The simple talk.

Its amazing how the ideas can be delivered by those that non fluent English on certain occasion. Last Friday, one Khatib spoke about the important of time. He's probably from Africa, but the message of his khutbah were awesome and amaze all of us. He talked about TIME

"Brother, I would like to ask on what we do about our time? Do we WASTE it? SPENDING it? or INVESTING our time? Many people including me sometimes does not realize we do wasting our time. It has been said 1 day in akhirat is equal to 1000 years in dunia.

There is one book (i can't recall it now) that says, if someone live for 60 years, half of it is fill with sleeping. Meaning, 30 years is for sleeping and 30 years is awake. In 30 years awake, half of it is used to search food, favourities and work, which meant 15 years left. This particular 15 years is the time where we really used to WASTE, SPEND or INVEST.

During al qiamah, and at Masyar, do we think our ibadah is sufficient to obtain heaven? Heaven have it own dowry/mahar, the price is depend on time we consume it right now. Time have many defination in Arabic, ;zaman, etc. If we lost our house, car, wife@husband, you can obtain new house, car, wife@ husband. No problem at all. But if you lost time. Its gone. There are no other Friday like today, even you may say next week is also Friday, but it not can replace this week. That is time.

Remember 5 things before 5 things come, like our prophet says, young before old, rich before poverty come, health before unhealth, free time before busy and life before death. I call u all my brother and myself to act because we have all 5 luxious condition right now. And beneath that, all 5 after glorious time is sure to come. Definately. Don't be cheated by ourself that we are still young, because death have overcome more younger people than us"

That's pretty much everything that he say, simple huh? But it all tru. Some friend send me a wish during my birthday, " You know, yesterday is past, tomorrow is future, now is present. You know why they call it it "present"? Its a gift from Allah. Be thankful.

Ameen.