Sajid Ahmed Umar – Transformers Ep. 1 – Cave Days

Sajid Ahmed Umar

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The " jail day" concept is discussed as a time for thinking and taking responsibility, where personal growth and development is crucial. The importance of creating a clear understanding of one's roles and ideal life status is emphasized, along with creating a "tical gap" and "tical cause" analysis to identify gaps and solutions. transforming one's role and becoming a better human being is the goal.

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			Salam, alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh brothers and sisters in Islam, welcome to transformers.
You know what one of the best things we can introduce in our lives
		
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			is a cave day. All right, we live in the modern world. Let's not call it the cave day. Let's call it
a thinking. Why do I say this? Why do we need thinking days are brothers and sisters in Islam we
literally live through the hustle and bustle of life. And yes, I liken our lives to a busy city
because it just feels like that there's just so much going on. Especially if you're a parent,
especially if you're married.
		
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			Depending on the different roles, that Allah subhanho, Allah has blessed you to hold. There's just
so much going on. And literally, we feel the blessings of time being lifted, and our just doesn't
feel like an hour anymore.
		
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			So when you live through life like this, you tend to stop thinking, and you end up just becoming
routined, like a robot, right? existing through life. And no one should exist through life, we
should live through life, there's a difference between living and existing, and thinking they helps
ensure that we have that living component present in our lives, that we feel alive with the life
that we have.
		
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			You know, brothers and sisters in Islam, we have so many roles, but how many of us actually think of
ourselves and our applications through those roles. We have mandatory roles in life roles that we
can never ever give up. Like being a parent, like being a child, like being a sibling, like being a
servant of Allah. And then we have elective roles, roles that we have flexibility in. Right? You can
perceive yourself giving it up, right, like your job, like you're
		
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			volunteering service, at a particular organization on the weekend, or a particular club, that you
attach yourself to every now and again. Right? We hold different roles. A cave day, is a savior day.
And caves have a very special place in our history. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam received
revelation in a cave, and he went there to protect himself from the chaos of misguidance that the
Croatia engaged in. And during the hijra, which was that migration, that
		
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			is considered a savior as well. Because of that migration. We are believers today. The Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wasallam sought refuge with Abu Bakar in a cave. And even in sort of recap that we
read every Friday we talk about the the sleepers of the cave, US horrible, gaff, the companions of
the cave, they protected themselves, their sanctity, their sanity, and the sanctity, meaning their
religion in a cave, Allah gave them a cave to live in, and avoid the persecution that
		
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			the king of the time
		
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			endeavored to lay upon them, right. So these caves will handle law when it comes to guidance, his
cave moments, this this cave time, the stinking time, really,
		
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			you know, these are from the best times and most productive times that we can have. I mean, in terms
of a modern application, and what I'm trying to
		
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			relate to you for your transformation is to have days in your week or in your month, depending on
your need, that you switch off from everything social from social media switch or from those around
you take care of all your responsibilities so that those areas are taken care of in your absence,
and go and have moments with yourself a meeting with yourself you know if you have to go into the
mountains because you can't get rid of the you know, the internet, so go to a to a zone but the
internet cannot be accessed. What I'm saying is get away from everything except yourself and go
think about yourself, ask yourself, right you know, I'm I'm a mother, I'm a father how good a parent
		
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			Am I am a child how good a child am I? You know, I know I do this for my parents, but let me just
analyze this. How good am I? Is there room for improvement? Right? What about my character? You
know, what about my speech? What about my behavior? How you know, what about my reactions, right?
This happened during the week this happened this month, could I have reacted better? This is how I
reacted? What would be a better way of reacting. Okay, right? How can I enable myself transform my
life towards being
		
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			better? The next time a situation arises that mandates a reaction for example, right.
		
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			This is my job. How can I be better at
		
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			it, right? I'm a Muslim, I'm a servant of Allah subhanho wa Taala. How is my Salah, when was the
last time you actually thought about your son and how good it was, and how you could improve it, or
you're sick, or you're fasting, right? Or you pilgrimage, and so on and so forth. Right? So the
thinking de helps us
		
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			really
		
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			understand where we at. Because if we are thinking, then we might be deceived into believing that we
actually doing a good thing. But, you know, it might be the opposite. And the last thing you want is
to be surprised on the DL fam. You know, and, and that's why the Sahaba used to say, take account of
yourself, before account is taken off you, right? Take account go have that thinking day before you
surprise on the day of pm. And it is said that it was said by one of the companions that the people
are sleeping, but when they die, they will wake up, we don't want to be you know, from that group,
we want to be awake when we are alive. So when we pass away, we can rest, right brothers and sisters
		
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			in Islam. So what you you know, as an action point, put these thinking days into your calendar. And
when you head into these thinking days, identify your roles, you see Subhanallah, you have so many
roles in life, your grandson, your nephew, urine aren't your niece, you, your son, your daughter,
your spouse, you, you have so many roles, try and be as comprehensive as you can with these rows.
And slowly but surely work through these roles. You're a servant of Allah, you're a member of the
community, you're a citizen of a country, right all these roles down and work through all these
roles, and write down your ideal place with these roles that as a son, or as a daughter, as a
		
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			parent, this is my ideal. This is the parent I want to be when I die. And I think of myself as a
parent or a child, and so on and so forth. I want to see myself having reached this level. All
right, excellent. So now for every role that you have, right next to it an ideal level that you
would be proud of reaching. Okay, the next step is go through each row and do a gap analysis, a gap
analysis is you now understanding where you are right now, and how far you are from the ideal that
you would want to achieve with regards to that role. That's cool. That's like that, you know, you
want to understand the gap. This is where I want to be and this is where I am. Okay? After you do
		
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			that gap analysis, do what we call a root cause analysis, try and analyze the causes Why you are not
at your ideal, right? What are the things that exist right now that prevent you from being at the
ideal that you have set, okay, because the only way to improve is to understand where things are
going wrong. So the root cause analysis, right, will help you identify that, write that down. So now
you have the ideal, right? And now you know, you have where you are. So you know, you know that you
know the gap between you and your ideal. Now you've written the reason why there's a gap, right? And
then the third step is to list solutions, solutions analysis, write down possible solutions to help
		
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			you reach your ideal those solutions might be you need to change your friends circle, right? The
solutions might be you need to throw your phone away, it's distracting you too much. Right? Maybe
need to change your advisors,
		
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			different solutions, think about them and think about them.
		
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			You know, sincerely seeking Allah subhanho wa Taala has helped, you know, maybe you need to
introduce the 100 in your life, right? Maybe you're not making enough, right? Maybe you need a
buddy, right? Maybe you're trying to memorize the Quran, and it's not happening so you find someone
who's also trying, maybe you're having trouble waking up so you find someone who is also trying, are
you trying to fast more so you find someone who's also trying to become a buddy to you in this act
of worship. So you wake each other up and you help each other through this, find the solutions, and
then inshallah with more thinking days and more revisions,
		
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			and more meetings with yourself and these cave moments. inshallah you will see yourself transform
into a better human being. I love you for the sake of Allah. Remember when your dua until next time
Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh