Ismail Kamdar – Accidental Muslim – Short Interview with

			Salam Alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatu to another episode of accidental Muslims calm here in
beautiful place of heaven. Tonight and this evening we've got a wonderful guests as promised this
ship is Malcolm. He is a wonderful shackle we've known for many years, and we're going to get to
know much more about him someone who can share. So shukran for for coming this evening. Tell us
about yourself. Yes, so I grew up in Durban with all our youth, you still remember when you tried to
join a group? who referred you to nerdy myself? Dude, we became friends out there for like 400
enough to keep us friends for a long time. And, you know, I've done my
		

			bachelor's in Islamic Studies, the founder of Islamic self help.com, the faculty manager of the
Islamic online university recently become the content manager of the niche. You start up and you
have been homeschooling Dad, what for more?
		

			So the list of what you're writing? How did you get into this into this field of writing? And tell
us more about your books? Yeah, well, I've always been a writer, I live in a school. I feel like all
comic books in the hope clash together of yours. Yeah, yeah. So just just be a writer from the time.
And then I just love the world of words. I'm a, I'm a reader and a writer, I read like 40 books a
year. And I try to write two or three books. And so the world of words, books, this is something
that I just completely love and get consumed with. And so I started writing my first book, having
fun to Holloway, as a response to someone in my life with a time who has very extreme, okay, and
		

			this individual will become a citizen, that is around that I would gather against him. And after I
looked at my compilation of police against him, it was enough to write the whole book, it was
literally enough to make a whole book on this topic, like, Whoa, there are so many Quranic verses
about having fun being Hello. So that became my first book. And since then, I've made it my goal to
always write on topics that people don't write about. Yeah, so you've chosen a lot of topics. And
yeah, like, and one of them is self help. And then Islam itself.
		

			So about five years ago, when I became the faculty manager at the Islamic online university, I found
myself not having management experience or management education, I need to improve my interpersonal
skills. And so I started reading books in the south healthiest. And they completely transformed me
they made me a better person, how many people think self help, books are bogus, they're, they
completely transformed my life, they made me a better person, that's for sure. All these five steps
to success. Really Work. If you're finding the thing, finding the people to find focus that people
don't apply and read the book, I think the books will magically change can change. It's about
		

			applying what you need. And so people began to see the changes and people began to ask me Are you
concerned with the time management we can learn about it? Yeah, because so good, the self
confidence, you know, we can learn about it. And the books are suggesting to people the pillar here,
but this is by a non Muslim author, I prefer to read something by an author. I couldn't find
anything by Mr. Water. And actually, the light bulb went off. I was like, this is it. This is a
niche that nobody's gone into. I need to get started that I put the domain in WWE something
Southampton calm before anybody else thinks of the idea. And I wrote a book a time management book
		

			of self confidence, they both went on to sell 1000s of copies worldwide. And since it is just the
clothing, including we now have many ebooks, many online courses, many articles, and 100 beta for
the 1000s of people around the world. And it's really grown into such a powerful and empowering
field, I joined because it's helped me grow into a better person, the challenge of, of running my
own website and helped me to really grow into a better person. And I really enjoyed the fact that
almost every week, somebody emails me to say how a book of mine or course of my article of mine has
changed their life.
		

			It's really something that I've enjoyed. So you met many tenants. One of the things we spoke about
is homeschooling. Yeah. And I think that's a lot we spoke about on the on the actual podcast yet. So
if you're gonna be watching and listening to it, then please tune in and but we'll talk much more
about it then. But apart from that, how do you find the balance and why and why are you so
interested in doing so many things? It's two different but equally important questions balance.
		

			When I was younger, I was just all of it work. I remember one day, so I was taking my my
grandmother's.
		

			I'm telling you all the things that my grandmother told me about yourself, what do you do for
yourself? You pick it up for yourself? But what do you mean said you must take care of yourself to
take care of everybody else.
		

			And actually, I learned a very important lesson.
		

			All right, today, I make time for my son, I take care of myself, because if I don't take care of
myself, I cannot take care of everybody else. So I have a very strict schedule. But that strict
schedule includes home for Netflix and PlayStation, right? So, I may look like this guy who's like,
do too many things. But at the end of the day, in one day, I've homeschool my kids, I've run the
university I, I've done my work for the startup, I've written articles, I've written a book, I read
Quran, I've read a book or listen to a podcast. And I've still found time to watch Netflix, time to
play video games, and so forth, and just to have a coffee and enjoy my thoughts. It's all about
		

			making time for what's important. And to meet, taking care of myself enjoying myself, giving them
the time is also important. It's also by the sub realities. The other thing I do to help me maintain
peace and keep going, if I live a life of gratitude. So the first thing I do every morning, is I
write out three things that I'm grateful for today. And for each of those three things, I see 100.
And throughout the day, whenever a negative thought enters my mind, I counter it with a thought of
gratitude on the exact same thing. So if my kids are making noise, and my mind starts thinking about
it, I see 100 I have four meeting kids. And I tell you that
		

			if I'm like, I'm so busy, I have so much work to do,
		

			I have so many jobs, so
		

			it becomes a total gratitude. So when you are grateful for what you have in your life, you are
always positive, you are able to turn any game that you see in front of you, it is something to be
grateful to Allah for. And the best part about the Allah said if you have read even more. So I had a
car before was really beaten up. Whenever people used to complain, I say 100 on mechanical
breakdown. And today I have a really awesome car. And I believe that's because I was grateful.
		

			So I really believe in the power of gratitude. And that's a simple low, we go follow him. Yeah, I
follow it every single day without fail, I don't allow myself to go out be grateful. And really, why
why do I do it? I do it. Because number one, I believe our life is short. We are accountable to a
level how we spend our life, how we spend our money, how we spend our time, how we spend our
knowledge, our wealth, to be accountable for these things. So I make sure all of these things are
spent in ways which are pleasing to alive, beneficial.
		

			I also know that Allah has blessed me with gifts and skills that most people don't have. The ability
to write and to speak, some people are authors, some of these speakers, I'm a teacher, I'm all
three, I'm good at all three. This is something Allah has blessed me with. And so Allah has given me
the skills, I have to use them, because I have to use it to help you. Because he's going to ask me
about it. The Academy is going to ask me that you are given the ability to write work. Why did you
use it? You were given the ability to teach, why did you teach people that are beneficial. So I look
at each of these gifts that I have with each time management with each my public speaking skills
		

			that you can use as a responsibility that Allah has given me that this is what you have, let's see
what you're going to do with it. But generally, it will come for us or against us. Everyday attire
can really come
		

			as a powerful words and if you want to listen to more shift, and I have been having a wonderful
conversation, and we'll be continuing the day after so once again to the children for joining us
this evening. And for those of Devin we're going to have next Devon meet up soon. Jeff was there
when our last one we had a great response. So hopefully see you they show up for my ca them