Sadullah Khan – Minor Steps To Major Achievements
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The old the bIllahi min ash shaytani R rajim Bismillahi
Rahmani Raheem wa Alayhi Salat insan in la masa Anessa yah hoo.
So for Euro, so the kala hula Allah you love him
in the name of Allah most Gracious, most Merciful. All
praise is due to our Creator, our cherisher, our Nareesha and our
Sustainer
we bear witness there's none worthy of worship but Allah. We
bear witness we believe in all the prophets who came throughout
history. And we bear witness the Prophet Muhammad. Abdullah
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is the final of all the
emissaries of Allah, respected elders, brothers.
I greet you with the sisters, a spirited youth.
I greet you with a Islamic universal greeting of peace. May
the peace the mercy and the blessings of Allah be upon each
and every one present. As salam o aleikum wa rahmatullah wa
barakato.
Today is a major day in the lives of many students and of course,
the parents.
It is the day of the announcement of the matric results.
A much anticipated date
when the uncertainty of results may cause emotions to run high,
and may cause people to be very concerned, and even sometimes
somewhat distressed.
It is natural on occasions like these which are rare by the way to
feel on edge to feel nervous to feel anxious. On this, what you
call results day.
Especially since those results could determine whether a student,
your child, your son, your daughter, grandchild,
whether they could attend the chosen career path
at their preferred college, at their preferred university or
institution.
We had our results this morning or hungry light Islamia. 116 of our
students matriculated.
For denying have achieved either A or B pass in fact, 168 subject
distinctions, 14 of these students attained an aggregate.
And six of those 14 are also have little Quran from our institution.
For those who have done well, we say my book, congratulations. And
for those who may not have done as well as they anticipated.
It is fundamentally important for us as parents and grandparents.
And even for students to realize that the result of an exam does
not define your success. The result of an exam doesn't define
your success. If somebody did extremely well Alhamdulillah
Mashallah. It's an opening of a door.
But at the same time,
it's very important to be aware
that for those who may not have done as well to reflect all
alternate colleges, they may go to from the preferred one, and
consider improving on their results if they were to reapply,
perhaps, in future or later to other institutions.
How do we deal with this, I'm not only speaking about students, but
even in our daily lives as individuals when these kinds of
events occur.
One of the important aspects to remember that a, a bend in the
road, as I always say, is not the end of the road unless you fail to
take the turn. a bend in the road is not the end of the road. Unless
you fail to take the turn, remember, matric results, mark the
end of school days, it does not mark the end of your potential or
of your future choices.
So in preparing preparation for these in occasions like these, and
for all major strivings even in our own lives, whether it's
school, whether it college, whether it work within careers
within relationships, within business, I wish us to develop
three points and I will address this
in my presentation here today. One is to develop an attitude that
nurtures a culture of success.
Metric results is an event is an announcement as a culmination of
years of study, or preparation, or involvement.
That results in this is not a single event many major things in
our lives. Not only in events, we witnessed the event
As a culmination of a lot of things through a period of time,
so we need to develop an attitude that nurtures a culture of
success. Habits that prepare
us to achieve greater heights habits that prepare us to achieve
greater heights and mentality that motivates us to do the best that
we can, as we know in Islam, in Allah with Allah, Allah, Allah
loves if you do something, you must do it as well as you can do
it with excellence to the best of your ability. And I believe this
begins with the understanding will unleash Sally in Sally in Loma
Sara, Allah says, the human beings can only achieve and attain what
he or she strives for. Of course, this came in relation to the
hereafter the good you do in this world, you know the consequences
of the year if you do good you get good old design in the USA, but
also in our daily lives. It took Lawal, don't do this from market
demand. What you do has consequences. So the human being
should only achieve what he or she is fired for. Will Anessa who so
for your and he or she will see a witness the consequence of the
efforts and their strivings no effort to expect success.
So we realize that a journey of 1000 miles or 1000 kilometres
begins with a single step.
The most vital aspect is to realize the value of that first
step, that first step towards enhancement or towards
improvement.
You can initiate the first step by beginning with Maha Sabha, a
critical self evaluation, introspection, self inventory,
honest self analysis and self appraisal. The prophets of Allah
while he was to be Christian of us,
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Bokoblin to us, and so on. But also the mindless monster wha Yo
Ma who for whom a boon, if two of your days are the same, then
you're wasting something every day should be a step towards
improvement. So every day is an opportunity for improvement.
When it comes to aiming for success in any endeavor, people
are F often become overwhelmed, and are unsure of where to start
become overwhelmed. And this prevents many people from starting
at all.
