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

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.

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