Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (2022-10-07) ​

0:00:02 Brothers
0:00:13 and sisters and friends and welcome to
0:00:16 today's webinar
0:00:17 It's All About The Visionaries yes
0:00:20 indeed The Visionaries and every Muslim
0:00:23 must be a visionary
0:00:26 and this is really about successful
0:00:28 dower for the 21st century brothers and
0:00:31 sisters now when we say the 21st century
0:00:34 we mean applying the Quran the Sunnah
0:00:38 the sublime Universal values
0:00:42 from the Quran in the Sunnah in the way
0:00:46 of our classical scholarship the way of
0:00:50 our Pious Masters spiritual Masters if
0:00:52 you like the scholars the pious
0:00:54 predecessors and we want to take their
0:00:57 methodology take their Timeless
0:00:59 principles and apply it in the 21st
0:01:02 century brothers and sisters because it
0:01:03 is without a doubt if we move away from
0:01:06 the book of Allah
0:01:08 we move away from the son of the Prophet
0:01:10 sallallahu alaihi wasallam we move away
0:01:13 from normative Islam from these Timeless
0:01:16 values we're not going to have true
0:01:19 success
0:01:20 we are not going to have true success
0:01:23 we're not going to optimize our work and
0:01:26 the Dow is not going to be optimized
0:01:29 and not just that we're not going to
0:01:31 have Baraka what's Baraka brothers and
0:01:34 sisters it's one plus one is equal to
0:01:37 five right you put two naturalistic
0:01:40 things to naturalistic things together
0:01:42 and you think you're gonna get two of
0:01:44 those things but Allah puts something in
0:01:46 there it's his Baraka and it's increased
0:01:49 so do we want Baraka in the Dara
0:01:51 brothers and sisters do we want true
0:01:54 success because the definition of
0:01:56 success here is very important it's not
0:01:58 just vanity metrics yes of course
0:02:01 numbers are very important we want many
0:02:02 people to become Muslim but we have to
0:02:04 have a vision and insight into the
0:02:07 future to see if that's going to sustain
0:02:08 itself and we also have to have impact
0:02:11 which doesn't necessarily link to
0:02:13 numbers but there are other metrics or
0:02:16 other principles that we have to
0:02:18 implement so if we want true success
0:02:21 true
0:02:23 up to mudawa we want to follow the
0:02:25 principles the Timeless principles and
0:02:27 that's where the success in the barakah
0:02:29 lies the the principles from the Quran
0:02:32 and Sunnah
0:02:33 if we are following these things then
0:02:35 insha Allah we're going to achieve our
0:02:38 vision and this is in the hands of Allah
0:02:41 anyway and we're going to explore this a
0:02:43 little bit you're going to understand
0:02:44 that true success comes from Allah
0:02:46 success is in the hands of Allah we just
0:02:50 have to do our bit remember our
0:02:52 tradition from a more ethical and
0:02:54 valuous perspective we're not you know
0:02:56 we're not secular utilitarian
0:02:59 utilitarianists right we're not a
0:03:01 utility we don't follow utilitarian
0:03:03 philosophy meaning here's an action and
0:03:06 I'm going to see the consequences of
0:03:07 this particular action right we don't
0:03:10 have really have that perspective we're
0:03:11 not ego ethicists or you know ethical
0:03:15 egoists right meaning that I want to
0:03:18 focus on how it benefits me and we're
0:03:20 not utilitarian from the point of view
0:03:22 that I want to maximize you know
0:03:25 well-being for everybody I want to
0:03:28 maximize well-being and from a
0:03:30 collective point of view and I want to
0:03:32 basically
0:03:33 minimize any harm and suffering from a
0:03:36 secular perspective because we're not
0:03:38 doing it just from okay look I'm getting
0:03:40 all of these results it must be
0:03:41 fantastic no because in Islam the method
0:03:44 is also very important too we're not
0:03:45 Machiavellian right we believe things
0:03:47 have intrinsic value we believe things
0:03:50 have more value because they are
0:03:53 manifested by the commands of Allah so
0:03:57 you could be successful from a
0:03:59 utilitarian point of view meaning you
0:04:01 achieve something great in the dollar
0:04:02 maybe you raise millions of pounds maybe
0:04:05 you have millions of shahadas or
0:04:08 whatever the case may be but if you
0:04:10 followed a method and an approach to
0:04:12 principles that were not in line with
0:04:15 Islam and there were a way of The
0:04:17 Obedience of Allah it was Disobedience
0:04:19 then
0:04:21 I truly believe I truly believe you will
0:04:24 not have Baraka not only won't you have
0:04:26 barakah but that that success is only
0:04:30 going to be very short term maybe after
0:04:31 your lifetime because you didn't do it
0:04:33 because you obeyed Allah maybe the next
0:04:35 generation is going to fail because you
0:04:37 didn't do the right thing you didn't
0:04:38 obey Allah you didn't follow the right
0:04:40 time as principles and it could it could
0:04:42 also mean that you may not get much of
0:04:44 the rule though your reward is
0:04:45 diminished right so it's very important
0:04:47 to understand that the success is from
0:04:49 Allah we have to follow the right thing
0:04:51 and once we do that we'll find in the
0:04:54 short term the median term medium term
0:04:56 and the long term
0:04:59 success and it's very important so when
0:05:02 we talk about The Visionaries brothers
0:05:04 and sisters we essentially want you to
0:05:06 understand that you have to have a
0:05:08 vision for your life you have to have a
0:05:10 strategy which is the domain of actions
0:05:12 or the necessary actions that link to
0:05:14 the success of your vision meaning that
0:05:16 these actions when you've consulted
0:05:18 people and you've done your analysis
0:05:20 when you've looked into the course and
0:05:21 in the Sunnah you look you've done shura
0:05:23 and so on and so forth you know that
0:05:25 these actions are likely going to
0:05:28 lead to the success and the Fulfillment
0:05:30 of your vision and we have to follow
0:05:32 principles and qualities in order for us
0:05:35 to execute that strategy in order for us
0:05:37 to have Baraka in the dawah and success
0:05:40 and for our vision to fulfill it for it
0:05:43 to be fulfilled and these principles and
0:05:45 qualities are derived from the Quran and
0:05:48 the Sunnah and we have to follow these
0:05:50 principles and qualities because our
0:05:51 Deen is a dean of surrendering we
0:05:54 surrender our ego we surrender our
0:05:57 perspective even we surrender ourselves
0:05:59 to whom to Allah
0:06:01 who is
0:06:04 the knowing the wise Allah has the
0:06:06 picture we just have a pixelated
0:06:08 understanding of reality Allah knows the
0:06:11 consequences Allah has the full picture
0:06:13 we just have a pixel if that and Allah
0:06:17 tells us to obey the messengers
0:06:20 so we are successful and that we receive
0:06:24 the mercy as well part of this obedience
0:06:26 is to emulate him and
0:06:32 was a perfect Noble human being he had
0:06:36 the highest moral character and so we
0:06:39 should emulate him so when you look into
0:06:41 his life you look into the principles
0:06:42 you look into the Quran you could derive
0:06:45 some very key profound principles and
0:06:48 qualities and once you internalize them
0:06:49 once you become them not that you know
0:06:52 them intellectually but you intend
0:06:54 internalize them in your way of being it
0:06:56 changes your heart it changes your
0:06:58 tongue it changes how you relate to
0:06:59 yourself how you relate to others and
0:07:01 how you relate to Allah once you
0:07:03 internalize them in this way I truly
0:07:05 believe you will not fail and you will
0:07:08 see the results in the akhara and insha
0:07:10 Allah in the Dunya so this is what we're
0:07:12 going to be talking about in summary of
0:07:13 course
0:07:14 and also this webinar brothers and
0:07:16 sisters is a way to introduce what on
0:07:18 Earth The Visionaries is about now
0:07:20 obviously I've spoken about a few things
0:07:22 passionately for sure because this is a
0:07:24 very passionate topic for me and uh
0:07:27 maybe now's the time just to explain a
0:07:28 little bit what this
0:07:30 Retreat is because when we talk about
0:07:32 The Visionaries we're talking about
0:07:34 successful dial for the 21st century is
0:07:36 to retreat that hopefully we want to
0:07:39 replicate every year and the first
0:07:42 Retreat is going to happen in Turkey in
0:07:44 sapanda on the 21st of October to the
0:07:48 25th of October at a five star resort is
0:07:53 called the Kabir deluxe hotel sapanja
0:07:56 and if you say in proper Turkish because
0:07:59 it's a c a c in Turkish was like it's
0:08:01 the jabir deluxe hotel sepanja and it's
0:08:05 a five-star Resort and we have a few
0:08:09 days together in order to get our vision
0:08:11 right our strategy right and to
0:08:13 understand 14 principles and qualities
0:08:16 we have to internalize it has to become
0:08:19 part of our spiritual and physical DNA
0:08:21 in order for our strategy to be executed
0:08:24 for us to have Baraka for us to have
0:08:26 success and for us to fulfill our vision
0:08:28 a vision that is Allah Centric in line
0:08:31 with the pleasure of Allah
0:08:32 and this the whole Retreat is going to
0:08:36 do a kind of
0:08:39 an analysis from a guidance perspective
0:08:41 what do I mean by this
0:08:43 when you look at a lot of visionary
0:08:45 exercises Vision Retreats or Vision
0:08:48 Educational
0:08:49 I don't know books or webinars whatever
0:08:52 the case may be and people talking about
0:08:53 strategy usually it's in a kind of
0:08:56 capitalist framework or usually it's in
0:08:58 a kind of secular framework and you have
0:09:00 to remember we shouldn't be naive about
0:09:02 this we have to understand that every
0:09:04 domain of knowledge every domain of
0:09:06 knowledge has its own epistemological
0:09:08 metaphysical philosophical assumptions
0:09:10 but because we see things working or it
0:09:12 sounds really nice what we do we dive
0:09:14 into the epistemological metaphysical
0:09:17 and philosophical lizard hole and we
0:09:19 think it's the cave of Hira right we
0:09:22 need to be aware that that's not the
0:09:23 case given the fact that every domain of
0:09:26 knowledge has its own worldview
0:09:27 assumptions principles epistemology and
0:09:30 metaphysics
0:09:31 then sometimes we have to step back and
0:09:34 understand is this truly what Allah
0:09:36 wants from me is this truly grounded in
0:09:39 our tradition yes don't get me wrong
0:09:40 there's overlaps for sure I'm not
0:09:43 throwing the baby out with the bath
0:09:44 water for sure but there are overlaps
0:09:46 but you have to understand if you're
0:09:48 sincere to the message of Allah you're
0:09:50 sincere to to the um right and you want
0:09:54 success in the dollar true success then
0:09:57 you have to ask the question and step
0:09:59 back is this the right way is this how
0:10:01 you develop a vision is this how you
0:10:03 develop a strategy what kind of
0:10:04 principles and approaches must we have
0:10:06 because what happens usually
0:10:08 unfortunately brothers and sisters that
0:10:09 we read a nice book and we sprinkle some
0:10:11 ayats and Hadith and Quran on there
0:10:13 we'll just give it a bit of sprinkling
0:10:14 right it's like you know many forms of
0:10:16 Islamic Finance this day it's basically
0:10:18 capitalism with the topi yeah or
0:10:20 capitalism with the beard so the point
0:10:22 is we we don't do a sincere reading we
0:10:26 don't develop ground up what does it
0:10:29 mean to have a vision from a quranic
0:10:30 point of view what is does it mean to
0:10:32 have a strategy from a quranic point of
0:10:33 view what does it mean to be a leader in
0:10:36 the tower to be someone in the Tao to to
0:10:39 be successful in the Dao for the sake of
0:10:41 Allah what does that mean what kind of
0:10:42 principles must I internalize and adopt
0:10:44 and what kind of qualities yes don't get
0:10:47 me wrong there's going to be overlaps
0:10:49 with great things that's working in the
0:10:50 in the world but we have to start from
0:10:52 the ground up meaning we have to go back
0:10:55 to the Quran the way of the prophet
0:10:57 salallahu alaihi wasallam and truly
0:10:59 understand what is a chronic perspective
0:11:01 of vision what's the Islamic concept of
0:11:05 success and so on and so forth and this
0:11:07 is exactly what the retreat is going to
0:11:10 be doing brothers and sisters insha
0:11:11 Allah now
0:11:13 there's a few things I want to say as an
0:11:15 introduction to The Retreat then we go
0:11:16 into kind of the main content of the
0:11:18 webinar and we're going to be answering
0:11:19 your questions as well inshallah so the
0:11:21 first thing I want you to just really
0:11:23 think about this question is look Allah
0:11:26 gave you gifts
0:11:28 Allah gave you gifts where you live your
0:11:31 parents your health your wealth your
0:11:35 potential you are aware of that
