The speakers discuss the importance of finding one's vision and finding a unique vision to fit in with one's unique personalities. They emphasize the importance of having a clear vision to achieve success in life coaching and visioning. The importance of trusting one's vision and understanding the rules of the world is also emphasized. The host emphasizes the importance of understanding one's past experiences and creating a pattern of execution for their goals. They also mention the importance of avoiding overestimating one's success and connecting with them through social media platforms.
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You're listening to the Muslim life hack his podcast.
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Assalamu Aleikum, I'm a primary and welcome to season three of Muslim life hackers podcast. The
Muslim life like his podcast brings together individuals from all walks of life to give their
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where you'll find all the episodes from season one and season two. Now, let's get started.
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Today we'll be speaking to shake Sajid Omer. He's an educator, speaker and graduate in information
technology, Islamic law and judiciary. A few months ago, shake Sergey came here to Australia and did
a workshop called the seeds of change that covered vision setting and other aspects of personal
effectiveness. I actually attended this workshop and greatly benefited from it. So I thought it'd be
a great idea to have have shakes on the show to discuss these things. handler who was so kind to
agree to come on. In this interview, we speak about setting personal visions, why it's necessary to
have one and how it helps with achieving our greatest ambition of entering Jana. So enjoy this
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interview with shake sajit.
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Shake Sachi. Welcome to the Wilson life hackers podcast. Thanks for taking the time to join us
today. We've got a lot of people, and thank you for the opportunity to come along.
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So first of all, can we please start off with an introduction? Tell us a bit about yourself who you
are what you do?
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That's always a tough question. To answer I am I for one, I'm not comfortable speaking about myself.
But since you have asked,
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I would say that I'm about igniting communities that benefit humanity, and about three eyes that I
call the three eyes of success, which is a class and being sincere
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and being excellent. And it's the karma, which refers to being steadfast. So
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in a nutshell, I would I would describe myself with this paragraph, because
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every message that I push out, sort of stems from from the foundation, fantastic. So the topic that
we've chosen for today is about setting personal visions. So can you be able to define for us what
it exactly means to have a vision for your life? And why is it necessary to have one? That's a it's
a beautiful theme to discuss, and a beautiful question. As you know, with regard to vision, there
are many definitions. But in a nutshell,
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I would say it refers to living a life with distinct direction and having distinct purpose. You
know, living your life in a way that allows you to build your legacy and leave a legacy.
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You know, live your life in a way that tells everyone who you are and who you're not. And
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a vision is really a picture of the world that you seek to create, or a picture of the world that
you want to see when you're on your deathbed. So, like, how does it How does it actually benefit an
individual? Like, how did how did they come to that? Yeah, I mean, you know, drafting a vision for
yourself is a process. It's a process. And now it's become a very theoretical topic. There's a lot
of courses on this, there's a lot of books on this.
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It's become a science, right? Because people can experience have sort of gathered a set of good
practices on how one can actually draft the vision.
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But really, it's about you know, just going on a journey with yourself, you know, you have to go on
a journey with yourself, you got to
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try and see yourself on paper, you know, you got to see yourself on paper. And you got to work
through the volumes of information that will be in front of you, because a lot of the times we have
so many ambitions, you know, yeah, when I was growing up, I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a
football player I wanted to be you know, you there's so many things you want to be but the reality
is you only live one life. And that life has resources that are limited, in our time limited our
wealth limited. So,
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you know, you go about drafting this vision, by first of all, just getting all your ambitions out
and then sort of seeing what stands out from all the ambitions listed. And then going on a journey
with yourself settling upon making that ambition, the purpose of your life or achieving the
ambition, the purpose of your life. And that's what it's what it's about. It's easy to speak. I can
tell you it's difficult to create, but not impossible. And you know, I normally tell people that
like you just asked you said how would one go about getting a vision I say look, start with the
things that
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You know that you don't say a lot of the times we don't know what we want, but we know what we don't
want. Right? So I don't want to say that look, if you're on your deathbed, what are the things you
wouldn't want to see? Right? in the world around you? Right? And and obviously, when I say, Well, I
don't mean the entire globe in your world, what do you have defined as your work? Yeah. So what is
what are the things that you don't want to see?
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in the world that you've defined that you will stop there? Right? Because if you know, I don't want
this, this is a great starting point. And this is the easiest way to start really, because you know,
it has it happens in everyday life, for example, we all going out for a meal, and the person says,
right, guys, where to where should we go? Which restaurant? Should we go to? Yeah. And everybody's
not fast enough for that. Everybody says, I don't mind. You know, whatever you guys choose. Yep.
