Yousuf Raza – Lets Grow Intro

Hey there, everybody.

As-salamu alaykum.

Hello, and welcome to Let's Grow with Yusuf

Reza.

Yes, this show is all about growth, and

that's all we're going to be covering, talking

about looking to achieve your personal growth, you

becoming the best version of yourself.

Two sets of obstacles that I've been able

to identify that impede growth, that stop us

from becoming that best version of ourselves.

The first has to do with negativity, and

the second has to do with false concepts.

The negativity can be internal or external.

The toxic environment that you're part of, the

spewing of discouraging comments that come from people

around you, or those negative emotions that come

from within that don't let you do what

you know you have to do.

And then those false concepts can also be

either external or internal.

The external ones, I call them cultural pathologies.

Ideas that have become popular, beliefs that people

have just internalized without there being any basis

to them, except that they impede growth.

And then internally, they take the form of

rationalizations or excuses and justifications that you and

I come up with when we don't do

what we know we should be doing.

Right?

So what are we going to do?

We're going to address that negativity by bringing

in as much positivity as we possibly can

in this show, bringing in the inspiration that

is necessary to inspire the positivity to come

from within you.

And then the false concepts, we're going to

foremost identify them for what they are, talk

about what's wrong with them and why they're

wrong, and then replace them with the true

concepts that are necessary for our growth, which

are going to be scientifically informed, philosophically grounded,

and scripturally guided.

And my background in psychiatry, psychology, and logotherapy,

plus my teaching of the Quran at a

public level, places me uniquely to be able

to address it from all of these multiple

dimensions.

I hope you're able to benefit from this

show, which looks to not only contribute to

individual growth, but how that individual growth will

then lead to the development of a true

community.

And this is our share, our part that

we're playing towards that end.

There's five features that I've come up with

as to how I can do that using

this show.

First of them is Q&A.

You ask me the questions, I give you

the answers as best as I possibly can.

Number two, inspirations from around the world.

People who've been there, done that, we bring

them in, we talk to them and learn

the lessons that their experiences have to offer

us.

Number three, meet the expert.

People who really excelled in their field become

specialized in any area of expertise.

We talk to them as to what their

field, what their understanding has to offer us

as educated laypeople to contribute to our growth.

Number four, message from the East.

This particularly focuses on the poetry of one

person, Allama Muhammad Iqbal, the South Asian poet

and philosopher, one of the founding fathers of

Pakistan, as to how his poetry is capable

of galvanizing individuals no matter where we may

be.

So we're going to be focusing on that.

The fifth and final feature is going to

be Qur'an daily.

Yes, this is going to be us talking

about lessons from the Qur'an from cover

to cover, from the beginning to end, that

can help us develop to the better people

that we need to become.

Yes, this final feature is primarily focused towards

a Muslim audience, but it should serve to

be educational for a non-Muslim audience as

well.

Right, so that's what we have to offer.

I look forward to developing these themes with

you, these features with you.

I require your feedback, I require your participation,

your liking, sharing as much as possible, and

that will help me develop this further and

further.

Thank you very much for watching.

I will see you in all of the

other features with all of these ideas that

we've developed.

Thank you very much once again.

Bye-bye!