0:11:36 potential you're not aware of Allah has
0:11:39 given you certain gifts so the question
0:11:41 I have for you is are you just going to
0:11:42 throw them away we all have unique
0:11:44 talents and skills and and so many
0:11:47 possibilities in actual fact we have
0:11:49 possibilities we're not aware of why
0:11:51 because sometimes we frame who we are
0:11:54 from the limitations of our own ideas in
0:11:56 the past right but we have to understand
0:11:58 that these are just these are just
0:12:01 false lenses in order to understand
0:12:03 ourselves because we're fixated and
0:12:06 we're imprisoned by the past and by that
0:12:09 drama if you like our negative
0:12:11 experiences our limited ideas and so on
0:12:13 and so forth and that becomes a lens to
0:12:15 understand ourselves our present and the
0:12:18 future and this is problematic but
0:12:20 that's another topic but the point is
0:12:22 there are possibilities we're not even
0:12:24 aware of so what is the best way of
0:12:26 showing gratitude for these gifts
0:12:28 brothers and sisters right what is the
0:12:29 best way isn't it to do something
0:12:31 meaningful that's in line with Allah's
0:12:33 pleasure
0:12:34 and what could be better than calling to
0:12:37 Allah
0:12:39 calling to Allah calling people to
0:12:41 happiness in this world contentment in
0:12:43 this life and eternal happiness in the
0:12:45 hereafter
0:12:47 and Allah makes us very clear
0:12:49 about the status of these type of people
0:12:51 when Allah says verse 33 and who is
0:12:55 better in speech Allah is not asking
0:12:58 questions Allah is making kind of
0:13:00 emphatic
0:13:01 employee here he's an emphatic strategy
0:13:03 to say the one who calls to Allah the
0:13:07 one who calls to tawheed the fact Allah
0:13:08 is worthy of worship he's worthy of
0:13:10 utmost love of our unconditional
0:13:12 obedience Allah is worthy of uh utmost
0:13:14 gratitude of our extensive praise Allah
0:13:17 is worthy of us directing all acts of
0:13:19 worship to him alone the internal acts
0:13:21 of worship and external acts of worship
0:13:23 Allah is saying and who is speech and
0:13:25 the one who calls to Allah
0:13:27 does righteous tease and says I am one
0:13:30 of the Muslims this is the status of
0:13:32 someone who's calling to Allah but there
0:13:34 is a holistic strategy here brothers and
0:13:36 sisters I need to focus on this island
0:13:37 let's break it down Allah says who is
0:13:39 better in speech okay there's an
0:13:41 elevation of status here there is a form
0:13:43 of Praise there's a form of emphasis to
0:13:45 show that there's something very very
0:13:47 special about those who call to Allah do
0:13:50 righteousness and say I'm one of the
0:13:51 Muslims okay let's break this down let's
0:13:53 have a holistic understanding of the
0:13:55 doubt so Allah says you make the call
0:13:56 the one who calls to Allah and then
0:13:58 Allah says those who are righteous they
0:14:02 have righteous actions meaning you don't
0:14:03 just talk to talk but you walk the walk
0:14:05 you internalize and you adopt and you
0:14:08 become the principles and the qualities
0:14:11 found in the Sunnah that necessary way
0:14:14 of being on how to lead how to manage
0:14:16 people and so on and so forth and these
0:14:18 principles include what includes love
0:14:21 service generosity courage hikmah wisdom
0:14:25 humility egolessness Integrity
0:14:29 mentorship gratitude issued growth
0:14:32 learning Unity being time conscious
0:14:35 thinking having a sound awkwardness
0:14:37 sound intellect resilience
0:14:40 being Visionary and and there's so much
0:14:43 to unpack here but once we take these
0:14:45 from the Quran we internalize them then
0:14:48 this is also include doing good deeds so
0:14:51 we do the Good Deeds
0:14:53 and then what
0:14:54 and then Allah says
0:14:56 and they say I am one of the Muslims now
0:14:59 there's interesting interesting
0:15:01 pondering you can do here with regards
0:15:03 to this verse you can actually think
0:15:05 about well this is about me being humble
0:15:07 right I'm no one special see Allah
0:15:09 Praises these are the emphatic form of
0:15:12 Praise because it's like a rhetorical
0:15:13 question who is better in speech
0:15:15 there's something special about these
0:15:17 people then Allah says those people who
0:15:19 are special are those who call to Allah
0:15:21 do righteous deeds and they say I'm one
0:15:24 of the Muslims I'm nothing special this
0:15:26 is all because of Allah I'm not going to
0:15:29 have a sense of our job a sense of
0:15:30 self-amusement that for some reason is
0:15:33 something special about me I have the
0:15:35 intrinsic ability no no no this is one
0:15:38 of the key spiritual diseases of the
0:15:40 heart brothers and sisters as iraqion
0:15:42 says that the four major spiritual
0:15:45 diseases include
0:15:46 hassad Ria and kibber arrogance blame
0:15:50 with the jealousy ostentation and
0:15:53 self-amusement and all the other
0:15:55 spiritual diseases manifest from this
0:15:56 right they are derived from these
0:15:58 spiritual diseases so you know we we
0:16:00 don't have this sense of urge of we're
0:16:02 saying I'm just one of the Muslims
0:16:03 that's it could mean that and it could
0:16:05 also mean point of view that you link
0:16:08 your righteous actions to the fact that
0:16:10 you submit to Allah so this sense of
0:16:13 submitting this sense of surrendering
0:16:15 surrendering surrendering to Allah is so
0:16:17 important because this is the haldine
0:16:20 brothers and sisters to be a more slim
0:16:22 and more slim is not some kind of ethnic
0:16:24 identity right this is not it's not
0:16:26 identity politics here let's get real
0:16:28 being a Muslim is a way of being it's
0:16:31 not just a hat that you wear or a tattoo
0:16:33 that you put on your arm or something
0:16:34 that you sign
0:16:36 being a more slim is someone who is
0:16:39 surrendering to Allah peaceful surrender
0:16:41 to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because you
0:16:44 know his reality you understand by
0:16:46 virtue of his realities names and
0:16:48 attributes that he is worthy of this
0:16:50 surrender and it's just a natural
0:16:52 manifestation of who we are anyway
0:16:54 because part of our innate normative
0:16:56 disposition the fitra anyway the point
0:16:59 is
0:17:00 it's about surrendering so that gives
0:17:02 you an idea that when you're doing good
0:17:04 deeds and in the context of dollar
0:17:06 leadership in the context of being a DI
0:17:07 in the context of activism then you need
0:17:10 to keep and remember reminding yourself
0:17:12 I am just one of the Muslims I'm
0:17:13 surrendering to Allah when I adopt
0:17:16 principles and strategies when I adopt
0:17:18 qualities and principles when I adopt a
0:17:21 vision and a strategic Focus this has to
0:17:24 be a manifestation an expression of my
0:17:27 surrender to Allah
0:17:30 and once you do that
0:17:32 they'll be buttock and they'll be
0:17:33 success inshallah so
0:17:35 one of the best ways of showing these
0:17:36 gifts to Allah is actually brothers and
0:17:39 sisters
0:17:40 um doing something meaningful what
0:17:42 better way than calling people to Allah
0:17:44 so there are a few things that maybe
0:17:46 you're these people the following people
0:17:48 you may lack Clarity right and Direction
0:17:51 on how to serve the Dao and how to best
0:17:54 optimize yourself and reach your
0:17:56 potential and this may be may leave you
0:17:58 confused and stuck and demotivated right
0:18:02 now even if your vision is clear so you
0:18:04 may be another person you may be a
0:18:05 person who maybe you have a Clear Vision
0:18:07 but you may be frustrated and helpless
0:18:09 because you don't know the correct
0:18:11 strategy to bring it to life
0:18:13 you may be a person who just feels
0:18:15 disillusioned and disempowered by the
0:18:16 current state of the dollar yes we need
0:18:18 to improve it that's why we've done this
0:18:19 Retreat as well
0:18:21 you may feel overwhelmed by the amount
0:18:23 of information and confuse on who to
0:18:26 refer to with regards to how you're
0:18:27 going to start your Tower journey and
0:18:29 obviously this causes a kind of Gap
0:18:31 inside you mentally spiritually
0:18:32 emotionally a gap with regards to
0:18:35 feeling disconnected and and maybe you
0:18:38 lack trust you may not trust the doubt
0:18:40 sector maybe you think you're not going
0:18:42 to get support
0:18:43 now you may be a professional with great
0:18:45 skills and you want to transition into
0:18:47 the zawa but you're a bit you're scared
0:18:50 right you have fear you feel uncertain
0:18:52 You're vulnerable You're anxious because
0:18:54 you're leaving something that you've
0:18:55 known and that you're good at and
0:18:57 something that you love in in to
0:19:00 something brand new
0:19:01 that has its own dynamic
0:19:04 or alternatively you may already be
0:19:07 making some great progress you may
0:19:08 making some great impact
0:19:11 leader of an organization over our team
0:19:16 whatever the case may be but you doubt
0:19:18 that your vision is big enough maybe
0:19:19 you're thinking well I've got success
0:19:21 but maybe I could do more maybe it's I
0:19:24 don't have a lofty goal I'm not thinking
0:19:25 big enough or wrong enough right
0:19:28 in terms of long term and you also feel
0:19:31 that you're not sure if your your
0:19:35 strategic focus is in line with your
0:19:37 vision or you you may think that maybe
0:19:40 your vision is not in line with your
0:19:42 day-to-day work
0:19:43 and this makes you feel inadequate as a
0:19:46 leader and you wonder even if you have
0:19:47 the right qualifications to make an
0:19:49 impact
0:19:50 alternatively maybe someone who
0:19:52 struggles to articulate your vision
0:19:54 maybe you don't have Clarity or maybe
0:19:56 you don't have the right Clarity to
0:19:58 convey to your team what this vision is
0:20:00 about and you can't align them together
0:20:02 right and you can't have them United and
0:20:04 this may be demotivates them and
0:20:06 demotivates you
0:20:08 and maybe you feel deeply concerned
0:20:10 about all of this confusion right and
0:20:12 you might think you know I I may have a
0:20:15 good Vision but I don't have the right
0:20:16 strategy and you're confused and you're
0:20:18 thinking I'm maybe I'm letting my team
0:20:20 down maybe I'm letting Humanity down and
0:20:23 worse maybe you're letting Allah
0:20:27 now you may feel that your vision is
0:20:29 fine your strategy is fine but there
0:20:31 seems to be a sense of a lack of Barca
0:20:34 you feel like you're swimming in treacle
0:20:36 from the from London all the way to New
0:20:39 York right you're thinking why is it so
0:20:41 hard what's going on here yes you're
0:20:43 going to get tests and trials actually
0:20:44 having tests and trousers is actually a
0:20:46 sign of success right but you're feeling
0:20:49 something you have a hunch something's
0:20:51 not going right you know people are
0:20:53 coming and going I've got a problem with
0:20:55 retention I've got problem with you know
0:20:58 following following exactly what Allah
0:21:00 wants for me I may be doing well in this
0:21:03 particular focused area of my work and
0:21:05 hour by in the grand Cosmic scheme of
0:21:07 things and they'd be pushing the
0:21:09 boundaries in the wrong way
0:21:11 you know and and you have this sense of
0:21:13 you know I I feel something is wrong and
0:21:17 you feel that your approach and your
0:21:19 principles are not islamically grounded
0:21:20 maybe you have Team meetings and there's
0:21:22 no reminders of Allah
0:21:24 maybe you have volunteer meetings and no
0:21:27 one reminds you about Allah there's a
0:21:29 spiritual vacuum there's a void you know
0:21:31 maybe you have arguments maybe it's all
0:21:32 about ego I'm the boss Listen to Me
0:21:34 Maybe people don't get along maybe
0:21:36 there's too much backbiting whatever the
0:21:38 case may be
0:21:39 if that happens then even if your vision
0:21:42 is fine and your strategy is fine you're
0:21:44 seeing so-called success I'm telling you
0:21:46 don't pat yourself on the back because
0:21:48 if you don't follow the right qualities
0:21:50 and principles from the Quran and Sunnah
0:21:52 then you the the great the great success
0:21:56 that you could have had is not
0:21:57 manifesting itself even though you think
0:21:59 you have a perceived uh form of success
0:22:02 because you're lacking in some important
0:22:04 issues some important things to do for
0:22:08 yourself and for others within the team
0:22:09 which is to internalize the Timeless
0:22:11 principles and qualities as derived from
0:22:13 the Quran and the Sunnah
0:22:15 so we're not going to do this in this
0:22:17 webinar but I just want to summarize to
0:22:18 you what these 14 principles and
0:22:20 qualities are that we're going to have
0:22:21 at this Retreat which is one of the
0:22:24 three key objectives so let me just
