Mirza Yawar Baig – Secret of success IAD
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The speakers discuss the importance of investing in one's life and finding a woman with a problem, as well as the need to plant, find, and measure mentality. They stress the importance of finding a woman with a problem, fixing problems, listening to oneself, and avoiding wasting others' time in achieving success.
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In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Ever
Merciful.
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of
the worlds.
And peace and blessings be upon the messengers
and messengers of Muhammad and his prophet, peace
and blessings be upon him and his family
and his companions.
Peace and blessings be upon you all.
My brothers and sisters, somebody asked me to
speak to some college students about so-called
secrets of success in life.
I say so-called because nothing is secret,
everything is public.
It's just that some people just don't get
it.
Like some people don't get what's in the
face, right?
Not because it's secret, because most of the
time you don't want to see it.
So for those of you who want to
know this secret of success, let me share
it with you.
It's very simple.
I want you to remember three letters.
Three letters, I, A and D.
IAD.
I stands for investment, A stands for abundance
and D stands for discipline.
Investment mindset, a mindset of abundance and A,
the ability to discipline yourself, IAD.
In the words of Vincent Lombardi, who was
a great coach of the Chicago Green Bay
Packers, the team.
He was a wonderful coach, wonderful quotes from
him.
One of his quotes which I love the
most, he says, the only place where success
comes before work is in the dictionary.
The only place where success comes before work
is in the dictionary.
And that's the truest word ever spoken.
So three things, investment mindset.
Just think in terms of your life, think
in terms of anything.
If you want to get something, you have
to give something.
This is the rule Allah Subh'anaHu Wa
Ta-A'la made.
If you want to get something, you have
to give something.
If you want a good harvest, you have
to plant the seed.
Without planting the seed and before planting the
seed, tilling the field, cleaning it of all
kinds of toxic substances and insects and pathogens,
right?
Making the soil friable and smooth.
Then making arrangements for irrigation and so on
and so on and so on.
All that is required for agriculture.
And then planting the seed.
If you don't do all of this, you
will not get a harvest.
You will not get a harvest.
You say, no, no, no, I'm going to
go and on this field I will pray
Tahajjud every day.
You can pray Tahajjud until where you make
Sajdah become the hole in the ground, nothing
will happen.
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la can
bring water out of a rock.
Allah told us He brought water out of
a rock.
But that is the will of Allah.
That happens when Allah wants to show the
world something.
It won't happen because of you and me.
If you want a good harvest, you have
to plant.
If you want a good marriage, you have
to first find the right person and then
invest in that.
Part of that investment is to take...
I'm trying to think of something which has
more than four letters to describe what you
have to take.
What you have to take, right?
From that spouse, you have to take something
which, as I said, try to find something
which has more than four letters in it.
There is no other way, believe me.
There is no other way.
If you have in this mind of yours
that you are going to marry this man
or this woman who is complete, absolute essence
of goodness, then think of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
The wives of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam not
only had problems with him, but Allah Subh
'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la revealed Quran.
In Surah Al-Ahzab, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa
Ta-A'la said, if you don't like
to be the wives of my Nabi, I
will tell him to let you go.
And I will give him better than you.
Something as serious as that.
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam kept himself away for
a month from all his wives.
So if you think that because you are
such a wonderful human being, and I agree
with you, but I'm not married to you,
so it doesn't matter to me.
And you say, but why does my wife
have a problem?
Then let me answer for me the question,
why did the wife of the Rasul have
a problem with him?
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Allah told us this.
This is not my imagination.
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la told
us this happened.
Investment mentality.
If you want to do well at your
work, you have to go and spend time
and money and energy in that work.
If you want your shop to do well,
you have to go in the morning and
open the shop at the correct time.
You can't say today I'm feeling lazy, I
open at 10 o'clock, tomorrow something else
happens, I open Monday, I don't open Monday.
People like to talk about China and why
Chinese businesses are successful.
I'll tell you a true story, because I
have clients.
One of my clients makes air turbines, you
know, the big windmills.
So they build air turbines.
So where do they source those turbine blades?
The blade is longer than the nozzle.
So where do you think they source it
from?
China.
So the guy tells me, we had ordered
these blades.
And they were supposed to come and we
know these guys, if they tell you they're
delivering on the 9th of November, you can
bet your last dollar in your pocket that
on the 9th of November, come * or
high water, that blade will be standing in
front of your house.
Simple as that.
So they said, in that particular case, they
said we, for whatever reason, this is in
India.
So he said we were going, we were
delayed in the construction, the civil works part
of the process.
Because they have to build the whole big
foundation and put that big pole and all
that, right?
So they said we got delayed with that.
So our problem was now a whole bunch,
it's not one blade, it's a whole field
of windmills.
