Mirza Yawar Baig – UMass – Facing Challenges

Mirza Yawar Baig
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The challenges of living the way Allah wants for them are a way of living based on their desire, with success in life being a focus. The shift from traditional family-based society to digital ones has had a significant impact on society, including the rise of homeschooling and faith-based schools, the shift from virtual schooling to homeschooling, and the need for schools to teach children to think in a way that is useful for the rest of life. Humility and embracing mistakes are crucial in learning and making decisions, and individuals need to have a clear mindset to achieve success. Representatives and leaders should prioritize the importance of thoughtful and deliberate decisions and remaining flexible in learning.
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The topic of my lecture today is facing

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challenges.

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There are 2 ways

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to lead our lives,

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the way we want

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and the way Allah

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wants for us.

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Whichever way we choose, we will be held

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accountable for it when we die. There will

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be consequences.

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The issue with living the way we want

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is that our knowledge is limited,

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and our desires rule

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us. The benefit of living the way Allah

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wants us today is that He knows what

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is best for us and guides us to

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that. And since the accounting is with Him,

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if we live by His way,

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that day will be the the day of

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rejoicing,

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the day of judgement.

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I remind myself anew

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that to live is not merely to draw

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breath.

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That is the way animals live.

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They are slaves of their drives.

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They follow their desires,

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and one day, they die, and the story

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is over.

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Humans, on the other hand, have the option

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of living like animals,

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fulfilling every desire,

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or

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of living a life of purpose

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and leaving behind

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a legacy

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of honor.

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To underline this and set the standard,

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Allah

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Every soul shall taste death,

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and you will only receive your full reward

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on the day of

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judgment. Whoever is spared and protected and

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and saved from the fire from the hellfire

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and admitted into Jannah

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will indeed triumph. This is the only one

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who would be

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permanently successful.

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Umal Hayatudunya

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illa matawurhur,

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whereas the life of this world

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is no more than the delusion of

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enjoyment.

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Let's give this some thought and ask how

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our lives compare to the standard.

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Success and failure in life are the products

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of the choices we make.

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The Quran and

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guide us to the best of them.

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The path

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of the was in the

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path of those who Allah

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rewarded.

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And not the path of

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not of those who angered

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a

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little bit of history lesson.

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The industrial evolution

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1740,

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17/60 to 18/40

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changed the basis of society.

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It was less about assembly line or automated

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manufacture

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and much more about changing how people thought

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and what they valued.

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There were

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3 major changes

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from the Industrial Revolution which remain with us

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to this day.

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Aspirational values,

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parenting, and teaching.

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This is what changed society

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fundamentally.

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The challenge is to take the good from

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it. In an agrarian society,

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pre industrial revolution,

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parents

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are also teachers.

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Children know what parents do and learn those

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skills from parents.

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Usually, the roles are gender specific.

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Mothers teach daughters the skills of housekeeping and

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animal husbandry

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and caring for children,

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including complex matters like assisting in childbirth and

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dealing with minor ailments.

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They're also scored in manners and traditions sun

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on the other hand,

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the

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in the home.

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The sons, on the other hand, they follow

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their fathers to the field and the workshops,

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and they learn the skills of planting and

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harvesting in. Husbandry. They also learn to make

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things and articles

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and to repair farming farming

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machinery and implements and to troubleshoot problems and

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so on and so forth.

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The skills learned by both genders are critical

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to survival

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and life quality,

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and being gender specific

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create,

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creates a positive dependency

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on one another.

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In in agrarian societies, parents are mentors.

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They are respected role models

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and teachers.

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Their experience matters,

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and they have huge moral authority.

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Joint families are the norm

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and are a support system for raising children

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and caring for elders.

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Every family member has a place and usefulness,

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and so is valued to the end of

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their days.

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You can see all this in this country

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in the

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Amish societies, Amish cultures,

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caring at the expense of individualism.

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The Industrial Revolution changed all this.