0:22:25 remind you in this Retreat The
0:22:27 Visionaries
0:22:29 successful down for 21st century we are
0:22:31 going to have three things right that we
0:22:33 want you to walk away with and it's all
0:22:35 timed and dedicated for you to achieve
0:22:38 this as an individual and as an
0:22:40 organization
0:22:41 and by the way we have people from
0:22:43 Australia come in from America from
0:22:46 Europe from if yes even Africa I believe
0:22:50 all around the world and we're talking
0:22:52 about high quality people and I was like
0:22:54 overwhelmed like subhanallah you know I
0:22:56 was feeling like
0:22:58 huge I'm still feeling a huge burden we
0:23:00 have mufti's imams dawah leaders people
0:23:04 who are managing many teams or a team
0:23:06 and I've just been overwhelmed and these
0:23:09 people came from different kind of
0:23:10 theological backgrounds as well
0:23:12 so there's an interesting sense of unity
0:23:14 here people want to understand what is a
0:23:17 vision and strategy and what are these
0:23:18 principles how must I be as a leader as
0:23:21 a diet how must I relate to people what
0:23:23 are the key qualities and prisons I must
0:23:25 have to optimize my dollar yes I may
0:23:27 have a certain level of success but how
0:23:29 can I take even further for the sake of
0:23:30 Allah
0:23:31 had the right Vision have the right
0:23:33 strategy and internalize the Timeless
0:23:35 principles and colleagues so what this
0:23:37 time this so yeah so what I do apologize
0:23:40 it's passion here right so there's three
0:23:42 objectives you're gonna have a vision
0:23:44 personally your team's gonna have a
0:23:46 vision you're going to have a strategy
0:23:48 to fulfill your personal Vision your
0:23:50 team and your organization is going to
0:23:51 have a strategy to fulfill your yeah the
0:23:54 the organization's vision and you're
0:23:56 going to understand the 14 principles
0:23:58 and qualities that are required in order
0:24:00 to execute your strategy and fulfill
0:24:02 your vision these are the three
0:24:03 objectives
0:24:05 we want every single one of you that
0:24:06 attend this Retreat to Come Away with
0:24:08 three things to repeat
0:24:10 personally yourself and your team
0:24:13 organization to have a vision
0:24:15 personally you and your team and
0:24:18 organization have a strategic focus a
0:24:19 strategy to fulfill your personal vision
0:24:21 and your organizational vision and you
0:24:25 personally and as a leader as someone
0:24:26 engaged in public work in the dollar as
0:24:28 an activist you're going to understand
0:24:30 the 14 key principles and qualities from
0:24:32 the Quran and the Sunnah that you
0:24:33 require in order to effectively execute
0:24:36 your strategy and fulfill your vision
0:24:38 one of these things as I said is going
0:24:40 to be the 14 principles and qualities
0:24:41 and we've named them as follows number
0:24:43 one a leader loved is a leader followed
0:24:46 so it's love what does that mean what's
0:24:48 the Islamic definition of love what do
0:24:50 we mean by love in the context of Dao
0:24:52 and activism number two the servant
0:24:55 leads the master concedes in other words
0:24:57 be at service to people
0:25:00 don't concede to your ego and your
0:25:02 haughtiness I'm the boss I'm not worthy
0:25:04 of this activity I'm too high no the
0:25:06 true leader is the one who's at service
0:25:07 and is generous and we'll unpack that
0:25:09 insha Allah number three when you become
0:25:12 you overcome be courageous one of the
0:25:15 neglected leadership qualities in the
0:25:17 ummah at the moment unfortunately when
0:25:19 you become you overcome meaning you need
0:25:22 to be in a state of being that allows
0:25:25 you to be courageous how do I develop
0:25:26 that what's courage with regards to the
0:25:29 Sunnah right what is courage with
0:25:31 regards to the Islamic perspective how
0:25:32 do I develop courage how do I become the
0:25:35 right person in order to be courageous
0:25:37 number four relevance is Excellence be a
0:25:40 person of wisdom of hikmah again is a
0:25:43 neglected way of being we think it's all
0:25:46 about abstract just narrations just this
0:25:48 and that no Allah makes it clear that
0:25:51 there is a distinction between Elm and
0:25:53 Hickman in actual fact wise judgment is
0:25:56 the application of right so applying
0:26:00 when you're in the in in activism in the
0:26:02 dawa you have to be able to apply it as
0:26:04 ifeom said it basically is to say the
0:26:07 right thing at the in the right way at
0:26:08 the right time to do the right thing in
0:26:10 the right way at the right time what are
0:26:12 the principles and the key questions we
0:26:14 have to ask ourselves concerning
0:26:15 becoming a person of wisdom what are the
0:26:17 benefits of hikmah what are the virtues
0:26:19 from the Sunnah and the Quran and so on
0:26:21 and so forth number six so number five
0:26:23 the enemy is the enemy in other words
0:26:26 have Community brothers and sisters we
0:26:28 know that the greatest enemy is shaitaan
0:26:31 shaytan he thought he he had this this
0:26:33 kibber this greatest form of arrogance
0:26:36 that made him leave the fold of Islam
0:26:39 and shaytan he's our greatest teacher
0:26:41 without regard he teaches us how not to
0:26:43 be not to have this ego in Kiba what is
0:26:46 the nature of the ego in Islam how do
0:26:48 you back to the ego why is the ego an
0:26:50 impediment to success in barakah and all
0:26:53 of these things this is going to be
0:26:54 unpacked in the retreat in sha Allah
0:26:56 number seven how you relate is what you
0:26:58 create in other words mentorship how you
0:27:01 communicate through your body language
0:27:02 through your utterances with people is
0:27:04 you're going to create
0:27:06 people you're going to create the
0:27:08 optimized version from them they may not
0:27:10 even see it you can unveil their blind
0:27:12 spots get them to become someone very
0:27:14 successful for the organization for the
0:27:16 sake of Allah for the sake of Allah in
0:27:19 order to fulfill the vision
0:27:20 and just by relating to them in a
0:27:22 particular way so you and this is known
0:27:25 in the Sunnah the way the person relate
0:27:27 to Julie beep the way the person related
0:27:29 to um the way the person related to the
0:27:32 sahaba he got the optimal versions of
0:27:35 them by the way he related with his body
0:27:37 language and with his utterances and he
0:27:39 mentored them number eight achievements
0:27:42 are Divine gifts we're going to teach
0:27:43 you what does gratitude actually truly
0:27:45 mean
0:27:46 you know in the Dallas times we like to
0:27:48 Pat ourselves on the back
0:27:49 when you have success in the dawah you
0:27:52 have to increase your it's the far you
0:27:54 have to increase your sugar to Allah
0:27:55 your gratitude to Allah you have to
0:27:59 understanding wasn't you it was Allah
0:28:02 you have to understand that you being
0:28:04 involved in this is just an immense
0:28:06 favor and a gift if Allah says I think
0:28:08 in chapter 49 verse 7 or 17 that
0:28:11 responding to the Arabs when they said
0:28:13 Iman is a favor to the prophet sallam
0:28:15 and Allah says no say to them Iman is a
0:28:18 favor to you from Allah so if Iman
0:28:21 itself is a gift what about calling
0:28:23 people to Iman
0:28:24 these are all gifts and all of the
0:28:27 successes have nothing to do with us we
0:28:28 can't have this sense of our job that it
0:28:30 was me I have the intrinsic ability no
0:28:31 Allah created you Allah allowed this to
0:28:35 happen everything happens because the
0:28:36 Wilderness of Allah so how should you
0:28:39 respond to successes and that is
0:28:40 extremely important especially in the
0:28:42 context of having Baraka in our dawa
0:28:45 number nine you're yearning for learning
0:28:47 meaning growth intellectual growth
0:28:49 Islamic growth what does knowledge
0:28:51 actually mean is there a difference
0:28:53 between knowing and knowing yes there is
0:28:55 a difference between knowing and knowing
0:28:57 meaning from a secular perspective I'm
0:28:59 getting all of this information but true
0:29:01 is knowledge that actually changes your
0:29:04 way of being increases your taqwa it
0:29:07 increases your humility it actually
0:29:09 changes who you are as a person and
0:29:13 that's why something there is a gap
0:29:14 between knowledge and an abstract sense
0:29:16 and true knowing meaning becoming and
0:29:20 this is very important especially for
0:29:21 leaders and people involved in activism
0:29:23 because sometimes we like to throw a
0:29:24 Hadith here and there but we don't
0:29:25 become that Hadith we may know all of
0:29:27 the ayats on on the rahma on compassion
0:29:30 all of the Hadith on compassion all of
0:29:32 the Hadith
0:29:34 and so on and so forth but we may never
0:29:37 be people of endow we may never be
0:29:38 people of rahma because we just know in
0:29:40 an abstract sense how do we bridge that
0:29:42 gap between knowing and truly knowing
0:29:44 number 10 Amity not enmity in other
0:29:48 words Unity what does unity actually
0:29:50 mean does it mean everyone conforms no
0:29:53 what does unity mean in the context of
0:29:55 the doubt how do we establish the unity
0:29:57 how do we deal with valid and even even
0:30:00 differences that are not valid what
0:30:02 approach should we take this is
0:30:03 extremely important in a dire context
0:30:06 number 11 based on the Quran by time man
0:30:09 is a state of loss okay
0:30:12 this is about being time conscious how
0:30:15 do you be time conscious what is the
0:30:16 importance of time and so on and so
0:30:18 forth in an activism and dial context
0:30:20 number 12 for those who use their minds
0:30:23 yeah yeah
0:30:26 your intellect people of the al-bar
0:30:29 those people of insight you know
0:30:32 people who reflect
0:30:34 those who Ponder and also ask questions
0:30:40 this is all about thinking how can you
0:30:43 think properly
0:30:44 are you just going to rely on yourself
0:30:46 part of thinking is having good people
0:30:48 around you to unveil those intellectual
0:30:50 blind spots for you right that also
0:30:52 requires you to be humble you need to
0:30:54 understand what thinking actually means
0:30:55 what is the true quranic prophetic way
0:30:57 of thinking how do you think from a
0:31:00 holistic global vision perspective uh in
0:31:04 the context of the doubt are you do you
0:31:06 just have Shadow organizational thinking
0:31:08 no because remember the true di the one
0:31:11 who has vision and wants success for the
0:31:13 doubt for the sake of Allah he
0:31:15 understands organizations uh they don't
0:31:18 have Primacy they're vehicles for a
0:31:20 particular Vision the vision is supreme
0:31:23 it's Vision Supremacy not organizational
0:31:26 Primacy and this is very important and
0:31:28 we'll we'll unpack many other aspects
0:31:30 kind of concerning thinking number 13
0:31:32 tenacity
0:31:34 timidity in other words don't be timid
0:31:36 be tenacious be resilient there's going
0:31:39 to be obstacles there's going to be
0:31:41 fitna there's going to be humiliation
0:31:43 there's going to be all of these things
0:31:45 from an internal external spiritual
0:31:47 physical point of view intellectual
0:31:49 point of view how are you going to deal
0:31:50 with this what are the principles and
0:31:52 the spiritual tools in the Quran to
0:31:53 actually become resilient brothers and
0:31:55 sisters this is extremely important and
0:31:57 number in the last one 14 according to
0:31:59 have is to be Visionary Allah Allah is
0:32:03 great and what does that mean truly in
0:32:05 the context of having a vision so we're
0:32:06 going to unpack all of these things
0:32:07 inshallah now I do believe I've just
0:32:09 been going on for too long but here's
0:32:11 something important
0:32:13 let's now start with the concept of
0:32:15 success so we're not going to give you
0:32:17 all of the content it's impossible
0:32:18 because like four days worth of content
0:32:19 and stuff and but by the way before I
0:32:22 get into that just to Remember The
0:32:24 Retreat is going to be an amazing
0:32:25 spiritual experience so we'll be away
0:32:27 from around five in the morning going to
0:32:28 bed like 10 30 11 at night five in the
0:32:30 morning
0:32:31 then after we're gonna have Fajr then
0:32:34 we're gonna have Quran circles then
0:32:36 we're going to have some sports then
0:32:38 we're going to have Brotherhood
0:32:39 exercises team building exercises then
0:32:42 we're going to have the sessions and a
0:32:43 lot of the sessions are going to be
0:32:44 predominantly getting you to understand
0:32:46 certain key principles and Concepts
0:32:47 about Vision successful and certain
0:32:49 perspective and the principles of
0:32:51 qualities of how to be how to ensure the
0:32:53 success of your Tower and we're going to
0:32:55 get a lot of that in practice meaning
0:32:58 we're going to get you to spend like one
