Time Management

23rd May 2009

Shagufta Omar
Incharge Dawah Centre for Women
Dawah Academy, IIUI

02/26/23 Shagufta Omar, Dawah Centre for Women, 1

Dawah Academy, IIUI, PAkistan
 Time Management

Time Management
 Maximum
 Reality of effective
time utilization of time
 Importance
 Avoiding
wastage of time
of time  Saving some
time for rest and
recreation other
than work
02/26/23 Shagufta Omar, Dawah Centre for Women, 2
Dawah Academy, IIUI, PAkistan
 Reality of time

 Instrument to measure seconds,

minutes, hours, days, weeks,
months and years
 Tool to accomplish ones
objectives and goals
 Unseen reality of life
 A moment of opportunity
 Moments to be spent in this
world
02/26/23 Shagufta Omar, Dawah Centre for Women, 3
Dawah Academy, IIUI, PAkistan
 Reality of time (Contd.)

 Limited and fixed

 Cannot be bought or borrowed
 A continuous process, cannot be
stopped or reversed
 It encompasses one’s entire life

Loss of one’s time is in fact loss of

one’s life
02/26/23 Shagufta Omar, Dawah Centre for Women, 4
Dawah Academy, IIUI, PAkistan
 Equal distribution of time for
all humans
 Man or Woman
 Child or young or old

 Rich or poor

 Rural person or urban person

 Working woman or Home

manager
24 hrs. or 1440 mts. or 86400 sc.

02/26/23 Shagufta Omar, Dawah Centre for Women, 5

Dawah Academy, IIUI, PAkistan
 Importance of time

 According to Quran
 Sura Al Asar
 According to ahadith
 Two important blessings ….
 Prefer 5 things before 5 ….

 Accountability in hashar ….

 Dawn of a new day ….

02/26/23 Shagufta Omar, Dawah Centre for Women, 6

Dawah Academy, IIUI, PAkistan
 Manner of time utilization

 Benefitting yourself and

others
 Wasting

 Harming yourself and

others

02/26/23 Shagufta Omar, Dawah Centre for Women, 7

Dawah Academy, IIUI, PAkistan
 Scarcity of time?
 Always complaining of shortage
 Over burdened with unaccomplished
tasks
 Unaware of its wastage

Considering importance and

accountability of each moment this
scarcity can be overcome
How?
02/26/23 Shagufta Omar, Dawah Centre for Women, 8
Dawah Academy, IIUI, PAkistan
 Wastage of time

 Reasons  Results
 Lack of goal  Nonproductive
setting  Dissatisfied
 Lack of  Un useful for
determination ourselves, for
for goal our families, our
achievement nation or
 Lack of Muslim world
planning
 Lack of
evaluation
02/26/23 Shagufta Omar, Dawah Centre for Women, 9
Dawah Academy, IIUI, PAkistan
 Time wasters

 Individual
 Lack of goal setting
 Non identification of priorities
 Personal habits (an analysis)
 Collective
 Lack of goal setting
 Lack of management
 Not observing the planned time
 Attending meetings, classes without
preparation
02/26/23 Shagufta Omar, Dawah Centre for Women, 10
Dawah Academy, IIUI, PAkistan
 Procrastination
 Delaying important tasks
 Some other time
 Tomorrow
why?
 Don’t feel like
 Inappropriateness of time or
conditions
 Thinking enough time ahead for
completing the task

02/26/23 Shagufta Omar, Dawah Centre for Women, 11

Dawah Academy, IIUI, PAkistan
 Procrastination (contd.)

 Remember its an addiction

(requiring psychological combat)
 Remember
 Yesterday is a cancelled check
 Tomorrow is a promissory note

 Today is ready cash

Use it !

02/26/23 Shagufta Omar, Dawah Centre for Women, 12

Dawah Academy, IIUI, PAkistan
 Time planning

 Identify and set your goals and

targets

Life long- long term- short term

mean-ends

Individual- family- institutional

02/26/23 Shagufta Omar, Dawah Centre for Women, 13
Dawah Academy, IIUI, PAkistan
 Setting and focusing targets

02/26/23 Shagufta Omar, Dawah Centre for Women, 14

Dawah Academy, IIUI, PAkistan
 Time planning (Contd.)

 Set priorities amongst various

goals and activities

Personal- family education or job

Dunya and Akhira

02/26/23 Shagufta Omar, Dawah Centre for Women, 15

Dawah Academy, IIUI, PAkistan
 Time planning (contd.)

 List down your activities

 Check and balance importance
of each relatively (set priorities)
 Find out your time wasters and
try to avoid them
 Make use of pockets of time and
wasted time
 Pray to Allah for success, ikhlas
and barakat
02/26/23 Shagufta Omar, Dawah Centre for Women, 16
Dawah Academy, IIUI, PAkistan
 Pockets of time/ wasted time
 Intervals in between two activities
 Waiting time
 Class, teacher
 Car, bus, van, coach, train, plane
 Meals
 T.V. program
 Doctor
 Travelling time
30 mts. a day, 15 hrs. a month, 175
hrs. (15x17) a year !!!
02/26/23 Shagufta Omar, Dawah Centre for Women, 17
Dawah Academy, IIUI, PAkistan
 Transforming wasted time into
creative time
 Screening through newspapers and
magazines
 Reading small booklets, brochures
 Discussing with friends and others
 Memorizing duas, small suras
 Making notes, noting down targets
 Planning
 Gardening
 Giving a helping hand around

02/26/23 Shagufta Omar, Dawah Centre for Women, 18

Dawah Academy, IIUI, PAkistan
 Barakat of time?

 16 dispensable
hours
 8 hours of sleep

02/26/23 Shagufta Omar, Dawah Centre for Women, 19

Dawah Academy, IIUI, PAkistan
 Recommended readings
 Shara-e-zindagi par kamyabi ka
safar by Mohammad Bashir Jumma
 Aaj naheen to kabhi naheen (Now or
never) by Mohammad Bashir Jumma
 Waqt ka behtar istamal by
Mohammad Bashir Jumma
 The power of positive thinking by
Norman Vincent Peale
 The power of positive living by
Norman Vincent Peale
02/26/23 Shagufta Omar, Dawah Centre for Women, 20
Dawah Academy, IIUI, PAkistan