Muiz Bukhary – Attention to Detail – Inspired by ‘Umar Ibn Al Khattāb رضي الله عنه

			Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil
alameen wa Salatu was Salam ala nabina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. So for today's
episode we're going to be talking about attention to detail and why this trait is considered in
today's time in today's age, akin to a superpower. I'd like to base this entire discussion upon a
very famous Hadith a famous narration of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. It is an authentic
one. It is recorded in the book of Imam Muslim Rahim Allah. And we have a famous Companion of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he is considered from the creme de la creme, the best of the
		

			best of the companions of the Prophet sallahu wa sallam, Omar Abdullah Hata De La Hoya and Omar al
farrokh are the Allah one, he is the narrator of the Hadith and he goes on to a very beautifully
described this this powerful incident that took place in the midst of the Prophet sallallahu alaihe
when he was selling them, so in the Hadith, obviously, due to the brevity of time and given that
this episode is short, I mean, there's there's so many lessons to deduce from this Hadith, but I'm
going to be touching on a few important points related to the title of this video. So remember the
last one he states I know I'm not I'm not the only one who, Paul Benjamin Agnew are in the
		

			Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam at that young he told Elena Roger don't shady do by other
Thea. shady do Sawa de Sha euro Allah here Ethel suffer while IRF woman had had the jealous ala Nabi
sallallahu alayhi wa and he was
		

			so I'm what are the longer you says Meena? Maharaja Lucia industrialize Allah Allah Islam that the
young one fine day, so I'm going to be translating it in an easy way. So the narration goes along
the lines of these words just to give you an idea or an understanding of the, of how or what
happened basically. So one fine day we were seated with the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam is Talia la now rajadamnern Shadi Dubai Odyssey app, when suddenly a man emerges a man
wearing sparkling white clouds sparkling white clouds. Okay. Now once you want to focus keep going
back to the title of this episode, right? And you'll understand why we're basing this discussion on
		

			this powerful Hadith shado by Adi Thea shado sawadee Shire and he had jet black hair. Now euro Allah
He has to suffer and no signs of journey could be seen on him. While I agree for him in the head and
none of us knew this individual had their jealousy. Elan Nabi sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam. So this
man now he comes, the gathering had already formed we were all seated with the Messenger of Allah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. What did this man do this man who is wearing sparkling white clothes,
he has jet black hair, no signs of fatigue or journey could be seen on him and none of us knew him.
had that jealousy ala Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he goes and sits by the prophet sallallahu
		

			alayhi wa sallam, we are going to now unpack this in more detail in just a bit in sha Allah but I
want to gloss over this initial bit. And then he goes on to say for us now the Rupa tehila route,
but a Baba cafe, I love the way he sets in an intriguing manner. He sits in such a way where his
knees are touching the knees of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasallam and he places his hands now on
his ties.
		

			He's sitting so closely, so intimately with the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wasallam. And
now
		

			the dialogue begins, this conversation ensues between him and the Messenger of Allah sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam where he says, Yeah, Mohammed, Mohammed sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, Bernie handle
Islam, tell me about Islam and then the Prophet response. And then he asks him about a man the
Prophet responds, then he asks him about sun, and the Prophet response. And then he asks the Prophet
salallahu, alayhi wasallam, about Doomsday, the prophet responds. And then he asks the prophets
Allah Allah Islam about the signs related to your multi Amma, the day of judgment and the Prophet
responds, and then the man gets up and he leaves. Now the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam This
		

			is towards the end of the Hadith we find out the Prophet he asks Omar the Allah one year Omar, the
narrator of the Hadith, a 30 man is ill do you know who the questioner was, to, which are the Allahu
anhu he responds to Allah who are us will who Allah, Allah and His Messenger know best. Now the
Prophet sallallahu sallam, he
		

			clarify
		

			He sheds light. Amazing. He responds who would you bring? a taco Alamo container.
		

			He was gibreel who came to teach you your day?
		

			To teach you yeah Omar, your dean to teach the Sahaba they did and by extension to eat to teach each
and every one of us the aroma of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam our Deen why because until
today 1400
		

			odd years have passed and we are discussing the Hadith and we are extracting beautiful lessons from
this hadith May Allah open doors of beneficial knowledge for all of us, I mean, so now, now that we
have come, you know, to the end of the Hadith we find out that Oh, okay. This is no ordinary
individual. This is gibreel who came to the Messenger of Allah in the guise of a human being.
		

