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Islam gives you Purpose in Life (Ft Sadiq Damani) · After Maghrib 🌙

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  today's episode. We're going to be talking about
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  purpose today and some of the goals we have in our life.
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  What drives our purpose? How do we find who we are truly
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  meant to be if that's preordained or perhaps something
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  that we have control over ourselves as well?
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  And as you can probably tell, I'm not joined by Said Ali,
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  rather we today because unfortunately he's not in town.
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  But I have someone who's just as good as Said Ali and that is
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  none other than my dear brother Muhammad Ali Saw Ali the first
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  time I've done a Co host. Yeah, yeah, I think I've done
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  one with, said Ali. Obviously, I hope this one is
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  just as good. Yeah, and I think this is my
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  first podcast without him. I know he's done a few without
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  me, so And Charlotte will be able to fill his shoes sharply.
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  Bro how you doing? Hams are all good, All good.
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  How's your weekend? Yeah, yeah, it was OK.
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  I mean, today's Thursday. Well, by the time you guys are
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  listening, it's it's Thursday. But yeah, it was good.
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  I'm the lover. So listen, guys, we wanted to
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  bring on someone who we feel is the right person for this topic.
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  And we, we believe we found the right person.
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  This person's flown in for after motherboard, just perhaps by
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  chance happens to be in town. And that's none other than my
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  dear brother, our friend Sadiq Domani.
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  Sanwalekum. Bro.
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  How's it going? Well, good.
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  How are you? OK.
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  I'm the love. I'm the love.
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  I believe you guys know each other from.
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  We go. We go way back, back in the day,
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  We go way back. What's the history there?
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  That's our staff, Marshall, our teacher.
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  That's when a madrasa hasn't got any teachers and you've got an
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  arrogant kid who wants to teach. That's that's all that happened.
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  We all went through that, but we were all students and then we
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  kind of got promoted. And then he had to deal with me
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  just making stuff off on the spot.
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  How was he done? What's the question?
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  No comments. No, no.
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  Honestly, you know, it's, it's weird, right?
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  I I, I actually, I remember when said Zafar Abbas, actually he
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  mentioned to me like, Oh yeah, there's this guy Muhammad Ali,
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  you know, Marshall lies. He's Arabic strong and he's
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  going incineration. I think you're translating stuff
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  in Urdu in English or whatever. I was like, OK, Muhammad Ali
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  could be anyone in the world. There's a good few thousands and
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  he's like, no, no, but he's like guy from Stanwood, you know, You
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  know, then I saw the picture. I was like, what?
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  And part of him was like, maybe I taught him well, but no.
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  It was definitely, I think he was the first teacher in
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  workshop to start like giving us the importance of Arabic.
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  And you gave us these CDs and stuff that he told us to.
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  But I actually, yeah, I remember.
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  Yeah, you did. Actually, the girlfriend do.
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  You know what the impact that you that you leave even I have
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  ex students of mine who listens to the podcast now and they will
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  still come up to me and tell me about lessons we had back in the
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  day and certain discussions we had and Hamdullah now they
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  listen to the podcast. But the impact that that you
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  leave on on kids or students at that age is crazy.
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  You just hope it's a good impact.
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  Yes, the worry, Charlotte, because when you realize how
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  much you didn't know back then. Yeah, the worry.
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  Yeah. Yeah, I wish that.
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  I mean, I was teaching myself at 21 and I think even now I'm I'm
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  nowhere near where I should be. But that was so many years ago,
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  so it's crazy. So listen.
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  For those who don't know, Sadiq is born and raised here in
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  London. He as, as Muhammad Ali said,
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  he's like a teacher to us. I, I live from Sadiq and uni.
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  A few years ago he left the UK and moved to Oman.
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  I hope you don't mind me sharing.
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  And he's been on a journey ever since and Alhamdulillah has come
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  back to the UK to enlighten us and our communities as well.
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  Before we kind of get into the discussion, I want to know for
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  you how it's been there. And I'm going to do this by
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  asking you to name three things you miss about London when
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  you're in Oman, and three things you miss about Oman when you're
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  in London. Wow OK, things that I miss when
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  I'm in Oman about London family for sure.
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  Access to Shia E institutes we have in Armand plenty, don't get
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  me wrong, but I guess the depth of relationships I have with the
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  ones in London is much greater at the moment.
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  Charlotte, that'll improve in Armand.
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  So I think, yeah, I think that's a, that's a big one.
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  That's in the last two weeks I've been back and I'm going
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  back in Charlotte in a couple of days.
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  I'm going to miss that for sure. Another thing I've missed about
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  London. This is where I get exposed
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  because this is a bit difficult for me.
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  What about the food? No, you've got plenty.
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  You've got everything there. I wouldn't say everything, but
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  when you can get Mishkaki for like 40 P, like what's what's
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  the big deal? I think things work here, like
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  logistically things work in Armand.
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  I think in the East, generally something you'd assume to just
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  work like clockwork doesn't. And there'll be a million and
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  one different reasons, like top of the list will be, sorry, the
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  system isn't working today. Now, what does that even mean?
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  Right, whereas here, like it's a lot more dependable.
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  Rules are clear. Rules don't change overnight.
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  Rules don't get regressed after five days.
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  It just I think things just flow.
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  So I think that that is also nice when you're trying to get
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  stuff sorted. And I think when I'm here, what
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  I miss about Roman, wow, I miss the mountains.
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  I think seeing the nature of Allah always is mega Armand is
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  bound by mountains and the sea. So you're constantly seeing
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  both. And that's that's just special.
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  I miss the slowness. I think having, as you said,
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  born and raised here, right, London's quick, really quick.
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  And everyone would tell you, right, you know, meet family in
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  Peterborough and they're like, oh, London's too quick.
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  Like in Peterborough's just slow and not to out people in
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  Peterborough. You know what I mean?
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  Right. And I think then obviously when
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  you leave the UK, people like, wow, it's much slower than than
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  the UK. The UK is very quick.
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  But Armand, it's like you have time.
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  You have time to breathe, you have time to think, you have
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  time to reflect. Whereas here I feel you're just
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  like stuck constantly chasing one, one thing to the next thing
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  to the next thing. 40 minute drive, 30 minute drive, 40
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  minute drive. So I think time is another one.
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  My cop out would also be like the sun.
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  I think like honestly, waking up like with the sun is really
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  special and just always having a bright day.
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  It's gloomy today, man. So you definitely don't miss the
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  weather. No, I woke up so miserable this
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  morning. It's just 'cause it was cloudy
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  like. It's been quite hot here as
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  well, so. Like when I call my parents,
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  like Sally, you know, it's it's 21.
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  It's so hot. I'm like, Dad, it's 7:00 PM,
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  It's 43, but we've doubled you and it's 7:00 PM.
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  Like so I think. I think the sun though.
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  I don't miss the heat, but I miss the sun.
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  Fair enough, fair enough. So good to have you back, I miss
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  you a lot. Also, you got made it happen.
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  Habibi, so listen, I know this is a topic that means a lot to
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  you. Why is this so important to talk
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  about and and do you want to tell us more about what you
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  want, what we want to get into as well?
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  Yeah, sure. So I guess, I guess a bit of
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  context, right, Alhamdin Love, we were brought up in Stanmore,
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  three of us, right. So we had access to a community
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  of a large community which had a variety of opinions from first
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  day. I think obviously we've had
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  friends and acquaintances even in the community over the last
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  30 years or whatever that we've been alive for that you tap
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  into, tap out of, and you realize there are different
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  groups, there are different interests.
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  And then when you get to travel a bit within the UK, different
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  cultures abroad, you start to see patterns.
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  And I think in the recent time I've had the opportunity to
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  visit different communities, the patterns start to become quite
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  consistent. And people say, oh, you're
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  judging people. No, you just see patterns of
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  groups. That's just the nature of it,
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  right? Some people like sports, some
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  people don't like sports. It's not judgement.
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  That's just seeing patterns. And I think the more communities
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  that have had to visit, the more I've seen like a real growing
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  issue. And some of them that I've
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  spoken to have spoken to me about this as well, which is for
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  some reason, this generation see like us and younger, maybe even
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  a bit older, has a gap in their life.
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  And the issue is that gap is massive because this gap, and
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  I'll mention it in a second, is the core reason for why you
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  should exist. And without it, you're lost.
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  But you don't know you're lost. You only find out you're lost
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  until the car crash happens spiritually or physically, and
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  then you have to wake up and go and find it.
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  And that gap, everyone wants to fill it.
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  Capitalists want to fill it. Consumerism, materialism wants
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  to fill it. Religion wants to fill it.
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  Politics wants to fill it. Different ideologies within
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  politics wants to fill it. Everyone is after that gap
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  because if they grab it from you, in essence, it controls
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  you. And not only have we not got
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  people filling that gap, but they actually don't care about
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  filling that gap anymore, which is even more concerning
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  actually. And that gap is purpose.
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  And I think why it's so pertinent is that, and no matter
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  which community I go to and wherever they are in the world,
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  it's consistent, implying that the source of where people fill
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  this purpose is from a consistent place, which back in
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  the day wasn't the case because you were limited to your centre,
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  you're limited to your home, you're limited to your city.
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  Naturally, access to information is through the roof thanks to
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  technology which has good and bad.
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  One of the bad things is that access to the most dominant
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  thing becomes the thing that fills people's purpose.