They are where they are they want to be there. It seems so far away,
they become overwhelmed, and they don't start at all, some look at
the destination or the end result.
And they are so overcome
by what they see that they remain where they are. And therefore
realize you cannot cross the ocean by staying on the beach.
Otherwise, you will always remain on the show.
If you die, for example, and you want to lose 20 kilos, it's not an
event. It's not an occasion. It is not a step. It is a process a
series of steps over a period of time that requires discipline,
eating less, cutting your intake of sugar coatings, increasing your
exercise, leaving certain things, avoiding certain things and doing
certain things. If you want to become a Hatfield
you have to memorize the Quran word by word sentence by sentence.
I tell you complete the Quran. You can't decide that inshallah
tonight and make that just Allah in
my office, you will not become happy. That's not the nature of
how things work. You will have to learn word by word I admire from
the bar Bismillah to the scene of a nurse when you become a half.
Yes, you make dua you can make that in itself motivates you,
prepares you mentally strengthens you, it doesn't make you happy and
you still have to become happy.
So to the exams, if you have 35% in science, and when you get 60%
for example, it does not happen with one class or one tutorial.
But a series of steps that allows improvement over time that
eventually leads to desired or better results.
One once a human's the US want to make sure you am a lover us I like
to watch a watch sport and soccer and so on and so forth. So I don't
want to miss you. If two teams are playing in a cup final match, and
both spend the whole night making do either they win, which team
will win. And the shake said I suppose the team that train the
hardest, and more importantly, the team that played the best on the
day
So, you cannot bypass effort, which is required for achievement,
because there are no shortcuts to success. As the saying goes, no
pain, no gain, no effort, no success.
Fortunately, aiming for success, or accomplishing great
achievements does not have to be difficult or complicated. But it
does require a tremendous amount of commitment.
What is required is to deliberately to intentionally to
purposefully take small steps in the direction of improvement, one
step at a time, and let those small steps add up to big change.
Look at the life of Rasulullah 13 years in Makkah, in 13 years in
Makkah, he didn't have a quarter of this audience as his followers.
Not even a quarter of this magic. Now, he had as follows After 13
years of bleaching in Makkah, in his hometown, where they call him
a Saudi, in El Amin.
But you don't give up one step at a time, one person at a time, one
revelation at a time, one day of example, every day,
enhancing the people empowering those who wish to be empowered.
You see,
this requires patience.
It may require varying some inconveniences. That's why people
don't leave the show. They stay on the beach, even overcoming some
challenges at times. But that is how you become victorious in your
life. And that's how you overcome the battles of life. And that's
how you can achieve or attain or be successful in your endeavors.
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa was in them. In a hadith
documented in the Muslim of Imam Muhammad Lambos it was in the
southern Isla Matakohe Phelan cathedral. Well Anessa ma southern
who Enel Pharaoh Jamal, Karim anomalously usara he said, No,
that is much good in being patient in those things that may be
inconvenient, be disliked, I cannot do this. I got exercise, I
gotta learn, I gotta study I gotta read. I gotta memorize. gonna wake
up earlier, do this. It may seem inconvenient, and you may distract
that. But remember that assumed it said, for surely victory comes
with patience. Relief comes with enduring trials and afflictions.
And difficulty and hardships and difficulty will eat will bring you
will bring you the ease that eventually require.
So it's so easy to overestimate the importance of one major event,
one major moment.
But we forget that these major events and moments, if we have a
culture and attitude and mentality of improvement bit by bit, we can
achieve the goal required. Too often we convince ourselves that a
massive success requires massive action at one time. No, it
requires consistent, dedicated little actions. I'm particularly
mentioning this for parents and for educators, all of us, because
we come to the end of the year in November, never worrying about the
child's results, never bothering with it in the school, never won
even in the homework. Never worry of the absenteeism. How can my
child do? He wants to do medicine or whatever? How would you get an
A? It's way too late. He should have bothered about that in grade
seven already? Can he do maths? Is he good in science? Should he do
medicine? Is this meant for you? Do you want to become a doctor? Do
you want him to become a doctor?
You need to be very careful about this because we sometimes we do
this and we place an unnecessary burden on those who may not be
able to manage
what but you impose upon them. So
it's easy to overestimate the importance of major for major
moment, but it comes about through a series and this is the culture
that we need to inculcate.
You see, when you look at sometimes water or you go in a
cave and you see drips of water,
slow drip, and you find it hollows out the stone.
