Naima B. Robert – Advice to Muslims Reflecting on the passing of Muhammad al Shareef of @TheDiscoverULife
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Assalamu
Alaikum everyone.
Welcome, welcome to another
motivational and mindset session. It is Sunday.
It is Sunday.
It is Sunday.
For those of us who have been blessed
to see this day,
I wanna ask every single one of you
to say and
remember the favour of your Lord upon you.
This is going to be inshallah a short
reminder
for those of you who are in my
programme,
the release writing programme. It's a 90 day
programme where we help sisters take their story,
idea or message
and put it out into a book so
it can go out into the world to
do what it is meant to do and
that is change lives inshallah.
So today I come to you. You guys
over there as well. Just wanna share this
message with you because
this week
we lost
a giant.
Another one.
In our call last week, if you remember,
I spoke to your brother Ismael Beaumont,
and we took
a lesson a lesson from his passing.
And
wow. Wow. Wow.
Here we are again a week later
taking a lesson from the passing of yet
another one of this Ummah's gifts.
We're talking about Sheikh Mohammed Sharif,
founder of Almagrib
and founder of
so many
transformational
programs.
I mentioned this on my Instagram post. I,
I've never attended Al Maghrib. I know of
it, of course, and I know how many
people who've been through the Al Maghrib courses,
who've taught in Almagrib. I'm aware of, you
know, the impact of that program. But the
people I know,
the people in the coaching space, in the
Muslim personal development space and the Muslim online
entrepreneurial
space
who went through his niche hero program, who
got their, their beginnings in the niche hero
program,
who got their their their so many of
our clients, so many of my colleagues who
did visionaire,
uplevel their dua
and are today
giants because of his message.
When Allah
wants to bless the Ummah,
how does he do it?
He does it through the people that he
selects,
right?
And that's why I always say to you
ladies that it's not about you.
It's not about you. To those of you
who are, you know, questioning yourselves about am
I good enough? You know, what right do
I have to say this, to do this,
to to write this book, to to make
this speech, to make this show. Who am
I? Who am I? Who am I? It's
not about you.
It was never about you.
Allah
will benefit the people through whom he chooses.
And if he chooses, you know that that
is his it is his hak to choose
you, and it is from his Hikma to
choose you.
And when I I am still I've never
even got to speak to a brother. I
was speaking with my colleague, Wuna Mohammed, who,
you know, worked with him over the years.
And I said, you know, I never met,
you know, Mohammed al Sharif. I I would
love to to be con you know, connected
with him and do some work together. And
he said,
yeah. He's out there. I think he was
in Dubai. He's out in the Middle East
and, you know, kind of keeps himself to
himself. But I said, you know, try hook
us up. Let's see if we can do
something good for the oh my inshallah.
And of course, you know, it was not
meant to be.
But when I reflect
on the
impact
of his
relatively
short life,
I weep for us. I weep for myself.
I weep for every one of us.
I'm jealous.
I'm
jealous.
Allah knows I'm jealous.
That he was given the opportunity to impact
so many lives.
I ask myself,
what am I doing?
What am I putting forth for akhirah? Will
I have
people?
1,000,
Tens of thousands? 100 of thousands of people
making dua for me when I'm gone?
Will my children make dua for me when
I'm gone? None of
this is guaranteed. So yes, I'm jealous. I'm
jealous of his impact. I'm jealous of his
legacy in the very best way.
This is a way that we should be
jealous.
Not this rubbish way that so many of
us do. Not the hasad way. Right? Not
the, oh, comparing ourselves to other people and
finding ourselves wanting way. No.
When you see the good that another
Muslim is doing and has done It should
inspire you to work harder.
It should inspire you to be more sincere.
It should inspire you to level up your
legacy,
to level up your impact, to level up
your sincerity, to level up what you're putting
out into this world. This place is a
mess
most of the time.
This
this dunya
is a mess most of the time. And
then you find
the relief.
After all the difficulty, you find the ease.
You find the beautiful people,
the beautiful souls,
the beautiful programs, the beautiful community that make
everything worthwhile.
Allah
has given us tests of this life,
but he has also given us the means
to be able to get through those tests.
He has given us the light at the
end of the tunnel.
The dawn after the night.
The silver lining on the clouds. He has
given us that.
Can we be that?
Can we be that for each other?
Can we be that ease for our families?
Can we be that glimmer of hope for
our communities? Can we be
that inspiration for our generation? Can we be
that?
With Allah's permission, we can.
But not if we keep making it about
ourselves and our excuses.
About ourselves and how we're not enough.
The outcome is in the hands of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala. It's not down to us.
So many people
have tried to do
things right? Started a program, started a course,
started a lecture series, written a book.
This is the beautiful thing about the intentions
being rewarded and us being rewarded simply for
our intentions.
Because when we intend to do something and
then we do that thing, we are rewarded
regardless of the outcome.
What a mercy. Because the outcome is not
in our hands. The mercy the outcome is
in the hands of Allah.
One of my clients here, Zaynab, is saying,
the day after he died, I was making
my dream duas, which she learned to do
from him. And she realized that each time
she makes those duas, he will get rewarded
just like 100 and 1000 of his students.
So you guys
we
are all his
exactly.
And so this is you know we're here
to talk about writing a book.
Every single one of you has a message
that the world is crying out for. Whether
it's 10, a 100, a 1000, 10000 people,
a 1000000 people.
Every one of you has something to offer,
something to share, something important to give.
Get it out now.
I said it last week and I was
reminded of this last week because of passing
of our brother Ismail Balmah. May Allah have
mercy on him. And here we are again
another week and even bigger fat reminder slap
in the face to say what are you
waiting for?
You think your life is gonna get a
little bit easier, a little bit better, a
little bit less hectic and you'll be able
to finally do the things that you've been
dying to do? It's not gonna
happen. This dunya is go go go go.
It's not gonna happen.
You have to make it a non negotiable.
Decide that enough is enough. I'm doing this
now. Enough with the excuses. Enough with the
self doubt. Enough with the rubbish talk, the
negative talk, the limiting beliefs, the toxic friendships,
the wasting time, the distraction, the
beliefs, the toxic friendships, the wasting time, the
distractions online, the comparison.
Enough with that.
Those things are the things that are holding
you back from your greatness,
from your leveling up.
And every one of you is on your
own path. Every single one of you is
on your own path and your path has
markers.
Right? You are on that path. Maybe you're
here.
For your next level, it may be here.
For another person's next level, it may be
up there. Another person, their level may be
higher than that. It doesn't matter
because your job is to stay in your
lane
and do what you were put here to
do in that lane.
May Allah have mercy on us if we
don't take the reminder from these people. There's
the loss of these people. May Allah have
mercy
on
us. And may Allah have mercy on
those who have passed.
May
he send down Rahmah and comfort to their
families and to all those who mourn their
passing and may he allow allow us most
importantly a good end.
And may the people gather in Janaza
for us and accept our efforts and accept
our deeds. I mean, mean, that's all I
wanna say. I'm
out.