Nouman Ali Khan – Live with a Higher Purpose – Q&A
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The speakers discuss the importance of finding a course of action to achieve a positive impact and finding a partner to make a positive impact. They also touch on graduates' mentality and their potential for fulfilling goals, particularly in areas like infrastructure, marketing, accounting, business, accounting, business administration, accounting, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting, marketing, accounting,
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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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