Everybody's happy to go along, get busy on the mobile phones, as everyone is our day. Yeah. Right.
And then the driver says, Okay, we're going for this particular scene of food, for example, Chinese
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or Mexican or something. And you find the voice on the back saying, No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Anything like that. Yeah, yeah. But then you say, for Jessica, you said, I'm happy, I'm good with
anything. Yeah, then you normally see the person say, Well, I, I don't know what I want. But I know
what I don't want, I know that, you know, that particular style of cooking, I don't want
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this to something else. So a lot of the times we don't know what we want, but we know what we don't
want the best perhaps you're, you know, a starting point for you to get along. Finding much about
yourself. And as I said, it's a long process, and it doesn't come about in in a day or two, it needs
detachment from, you know, those things which, which distract us, and leads us to connect to that,
you know, to the, to the natural disposition that our lives create them upon. And just finding out
that this is this is who I am. And this is what I'm not, it's a long process. But anyway, I'm just
we speaking in obviously, in a summarized form, but as I said, it is a theoretical science. Now
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there are courses, there are books on it, you know, a lot of people who have become successful in
terms of life coaching and vision drafting that put the experiences down, and the person who's
serious about you know, getting the life more focused, then these books will definitely shed some
light. And we can definitely then see the light at the end of the tunnel. So what what would it
would actually, like, differentiate between like a vision and just having a dream, like, someone's
just thinking, Okay, I want to do this, and then the next day, they wake up, and they still don't
think about us? Well, yeah.
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You know, a vision, needs action. And obviously, in dreams, divisions beget no doubt, no doubt, so
that there is a correlation. But
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a vision without action is just daydreaming, as they say, and action without vision is just wasting
time. So
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vision is normally attached to action. So it's progressing, the dream is progressing, the team's
taking it a step further. It's clipping it, it's tweaking it. And it's sort of sticking the dream in
a frame, which fits based on your unique circumstance, because as I said, we have limited time we
have limited resources, you know, sometimes resources, play a part in limiting something or allowing
something to sort of go beyond its boundaries. Right? You know, the vision is is more of a dream.
It's something that you
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take on seriously, it's not just, you know, I would suggest nostalgia. It's not just staff, you
know, I wish it was like this, no, it's actually working towards creating that particular particular
dream. Now, it's necessary to have one, you know, it is necessary to have one I think, you alluded
to provide the necessary to have the vision. And,
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you know, living a life with a vision is is actually from following the way of Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi wasallam, the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So, you know, we must have a vision,
because, in this particular way, we actually following the city, we're actually building our
paradise, because we know we follow the messenger, we reward and if you reward us, and that's your
paradise becoming more beautiful for you. Yeah, right. So it's actually following as soon as you do
so because the messenger sallallahu alayhi, wa sallam, there was no better visionary that we know
that, you know, he, he his vision was was Islam reaching the four corners of the globe. And that
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vision was was one which is bigger than his lifetime. However, because he had clarity and focus, he
was able to live the life that God Almighty gave in such a conducive way that was conducive to the
vision he would have loved or the vision that or his his actual vision and that was by leading
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Behind the tea, a mighty, right, yeah would manage to carry the burden, the burden of the vision of
Islam crossing four corners of the globe. And I always say this, I say, look, the messenger peace
and blessings be upon him. We see him actually praying to God Almighty, for the Islam of one of the
people. And at the time when he was actually making this prayer, both those people were Islam
greatest enemies, they were actually harming Muslims to try and force them out of Islam. And at this
period, he raising his hands and asking God Almighty for that Islam asking Allah Subhana Allah for
this level of one of these two people, either above or armory position.
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Right? So he's actually asking a lot for the cyber one of these two. And somebody might say, but
hold on, oh, Prophet of Allah, why are you actually doing this? Is this just like random activity?
