing that, you are managing your priorities. Now, to do that, you have to remember one very important thing, which is that excuses don't change reality. Excuses do not change reality. If I lose my wallet and I come and tell you, you know, I was in this place. There was a huge crowd. And this happened. very true, this is a bad time, I can understand why you lost your wallet, don't worry, don't feel bad. Will my wallet come back because I have a good excuse? No. Loss is loss, period. Nothing will bring it back. You can make all the excuses in the world, it will not bring it back. Sometimes when people come to my class, they come late. When they say, they will tell me, sir, I am sorry. I tell them, you might be sorry, I am not sorry. Why should I be sorry? You have not caused me any loss. You came half an hour late, you came 10 minutes late, maybe in that 10 minutes something happened in this class which could have changed your life, you lost it. Right? But what is the usual excuse? Little child goes to school late, teacher I am sorry. Teacher says, I am sorry. Teacher says, it's okay. So you are conditioning them to believe that the excuse is actual reality. It's not reality. It is not okay. It can never be okay. It can never be okay. Oh, there was traffic. Hello. You are going to school, you are going to work at the peak traffic time. What did you expect there will be? Not traffic? If you didn't expect traffic, you are stupid. You are supposed to expect traffic. Leave early. Right? Leave early. Just put yourself in another place. Supposing you are going to catch a plane. You think the plane will wait for you because you had traffic? What will you do? You will actually check in maybe into an airport hotel and you say, I don't want the issue of traffic in the morning. I am going to pick my bag and walk through the corridor to the gate. Period. Okay. Excuses do not change reality. If you have an excuse of wasting time, it will not come back to you. That time has gone and you are the loser. The greatest truth is that if you are consuming, now listen very carefully, if you are consuming, whatever it is, whether it is consuming food, whether it is consuming content on the internet, whichever social media, what not you have. You are the loser. You are the loser. Whatever. If you are consuming, you are the product. You are not the consumer. You are the product. Because the creator, the content creators are using you to make money. So you are the product. If you are consuming, you are the product. Creators do not consume. Think about this. The creators, footballers, soccer players, what not, what not, tennis players, they get money, right? And if you get to Wimbledon, you get to the French Open, US Open, what not in tennis, or you are playing NBA, or you are playing, you know, the top teams, you get a lot of money. But let me ask you, who makes more? And you also get sponsorships and so on, so you make money. Say, you are Ronaldo. You are Messi, what not, you are making the money. But compare that to the money that the TV channel owners make. Very simple rule, right? Zahraubhai has people working for him. Who makes more money, him or them? So if you are an employee and you say, I am making more money than my employer, the answer is, man, look, go get a brain scan, you know. You are a stupid. You are stupid. I mean. You make more money than you. This is logic. So who pays the players? TV. TV. So who makes more money? Messi, Ronaldo, or Rupert Murdoch? Huh? You are looking like you don't know who Rupert Murdoch is. Big gap in knowledge. Go look him up. Rupert Murdoch doesn't just make money. He changes governments. He changes the world. He is not just Brandon Perry. What does he do for people who aren't brothers, you don't exhlwe him directly. Why did he become a pro? He became a Vladimir Putin. What after took Moçazam, he went to events like, where we've been showés so many things. esason , I was there. Back in the days. поп managerин How did they do it? دüsseldog distraction I came, I was I was mentally state of mind, I Spent five days watching a match and there's not even a clear, you must remember the thing. So the absolute diehard cricket fans would go to the stadium to watch it. Others would listen to the commentary. Now, obviously, you can't listen to the commentary for five days continuously. You're getting bits and pieces. So obviously, the revenues for the game owners, people organizing, they were limited. So what did they do? They invented the ODI, which is a 50-overs match. And then they invented the T20, which is a 20-overs match. Now, what did that do? That first of all, exploded the consumer base. Instead of somebody watching it in a stadium and listening to commentary on the radio, you made that into a TV show. Exploded the consumer base, right? And they made it into a TV show. They made billions and billions and billions of dollars. But think about that. All of this thanks to who? Think about it. The cricketers play the game. Cricketers, footballers, basketball players, soccer players, whoever. They play the game, they get a salary. See? The game owners make a thousand times, make a million times, more than that money. All thanks to who? All thanks to you. Who watch the game and donate their greatest asset, their time, also called life, for free. And they get nothing in compensation. Nothing, absolutely nothing. So ask yourself, which one are you? So what must you do? Ask yourself a question every night. What did I gain today? Keep a notebook. Keep a notebook by your bedside and a pen. Write down in it. Every day put a date on the page and say, what did I gain today? And if you cannot write anything blank page, that itself is a huge lesson. 24 hours passed from last night to this night, and I have nothing to write on the page. So hopefully it will wake you up in time. What did I gain today? And don't sleep until you write something in that. Calculate the real value of your time, right? Now, just to give you, most of you know this, but those who don't know, take the time it takes to watch a full match of any game. Average American football match like the NFL lasts three hours and 12 minutes. But a Wall Street Journal, the analysis says that the actual time that the ball is in motion is 11 minutes. Three hours and 12 minutes of the game which you are watching, but the actual ball is moving only for 11 minutes. Standard basketball game like the NBA takes 48 minutes, ball in motion. But the game itself, including break, is two to two and a half hours. Ask yourself a simple question. Why? Because the more time they have with you glued to the television set, the more money they are making. Their clock is ticking the whole time. So they want to keep you there. And imagine the stupidity of people who will sit for three and a half hours to watch something for 11 minutes. Imagine that. Imagine that. Imagine. Just think about it. Problem is we don't think. Our brains have got fried. So now, in conclusion, what is the real value of time? Real value. And for that I use this exercise and I want to share it with you. Imagine that you are dying. Your last moments on this earth.