The Deen Show – Benefits of Prayer in Islam and WHY MUSLIMS ARE THE HAPPIEST according to – Science on Earthing
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A lot of research at one point, and
I made a video about this years back.
Grounding or what's called earthing The concept is
that when we're literally in touch with the
earth, we absorb electrons that help neutralize the
free radicals in our body that damage our
cells. Earthing's proponents say this grounding can reduce
inflammation,
pain, and stress. If you're grounded, your blood
is flowing
as long as you stay grounded.
And it also thins the blood, so you're
less likely to have a heart attack and
a stroke. And in fact, it thins the
blood so much
that if you're taking a blood thinner, you
have to lower the dose. So a recent
study conducted
by the University of Manheim in Germany found
that putting so this is your feet. Yes.
Now when you're making when you're putting your
your head like we do, yes, this is
a form of grounding, isn't it? Correct. All
your nutrients first from whole foods, nutrients, dense
food before you start filling up with empty
calories and high sugars. It's the thing. The
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So my next guest,
entrepreneur,
health
educator,
health and fitness. We just had a nice,
little morning workout after Fajr. Hamdulillah. Hamdulillah.
So,
run me through some of the things that
we were we were working out on. What
was, some of the things this year, like,
kinda normal routine?
I I do have a different split for
myself, so I don't really every level is
different. And usually, like, beginners, they usually have
a full body day, a day off, full
body day, day off. Then that's kinda how
it goes because they need to adapt to
the stress and the whole new routine. Then
as you progress, you kind of like will
train like 4 days, 5 days split, even
6 days split.
So so far right now, I have like
6 days split, but I take times off
as is needed. But today's workout was mainly
we did the posterior chain. We worked on
the back. We worked on the, hamstring muscles
and,
lower back. So we're kinda fixing that posture.
It's a really great workout. We did we
targeted the back from different,
angles as, you know, we showed them in
the b roll. And,
yeah, that's that's and we prayed Fajr, so
that was the start of the day. The
highlights, so we had the first win.
And,
a lot of the things that we do
on a day to day is as men,
I think, is consistency, and we are pretty
consistent
with so many things. And we have to,
unlike women that
they within themselves, they have a 28 to
32 day cycle, we don't. We have we
are so consistent that we can bear stress.
We can bear load differently. And I think
that just having
4 wins every day, it will be it
will make a huge difference and living by
a code, living by standard. The first win,
it was a spiritual one, which is a
religious. So we went to the masjid. We
prayed Fajr alhamdulillah.
And then after that, we had the physical
and exercise win. That's kinda like in the
books. Then after that, you can have, you
know, spending time quality time with your loved
ones, your family,
your brotherhood, all these things. That's another win.
And also you have the work. So that's
a financial win.
So productivity
in general. So those are kind of like
the 4 wins
that every day anyone should kind of like
make sure that they have in their
back pocket. Mhmm. Alright. So this is, so
we covered the the working out, and they
have done studies also. I think it was,
like,
65%
of many health issues that a person has,
just by working out, they can help to
eliminate these. Diminish completely. Yeah. Absolutely. Like, there's
a bone fracture. There is hormone imbalances. There
is mood
swings,
depression.
You have,
muscle mass,
metabolic health, heart health,
a lot of things that could be resolved
just by putting shoes on, going to the
gym, warming up, lifting heavy weights, putting them
down correctly,
do sauna, do ice bath, come back home,
shower.
That's pretty much how you solve it instead
of, like, everyone likes to line up to,
what's the next pill that should I take
to help me out, when in reality, it's
just we have it within us to actually
do that. And there's something even more important
in working out, we'll get into that in
a minute,
is, what you're putting in your body. Because
you can be working out, but if you're
drinking Coca Cola,
you know, eating, horrible foods
Yeah. You're you're just counterproductive. You know? Absolutely.
Fuel is important, and nutrition is such a
paramount,
thing that,
unfortunately, we don't really get taught. And even
now within the government or whoever is getting
certified,
usually that if you look at the the
what the American Association has now said that
steak and and chips are the same. Right?
There are so many outlandish stuff that they're
trying to eliminate.
Eggs and
cholesterol,
linking heart health to cholesterol
or, let's say, healthy fats from beef or
from egg yolk, which there is a heart,
surgeon
who came recently and wrote a book
about the reason for
heart issues
is not cholesterol.
