But by Allah, brothers, I have met scholars.

You are amazed at how they invest their time.

I have mentioned this before, and I repeat it on this occasion because Allah swore by time.

And as I said, we are approaching, our whole life, first of all, what remains of it—and Allah knows best—we ask Allah to bless our lives and yours in obedience to Him. We are also approaching four months that include Ramadan, a holiday, and opportunities for good deeds.

Since I came to know Shaykh Abdul Aziz bin Baz, may Allah have mercy on him—and when I give an example from someone contemporary, I am not giving old examples.

Otherwise, among the old examples are those of the sahaba, the prophets before them, and the early generations—amazing! But sometimes the devil comes and says, their circumstances were different.

Their reality is different, their lives are different, so the matter seems easier to you. I am giving examples of people who lived among you and whom you knew.

I will give four quick examples.

Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Baz, may Allah have mercy on him, I knew him since the year ninety-one Hijri.

Until he passed away, may Allah have mercy on him, I loved him in Mecca during Hajj.

And I went to him in Medina, and at the end of his life, may Allah have mercy on him, we used to meet with him regularly.

You would be surprised if I told you, and without exaggeration, by Allah, my brother, by Allah, I never saw that the Sheikh.

I say he neglected five minutes, which means three hundred seconds of his time.

Even, I tell you, not even minutes, ever, between work, seeking forgiveness, answering people's questions, and fulfilling people's rights, and so on.

He never took a single day off, and when he passed away, may Allah have mercy on him, a statement was issued from his office clarifying that he never took any leave at all. What's strange is that even on Thursday and Friday, the sheikh.

No. Imagine, a distinguished man came to him, as Muhammad ibn Musa, may Allah have mercy on him, mentioned.

He was the one who stayed with him for the last fourteen years of his life.

Or sixteen years. He says: A distinguished man came in such beautiful, pleasant weather.

He said, "Sheikh, we have a camp outside Riyadh."

"We would like to go out with you." He said, "I can't, I can't leave the people, the people are in need, and so on."

After some discussion, he said to him, "Sheikh, the soul needs a change of atmosphere."

He said, "My son, if you want to change the atmosphere, go up to the rooftop."

Go up to the rooftop, that's it, you've changed the atmosphere, the air is different.

And he apologized for not going. Sheikh Ibn Uthaymeen, may Allah have mercy on him, as one example, I was in Mecca.

Summer, so I wanted to.

With lessons, as you know, after taraweeh until qiyam.

And after fajr until seven or eight o'clock, he would make tawaf daily. The point is, I sat with some of the students who stayed with him, those who lived with him.

You asked how much the sheikh sleeps.

They said, he just puts his head on the pillow.

So how much does he sleep? Between four hours and three and a half hours only.

Only that. How much of it, Allah knows best.

Shaykh al-Albani, I was with him in the year one thousand four hundred and twelve.

I had the opportunity to be with the shaykh for two days, and he refused to let me leave or stay in a hotel or another place, he refused. I stayed with him at his house, me and one of the other shuyukh.

So the shaykh was with us the whole time, and out of compassion for the shaykh, even though it was an opportunity I couldn't miss.

He would say: Do you want to sleep? And I would say: Yes, not because I really wanted to sleep.

But so the shaykh could rest, so he would say, fine, yes, and leave.

The thing I regretted was that I thought the sheikh would leave, it was only a few hours, but then he would go to the library.

And I would sit in the library. I said: I wish I had stayed with him today and not gone to the library. It was my chance, especially since he wouldn't leave me.

Whether in the library or in a room, I would seek knowledge and goodness.

Finally, Sheikh Ibn Jibril, may Allah have mercy on him, told me himself before he passed away, during one of the holidays.

The sheikh traveled throughout the entire Kingdom, its north, south, east, and west.

He was accompanied only during this holiday, during that holiday.

Three groups of his students, one group comes and stays with him for about a month, then they leave, then the second group comes and leaves, while he remains.

He traveled by car, and rarely by plane, mostly by car, covering about ten thousand kilometers.

They give lessons, they give lectures, they give courses.

And he was over seventy years old, may Allah have mercy on him. So these are people who realized the value of time.

What pleased me is that there are people among their students—I will point out a meaning—I met some of them and they are still alive.

Under sixty or just over sixty, and by Allah, dear brothers, they hold themselves accountable for every minute, for the sixty minutes.

The last thing I heard a few days ago was a discussion between two students of knowledge.

One of them asked the other to do something very important.

He said, I swear to you, for almost a week I don't have even one free hour.

Just one hour. All of this happened just last week.

He said, All of us, he said, are busy until Thursday, even until Friday.

So there are people who feel this, and when Allah swears by al-Asr, whether we say it means time or your lifetime.

So it has value; Allah does not swear by anything except that it has significance.

And it has a price, so do we really protect our time with this care? I have spent longer on this because of its importance and its benefits, dear brothers.