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  So where you had to travel to get the American Dream, you now
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  get this dream, whatever it is, consumer dream, celebrity dream,
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  influencer dream. I don't know what it is, but you
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  get it constantly and you get it in your house.
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  You don't even have to go and travel for it anymore.
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  And I've seen it's destroyed communities, like destroyed
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  communities and rotting communities.
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  And I think if we solve this issue of what is your purpose,
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  especially when you're in your 20s when massive decisions are
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  flying your way left, right and centre, who you're going to wake
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  up to every morning, big decision, what kind of job are
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  you going to get into? Big decision, Where are you
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  going to live when you leave your family home, for example,
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  big decision, so on and so on and so on.
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  If that purpose isn't in place properly prior to those
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  decisions, you're going to have a massive U-turn.
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  So you need. To so you specifically mean
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  individual purpose. Individual purpose which
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  contributes to collective purpose, which collects, yeah,
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  societal purpose and so on, so. I I was speaking to to Muhammad
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  Ali earlier and the question which I I mentioned to him on
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  the phone is, are we not a given purpose by Allah?
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  In the Holy Quran he says I've created managing except nothing
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  except but to worship me and beyond that as well.
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  Does that mean that purpose is preordained by Allah?
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  Is it set in stone or is it something which is determined by
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  us? Do life events shape purpose or
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  does our purpose shape our life events?
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  These are questions that I have and and beyond that as well.
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  Just one more level or layer to add before I give it to you is
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  in terms of us being followers of the Ahlebeta Hema Salaam.
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  Following the Holy of Quran is our purpose as individuals and
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  as a collective different to everyone else's.
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  Yeah. Just what I mean.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anything to add?
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  Yeah. I think when we look at like,
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  the creation of the human being, it's clear that Allah does have
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  a purpose for us. Yeah.
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  And it's clear that He's given us the free will to go and try
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  and find and fulfill that purpose.
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  Obviously if we choose to do that, one not is our own choice
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  and our own kind of prerogative. In terms of us having the same
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  purpose as as creation, I would argue from what I understand
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  that all of creation does have one purpose.
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  It all goes towards top. Heed all towards Allah, but what
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  that means and what are the mechanisms to get to that are
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  obviously what people will disagree about.
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  Regardless of which religion we're in, regards of which sect
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  you're in, Even within the sect, there will be different ideas
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  about how we actually reach that.
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  So heed and how do we reach that godless, that God God centrism,
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  right? And yeah, I think that is even
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  reflected with regards to non living beings.
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  When Allah speaks about non living beings in the Quran, he
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  speaks about them making to spear towards him, right?
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  So all of the creations and everything is going towards that
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  specific centric point, which is God.
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  The question is how right and that's basically.
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  But I'm, I'm not even at all concerned with how I'm concerned
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  with people realizing this is the purpose.
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  That's alright. That's what I'm worried about.
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  Yeah. I think the how is, is dare I
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  say the easier part because there's a like Islam, like, OK.
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  But prior to that is people being stuck and like feeling
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  stagnant and not knowing why they feel stagnant.
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  And then, you know, typically, let me, let me, let me let's
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  like make this a bit more like practical.
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  Yeah, I'll go to different people and, and they'll, they'll
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  say like you and they'll usually start with their problem, OK,
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  which is like, oh, you know, I'm praying and I'm just not feeling
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  it. That's a standard one, right?
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  And you're like, great. It's, it's good that you're
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  praying. It's still a positive.
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  Or they'll be like, you know, I go to most democracy and I just
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  same thing every year. They always start with this kind
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  of problem or it could be much more extreme.
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  And it will be like, you know, I'm feeling super depressed.
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  I'm feeling very anxious, feeling very nervous.
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  I'm worried about how people perceive me and how they judge
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  me and whatever you're like, OK, what's what's actually beneath
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  this? And once you crank it down,
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  crank it down, crank it down, a lot of them will be like, OK, so
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  to solve this, I'm trying to read like books to get me down.
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  OK, tell me what books you're reading.
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  And suddenly I'm like, I'm filled with hope.
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  Maybe we're going in a good direction.
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  They're like, there's like this Rohit Sharma guy.
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  I'm like, you mean the monk. OK, fine.
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  Or like not so monk guy. I don't know what he is anymore.
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  And they start listing you off all of these self help books.
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  I'm like, OK, so my hypothesis is that you've got a lack of
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  purpose, OK? Because if your purpose is
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  solid, you're not going to worry about a lot of these things, and
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  a lot of those things will be in much better place.
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  So my hypothesis is that you've got a lack of purpose, OK?
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  You're telling me that you're reading books about how to help
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  yourself written by individuals who don't believe in a creator,
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  which is actually the whole purpose of your creation.
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  That's never going to reconcile. So you're going to have like
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  this. Nice ten week period where you
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  followed this guy's mantra reflect and whatever Islamic
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  concepts, no doubt, but without, as you said, God centricity at
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  the core of it, just like nice exercises.
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  You know, it's the standard argument.
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  Then we're like, oh, you know, we do Salaam, but you know, it's
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  good to also do these bodily movements.
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  I'll just do yoga instead. And it's reflection, right?
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  There's an interesting Salaam and yoga and a big part of it is
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  what's at the core of this thing, right.
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  And I think that that's my worry that I see people stuck at this
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  early stage. And I think I don't know about
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  you guys. I was stuck there, man, when
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  when I was younger. You know, you make every mistake
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  under the sun, but you're going to mosque every week.
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  You know, we're working the ELC every week and we're, we're,
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  we're, we're hours at mosque is amazing.
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  I count. But we're just a bit like, OK,
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  what's this doing? I think a big moment for people
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  in their 20s. And that's what I really wanted
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  to focus on, right? Because 20 is when you make
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  those big decisions. And a big telling moment is
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  number one, do you even want to get married?
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  Which in recent time, the interest in marriage has
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  regressed massively. I remember being sat with the
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  community. I was about 20 guys and that's
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  usually my icebreaker just to get them going.
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  But how many if you want to get married, 0 first time ever 0
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  usually you'd expect a handful, right?
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  Because everyone's some people have higher a bit shy, whatever.
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  Zero. I was like, why like this?
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  I wasn't expecting this to be like, I wasn't ready for this
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  part of the discussion, right. So you think what's what's
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  happening here? What's the gap?
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  Where's the lack of purpose? So that's if you don't want to
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  get, you know, hopefully they do want to get married.
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  If they do want to get married, a great moment to see if they've
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  got a good purpose or not within them and within ourselves is who
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  do you want to marry? Tell me the values of that
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  person. And then they're like he like,
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  no, write it down. No, no, I know.
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  Write it down. Like genuinely get a pen.
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  And anyone that asks me for help on this, I'm like write it down
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  and then write down who you are that that journey scares people.
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  I think that, I think that's what you're saying there is like
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  it's a good litmus test because even for those of us, and I
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  speak for myself first and foremost, that may even have
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  read a little bit about Sohid, try and understand Sohid on a
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  theoretical level. The question is in our
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  day-to-day lives, like when I'm, for example, working my job
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  while I'm doing this data analysis, or as I'm doing all of
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  the things that I do in my day, is it actually that I've got God
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  on my mind while I'm doing it? Or is it that it's only in that
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  moment where it's now solar time that I'm like, OK, cool.
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  I need to put work to the side and focus on God rather than go
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  from focusing on God to focusing on God, which is how it should
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  be, right? So that that kind of
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  categorization of purpose in your day, I think that's a great
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  litmus test when you're thinking about marriage, are you thinking
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  of marriage as something that is a practical thing that is
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  separate from religion and my relationship with God?
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  Or are you thinking of this as something as this is part of my
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  relationship? As part of half of your
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  religion. Yeah, exactly.
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  Exactly. Right.
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  And I say it's an amazing litmus test.
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  And I think when I, when I see, you know, if, if you go for like
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  typical person's journey, right, 18 to 21 uni or some kind of
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  like education, perhaps going on or first steps into the working
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  world, there's some degree of like, OK, how godly is your
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  choice in your job? Maybe just like things that are
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  Haram get emitted. But that's not probably the
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  biggest litmus test, right? But it's a big moment
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  nonetheless. But what is a big moment is
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  you've just started your career. What do you do on Thursday
• 18:44
  nights when everyone goes out to the pub?
• 18:46
  What are you going to, what are you going to do in this moment?
• 18:48
  That's a decent limit test, right?
• 18:50
  Then you start talking about marriage.
• 18:51
  We've just seen that and the impact of the wrong decision
• 18:55
  there. So a decision that you make
• 18:56
  about marriage that is not filled with the correct purpose,
• 19:01
  it's going to stop you from finding your purpose.
• 19:05
  It's very rare that people are able to then with their spouse
• 19:08
  who also doesn't think that Torrid and Korba tended Allah is
• 19:12
  at the core of what they need to do for them to realize it later
• 19:15
  down the path, right? What's probably going to happen
• 19:17
  is one of them realizes it, the other one doesn't.
• 19:20
  And there's a challenge that's a tough U-turn.
• 19:23
  And you make that decision when you're in your late teens, early
• 19:27
  20s, which is scary. Like it's, it's, I guess by
• 19:35
  Islamic standards, you're well equipped to make this decision
• 19:38
  by this age, you're both. But by modern day standards, the
• 19:44
  18/19/2021 year old is baffled. Is doesn't know what's going on
• 19:49
  Half the time. I'm like, that was us at some
• 19:53
  point, but how can we stop that from happening right?