It's sugar.
The overconsumption of sugar, which you mentioned about
Coca Cola, and it's just imagine water mixed
with
sugar and salt. So one gets you thirsty.
The other one masks masks the, the taste
of salt, and that's kinda like empty calories.
Then you have other foods,
oils too that carcinogens,
and it creates inflammation.
It's really important to put the right foods,
the right fuel because that's kinda like what's
gonna get you throughout the day with everything
that you do. So
And before that now
before we even start working out, every Muslim,
it's
an obligation that he wakes up, she wakes
up, and prays Fajr. Mhmm. And I think
this now, this next study that we find,
this is a recent study
conducted, and it's because of this, waking up
for Fudger and then the other prayers that
we have and that connection to the creator
that happens in the earth, and this study
is amazing. It's,
because that goes in line with that holistic
lifestyle if you wanna have that satisfaction, that
peace, happiness, contentment. So the study says, a
recent study conducted
by the University of Mannheim in Germany found
that Muslims report the highest levels
of life satisfaction
among
different religious groups. The research led by doctor
Laura Meary
and,
surveyed 67,000
participants
to explore the connection between belief in oneness,
they're saying belief in oneness, and life satisfaction.
The concept of oneness
or tawhid Mhmm. Says tawhid here in Islam
refers to the profound sense of connection with
the divine principle,
life, the world, other people, or activities. The
study found that Muslims
who hold strong beliefs in oneness, this is
Tawhid pretty much, the pure monotheism,
report the highest levels of life satisfaction.
This was this is amazing. Yeah. Absolutely. So
this now this goes back into something even
more important is establishing the deen in your
life. Deen Islam. Submission to the creator, not
the creation. It's the foundation. If you build
anything
above that, you're gonna be successful.
Have you heard of this study?
No. But I've seen Andrew Huberman talks about
I know you probably know who he is.
He's a professor at Stanford.
He talks a lot about things that actually
himself
cannot because he doesn't have, like, Muslims in
his circle and stuff, so they can't really
link it back to the religion. But he
has recently came out that he believes in
God because it's impossible to have such a
complex brain that functions the way it does
and the body that it existed without a
god. Mhmm. But I did hear a lot
of things that coincide with this study, for
example,
about addiction.
They said the highest people who can actually
overcome addiction, whether that's *, alcoholism,
substances,
is the people who believe in the oneness
of God because they have certain way that,
the prayer does for them and also prostrating
to the ground, which actually is the only
way you can discharge certain
charge in the body to the ground. And
also it dries blood to the front of
the head, which is nasiyyah. That's in Arabic.
That's kind of like the part of the
the brain where it's discharged, and it's the
one in charge of,
deception
and actually lying. So when you have blood
there, you actually
you are more inclined to make the right
decisions, which is actually
the just the the benefit
of the prayer in a health
way is really immense. It's really it's really
hard to just put in 1, let's say,
podcast or talk about it. But I think
it's worth really,
seeing and practicing
and even focus. Hoshur.
Imagine you start your day by khosur. Mhmm.
Right? Khosur is looking to one point. Even
Andrew Huberman talks about this. The way you
start a productive work is to stare at
one point and you stare at it for
up to 60 seconds. Mhmm. Imagine you're staring
at once. That's pretty much what we do
in salat. We can look left or right
No. Up and down. You look at one
point. Right? Or you're gonna prostrate. You're supposed
to zone in right there. Correct. And that
is creating that focus already. So you are
starting your day by teaching the body to
focus,
and that's actually really, really These are just
like some of the detailed benefits of salah.
Yes. And even Andrew Huberman does not know
that Muslims do that. Also, he has Andrew
Huberman.
Yes. Also, another one, about evolution, the way
we wash our hands, our face, our feet.
He has a method that he showed that
an increase of energy
that
people who cool down their extremities, which is
their hands and their face and their feet,
they show that their their core
exchange the heat out so they feel energized.
We do that 5 days 5 times a
day. So we feel energized.
These are the aspect that,
also sunlight. Right? So when you walk to
the Masjid, you come back, what are you
getting? You're getting the first sun sunlight in
your eyes. So that what it does, it
calibrate your circadian rhythm. And this is what
he talks about too. There is a lot
of things that science are coming to discover,
which was gifted to us by the prophet
and the Quran. But most Muslims be like,
like, you know, they don't pay attention to
that. They don't do it deliberately, like,
understand the value. This is why Islam is
all.
