Nouman Ali Khan – Live with a Higher Purpose – Q&A

When you do that, your career, your family, all that other stuff,

it can have drama and not have drama. It can the sale can happen

or not happen, ups and downs will happen. But you live, the thing

that pours life into you is something bigger than that.

Right.

I'm a lawyer and also real estate negotiator at a young age, y'all

my peers. The issue that I want to put out here is

hustle culture. I mean,

how does hustle culture for the current generation opposed to what

Islam says like, baraka and all that because to my peers, and

frankly, myself, we didn't really care about burger, we just worked

on getting the sale, no matter what costs, even cutting corners.

Emphasis on, on getting yeah, getting the cash that said, but

then given that awareness, not saying I'm perfect, but given

that, I mean, I've learned something over the years. And

during that some things are better. I just want to think how

we address such a prevalent issue these days in which youngsters do

not care so much about the burqa, and Rama the means and also about

the afflictions. Like let's say we don't get a seal. We feel like oh,

it's a test. It's attached. We don't get it. I mean, look hard

for months and months and months and on. And then we don't get our

say we don't get our results immediately. It's like nothing

gratification, but then we feel like we've been screwed. But our

getting our ends meet you so so it's like addressing the matter of

hustle culture and also backup and also about

acceptance of tests. Because yeah, we I mean, in Malay terms, it's

like that it has to mean,

it means that the rescue force in America is not meant for us. So

just want to know your my thoughts on that? Yeah, sure.

Okay, so let's, I think you answered a lot of it in your

question, but okay. But

that's the lawyer in you.

But are, you know, a wonderful thoughts, I think,

first of all, I think Muslims need to have a sense of hard work,

great accomplishment, creativity. I also think some things that I

really appreciate about my American upbringing, is that

whenever you're struggling for something and you fail, then you

just know that you need to find another avenue, try something

else, and then let that fail and then try another thing and let

that fail. Like failure is just the like, the road to success is

failure. Right? So you don't see failure as a disaster. You see

failure as yeah, now I know that's not worth trying. And you go to

that instead of sitting there like, oh my god, I put so many

months into this and it didn't happen. It's that's not the

culture, the culture is keep moving forward, keep trying new

things, don't be afraid of failure. And you'll keep you know,

finding success. The problem with sometimes other cultures that

don't succeed as much as the moment you run into failure, you

run into depression, right? You just I can't believe this didn't

work out and now what am I going to do? No, you should always have

like, what am I going to do next? Okay, well, that failed. Now,

another thing Now one other thing now another thing right. So, that

that level of hustle culture I think Muslims should have we

should have grit, we should have resilience we shouldn't be

creative. Now, as far as the baraka piece of this is concerned,

I think one of the things that university graduates should be

coming out with part of the mentality you all should be coming

out with is your your life is very short. You know your your youth is

short lived and the time you have to do something with your life is

very short. And within that the world is selling you even shorter,

cheaper goals house car, you know are you know a beautiful partner

and children or whatever they are some some models have been sold to

you and this is what you're running after right? Money will

come while you know marriage will happen Korea will work out but

your mentality if you if you're running after these things, you're

going to live a miserable life. You're going to live miserably

because you know if I get married, I'll be happy those people have

the worst marriages. They have they have they're so miserable in

their home to I'm telling you well once I have this job, I'll be

happy. They're so miserable, so depressed in their job. If I just

get that house, I'll be happy. They're like, I wish I'd never got

this house. I hate making these payments. I hate fixing the

bathroom. I hate my neighbors. I hate you. There's all this so the

world sells you this these

But you know, milestones that bring happiness. And you will

notice the people who have them aren't happy. The only people that

look happy are the people in the commercials that sell it to you.

And they're paid to lie.

Right? So then we're running after things that are not even in the

aka sense, even in the dunya sense, they don't bring

fulfillment. They don't they don't bring fulfillment. So where's real

fulfillment going to come from? Once you graduate from the

university, you have to leave here with a sense of higher purpose,

I'm going to make a positive impact, I need to do something

that brings about a positive change, you see a problem in this

country, in your country, in your village and your family somewhere,

you see a problem. And because of my contribution, I'm going to make

sure that Allah helps me make a change to this problem. He helps

me fix this one issue, I can't change the world, I can change the

world of this one square block, I can change that, I will bring this

your you're concerned with making some kind of a meaningful impact.

When you do that, your career, your family, all that other stuff,

it can have drama and not have drama, it can the sale can happen

or not happen, ups and downs will happen. But you live, the thing

that pours life into you is something bigger than that. Right?