• 19:56
  Then you look at where you choose to live and which do you
• 19:59
  attend Majalis? Do you not attend Majalis?
• 20:00
  Do you set when you have a child?
• 20:03
  I'm going to, I'm going to say it.
• 20:04
  What do you name your child? So people were just talking
• 20:07
  about it, right? What do you name your child?
• 20:10
  That's another litmus test. Where are you at?
• 20:12
  And the scary thing is, for example, when you name your
• 20:14
  child, you look at the rights of the child and even the rights of
• 20:19
  the father. 1 of it is that you give your child a good name.
• 20:22
  OK, we've, we've turned names into a joke.
• 20:27
  Now you know let's be creative rather than godly lack of
• 20:32
  purpose, right? Kind of scaling back a bit,
• 20:36
  because obviously I, I, I appreciate that we, we have
• 20:39
  listeners of different ages, of all ages.
• 20:41
  So we've got those who are approaching their 20s, those in
• 20:44
  the middle, in their 20s now, you know, in the thick of it.
• 20:47
  And then obviously those who have passed that stage as well.
• 20:49
  So people at different stages will feel aimlessness,
• 20:54
  purposelessness, that kind of directionless sludge in their
• 21:02
  life. Yeah.
• 21:02
  You know, I, I don't know what I'm doing.
• 21:04
  I get up, I go to work, I come home, I eat my dinner, I go to
• 21:07
  bed in the middle of slot Salah here and there when I have a
• 21:10
  chance. Because obviously not everyone
• 21:12
  is at the same level of practice, sure, as each other.
• 21:16
  But the point being is that there's definitely a mental
• 21:19
  health element to this. And I think that there's there
• 21:22
  has to be a correlation between how we feel mentally and
• 21:26
  physically and obviously our spiritual health at the same
• 21:28
  time as well. I know for men at least, we
• 21:31
  definitely struggle with purpose.
• 21:34
  And I think society contributes to that because we have a lot of
• 21:37
  pressure. This is obviously why the red
• 21:39
  pill movement is just booming because of the fact that there's
• 21:42
  the expectations on men are so high, so high.
• 21:46
  So there's the expectation to provide.
• 21:48
  There's the expectation to be physically fit, to be a leader,
• 21:51
  to be masculine, whatever the Western standards or western
• 21:54
  definition of masculinity means the expectation to be a hard man
• 21:58
  and to talk tough and look tough and and all of that stuff.
• 22:02
  Drive a certain car and have a certain facade on social media.
• 22:05
  And then obviously on on the flip side, we are perhaps raised
• 22:09
  as children of a generation of people who have had to learn
• 22:13
  things the hard way, many of which were immigrants themselves
• 22:18
  and and had to learn kind of by getting their hands dirty and
• 22:21
  getting stuck in. So all of that has contributed
• 22:24
  towards a big conflict inside, especially for men, in my
• 22:28
  opinion, where we're trying to identify where to go from here.
• 22:33
  And at some point in our lives, and we may be so deep into it
• 22:37
  where we don't know what we're doing and we're just kind of
• 22:40
  hoping tomorrow goes OK. We may be in our late 20s like I
• 22:44
  am, or we may be way past that in our 30s or 40s or whatnot.
• 22:48
  And realize that that stage, like up until now, everything
• 22:52
  I've done has purely been by the grace of the last planet Isla,
• 22:56
  and nothing else, the mercy of God.
• 22:58
  I haven't had an active purpose in my day today and I haven't
• 23:02
  had something which is basically a guiding light for me in terms
• 23:06
  of the way I act. The question I have is
• 23:09
  specifically in terms of the purpose.
• 23:12
  Is that a purpose which is like you, you mentioned earlier about
• 23:15
  writing down, Is that something which is literally visible,
• 23:18
  written, concrete, something I'm looking at, I'm actively working
• 23:21
  towards? How do I get to the stage where
• 23:23
  I know that this is the right purpose to have?
• 23:27
  Can I refine it? Do I refine it as years go by
• 23:29
  and I'll keep going on, But if things happen in my life, So for
• 23:32
  example, you've moved country, does that refine your purpose?
• 23:35
  If someone in your life passes away, if you have kids who enter
• 23:39
  the picture, if you go through financial loss or financial
• 23:41
  gain, how does that affect your your purpose?
• 23:45
  I think something you just touched on and I'll and I'll
• 23:48
  come to your point was someone without purpose who has still
• 23:51
  had all of these achievements inverted commas is just through
• 23:55
  the vodka for last final time. And they've not even
• 23:57
  acknowledged him. And that's that's unbelievable
• 23:59
  when you think about it. Like a lot's kept you going for
• 24:02
  the last 30 years. You've not even realized what
• 24:05
  this was all about. And he's still giving you more
• 24:08
  fuel in the tank just from his baraka.
• 24:10
  You haven't done anything to get closer to him.
• 24:12
  It's incredible how merciful it was and how much of a chance he
• 24:16
  gives us. Yeah.
• 24:17
  It's having this whole narrative that like he's ready to take you
• 24:20
  down is very, very, you know, naive.
• 24:22
  But look, our opinion matters for nothing, right?
• 24:27
  What matters is is what says in Quran and and and and the hadith
• 24:30
  of that is basically him. Salam Hamdulilli mentioned you
• 24:33
  mentioned you haven't I haven't created Jin and man, except that
• 24:38
  they let me worship me be in a constant state of or Bodhi.
• 24:42
  It's in like the present tense, which and it's a verb.
• 24:44
  It's it's time, it's movement, right.
• 24:46
  Muhammad, you said the verse, I think sort of everything in this
• 24:52
  world, all of the creation is doing to spear for last panel to
• 24:57
  Allah. So the Quran is quite clear like
• 24:58
  in terms of purpose. It's about this glorification
• 25:02
  and orbudi of a last panel to Allah to look at hadith first
• 25:07
  narration of al kafi. Should I put you on the spot?
• 25:12
  About Apple, right? Go on.
• 25:13
  I can't. I can't remember.
• 25:15
  Come on bro, I can't. Remember, this is your.
• 25:17
  We should cut it and come back and then you can.
• 25:19
  Oh yeah, I remember. It Yeah, yeah, no, the fire, Jay
• 25:21
  inside the fire. I'm just pitching for this.
• 25:24
  That was all the creation of yes, exactly.
• 25:27
  I can't. Remember the exact wording, but
• 25:29
  there's a few narrations in the chapter.
• 25:31
  And they they do get repeated. Yeah.
• 25:32
  It's beautiful, though. Yeah.
• 25:34
  And I really like I think this is where we need to be
• 25:36
  encouraging album and sisters like get into the words of Al
• 25:40
  Muhammad. It's it's not just a side thing,
• 25:44
  it's an essential thing. First narration.
• 25:47
  And he discusses this exactly thing, this exact thing.
• 25:52
  Let me take a step back, right? What separates man from anything
• 25:55
  else in creation of Allah? What makes man greater than the
• 25:57
  mountain? It's Aklad.
• 25:58
  We all know that it's the one thing that differentiates us
• 26:00
  from angels to anything else. It's Aklad fine.
• 26:03
  Aklad is the USP clear. What is the purpose of Aklad?
• 26:08
  Now you can either go to some random guy and ask for his
• 26:11
  opinion, get some opinion, or you go to the creator of the
• 26:15
  apple himself. A last one, Tyler Fine, go to
• 26:18
  his one of his great divine leaders.
• 26:20
  He then tells us, and I'm just going to paraphrase it, Allah
• 26:23
  let's the Athen speak and then he tells Athen go forward.
• 26:28
  What does the apple do? Goes forward, tells the apple
• 26:32
  come back. What does the apple do?
• 26:34
  Goes back and then also a last round Isla Basie says I've not
• 26:39
  created something more beloved to me than this, and I'm going
• 26:42
  to perfect it in those whom I love.
• 26:46
  Like what is Rasul Allah without his Athol, right?
• 26:49
  That is, that is Rasul Allah, right?
• 26:51
  That's everything captured there, right?
• 26:55
  And then he goes on to say this Athol.
• 26:57
  And again, I'm paraphrasing. I'm going to reward it when it
• 27:00
  obeys me, and I'm going to hold it to account when it disobeys
• 27:04
  me. The point is clear.
• 27:06
  The imagery is clear. Athle, go forward, goes forward.
• 27:08
  Athle, come back, goes back. What's the whole point of this?
• 27:11
  Your USP, your whole essence of creation is to obey.
• 27:16
  Your last panel, Tyler, that is your USP.
• 27:18
  The moment man goes, you know what?
• 27:21
  I'm going to disobey Allah. You've lost, your business is
• 27:25
  over, your USP is finished, Amazon doesn't have same day
• 27:28
  delivery anymore, it's done right, you've got no stock,
• 27:30
  what's the point? Amazon goes from being something
• 27:32
  to nothing. Man goes to nothing and gets
• 27:35
  humbled by the mountain as soon as it disobeys.
• 27:38
  On last parameter it's clear cut.
• 27:41
  So the purpose remains constant regardless of context,
• 27:46
  regardless of decision, regardless of situation.
