Ammar Alshukry – You need this type of friend to CHANGE your LIFE

Ammar Alshukry
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The speaker discusses the importance of leaving bad friends and finding inspiring people to inspire one's potential. They give two quick stories about memorizing the 40 Haritha of karen Mahdi, which failed due to lack of interest and lack of understanding. The speaker emphasizes the importance of being in the company of ambitious people and the need to prioritize one's own happiness.
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The most important thing that I want you

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to know from this is simply the importance

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of leaving bad friends if they're not inspiring

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you to your potential.

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And then number two is seeking out people

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who will inspire you.

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I'll give you two quick stories.

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I had some friends of mine, and I

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might have shared this with you before, Obama

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was blessed, but I had some friends of

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mine who made it a goal, they wanted

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to memorize the 40 Haritha of Imam Mahdi.

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Did I tell you about this before?

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So I had some friends who wanted to

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memorize the 40 Haritha of Imam Mahdi, and

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they were like, guys, this is what we're

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going to do.

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We're going to spend, we're going to memorize

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one Haritha a week, and we're going to

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hold ourselves accountable for it.

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And so I remember at that period of

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time, I told them, I said, guys, this

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project is going to fail, you're not going

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to memorize the 40 Haritha of Imam Mahdi.

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Not because it's too ambitious, but actually because

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it's so simple.

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It's so simple that it's not actually interesting.

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Like how long does it take a person

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to memorize?

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You don't need the sentence.

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How long do you need to memorize these

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seven, seven words or eight words?

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That's what, that's two minutes of work, maybe

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10 minutes, maybe 20 minutes, let's say stretch

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30 minutes.

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That's it.

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You need a week for that.

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You don't need a week for that.

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Sometimes when you aim so low, you become

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disinterested, and so you fail not due to

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lack of ability, but due to lack of

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interest.

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It's not interesting.

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And so I told them, I said, guys,

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this Haritha of Jibreel is like super long,

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but this Haritha is like, it's just, and

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there are many like that.

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They're very short Haritha.

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And so they ended up failing.

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They didn't end up completing.

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Another time, I meet this young man.

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It was a long time ago.

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I meet a young man in the masjid.

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He comes in Ramadan to lead the community.

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And everybody's calling him Sheikh so-and-so,

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Sheikh so-and-so came, Sheikh so-and

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-so just landed, Sheikh so-and-so this,

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who's speaking of Sheikh so-and-so.

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I'm like, I meet him later on that

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day, Sheikh so-and-so, Sheikh so-and

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-so.

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And he's 16 years old, super skinny kid.

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The clothes that he's wearing is swallowing him.

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It was like his blanket, his shower blanket.

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And he had two strands, you know.

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And I was like 19, and he's, I'm

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like, I, this is, I'm just like, I

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don't get it.

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Like, what is it about him that's Sheikh

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so-and-so?

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And they're like, no, no, he memorized the

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Qur'an.

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I'm like, I get that.

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I'm like, I know a lot of people

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who memorize the Qur'an.

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They're often short, but they're not a Sheikh.

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I still don't get it.

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And then they're like, oh, but he also

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memorized Bukhari and Muslim, and he memorized them

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in two months.

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So I'm like, Sheikh so-and-so, you're

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my best friend.

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MashaAllah, like, you're memorizing thousands of hadith in

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two months.

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Now compare what that did for my sense

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of possibility.

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Like, I didn't even know people could do

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that.

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And here you're meeting a 16-year-old

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kid in the United States who did that,

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did a program over a summer, memorized, you

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know, thousands of hadith compared to, you know,

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memorizing one hadith a week for 40 weeks.

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So being in the company of someone like

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this and his life undoubtedly over the course

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of an extended period of time will make

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you do things that you never would have

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thought possible otherwise.

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That's the importance of being in the circle

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of people who are ambitious.

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Very, very important that you simply put yourself

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in the company of people who are going

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in the direction that you aspire to do,

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especially when it comes to the athil, that

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you look at those who are doing more

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than you, look at those who are accomplishing

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more than you, and putting yourself in those

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circles that you continue to aspire each other

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to goodness.

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