Fatima Barkatulla – Your Past Doesn’t Define You

			The past does not define a future. Many of us we live in the past. When we look into the future, all
we see is the past, you know, our past failures, our past problems, things that defined us or things
that people said about us in the past, we allow that to be the vision that is ahead of us. But you
see those past failures, they were just things that we could learn from and keep moving forward.
When you see somebody who's successful when you see people who have excelled and have had high
aspirations, and succeeded, then people who had some kind of superpowers, and they never ever had
problems, they're not people who never had past failures. No, they have plenty of failures. And if
		

			you were to sit down with them and ask them about their path, you would find that, you know, they
might have gone bankrupt, they might have, you know, the whole project may have fallen apart
initially, people may have abandoned them, all sorts of things may have happened, you know, they may
have had health problems. So many things of stickles came their way. But it's not that those people
had no obstacles, it's that they approached those obstacles and those failures or those mistakes in
a different way, to the average person, what they did was they just learned from them, they just
learned from those failures and said, Okay, so that's not the way to do it, I'm going to move on and
		

			find the way to do it.
		

			They kept moving forward, when others gave up. So if we only decided that we would leave the past in
the past, okay. And when we look into the future, we see a blank canvas. This would help us so much
in being people of high aspiration and continuing on that path. You gotta imagine that you have
these filing cabinets, right, the past, and the future. And all of the things that have happened in
your past, you acknowledge them, they're part of who you are, they've built you and made you what
you are today.
		

			They may not be pleasant, there may be things that make you quite sad or make you feel quite
demotivated. However, you take those things, and you put them firmly into the folder into the filing
cabinet that is labeled the past, you make sure that they're not in the filing cabinet labeled the
future. And the filing cabinet labeled, the future is empty. It's ready for you like a blank canvas
to paint on and to do whatever it is that you would do on because a lot of times Allah hasn't told
us what the future holds for us as individuals. Yes, we know that Allah, Allah has decreed. And he
has written these things, but he hasn't told us So who are we to say, I cannot do this, who are we
		

			to say I can't achieve this, that would be wrong. Instead, our belief in other our belief that Allah
Subhana Allah holds our futures in his hands should make us feel even more bold, and to step forward
confidently and say to ourselves, the future is an empty canvas. And it's there for me to forge and
create and a lot of Canada Allah will help me in that partner
		

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