0:33:00 two three hours just focusing on a
0:33:03 particular Point like your vision and
0:33:05 then coming back and presenting it to
0:33:07 the team and everyone together is going
0:33:09 to get the best out of you it's going to
0:33:11 be phenomenal inshaallah yeah so the
0:33:13 three objectives that we're saying is
0:33:14 going to happen inshallah you're going
0:33:15 to have a vision personally an
0:33:16 organizationally a strategy personally
0:33:18 an organizationally and you can
0:33:20 understand the principles of qualities
0:33:21 that you have to imbibe internalize in
0:33:24 order to be successful inshallah so
0:33:26 success
0:33:28 so in the retreat we're going to be
0:33:30 talking about success right
0:33:32 and we have to understand and frame
0:33:35 having a vision and a strategy frame the
0:33:37 whole dollar
0:33:39 in the context of the Islamic definition
0:33:41 of success
0:33:42 now obviously we can't go too in depth
0:33:45 into this but generally speaking as you
0:33:46 know success can be summarized by
0:33:49 chapter 3 verse 185 in the Quran when
0:33:51 Allah says every soul is going to taste
0:33:55 death and you will be paid in full on
0:33:57 the day of Resurrection whoever is kept
0:33:59 away from the fire and admitted to the
0:34:02 god that would have triumphed would have
0:34:04 been would have been successful the
0:34:07 present world is only an illusory
0:34:08 pleasure also Allah says chapter 23
0:34:11 verse one or two those whose Good Deeds
0:34:13 weigh heavy will be successful
0:34:16 and the famous Hadith Muslim
0:34:21 the person is making a distinction
0:34:23 between success and material blessings
0:34:24 because true success is the one who goes
0:34:26 to Janina and we know this famous Hadith
0:34:28 and has been Malik reported that the
0:34:31 message of Allah
0:34:33 said that the one amongst the denizens
0:34:36 of jahannam who had a life of ease and
0:34:39 plenty amongst the people of the world
0:34:42 would be made to dip in fire only once
0:34:45 on the day of Resurrection then it will
0:34:47 be said to him o son of Adam did you
0:34:50 find any comfort and listen to this did
0:34:52 you happen to get any material blessing
0:34:55 and he would say wallahi by Allah know
0:34:57 my Lord right so what this says to us is
0:35:01 saying very clear having
0:35:04 physical manifestations of success is
0:35:07 not true success true success is the one
0:35:09 who enters gender is enveloped by the
0:35:11 mercy of Allah and there are some things
0:35:13 that make us eligible for this success
0:35:15 yes it's only because of the mercy of
0:35:17 Allah but there are some indicators and
0:35:19 that is following surrendering to Allah
0:35:21 following the right Vision in line with
0:35:23 the quranic approach following the right
0:35:25 strategy in line with this approach of
0:35:27 the Sunnah following the right
0:35:28 principles and having the right
0:35:30 qualities
0:35:31 to emulate the person because that's
0:35:33 that's a manifestation of our obedience
0:35:35 to Allah and we understand he is the
0:35:37 greatest character the greatest leader
0:35:39 the greatest so we should emulate him in
0:35:42 order to have true success so if we want
0:35:44 that success which is Jannah we want
0:35:47 general for those the highest form of
0:35:49 Jannah
0:35:50 then there are some things that we have
0:35:52 to do it's not just hey I got all these
0:35:55 numbers I go to this stuff no it's fine
0:35:56 that's shallow this phone is far more
0:35:59 than that it's the approach you take
0:36:01 it's the principles you apply it's the
0:36:03 intention that you have and it's
0:36:05 actually the method of developing a
0:36:07 business strategy and creating the right
0:36:11 Personnel the right character for
0:36:13 yourself based on the principles and
0:36:15 qualities uh from the Quran and the
0:36:17 Sunnah that inshallah will give us
0:36:19 success so since we have a kind of brief
0:36:22 understanding of success and this is
0:36:23 obviously the summary form
0:36:25 let's not talk about a vision what is a
0:36:28 vision not generally speaking brothers
0:36:29 and sisters that there's not one agreed
0:36:31 upon definition of a vision a vision is
0:36:34 an articulation of a powerful achievable
0:36:36 and motivating stretch goal so one
0:36:40 expert in the field one academic he
0:36:43 actually defines it in that way an
0:36:45 articulation of a powerful achievable
0:36:47 motivating stretch goal others say that
0:36:50 it's not a just cause uh others say it's
0:36:54 where you want to see the world but from
0:36:55 a quranic point of view it it's really
0:36:58 based on answering three questions
0:36:59 number one what is your state in the
0:37:03 akhra
0:37:04 what is your state in this world like
0:37:07 who are you what's your personal Vision
0:37:08 because sometimes in a kind of captured
0:37:10 secular context you think about where is
0:37:12 the organization
0:37:13 and we forget that an organization is
0:37:15 based on individuals if individuals
0:37:16 don't have their own personal Vision yes
0:37:18 they may have the organizational Vision
0:37:20 but if it's not tied to the personal
0:37:22 Vision you're not going to get true
0:37:23 success
0:37:24 or you won't be optimized so what is
0:37:26 your state personal state in the world
0:37:28 and
0:37:30 what is the state of the world so three
0:37:32 questions what is your state in the
0:37:34 akhara what is the state of the world
0:37:36 and what is your state in the world in
0:37:38 other words where am I going to be in
0:37:40 Agra
0:37:42 where do I want to see the world where
0:37:44 do I want to see myself in where I want
0:37:47 to see the world and there's a quranic
0:37:49 example by the way we're going to unpack
0:37:50 this much further in the retreat but one
0:37:52 example is quite powerful chapter 38
0:37:55 verse 35
0:37:57 this is from Suleiman
0:38:00 he said my Lord forgive me and give me a
0:38:05 kingdom the like of which will never be
0:38:08 granted to anyone after me truly you are
0:38:10 ever giving Allahu Akbar just unpack the
0:38:14 multi-day depth of just this verse
0:38:16 so the first question was what is your
0:38:18 state in the akhara well what is what is
0:38:22 saying he wants Jannah my Rob my Lord
0:38:26 forgive me forgiveness is a means to
0:38:29 Allah's mercies and means to Jannah so
0:38:31 that's his vision he wants to be in in
0:38:33 Jannah
0:38:34 what is the state of the world look at
0:38:37 this Vision give me a kingdom like which
0:38:39 never been granted to anyone
0:38:42 before or after me right it's never been
0:38:45 granted to anyone out anyone after me so
0:38:47 he was the greatest Kingdom what does
0:38:49 this mean as an as a prophet overseas is
0:38:52 going to be based on Islam on tawheed
0:38:54 it's going to have the most optimal
0:38:56 Kingdom right so look at that Vision
0:38:59 give me a kingdom the best ever Kingdom
0:39:04 now no one before after me is ever going
0:39:05 to achieve
0:39:07 so what is the state of the world a
0:39:09 great Pious Kingdom
0:39:11 third question what is your state in the
0:39:14 world and we know this is implied by
0:39:16 virtue of the fact that he's a Prophet
0:39:18 by virtue of the fact that he was a king
0:39:20 by virtue of the fact of who he was he
0:39:22 was a righteous King so look at that
0:39:24 Vision it answers those three main
0:39:26 questions from a quranic vision point of
0:39:27 view what is your state in the what is
0:39:31 your state in the world and what is the
0:39:33 state of the world
0:39:34 where are you going to be in the akhara
0:39:38 where do you want the world to be and
0:39:40 where do you want to be in achieving
0:39:43 where you want the world to be these are
0:39:45 very key questions from the point of
0:39:47 view of trying to formulate your vision
0:39:50 so let's just break this up again where
0:39:53 do you want yourself in the akhara so of
0:39:55 course I want to be in Jannah right and
0:39:58 this by the way is the link between the
0:39:59 Islamic concept of success and having a
0:40:01 vision I want to be in general where do
0:40:04 you want the world what do you want the
0:40:05 world to look like for example you may
0:40:07 say I want to see a world led by Islam
0:40:10 where do you see yourself in order to
0:40:12 achieve the above I want to be led by
0:40:14 Islam and to be able to lead with
0:40:16 Islamic principles so now we're starting
0:40:18 to formulate a phenomenal Vision here
0:40:20 right
0:40:21 so these are the very three important
0:40:23 questions grounded in the Quran in order
0:40:25 to develop your vision
0:40:27 now there are three key political Vision
0:40:29 brothers and sisters love certainty and
0:40:32 values it should be done for the sake of
0:40:34 Allah anything not done for the sake of
0:40:35 Allah is meaningless and it's ephemeral
0:40:37 okay and you should seek the best in
0:40:39 this life and the best in life to come
0:40:41 it should be based on certainty on Japan
0:40:42 it should be based on who Islamic
0:40:44 principles and the unwavering belief in
0:40:46 Allah his messenger and that with
0:40:49 Allah's help anything is possible in
0:40:51 other words
0:40:52 it should be based on values well not
0:40:54 Machiavellian we're not you uh
0:40:57 utilitarian Ephesus we don't focused on
0:41:00 a utilitarian ethical philosophy that's
0:41:03 just about you know our perceived
0:41:04 understanding of well-being and success
0:41:06 for the greatest number of people no
0:41:08 there are some things that even if he
0:41:10 may have some perceived success it's the
0:41:12 wrong thing to do and it will diminish
0:41:14 your body and you won't optimize the
0:41:16 dawa in this lifetime or in the
0:41:18 lifetimes after you because a true
0:41:20 vision is supposed to outlive your life
0:41:22 right
0:41:23 and that's why it's linked to the akhara
0:41:25 as well
0:41:26 so we have to be based on values in
0:41:29 other words
0:41:30 the principles and the qualities that
0:41:32 we've been talking about
0:41:33 now there are nine benefits of a vision
0:41:35 brothers and sisters number one it
0:41:37 provides focus and Direction because you
0:41:39 know where you're going you know where
0:41:40 you're going number two it gives you
0:41:42 Clarity because
0:41:44 because you decide to get there you have
0:41:47 decided that you want to focus on your
0:41:48 vision now so it gives you a sense of
0:41:50 clarity it gives you life because
0:41:52 hopefully it's linked to Islam to the
0:41:54 values that we just mentioned to the
0:41:55 three pillars of a vision that we just
0:41:57 mentioned is linked to the akara to the
0:41:58 pleasure of Allah and what does Allah
0:42:01 say Allah says respond to the call of
0:42:03 Allah and his Messenger to that which
0:42:04 gives you
0:42:05 life right life
0:42:08 real life a sense of Greater purpose
0:42:11 than just being just a normal human
0:42:13 being just fulfilling their Beast to
0:42:16 instincts you respond to the call of
0:42:18 Allah and his Messenger to that which
0:42:19 gives you life so it gives you a sense
0:42:21 of Greater meaning in life it removes
0:42:23 doubt because your vision is based on
0:42:25 certainty and interestingly said those
0:42:28 who are affected by those who are
0:42:30 affected by destructive doubts are those
0:42:32 who don't have a vision for their lives
0:42:34 the fifth point it saves times and
0:42:36 resources because it everything is
0:42:38 centered now around your vision and when
0:42:39 you have a strategic Focus it's even
0:42:41 more easier because you know exactly
0:42:43 what you need to do and what you need to
0:42:44 focus on in order to fulfill your vision
0:42:46 and all these other things you know
0:42:48 exactly what to say no to and exactly
0:42:50 what to say yes to number six it shapes
0:42:53 the environment because you see the end
0:42:54 goal I'm gonna go to this destination
0:42:56 right this is my end goal this is my
0:42:59 vision
0:43:00 and I have a personal Vision that is
0:43:02 linked to this Vision as well especially
0:43:04 if we're talking in an organizational
0:43:05 context
0:43:06 so I'm going to shape my environment in
0:43:09 order to facilitate that why would I
0:43:11 have people around me and things around
0:43:12 me that's going to be obstacles to my
0:43:14 vision
0:43:16 number seven it provides motivation
0:43:18 because you see the end goal you are
0:43:20 motivated brothers and sisters and every
0:43:21 time you remind yourself of the vision
0:43:23 generally from those you remind yourself
0:43:25 of a world led by Islam you being led by
0:43:27 Islamic principles and and so on and so
0:43:30 forth that gives you a sense of
0:43:31 motivation because it's linked to the
0:43:32 it's linked to something meaningful and
0:43:35 also it's linked to the pleasure of
0:43:36 Allah
0:43:37 number eight it prioritizes your life
0:43:40 because your vision is bigger right it's
0:43:42 a big it's the bigger picture you're not