So he said the whole bunch of blades
are going to be delivered, then we have
to store them, which costs a lot of
money.
So he said somebody had this bright idea
that they will go to China and tell
them that they have a problem with the
specs they sent, and change the specs.
People are smart, they think they're smart.
So they changed the specs.
So now they have to redo, it will
delay them and that will match with our...
So they said we went.
And not only he said did we go,
but we went to one of our other
clients, whose facility was in some remote boondocks
place.
I mean, it was like not in the
town or not in Shanghai or something.
So he said they went into the remote
place.
And from there, they called his company, they
said, look, we got a problem, we need
to talk to your engineers, so send your
engineers.
Where are you?
We are in this place.
They're okay.
Engineer will be there at 8 a.m.
tomorrow morning.
They're okay.
They said 8 a.m. We see this
woman, she must be, the man says she's
at least seven months pregnant.
There are big bays like this.
This factory was on top of a hill.
And for whatever reason, there was no car
or something.
She is walking up that hill.
She stops every little while, she's panting.
Obviously, she is in difficulty, but she comes
on top.
Once she gets there, there's no place to
sit, so she sat down on the floor.
She pulled out her laptop, she put it
there.
She opened the CAD CAM design thing.
She said, here is the blade, tell me
what you want.
So now these people are there.
They're telling her, we want this chain, this
chain.
No problem, whatever you say, right?
You want this blade to make coffee for
you, the blade will make coffee for you.
You want the blade to fly, it will
fly.
Whatever you want, you tell us.
So once they did all that, she pulls
out a portable printer, connects it, prints out,
gives it to them.
It's a sign here.
It's a sign.
She said, when will you deliver?
Same date.
Same date.
So these guys are saying, for God's sake,
we went all this way for nothing?
Investment mentality.
You build a global reputation for manufacture by
delivering world-class products on time, consistently.
I, A, abundance mentality.
Sharing.
Believe me, in my life, I have practiced
this throughout my life.
I'm in the consulting business.
My raw material, my product is all in
my head.
What I produce, every document, every PowerPoint, every
book is original material.
It has actually a dollar value.
I can take all my material and get
it evaluated.
There will be a dollar value.
But throughout my life, I have shared my
material, I have shared my designs freely with
anyone who wants.
Whoever asks me, I give it to them.
Many of my consultant friends, who are my
friends, but also obviously they are business...
I'm trying to find a nice word for
it.
They're not opponents or competitors in a way,
right?
They tell me, you are giving away your
original material.
If you go to Bill Gates and say,
you own Microsoft, give me a laptop, he
won't give it to you.
You've got to buy it.
You give it free.
What sense does it make?
I think it makes sense to me.
Throughout my life, I have given, and Allah
has provided me from sources I could not
imagine.
And second thing is, people I give it
to, come back to me with their value
addition on it.
So I give Marwan something, Marwan comes...
Not that I'm saying, I'm giving you, give...
I give it to him, I forget about
it.
Six months later, he comes to me.
He says, you know, Sheikh, I was looking
at this thing, and this is my understanding
on this.
This is the insight of God.
I say, Alhamdulillah.
That's value addition for me.
And this has happened to me many, many
times.
Many times.
Abundance mentality.
Share.
Whatever Allah gave you, share.
Like somebody said, don't go to your grave
full of stuff.
Go to your grave empty.
Whatever Allah gave you, give it back.
Share with everybody.
Go to your grave...
What's the point?
If I go to my grave with all
my knowledge in my head, the worms will
eat it.
What's the good of that?
Makes no sense, no?
I mean, instead of that, I share it
with everyone.
Then, Alhamdulillah, I have people making dua for
me.
I have people who are benefiting from it.
That is satskaj area for me.
Why would I not share?
Abundance mentality.
And the last one, and probably the most
important, is discipline.
Very simple definition.
Discipline is to do what must be done,
whether you like it or not.
Discipline has nothing to do with, I like
it, I don't like it, I'm feeling tired,
it's not my mood.
No, no, no.
If I am alive, it will happen.
The only way that will not happen is
if I am either dead or I am,
may Allah protect me and you, I am
lying in some hospital in the bed.
Otherwise, if I give you my word, this
will happen, you can go to sleep, it
will happen.
That is the meaning of discipline.
That is the meaning of discipline.
Discipline is to do what needs to be
done, what must be done, irrespective, whether you
like it or not.
Then I tell myself and I tell people,
discipline begins with making your bed.
As soon as you get up in the
morning, make your bed.
Clean, neat.
Your bed must be like a, you know,
like a tabletop.
Not a wrinkle.
Either somebody freshly ironed it.
Pillows in their place.
Bed, cover on top.
No matter what.
No matter how much of a hurry you
are.
