The purpose of time management is to effectively channel time into doing things that take us closer to our goals. The Quran is full of lessons on how we should manage our time in this world. Here are some of the lessons found in chapter Al-Mu’minun.

Now you are at the stage in which you know what success means to you, but you don’t have a plan or a strategy to live out that success. So start by setting goals in the three basic areas of your life: worship, relationships, and work.

In his book, Al-Hikam (Words of Wisdom), sheikh Ibn `Ataa’ says: “A sign of success in the end is to refer to Allah in the beginning. If there is no sunrise in the beginning, there is no sunrise in the end.”

Our fear is often worse than the things we are afraid of. Sometimes we fear some crisis occurring and that fear becomes a crisis in itself. Our fear of sickness may actually be the worst sickness to afflict us.

Why is it that we need these three things? If you have two of them, you will not be a happy person. And this is true Islamically speaking too. But let’s look at our lives for a moment: Something to do, something to love, something to look forward to.

“That man is really successful.” We usually say this to mean that he has a lot of money or a fancy car or house. We do not usually call a boy in the street cleaning shoes successful, do we? We do not usually say that someone living in a tiny flat in London has made a …

A man realized after a very long time that there are many routes he can take to reach his destination. Some routes were quicker, others more scenic, and others were safer. Even then, it did not occur to him that there were even more routes that he was still ignorant of.

WISCONSIN – Maysa Abu Khdair became the first Muslim woman to get a Commercial Driver’s License in Wisconsin, the US, Wisconsin Muslim Journal reported on August 28. “I didn’t have the chance to do too much in my life but when I got this chance, I said, ok. I can’t let it go,” Abu Khdair …