0:43:44 Petty anymore because you always ask the
0:43:46 question if you have a true vision and a
0:43:48 good strategy you're going to ask the
0:43:49 question what does Allah want from me in
0:43:51 this particular context you'd ask that
0:43:53 question every day
0:43:54 you won't be Petty anymore ah he said
0:43:56 this about me so I have to defend myself
0:43:58 no there are bigger things to do if you
0:44:00 have a great big gin these things become
0:44:03 unnecessary they become de-prioritized
0:44:06 you've forgive and Overlook very easily
0:44:08 I'm telling you it shapes your whole
0:44:10 life it prioritizes the the the things
0:44:13 of higher value and de-prioritizes
0:44:15 things of lesser value
0:44:17 number nine it gives you a framework for
0:44:19 decision making because if your life and
0:44:21 your organization and your work is
0:44:23 aligned around your vision then it's a
0:44:25 framework for decision making especially
0:44:27 if you have a specific strategy that
0:44:28 links necessarily to filling that Vision
0:44:30 then you know exactly what to say yes to
0:44:32 and to and on what to say you know to
0:44:36 and what we're going to be talking about
0:44:37 in The Retreat brothers and sisters is
0:44:40 greater think big aim higher aim high
0:44:44 because your profit is the best human
0:44:45 being to unlock this planet aim high
0:44:47 because it's the best ummah for mankind
0:44:50 aim high because the best Deen chosen by
0:44:53 Allah
0:44:54 and aim high because Allah links to
0:44:57 lofty goals with a successful arcade and
0:45:00 remember what success is
0:45:03 and the vision has to be tied to this
0:45:05 success so we have to have lofty goals
0:45:07 if we don't we won't achieve that
0:45:08 success as Allah says in the Quran in
0:45:10 Chapter 2 verses 200 and 201 those are
0:45:13 there are those among mankind who say
0:45:15 our Lord give us of this world and they
0:45:18 have no portion in the Hereafter in
0:45:20 other words they're not going to be
0:45:21 successful and there are those who say
0:45:23 our Lord give us good of this world and
0:45:25 of the Hereafter and it's those people
0:45:27 brothers and sisters that are gonna have
0:45:28 success and think about it this is part
0:45:30 of the Sunnah the prophet saw Allah
0:45:35 and Ahmed I believe the person said if
0:45:37 you're gonna ask for Jannah ask him
0:45:39 specifically for the highest form of
0:45:41 gender in other words
0:45:43 the person said ask for those for it's
0:45:45 the highest level of paradise and what
0:45:48 we're going to do in the retreat is
0:45:49 unpack the prophetic Vision because
0:45:50 people don't really realize they think
0:45:52 yeah the person the person had a vision
0:45:54 the vision was Islam in every home yes
0:45:56 that's true but you know he had a
0:45:58 personal vision for himself as well are
0:46:00 you aware of the personal vision
0:46:03 this is very interesting and this is
0:46:04 going to unpack and that's why you need
0:46:05 to formulate from the ground up vision
0:46:09 and strategy it's not as good adopting
0:46:11 kind of secular models and sprinting
0:46:12 some Islam on it don't get me wrong
0:46:14 there are overlaps and there are
0:46:15 universals for sure but it's very I'm
0:46:17 reading this question to motivate you to
0:46:18 to seek more and for you obviously to
0:46:20 come to the retreat I'm not going to
0:46:21 hide that I'm going to be authentic with
0:46:23 you I'm not gonna have Undeclared
0:46:25 intentions here
0:46:26 so that's a summary of a vision what
0:46:28 about strategy in other words necessity
0:46:31 achieves when you think about a strategy
0:46:33 you have to think of
0:46:34 think of what are the necessary actions
0:46:36 actual domains of action or domains of
0:46:39 work that will necessarily lead to my
0:46:42 vision becoming a reality and how how am
0:46:44 I ever going to know that this is very
0:46:46 important sometimes sometimes we
0:46:48 secularize how we secularize our
0:46:52 strategies because we think what I know
0:46:54 a is going to V to B because I see that
0:46:57 in the Dunya but there are some things
0:46:59 that we have to understand the things
0:47:01 that we have to understand is there are
0:47:02 other metaphysical and spiritual
0:47:04 Dimensions that we're not even aware of
0:47:06 right
0:47:08 and we know this is the proof in the
0:47:10 sumna you know what do we say we're
0:47:11 supposed to say in the mornings and the
0:47:12 evenings about our health right about
0:47:15 our conviction we could say I could be
0:47:16 convicted because I see people when they
0:47:18 read more about you know theological
0:47:19 aspects and the convinced with certain
0:47:21 you know abstract facts they get
0:47:23 convinced one plus was equal to two no
0:47:25 but we know there's there's a different
0:47:27 Dynamic going on here we know the the
0:47:29 waivers and the function of the calipers
0:47:32 the intellect may be functioning well
0:47:35 but if it's in the context of the pulp
0:47:36 and the kalab is disease it has
0:47:38 arrogance and so on and so forth the
0:47:40 aqua won't function properly so it's not
0:47:42 just abstract intellectual thinking so
0:47:44 even when we think if we just look at
0:47:46 the Dunya right just from an empirical
0:47:48 perspective yeah if you want to have
0:47:49 knowledge and be convinced about
0:47:50 something you just observe it or you do
0:47:52 one plus one is you could do you do some
0:47:54 kind of deductive or logic or you do
0:47:57 some kind of uh rational inference no
0:47:59 problem but it doesn't work that way
0:48:00 because there are other
0:48:02 Dynamics and realities behind all of
0:48:04 this that would actually lead to certain
0:48:06 certain things that we want to
0:48:07 achievement when it comes to conviction
0:48:09 the prophet saw Allah
0:48:11 to make
0:48:13 to to be content with Allah as a
0:48:16 religion with with the Deen or to be
0:48:19 content with the Deen to be content with
0:48:22 the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam as
0:48:24 the final Prophet you know there's a Dua
0:48:26 that we make
0:48:28 is
0:48:32 what do you think that Dua is uh is is
0:48:35 is is is is you know some kind of uh I
0:48:38 don't know empirical strategy no this is
0:48:40 this is the
0:48:46 now why am I mentioning this I'm
0:48:48 mentioning this because when we develop
0:48:50 strategies we miss out the Islamic
0:48:52 element we miss out the necessary
0:48:54 spiritual and and the necessary
0:48:57 metaphysical aspects don't get me wrong
0:49:00 yes Allah has shown signs in the
0:49:02 empirical world that we can follow there
0:49:04 are patterns of course but if you want
0:49:06 to optimize your dollar there's other
0:49:07 things to do as well
0:49:08 and this is very very important so how
0:49:10 are we going to know what the right
0:49:11 strategy is it's not just basically
0:49:13 saying yeah I saw this happen and this
0:49:14 happened therefore we're going to be
0:49:16 successful this is a shallow approach
0:49:17 it's not based on a ground up analysis
0:49:20 from the Quran and the Sunnah so this is
0:49:22 we're going to be unpacking in the
0:49:23 retreat inshallah so in nutshell a
0:49:26 strategy is the key actions or domains
0:49:29 of action that you follow that you know
0:49:31 that are necessarily going to lead to
0:49:32 your vision becoming a reality so you
0:49:34 have to ask yourself a question what are
0:49:36 the actions the activities the resources
0:49:38 the relationships the way of being that
0:49:41 you need in order to to achieve your
0:49:44 vision in order for the vision to become
0:49:45 a reality and we all we always talk
0:49:48 about this do show that consang
0:49:50 brainstorm look for best practice look
0:49:52 for patterns in the Dunya as well in the
0:49:54 empirical world for sure but bring that
0:49:56 all together look into the Quran and the
0:49:57 Sunnah with regards to certain
0:49:59 strategies there are some there we're
0:50:01 not Machiavellian we don't believe the
0:50:03 the ends justify the means there are
0:50:05 certain things that we have to follow in
0:50:07 order to have Baraka not maybe in this
0:50:08 life and in the life to come so there's
0:50:10 all these components that we have to
0:50:11 unpack and that will be done in the
0:50:13 retreat now what's the benefits of the
0:50:14 strategy Brothers this is the benefits
0:50:16 are quite simple Focus you could use
0:50:19 your resources wisely and place them at
0:50:21 the surface of your vision
0:50:23 uh you make decisions and decisions are
0:50:26 made easier because you know you now
0:50:27 know what needs to be done if I want a
0:50:29 world reconnected to Allah and my
0:50:32 strategic focus on developing duat to go
0:50:34 out there in the world to develop teams
0:50:36 and manage the dial and do the dial
0:50:37 themselves in order for the world to be
0:50:39 reconnected to Allah if someone comes to
0:50:41 me and says here's a million pounds and
0:50:43 can you please
0:50:45 um uh build Wills I'm already gonna say
0:50:48 no I would only accept it if I believe I
0:50:51 could use that money for that lesser
0:50:54 strategy if you like I don't mean lesson
0:50:56 that it's not worthy but less in the
0:50:57 context of my vision if it's gonna be
0:51:00 essential to achieving my vision because
0:51:02 sometimes you may have to do stuff like
0:51:04 that to actually remove certain barriers
0:51:06 in order for your main strategy to
0:51:08 actually manifest itself so it's deeper
0:51:10 than that but the point here that's very
0:51:11 important is that it makes decisions
0:51:13 easier like you know
0:51:16 devoid of any context I would say no I'm
0:51:18 not going to accept that money because
0:51:19 that's not part of our work what I'll
0:51:21 try and do now is convince that person
0:51:24 why they should adopt our vision and for
0:51:26 them to be in love with our vision and
0:51:28 in love with the strategy that we've
0:51:30 adopted so he could change or he could
0:51:32 change her mind in giving us that money
0:51:34 for something that we believe that is
0:51:35 very close to our hearts and that's
0:51:37 going to achieve true success right it
0:51:40 helps you plan because you know you now
0:51:41 know exactly what needs to be done also
0:51:44 the most important thing about the
0:51:45 benefits of a strategy it achieves your
0:51:47 vision now by the way there's nuances
0:51:49 here you have to sometimes revise your
0:51:51 strategy context changes and so on and
0:51:53 so forth the world changes so sometimes
0:51:55 you have to revise your strategy it's
0:51:57 not written in stone
0:52:00 foreign
0:52:02 we'll talk about like concerning you
0:52:05 know Allah is in control linking it to
0:52:07 the belief in Allah to Allah and so on
0:52:09 and so forth and we're going to go to
0:52:11 the prophetic example to give you
0:52:13 examples what the prophetic strategy was
0:52:15 was the only one strategy some people
0:52:16 say you know the prophet saw Allah
0:52:19 his Focus was on empowering the sahaba
0:52:22 and also giving doubt to influentials
0:52:24 because they they would have the
0:52:26 greatest impact yes one could argue
0:52:29 that's the case
0:52:30 but other any other strategies if there
0:52:32 are what are they if they're not why
0:52:34 aren't they these questions we have to
0:52:36 answer if we're really truly committed
0:52:38 to this work brothers and sisters we
0:52:40 have to develop a vision and a strategy
0:52:42 from the ground up and that Hickman that
0:52:45 Divine guidance inshallah would would
0:52:46 manifest itself
0:52:48 so we already spoke about the principles
0:52:50 brothers and sisters and the reason you
0:52:52 should follow the principles and
0:52:53 qualities we've already mentioned it but
0:52:55 you know let's focus on the two ayats
0:52:56 chapter 68 verse 4 telling the prophet
0:52:59 sallam and you are truly a man of
0:53:01 outstanding character the best character
0:53:04 the best leader so emulate him what what
0:53:07 are his principles and qualities you
0:53:09 know uh also in the Quran of verses in
0:53:11 chapter 24 verse 52 whoever obeys Allah
0:53:13 and his messenger stands in all of Allah
0:53:16 and keeps his duty to him will be
0:53:18 triumphant will be successful so obeying
0:53:20 the prophet salaam understanding that
0:53:22 he's the best character and leader
0:53:23 should be enough to me to understand if
0:53:25 I won't optimized our true quality true
0:53:29 success in this life and Hereafter for
0:53:32 the short-term media term and long term
0:53:34 I need to apply these principles because
0:53:36 I'm following the best character the
0:53:37 best leaders
0:53:39 obeying him and obeying him is a key to
0:53:43 being successful as per Quran 24 verse
0:53:46 52 and we're going to unpack these
0:53:48 brothers and sisters and I want you to
0:53:49 be aware because sometimes we have a
0:53:50 full sense of success we may be thinking
0:53:52 I'm doing all this this great success
0:53:53 from an organizational perspective but