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Clothing and fashion, gender roles and responsibilities,

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authority structures, the concept of freedom and accountability,

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and the basis of value

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all changed

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mostly to suit the needs of an industrial

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society.

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In all this, the fundamental change was with

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what people value

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and therefore benchmark themselves against. That primarily became

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money.

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Just ask yourself, when you say

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net worth today, what are you talking about?

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Are you talking about character?

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Are you talking about learning? Are you talking

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about piety? Are you talking about

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somebody's culture? Are you talking about what is

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their

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monetary

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or material worth or material

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quantity of material possessions, which what what are

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we talking about?

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Mechanized agriculture eliminated

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small farms,

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and machinery

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eliminated the need for farm animals.

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Factories need people, so both parents went to

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work,

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and raising children was handed over to strangers,

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daycare and

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school. As a result today, most children don't

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know or care

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what parents do.

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They are disconnected from the earth and nature,

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and they wouldn't survive a week if left

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alone in the bush

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or even on a working farm.

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Parents think that throwing enough money at children

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is the cure for all evils and fulfills

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all needs.

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By the time they realize their mistake, it

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is too late.

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Joint families broke up, and with that, the

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sense of identity,

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cultural links, and responsibility

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for others, including taking care of others.

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Grandparents lost their position and role, and loneliness

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became a major killer

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despite people being financially

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far better off today than they were in

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the old days.

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The day care person and school teacher

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are strangers,

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often from a different culture, race, and religion,

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and value systems will naturally

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impart those to the children.

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Children experience alienation from culture and religion of

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their birth and complain of confusion

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and which in some cases

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results in a loss of faith.

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That is the reason why today

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homeschooling

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and faith based schools

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have suddenly started becoming more popular.

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Today, we are in the middle of another

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revolution which is further dividing and isolating us.

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Some of our modern ailments are loneliness

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leading to depression and worse,

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obsession with instant gratification,

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disconnectedness,

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emotional distance,

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fear of death,

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diminishing social skills, and ability to relate to

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one another,

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breaking marriages breaking up and reducing attention spans.

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All are symptoms of a fatal malaise that

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destroys the cohesiveness of society

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and concern for one another.

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It is not for nothing that Rasool Allah

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sallam defined his Ummah as one body.

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When the head aches, the whole body feels

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the pain, he said. Do we see this

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today?

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Add to that psychological

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manipulation by consumerism,

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by

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influencers,

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so called influencers,

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pushing those influenced

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to buy more and more and more.

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And since research shows that singles buy more

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institutional marriage and the importance of raising families

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is undermined and discounted

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in favor of so called independence and freedom.

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We don't stop to ask, freedom from what?

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And what is the benefit of this freedom?

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The problem, says

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Robert

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Sternberg at con con at Cornell

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University,

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is that our education system is not designed

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to teach us to think in a way

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that is useful for the rest of life.

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The tests we use, the SATs or a

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levels in England, are very modest predictors of

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anything

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besides

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school grades.

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He says, you see people who get very

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good grades,

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and then they suck at leadership.

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They are good technicians

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with no common sense and no ethics

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and no people skills.

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They get to be president or vice president

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of corporations and societies,

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and they are massively incompetent.

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I don't think we need to search too

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far

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for examples.

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Technology gives us free access to vast databases

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and the ability to acquire

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knowledge in almost any area and flexibility in

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ways of learning.

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Potentially, this potentially,

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this opens the doors to multiple career choices,

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but the tools to make good choices

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come from reflective

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observation of life and abstract conceptualization

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to extract application lessons.

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This technology cannot give us.

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These are mental and spiritual tools

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learned from wise mentors who are willing to

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share what they learned.

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If you can convince them that you are

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worth their time and effort.

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Because knowledge without experience

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is merely data.

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That is as different from experience

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as a lightning bug is from lightning.

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In my opinion, there are 4 attitudinal

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skills that are critical to success in facing

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life's challenges.

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Winners have a high tolerance for ambiguity.

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They are willing to admit mistakes.

