I don’t have time! Do you?

Bismillah, alhamdulillah.

As the years have rolled on, I have noticed on asking may of my acquaintances and friends to do something which requires them to go out of their way a common response: ‘I don’t have time!’. When I was younger I would struggle to understand what people did with their time, but as the years have piled on, I now understand what people said. The vacuous nature of life acts like a black hole. It attracts the most time drenching activities from television, surfing the net, latest gadgets, having a good time visiting restaurants, going to shopping centres further and further away to buy what I could have bought at the click of a button.

While the world offered to save our time, instead we became busier. Computers were meant to save paper, instead I now see paper being sold at a tremendous rate and rapidly coming out oflaser printers. Now we have so many programs to teach us Islam and an internet full of knowledge I find people less educated about Islam. It is indeed a world of contradictory principles.

Alhamdulillah Allah has provided the slowest month in the year, Ramadan. A month when we are given the opportunity when fasting to watch the passage of time slow down for a few hours, to contemplate where we have arrived after so many Ramadans on this planet. What goals have we achieved, what goals do we have let to aspire for. What have we prepared for tomorrow when we shall stand in front of Allah, all alone, perhaps blind perhaps sighted. Perhaps we will have a good answer for what we did with our spare time. May Allah make us from those who spend their time wisely.

One goal that many of us have an aspiration to achieve is to read and understand the Quran. I would like to invite you all to have a look at this project which offers a ‘new’ approach to learning the Quran. It offers electronic (web or Excel) or paper based worksheets to learn the Quran. It takes a simple commentary of the Quran written in Arabic and encourages the reader to learn new words and understand the Quran at the same time. Please make time and have a look at the following two links:

List of Quran Worksheets This link has all the worsksheets done so far. For a quick start, begin here.
Introduction to TMArabic : This introduces the concept.
Power point presentation : This gives a power point presentation of the idea behind the concept.

This is an ongoing project and if you have any feedback, spotted any errors please give your feedback.

May Allah give us the time to appreciate His final message to us.