0:53:56 we forget that the organization is part
0:53:57 of the wider hour and there's so many
0:54:00 things problems that are happening or or
0:54:02 or people that were losing in the dean
0:54:04 and we forget that will happen you know
0:54:07 maybe what I'm doing here I may be
0:54:09 successful from an organizational
0:54:11 perspective but from a global dial
0:54:13 perspective I'm actually not doing much
0:54:15 in the global grand scheme of things and
0:54:17 we have very now narrow focus and we tap
0:54:19 ourselves on the back because we have a
0:54:21 capital capitalist understanding of what
0:54:22 success really means and this is why we
0:54:24 have to be very careful that we have to
0:54:26 have Vision Supremacy here it's about
0:54:28 Agra it's about Allah right like I
0:54:31 manage sapiens Institute if I was
0:54:34 convinced that sapience Institute had to
0:54:36 stop in order for the dollar
0:54:39 holistically and go globally to be more
0:54:41 successful inshallah I would stop
0:54:43 sapiens Institute if
0:54:46 um and and so many other things so we
0:54:47 have to realize that it's about uh
0:54:50 Vision Supremacy not organizational
0:54:52 Supremacy
0:54:53 um and there's so much more to unpack
0:54:55 so Brothers and Sisters You Gotta come
0:54:58 like if you don't come there's something
0:55:00 wrong with you and by the way people
0:55:01 think oh you know you guys are making
0:55:03 money from this and no we're not
0:55:05 actually
0:55:06 so here's being very authentic and
0:55:08 transparently go to the website find out
0:55:10 how much it is to have uh a a double
0:55:13 room just check it out
0:55:14 the price margin is very minimal we this
0:55:18 is cost price what do you mean by cost
0:55:20 price it's not only the room it's full
0:55:21 board and it's also all the other
0:55:23 resources that we spent in order for
0:55:25 this to happen like we had to pay for
0:55:27 volunteers to come and pay for their
0:55:29 flights and so on and so forth and
0:55:31 printing of of stuff and all of the
0:55:34 other things that are necessary in order
0:55:35 for a retreat to happen and I'm telling
0:55:38 you this is the one you won't find
0:55:40 anything cheaper at this level no way no
0:55:43 way I actually got a call yesterday from
0:55:44 a Mufti I can't mention names but he
0:55:47 from America
0:55:48 um he mentioned this guy who's half of
0:55:50 the Quran very practicing he works for a
0:55:53 prestigious University and he's into
0:55:56 vision and strategy and so on and so
0:55:58 forth
0:55:58 they for people to you by the way top
0:56:02 companies I think the Blue Chip
0:56:03 companies to use that professor
0:56:06 they pay like three hundred thousand
0:56:08 dollars to the university
0:56:10 yeah I truly believe what we have is is
0:56:13 probably the best thing on the market
0:56:14 now I'm not I hope you're not saying
0:56:16 that of arrogance I'm saying this from
0:56:18 the point of view that why would we give
0:56:20 you something that we don't think is the
0:56:21 best
0:56:22 that would be very interesting City
0:56:24 thing to do
0:56:25 don't get me wrong definitely may have
0:56:27 to improve it in the future and so on
0:56:28 and so forth for sure I stand in that
0:56:30 possibility but I really believe that
0:56:32 we're going to offer to you from the
0:56:33 ground up development from the
0:56:35 quranasana principles qualities from the
0:56:37 quranasana that development of your
0:56:39 vision and strategy and who you must
0:56:41 become that is such a holistic strategy
0:56:43 that I truly believe is going to be
0:56:45 successful for the Tao insha Allah so
0:56:47 brothers and sisters it's been an hour
0:56:50 subhanallah
0:56:51 right talk to me questions
0:56:54 about the retreat
0:56:58 I I'm not going to answer questions
0:57:00 about dollar or anything like that
0:57:01 unfortunately it's very focused on the
0:57:04 retreat right now brother's assistant so
0:57:05 I know there's a lot of questions here
0:57:06 we are going to have a sapiens live in
0:57:09 the near future so you could ask
0:57:11 questions uh the lighthouse live is
0:57:12 going to be happening hopefully every
0:57:13 week it was supposed to happen today but
0:57:15 it's going to happen next week
0:57:16 Insha'Allah
0:57:18 um with brother Yusuf Ponder so you
0:57:19 could ask specific questions there but
0:57:21 for now it's about the retreat
0:57:23 foreign
0:57:25 we have here is it just for brothers yes
0:57:28 for the time being this first Retreat is
0:57:30 just for brothers
0:57:32 um
0:57:33 that's it that's the answer right any
0:57:35 other questions
0:57:39 okay
0:57:40 same similar question you say it's for
0:57:42 brothers and but is the event just for
0:57:44 brother the brother is just for brothers
0:57:45 isn't it yes but it's not relevant just
0:57:48 to Brothers it's relevant for everybody
0:57:49 who's involved in the Dao and sisters
0:57:51 are involved in the tower and there will
0:57:52 be future Retreats that would
0:57:53 accommodate everybody inshallah
0:57:56 foreign
0:58:03 we will record the sessions but for
0:58:06 marketing purposes we're not going to
0:58:07 record the sessions because we're going
0:58:09 to create this principle or we're going
0:58:10 to have an environment of Brotherhood of
0:58:12 inshallah humility of egolessness we're
0:58:14 gonna surrender our egos insha Allah and
0:58:17 we're going to be authentic with each
0:58:18 other we're not going to have Undeclared
0:58:20 intentions and we're going to engage
0:58:22 with us from a positivity and people are
0:58:23 going to be talking about their personal
0:58:24 Vision in the organizational vision and
0:58:26 that is not for the whole public you
0:58:27 know especially when it's in the process
0:58:29 of development so you know we're not
0:58:30 going to film these vulnerabilities for
0:58:32 you guys right because it's not the
0:58:33 right it's not adverb it's not the right
0:58:34 thing to do but we will film it
0:58:37 um for marketing persons to do a trailer
0:58:39 for inshallah the next year so hopefully
0:58:40 that helps
0:58:42 foreign
0:58:50 can you be accessible with online
0:58:52 payment yes it can we just go to The
0:58:54 Visionaries you see there's a scrolling
0:58:56 thing at the bottom the
0:58:58 visionaries.co.uk you can pay for a
0:59:01 shared room or room for yourself
0:59:03 obviously the prices are going to be
0:59:04 different and is accessible with an
0:59:06 online payment you can pay online
0:59:09 Insha'Allah
0:59:17 very good question
0:59:20 I think is Turkish
0:59:23 also people who don't have the skills do
0:59:25 have don't have read a lot of Islamic
0:59:27 knowledge outside of books and courses
0:59:29 and lectures I'm assuming is it
0:59:30 applicable for them absolutely
0:59:34 a concept in we're going to convey a
0:59:37 concept in the course called micro
0:59:38 Visions what is the concept of a
0:59:40 microvision and micro targets or targets
0:59:44 from an Islamic perspective
0:59:45 like for example the exercise that we're
0:59:47 going to be doing is we're going to go
0:59:48 through salihin to get micro targets and
0:59:51 micro Visions we're going to go by the
0:59:53 way we're going to go through through
0:59:54 the whole Quran obviously as a group so
0:59:57 everyone's going to have a juice we're
0:59:58 going to go through the whole Quran and
1:00:00 derive vision from that Jews Allahu
1:00:02 Akbar where has this happened before
1:00:05 maybe it has if he has told me I'll
1:00:07 congratulate them I'll support them I'll
1:00:08 promote them if you know me well enough
1:00:10 for my social media I promote good stuff
1:00:11 for free yeah no strings attached right
1:00:14 the point is where will you find this
1:00:17 this is one of the most amazing things
1:00:18 about this Retreat is from the ground up
1:00:20 from the Quran Sunnah principles up to
1:00:23 develop effective visions and strategies
1:00:25 and the principles and quotas that is
1:00:27 needed to elevate the download
1:00:28 foreign
1:00:35 it's super easy to book and it takes
1:00:37 less than five minutes absolutely this
1:00:39 is
1:00:42 a key part of the sapiens team
1:00:45 alhamdulillah is a volunteer spends a
1:00:48 lot of time and effort and his own money
1:00:50 for the dawah and he's actually booked
1:00:52 this himself to come as well may Allah
1:00:54 bless him and he when he booked it he
1:00:55 said I'm at your service this is the
1:00:57 kind of people that we meet need I don't
1:00:59 want to throw dust in his face it's just
1:01:00 for encouragement because he's an
1:01:02 amazing brother may Allah preserve him I
1:01:04 mean
1:01:06 okay
1:01:09 any other questions brothers and sisters
1:01:17 okay there's a question about well it's
1:01:19 not related so I'm going to answer it
1:01:20 this I'm going to need to stay focused
1:01:22 because we can't you know make this too
1:01:24 long
1:01:25 um let's take more questions about the
1:01:27 retreat brothers and sisters is there a
1:01:29 retreat uh look at this guy look at this
1:01:32 guy if I had to sleep in the house he's
1:01:33 one of the instructors coming along is
1:01:36 there a gym a retreat let me tell you
1:01:37 what kind of gym is going to be my
1:01:38 brother as you know it's going to be a
1:01:40 gym of tarabia waking up at five in the
1:01:42 morning doing to hajjud with the
1:01:43 brothers doing the Quran recycling the
1:01:46 Quran in Quran circles doing some sports
1:01:48 yes it's going to be intense with
1:01:50 regards to Vision strategy principle
1:01:52 spirituality Brotherhood exercises team
1:01:54 building exercises it's going to be from
1:01:55 five in the morning to around 11 at
1:01:57 night but yes there is a gym so there's
1:01:59 going to be a middle session maybe an
1:02:00 hour an hour and a half when we go to
1:02:02 the gym and mean you should go to the
1:02:03 gym inshallah
1:02:06 you've been working very hard for
1:02:08 sapiens in America sapiens all around
1:02:10 the world you're coming to Turkey in a
1:02:12 few days because you're going to be
1:02:13 doing courses alhamdulillah and actually
1:02:15 told Fahad I said Tim bro I need you for
1:02:17 all of the retreat because you can only
1:02:19 attend one day because the ticket was
1:02:20 originally for him filming some courses
1:02:22 for our learning platform very powerful
1:02:25 courses yeah
1:02:27 um and I said please bro extend it and
1:02:28 what does he do he extends it and he's
1:02:30 staying for the retreat alhamdul not an
1:02:32 easy thing for the retreat he's staying
1:02:34 for the four days after three days after
1:02:35 with some imams and and leaders from
1:02:37 Australia they want more specific help
1:02:39 with regards to their strategy and
1:02:41 organizational structure for the dial
1:02:42 for the sake of Allah he's even coming
1:02:44 to that as well so I'm not trying to
1:02:46 throw dust in his face just to show
1:02:47 Masha Allah this is my love listening
1:02:50 right any other questions
1:02:54 questions about the retreat
1:03:00 so you can tell about my energy I'm like
1:03:02 I I really truly believe in this you
1:03:04 know
1:03:05 because you know for us to have
1:03:07 successful dollar we need to have a
1:03:10 vision grounded in Islam and an
1:03:11 effective strategy and importantly we
1:03:13 have to have principles and qualities in
1:03:15 line with the quantities
1:03:17 and what I mean by Dao is not just
1:03:20 ourselves individually and our YouTube
1:03:22 channel or our organization I'll talk
1:03:24 about the Dao holistically because this
1:03:27 is how Muslims are this is an automatic
1:03:29 thing this is a global thing this is
1:03:31 Allah's pleasure right you can't have a
1:03:33 reductionist approach to this as I said
1:03:35 Vision Supremacy not organizational
1:03:38 Supremacy and that's one of the feelings
1:03:40 and the doubt at the moment as well
1:03:41 unfortunately but anyway
1:03:43 we need
1:03:44 uh that's what I'm really passionate
1:03:46 about this and and that this passion
1:03:48 makes me sometimes over emphasize repeat
1:03:50 and sometimes articulate myself in
1:03:53 bizarre ways so I do really apologize
1:03:55 but hopefully that's going to come
1:03:56 across in a positive way
1:03:59 yeah
1:04:00 right
1:04:02 any other questions on the retreat
1:04:04 itself brothers and sisters
1:04:06 um any questions on regards to the
1:04:08 retreat
1:04:16 no Allah
1:04:19 fig for onstring I will try and come
1:04:22 inshallah bless you bro may Allah
1:04:24 facilitate for you when I make it who's
1:04:26 successful
1:04:28 make it the best Retreat ever and I
1:04:30 think one of the beautiful things about
1:04:31 this Retreat is there is going to be a
1:04:33 really strong dedication
1:04:35 to being authentic and not having
1:04:38 Undeclared intentions because sometimes
1:04:40 you know say I'm going to give a speech
1:04:43 fine one of my intentions is I'm doing
1:04:45 this for the sake of Allah inshallah and
1:04:47 I want it to be an effective speech for
1:04:49 the sake of Allah for it to have an
