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  • Rockefeller’s advice – 2

    Rockefeller’s advice – 2
    Nov 2 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds, and peace and blessings be upon him, the most merciful, the most merciful. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and peace and blessings be upon him, and peace and blessings be upon him, and peace and blessings be upon him. My brothers and sisters, we are looking at the nine letters of advice that John D. Rockefeller wrote for his son. Absolutely brilliant pieces of advice, which I thought I should share with you and myself. And the first one was, hardship is your greatest teacher. The second one, he says, failure plus persistence. Failure, not failure by itself. Failure plus persistence equals breakthrough. Failure plus persistence equals breakthrough. Think about this. Edison, Thomas Edison, failed 10,000 times. He failed 10,000 times. The wonderful story of his, which I love the most, because he is the founder of GE, General Electric, with which I have been working for many years. Working as a consultant from 1994. The wonderful story, two wonderful stories. One is, of course, is, they say that the light bulb, he got it right at the 1100th time or some such thing, right? So they said to him, well, you failed, you know, 1100 times or 1100 minus one. So 10,999 times. So it's, you know, you failed so many times. So he said, no, it takes 1100 times to succeed. That's how long it takes. So in many other cases, you know, put together, they say that he failed 10,000 times. Now, the most wonderful story of Edison is that his lab caught fire. So he had this lab in a, you know, like an outhouse. So, you know, they have these, what they call granny cottages, which is just off the main house. There would be a cottage where your elderly parents or parents, for intending, they were supposed to stay there. So they're close to you and you take care of them. And they're still, they have their independent living. So this kind of granny cottage, so, you know, maybe it was a, it was a room or a shed or whatnot. So that's where he did all his experimentation. That's where he did all his discoveries or inventions. So all his work, all his work was there, you know, whatever his current experiments and current inventions. Inventions in progress. He had all his documentations and so on. So all of that stuff is there in this, in this building. And one night it caught fire. So it was a huge conflagration. The whole place was completely on fire. And there was no way that, you know, that fire could be put out or anything would be saved. So John D. Rockefeller's, no, no. Edison, Thomas Edison's son, he says that I, when I saw the fire, I went looking for my father. I thought he was going crazy with grief and with, you know, with this sense of loss. So, and I was afraid that he might do something, you know, to, which might harm himself, which might harm himself. So he said, I went searching for him. I see him standing there with his hands, gloves behind his back, looking at the fire. And he said, son says, when I got to him, he says, go call your mom. She'll never see a fire like this again. Go call your mom. She'll never see a fire like this again. So son says, well, you know, I was absolutely astonished at his equanimity and the fact that he was not, you know, screaming with grief or something. So he asked him, he said, Dad, this is all your work, right? This is everything that you have. All your inventions and all the, all the writing and all the documentation and everything else. Right? I mean, you just watching it burn. You, you know, you're not, you don't seem to be bothered. He says to his son, how many people have a chance to make a completely new beginning? Just think about that. How many people have a chance to make a completely new beginning? Slate is wiped clean. Right? Now you can think about this and say, well, if I was living a life, you know, as a drug addict. And I,
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  • Rockefeller’s advice – 1

    Rockefeller’s advice – 1
    Nov 1 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. Peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and his family. Peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and his family. My brothers and sisters, all praise is due to Allah. One of the beauties of Islam and of winners in life is that they are open to learning from everywhere. And that's what I also recommend. One of the things I want to share with you is Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller's advice to his son. This is being written in terms of nine specific principles. So let me read out the list first. He says, First principle, Heart-shaped, Hardship is your greatest teacher. Hardship is your greatest teacher. Secondly, Failure plus persistence equals breakthrough. Failure plus persistence equals breakthrough. Third one, Love your work or live in misery. Love your work or live in misery. Fourth one, Money is fire. Money is fire. Use it or get burned. Use it or get burned. Fifth one, Excuses are mental illness. Fabulous. Excuses are mental illness. Number six, Business is war. Act accordingly. Business is war. Act accordingly. Number seven, Master negotiation. Master negotiation. Number eight, Reinvest everything or lose everything. Reinvest everything or lose everything. And number nine, Reputation outlasts riches. Reputation outlasts riches. Inshallah, We will talk about these in detail. We do not even know. We do not know in detail. Deliberate intellectual Cathedral Training, Research of heteroplane technology, Fidel zas genius. What a ape there, Clean equatel, Guaranteedministry, But rather maintain iron economy and Not make humane decisions. But preserve equality, wildそんな welfare hundred billion in today's money but his greatest creation as they say was these letters his letters to his son so the first principle is saying is hardship is your greatest teacher now young Rockefeller Johnny Rockefeller faced crushing poverty and constant rejection crushing poverty and constant rejection his response I am grateful for the struggle it built the character that built the for Joe it built the character that built a for Joe and he says that success requires deliberate suffering conscious suffering really if you think about it we human beings seem to learn mostly from I won't say from the book but from the book but from the book but from the book once a entirely but almost entirely from hardship not from peace if I am if you ask me to think of or if I ask you to think of ten people ten people just randomly ten people who you know almost invariably those who you think about who are successful in every way whether it's material whether it is material whether it is material whether it is material whether it is is material whether it is spiritual whether it is physical our people who are people who started in poverty of people who started with nothing now are people who started in poverty of people who started with nothing now poverty I don't necessarily mean somebody was bringing on the street but poverty I don't necessarily mean somebody was bringing on the street but someone who had to think about spending money somebody who for whom money was spending money somebody who for whom money was not easy for example hand me down hadn't had it down close from their siblings or not easy for example had me down hadn't had it down close from their siblings or have anything to say on my children is that I had to close my children's or from their parents, they made choices. I think the biggest, most important strength that comes to us from being poor, from not having enough resources, is to make wise choices. Because you cannot have everything, you're forced to choose. Everything is a choice. Every single thing is a choice because you can't have everything. So the smallest things,
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  • Tazkiyya before Ta’aleem

