If we familiar with "Human Capital" as a topic in labor economics, we will know how to measure our leisure hours effectively. One of them is time we spend for shalah (praying).
Let's say we have been praying since we were 10 years old. We sleep 8 hours a day (=1/3 of 24 hours). If we were 70 years old, then the time we spend sleeping would be 70*1/3 = 23 years
If the prayer time we spend is 5 minutes, then 5 minutes x 5 prayers = 25 minutes (let say 30 minutes/day); and within a year, 30 minutes x 365 days = 10,950.00 minutes = 182.50 hours = 7.6 (let say 8 days of prayer time in a year) ……. What a shocking fact!!! Suppose we just realize that we have so short a prayer time (8 days in a year) to remind ourselves of remembering ALLAH.
Let's calculate how much we spend effectively out of our supposed age (70 years). The formula will be the supposed age minus the time for sleeping minus the age when we start praying (70 - 23 - 10 = 37). It means, out of 70 years, we effectively spend only 37 years, but mind you, that is not the time we spend for shalah, because for that we just need 8 days in a year. Thus, within 37 effective years, we spend only 296 days (roughly 10 months), i.e. 37 x 8 = 296.
Therefore, assuming we always perform the five obligatory prayers, within 70 years old, we spend only 10 months for prayer time; what about the rest of our age, the 36 years and 2 months?
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Assalamua'laikum, Dear Azuriy,
Few tips and suggestions here to share, as also been told by other ustaz (from hadith)to increase the time we spend for performing ibadah/remembering Allah.
Here we go..
1. Do we know that the time spend for sleeping can also be our ibadah? Take a nap after dzohor for 15mins (as this practice is a sunnah). At night, take wuduk and recite doa before we sleep with the intention and hope to wake up in the middle of the night (or at least 30mins before subuh.
2. Recite basmallah and doa immediately after wake up from sleep. Can also do that for anything we do. Effectively prior to meeting, study discussion, meeting & talking to friends, etc. Don't forget to close it with tasbih kifarah.
3. Recite al-Fatihah and Ayatul Kursi everytime we leave our house for working, attending classes, etc. as long as we don't do anything that is wrong within the period until we come back home, we are considered in ibadah.
4. Remember Allah or listen to Quran recitation while driving.
Actually there are a lot more, however I only knew few. (thats my weakness of course). What we need to do now is try to practice it. Its never too late to apply. Do you know that sis, the time you spent for writing and give opinions in this blog, that could make others feel insaf, happy, think further and knew good things could also increase the time for ibadah. So...keep it up and keep smiling (to the world).
Another way (but strongly not recommended); If for 70 years, it is calculated only 10months that we spend for solat, then make doa to Allah to give longer life like 100years than the calculated solat time spent would be 1 year maybe, (hax3, this is only for a very lazy person - nau'zubillah)
I-lal-li-qa' was-sa-la-mah
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