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They're willing to learn,

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and they are highly resilient. Four things.

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The enabler of all this is humility.

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Tolerance for ambiguity

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is essential

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because life by definition

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is a daisy chain of unknowns.

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If unknowns

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freeze you or frighten you, then you can't

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move forward.

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What helps is to use probability analysis

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and what if reasoning

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to chart the best path forward.

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And then be willing to change

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that path if you discover that your method

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is not working.

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The key

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is to maintain the integrity of the goal

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while being willing to change the approach.

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The core of this is tawakkul and complete

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and total reliance on Allah

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and total trust in his plan for us.

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We must do our best and trust in

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his wisdom.

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Willingness to admit mistakes and willingness to learn

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are related.

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Learning doesn't always come from mistakes, but often

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it does.

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Making mistakes, if done intelligently,

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shows the willingness to take risks.

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Like someone said, the one who risks nothing

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gains nothing.

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But often people are so afraid of the

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potential embarrassment of admitting a mistake that they

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stay with denial.

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We can see some very glaring examples of

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that globally, but it happens at the individual

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level also.

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The result is the same.

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Everyone knows you are wrong.

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By denying it, you lose respect, and more

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importantly,

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you learn nothing.

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But if you are focused on learning, then

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the cost of that mistake is merely your

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fee for learning.

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I ask 5 questions when I make a

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mistake. What happened?

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What could have happened?

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What is the cost of the mistake?

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What should be done next time,

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and what is the way to foolproof

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the process.

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Then document

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and move on.

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So how do you deal with your mistakes?

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Finally, the most important thing is resilience.

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I have a nesting box outside the window

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of my study. In it, last year, a

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pair of old world sparrows made a nest

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and raised 3 chicks.

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One day, a blue jay farmed them.

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Now over a period of about a week,

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despite all my efforts at preventing it,

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the blue jay killed all of them.

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The sparrows were distraught

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and clearly

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very distressed.

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Then when it was all over,

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what did they do? They rebuild the nest

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and raised another brood. This time, 4 of

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them, and they all survived.

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That is why there are more sparrows than

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jigs.

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Resilience is the ability to get up after

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a disaster and continue.

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As they say, you don't lose the race

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when you fall. You lose when you fail

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to rise.

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As the Chinese saying goes, if you fall

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6 times,

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get up 7 times.

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That is why small birds inspire me as

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they are the greatest symbols of resist of

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resilience

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in nature.

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Totally defenseless,

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totally focused,

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and totally resilient.

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Nothing short of death can stop them. Today,

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as I speak,

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the finest human example of resilience is being

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live streamed to the world from Gaza.

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That is why I say that what we

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are seeing from the Palestinian people

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is resilience of an order that couldn't even

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have been imagined,

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let alone expected.

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But it is there before us,

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A symbol of strength

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that shows that the strongest force of the

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world is the human spirit,

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inspired by courage

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and relying on Allah

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alone.

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There is no force on earth

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that can destroy

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that spirit.

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Gaza

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is so strong

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that it is changing the world.

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Lastly,

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I must make a case for slowness,

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not tardiness,

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but deliberate

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patience and thoroughness

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which appears

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as slowness.

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We have made the mindless pursuit of speed

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our goal.

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Faster everything,

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including decision making, which means there is less

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time for reflection,

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collecting more data, exploring alternatives,

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what if questioning, seeking the advice of others,

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all of which could have helped us to

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make a better decision.

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Was the quick decision really necessary?

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Most of the time, no.

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A delay or a day or 2 wouldn't

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even have been noticed.

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This drive for useless speed

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also creates stress

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and a sense of urgency

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that's detrimental to sleep and rest,

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and wrong decisions can prove to be very

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costly.

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It is time to stop living by default

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and to start living

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thoughtfully and deliberately.

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I ask Allah

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to help us and enable us to live

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in a way that is pleasing to him

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and to

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enable us to do that which pleases him

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and to save us from that which does

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not please him.

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Him.

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