    Tazkiyya before Ta’aleem
    Oct 31 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:Khilal Ramadan Rahim, Alhamdulillah, Rabbil Alameen, Wasalatu Wasalamu Alayhi Sharifil Abiyyil Mursaleen, Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wa'ala Alihi Wasallam, Tasleeman Kaseeran Kaseera, Faman Badu. My brother and sister, it's very, very important to think about the purification of the heart, tasiyat al-nafs, for learning Islam. People come to me and say, I want to become a great speaker. And I say, that's absolutely the worst place to start. because before you become a great speaker, you have to become a great worker, like a person who does amal, who lives by Islam. This desire to speak and the desire to tell people what to do, this is a huge trap. Sahal bin Abdullah, he says, it is not lawful, it is not possible for light, for the nur of knowledge to enter a heart in which there is something that Allah dislikes. Just think about this. These are things which are so critically important that we need to reflect on them. He says, I repeat his words, it is not lawful, it is not possible for light, for the nur of the knowledge of Islam to enter a heart in which there is something that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala dislikes. And he says, the source of this, this statement is the statement of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in Surah Al-A'raf, Allah said, I will turn away from the verses which are arrogant in the earth without truth. And if they see every verse they do not believe in it, and if they see the way of the right path, they do not take it as a way. And if they see the way of the wrong, they take it as a way. That is because they have denied our verses and they were not the way. And in the verse of the verse, Allah says, He says, I will turn away from my signs those who act unjustly with arrogance in the land. Allah is saying, I will turn them away from my signs so that they will not get to that. And even if they were to see, even if they were to see every sign, they still would not believe in them. If they see the right path, they will not take it. But if they see a crooked path, they will follow it. This is because they denied Allah's, our signs and were heedless of them. May Allah Ta'ala protect us from being people like that. Sufyan bin Ureena in his tafsir, he says Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will deprive them from understanding the Quran. SubhanAllah, we see how, what is the wages of arrogance, how arrogance will destroy you if you are arrogant. May Allah have mercy on us. Arrogance is the first trap of the ulama and the umara, of the rulers and people with authority and of people who are people of knowledge as in they know the theory but they are, you know, their hearts are sealed because they have arrogance in them. So when they become... Ulama, when they graduate from this or that darurum, they start considering themselves to be great scholars and they spend their time criticizing other people without looking at themselves and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is saying such people, I will prevent them from seeing. Right? Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is saying, I will prevent them from seeing. Muhammad Yusuf al-Firyabi, rahmatullah alayhi salam, he said, Allah is saying that we should not be afraid of the people who are not in the right direction. He said, Allah is saying that He will deprive them from reflecting on the Quran and taking lessons from it. Ibn Kathir, rahmatullah alayhi salam, in his tafsir of this ayah, he said, Allah punished them with a terrible punishment of ignorance because they were arrogant. So whoever allows, now we talk about the taskiyatul nafs, we talk about purification of the soul. I remind myself anew that all of these talks of purification of soul are worthless if we do not actually go and purify ourselves. For example, imagine. Imagine that you have just come back from a run, you are sweating, you are stinking, your body is full of sweat and dust and muck and God knows what, right? And you are watching this absolutely passionate speech about the benefits of bathing,
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