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.

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