Or because these people are clear cut enemies? Yes, you know, these people are not just vocal in the
enmity, they actually physical in the image, right, they actually do everything to set us back. And
But no, the messenger it wasn't, it was kind of it was hopeless, because he was one of the greatest
people, definitely the greatest person who walked the face of this earth that could read people
because his leadership are so robust, he was taught by God Almighty. And he saw that, you know, if I
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have one of these two people in my team, that that's conducive to me achieving my vision, which is
establishing the four corners of the world, it made sense to make dua for the Islam of one of these
two. And as our dear listeners would know, Islam, you know, flourished and thrived. During the reign
of original haka. Mohan, Allah chose him to be the one that would accept Islam as present throughout
the messengers of Allah. And he is not flourished, it thrived in his reign, and it spread throughout
the peninsula. and beyond. That, which, you know, we would sort of define as potentially in the life
of a leader, yeah, so, messenger of Allah, Allahu Akbar, Allah, he was indeed a visionary. So it's
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silly not to have a vision of what we could actually say that because he was, and also
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the assistant, you know, when you have a vision, as sad, as I have said, it saves time and money. So
this is definitely going to differentiate you, from the person who doesn't, you go to run your day
more efficiently, you're going to run your organization more efficiently, you are going to make
decisions more efficiently. You know, you're not going to be one of those people who keep on saying,
you know, I'll see when I get there, I'll deal with it. When I get there, I'm just gonna do this. I
don't know why I'm doing it, but I'm just gonna do it. And it's gonna cost you time to do the cost
money.
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You're gonna get to realization and say, Look, you know what, this is not what I wanted to do. But I
didn't know until I did. You know, that's too late.
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So the vision allows you to make the required decision. Now, if you know that, you know, I'm heading
to Australia, you know, you're going to Australia, then it's very clear in your mind, you got to
purchase painting, because you're thinking of taking your car to the petrol station to fill it up
with gas. Because you have an end, you have an end, you know, where you want to end up. So
basically. So that's like, getting to Australia. Yeah, the vision is to be in Australia, for
example, a mini vision upgrade to be in Australia. So not everything I do not have everything I do.
And depending on budget application, I might eventually need to take my car to a port and then take
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a ship, because I have a budget, which would only take us for me to travel by sea, for example. Or I
might have enough money to actually purchase a plane ticket, but there's so much clarity, I can make
my decisions now without risk. I don't have to take two steps backwards, to move forward. Yeah, and
I always say that, you know, if you if you don't have a vision, you basically spending dollars, and
it's not very wise so so that's why it's necessary to have a vision also, also the vision acts as a
border and boundary to all our activities in life. And it streamlines the many options we have in
life. But you know what, sometimes overwhelmed. Sometimes, like it just takes a student going to
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university or a student now in secondary school looking at what subjects they can study, or they
would they want to study. On one hand, they have subjects that he loves to study or not. On the
other hand, they have a career that they'd like to pursue, which needs them to do subjects that they
don't necessarily know. Right, it becomes overwhelming. What should I do? Should I do that? Which I
love? Or should I work with, you know, the subjects that I don't love but it helps me get that
particular career? Yeah, it becomes overwhelming and the vision streamlines things, the vision is
okay, this is where I want to end up to end up this is what I got to do. And it allows you to to you
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know, stop hyperventilating Why? Because, you know, and I see this today in organizations in in
people, you know, somebody else is doing something great, and it really it gets you sweaty, it gets,
you know, shaken, thinking to yourself, you know, why am I need to be doing that? Why am I not doing
that? You know, it's not fair that personally I should have thought of that, right. And if you end
up
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Now, either dropping what you're doing to also do that, right? Or you do that along with what you're
doing. So you split your focus, right? When you have a vision, it keeps you settled, it keeps you
grounded. You know, I'm not doing that. And I know why am I doing this? It's fine. Let them do it.
I'm doing this and I want to be good at, you know, and I mean, if we just look at even like basic
organizations today, we have what we call relief organizations, and what we call nonlinear
organizations or proactive organizations, organizations that are sort of disaster prevention and
organizations that respond to disasters. Yeah. Now, relief work, has its own skill sets, has its own
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expertise, needs its own character sets, that proactive sort of work doesn't need. Now, if you're
going to enter practices, but then hyperventilate because there's a thread somewhere for example,
and you also want to play your part, then what's gonna happen? You united Good to be here and united
going to be there? Yeah. You know, when I was growing up, my dad used to always tell me, three, a
one full cup is better than three half cups. You might say, well, three half cups as the one and a
half cups of water. Yeah, so that was wonderful. But no, my understanding, you know, as I traveled
through my years, what my dad was actually saying one full cup is better than three has been a
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year. You focused on it and it's complete. You excelled in it, you excellent. You can close the
chapter, you know, you know what I'm saying? And you fold it up without spilling three half cups.