And the Roman poet Ovid wrote, dripping what dripping water
dripping water hollows out the stone, not through the force of
the water. But through the persistence of the drug, the
persistence of the drug. And in Chinese A friend told me I'm going
I don't know if it's a properly Shui dish each one which means in
Chinese constant dripping of water ways away the stone,
not the gushing force of the water, but the consistency of the
little drip. What you call the aggregation of marginal gains, the
collective
result of small things
To over a period of time.
And therefore,
we must reflect on this notion even with our young ones. That
notion of improvement by 1% 1% improvement isn't particularly
notable. Sometimes it's not even noticeable. But it can be far more
meaningful, especially in the long run. The difference a tiny
improvement can make over time is remarkable. Never underestimate
the overall significance of little steps we take. This way the
Prophet encourages, is Subramania highly documented in
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the best of these are those who didn't regularly and consistently,
even if they are little by little.
And here's how the math work. If you consider improvement, by
addition, with a column proven by addition, trying to do something,
if you can get 1% better in something is there only 1% 1%
better each day for one year, say in maths and science or whatever
it may be on your work, whatever it is on your relationship, you
will end up 37 times better than you were.
After the one period one year if you're consistent with the 1% What
starts as a little effort in a small ring accumulates into
something much more on muscleman, the beloved wife of Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said to the Prophet God, will
Salia Olivia Dumas, they
were Incan yesira prophets, he said the Prophet was consistent,
constantly doing what was best of good, even if it was seemingly
easy, or seemingly a little bit. That is why small choices may not
seem to make much of a difference at the time, but it adds to great
success and achievement over a long time. Easier. The
improvement, by addition is the improvement by subtraction.
You see, you want to lose weight, for example, you may have to go
and jog. But you can also cut down on fats. So one is by addition,
you have to do something, the other one is stopped doing
something which is bad for you. So one is by addition, and the other
one is by subtraction just avoid doing something which you are
doing. It's less work in fact.
And also you mustn't jog by the way, don't get me wrong on cycle
and see, they're both ways of looking at it. And here you have
to do something not to do something but avoid things. For a
healthy diet three reasons. If a person stops drinking one can of
Coke. One can of Coke contains 24.8 grams of sugar one can
if you give up drinking one cans a day, by the end of one year, you'd
have given up 9.1 kilo grams of sugar in your body 9.1 Forget the
fatty foods and all that some losers in consistence. Only one
kilo of coke, you have minimized the ingestion of 9.1 kilo gram of
sugar by that incremental
it's one candidate over a year. There's 1/10 everyday. It comes to
nine kilos over a period of time.
Small things. Sometimes you avoid something, it can even be now
character Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. One day was a
lesbian Malik reports. He was in a gathering of Sahaba. And he said
to them, you know, are they? Roger luminaria Jana, they'll come a man
now he's one of the people of paradise. So people look at the
door of the masjid, the entrance to the masjid and hear this old
man coming and the Hadith describes his hair was disheveled.
He was still wet with the hoodoo water. And he was getting shoes,
his sandals in his left hand walking into the Masjid. Who's
this man? He doesn't even look well rested. So and he comes into
play. So one of the Sahaba went to him and said, You know, I have
some issue? Is it possible to spend some time with you? I need
you to help me in this resolve they should show you come to my
home. And he stayed with a man for some time for a day or two a
consumer report for three days. And then he realized this man
doesn't do anything extraordinary. He doesn't spend all night in
prayer. Why would he be on the people agenda? What did he do?
He's not even doing what we do. He prays Of course. He prays buy me
some liquor but don't lie to the Quran was all what do you do? Why
is he the people of Ghana? And he asked but what is unique about you
said nothing. Is it Mauer elaborate? I am just what you see.
There's nothing more to it.
Than Nila Ajit if enough Celia Muslimeen Russian mushroom. Wala
Allah highly alcohol lawyer said only I don't do anything but I
avoid. Avoid being dishonest to people. Deceptive deceiving to
people, and I carry not in my heart any envy in
You want to see something good. I try not to be envious. So he is
avoiding bad stuff. He didn't do more good stuff. He avoided bad
stuff. improvement by subtraction by avoiding the bad stuff,
avoiding fitna avoiding gossiping, you can improve your character. So
many people they improve this Allah, but also improve the cost
of increasing costs. So you don't become a good person, you become a
good person to make the Salah.
So be very careful of this, Masha, Allah EZMix Allah wants to deny me
four times a day, next year, maybe five times. But as soon as
possible continue, so I will become a better Muslim, or become
a more regular salary is different between the regular salary and
being a better Muslim.
So it's very important.