You might be in an absolutely raging emergency.
Make your bed.
Discipline is to get up at least one
hour before the time of Salatul Fajr and
pray Tahajjud, at least two rakat.
If Allah gives tawfiq, pray more.
But at least two rakat of Tahajjud.
No matter what.
Whether you are sick, whether you are travelling,
no matter what.
And don't let Shaitan give you, you know,
deceive you by giving you fatwas.
Shaitan does this.
This happened to me once.
I was going to South Africa.
So from Hyderabad, from India.
So it's a beautifully, the time of the
flight is fantastic.
It leaves Hyderabad at 10 p.m. So
10 p.m. means I finish my Maghrebi
shah, everything is over.
I get on the plane.
Land in Dubai at 2 a.m. I
go to the lounge and the flight from
Dubai is at 4 or 5 or something
like this.
I land in South Africa.
So I have finished my shah and everything
here and I just have to pray Fajr
on the way or actually I think it
starts after Fajr.
So Fajr we pray in Dubai and then
Zohar Asar and everything else.
So Salah time, no problem.
So I landed in Dubai and a thought
came to me, let me go to the
Mosalla and pray Turaqatul Tahajjud.
Instantly you won't believe how fast, I actually
had a, I was laughing.
Instantly I get the second thought, you are
in Sabar, you are traveling.
For the traveler even the first Salah you
pray Khasar.
Tahajjud is only Nafid.
I said, Ya Mubti, I know who you
are.
I know where this fatwa is from.
So I gave him a counter fatwa.
I said my fatwa is the Dua of
the traveler is accepted and if that Dua
is made in Tahajjud, in Sujood it is
accepted even more.
Inshallah.
Beat the fatwa with your own fatwa.
This is the question.
Shaitan has many ways of deceiving.
Fatwa is one of them.
So anytime somebody is giving you a fatwa
which is likely to create trouble, you know,
between brothers, some dispute and this.
Remember that.
The statement may be correct.
I am not disputing that.
But it's coming from a bad source.
The intention behind it is bad.
So don't follow it.
Discipline is to do what needs to be
done irrespective of anything else.
These three things, believe me, you follow this.
Success is inevitable.
You cannot possibly fail.
What are those three things?
Number one, investment mentality.
Invest in yourself.
Invest in yourself and measure it.
What are your metrics?
Literally measure it.
Say from last year to this year, what
did I learn more?
And I am not talking about your school,
college, degree work.
Don't take the curriculum.
That's out of it.
Other than that, what did I learn?
In any field.
What did I learn about people?
What did I learn about work?
What did I learn about myself?
Anything you like.
What did I learn?
And it must be something you should be
able to write it down.
That's the most important thing.
Documentable.
The metrics of it.
What did I learn?
What is my investment in myself?
You should be able to document that.
Whichever kind of investment.
I was less healthy, I am more healthy.
I was fatter, I am thinner.
I was thinner, I am fatter.
Whatever you need to do.
Lose weight, gain weight, whatever, right?
Investment.
Track the investment.
Number two.
Abundance mentality.
Again track that.
What did I share?
What did I give?
To whom did I give?
Don't tell them.
Tell yourself and between you and Allah.
And the third one is discipline.
Discipline.
Do what needs to be done.
No matter what.
No excuses.
Because excuses don't change reality.
This is one of the many foolish things
that we have been conditioned to believe.
That if I give a good excuse, I
am safe.
No, no, you are not.
Supposing, for example, if I lose my wallet,
right?
May Allah protect us and all our wallets.
Supposing I lose my wallet.
Then I come and tell you, you know,
I was going in this place and this
happened, that happened, that happened.
And Marwan says, yeah, sheikh, absolutely, you are
right.
You know, this is, I mean, had to
happen.
It's not your fault.
Right?
So I say, okay, my brother, I love
you.
But will the wallet come back?
Wallet won't come back.
Wallet will not come back.
Brother, you lost your wallet.
Period.
Khalas.
Gone.
Goodbye.
Instead of making excuses, think to yourself, first
of all, how can I mitigate that damage?
What have I lost?
What can I do?
Cancel credit cards and whatnot.
Second thing is, how can I prevent that
from happening again?
So don't waste your time.
Don't waste somebody else's time by, you know,
telling them all kinds of stories.
No need.
You suffered a loss.
Figure out why did it happen.
Figure out how can I prevent that from
ever happening again.
Period.
Done.
Alhamdulillah, you have gained.
That's the investment you made in yourself.
So I remind myself and you, follow these
rules if you want to succeed.
Inshallah.
Hmm?
We ask Allah to give us khair and
barakah in our lives and to help us
from sources that we cannot imagine and to
protect us from ourselves or our nafus from
shaitan and to be pleased with us and
never to be displeased.