You might look around the Coxon, a lot of water on the side, you wasted water. You can't serve the
cups. You need a towel now to clean up before you can serve it to your guests. You get what I'm
saying? Yeah, because you are rushing there. Yeah. So so you know, a wise man once said that a
candle illuminates. Okay. Yeah, and illuminate. But light focus is a laser, and a laser cut through
steel. And this is the power of focus. Yeah, you know, that said light. That's the battlefield if
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you focus it, right. So this, this is what the vision does, it focuses us, it focuses us, it tells
us who we are. It tells us who we are. It tells us why we doing what we do. And it tells us why we
not doing what we are doing. It's fine, you hyperventilate less, and you focus and you don't waste
emotion, thinking of what if, or how it could have been you comfortable with your life and you move
on with life, you know, I want to see if you have a vision, it's very, very addictive. When you
finally get it, you will hate living a day of your life without, it really helps. So this is why
it's necessary to have a vision and this is what makes the visionary different purposes was not the
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person who is not a visionary, you know, has really, you know, tasted the sweetness
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of life. When applied. I would say that because the vision gives gives weakness to like, it's a
vision that makes you want to sleep less, and makes you want to wake up as soon as possible. When
you go to sleep. It stops you being one of the people that okay, I woke up in the morning. I know
it's raining outside, it's cloudy, it's a good day to sleep, I'm going to go back into the
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blanket and go back to studio meaning you you ready to face life is always a sunny day for you. Let
me describe the discipline. You always live in a day in Africa, you have a vision? Well, maybe I'm
going to be biased to Africa, because, you know, I grew up there. But what am I going to say is you
always going to have a sunny day with blue skies when you have
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a vision a vision. Yeah. So I suppose like what you're actually saying about having a vision
actually gives you a laser focus in your life. And that it's, it seems to answer my next question
that I had, which was about like, you know, a person can just have a, like, for example, something
that says okay, my, my vision is to simply make it to gender, which is the, like, say, the highest
level, and so they pave up their life with that in mind. And so, looking at the question, what you
mentioned about laser focused
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how
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everyone should want to go to Paradise, right? Everyone should want to go to Canada. I mean, if
you're not excited about going to Japan, and you know your output wish is to get there then there's
something wrong with you because the only other option is outside. Yeah, so ya know, we all want to
get the gentleman right. And Jenna comes to us as based on the mercy of Allah Almighty, right
because as the messenger processor Oh, and he will send him all of us went agenda because of the
mercy of God oh my god because of how it but the deeds is a means to earn God Almighty mercy. That
will be a means for us to get the question about the vision is how do you want to go about any
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quarterback? Right? So Mercy is the result. Right? So what are you gonna try in order to exactly
many ways,
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many ways to gain God Almighty mercy, right. What are you? What legacy? Are you going to leave
behind that? That's going to be you know, the means of you gaining that message to get you to pass?
Yeah, so there's no contradiction.
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I mean, everyone, irrespective of how global or how local, the visions are, the ultimate end should
be. No doubt. Yeah. Because, you know, this is the world that I seek to create. Why? To get to
paradise? No doubt. Right? So this is the world I want to see when I'm on my deathbed why to get to
bed? So I'm basically asking you that there's so many roads to, to a place, which road are you going
to take? Right? So it's important, we don't get caught up
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in the semantics, because, you know, sometimes when I when I, when I something this is obviously
they asked me to come in, to speak to their, to the corporates to their staff. And when I do pitch
the question, you know,
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and even in at universities, right, many universities, and I pitched this question to the students,
I pitched it to, to corporate to this to this up. Why do you do what you do? Why do you have this
business? Why do you study what you study, and they say, well, to make money. Now, that is not a
purpose, as a result of what you'd have, if you had a business and you weren't making money, you're
running a charity, or a business, call it a business.
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Yeah, so if you are actually
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running a business, and the purpose is not to make money, that's a result of what you write,
everything we do is a means to an end, your business is a means to what your degree is a means to an
end, the country you live in is a means to an end, the person you marry is a means to an end. That's
basically what the vision is, the vision is that end. And everything we do is a means to, you know,
and then at the end of the day, we can convert the vision into a means to an end as well as a means
to get.
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Yes, right. So everything we do in life is a means to something else. I eat as a means for other
things, right? Yeah. Some people yes, I agree. they they they live to eat. But we
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we normally we we eat to live, you get what I'm saying?