We whatever they the prophet did, we should
just do. And if there is benefits afterwards,
it's great. So I think that there is
so much value in believing the oneness of
Allah and,
this is just the health. Right? If we
talk about the other miracles, we're gonna we're
gonna sit here for probably the next month
or so just recording.
Yeah. That's really deep, the oneness. And then
all these things we're talking about is the
the prophet Muhammad just being the last and
the final messenger in the line of messengers,
Jesus, Moses, Abraham, no. All these were preceding
messengers but because he's getting revelation from the
creator, he's not making these things up, pulling
them out of his pocket.
The oneness, just to note for people who
think
the oneness we're talking about, this pure absolute
monotheism, see if you make a human being
into God, you destroy that oneness. If you
give attributes,
God Almighty, Allah is the All Hearing, the
All Seeing. If you say that this individual,
my sheikh, my, professor somebody,
he sees all, knows all, you just messed
up the monotheism. Correct. So this is the
uniqueness. This is why we say this is
Islam is the only true
pure monotheistic way of life out there. Correct.
And all of the prophets, they were Muslims.
All of them. There is no
Christian prophet. There is no Jewish prophet. There's
not none of that. All of them are
Muslims. By ethnicity, you could say, like, Jesus
or Moses. Ethnicity. Ethnicity.
But by their religion their way of life
Yes. The only religion that is revealed
is Islam. There is Sharia
that
came as to each and every prophet,
but all of them submitted to Allah. And
this is pretty much the meaning of Islam.
It's the complete submission.
Yeah. That's what it that's what Islam is,
to submit your will to the will of
God. So if you ask what religion what
what did Abraham do? Was he a Jew
or Christian? No. He submitted his will to
the will of God. Now go on Google
and say what does
Judaism mean? What's the definition? It doesn't mean
submission to the will of God.
What does Christianity, Hinduism,
look up basic Google search, say, can you
give me the definition of this religion? The
only religion
that you'll see that says submission to the
creator, Allah Mhmm. Is Islam. Correct. That answers
a lot of questions. Absolutely.
Absolutely. Let me let me get into this
now. I I did, a lot of research
at one point. I made a video about
this years back.
Grounding or what's called earthing The concept is
that when we're literally in touch with the
earth, we absorb electrons that help neutralize the
free radicals in our body that damage our
cells. Earthing's proponents say this grounding
can reduce inflammation,
pain, and stress. If you're grounded, your blood
is flowing
as long as you stay grounded.
And it also thins the blood, so you're
less likely to have a heart attack and
a stroke. And, in fact, it thins the
blood so much
that if you're taking a blood thinner, you
have to lower the dose. That's the power
of grounding.
The grounding is so critical for your brain.
It causes instantaneous
changes in your left feet left brain too.
Right?
It's where the right brain, what's going on
there? That's the creative side.
The left brain, that's analytical side. As soon
as you ground yourself, your left brain goes,
oh, powers down.
Right brain doesn't change, but your left brain
does.
It helps enhance circulation. So with increased
circulation,
now you have more energy, you have more
nutrients, you're carrying away more waste. So that
has a tremendous positive effect on the body.
Improved sleep is another major benefit according to
the earthing research. Because you mentioned you also
do this grounding. Yes. And then I also
connected it, and this is a cardiologist and
others. They were talking about the benefits of
grounding,
and they were talking about how this helps
too because you're, you know, always exposed to
radiation, cell phone use, and all the other
stuff that's kind of out of our control.
But then
you take your your,
Your your your shoes off. Shoes off and
you go walk in the in the sand
or Sand. On the earth. On earth. Yeah.
And that and that helps to release Cora
discharge. Discharge. Yeah. Relief. Yeah. Then I was
like, subhanallah. Then you connected. Actually, they don't
connect make this connection, but we can easily
salah. Yes. Aren't you grounding when you make
salah? Correct. Yeah. Can you talk about how
much,
how much, do you know about grounding? Because
you actually do it. What other things, benefits
Yeah. Absolutely. Did you come across? So when
I came about grounding, I
of course, there is a hadith of the
prophet who,
incentivize us to walk barefoot. Yeah? Yes. There
is a hadith. And It's authentic hadith? Yes.
Authentic hadith. Yeah. To wear to walk without
shoes.