• 27:49
  Your prime element is to go, how do I keep my intellect, which is
• 27:54
  what differentiates me to always obey Allah and always stay away
• 27:59
  from that which he prohibits. Simple.
• 28:03
  And actually, when you then go back and think, you know, OK,
• 28:06
  let's say after mother, I'm going to pick on you guys for a
• 28:08
  bit, right? Let's say you guys were doing
• 28:11
  this podcast horror button to your own soul, right?
• 28:15
  It's all about me, all about Ahmed, all about Ali Ali Wassen,
• 28:19
  all about Mahmed, right? I don't know, you guys aren't
• 28:21
  doing much greater purpose behind it, right?
• 28:24
  But I think we've all been there.
• 28:25
  We've all had projects that we thought were religious and kind
• 28:28
  and we were doing it, doing it, doing it, doing it.
• 28:30
  And you're like, this is a bit it's a bit aimless at some
• 28:34
  point, right? You got the hype, you got the
• 28:35
  followers, you got the invite, you got the this, you know, all
• 28:39
  right, that's, that's basically it, right?
• 28:40
  Similar to career, right? You get the salary rise, salary
• 28:43
  rise, salary rise, OK, You get the house, the bigger house,
• 28:45
  whatever, even whatever, you get engaged.
• 28:48
  And back in hour, there was Facebook likes, right?
• 28:50
  That was that was, that was that was the, that was the you got
• 28:54
  rankings, you know, that was the ranking.
• 28:56
  You get engaged, you know, OK, say, if all the likes have come
• 29:00
  now what? And if you're devoid of that
• 29:04
  purpose, it's nothing. It literally just folds in days,
• 29:09
  right? Yeah.
• 29:10
  You then have those parts by Shekhar Basu Khan, me with with
• 29:14
  his books without a genuine, if I'm not mistaken.
• 29:16
  It's like no one knows that it was him that was behind it.
• 29:18
  Like he wanted to keep it secret, secret, secret, secret
• 29:21
  secrets. Just me and a lot me and a lot
• 29:22
  me and a lot me and a lot. The amount of purpose in that
• 29:26
  kind of context is night and day, right?
• 29:30
  One sentence that you write that may inspire someone that no one
• 29:34
  knows it was you. It could be way better than 1000
• 29:38
  majorities that you give that you've plastered your name.
• 29:40
  Can I ask you if you don't mind, sorry to interrupt, but because
• 29:44
  you've referenced obviously a lot of amazing books, different
• 29:47
  scholars versus the Holy Quran. And we know there's a wealth of
• 29:51
  knowledge out there. But for someone out there who's
• 29:53
  reading self help books or listening to podcasts, not like
• 29:57
  after muggle, but something which is, you know, the secular
• 30:00
  maybe. Or, you know, there's a lot of,
• 30:01
  like you said, these kind of new era, like woke, you know,
• 30:07
  liberal podcast or whatever, where, you know, people are
• 30:10
  doing different things, dieting and yoga and all that stuff to
• 30:13
  try and find a higher purpose. You know, that's the thing,
• 30:16
  right? And I, I had that face as well.
• 30:17
  I remember I was probably 18 and Russell Brand, I don't know if
• 30:21
  you remember at that time. Yeah, he was on that.
• 30:24
  He was he was on a weird. It came out from nowhere.
• 30:27
  Yeah, yeah. It came out from nowhere and he
• 30:29
  was on a on a wave and I loved it.
• 30:30
  I was all for it at the time. So I felt empowered by that.
• 30:34
  And then I realized after 2-3 months, So what am I listed to
• 30:38
  just like complete random vocabulary and just all sorts
• 30:42
  his? Vocab is good.
• 30:43
  Yeah, it's very good. Yeah.
• 30:45
  I wish I paid a bit more attention to that, to be honest.
• 30:47
  But but what I will say is that there are people who are are are
• 30:51
  saying, well, look, at least I'm trying.
• 30:52
  I'm following something. I listen to for example, some of
• 30:55
  myself, I listen to an audio book to help me in my business,
• 30:59
  Dale Carnegie, How to win Friends and Influence People,
• 31:01
  Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow rich.
• 31:02
  These are self help books obviously for business, granted.
• 31:07
  But is there a, is there not a benefit in that?
• 31:09
  And B is OK, fine if I'm not listening to that.
• 31:11
  And if Sonic tells me don't listen to that, is there an
• 31:14
  equivalent? Equivalent, sure.
• 31:16
  OK, nice. So let's go a little bit
• 31:18
  businessy for a second. So I like the fact you brought
• 31:19
  that up, right. Simon Sinek is one of the big
• 31:23
  guys in that in that game, in the business game.
• 31:27
  I found this super ironic because during my like journey
• 31:29
  of trying to reestablish my purpose and, and, and it almost
• 31:33
  like not even intentionally doing it, just kind of through
• 31:36
  reading and whatever. And that's probably one of the
• 31:38
  points I mentioned later about what we need to do more of.
• 31:41
  I tell our Hate's book on principles of faith was the game
• 31:44
  changer. Like hands down, if, if, if at
• 31:48
  all, a last round tile that allows me to enter heaven.
• 31:50
  Like I tell our hate is to credit because that is the game
• 31:54
  changer and it's anyone listening to this now principles
• 31:57
  of faith and just put Khorasani or Waheed.
• 32:00
  You'll come up on Ed Islam and it'll come up on his PDF on his
• 32:03
  site. Read it with friends you and
• 32:05
  don't don't read it with like a forgive me for saying it a lame.
• 32:10
  I'm reading religion and that's it.
• 32:11
  Mind read it with the lens that you're reading one of your
• 32:14
  university textbooks. I put your brain to it.
• 32:16
  That's that's actually put the level of engagement we put to
• 32:19
  our academics to something more important than our academics,
• 32:22
  which is our life right. The way he does this each us all
• 32:27
  intellectual proof, Quran proof, Hadith proof next and repeats
• 32:32
  the site, It's unbelievable. It's like 200 pages.
• 32:35
  OK, but go through it page by page.
• 32:37
  Anyway, come back to Simon Sinek, right?
• 32:39
  So whilst I was like going through this, like figuring out
• 32:41
  thinking whatever, a few years later I came across his one of
• 32:44
  his books called the infinite Game.
• 32:47
  And the idea is, is that when you build a business, you
• 32:50
  shouldn't have a short term goal in mind.
• 32:53
  It shouldn't just be profit driven.
• 32:56
  It needs to be something greater, which he described as
• 32:59
  value driven, which he described as the infinite game.
• 33:01
  So you've got to find your business's infinite game.
• 33:04
  And sure, I'm sure he's just chosen that as a title for it to
• 33:06
  like catch. But just for a moment, let's
• 33:08
  just say intellectually look at it, right?
• 33:11
  Infinity. In essence, as soon as you have
• 33:14
  two infinite things, they're both limited, right?
• 33:17
  That's one of the arguments we have in Tohid, right?
• 33:19
  Proof Tohid, if you have two of them, there's no nothing
• 33:22
  infinite. So when he's saying go and find
• 33:24
  your company's infinite game, he's actually contradicting his
• 33:29
  entire theory because No2 businesses can have an infinite
• 33:34
  goal, but there's actually a lot of value in its title.
• 33:38
  The infinite game. It implies singularity.
• 33:41
  If you don't read the book, it implies singularity.
• 33:43
  There can only be one infinite thing.
• 33:46
  Make your business focused on a lot.
• 33:49
  That's the infinite game. It's not improving healthcare.
• 33:51
  That's great, but it's finite, right?
• 33:54
  It's not about stopping war. It's great, but it's finite.
• 33:57
  The only infinite thing that can exist is a lost finanality.
• 34:00
  Even in business, you create your business with the mindset
• 34:04
  of what about turn it a lot and you've made it an infinite game.
• 34:07
  Now the wave and for example, when you get your first
• 34:09
  management position and maybe again, listeners are in their
• 34:12
  like mid 20s, late 20s, right? And maybe in and around there,
• 34:15
  they will become a manager at some point.
• 34:17
  Your subordinates, there's not really a nicer word to call
• 34:20
  them. That's what's funny.
• 34:20
  This is why I haven't found a nicer word.
• 34:22
  Your subordinate, the person that works with you that you're
• 34:24
  managing is going to mess up at some point.
• 34:26
  They're going to trash an e-mail to a client and cause massive
• 34:29
  issues. That's your moment to test your
• 34:31
  bottle. What is my purpose?
• 34:33
  How am I going to react in that moment?
• 34:35
  That's that's your moment to go. Infinite game.
• 34:37
  Let's go. You can win a client if you lie
• 34:40
  to them. OK, time to do it.
• 34:41
  You can snake someone to get the client time to go.
• 34:43
  Let's see how you do this, right.
• 34:45
  Your friends just turned up to be hired for a position and
• 34:48
  you've got someone way better qualified.
• 34:49
  Who are you going to go for infinite game time?
• 34:51
  This is infinite game, right? And I think we've we've kind of
• 34:55
  just gone. Let me take all of these books
• 34:58
  and podcasts which which have valuable things.
• 35:02
  I'm not denying they have valuable things, but devoid off
• 35:06
  the infinite game, devoid of devoid of Yousef is finite, is
• 35:15
  aimless and it's going to crumble at some point and it's
• 35:18
  as simple as that, right? So then we've got to go, OK, how
• 35:23
  can I find these self help arenas that are safe and Tahiti?