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Yeah,
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it's a means to an end, I study from inside and I go to school, it's a nice training. So we did
nobody does something just for the, you know, for the sake of it, that that that person is wasting
time if they didn't eat for the sake of. So everything is a means to an end. And even if you went to
school, we spend a lot of years in school. Why would you want to spend so much yes to do right now,
I hope he doesn't need you to drop so many years, you have something for the sake of it, because I
enjoy going to school, but you should enjoy going to school. But game schools are a hobby. you've
invested so many years of your life to never ever get back. Right? Yeah. And that's the purpose. So
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the vision is connected to purpose is the purpose. Right? So just you know, tapping on what you
said. The question was a person wants to visit quote, agenda. Alpha clarifies that there's really no
contradiction here. Yeah, definitely the ultimate end, we're talking about human rights in this
world. How are you going to?
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Exactly. So I'm, I'm interested in it, then. You know, how, how did you arrive at creating your own
vision? Like, how long did it take before it became crystal clear? Or was it an ongoing process that
you tweaked over years or something? You just got in one go?
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Yeah. Are you getting ready personally,
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okay, because you can just tell what you do want to say, No, no, I'm
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an exception for you. Because obviously, you want to have those students of mine that I'm proud of,
and very proud of what you do. Mashallah. Except from uniquely for you. For me, I would say
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that, I was fortunate, I think I would, I would say I was zoned into division around 23 years of
age. Yeah. Okay. I had to find the picture growing up, no doubt. And and this is why, you know, I, I
always am. I'm thankful to God Almighty. I'm grateful to allow myself because what I'm doing now is
it's sort of, it's something I was excited about growing up. And I wouldn't say I was excited about
it, because I grew up in a family that says this, because no, my dad was a businessman, my mum was a
mother, Mashallah, you know, no doubt credit to my parents for the wonderful talks that had with me
growing up and still have not preserved them and showing mercy upon them.
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But you know, normally, you know, if you, you come from a family that your father's doing something
you end up having to do the same thing. Yeah. So what I'm trying to say is, I grew up in a family
with these particular dynamics. So what I'm doing now is something different to that. But I would
say that growing up, I didn't have the aspiration to actually do what I'm doing now. But when you
know, you're talking about clarity, absolute clarity, I would say I was zoned in at about 20 feet.
And, you know, the more I think about it, I'm more grateful for a lot of protection from it. Because
a lot of times is, you know, what happens is when you finally understand the world you seek to
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create, you know, sometimes you're too old, and you carry the burden of the wrong decisions before
studying the wrong degree. Maybe the wrong person may be setting the wrong country.
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Have you taken up the wrong job? You get what I'm saying? Yeah, so I was quite fortunate because
because of the clarity that no one knows, you know, at least an Arabic And I wanted to memorize the
Quran, I opted against going to medical school, and chose to pursue
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a career in IT, or to study that, which was found me in information technology. And I recall this
discussion with my parents and my dad was actually going to take you in or close to 10 years, when
you finally you know, settled after all the extracurricular activities that one has to do after the
six years or seven years of, of the degree. And then where would you go to Arabic, and so on and so
forth. So based on that, we made the decision to go for it. And obviously, my parents took me for an
aptitude test growing up, so it was a fit, right?
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There's nothing better to do let's do this. No, there was no definitely after allow credit to my
parents, because it definitely, you know, did stuff with me growing up, I had some paperwork to read
about that, that sort of, you know, made me do things without hyperventilating when I when I didn't
go to medicine, my cousin's went into it, my some of my friends went to do it, I never
hyperventilate,
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because I was at peace. And so because of that, I was able then to go learn Arabic, and in the free
Arabic program in Saudi Arabia, in the third year, I was 23. That's when I would say I zoned into
it, I realized that you know, what,
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this is the vision, this is what I want to wake up if this motivates me to see the world and seek to
create. And as I said earlier, at the beginning of this ignited communities that benefit humanity,
that's my vision statement. Normally, when you have a vision, it's quite long, but then you try and
work it into a statement. And when you read that statement, it's sort of it sort of reminds you of
who you are and who you're not, right. So when we talk about communities, then I'm talking about for
me have defined communities as
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Muslims, non Muslims, new Muslims, the academic community, as well as besides the finance,
community, and, you know, so so these are different. So as I said, the vision statement is longer,
is longer. But nonetheless, you break it down into a vision statement that allows you so basically,
I have defined these communities, children is one of my communities, so children, born Muslims, new
Muslims, non Muslims, the academic community, and the finance community. And when I say children
have defined them, as in my in my vision, sort of paragraph, have defined them as our today and
tomorrow, or the community of our today and tomorrow. And I've sort of isolated them on before years
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and above kind of Catholics.
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And basically, every decision I make even speaking to you right now,
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is based on division, I've always have line of sight to the end. So I'm asking myself ignited
communities that benefit humanity, if I was going to help you, if I take out an hour in my day to,
you know, be free for this particular interview is going to help me achieve what I want to achieve.
I went on to study, a second factor, second factor to optimize. After that, I went into the master's
program, I graduated as a judge, meaning I graduated with the judges. And yes, I will be graduated
as a judge for practicing just graduated as one. Yeah, and now I'm the PhD. I know why I know why
I'm making decisions. Because obviously,
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based on my explanation, I spoke about having a footprint with the academic community. And for me to
have the footprint, this level of study is required. So essentially, to pass them on, I have nothing
better to do, you know, and none of our life should be like this. There has to be that line of sight
to the end. But how is this gonna help create that world that you want to see? Yeah, that's true. So
I mean, like, it's like, say, when are your other students and stuff like when they were creating
the vision? Is it like, it's just about like, unplugging from your day to day routine and being able
to drop that your vision back according to the site? Yeah. You know, yeah. Yeah. Well, normally the
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you got to, you got to have an acute sense of awareness about yourself. You got to go on a journey
with yourself, you have to have a one to one with yourself. And to do that you got to switch off
from the family's secure from technologies which are from the job security as a responsibility
because this is your greatest responsibility right now. You know, going to the mountains where
there's no mobile network for a few days, you know, and get a big boat and every ambition of yours
ambitions for you know, with regards to you or your spouse with regards to your children with
regards to your parents because your family with regards to career, whatever is in you take it out
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and see the mess that you have
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in front of
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Max, you know, you hit a big realization hits you, and you feel that if I can achieve all this, I'm
wanting to live for 6070 years, plus or minus will love
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me, but it's clear, it's gonna dawn upon you that I can't do all this, right. But also, you know,
when you look at the the ambitions that you have for yourself into other elements in your life,
you'll see patterns that you know, okay, I can do this, I can do that I can put this under this
roof. And then you have this group that gathers most of the ambition. So like for myself, it was
clear that my ambition to move development, yeah, you know, the sort of development, you know, as I
pointed over, okay, I wonder, I would love to do this. But why I would love to do that. Why. And
that's what you got to do. When you see all these ambitions in front of you. Now study them one by
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one, why do I want to do this? I'll just because it's fun. Okay, this because I mean, so much, this
would be so amazing. If I did it. ABCDE this also would be so amazing, isn't it? Because this will
help us ambition that I have. So you see, now you start creating a package. Yeah. And then you just
got to now be true to yourself and say, Okay, I can see a lot of pieces in this particular bracket
yet, and you need everything else off and just work with it. And it's about putting it in order. And
looking at it from you know, the life that you've reached as far as far as looking at your
resources, looking at what the condition limitations, and mission limitations, which is time and
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money, maybe also as your vision must take into consideration those around has to be realistic,
right? So then you start drafting your pattern, which is known as a pattern of execution, that
pattern of execution is your mission, everything you do to get to the vision, that's called the
mission. Yeah. So it shouldn't be Mission Impossible. No Mission Possible. Yeah.
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And, you know, that's what you go about. So it might be that, Okay, guys, I need to study this
particular degree, I need to drop the subject, for example, you know,
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I need to move countries, sometimes that's what needed, I need to move out because the country I'm
in won't help me achieve what I want to achieve.
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But now you now you have a basis to start making decisions. And always don't forget drive, the hard
drive is there from the beginning? Because you're the one who drives and then can this guy. So I'm
thinking about this obviously, in in context with PCC, for my dear listeners often do not forget to
drive to others. That's the foundation of all success. That's where it starts. Yes. And the best
person to make do out for you, is you because you are the most desperate one, to once yourself to
succeed? Yes, there's no one more desperate for your success than you. Right? And a lot is
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that that, that Allah is the one who answers the subjugation of the desperate one when the when,
when he or she. So the more desperate you are, the better and you're the most desperate for your
success. So make you out for yourself, guys, and don't forget this behera as much as we enjoy the
means. And we put our trust in Allah, creating a vision is complete easily. Yeah. So I mean, final
final question. Question on the vision topic. You You mentioned a very interesting point about the
world, the world around you meaning like what you define as your world? And would you have to
clarify that a bit more? Like, what what does it mean by the world around you? And that kind of
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difference?
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Yeah, just it will differ because everyone's ambitions are different. Yep. You know, and, and you
will define that world, when you look at your ambition and pick up the practice, you know, that we
spoke about earlier.
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That's going to define your vision for you. And sometimes life is good to reading a lot of kind of
work and a merciful upon you and your scope of influence, or what they call the locus of influence,
unlike fantasy for you, you know, you wanted to defend a kidney, for example, but you know, you have
a footprint in Melbourne. Yeah. But obviously, again, defining that word boils down to resources.
This is important that everyone reads about the intricacies of revision. So as I said, it's
documented. Yeah. And through experience, people have proved these anomalies in as well. Okay.
Sometimes, you know, your, your resources for the local SEO world sort of shakes, which is fine,
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it's fine. It doesn't matter, because Allah has created us uniquely. And Allah has distributed
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wisdom, the proportions amongst us, and then everyone has to have the weight on their shoulders. No,
no, and in fact, you could be more potent in your local vision, then another person in
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his forest vision, because if everyone was in foreign nations, who's looking after the community,
yeah. Yeah. So we are interdependent human beings. And and, you know, in this contemporary age, we
call it the law of wheat. Right? So the law of wheel is just that we are interdependent beings. We
are communicating we leverage of each other. So Allah in His wisdom has given some people more reach
and some people less reach but it doesn't mean having
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More each is more important than having less, sometimes less is even more important than having more
each. And I would say, less reach would be equal to having more each mortgage. Right? Because
challenge always begins at home. So really what I'm trying to make clear is no one should sort of
feel
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you know, and important, because, for example, division is particular to the school, for example,
okay, no, very important is needed. Because if you weren't there was a vision, then that is called
loss. And in the bigger picture of things, that's a massive, that's a massive, massive setback,
right? So it's sort of a competition, it's not about, you know, you don't want to be, you know,
competing with the wrong paradigm, we must have the right paradigm, local is important, foreign is
important. They both have both, yeah, they're both important, and a lot of his wisdom has limited
our resources to find a lesson channeled into doing that seems to be that, you know, in the bigger
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picture of things, Mithra, you know, that even the people that clear up the recycle bin, every few
days on our streets, right? These are important. The farmers are important as well, the doctors are
important as well. So in the in the grand scheme of things, everybody's equally important, let's be
honest, because let's be honest, if if they were if they were, if there was no one to pick up the
recycling, then what would a doctor do was the way so what I'm trying to say is, don't be so
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low
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and disgruntled and overwhelmed, because it was like, you know, put your trust in Allah do
everything to the best of your ability, and work with sincerity with excellence with this softness.
And as I said, you know, if your services are needed in a bigger locus, or fear of influence, or
greater fear that Allah will provide you with the resources to to get humble enough. So you can
pretty pretty much say, each person's world is pretty much this circle of influence, what they have
that's unique to them, pretty much.
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Everyone's Well, in the context of vision, I'm not trying to be so general with this, because
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your world is defined depending on circumstance, for example, the vision, we say, you know, your
world is your area of influence. And that area of influence is defined by several factors, from the
most important factors is to time and money. That makes sense. Yeah, fantastic. Okay. So now, while
the interviews actually coming close to it. So I just want to put the five final questions that we
asked all I guess. So with regards to this topic that we talked about, and even generally, what are
your top three books that we could be able to really get into this?
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Yeah, I mean, there's so many books out there on leadership and strategic management, and developers
and so on. And so reason why you can read those, but I will take the four answers. And reading as I
was pondering, right, and in particular, pondering over matters of strategy, matters of leadership
matters of development and asking all the time. Why is it Why not? Is that, you know, why is this
here? And why has he not said that? Because there's always a lesson in developing our village. Yeah.
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And after that, you know, this should not the messenger sallallahu alayhi wasallam. And in
particular, he theorized about, yeah, because there's no better leading scientists, and he was, he
was taught by Allah, Allah, who was and, and again, you really asking why and why not? Right. And
after that, reading the biographies of his most prominent students, which was the full callus the
full meaning after he passed away from a local animal kingdom.
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And it amazing, they all work, right. Yeah. And even, you know, if we look at the Quran, and the
Quran reaching us today, there was two little decisions made in the era of the three of these
candidates, right? At least. So, you know, it just shows you, you know, what sort of visionaries
they were and why not they were taught by the ultimate visionary Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam. So again, reading their biographies, with a focus on strategy, leadership development is in
front of us, because, you know, where wherever your focal point of concentration is, you pick up the
things from the basic of the things from the context, such as reading, you know, reading to
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understand reading.