And also the prostration you put yourself Send
me this. I don't understand. Yeah. Absolutely.
So what they did recently is that they
grabbed the sample of a person who always
wears shoes. They're always indoor. They never actually
touch ground.
They found out that
and also the the
their metabolic
health is really deteriorating.
It was not at its peak.
And then they took the blood sample. They
put it under the microscope, and what they
saw is that
the red blood cells were are in charge
of carrying oxygen and fuel and nutrients.
They were all drunken, meaning, like, they were
moving all, like,
not in one direction, not in a unison
one direction, and they were sticky.
So they eliminated, like, they did not move
smoothly.
Then they took that person 7 minutes to
15 minutes on, let's say,
sand or just,
soil, right, on Earth.
Then they took another sample. They found that
all the blood, red blood cells, are moving
smooth in one direction and fast. There is
no stickiness. There's not no nothing. This is
from a study that they did. Yes. Alright.
So the first sample the first one is
showing a sticky blood. Yes. Sticky. And that's
what causes,
strokes and heart attacks and
you name it. I mean Yes. And the
When when you energy. It's yeah. It's like,
the plumbing. The pipes are not running smooth
Mhmm. And you can have a clog. So
if you have a clog in the, Correct.
In your arteries, you're gonna have big problems.
And when you're training and the the brain
is demanding oxygen and blood flow, right, this
is pretty much what keeps the and the
the brain is really rigid and,
you know, in jiu jitsu, when someone knocks
you, like, do you on a headlock Yeah.
You lose consciousness.
The the the brain turns off the entire
body because it says I'm not getting oxygen.
I don't need anything else to use oxygen.
Everything that's left in the the body, I'm
gonna use. This is pretty much how the
brain
operates. So when you have the stickiness, your
energy is not optimized.
Nothing that everything in the body requires oxygen
and fuel. Right? So when that is not
getting enough to places,
and we all know the presence of oxygen
is the absence of disease. Yeah. So you
will feel inflammation. You'll feel stagnant. The organs
will not function properly. The brain does not
function properly. And when you're exercising and you're
not doing the grounding part,
your
your muscles are demanding
oxygen and fuel, but it's not getting Do
you recall how long they did this before
they did the second test? How long was
it? 5 minutes a day, 10 minutes, and
for how long? What was the duration? I
think they did 7 to 15 minutes. That's
what the study did. 7 to 15 minutes?
Grounding. Yeah. Yeah. And how long? Do you
remember how many One day. Just one day.
Just one day. And that had that much
of an effect on people. Yeah? Yeah. Well
and I've been seeing you see I think
it was,
what part of the I I think I
was seeing in Australia or somewhere.
We've even seen here just people that are
making shoes now that kinda look like
feet, but they have still have the, underneath.
They still have the Yeah. Yeah. But I'm
actually,
they have, people walking barefoot. I think it
was in Australia. I was seeing a news
report, and people were just a a good
chunk of people just walking barefoot. Correct. Yeah.
They probably saw this study. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.
It improves the health by a lot. But
but what about now when you're making sajdah,
when you're putting so this is your feet.
Yes. Now when you're making when you're putting
your your head like we do forehead. Yes.
This is a form of grounding, isn't it?
Correct. Yes. It's the same thing happens as
well. Actually, even more because as you said,
there is a part of the brain that
blood does not get to a lot. Mhmm.
Right? And this is kinda like in the
front. And it's in charge of, pretty much
deception and making decision and having, like, integrity
in a way. Yeah. So when you prostrate,
you want discharge the,
the charge that's been built up, but also
you're driving blood to the area. So, I
mean, it's getting oxygen and it's getting nutrients
as well. Yeah. So we covered just a
tad bit of
of some of the most the most important
thing, the oneness,
even the article talking about tahid, the oneness
of God, starting your day off with
and there's been many studies. I mean, you'll
you'll see people like, Jenko Wilkins. Have you
heard of him? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then
he'll put a picture of his watch, and
he'll say, 415. Go get them, like, you
know, like, showing, like, you see, like, Goggins.
You heard of Goggins. All these guys, like,
they know the benefits of waking up early.
Correct. We got that with Fudger. Yes. Absolutely.
So breaking through,
start of the day early in the morning.
We we touched upon now
grounding, one of the things, working out. Correct.
Nutrition. Let's just let's go back to that
nutrition now because many you have people who
are doctors,
you know, they their whole life, and you
go to the masjid. I've often repeated this,
and it's very sad. Yeah. And then you'll
see literally a, table of doctors, but then
they'll have Coca Cola Sprite,
potato chips. Cookies. Cookies Yeah. At the table.
It's sad. Yeah. It is sad. Because they
should be the ones
driving this stuff out of the masjids. Correct.
That is what you mean. I miss no
disrespect to any of our doctors, but this
I mean, they're great at diagnosing
and great at
prescribing. Correct. But now they don't learn nutrition
in medical school. So, if you have the
best in mind for your patients, you're gonna
go to the next level Correct. And then
complement your training. But, what do you think
about that? Yeah. I think there is
a complete,
I would call it as it is, ignorance
to the subject of nutrition in Masjid and
the Ummah.
I mean, even
it goes to the point where, as you
said, doctors do not really advise. And this
is what the Missus doctors tell us. Yes.
Doctors tell us we're not just making doctors
will tell you, you know, who have actually
gone above and beyond and they've studied the
other sciences
and they say I didn't learn. I had
to go outside the box to learn. Yeah.
Absolutely. Because there is, as we call it,
an agenda, right, not to have us healthy,
have us And that opens up another yeah.
Yeah. So It opens up another another can
of worms. Yeah. Yeah.
But I do believe
that every single family and it starts from
the family, it starts from the individual. Everyone
needs to educate themselves about the food that
they're eating. It's pretty simple too to actually
understand.
Just eat fruits, vegetables.
Make sure you are
eating, you know,
a good amount of meat,
protein per pound. You're making sure that you're
not eating anything that is manufactured and labeled
and put into a shelf that can last
for like 5, 6 years. Make sure that
you're getting all your nutrients first from whole
foods, nutrients, dense food before you start filling
up with empty calories and high sugars, stuff
like that.
And it's pretty simple. You can literally, like
I actually give this as a as a
free guide. I call it the health
reset. So every time anyone comes to be
like, Housin, I would like for me to
change my life, feel better, maybe lose fat,
and correct my posture.
He's like, I wanna I'm ready to go
workout. I said, you're not ready for a
workout. The first base to fix your, actually,
your lifestyle, get your inflammation down, all these
different things because a lot of people have
bloating and
everything suffers when nutrition isn't on point. Your
Ibadan, your performance, your mood, your productivity,
your relationship with your family.
The man doesn't feel, like, strong.
So all of these things is a has
a the nutritional aspect has a cascaded effect
on all of that.
I think in Masajid, when you go in
and you find, like, you know, all these
cookies and sugars
and soft drinks and stuff like that. That
stuff is poison, man. Absolutely. Breaks havoc on
the body. And we're not supposed to harm
our body as Muslims. Yeah. Kids are having
at the young age. Chronic diseases, diabetes,
obesity is the highest levels in children. Correct.
And it affects the mind too. They they
have a really bad time at focusing
and on one tasks or being, like, really
attentive to things. I mean, this is like
blatant just child abuse. You're not even knowing.
Correct. But you can't say you don't know.
You're watching us right now. You need to
really
Be and be you have to be harsh
too. Sometimes to kinda like Be humble and
be humble in the state that take the
new information
and realize you don't know everything. Mhmm. And
now evaluate this, look into it, and then
you have to be disciplined that you have
to like you're saying. Correct. You know, you
can't,
let your, children now go down this route
yourself and you're just destroying your health. Yeah.
Or thinking that you are treating them by
taking them to McDonald's or giving them, like,
french fries from french fries from McDonald's has
I think it was 49 ingredients.
Mhmm. So
And not to talk about,
the
the nutritionist,
the one that, we watched that video in
that last time we
spoke,
he he actually has a great video out
there. He talks about what they spray the
fries with, what they spray it with. Yes.
After they spray it, they don't come near
it for some time. I think 60 days.
And then they come in these suits. That's
the McDonald's fries. Yes. To To maintain the
color, the consistency,
the the crispiness. Yeah. Because they want to
make sure believable. Yeah. It's To make it
look like you know? So it's it's this
is not a potato that you could chop
up in your house, put in the oven,
and you're all good. Yeah. No. Yeah. This
is not it. Yeah. If you look
I think I think all of these companies,
we're talking about McDonald's, Chick Fil A, a
lot of them are actually drugstores.