• 35:28
  Sure, you can find have a Tahiti court and then go read these
• 35:31
  things and come back to it. I'm like, dude, it's not like
• 35:35
  Allah left you in the lurch without leaders that know how to
• 35:41
  perfect themselves and therefore yourselves, right?
• 35:45
  And so it's a drama, The Prophet's told that, of this
• 35:47
  concept of teskia, right? It's purification and betterment
• 35:51
  of the soul. We have hadith telling us that
• 35:54
  if you don't do self reflection at the end of each tale, you're
• 35:57
  not even from among us. Do we know how much exists of
• 36:02
  self help, genuine self help and IE.
• 36:05
  And let me now challenge it a little bit more.
• 36:08
  If you look at Rasala's first rasala of Imam Sajad is the
• 36:13
  herkuk of Allah, then it's the herkuk of the self.
• 36:17
  The one of Allah is that he. The first sign is what about you
• 36:19
  worship Allah is that he is to be worshipped.
• 36:21
  Sorry. And the whole goal of the self
• 36:24
  is that you use your entire self to worship Allah.
• 36:26
  Subhanaw ta'ala, there's no self.
• 36:28
  So the concept of self help is not an Islamic principle because
• 36:31
  there's no self. You're completely absorbed into
• 36:34
  our last panel. Ta'ala.
• 36:35
  If there was a concept of the self, then I asked the question
• 36:39
  in Ziara ta'ala, why is the first line not as Salaam Alaiki
• 36:42
  Ahmarpasen? What's the title we give him in
• 36:45
  that first line? In the most honorific Ziara of
• 36:48
  Salaam, he's an Abdif Allah, he has no identity.
• 36:52
  He's completely absorbed in Allah.
• 36:53
  There's no self in that. When you go towards them, what
• 36:56
  did they say? Labakia, Dari Allah callers unto
• 36:59
  Allah. They don't want an identity.
• 37:02
  They're they're nothing without a last panel to under.
• 37:06
  So this and then this is when when I gripe on self help ends.
• 37:08
  By the way, I did tell you guys I'm going to probably go on a
• 37:10
  run at some point. Self help as a concept is
• 37:16
  already anti Tahiti in its name. It should be nearness to Allah.
• 37:22
  Identify yourself as Allah creatively.
• 37:25
  That's where you humble and ground yourself completely.
• 37:29
  Because the intellect was told obey, it obeyed.
• 37:33
  That's all you're doing. And I think when you have that,
• 37:36
  the crux and you then got to rewrite what kind of person am I
• 37:39
  looking for for marriage? And then what kind of person am
• 37:42
  I today? It's going to look very
• 37:45
  different. So before you have this as the
• 37:47
  core of your purpose, otherwise you'll be like, yeah, you know,
• 37:49
  Ahmed, find me, you know, find me a woman that's like, nice and
• 37:53
  kind and, you know, be good to my parents.
• 37:55
  You know, this is all nonsense. Without a law, even the rights
• 37:59
  of the parent is dependent on the rights of Allah being
• 38:01
  fulfilled. It's a completely different
• 38:04
  view. I really liked what you said and
• 38:07
  how you linked this to intellect.
• 38:09
  Even when you look at some of the other hadith with regards to
• 38:12
  apple, apple is always referred to as a norb, as a light that is
• 38:16
  gifted to the believer. Apple is defined in one of the
• 38:20
  narrations, it says an Akulu Mayo Abedobi Rahman.
• 38:23
  The intellect by definition is the medium through which you
• 38:28
  worship a last panel to Allah. And the opposite of that is not
• 38:32
  worshipping or going away from a last panel to Allah.
• 38:34
  And another important thing, or I wanted to reiterate something
• 38:37
  you mentioned is, is very, very important that when we're
• 38:41
  thinking about religion, unfortunately in the Western
• 38:43
  world, we might go on to do amazing stuff in our academics.
• 38:47
  We might get to masters level, PhD level, become a professor,
• 38:52
  and still somehow think that now religion is out of my reach.
• 38:57
  Yeah, I'm gonna leave it to the scholars.
• 38:59
  And so on and so forth. That's very.
• 39:01
  True to to go and look into, but you're a professor.
• 39:04
  You're you're you're somebody that's gone into the depths of
• 39:07
  physics and rocket science. You don't even have to be that
• 39:10
  like, like Sonic said, you can be in a junior level management
• 39:13
  position. We don't apply.
• 39:15
  We don't apply that the the skills that we use in our
• 39:18
  vocational world. Yeah, to to God and Religion
• 39:20
  100. Percent and then the and then.
• 39:22
  The carrot and stick thing, like we don't, we don't apply that to
• 39:25
  ourselves. And then on top of that, the way
• 39:27
  that intellect is thought of even in the modern world and in
• 39:30
  terms of business, when we think about intellect, it's about or
• 39:34
  even in a business, in in a business context, people will
• 39:37
  think, how can I get to the next position?
• 39:40
  Do I do that by snaking this guy?
• 39:43
  Do I do that by taking the dominant role in this position
• 39:47
  or showing that guy down or, And that all fundamentally goes
• 39:51
  against the definition of intellect that is given to us by
• 39:53
  Al Bait. And on top of that, we have
• 39:55
  narrations like Sadat said. I had I seen a book, I think it
• 39:58
  was by. If I'm not mistaken it's by.
• 40:01
  I told Rey Shahry and he wrote about Economics and Business and
• 40:06
  stuff like some generations of the albeit.
• 40:08
  And there's another book I had about morals and conduct, just
• 40:12
  narrations of I think it was Imam Ali Ali Salaam.
• 40:15
  And the whole book is just about morals and conduct.
• 40:18
  It's about there's a narrations about how to do business, how to
• 40:21
  be in a work environment, how to be like, how, how should your
• 40:25
  morals be in life? Like there's a whole, there's
• 40:27
  literally a whole guide. Like it's like, here it is.
• 40:30
  Just take it from me. Like the mom's literally telling
• 40:32
  you, I've told you it all come and take it from me.
• 40:35
  And instead of reading that, you've gone to be like, you know
• 40:38
  what? My friend is listening to this
• 40:40
  podcast and he's a big businessman.
• 40:43
  So now if I listen to that, I'm going to be like my friend
• 40:46
  instead of and Mama Ali was the most successful worshipper ever,
• 40:50
  can I? Can I just add, can I just add
• 40:52
  this? I know you want to mention
• 40:53
  something, but I'm also very curious to know and I don't want
• 40:56
  to go on a tangent what you feel about the LinkedIn world, just
• 41:01
  what I mean. So the reason why I say this is
• 41:03
  especially when you say like, it just came to my mind when you
• 41:05
  said like, my friend listens to this and he's successful.
• 41:08
  So maybe I should follow that metric, but do you know, there's
• 41:10
  like it just I was on LinkedIn today because someone messaged
• 41:13
  me and I, I saw it. So, but I was like, it just
• 41:16
  drives me insane. The ChatGPT nature of how humans
• 41:21
  have liked just so repetitive lying, lying, full stop lying,
• 41:24
  full stop emoji, lying, full stop selfie like, you know, and
• 41:28
  everything become I bought coffee today.
• 41:30
  Here's what I learned about dealing with people over there.
• 41:33
  It's just too much. And that kind of thing is it's,
• 41:36
  it's becoming cheesy and it's become, like you said, devoid of
• 41:39
  God. And we have a very unique
• 41:42
  position. I've always known you of course
• 41:43
  side because we've, we've been with each other since since like
• 41:46
  uni days or whatnot. Earlier we were studying
• 41:49
  business and economics and stuff at the same time in the same
• 41:51
  place. And not not the same place.
• 41:53
  Say that again, not the same. Place, yeah, but we we do.
• 41:58
  You know what bro? We've I'm never going to let you
• 42:00
  go. We've we've, we've, we've
• 42:03
  basically been on a bit of a journey like in, in the same
• 42:07
  generation. I've always been fascinated how
• 42:10
  you've been able to advance in your professional career
• 42:13
  Mashallah, but also be able to work on your family, your soul,
• 42:16
  your community at the same time. I'm the sorry, I don't know what
• 42:24
  to say. You know, when it clicks, it
• 42:32
  clicks. And I was actually speaking to a
• 42:37
  mutual friend of ours the other day at Jumha, Sorry, not Jumha,
• 42:41
  IMA has some shahada just the other day.
• 42:45
  And he said this far shazar like this, This measures what I'm
• 42:49
  saying, Ali Salaam, no matter if you go this way, that way, this
• 42:53
  way, that way, this way, that way, up, down, up, down, up,
• 42:55
  even if you ascend like mad and will or will our regress that
• 42:59
  much less if Allah has given you that baraka, we'll always be
• 43:02
  there and we land back on it. I think I'll have that our
• 43:05
  parents. I know your mum, especially the
• 43:08
  mum, My Lum, she was she. Was.
• 43:10
  That's the chief, right? I just remember her constantly
• 43:13
  trying to teach me or do I was like Auntie, it's not going to
• 43:15
  happen. Did it have happened?
• 43:17
  Absolutely not. But that wasn't on her fault.