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And again, I say, why is it Why not? Okay, why don't why didn't they do that engaging discussion
with your peers and your colleagues, right? And great abilities with regards to setting your vision
will come about by analyzing and it's very important, because, you know, sadly, we become a people
today who have to read and when we read, we hardly understand and when we understand we have to
analyze Yeah, so I'm talking about working with the poor and and the boundaries of the messengers of
morality within them as well as the power
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If you have posted in the students, and the rest of us a habit of mine generally
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was by reading, understanding and by analyze. Yeah, right. So if he read a piece of books, I think
let's discuss how, and I think I said this to you. When you attend one of my classes, early in the
year, I said that, you know, we need to start revising for why, the why and the house, a lot of
times we discuss what, you know, what are the three main books?
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You know, what's this? What's that? What's the best way to do this? And so on so forth. We need to
dive into how and why it's very powerful. Yes, it's not everyone's cup of tea committed to
discussion dealing with how and why Why? Because sometimes it gets mentally heavy. Yeah, right. But
nonetheless, nonetheless, the seeds of it,
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and dynamic and powerful. And that's where the transformation, that's where transformation happens.
That's where, and that's how our life has to be. Our life has to be transformational. Not
transactional, it can be transactional, but it should be in the most part, transformational. I can
read the book, I can attend the class, a lot of the times we do so what's the transactional mode
sort of thing that I'm going to school, so I pay fees, so I've done my business, who's going to give
me a debit, and it's a transaction, when the focus should be transformation, that I've learned
something? How have I grown from it? How can I grow from and this is where Mohammed said on level it
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was it was an amazing teacher because not only did he instigate mine, he converted and transformed.
And and this is why we asked him to the three main books I cited for you as I have, because the
Quran and the Sunnah is that the two sources of finance, the transformation, the transformation, if
we gave him the diligence that deserves to be transformed into raising waves, so it's about
transformation. That's what the focus should be. And transformation happens when focuses on how and
why. Yes, fantastic. Okay, so my next question for general questions is, what's your favorite life
hack or final advice for those who want to take their lives to the next level? All right, so are
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we are we talking to
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your audience, but you call them the last hack is?
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All right. So to my listening, life, hackers, my brothers and sisters, will not even though I don't
know you, but I would love to express my love for you all, for the sake of Allah, my advice to you
all would be to get focused, and start focusing on the focusing process by trusting your vision and
locking it in. Why? Because life's too short, don't make it shorter, by wasting time. And if this is
then Mithra, then I would really, really, really want to reiterate again, after great praise to
almost kind of as Allah, thanks to definitely my parents, and my teachers,
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and those that were instrumental in shaping the decisions that I made in life, whether they knew it
or not. And also I'd like to express our heartfelt gratitude to the sim life hackers for affording
me the opportunity and giving me a gift to speak on this topic. I'm not the best of those that speak
on it. But nonetheless, I am humbled and grateful to allow here so we we can have our audience
actually find you online to connect with you. Yeah, I have website WWW dot Sajid from a.com. Yes, a
jvumar.com. Over there, you will see
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a form that you can fill in to liaise with me and communicate with me and I just wanted to do my
best to respond. And also, there's links to my social media pages, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter,
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YouTube channels, and so on and so forth. So you can connect with me there. One thing I will say is,
when you do visit the website, I would really like to see my activity listening and to access the
blog and search for an article called I have a dream. Okay, I will actually link that in in our show
notes so that they can be able to find it and, and also, along with the website that you mentioned
that the social media leaks as well. So yeah, fantastic. So I just want to say once again, thank you
so much for joining us on the show. does Allah Hi, welcome Oh,
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well, it was lovely.
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So there you have it, the interview with Sheikh Sajid Omer. One thing that stood out for me was
really the clarification about what our world means what your world means. And your world doesn't
necessarily mean every single person on the face of the earth. Rather, it means the people that you
can reach. And so I find this very empowering because this means that we can actually think about
what world we want to reach, and then be able to think about what Mark of change we want to have on
it, as opposed to kind of looking at
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In a sense of every single person on the face of the earth, and then thinking about, okay, what can
I do about it? How can I reach everyone, because that way actually gets quite overwhelming and
paralyzing, and it doesn't help us make practical steps out of it. So I really like that point about
our world, meaning the people that we can reach, and each person has a very unique reach. And that
means that we can all have a unique mark that we can make on the world. And that's awesome. I must
say, it's awesome. So I'd really like to know what you also thought about this interview things that
stood out for you. Do get in touch with us, where you can get in touch with us by email by going to
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