			Now I want you all to put yourselves My dear brothers and sisters in the shoes of Homer Malhotra De
La Hoya. These individuals My dear brothers and sisters, these were the companions of the Prophet
sallallahu Sallam these were the real students of knowledge. Look at the attention to detail look at
how much of detail
		

			here are the Allah one has captured in the Hadith to the extent where he observes so carefully what
this man was wearing, how his hair was the fact that no signs of journey could be seen on him
		

			today and I think before we get into attention to detail, we need to talk about human attention span
		

			You know, there are articles you can Google it, there was a study conducted by Microsoft.
		

			Now this study and the findings of this study have been debated as in in terms of the authenticity
and in terms of how the trial was actually conducted and whatnot. But in terms of the stats that
were released by
		

			certain
		

			news outlets, if you will,
		

			in summary, these articles state that the the average human being now and this was I think, in the
year 2002 1015 or 16, perhaps now we had 2021
		

			so the average human being now has an attention span of eight
		

			you might be thinking minutes, eight seconds
		

			and then the article goes on to state that this is a sharp decrease from the average attention span
of 12 seconds in the year 2000. And all of this says times thanks to technology, a number of other
things as well. Now like I said, the numbers are debated right.
		

			the authenticity of the article is debated as well but nonetheless, let's leave all these very
specific numbers aside would you not agree? And would you not relate to the fact that today you see
that our attention spans are decreasing there's no doubt about it. If you look at how we consume
media and how these social media platforms are being engineered now look at something like you know
if you take Instagram initially it used to have options or rather you start off with this platform
YouTube you have long videos but then people you know that they were if you were to look at
analytics you would see that people are you know they would go into a video and just keep switching
		

			you know from video to video and then from YouTube you you take something like Instagram the the
time
		

			in terms of the duration of videos, you have like a video that lasts for about a minute and from
there it evolved into stories where it's just 30 seconds. And now you have let's say you know,
platforms like Tick Tock and perhaps other platforms that focus on just, I don't know, maybe 10
seconds, 15 seconds, and we keep swiping, swiping, swiping, you know consuming so much of media, you
know just glossing over there is not much attention paid to the details, this this overload of
information, and our brains are struggling to deal with this much of information that's out there.
You see today.
		

			Interestingly, being knowledgeable
		

			is not necessarily considered
		

			you know, something almost like a superpower or rather something that is high in demand.
		

			Why because there's so much of access to information right in in a matter of a few taps, you can
access information, which is not the case in the past. And that's why there was so much of demand
for knowledgeable individuals in the past.
		

			Now today because of this, this boombod
		

			have information and access to so much of information. Now you need attention to detail to be able
to sift through all of the information to ensure that you know you, you arrive at the right type of
information, the right pieces of, of
		

			information.
		

			And when talking about attention to detail, now, you understand why it's so important.
		

			Let's take the leader of an organization,
		

			let's take the leader of a company, the leader of a business, the leader of a team.
		

			Just imagine if you had to present a presentation, you and your team had to present a report or a
presentation.
		

			And if there was not going to be attention to detail, what's going to happen, you're basically going
to have mistakes in the report mistakes in the presentation, perhaps spelling mistakes, maybe you
get the slides all mixed up.
		

			So when you fail to pay attention to the details of an important task
		

			that you're supposed to deliver, now it's going to contain mistakes. And it's going to look like you
have not reviewed your work before it goes out into the world. And what kind of a message do you
think you're sending out,
		

			you're sending out a message that you are disorganized, your team is disorganized and you rush with
regards to your work,
		

			you send out a message that you actually hope that people will look past the issues, look past the
mistakes, and will spend time trying to understand the core contents of your presentation or your
report, you also send out a message that you think that people won't notice. And you're also Sending
out a message that you and your team are not capable of producing high quality work.
		

			So as you can see, attention to detail really, really matters.
		

			If you look at the benefits when it comes to high attention to detail
		

			for a person who has this trait, and and for those of you who are thinking, Oh, you know what,
that's something that I really struggle with. And I've got issues with that, well, it's not all
gloom and doom, I'm going to be sharing a few techniques and just a bit in Sharla, to improve to
ramp up the levels of your attention to detail in the light dialer.
		

