Nouman Ali Khan – Whats Your Advice for Aspiring Muslim Women Speakers- Q&A
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The speaker discusses the challenges of finding content to teach while also being mindful of one's own interests. They also share their experience of learning to become a serious learner and how they have been able to grow their professional career by creating resources for Muslims. The speaker encourages viewers to sign up for a YouTube channel to learn the Q parody and become a part of their lifestyle.
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If you become serious about learning something meaningful,
then it will naturally ooze out of you.
The problem in the age of content creators
and influencers and speakers is that you're constantly
looking for content to deliver, but not for
your own nurturing to nurture your following.
And that's a sickness.
My last question is, what advice would you
give aspiring Islamic speakers, women?
So my advice is unconventional.
But since you asked, my dear, I'm going
to give you my honest opinion.
There's an axiom in Arabic.
I really like it.
And it's the following.
When you become serious about learning something meaningful,
then it will naturally ooze out of you.
The problem in the age of content creators
and influencers and speakers is that you're constantly
looking for content to deliver, but not for
your own nurturing to nurture your following.
And that's a sickness.
If you become a serious learner, for me
that was Qur'an.
When I was 19, I'm still studying Qur
'an.
It hasn't worn off, the desire to study
the Qur'an.
And I feel like I'm just getting started.
Honestly, that's how I feel like.
But whatever I do learn, I like to
share passionately because it moves me.
It inspires me.
It's hard to believe but I never aspired
to be a speaker.
But I just really wanted to learn this
stuff.
And I found out that when I talk
about it, I remember it better.
And when I talk about it, it demonstrates
to me that I properly understood it.
So you know how the best students in
a class become tutors?
It's kind of that formula.
So then I gave myself a formula.
And that formula was, I'm not going to
learn to teach.
I'm going to teach to learn.
So I reverse engineered that formula.
And then, one has to know themselves.
I think I have a relatively good understanding
of myself.
I'm incredibly lazy.
It's almost supernatural how lazy I am.
So what I do is, I put myself
in a position of teaching at some point
in the future, giving myself a deadline for
how much I have to study.
There's no way.
If I'm not under pressure, I don't study.
And I better study it well enough that
I can teach it.
So that's the formula.
The other thing I'll tell you is that
I've been doing this a long time.
So I have a certain amount of fame
and certain amount of public speaking experience, which
means even if I was speaking out of
thin air and I had no idea what
I was talking about, I can sound very
compelling.
I'm good at selling emptiness because style can
compensate for substance.
So if I didn't study for three years,
five years, and I just gave talks every
week, I could still give a talk.
And I'd still have a following.
But that would be a serious problem because
now my motivations are others.
They have nothing to do with me.
I'm teaching you guys less than three hours
a day.
Behind each of those three hours, there's at
least 20 hours to 25-30 hours of
my work.
That's not for you, that's for me.
And then the last part of it, the
hardest part of it is how do I
take this 30 hours of stuff and shave
off things and reduce things so that it
can fit that you can get it.
So that's the last part.
But for anybody who's serious about contributing, just
know that the world doesn't need more hyperbole.
The world needs more substance.
And there's a lot of hyperbole, a lot
of people that think they have interesting hot
takes that the world needs to hear, but
they're not rooted in anything real.
You're not really studying anything.
And we're just adding to the contamination of
noise that's already there.
So be a person of substance.
That's what my best advice could be.
I hope you guys enjoyed that video clip.
My team and I have been working tirelessly
to try to create as many resources for
Muslims to give them first steps in understanding
the Qur'an all the way to the
point where they can have a deep profound
understanding of the Qur'an.
We are students of the Qur'an ourselves
and we want you to be students of
the Qur'an alongside us.
Join us for this journey on bayyinatv.com
where thousands of hours of work have already
been put in.
And don't be intimidated, it's step by step
by step so you can make learning the
Qur'an a part of your lifestyle.
There's lots of stuff available on YouTube, but
it's all over the place.
If you want an organized approach to studying
the Qur'an beginning to end for yourself,
your kids, your family, and even among peers,
that would be the way to go.
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