Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Advice for University Students Be Realistic

28 January 2023

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The speaker advises the caller to be realistic about their future goals and not give up on their dreams. They suggest that achieving their goals will make them more enjoyable and make them feel better. The caller is warned that they may become depressed if they don't achieve their goals.

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Number seven, be realistic about your future. I told you about your

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five year plan 10 year plan, be very realistic, have realistic

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prospects about your graduation. Your mind shouldn't be that I'm

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only studying all of this because I want my first job must be

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50,000k a year. If it does come about, well hamdulillah but if it

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doesn't, then are you going to sulk and cry? Are you going to be

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depressed? Are you going to think all your years have been wasted?

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So be realistic? Like what does the person in this field actually

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make? Be realistic about it? And then if you get more than

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hamdulillah you're not going to give it up. You're not going to

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throw it away. Get your you'll enjoy it, but you'll enjoy it more

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because it'll be more you had unrealistic expectations. You

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could be end up being depressed

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