Time Management Is Not About Control — Time Is a Trust

Time is often treated as a resource to optimize. But from a faith-informed and ethical perspective, time is not owned — it is entrusted. Time is one of the greatest gifts given by Allah. And like all trusts, it demands responsibility, not domination. When illness enters life, time stops behaving predictably. Energy fluctuates. Plans collapse. RST does not teach people to “master” time. We invite them to honor it. Honoring time may mean: doing less, but with presence choosing what matters, not what impresses resting without self-accusation “By time, indeed mankind is in loss…” (Qur’an 103:1–2) Loss here is not about laziness. It is about forgetting meaning. When time is treated as a sacred trust, every hour does not need to be productive — but it needs to be intentional. That is where real balance begins.