1:04:50 impact but there are other Undeclared
1:04:52 intentions there is a sense of
1:04:53 inauthenticity about me I'll be like I
1:04:55 want to look good you know I want to
1:04:58 sound good I want to articulate myself
1:05:00 eloquently because I want to look good
1:05:02 right I want to be right so I want to
1:05:04 make sure that I'm saying the right
1:05:06 things all the time if I step up I'm
1:05:07 going to get frustrated
1:05:10 um I I want to please the Messiah in the
1:05:12 front row
1:05:13 we want to try and because this really
1:05:15 is the most important thing in a way
1:05:17 because it's the psychology of of of of
1:05:20 surrendering that ego those Undeclared
1:05:23 intentions in order for all of the
1:05:24 principles and the transformative
1:05:26 experience to to be embedded in your
1:05:29 heart so it changes your whole doubt and
1:05:32 so we want to reframe it so the first
1:05:34 session is going to be really dedicated
1:05:35 on that Friday dedicate to having the
1:05:38 right mindset the right heart set in
1:05:40 order for us to um
1:05:42 um yeah to be authentic and I think
1:05:45 that's so important you know because
1:05:46 there's so many people coming I'm so
1:05:48 surprised I was to to the point I would
1:05:51 even argue I was overwhelmed to be to be
1:05:53 honest and I was speaking to Chef hey
1:05:54 them about this and he was trying to
1:05:55 like you know reassure me but I'm like
1:05:57 it's a massive responsibility obviously
1:05:59 everyone knows this but I was slightly
1:06:01 overwhelmed and maybe a bit emotional
1:06:02 the past few days I was thinking you got
1:06:04 people running organizations coming
1:06:06 people doing great success without
1:06:08 people who far more knowledgeable than
1:06:11 me know much more Quran and definitely
1:06:14 much better Ted read than me and people
1:06:16 who uh
1:06:18 have you know one would argue great to
1:06:21 relative success than me people who
1:06:24 um have more the more grounded in
1:06:27 Islamic tradition than me uh people who
1:06:29 have have great successes in leadership
1:06:31 in dawa and I'm thinking wow this is
1:06:34 amazing this is Allah putting things
1:06:36 together well it's amazing you know uh
1:06:38 and so yeah at Queen wanted to say
1:06:40 earlier I'm getting confused now is we
1:06:43 want to facilitate event where we get
1:06:45 the best out of you and make you realize
1:06:48 that you already had it inside you
1:06:49 anyway so we're not really teaching you
1:06:51 anything from that perspective we're
1:06:53 just facilitating a way of being and
1:06:56 giving you certain principles in order
1:06:58 to understand a vision and strategy and
1:07:00 qualities and principles from the Quran
1:07:02 Sunnah but a lot of it is facilitating
1:07:04 an event in order to get the best out of
1:07:06 you so we're going to be facilities
1:07:08 we're not necessarily like enemy
1:07:10 instructors no because this is a
1:07:12 transformative Retreat we want people to
1:07:14 come out with a personal Vision
1:07:15 organizational Vision personal strategy
1:07:17 organizational strategy and to
1:07:19 understand the principles and qualities
1:07:21 they need in order to be successful for
1:07:23 these things that requires a
1:07:25 transformation it's a different Capital
1:07:26 fish it's not the same in an election
1:07:28 just reading some facts who would
1:07:30 respect you could do that online it's
1:07:32 totally different and the whole Retreat
1:07:34 is structured that way brothers and
1:07:35 sisters inshallah
1:07:39 you looks like tired yeah I am tired
1:07:41 actually well I'm not tired at the
1:07:43 moment I quite feel quite energetic but
1:07:45 in general it's been a it was a crazy
1:07:47 September and it's going to be a crazy
1:07:49 October alhamdulillah
1:07:52 who's working very hard for say prince
1:07:54 in the background with the filming and
1:07:56 the courses and also uh you know
1:07:58 organizing this Retreat he mentions
1:08:00 something on the WhatsApp group he said
1:08:03 um
1:08:04 uh working iron doesn't rust something
1:08:07 like that so if you you know keep on
1:08:08 you're not going to get rusty you need
1:08:10 to keep the momentum you know and this
1:08:12 Echoes the statement of Imam Shafi when
1:08:13 he says about you know running being
1:08:15 like running a running stream you know
1:08:17 you've never running stream doesn't get
1:08:19 stagnant and it actually produces
1:08:21 vegetation and stuff it gives life from
1:08:22 that perspective which Echoes Bruce
1:08:25 Lee's statement yeah it'd be like water
1:08:26 my friend right but Imam Shafi Allah
1:08:29 said it ages ago way before him
1:08:32 uh okay so where are we
1:08:39 okay uh what time does it start the
1:08:42 first date the registration if I
1:08:45 remember correctly is going to be around
1:08:47 2 p.m right but that information is
1:08:50 going to be a bit about the website
1:08:51 shortly and that's on the Friday uh the
1:08:55 first session is going to be towards the
1:08:57 evening so the latest you can be there
1:08:59 is I would say afternoon maybe late
1:09:01 afternoon but that those details are
1:09:04 going to be forthcoming on the website
1:09:07 um and uh yeah so yes excellent so
1:09:12 um
1:09:14 says it starts at 8pm Friday the 21st of
1:09:18 October so registration from 2PM to 6
1:09:20 p.m she knows because sometimes she's
1:09:22 been part of The Branding team
1:09:23 phenomenal I mean I've been praising
1:09:25 lots of Brothers now and I don't want to
1:09:27 praise people for dust in the face but
1:09:29 her company is probably the best
1:09:30 marketing branding company I've ever
1:09:32 dealt with it is like a full-on-blown
1:09:34 psychoanalysis of the people that we
1:09:35 want to attract and I have not
1:09:37 experienced after this before I think my
1:09:39 PhD proposal was much more difficult it
1:09:41 was much easier yeah and the way they
1:09:43 manifested everything on the website is
1:09:45 I wouldn't change anything really is
1:09:47 this fantastic and The Branding and the
1:09:49 narratives I'm telling you and the
1:09:51 professionalism uh there's no conflict
1:09:54 here by the way yeah you know they're a
1:09:56 company that was working for this and
1:09:58 I'm telling you unbelievable
1:10:00 unbelievable company so check them out
1:10:01 please I think they could salaam media
1:10:04 all right so any other questions
1:10:06 brothers and sisters
1:10:12 I'll give you 10 more minutes then we'll
1:10:13 close inshallah
1:10:24 so just remind everyone before you start
1:10:26 formulating your questions that this
1:10:28 Retreat is going to have three main
1:10:30 objectives we want you to from the
1:10:32 ground up from the Quran Sunnah and
1:10:36 the
1:10:37 highest predecessors classical normative
1:10:40 Islam methodology
1:10:42 based on these Timeless values that from
1:10:43 the ground up you're going to develop a
1:10:45 vision and a strategy
1:10:46 you need to develop a vision for your
1:10:48 personal life for your organization your
1:10:49 dollar team you're going to have a
1:10:52 strategy that necessary links to the
1:10:54 performance of that Vision your personal
1:10:56 vision and your organizational vision
1:10:57 and they're going to be linked as well
1:10:59 and you can understand 14 key principles
1:11:02 of colleagues from the quranism in order
1:11:03 to lead effectively nadawa and who you
1:11:06 must become in order to have the button
1:11:07 like success and to optimize the Dow
1:11:10 brothers and sisters and this is very
1:11:13 much needed okay so this is these are
1:11:16 the main objectives so if you're you
1:11:18 know there is a group of imams in
1:11:21 in America I had to call them yesterday
1:11:24 they were like you know we need to
1:11:25 refine our vision we need to find our
1:11:26 strategy uh you know do you suggest that
1:11:29 we come to this and look that's the
1:11:30 objective of the event that you would
1:11:32 end the event with a vision and a
1:11:34 strategy at least a workable vision and
1:11:36 a strategy in order for you to be
1:11:38 successful in the dollar right and we're
1:11:41 going to unpack so many other things
1:11:42 behind all of that you know some things
1:11:45 that we just summarized in this webinar
1:11:46 you know the key questions we have to
1:11:48 ask the key sources that we have to go
1:11:50 to Surah brainstorming Quran Sunnah
1:11:53 principles values asking the right
1:11:55 questions thinking outside the box
1:11:56 having a vision Supremacy perspective
1:11:58 not just a organizational Supremacy and
1:12:01 so on and so forth and it's going to be
1:12:03 it's gonna be a lot of conversations and
1:12:04 there's gonna be friction but positive
1:12:06 friction you know friction whereas I
1:12:08 don't agree with that what do you mean
1:12:09 by that and then we go into the cinema
1:12:11 we're going to the Quran we have these
1:12:12 discussions we get the best out of each
1:12:14 other in order to rate them to to make
1:12:16 the right decisions for the sake of
1:12:17 Allah
1:12:18 let's see
1:12:22 okay
1:12:31 anything else but uh any other questions
1:12:34 brothers and sisters uh there's one
1:12:36 question here no chance to participate
1:12:38 online no because like with many things
1:12:40 the transformative experience and
1:12:42 transformative experience is fair has to
1:12:44 be face to face and it has to be in that
1:12:45 environment right
1:12:47 um and you know for example I could
1:12:48 describe to you Michelangelo's painting
1:12:51 I think is in a chapel or something yeah
1:12:53 and that could describe to you how the
1:12:54 pain looks and how amazing it is or how
1:12:56 should a key is whatever right
1:12:59 um and but my descriptions are not going
1:13:01 to be enough you have to be there you
1:13:02 have to visit there right likewise you
1:13:04 know I could describe to you my mother's
1:13:06 cooking you know she makes a great dish
1:13:08 which is one of the best kind of uh
1:13:10 Greek uh
1:13:12 um sweet dishes amazing I can have 10 of
1:13:14 them yeah easy I would be regretful but
1:13:17 I can I can have them right now I can
1:13:19 tell you exactly how she makes it but
1:13:22 it's not gonna be the same you have to
1:13:23 come to my mom's house and taste it
1:13:24 there's a different Dynamic like so by
1:13:27 greater reason it's the same with these
1:13:28 kind of transformative things
1:13:30 and we see this in the dial it's
1:13:31 actually a really good question I'll
1:13:32 tell you what
1:13:36 we deal with Lighthouse mentoring
1:13:38 service dealing with heart and mentoring
1:13:40 Duart to have an optimal version of
1:13:42 themselves to make an impact in that way
1:13:44 yeah and it's a free service obviously
1:13:46 we do one-to-one development and
1:13:48 answering questions and dealing with
1:13:50 people's doubts and people who have left
1:13:51 Islam and so on and so forth
1:13:53 now I've come to the conclusion based on
1:13:55 hours and hours and years and years of
1:13:57 experience on this
1:13:59 that we have most of the answers online
1:14:02 is true
1:14:03 but why do people have the same hearts
1:14:06 why do you have the same doubts why do
1:14:08 we have the same concerns even though
1:14:09 great answers are online
1:14:11 I'm coming to the conclusion that there
1:14:14 is a certain fantasy that we think
1:14:16 because everything is online and
1:14:18 everything is going to be solved or not
1:14:20 it's about
1:14:22 it's about you need different
1:14:25 means
1:14:27 if it was just about abstract writing
1:14:29 things online then Allah would have sent
1:14:32 the Quran and that's it the Quran would
1:14:35 have been enough
1:14:41 so he is a human manifestation of the
1:14:44 Quran he's a working Quran he he he he
1:14:47 related to people right he didn't say to
1:14:50 them I don't need to talk to you just
1:14:52 read this book no
1:14:54 he was the manifestation of the Quran he
1:14:56 was someone that people could relate to
1:14:59 and there is a transformational
1:15:01 psychology
1:15:04 when you deal with people on a
1:15:06 one-to-one basis and this is the same
1:15:09 when it comes to alien and that's what
1:15:10 about crises of knowledge at the moment
1:15:12 we think yeah I'm going to be in an
1:15:14 auditorium I'm going to write notes I'm
1:15:16 going to go online listen to a lecture
1:15:18 it's going to change my life it may do
1:15:20 but it won't have the impact
1:15:22 uh qualitatively and quantitatively as
1:15:25 much as we uh want why because it's like
1:15:29 an Unwritten spiritual law it's a Sunnah
1:15:32 of Allah that you have to have an
1:15:34 interaction
1:15:35 The Scholar of the Prophet saws
1:15:38 The Scholar of the sahab was the process
1:15:40 the scholar of the tabian or the sahaba
1:15:43 and so on and so forth so you need to
1:15:44 have that interactive experience to have
1:15:47 those transformational changes and we
1:15:48 know that when we see someone who's
1:15:49 really humble it transformed us to be