Yeah. I mean, you have you ever heard
of the incidents in California,
I think, where a guy shot a clerk
at Pape's or like a a No. Server?
Yeah. He went through the window. They said
we're out of chicken.
He just
ended his life.
This is such a fascinating topic. I I
really get inspired to talk about this because
it's it's really you can it's you can
go from one level to the next to
the next. You go deeper and deeper and
deeper.
And what you're talking about, you know, staying
away from certain things, I often say just
eat real food. Correct. Stay away from fake
food. That's it. Simple. Eat real food. What's
real food? Mhmm. Well, how would you define
real food? Nutrient dense. Something that grows on
the on the ground and something that walks
and has a face. Accept the things that
have faith. The food that Allah says, eat
eat taybat.
Correct. Real food. Allah is telling you. Eat
of the taybat. It's even in the Quran.
Absolutely. Of the taybat. Yeah. The goods that
we have given you. You. Yeah. Yeah. And
stay away from the things that they are
abstained from. Fake food food that comes with
a list of ingredients, I've been saying, that
you can't pronounce. Correct. They made it in
a lab somewhere. Additives,
color,
color stuff,
synthetic,
processed,
oils. They say that, the a great number
of foods here are banned actually in Europe.
Yes. Correct. Right? Yeah. Yeah. So imagine the
colorings different. They they've they've exposed a lot
of these colorings are carcinogenic,
carcinogenic that they cause cancer. Cancers. Yeah. It
cause cancer. Believable. Yeah. Because the problem And
that's another thing. Now you wake up in
the morning and you're feeding your children these
cereals that actually have poison in them. Just
and it takes it takes almost like the
same time to actually cook them an an
omelet really quick, a little healthy cheese, a
glass of whole milk. Some eggs, some, pasture
free organic eggs. That's it. That's Yeah. Very
healthy. And they feel strong. They're not gonna
they go to school. Let's say if they
are going to school, they stay focused.
Everything
is everything is dialed in. They feel great
about the day. And
Mhmm. Yeah. So
all in all, it's actually really, really, important
to switch
the nutritional
part and focus on bringing whole foods and
eliminating anything. And a lot of people will
say, like, but I have chips. I already
have all my pantry full with this stuff.
Listen.
It takes a decision, and a decision you
you have to make a decision. It's not
a choice. Right? Decision and choice is different.
A choice you be picking.
Decision, you go one way. Yeah. Throw everything
out and start from scratch. Yeah. Let's touch
upon one more thing before we conclude.
But this one, this is such an important
topic. Yeah. It's deep. It's deep. It's very
deep. I'm not and I not to even
talk about, you know, kids
eating this garbage and yourself and just destroying
your teeth that are meant to stay with
you until the end. Right? Correct. And when
kids are having root canals, losing their teeth
at a young age is due back to
the food. Mhmm. The sugar. Go to war
on sugar. That was the that's the advice
I'd give. I don't know. If you'd, agree,
you probably would. I would. Yeah. Yeah. All
processed refined sugars, different date in the dates
or apples. This is Those are great. Yeah.
Yeah. Those are great. We're talking about white
refined sugar. White refined sugar or sucralose or
manufacture stuff that Totally stay away from you.
Yeah. Absolutely. Substitute it with what? You can
have honey. Honey? You can have dates. They
are they are sweet, but surprisingly,
there's a guy who measures how much your
insulin spikes. Yeah. Dates do not spike your
insulin spikes. How long made it like that.
Yeah. It has the fiber. It has everything
to to to go into the body the
right way Yes. Where it doesn't spike like
you're saying. Yes. And you can live on
the they call them an eswadeen. Yeah. Zamzam
and, and dates. Allahuqba. And you can live
on them. Look at that. Literally. Because usually
you when you tell people, get away from
sugar, what do you mean? Sugar's in everything.
It's in dates and that's not That's not
the same. No. It's not the same. Absolutely.
No. Let's get into last part before I
conclude entrepreneurship. So we got a lot of
these are the core fundamentals now of success,
successful, high value, and now we have, entrepreneurship.
What do you, like to what advice do
you like to give in this area? I
think one of the things that I know
is because I
I work with a lot of youngsters
or Muslims or even non Muslims. The one
thing that a lot of people operate from
is scarcity. And, scarcity, they don't practice they
don't understand what abundance means. And this goes
back to monotheism. Right? So because Allah is
the razak. He's the one who has provided
for us. Right? We just do
we try to collect that risk. Right? But
everything is provided by,
the creator, Allah.