• 43:19
  That was all me being some coconut guy, you know, we all
• 43:21
  know it's true. So, but I think our parents
• 43:24
  pushing us back there, no matter what bad we did privately,
• 43:28
  publicly grounds us. And I think what's really sad is
• 43:35
  that without having the actual understanding from our Hussein
• 43:41
  Ali Salaam and the end of it Ali Salaam, those majalis can be
• 43:45
  nothing for us. Yeah.
• 43:48
  But we were lucky enough to be surrounded by good guys, you
• 43:50
  know, that we could look up to who'd be like, since I like, I
• 43:54
  know what you're doing on the side.
• 43:55
  We need to get that sorted. You know what?
• 43:56
  You know what that post you just put up, Let's take it down.
• 43:59
  It's not the right thing. We actually had like, social
• 44:02
  police, not least your brother to me, my brother to you.
• 44:06
  I don't know that we we had like the brothers would would help
• 44:09
  you. Yeah.
• 44:10
  And keep those red lines even US 2, right.
• 44:12
  We had a conversation about it. Ali Abbas Habib in our class as
• 44:16
  well, right. You you grow up and you look out
• 44:18
  for each other. What am I trying to get out
• 44:19
  here? I'm trying to say that it's all
• 44:22
  well and good attending these majalis and hoping it's going to
• 44:26
  help you, but if you're attending majalis of where?
• 44:31
  Where the where? What's being shared is not
• 44:35
  actually what Imam Hussein Ali Salaam stood for.
• 44:38
  Said. You're stuck and you won't be
• 44:40
  able to balance your professional life, your personal
• 44:43
  life, your family life, your parents life, so on and so on.
• 44:46
  You won't get the answer. You'll be like, but I'm
• 44:48
  listening to this lecturer, but nothing's happening.
• 44:53
  I'm like, was that his opinion or was that the opinion of
• 44:56
  Allah? And are they enacting it?
• 45:00
  Because if they're not, you're going to get a limited sample of
• 45:02
  it as well. And Alhamdad, I think we were
• 45:05
  blessed to have individuals who were, in their talk and action,
• 45:09
  completely aligned. And this was, you know, I said
• 45:12
  at the beginning about London having access to these guys.
• 45:14
  These are relationships over like 20 years, right?
• 45:17
  Where they've looked out for you and you get to spend time and
• 45:19
  they get to guide you. I think that's the thing that
• 45:22
  changes US. One book in particular that like
• 45:25
  followed by principles of faith. That was very theoretical, but I
• 45:29
  was like, and I didn't know this concept was self help at the
• 45:32
  time. But I always had these questions
• 45:33
  like, OK, if the EMA Ali Muslim are here to show us a perfect
• 45:37
  way of living as per the teachers of Rasul Allah, let me
• 45:40
  see it. Where can I see it?
• 45:43
  Which then made me realize oh OK Hadith is a thing.
• 45:46
  Okay so now side point, those who are trying to cut off or
• 45:50
  deprioritize the necessity of hadith from our community are
• 45:54
  taking away oxygen from our community as well right?
• 45:57
  It's nonsensical when a last parameter Allah flips it in the
• 46:00
  Quran and says if you obey the profit, you've obeyed me.
• 46:05
  How do you obey the Prophet? You need to see what he said.
• 46:07
  How do you see what he said or did you need to go to narration.
• 46:09
  So if you cut off that lifeline with very basic understanding of
• 46:13
  a little hadith being like, oh, all I care about is chain of
• 46:15
  narrators, please. I said I Waheed to an extent in
• 46:18
  Ziata. I sure are says the veracity of
• 46:20
  this Ziata is so strong from all of these accounts that I don't
• 46:23
  even need to refer to the chain of narrators.
• 46:25
  If that's a ferry and one of the best ferry in this world's ever
• 46:28
  seen is saying chain rates to one side.
• 46:31
  It's an illustration. There's many criteria Roman
• 46:33
  hadith you need to consider, right?
• 46:34
  So which book did I end up grabbing Credits?
• 46:36
  100 bookshop again, accessibility, Mizan and Hikmah.
• 46:40
  Great book, right? Classic collection of a hadith
• 46:44
  Sheikh like Shahari I think again, right?
• 46:45
  Imagine we mentioned his name twice.
• 46:47
  Amazing scholar and it's just like I remember going through
• 46:51
  it. It's like how hadith on brushing
• 46:53
  your teeth. Wow, this is legit.
• 46:56
  This is actually like on level like hadith on finding friends.
• 46:59
  And I remember at that point I was going through like a bit of
• 47:01
  a weird situation with the community.
• 47:03
  Like am I called you? Am I not called, you know,
• 47:04
  identity crisis and all that kind of stuff.
• 47:06
  So how to choose good friends, what friends to be mindful of
• 47:10
  what constitutes a brother? And if you want, I'm not going
• 47:14
  to call it any more self help. So that's the last time I say
• 47:16
  it. If you want inaction, guidance
• 47:19
  on inaction to get closer towards a line or facets of your
• 47:22
  life, go to the narrations art environment, because anything
• 47:26
  they say is a living, breathing version of the Quran.
• 47:30
  Nothing they say goes against the Quran, right?
• 47:32
  Nothing. It's immersion and you have
• 47:35
  answers there. So those anything coming back to
• 47:37
  your point when you're saying like, what should people read or
• 47:40
  access instead of that word that I won't mention any more of that
• 47:43
  phrase, go to the narrations of Ali Muhammad.
• 47:46
  And sure, some narrations are mega, mega, mega, mega, mega
• 47:50
  complicated, right? You don't need to go read the
• 47:52
  read the the laws of Hajj from them all the time.
• 47:56
  They're a bit difficult. Go read how to choose a brother
• 48:00
  and sit with your brothers. I remember we actually had a
• 48:01
  session with one of our mutual friends and I was like, look,
• 48:05
  I'm bringing Mesan. Let's just open it.
• 48:07
  I mean, let's just open it. And we we went through it go
• 48:11
  through, for example, the chapter and what good brothers
• 48:12
  look like look each other in the eye.
• 48:14
  Yeah, raise the conversations, man fine.
• 48:17
  Speak about Watford beating MK Don's five nil, which we just
• 48:20
  did. All right, congratulations.
• 48:22
  I mean, I care when I see a good result and then I then I leave
• 48:24
  it yesterday and I've got family in MK so I'm just giving them
• 48:28
  grief and that we don't care anymore.
• 48:29
  OK, convenient. Like, OK, have your chill chats.
• 48:33
  I'm not saying that you need to suddenly become, you know, 24/7
• 48:36
  religion, religion, religion, but actually you should because
• 48:38
  everything is religion. But spend those time and read
• 48:41
  with your brothers. And I think this is something
• 48:43
  that we've stopped doing. Like reading as a culture is
• 48:46
  dead, dead. Only business reading and the
• 48:50
  other thing reading, that's the only thing that exists in
• 48:52
  English. And if you look at the
• 48:54
  narrations and even verses of Quran when it comes to
• 48:57
  knowledge, right, the the taste of the hadith is always
• 49:01
  proactive. It's never passive.
• 49:04
  For example, the narrations that say go travel as far as some say
• 49:07
  China or whatever, go travel far to seek knowledge.
• 49:09
  My my Shia will go through the depths of the toughest seas in
• 49:13
  order to go find knowledge. Even they'll drown whatever.
• 49:16
  That's not passive, right? So this passive consumption of
• 49:20
  information of individuals personal opinions about the
• 49:25
  religion is useless. I sent.
• 49:28
  Right, if that individual is not saying Quran, hadith.
• 49:32
  And here's the analysis of a senior scholar, Sacket, like
• 49:36
  frankly, Sackett. And we need to raise the game
• 49:38
  because coming back to this point on purpose, there is no
• 49:41
  way. There is no way that this cancer
• 49:44
  in our community of purposelessness and all of its
• 49:48
  impacts could have come about if we had stuck to the real
• 49:52
  understandings of Doralemma's inference from what Anil Bait
• 49:55
  and Koran was saying. No way.
• 49:58
  Because I said his book's been around for how long?
• 50:00
  And I'm sure he's not the first person to read, write about
• 50:02
  Torahid like this either, right? And I think this is a this is an
• 50:06
  issue we've put on ourselves and we're now facing the
• 50:09
  consequences. I just hope that, sorry, I, I
• 50:11
  know you all say something, but I just hope that regardless of
• 50:14
  however old you are, if you're listening to this, that it
• 50:17
  doesn't feel too high level and that you hear, you know, books
• 50:21
  like Mizan and Hekma and I feel I hate and you're like, I've
• 50:24
  never heard of these people or these books, but they're still
• 50:27
  attainable. And even if they're not there,
• 50:28
  there are summaries online, there's YouTube videos, I'm sure
• 50:31
  people are talking about them and there's always starting
• 50:33
  points as well. One thing I just want to add is
• 50:36
  I know, obviously we, these last couple of months, we've been
• 50:39
  focusing a lot on our connection to, about the law, Aless Salaam
• 50:43
  and, and the sort of connection we have with him.
• 50:45
  And it reminds me of Arbayeen. A couple of years ago, I had the
• 50:48
  pleasure to spend time with your cousin, Shekharan Darmani, who's
• 50:52
  a teacher to me and to all of us at Hamdallah.
• 50:54
  And he's one-of-a-kind. And I was his his soul audience.
• 50:57
  I told you, right? For a couple of weeks, I got all
• 50:59
  of the gems of wisdom from him. And I remember I asked him in
• 51:02
  Najaf, sorry, in Karbala, I think it was Yomal Arbayan.
• 51:06
  I said to him, if there was one thing which I can take with me,
• 51:11
  because obviously there's the noise, the sound, the vibrancy
• 51:14
  of Arbayan. I said, if there's one thing I
• 51:16
  can take home with me, this was two years ago.
• 51:18
  I said, what would that lesson be?
• 51:21
  He said to me, remember that you are here with a purpose and
• 51:26
  you're not coming here to seek help for yourself.
• 51:28
  This is what he told me. He said so for example, people
• 51:30
  go to Arbayan or they go Majala says I want to improve my Salah
• 51:33
  and stop listening to music and you know stop lying and XY and
• 51:37
  said he said you are here with the purpose and that purpose is
• 51:40
  towards God and specifically towards the amount of your time.
• 51:44
  Hundreds after we. Purpose. 100.
• 51:46
  Percent at this kind of juncture I want to kind of bring that as
• 51:49
  part of the conversation I I yeah, anything you want yeah, I
• 51:51
  just. Wanted to take us back to the
• 51:53
  importance of going into the narrations and the importance of
• 51:57
  us going to them in in a world with so many different
• 52:00
  ideologies trying to pull us in so many different directions.
• 52:02
  There's a hadith of Mamasada Salaam, he says, that teach your
• 52:07
  children our hadith before the Moji get to them.
• 52:09
  Yeah. And at that time, amazing the
• 52:12
  Moji ideologies that were trying to confuse like all of the
• 52:15
  Muslims coming up with different questions, philosophical
• 52:18
  questions. And I'm Sadiq is telling them
• 52:20
  before they get to your children make sure you teach them how a
• 52:22
  hadith because it will make them firm and grounded.
• 52:24
  And that's relevant in all ages. Ages 100%.
• 52:27
  And I'm Sadiq again. He says if I find a shab, a
• 52:30
  youth from my Shia that doesn't want to seek knowledge, I'll
• 52:33
  strike him on his head. Yeah, that's the that's the
• 52:35
  level of importance that Mama has given to it.
• 52:37
  So like, you know, with regards to the narrations, those are
• 52:40
  literally our shining light. And that's what we say is our
• 52:43
  jam. How we say Kalam kumnor, your
• 52:45
  words are light. Literally is giving me in in the
• 52:49
  darkness. I'm saying in this is the light
• 52:51
  and this is the guidance I'm going to follow.
• 52:53
  I, I, I guarantee, I guarantee, I guarantee, right.
• 52:56
  Anyone who's going through a rough situation, which we've all
• 52:59
  had and I think you put a poll out right.
• 53:01
  And then one of the things is that have you found like
• 53:02
  purpose, purposelessness and lack of?
• 53:05
  Yeah, we've all been through it. And I'm sure we'll all go
• 53:07
  through it at some point again in the future.
• 53:09
  And it's it happens, right? Just spend time with the words
• 53:13
  of a lot in Quran, words that have Bates and a hadith.
• 53:17
  And when you just recalibrate and recalibrate and recalibrate,
• 53:21
  your mind changes. And I'm telling you, if you do
• 53:25
  this in the morning before people wake up, right, you're a
• 53:30
  thing. When you wake up, how much noise
• 53:32
  goes into your head? Whatsapps da da, da da da.
• 53:35
  Before you do that, you finish yourself a pleasure.
• 53:39
  Just spend time in the words of Allah and elevate our name
• 53:42
  Salaam and you just recalibrate that lens.
• 53:46
  You're not going to see the same problem as you would have
• 53:50
  otherwise. It won't panic you as much
• 53:53
  because when you rationalize it, you're like OK I lost 50K deal.
• 53:59
  The risk comes from Allah. OK, safe.
• 54:03
  It can. Logically, it's actually as
• 54:05
  simple as that. What's attached to it is the
• 54:08
  emotional faculties that are within us.
• 54:10
  But if you train your intellect and that lens, it's like an
• 54:12
  optician, right? You go to the optician, they
• 54:14
  train that lens and train that lens until it's perfect, till
• 54:17
  you get 2020 back. We need to recalibrate these
• 54:19
  lenses to go, OK, when I lose 50K, I'm not going, how do I get
• 54:24
  it? How do I get it?
• 54:24
  What do I need to do back? I need to take from him.
• 54:26
  I need to take from him. No, you're not.
• 54:27
  OK Lost 50K riskman. Allah riskless from Allah.
• 54:31
  Sustenance is from Allah. He promises it.
• 54:34
  The hadith is telling me that if you go and do your bit, thumbs
• 54:37
  up. Don't be excessive either.
• 54:39
  Okay, so I'm not going to burn myself out and mess up my family
• 54:41
  in the process because I have absolute conviction of lies
• 54:43
  there. I'm going to approach this
• 54:45
  problem differently to how I otherwise would have done it,
• 54:47
  right? And this is where bringing it to
• 54:49
  your point on the Mr. And this is vital, vital, vital, right?
• 54:53
  When the last parameter when we said about your purpose and your
• 54:56
  USP as per that first narration of the coffee is to obey and you
• 55:00
  obey. Then you see this beautiful line
• 55:02
  in Quran Athlete Allah athlete all Rasul Olil Emery Lincoln
• 55:09
  obey Allah, obey the messenger and those in authority from
• 55:12
  amongst you. So if you're intellect if the
• 55:15
  USPF it is to obey Allah and Allah and the Quran commands you
• 55:19
  obey me, obey the prophet and obey those in authority on form
• 55:23
  mocks you. What is your job with the Imam
• 55:26
  right? We don't need to go into the all
• 55:28
  the federations that we have about.
• 55:29
  If you go for Hajj, give Homs, give us a card, do ABCDEFG and
• 55:35
  you don't recognize the Imam of your time or you don't have
• 55:38
  Mara. If you're Imam that none of this
• 55:40
  is helpful, it's all there and we can bring that up at another
• 55:43
  point that this obedience to your Imam, given that he is the
• 55:48
  Khalifa of Allah on earth, is direct obedience that lost
• 55:53
  Pramatan. Go and read what the Imam had to
• 55:57
  say. We have a number of different
• 55:59
  daws that we have for him. See how he acts, see how he
• 56:01
  thinks. Go and look at and again to my
• 56:04
  dear one sisters said Munir al Kabbaz has a phenomenal book
• 56:08
  called The Mehdi, an understanding the awaited 1 and
• 56:12
  essential. I don't the organization that we
• 56:13
  work with to try and bring these books to life and trying to get
• 56:16
  people back to thinking and reading and whatever we've got.
• 56:21
  We've got discussions on this book by Said Munir, and when you
• 56:24
  just read how the Renema understand Alkaim, it's unreal.
• 56:33
  Unreal. A lot of us, I think when we
• 56:36
  were growing up, we were thinking, you know, Oh yeah,
• 56:38
  it's just going to be like swords and spades and we're
• 56:40
  going to hit each other. And then that's like the end of
• 56:42
  the Imam. And time's done, man.
• 56:45
  The civilization that the Imam is going to bring is outrageous.
• 56:50
  We have a one hour discussion. If anyone wants to get it, we
• 56:52
  can, we can share it. And it's just incredible.
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  And you'll see how said Munir, a scholar of that level, a student
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  of ISIL, where he's a student of Isilah Sistani, a student of
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  Isilah Tabrizi, one of the leading teachers of
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  Brattleharage and Najaf and previously in Qom.
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  Like up there, how he, dare I say dances between Quran,
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  Hadith, Quran, Hadith, Quran, Hadith and strict logic the
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  whole way through and you're like what?
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  That's a scholar. If we had that on our pulpits
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  week in week out or people doing just saying what he was saying
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  in his lectures week in week out on pulpits, this community will
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  look so different. And I've seen it with my own
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  eyes. 6070 year old men, after I read a narration from Isa
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  Rahid's book on principles of faith on Imama.
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  There's beautiful hadith from Salih, basically like a almost
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  like Zarajama. You feel like you're reading
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  Zarajama and this uncle came up to me afterwards, 70 years old
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  from a Pakistani community in East London.
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  He's like, I've I've never heard anyone say this about the Imam
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  like no where is this from? And this is one of those
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  Pakistani uncles who like definitely is 24/7 at every much
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  list that you can get just glued to it.
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  Is it that numeration that that Imam's like a shining sun?
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  And what's the full thing? It's about 8 minutes.
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  OK, cool. It's the solid, it's the solid
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  1. And but you see that that moment
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  of knowledge that reaches him and he's like, can I have the
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  book? OK, fine.
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  And that's just when you spend time with V, not because they
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  think they're something, but they've just worked super hard
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  to take you towards, a way to take you towards.
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  It's as simple as. That and the centricity of the
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  obedience to the Imam is something that is spoken about
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  in so many narrations that it shows you the emphasis and the
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  importance of it, that that is the only way you're going to be
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  able to obey Allah. If there's there's just just a
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  quote, one desolation in, I believe it's in Al Kafi as well.
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  The Imam says Thorwatul Emery was Sanam who were Mifta who
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  were. He says that the essence of the
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  matter, it's key. It's like everything to do with
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  the matter, the Amor of the religion and the pleasure of God
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  and the door to all things. It is obedience to the Imam
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  after having recognized him. Literally like everything you.
