TIME AS OUR GUIDANCE FOR A BETTER TOMORROW

A Speech by Amilpasa Bandaying

As old as existence itself, Time is even defined as the indefinite continued

progress of existence and events that occur in apparently irreversible
succession from the past through the present to the future.

Ladies and gentlemen, honored guests and visitors, speaking of time is quite
a challenging task, since no one could ever be expert on this matter, as we
have not studied time like we study many scientific issues and daily
existence, and no one had invented time, that we realize that time is
ultimately of divine reality. So often ask ourselves, can we grasp time?

I am now reminded about what Prophet Mummad (PBUH) had once said
about time, as narrated by Ibn Abbas, that There are two blessings which
many people lose: (They are) health and free time for doing good (Bukhari
8/421)

That indeed time is God-given, for us to to use, for our own benefit and
comfort, that if we misuse time, it becomes our own perdition.

It is but a very good timing that I speak of time since the world today is on a
threshold of so many radical changes, of advancement in technology that
changes the way we live, and thereon the way we make our living.

Time is a free force. It does not wait for any one. It is commonly said that
time and tide waits for no man. Time is money. A minute not usefully spent is
an eternal loss. You can never get back the lost minute. One has to strike the
iron when it is hot. The time flies and never returns. If you waste time it
wastes you.

In this hurried modern life, time becomes the most vital and important, that
if we waste time just for a single minute, we lost great profits and
opportunities.

In Islam, we are instructed to use time wisely, using our time in doing
beneficial things especially those that make us closer to Allah and earn His
Mercy.

Therefore, my brothers and sisters, we have to put time in our own hands,
and use it for own advantages.
We must plan time carefully and use it as guidance for us for a better future
for all of us. It is not for us to waste time, that even in our free time, we must
use it for the benefits of ourselves and of others.

This thought is of great importance to you since you are youthful and have
the feeling of vigor and dynamism, which would incline you to go out there in
the world, in your professional and personal lives, like a raging bull, out to
conquer the world.

This is a natural thing, yet, if we will not stop for a while and make this
realization about time, any haste would merely end us up in great waste,
even in harm and negativity.

That it is of great advice that we seek the hands of time like a brother, a
companion, most importantly, as a guidance that will see us through in our
future successes.

We must plan time not merely by the hour or by the day, even by the
months and by the years.

Like for example, by next year, I have planned in time, to have a good job, in
five years, I planned to earn a law degree, two years hence, I am going to get
married and have a house and perhaps a car. And so on and so forth.

Do not be swayed innocently by unplanned time, just to float and swing by

the hands of time and tide, like a paper in the wind. Time and tide waits for
no man. If you will get behind, that will be you own fault. Take hold of time.
Be the master of your own faith.