Another thing too is that the first ever
story
actually is a true demonstration of scarcity
and abundance.
So Allah told Adam to live with Eve
in Jannah
and have the whole paradise
except to not come one tree.
Right? So Allah is abundant, but
forbid Adam to come near one tree. The
devil comes and leaves everything
then focuses on what? One tree,
which was forbidden. So you can see the
devil brings the attention to scarcity, but Allah
focuses
on devil promised you poverty. So a lot
of people will break literally, like, some,
religious,
commandments
for the sake of collecting rizq, thinking that
that's kind of like the way. Maybe that's
the rizq you will get in the halal
way. But also there is another principle to
that.
We don't diversify.
We all stuck 9 to 5. Alhamdulillah.
I have different things that I came to
understand and,
built, but in terms
of having
an income,
it's great, but
you will you can get fired. The biggest
risk a person can take is not entrepreneurship.
It's to keep one job and that's one
income. And if that's get cut, as we
saw 2 or 3 years ago where people
were getting fired or people now just getting
fired for their opinion or some situational things
that happened to them, so now what? You're
just gonna be homeless? But then also the
mindset of the Muslims about wealth and being
rich, it's so
warped because they believe that because there is
a hadith of the prophet
says that the majority of the people of
paradise are the poor people. So they think,
okay. I'm just gonna get to paradise by
being poor.
No. What about the other hadith that the
prophet
every morning
he he seeked protection
from kufr
and poverty?
So
it showed and also the best and the
some of the people who have promised paradise,
Sayna'at Maribnu Affan and also,
Abdulrahman
Al Nawaf were one of the richest. Sayna
Abdulrahman Al-'Af donated
700 camels
in the in the US or pricing is
10,000 to 15,000
ahead of a camel. And on top of
it, it has all goods for the people
of Medina
at that time. Think about it. At that
time, it's at average, I would say, 7
to maybe $20,000,000
in today's money.
That's so he was rich, and he was
promised
Jannah.
Then in the Abad, there is a balance
between dunya and akhirah.
So you can't lose your akhirah chasing just
the money. There is a certain amount in
which you will have to attain, and you
have to focus on your deen, helping others,
expand,
mentor people, and all of these things that
is so important. But we get stuck with
people just have no desire to actually be
better. And if we know anything that the
world runs
whoever has the gold control the world. Right?
That's what they say. So we don't. We
just became slave to money. And then when
you operate from that perspective,
you really have scarcity. And you always feel
that you are paying for things with your
life.
For example, you have something that you need
to buy or, like, buy a gift for
someone. And this is kind of like another
sunnah that we have lost as Muslims is
gifting each other with things. Right? And it's
from the sunnah. But also donations, supporting community,
building the Deen Center. Right? So this is
one of the things, like, if we have,
like, 5 people who are
multimillionaires,
they can simply, like, okay, Deen Center. Let's
you know what? Let's just get it done
because we need this. We need to do
dawah. How much do you need, brother Eddie?
Boom.
You see what I'm saying? It helps. And
this is what the Sahaba did. They did
not just chase the money. They chased the
they chased the akhira
by making
whatever they made in halalwey and the dunya
to pay for it. And also a lot
of entrepreneurship
that we can learn,
we don't need to truly dive into what
today's like Gary Vee or,
Grant Cardone or, you know, Patrick Bet David.
We don't need to because a majority of
those people made money through ways that we
shouldn't. Right? A lot of people be like,
yeah. Rich read the Poor Dead, Rich Dad.
Yeah. But I don't wanna get into real
estate and pay an interest because
I don't. Because I'm Muslim. I can't do
that. I need to figure out a way
how I can actually make money in the
Halal way. Yes. Right? So I follow Sayyidina
Uthman bin Affin. He has an amazing
rules. He has this quote that he says
that
He has rules. He would stand on his
business. He will take care of the operations.
Not like today's, oh, I wanna do passive
income. Even their time is, like, is free.
Capitalize on your time, then make the resources,
and then hire people, then leverage
labor, and then kind of figure out how
to make,
passive income. But then he was also incremental
progress. He always focused on progress, building your
clientele, building your email list, building your revenue,
creating different hierarchies
of products from low ticket to high ticket,
stuff like that. Right? And I do have
a platform. It's called Excellence Arena. What I
teach all these things over we have over
68,
skill set developing, and we teach about business.