			In terms of the benefits benefit, number one is that you're going to consistently produce high
quality work,
		

			you're going to consistently produce high quality work wherever you apply attention to detail, so
long as you don't go overboard with it. Now there are there are negatives to it as well, when you
let it consume you. And when you turn it against you in a negative way. That's when you become you
know, obsessed, that develops into an OCD, if you will.
		

			perfectionism where you're, you know, constantly striving for this the standard, that you yourself
know, you're not going to be able to achieve that standard of perfection. So healthy balances need
to be maintained. But nonetheless, when you when you,
		

			you know, Hone this skill, this trait. And when you apply it in the right way, you're now going to
be able to produce consistent high quality work. And on top of that, you're going to be efficient,
why your work, does not have to In other words, you don't have to return to your work to fix
mistakes. Because if you're going to gloss over and not pay attention to the details, you're going
to put it out and then you'll have to come back to it. Let's say you publish a report and now there
are mistakes that need to be rectified. It's going to come back. Let's say you're designing a car,
if you put out the car,
		

			if you start producing it, put it out to the market. And now once let's say I don't know, maybe
100,000 people have purchased cars and they're driving it around and doing whatnot. And you now
realize, Oh, it's pointed out someone finds out and says that you know what, there is this massive
flaw that you overlooked.
		

			Now, what do you have to do? You have to recall all those units to rectify the issue. It's
cumbersome, it's costly.
		

			That's why a lot of these companies, car companies, tech companies, they actually spend a lot of
time Yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, at certain junctures, certain mistakes do happen, but
nonetheless, they spend a lot of time
		

			ensuring that they pay as much attention as possible to detail to ensure that these mistakes don't
happen. They learn from their mistakes and they pay a lot of attention to detail.
		

			Another benefit is that you are now deemed trustworthy. Why? Because now when a when a task is given
to you
		

			this, this task
		

			would rally need a second set of eyes going through it.
		

			So you start to build a reputation for yourself that you know what, this individual high attention
to detail you give him or her something to do. Or you don't need to follow up on it that individuals
work his or her work, another set of eyes need not go over the work, why? Because high attention to
detail, you start building this very valuable reputation for yourself. And it's a very rare skill
set these days, my dear brothers and sisters, a very rare skill set, you as an employer, you as a
leader, you would value it in a team member of yours, you would value it in an employee of yours.
		

			So it's very important that we highlight the importance of this. And interestingly, when you look
into the lives of the companions of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. You see it Subhan Allah,
you see it in the life of a book and acidic of the Allah one. You see it in the life of our Omar
Abdullah ha Pablo de la Juan, you see it in the life of Abu huraira de la one.
		

			You see it in the way they have narrated these narrations. Because if you look at this Hadith, for
example, one of the one who could have omitted all those details and just jump straight into the
conversation, but the fact that he observed all of this
		

			proves to us that you know what he would have? I mean, he was an individual who captured so much of
detail, there's no way he would have messed up with the conversation. He's captured so much of
detail. You and I attempts were in a gathering and let's say someone comes and goes, we'd rarely
recall what they will, how they said and how they spoke. But look at the memory of Amara de la one.
Look at how observant Amara Viola and who was today, you know, we read about Sherlock Holmes. And
we, you know, perhaps we read up on those qualities and those traits and like I said, we think oh,
wow, it's something amazing, you know, how, how does one have such a keen eye for detail?
		

			But will it suffice to just read up on it and think of it as being you know, a good thing, we should
try to bring it into our lives because there are so many benefits to it.
		

			So I'm now now going to go into a few tips, like I said in terms of improving one's you know,
attention to detail. Number one, many brothers and sisters, you and I we need to get organized. It's
very, it's very important, because think about it this way. If there is chaos, how, obviously the
fine details are going to slip through the cracks. So most of us,
		

			you take your workplace, it's in chaos. You take your vehicle, it's in chaos, you take your home,
it's in chaos. You take your cupboards, they're in chaos, you take your drawers, they're in chaos,
you take your wallets and purses, they're in chaos, you take your lives, Subhan Allah lives and
chaos. And this is why it's so difficult for us to retain focus. This is why our attention is all
over the place. This is why we don't have direction in our lives. We don't know where we are headed.
We wake up every day and just you know get about with the day like zombies. So it's very important
to be organized. This is tip number one. So as much as possible, organize your workspace. by
		

			organizing your workspace it can actually help you focus on your work, organize your digital spaces.
As we speak I want you to go to your desktop and just see how many folders are cluttering your
desktop how many files how many screenshots? How many random downloads, if you will.
		