The aggregate of marginal gains. One of the gate obstacles that I
wish to conclude with this, to achievement and success is
procrastination, where we delay something, you say we need delay,
easy things, the easy things become compounded. You do not keep
your accounts in your business, for example, or student doesn't do
their homework, or keep their work up to date. And many times,
parents must be observant of this.
You will keep your accounts in your business up to date, or the
student doesn't keep the work up to date. And then that piles up
over the period of time and creates an enormous backlog,
enormous paper
the week of the exam for the student, or the week of the Texas
for the businessman, he tries to get everything up to date. But due
to time constraints, it becomes overwhelming.
You see, if you delay simple things, they could lead to become
difficult because of the accumulation.
And then the time constraints. During the account just everyday
is two minutes work, taking up your homework for five minutes
work. But if you accumulate that easy thing becomes difficult and
difficult things can become impossible.
A major consideration is to realize in all of this, the value
of the limited time we have because at the end of the year for
school is an exam at the end of the financial year. Fiscal Year.
It's time for your Texas an example.
And if not, I felt love this country. He said in his Hichem
my father I mean normally color.
When my husband is coming home, the chemo is at the time that has
gone by is irreplaceable. And the time that he's arrived is beyond
value. And the edge in his writing in his vision Bucky
Ma has given what is remains of your time is priceless.
We need to carefully consider
put our lives in proper context and do what needs to be done with
full vigor in all aspects, whether it's our young man studying at
school, whether it's read our business, whether it be in our
relationship, where they'd be without Dean,
life really happens in the level of action, not so much the level
of thought and neither the level of circumstances, nor of emotions,
nor of ideas, nor beliefs, nor missions and visions, all these
are necessary. But these all of them provide a platform of
circumstance for us to be able to build the stages of life that
could require. You've got to put your own act together and be the
architect of your life. Don't wait for things to happen, make things
happen. People say time flies can be the pilot of the time.
Jalaluddin Rumi, in one of his prayers said, Allah, let us not be
of those content to wait and see what will happen of Allah. Let us
not be of those content to wait and see what will happen. But
grant us the determination and the capacity to make the right things
happen.
Who the Coca Cola and Aetna, you have to deal with urbanization.
But at the river Dhaka, Allah Akbar, right, imbue yourself with
that kind of consideration, that you're able to become the
architects of your destiny by engaging in those things that
affect your life. So if we reflect on the off repeat is was it the
Kula Welcome to national map at the record, carefully consider it
this reminds us that tomorrow and the year after as well, the
responsibility of the President, and the better we get at living
the present at the moment, the better we are in appreciating the
consequence of the future.
success and achievements arise out of small, consistent, incremental
acts of improvement that pave the way to excellence. You celebrate
an event, but the event is accumulation of a series of things
that happen over a period of time and the more
We do the right things in the right manner timelessly, we have
greater moments of achievement and less anxiety and anxiousness when
those moments do arise. This is in keeping with the prophetic advice.
The best deeds, those which are done timelessly, regularly,
consistently, even if the little by little Akula kolyada was tough.
Rula was salam aleikum wa rahmatullah.
Zuck, we'll have him on to show sobre la for that inspirational
talk ALLAH SubhanA Radwanska health instinct insha Allah to
continue inspiring all of us for many more years to come, in your
opinion. I mean, and just to say congratulations to all the
matriculants of Islamia, who was under the law. And may Allah
subhanaw taala include him in the studies of law they mean in order
to guide them in their future endeavors. Many other blind I
mean, and from the measure committee side, we would like to
say Mabalacat or zeod Bundy Cara, who has achieved 100% for maths.
He has the highest score for mathematics in the country on
hamdulillah and he achieved 99% For accountancy, nine
distinctions. hamdulillah one of Origanum was Alicia at the masjid
is a grandfather was a regular musalia at the mercy of Allah
subhanaw. Blanton genital for those. And also he from Rhonda was
used to come to a budget year when he was still schooling. And his
uncle is sitting here also I do want to point out his uncle Nazir,
why is it yeah, when Tucker and we should move on to the political
family for the great achievement of the young brothers. He had no
Allah subhanaw taala guide him, Allah subhanaw taala Gundams
assists in his future studies. And when you apply the mean, Zach
McLaughlin and Allah Subhana Allah guide all our youth, ALLAH SubhanA
guide all our youth and those who did not achieve the successful
result they wanted to achieve. If at first you don't succeed, try
again and keep on do not stop trying. Allah subhanaw taala will
go on successful Elisa Linsanity lemma Saya, Allah subhanaw taala
says or laserLine Cerney limosa Mansel achieve that which is the
onshore so let's keep on striving. Insha Allah we're never too old to
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