• 59:22
  Want. Is in the obedience to the Imam
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  and. I think a.
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  Lot summarizes a lot of people when.
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  They hear that they'll be like, oh, this is this is extreme
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  because it's the new term that they're hearing now.
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  And it's like a nice, nice new buzz when you understand Imama.
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  And people then say that these individuals are listen, Allah
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  are the tongues of Allah. It's kalam Allah.
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  These are the words of Allah. And then they're like, Oh my
• 59:48
  God, no, I'm still shaking. I'm still shaking.
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  Well, why does the last parents either say in the Quran about
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  the prophet when the Prophet asks for pebbles to throw a
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  Quraish? Yeah, he's like, that's not
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  that. You who threw?
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  I threw. Like in the.
• 1:00:00
  Runner right you'd and then after that you didn't kill it
• 1:00:04
  was me. If you think these narrations
• 1:00:07
  are Hulu, tell me that the Quran is all at the same breath right.
• 1:00:12
  It's your lack of understanding of Imama that's causing you to
• 1:00:16
  get worried about this. Why do you have a lack of
• 1:00:18
  understanding for Imama? Could be a few reasons.
• 1:00:20
  Maybe you're sat consuming information in lectures.
• 1:00:25
  You're not studying and seeking knowledge and you're not going
• 1:00:29
  to the right individuals and you can tell the right individuals.
• 1:00:32
  And I, I hate to press on this point, but until each of us
• 1:00:37
  wakes up and goes to the real LMR, we're going to be stuck.
• 1:00:40
  And this purposelessness is just going to continue to continue
• 1:00:44
  and continue because you see these guys and we even mentioned
• 1:00:48
  it, right? Like you said, Imran, one person
• 1:00:50
  audience, right? You see, Olama, they don't care
• 1:00:53
  about this concept. Audience followers, WhatsApp
• 1:00:57
  states are showing me do this, that and the other.
• 1:00:59
  They don't care. Sheikh, you know, you mentioned
• 1:01:03
  somewhere, I'm not going to say who because you wouldn't like
• 1:01:04
  it, but I was sat with him the other night.
• 1:01:06
  He was like, sorry that you know, this community Marshall
• 1:01:08
  was so nice to me, but they were saying, you know, Sheikh,
• 1:01:11
  whatever, I'm not a Sheikh. OK, we'll give you this other
• 1:01:14
  type of no, no, I'm not Hajj. No, I'm not Hajj.
• 1:01:17
  OK, brother, he goes, why do you need to put brother?
• 1:01:20
  They know that I'm a male. Just put my name even at that.
• 1:01:24
  When you've got a name like for example, or Ahmed or Muhammed,
• 1:01:28
  we can't even live up to this. Why am I going to add another
• 1:01:31
  title before it? Can you imagine?
• 1:01:35
  But then we've got in other scenarios, no, I need to give
• 1:01:38
  myself the pomp. And all I want to say is just be
• 1:01:41
  careful because that is self help.
• 1:01:45
  That's not God centricity. I know you are on time limits,
• 1:01:49
  so I think we'll wrap up. The last question I just want to
• 1:01:52
  ask you is if there's anyone at home who is feeling at the
• 1:02:00
  lowest of the low at the moment, Anyone who's going through a
• 1:02:03
  real difficulty and even if they don't realize it, so maybe just
• 1:02:08
  struggling, even if nothing evident has happened to them,
• 1:02:11
  but they just feel completely lost and purposeless at the
• 1:02:16
  moment. What would be one thing you
• 1:02:19
  would say to them to help them and make this night or this day
• 1:02:22
  when they're listening a life changing day for them?
• 1:02:27
  And that's a big one. I'm, I'm going to, I'm going to
• 1:02:31
  go a bit left field. I'm going to assume, for
• 1:02:33
  example, like prey is the far etcetera.
• 1:02:37
  Is all that OK? So I'm going to give something.
• 1:02:40
  The thing that did for me, and I still remember them very vividly
• 1:02:44
  in my head was reading Principles of Faith by Ayatollah
• 1:02:48
  Wahid because the way he introduces the concepts of Las
• 1:02:52
  Panmata Allah was like, I've never, ever, ever seen before.
• 1:02:58
  OK, if that's too heavy and it could be.
• 1:03:02
  Ayatollah Nasir Makaramshirazi has a book called 50 Lectures on
• 1:03:06
  the Principles of Faith for the Youth.
• 1:03:07
  And what's really jokes about it is that in the cover he says
• 1:03:10
  that I've designed this for high school students.
• 1:03:12
  I've given lectures from this book and you've got adults like
• 1:03:14
  this is so, like, intense on the head, you know, it's just for
• 1:03:17
  high school, for high school students.
• 1:03:19
  But the way he introduces the concept of Allah and if I can
• 1:03:22
  just give a taste of it. Yeah, of course.
• 1:03:24
  Summary of one of the first parts, it says every single
• 1:03:27
  person within themselves wants to be thankful.
• 1:03:32
  He'd be weird if someone was watching that.
• 1:03:34
  I've come to your guys studio and after we finished this
• 1:03:37
  podcast, I just walk out and I don't say thank you.
• 1:03:39
  They'd be like, sorry, that's rude.
• 1:03:40
  Why? Because every human has an
• 1:03:41
  innate level of saying thanks. It's just natural.
• 1:03:44
  He gave me some water. Thanks for giving me water.
• 1:03:47
  What's greater, the water that you've given me that I should
• 1:03:50
  say thanks to you or the banquet that Allah has laid out?
• 1:03:55
  Why is it that man can go through life with parents,
• 1:03:58
  health money? And I think a lot of people
• 1:04:01
  listening to this podcast will have many of these items that
• 1:04:05
  people in Gaza don't have. And we don't say thanks.
• 1:04:09
  And when we say thanks, we say thanks the way we want to say
• 1:04:13
  thanks. If I say you're a Liverpool
• 1:04:15
  sport, right? If I say if I say thanks to you,
• 1:04:17
  Here's a United shirt, you'd probably intensely slapped me on
• 1:04:20
  the face and told me to leave even more, right?
• 1:04:21
  It's finished. It's over, right.
• 1:04:23
  OK, well, so we go. You know what?
• 1:04:24
  I want to thank the way that I want to thank you.
• 1:04:26
  That doesn't make sense. You thank someone in the way
• 1:04:28
  that they. Don't want to be thanked?
• 1:04:31
  How does Allah want to be thanked?
• 1:04:32
  He doesn't want to be thanked. This is the mercy of it.
• 1:04:35
  It's not about Allah. He doesn't need to be thanked.
• 1:04:37
  He's just saying I've created you to obey and that obedience
• 1:04:40
  is going to help you. So I think when we keep in the
• 1:04:43
  top of our head that I need to be thankful to the one that gave
• 1:04:46
  me a banquet because that's what's inside of me.
• 1:04:48
  How so I go through without being thankful.
• 1:04:51
  Then when that clocks go read Mona Jade Shakiri.
• 1:04:55
  I see This is how you go between and.
• 1:05:00
  Just keep keep keep keep going. Was the wisdom of. 100 percent,
• 1:05:05
  100%. I've really enjoyed this one
• 1:05:06
  man. Hummed a lot.
• 1:05:07
  Probably I've enjoyed this one the most, in fact.
• 1:05:10
  Yeah. Oh, really?
• 1:05:11
  I'm not gonna lie. But you know what?
• 1:05:12
  That you said you've only done one of these ones?
• 1:05:14
  No. So it's yeah.
• 1:05:14
  Two of you, I've done a few of them.
• 1:05:16
  Other ones I feel like this is. But you know what?
• 1:05:19
  1 I feel like this is hummed a lot for me.
• 1:05:22
  It's been something which I feel like I needed to hear on a
• 1:05:25
  personal level. Yeah.
• 1:05:28
  And I feel like in many ways, we all need to hear different
• 1:05:31
  elements of it, if not the whole thing and, and apply to our
• 1:05:34
  lives. But this age, the, the 20's, the
• 1:05:37
  young age, the transitional phase from becoming, from being
• 1:05:42
  a teenager and kind of learning the ropes of life and then
• 1:05:45
  getting thrown into the deep end of, of employment and, and
• 1:05:49
  motherhood or fatherhood. And, you know, having to wear
• 1:05:52
  that hat of being an, an adult grown up, it's very tasking.
• 1:05:58
  And I think it's, it's important sometimes to reflect on how
• 1:06:01
  we're doing and also where we're going.
• 1:06:04
  And I think that's in Charlotte, what people can take away from
• 1:06:06
  today. So bro, thank you so much.
• 1:06:08
  Thank you. Thank you guys enjoyed it.
• 1:06:10
  I I. Really hope you you'll be back
• 1:06:12
  soon so we can have you on a kit come over Charlotte.
• 1:06:15
  Why not? I think half the community is
• 1:06:18
  going to move there anyway. Do one on the beach.
• 1:06:20
  Hello beaches, I'd love it there.
• 1:06:22
  It'd be amazing I think. Nice beaches.
• 1:06:24
  Let's do it honestly. The beautiful Yeah, another
• 1:06:26
  room. Online I love that bring it 2025
• 1:06:30
  all right bro thank you so much thank you both guys at home.
• 1:06:36
  We will see you next week. Thank you for tuning in.
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