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A month would feel like a week and a week would feel like a day and a day would feel like just an hour and the hour would feel like a burning bush or like the flare of a fire quickly.

Everything goes by so quickly. You don't feel baraka in time. You don't feel blessing in your time and there is a collective manifestation of that.

And then there is on the individual level when you start to look at yourself and you say, where is it going?

And I read about people that are so productive in the past and in the present, where is the blessing in my time?

And the Messenger of Allah, he was sent him in another narration, also in the Bukhari, he directly tied the shrinking of time to the decrease of good deeds and the increase of certain types of corruption.

So he said, the time would shrink and so the deeds, the output of good deeds would be less.

And greed, miserliness, stinginess would be placed in the hearts of people, and murder would become prevalent.

So there is a direct connection between the shrinking of time and the shrinking of the output of deeds.

And of course, the battle with time to make the best use of your time is one that even the Sahaba felt and most people do not realize the value of their time until things start to become different until you start to get older and until you start to get busier, until your health starts to wither as well.

Until you see some of the consequences of your wasted time later on in life and then you go back and you say, Subhanallah, I should have done things differently.

And that's why the Prophet ﷺ of course mentioned.

He said that there are two blessings that people just do not take advantage of, and they are health and free time.

So what does it mean to have dharaka, to have blessing in your time?

The technical definition, al-Amel al-Kathir, Filwaqt al-Kalil, to be able to do more with less time, to be able to do more with less time.

That doesn't always mean more in terms of quantity.

But to do more, because Allah Azza wa Jalla says, li'bluaqum aiyyoqum ahsan wa amala, not akthir wa amala, that He tests you to see who will do the best with their deeds, not necessarily the most.

So it's not always something that's quantifiable, but to do more with less.

Wa qalli ma-bina'ataa al-lahimuhullah ta'ala.

Ma-bina'ataa al-Asaazan, one of his hikam, one of his wisdoms, he says,

he said that some people live a very long life, but bear very little fruit, and some people live a very short life, but bear much fruit.

So there are long fruitless lives and short fruitful lives.

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