			So we need to get our digital spaces sorted out as well at times it can be challenging, you know,
times you have an inbox with a lot of messages and but can be a work in progress. But you need to
get all your digital spaces organized. You need to get your physical workspace is organized your
living. Let's say your home organized your your your your bedroom, organized your growers organized
your wallet organized sometimes we go on to cram you know receipts and so much
		

			pieces and bits and pieces of paper into our wallets into our purses into our handbags where at
times looking for something, you end up going down one big black hole.
		

			So there are ways to get yourself
		

			organized and Subhan Allah like I said earlier on so much of information at our fingertips there are
so many videos to help you to teach you how to get your things organized, how to ensure that your
wallet is organized, how to ensure your workspace is organized, there's so much of information out
there so you can apply those principles in terms of getting your life organized, getting your
shedule organized now this is another thing you know where you have today. In the past people had to
maintain diaries people had to maintain calendars today you have all of it you know in all the
devices that you have, you know, you have a calendar on your iPad, you have a calendar on your, your
		

			computer, you have a calendar on your mobile device, you It's so easy to shedule and and you know,
organize the time that you have in a very nice way. So it's key to ensure that important dates,
deadlines, all of this is organized, and you need to review all of this. So all of our I mentioned
come under getting organized. So once this happens, you're able to cut through the chaos and focus
on things that actually need to be focused on. Number two, maintain a routine. So this is in a way
connected to you know, getting a calendar in order and getting your schedule in order. You need to
maintain a routine a daily routine, a weekly routine, a monthly routine, where you ensure that you
		

			know you devote time to specific tasks today, you know, I think it's iOS 15, you now have something
called focus where you are able to eliminate distractions now by maintaining a routine. And that's
the next step, you begin to eliminate distractions, distractions in the form of unnecessary
notifications, distractions in the form of things like for example, things spilling onto one
another, let's say you have let's say you're working from home, and you have slotted 8am or 9am to
11am that you're going to get certain tasks done. Now during that window, that period of time, you
really can't be entertaining, text messages or WhatsApp messages, for example that are not urgent
		

			that could just distract you and take you down a rabbit hole where you know, important tasks get
ignored. So maintaining a routine is key and then eliminating distractions. Along with that.
		

			Another tip that can be mentioned before I conclude is to create lists today you have take your
iPhone, you have reminders, you have notes, you have all these applications that help you to get
things organized in your life to ensure that you have your goals, your short term goals, your long
term goals all in a place where you can look at, you know,
		

			checking box after box and achieving those goals. So it's key to maintain these lists to put down
your tasks in order. And along with that, like I said, You have so many apps to help you do this.
There are even apps out there in the form of of games if you're looking at you know, some
recreational time if you will, I think I recall a game it was called
		

			but was it it was elevate if I'm not mistaken, that actually helps you to sharpen your your, your
your brain to help you with your memory to help you with recalling things. You know, when we were
kids we used to play I spy with my little eye right? So even that I was reading the other day is an
interesting game that helps children build their attention to detail. So it's a thing that perhaps
you could play with your kids it helps you and it helps them as well to focus you know where you say
okay, I spy with my little eye something that begins with this color or something that begins with
this letter. And they start you know, looking around. And you know interestingly when you play this
		

			game with the children, sometimes you begin to look around your bedroom in such a way that in the
past you may have never ever looked around, you know, like spot the difference. For example, you
know, you start looking at a picture in a way that you've never ever looked at it before you look
around your room you spot things you see things that you may have glossed over earlier on. So these
are things to help you increase the levels of your attention to detail. So I hope this video was of
benefit to touch on the importance of you know, this skill and, you know, harnessing this scale and
you know, sharpening the skill. So I pray that Allah subhanho data helps us all to do that. And I
		

			sincerely pray that he helps us to become more productive and that was the intention behind you
know, putting this video to help myself and then all of you all tuning in to become more productive
in our day to day lives. I look forward to talking to you on another video soon inshallah. dalla
does that. Kamala Harris was Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.