What can you do in one minute?

[JALIYLAH AMIRA RAHMAN]

By Sheikh Saalih al-Munajjid.:
In our offices and workplaces we can hardly find time to do acts of worship and righteous deeds. What can we do in the short time that we can find in our day? How can we make use of it?

Time is of the essence, it is too precious to wasted or neglected. The wise person is the one who pays attention to his time and does not treat it as a vessel to be filled with cheap things and vain talk.
Instead, he limits it to worthy efforts and righteous deeds that please Allah and benefit other people.

Every minute of a person's life carries the potential to raise his own status and to make his people happier, little by little.
If you are keen to attain the highest position, and bring the most happiness to your people, then forget about relaxing and keep away from empty amusement.

In one minute you can do a lot of good and earn much reward. In just one minute, by giving in charity, studying, memorizing, or striving to do good deeds, you can make sure that this minute of your life is not wasted. One minute may be recorded in your book of good deeds if you know how to make the most of it and take care of it:

Strive to make the most of each minute:

If you forget it, you forget the most important thing, the truth.
There follows a list of things that can be done in one minute, by the permission of Allah:

1. In one minute you can recite SOORAT AL-FAATIHAH 7 times, reciting rapidly and silently. Some scholars said that the reward for reading al-Faatihah is more then 1400 hasanahs, so if you read it 7 times you will. by the permission of Allah, gain more then 9800 hasanahs- all of that in one minute.
2. In one minute you can recite Soorat al-Ikhlass (QUL HUWA ALLAAHU AHAD) 20 times, reciting rapidly and silently.
3. You can read one page of the Book of Allah in one minute.
4. You memorize a short aayah of the book of Allah in one minute.
5. in one minute you can say LAA ILAAHA ILL-ALLAH WAHDAHU LAA SHAREEKA LAH, LAHU'LMULK WA LAHU'L-HAMD WA HUWA'ALA KULLI SHAY'IN QADEER (there is not God except Allah alone with no partner; to Him be dominion and praise, and he is able to do all things)-20 times. The reward for saying this is like freeing 8 slaves for the sake of Allah from among the sons of Ismaa'eel.
6. In one minute you can say SUBHAAN ALLAAHI WA BI HAMDIHI (Glory and praise be to Allah) 100 times.
7. In one minute you can say SUBHAAN ALLAAHI WA BI HAMDIHI SUBHAANN ALLAAH IL-AZEEM (Glory and praise be to Allah, glory be to Allah the Almighty) 50 times. These are two phrases which are light on the lips, heavy in the balance and beloved to the Most Merciful, as was narrated by Al-Bukhaari and Muslim.
8. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "When I say 'SUBHAAN ALLAAH, WA'HAMDU LILLAH, WA LAA ILAAH ILL-ALLAAH, WA ALLAAHU AKBAR (Glory be to Allah, praise be to Allah, there is no God except Allah, is Most Great)', this is more beloved to me than all that the sun rises upon." (Narrated by Muslim). In one minute, you can say all of these words more than 18 times. These words are the most beloved words to Allah, the best of words, and they weigh heavily in the balance of good deeds, as was narrated in the Saheeh Ahaadeeth.
9. In on minute you can say, LAA HAWLA WA LAA QUWWATA ILLA BILLAAH (there is no strength and no power except with Allah) more than 40 times. This is one of the treasures of Paradise, as was narrated by Al-Bukhaari and Muslim. They are a means of putting up with difficulties and of aiming to achieve great things.
10. In one minute you can say LAA ILAAHA ILL-ALLAAH approximately 50 times. This is the greatest word, for it is the word of Tawheed, the good word, the word that stands firm.
If these are the last words of a person, he will enter Paradise, and there are other reports which indicate how great these words are.
11. In one minute you can say SUBHAAN ALLAAH WA BI HAMDIH, ADADA KHALQIHI, WA RIDAA NAFSIHI, WAZINATE ARSHIHI WA MIDAADA KALIMAATIHI (Glory and praise be to Allah, as much as the number of His creation, as much as pleases Him, as much as the weight of His Throne and as much as the ink of His words) more than 15 times. This words bring many more times the reward for other forms of tasbeeh and DHIKR, as was reported in Saheeh Ahaadeeth from the Prophet (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him).
12. In one minute you can seek the forgiveness of Allah more than 100 times by saying "ASTAGHFIR-ALLAAH (I seek the forgiveness of Allah).
13. You can say a few brief and concise words in one minute, and Allah may bring about some good through them that yu could never imagine.
14. In one minute you can send blessings on the Prophet (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) 50 times by saying SALL-ALLAAHU' ALAYHI WA SALLAM (May Allah bless him and grant him peace). In return Allah will send blessings upon yu 500 hundred times because one blessing brings ten like it.
15. You can raise your hands and recite any du'aa you wish from the books of du'aa', in one minute.
16. You can remove something harmful from the road in one minute. Making the most of one minute motivates you to make the most of other periods that would otherwise be wasted.

FINALLY, THE ORE SINCERE YOU ARE TOWARDS ALLAH AND THE MORE AWARE YOU ARE OF HIM, THE GREATER WILL BE YOUR REWARD AND THE MORE YOUR HASANAAT WILL INCREASE.

NOTE: THAT MOST OF THESE ACTIONS WILL NOT COST YOU ANYTHING; THEY DO NOT REQUIRE TAHAARAH (PURITY) AND THEY WILL NOT TIRE YOU OUT OR TAKE MUCH EFFORT.

POSTED: BY JALIYLAH.