The analogy that I'd like to give you is, we're all on a journey,

right? And if you go on a road trip, don't you have to stop

sometimes for chips and gas and whatever, right to just have a

snack and keep going. Right? Now Allah has given us a journey in

this life. And the destination is your ultimate goal. So you have a

higher goal. But on the way when you stop, what happens to us is

when we stop for snacks and gas, we get so distracted that this

becomes like, Oh my God, I didn't even have girls that didn't even

have the chips I wanted. Now what do I do? Shut up and keep going.

There's another guest is it 10 miles down the road?

Just you have this, like, every obstacle is a crisis mentality.

You can't know every obstacle is not you know what the crisis is?

The crisis is you forgot that you're in a much bigger road.

That's the real crisis, right? So all of you have to come you really

have to program yourself with a higher sense of purpose.

Engineering students here should be thinking about how they're

going to use the skill set that they've been given to improve, I

don't know, infrastructure in villages, or better improve the

environment in one area or the other, or improve the marketplace

or whatever, help help some in some way. You know, and I, you

know, I gave this idea at a university in Pakistan. I'm gonna

give you guys this idea here, too. I was traveling through you know,

and this is true in many Muslim countries, including

Alhamdulillah. The roadways here are pretty amazing. But most of

the countries still underdeveloped. We know that

right? And most of the Muslim world is still also very much

underdeveloped. So we have nice downtown's. But then when you get

into the cities themselves, and then leave the cities, they're

really, really behind. Right? Now you have university students that

are engineering, infrastructure, development, marketing,

accounting, business, business administration, you've got people

that are in the field, Islamic Studies, you've got all these

fields, students in medicine, you've got all these students from

different disciplines, right? If you just took one squared, dirty

old marketplace in a village, and you said the engineering students

are going to help modernize this one blog, they're going to look

like this is good. By the time we're done, this is going to look

like this is in Australia, not in Malaysia

or not in Pakistan. And the marketing students are going to

brand the * out of this place, or the Heaven.

And the video production, students are going to make a film of the

development a story of the transformation of this

neighborhood. And the interior designers are going to completely

remodel the homes of these low income families will using

recycled materials, and they're huge, just these students that

have these skills. They converged on one small piece of society. And

they created a success story, right. And then the marketing

people filmed it, broadcasted, made a big deal out of it, spread

it, what's gonna happen, the next neighborhood 100 miles down is

gonna say, hey, they did that we could do that. And then somebody

else's we could do that. And what are you doing, you're improving

livelihood, you're increasing. You're using baraka and risk.

You're modernizing the society, you're bringing them up to speed,

you're doing so and that just students doing this? There's no

billion dollar funding. There's no NGOs. There's no government

initiatives. It's just students with a vision. Is it students with

a will that start to transform their country? They sold transform

society. You know, Allah says in the Quran where you turn a Munna

Palma and that will be listen to this folks. If you remember

nothing from this discussion. Remember this one? Allah describes

the people of Jana and may Allah make all of us people agenda. He

says they feed food, they feed food, be based on their love of

Allah I'd often be one of the meanings is based on their love of

Allah. The other meaning of other hobbies, even though they love the

food themselves. You know what that means? They

feed others, even though they would rather eat themselves. Yeah,

you're spending on others, even though you'd rather spend on

yourself. Now listen what feeding food means. Feeding food doesn't

mean you buy a sandwich from McDonald's and give it to a poor

person. That's the basic meaning. But you know, what if I taught if

I taught a young man how to develop apps,

right? I'm actually not giving him a sandwich, but I am feeding him

food aren't I?

Actually, I'm not just feeding him food. I'm feeding his parents

food. I'm feeding his younger brother food. I'm feeding his

future wife food by teaching him how to do code development. You

understand that? You guys need to be people of Utah Nevada, Tom

Idaho Dave Eskin anyway a team and was you're empowering society,

empowering them, enabling them. And that's what your life should

become about this. These are countries have more resources will

some countries have more resources than you will find in the West,

all they have is the drive to put things together. That's all it is.

We are we've become hyper individualistic. They first

thought of developing the infrastructure, now they're

individualistic, we haven't developed ourselves and we're

already individualistic. We've got to think about development, we

really got to think about development. And that is an

Islamic message. That's you that's your dream, you know, Tom, and

that's what I want you guys to become like this society should be

transformed by your creative ideas. And your your genuine,

like, you sacrifice your weekends to transform a village. You

sacrifice your weekends to improve, you know, case studies.

And the thing with the world Muslims was the one thing we're

good at, we're very good at copying. So if you guys develop

one success story, automatically 1000 copies will happen sadaqa

jariya for you dunya and akhira. You know, so that's the open you

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