Nouman Ali Khan – How Can I Keep Myself Motivated to Pray Q&A

			When you have a job and you know your livelihood depends on that job some days you're motivated to
get up. Some days you're not motivated to get up. Do you still go? Do you say I need a motivational
video about going to work?
		

			Because today, I'm just not feeling it.
		

			Do you do that? Does anybody do that? No. You don't have you don't need outside motivation for you
know some things. I'm just gonna do it. That's it
		

			there are times when you're not very motivated to pray or do anything else for religion? Where can I
keep myself more? How can I keep myself motivated?
		

			To pray?
		

			motivated? I need motivation. I need a 22nd Mufti Menk smile.
		

			Need a ended joke? I need a an inspiring already one of those angry bros. What are you doing with
your life?
		

			line.
		

			And then
		

			any one of those inspiration? That's like, you need a virtual slap, right?
		

			You know what that means, right? That means your religion is based on your emotional state.
		

			Somebody needs to uplift you emotionally, then you will practice. Then the moment the highest gone,
your practice will go away. And somebody else has to come in what?
		

			Raise you emotionally. I give a three hour does people come to me and say, Can you give me some
motivation? I'm like, What was I doing for the last three hours? I was I was frying french fries for
you. What was I doing? Give you a motivation, doubt.
		

			Let me tell you something about motivation. This is not a problem of motivation. This is a problem
of your mindset.
		

			This is a problem of your mindset. When you decide that you're going to go to university,
		

			and you're going to graduate, then some days you don't want to get out of bed and get to that first
class in the morning. And some days you do but it doesn't matter. You're gonna get up, you're gonna
brush your stupid teeth, and you're gonna go take the bus, and you're gonna go to the stupid class,
whether you like it or not, yes or no.
		

			When you have a job and you know, your livelihood depends on that job. Some days, you're motivated
to get up some days, you're not motivated to get up. Do you still go? Do you say I need a
motivational video about going to work?
		

			Because today, I'm just not feeling it.
		

			Do you do that? Does anybody do that? No. You don't have you don't need outside motivation for you
know some things. I'm just gonna do it. That's it. I have my mind made up that I'm going to take my
job seriously. I don't need anybody to tell me that I need to take my job seriously, because I have
made up my mind. This isn't this is not an issue of motivation. This is an issue of what mindset,
you haven't made up your mind that this deen is the ultimate truth that cannot be compromised. If
you cannot move, this is not something you need motivation for, it's a part of your life. Anything
you want to accomplish in life, if you need motivation to do it, then you're never going to do it.
		

			You're just not going to do it.
		

			The things you will accomplish in life are the things where, whether there's motivation or not,
you're still doing it.
		

			In fact, the only motivation you need is to do it even better. But not to do it itself. You're doing
it already. Motivation only makes you do it better every once in a while, but actually, other people
see you and they get motivated because of how committed you are. How serious you are. mindset. I
asked my honestly I asked myself guys, because you guys are the problem is it's not your fault. You
know, like if you if you injected a baby novela if you injected a baby with like, drugs or you know,
addictive your mother sometimes mothers are addicts, right. And some of those drugs make it into the
system of the child when the child is born and they have to detox the baby. You guys without your
		

			own knowing you were made addicted to social media content. without you realizing it, it was it was
injected into your systems. A lot of that is why some of you don't want to watch useless tic TOCs
you want to watch motivational. So your Islam just became three minute two minute one minute Islam,
motivation, motivation without your Islam at least I'm watching this, right. And as a result of
that, now you've developed a dependence on motivation.
		

			You can't do anything without this. This fuel. I asked myself, How come I never asked anybody? How
do I motivate myself to take to get on a bus than to get on a train and to walk 40 minutes to get to
the masjid after eight hours of work to try to learn boring Arabic grammar.
		

			How do I motivate myself?
		

			And I love my teacher doctor of the summer I love him. He was trying to teach an English but his
English was horrible. Horrible. He's he's from fasula but he thinks in Punjabi.
		

			He's
		

			Thanks in Punjabi, then he speaks in English. But the the processor was not like an iPhone the
processor was a Pentium 483 86 windows 3.1 processor you know what that means? He would say if you
wanted to say the sentence is made of two parts it would say the
		

			sentence
		

			is made of
		

			two parts
		

			do you know what happens to a student when they hear a teacher pause like that? The
		

			How do you keep yourself motivated because what he's teaching is worth it. I would keep myself awake
by translating in Punjabi what he was doing in between. What's he saying? What's he not saying that
I can hear?
		

			Right.
		

			You guys, stop, stop acting, stop pretending like there's not enough reason for you to do the work
you're doing and you need some outside motivation. This is a form of weakness. And I don't accept it
from you. I expect more from you. Especially the younger crowd here. Step out of it.
		

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