1:15:52 really humble
1:15:53 but if you read all the ayat and
1:15:55 humility in the Quran it might not be
1:15:56 enough
1:15:57 because you haven't understood it
1:15:58 properly you haven't internalized it in
1:15:59 the right way you don't have that part
1:16:00 of here
1:16:01 but just experiencing something with
1:16:03 humility you might just become humble
1:16:04 and that's the transformative effect of
1:16:06 being around people and that's why
1:16:08 online would be a disaster it'll be
1:16:10 impossible almost impossible to do this
1:16:13 so that was a long answer to that
1:16:16 okay brother says can uh our children
1:16:19 allowed 14 year old you need to email
1:16:21 The Visionaries at Sea Prince
1:16:23 institute.org with specific questions
1:16:24 like that so they're Visionaries at
1:16:27 sapience institute.org
1:16:33 uh what do you expect the average age to
1:16:35 be so Abdullah Abdullah Ahmed he says
1:16:38 the average age it's gonna vary I know
1:16:40 an 18 year old is coming and I think I
1:16:43 know and 78 year old is coming and we
1:16:45 had a question for an 84 year old to
1:16:47 come right so all ages all experiences
1:16:51 okay
1:16:52 and the quality of the people coming
1:16:54 absolutely phenomenal and if you come
1:16:56 and you don't have a background but you
1:16:57 think you have transferable skills and
1:16:58 you want a personal vision for your life
1:17:00 and maybe in the future an organization
1:17:02 one for the down you want to get
1:17:03 involved in the tower this is the place
1:17:05 to be because you're going to have great
1:17:06 networking you're going to have senior
1:17:08 people there with great skills and way
1:17:09 of being and a clock and adab and n and
1:17:12 it's going to be a transformative
1:17:13 experience remember you are the product
1:17:14 of the people around you put yourself in
1:17:16 great environments yeah the scholars of
1:17:19 tesquite enoughs they talk about if you
1:17:20 want to change your way of being change
1:17:22 your heart be around good people you
1:17:26 know look at the the dog that's
1:17:27 mentioned in the Quran the dog was saved
1:17:29 right and the people of the cave why is
1:17:31 the dog safe even considered raises this
1:17:33 question
1:17:34 and he answers it and what's the answer
1:17:37 well if Allah could save kind of a
1:17:38 lonely animal
1:17:40 because it happened to you with Pious
1:17:42 people then what would Allah do to your
1:17:44 life if you happen to be with Pious
1:17:45 people would change your life transform
1:17:47 it so yeah be come be around great
1:17:49 people
1:17:55 all right what else
1:17:58 are we done
1:18:03 any other questions brothers and sisters
1:18:05 if not I'm gonna wrap up in a few
1:18:08 moments
1:18:12 actually let me scroll down because uh
1:18:14 there may be questions here that
1:18:16 I haven't seen that relate to the
1:18:19 retreat
1:18:20 okay I've seen most of these
1:18:28 uh
1:18:35 that's it uh there's no other real
1:18:38 questions really concerning um
1:18:40 concerning this Retreat so Brothers this
1:18:42 is just to summarize
1:18:45 new income it's actually really cheap
1:18:48 it's
1:18:51 cheap for this type of event
1:18:53 as I said most likely we're not going to
1:18:56 get our money back on this
1:18:58 because that cost price which includes
1:19:00 other hidden costs
1:19:02 and we didn't do this to make money we
1:19:04 did this to make an impact and then
1:19:06 handle them out people that are coming
1:19:08 and who are coming the type of quality
1:19:10 and the work that they're doing and for
1:19:12 them to attend this it's just
1:19:13 overwhelming and it's humbling you know
1:19:16 and The Visionaries Retreat successful
1:19:19 down for 21st century brothers and
1:19:21 sisters is going to be a transformative
1:19:23 Retreat that's based on tarabia
1:19:27 Quran
1:19:30 picking up micro visions and targets
1:19:33 from there we're going to be going
1:19:35 through the whole of the Quran everyone
1:19:36 having a Jewish to pick the idea of
1:19:40 vision and so on and so forth we're
1:19:42 going to have sessions and vision and
1:19:43 strategy and principles and qualities
1:19:45 and all of these amazing things
1:19:47 and we want you to end up with three
1:19:49 main things number one you're gonna have
1:19:52 a vision for your personal life that's
1:19:56 in line with the Islamic concept of
1:19:57 success that's aligned with those three
1:19:59 main questions we mentioned earlier for
1:20:01 any questions and we give the examples
1:20:02 to them
1:20:04 you're gonna have a personal Vision an
1:20:06 organizational vision for the dollar and
1:20:08 those two are going to be linked you're
1:20:09 going to have a strategic Focus
1:20:11 that you know would necessarily link to
1:20:13 your personal Vision becoming the
1:20:15 reality and the organizational Dao
1:20:16 Vision to become a reality and you're
1:20:19 going to understand and be aware of the
1:20:20 14 key principles and qualities from the
1:20:22 Quran and the Sunnah in order to
1:20:24 understand who you must become in order
1:20:25 for all of this to be successful if
1:20:27 you're really sincere in the dialogue
1:20:28 even if you think you're doing great
1:20:29 having great success believe me if you
1:20:32 go through this process you'll have
1:20:33 greater success
1:20:35 because sometimes we tap ourselves on
1:20:36 the bank thinking on the back thinking
1:20:38 yeah I'm doing quite well
1:20:39 but we as Muslims we have to not do that
1:20:42 we have to think what am I not doing
1:20:45 that is that is stopping me getting even
1:20:49 better results and greater results
1:20:51 so that's very important to frame as
1:20:53 well to frame it that way as all
1:20:55 brothers and sisters so anyway what can
1:20:57 we say
1:20:58 I'm excited
1:21:00 um what we'll do is
1:21:03 um
1:21:04 uh is oh yeah what we'll do is uh
1:21:08 actually what am I saying now okay maybe
1:21:10 it's time to end so let me just end with
1:21:11 this I am committed to your well-being
1:21:13 inshallah what does that mean from a
1:21:16 prophetic perspective from a Sunday
1:21:17 perspective this means wanting goodness
1:21:19 and guidance so I want you to understand
1:21:21 the commitment that we are making is
1:21:23 that we're going to be committed to your
1:21:25 well-being
1:21:26 and what we mean by well-being in this
1:21:28 context is that we're going to come with
1:21:30 to you with an authentic version of
1:21:33 ourselves no there's going to be no
1:21:34 Undeclared intentions we're going to be
1:21:36 hopefully as humble as possible as
1:21:39 natural as possible and authentic as
1:21:40 possible and we're going to relate to
1:21:42 you in the most optimal way through our
1:21:44 behavior and through our utterances to
1:21:46 get the best out of you and us and the
1:21:47 whole situation yeah and you know
1:21:50 hopefully just from my own kind of work
1:21:52 in the past maybe six or seven years
1:21:55 there was actually let me end with the
1:21:57 story
1:22:01 um many many years ago when I was with
1:22:03 eye era and this before was the CEO of I
1:22:05 era and before we see managing sapiens I
1:22:09 was traveling around the world it was a
1:22:11 hectic period you know I had a
1:22:13 relatively large following for the
1:22:15 standards of that time you know social
1:22:16 media I was going to America I was
1:22:19 traveling to I think Malaysia I was
1:22:22 traveling the world doing this that and
1:22:24 the other
1:22:24 and I remember in Chicago there was this
1:22:26 one brother I don't remember his name
1:22:28 but he ripped into me man he was like
1:22:30 what are you doing this for what's going
1:22:32 on man so show it's so drama it's so
1:22:36 showing off it's so you know
1:22:39 and he related to the jahannamas or he
1:22:41 related to like being very very serious
1:22:43 about this issue because it's a grave
1:22:45 issue it's a serious weighty issue he
1:22:47 said look this is trophy just going
1:22:49 around the world you're like a superstar
1:22:50 or whatever you know you know showing
1:22:53 off or he was saying stuff like that the
1:22:55 way he communicated this with me really
1:22:57 effectively yeah so I remember coming
1:22:59 back to the higher office I spoke to the
1:23:01 operations manager at that time he was
1:23:02 Mohammed ashad who did some great work
1:23:03 by the way he does go to his website
1:23:05 Muslim ceo.com he does stuff on
1:23:08 leadership and speaker training and so
1:23:10 on and so forth yeah
1:23:12 um he basically I sat with him and I
1:23:14 explained to what happened in Chicago
1:23:15 and I broke down crying and that was a
1:23:18 very transformative
1:23:20 event for me because that I made the
1:23:23 decision after that to focus on
1:23:25 developing and empowering others because
1:23:27 I knew that I'm not going to last
1:23:28 forever I'm going to be irrelevant one
1:23:29 day I'm not going to be young forever
1:23:31 I'm not going to be around forever I
1:23:34 need to have a long-term vision for
1:23:36 myself I need to develop others
1:23:38 to be able to share Islam to optimize or
1:23:40 something and for them to be better than
1:23:41 me I'll be making Dua and sajdar saying
1:23:44 Allah I want people to be better than me
1:23:46 I'm about to give this course make them
1:23:48 better than me Allah which is the easy
1:23:50 thing to do right but you get the point
1:23:52 the point is that commitment to other
1:23:54 people because I know you know my life
1:23:56 as well you know I'm 42 years old now
1:23:58 God knows how long it's good how long is
1:24:00 left it's about that long-term Success
1:24:03 Vision for for genitals
1:24:06 what's happening the generation after me
1:24:08 the generation after so we have to focus
1:24:10 on process on approach on principles and
1:24:12 vision and strategy on people
1:24:15 sincere people with tarabia this is the
1:24:17 important thing that's how the barakas
1:24:19 that's that's where the Baraka is going
1:24:20 to be and Allah makes this clear Allah
1:24:22 will not change a situation over people
1:24:23 until the change was within themselves
1:24:24 the tough suit of this is you want the
1:24:27 ummah or the people won't change from a
1:24:29 good state to a bad State unless they've
1:24:31 changed something within themselves
1:24:32 they've lost their connection they maybe
1:24:34 remove themselves from principles and
1:24:35 the right qualities they're not having a
1:24:37 true Vision that's sincere and so on and
1:24:39 so forth they're just become a
1:24:41 utilitarian they're not focusing on the
1:24:43 right thing to do they're not focusing
1:24:44 on Allah's pleasure
1:24:46 so that was a transformation and that
1:24:47 opened the door to what we started doing
1:24:50 courses for our era we started doing
1:24:51 educational more educational content the
1:24:54 internal challenge The Mirage of atheism
1:24:55 of course and then that became the basis
1:24:57 of my book
1:24:58 well lying it's amazing and that book
1:25:00 now as we translate to over 10 languages
1:25:03 and then after I became CEO by Era and
1:25:05 by the will of Allah we increased
1:25:08 operations by over a thousand percent
1:25:09 funds by over 500 and after just under
1:25:12 three years we moved on to sapiens there
1:25:14 was a strategy change
1:25:16 the point is this is all from Allah but
1:25:18 I'm trying to show you that I want to
1:25:20 share these experiences with you and I'm
1:25:23 not saying this to blow my trumpet I'm
1:25:24 saying to her that I do have the
1:25:26 experience and I have you know developed
1:25:29 organizations and improved them from a
1:25:31 policy operation strategy visual point
1:25:32 of view and stuff like that however I
1:25:35 want you to understand that there's a
1:25:36 hell of a lot of mistakes made grave
1:25:38 mistakes there was humiliation there was
1:25:41 lack of yes sincerity there was lack of
1:25:43 connection with Allah I want you to
1:25:45 learn from the mistakes that I've made
1:25:47 and there's nothing more transformative
1:25:49 than me being authentic with you in that
1:25:51 Retreat to show you these are my
1:25:53 mistakes this is how you learn this is
1:25:55 this these are the successes this is how
1:25:57 you learn from them and even continue
1:25:59 further and be inspired by them and this
1:26:01 is what we want to give to you and it's
1:26:03 very rare that people from a Dao
1:26:05 organizational point of view who have
1:26:06 this type of professional endowed
1:26:08 experience can actually offer that to
1:26:10 you so that's what we're offering a very
1:26:12 cheap price brothers and sisters and may
1:26:14 Allah every single one of you if you
1:26:17 can't make it share this video when it
1:26:18 comes up and uh inshallah uh yeah take
1:26:23 care of yourselves man anything I've
1:26:24 said that's wrong or inaccurate is
1:26:26 obviously from shaytan and minus
1:26:27 anything that's good from Allah
1:26:30 take care of yourselves brothers and
1:26:31 sisters