Nouman Ali Khan – Whats Your Advice for Aspiring Muslim Women Speakers- Q&A

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