How important is the time until Allah SWT. personally declare it? Of course! Many people think of time as just passing by. Humans are mostly soft on time. In fact, that time was a great gift. But why then neglected it ?.
Is there a time limit? Or is time only a restriction made by humans? Humans make the division of time into 24 hours a day and overnight. How about on the moon? Is it also 24 hours? And what about other planets, is it also 24 hours?
Watching the motion of the time is similar to Kahllil Gibran's expression. "You want to measure timeless and immeasurable time. You will adjust your behavior and even direct your soul's journey according to the hours and seasons ... But eternity in you is the awareness of eternal life.
Time as something immeasurable can only be interpreted if we can build self-awareness of something eternal. We realize that life does not end with physical death when embraced by the earth. But, it is precisely after the body is embraced by the earth that the real life will begin namely the afterlife.
Believers are made aware by the Koran that in reality the Hereafter must be prioritized more than the life of the world. Because actually the world is no more than a temporary stopover place. So, whoever does not understand this reality and even makes the world everything, he will suffer greatly.
To be a successful person, one must be able to manage time well. We have a lot of work to do; all work is important. So then we schedule all the work in a list. Then, we will try to make a check-list of which jobs should be placed on a priority scale.
Of course we might put unimportant things above what is important. It is impossible to put the first list of urgent work after non-urgent work. This has become a formula for being able to successfully manage time.
Once again, back with the problem of managing our lives; because we believers are well aware that the life of the world is temporary and fleeting, it is not possible to put it first.
So that we even forget the afterlife. Yet we know that the afterlife is more important than world life. And this of course will be very dangerous, because we can be the losers in the hereafter.
"The most important things should never be under the authority of the least important things." (Goethe).