We teach about how to focus, and also
we integrate the health aspect in it too.
But then if you go to,
he
never looked down upon small profit. A profit
is a profit, whatever is small or big.
Because it's small, you can multiply it by
a 1,000 and it gets bigger. If it's
big, that's great. Right? Then
he would never invest in things that they
are outdated. Meaning, like, has some like, you
wouldn't be today buying radios to sell radios,
Be like, yo, people listen to radio. No
one cares. Everyone is tuning into new technology,
new stuff. So figure out what's trendy.
And there's a bunch of podcasts
or websites that you can actually learn about
these things and you can move forward or
do an email list. They tell you, okay,
this is a hot product that's coming to
the market and you can do drop shipping.
You can do anything to actually sell. Then
what Ajay al Rasa'a is saying, this goes
to diversification.
You made the business here, make it apparent.
For example, if you have let's say you
bought a building for real estate
and you bought everything the Halal way, of
course. But then if you want to do,
you can build a management company next to
it. Then they can manage it. Then you
get fees from
HOA. Right? Then you can do another thing
that you can do plumbing. You can do
carpentry. You can do a lot of different
things that you can add or you can
sell them all the appliances.
It has so many different things. So always
diversification
and just take whatever you're making
and learn how to invest, learn how to
budget, learn what's an asset compared to liability.
We have to really excel at being financially
literate.
Right? We need to understand what it's the
financial world we live in and how we
are being
manipulated and controlled,
being stuck in a hamster wheel from 9
to 5. I know people who are Muslims,
they can go to the Masjid on Friday
to pray. They miss they will miss Fajr
because they need to get stuck in, traffic
for an hour to get to work. Imagine
you are banding
the creator
who you have an appointment with
at 5 AM or 4:30 AM, and you
go and chasing something that is gonna perish.
And you seeking
little amount for
the creator. He's the result.
So the entire thing, kind of like equation,
is flipped upside down. So this is one
of the most important mindset that I hope
I hope with the new generation or even
people who already are professional and have making
good money in their stable job to all
really open up their eyes because it literally
takes
we have an amazing library of books about
financial literacy,
all these things, and it's you can take
15 minutes a day. You listen to it
when you're driving instead of scrolling on social
media, frying your brain with cheap dopamine. You
can literally learn and become really interesting person.
And I think that maybe people now would
be confused. Is this guy about health? Is
this guy about nutrition? Is this guy training?
What does this guy do? What allowed me
to actually be a multifaceted individual that I'm
actually curious about
what the body does, how the mind works,
what food should I eat to actually be
optimal,
what should what's the proper way to learn
the deen, how should I be,
managing my money, how can I because as
a guy,
as people will assume that how to be
a high value man, you have to be
a 7 or at least an 8 across
multiple different areas in your life to be
actually successful and be respected?
And this is pretty much what we seek.
And hopefully, be an asset to the Ummah.
So hopefully this covered, like, part of the
Yeah. Things that I'm trying to bring to
the Muslim world. And also, I would love
to invite and every time I have a
non Muslim, I try to teach them about
who we are and what do we do
and how we do things. And they found
it fascinating. For example, when they come into
my program to work out, that is definitely
a Monday or Thursday to fast. They'd be
like, but I'm not Muslim.
Why do I care? I don't care. You
gotta join in this because it's gonna be
good for your health. But sometimes to kinda,
like, get people to be interested in something,
they have to kinda get into that, you
know, challenge. Yeah. And it's a grace it
it's one of the greatest
fasting. It teaches you how to cut sugar.
It resets your tasting buds. You'd be like,
oh, this is salty. Exactly. So why were
you eating it? Because they numbed those senses.
But when you fast, it's a great reset.
Your,
dopamine detox, you lower down the the the
bar so you don't you always feel content.
You feel good with hardship. You feel for
the poor.
You you you reset your gut flora. You
build your body cleanses itself.
So all of these things are little acumen
that I truly care about because that's what
makes the difference.
Beautiful. Yeah. You covered a lot, man. It's
good stuff. So And then you said that
platform was that that people It's called Excellence
Arena. It's on, Rujula.com.
Thank you, brother.
For having me. Thank you so much. You're
welcome. Thank you, brother.