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  • Voices in the head

    Voices in the head
    Nov 15 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Now, most of the time, this is not conscious. So, we just give people permission to come and occupy, to live rent-free in your mind, in your head. Don't do that. Don't do that. Your mind is a very precious, very precious, precious thing. The mind is like a fertile field. The mind is like a fertile field. The mind is like a fertile field. The mind is like a fertile field. The mind is like a fertile field. fertile field, it will, whatever you plant in it, it will give you a harvest for that thing. Whatever you plant in it, the mind will give you a harvest for that thing. It makes it grow and it gives you a harvest. That is the reason why it's very important for you to choose what to plant in your mind. Because you plant wheat, you get wheat. You plant rice, you get rice. You plant wheat and you want rice, you will not get. So you have to decide, what is it that I'm going to allow into my mind? What will I allow to live rent-free in my mind? So choose who you want to listen to. And then listen to them very carefully. That's the second part. For the first part, we listen to everybody. Which is detrimental because everybody does not have the competence to say or tell us anything that is beneficial for us. And then the other part of it is that we disregard, again, consciously or unconsciously, real advice which can benefit us. And this would be the advice from experts. And advice from people who are... Who are genuinely concerned about you. So that's the other thing. So therefore, it's very important to pay close attention to that advice. Advice coming from people who are experts. And understand that that advice is coming to you and most of the time it will come to you free, is to be appreciated, deeply appreciated. Because it's not your right. That people must... So, that's the third part. That's the fourth part. That people must spend their time with you. People must share their hard-earned life lessons with you. Right? It's not... It's not something that is necessary for those people to do. If somebody's doing it, they are doing you a favor. And that is something that we need to appreciate. Not just take it for granted. If somebody is sharing their knowledge and their experience, it must be respected. One of the very detrimental things that I have noticed, especially this Gen Z, is this completely arrogant assumption. That anyone who's not... I don't know. I don't know. I don't think anyone can do that. I don't think anyone who's under 20 is not worth listening to. That the only people who are worth listening to are people of your age, people of this generation. Now that's about the most stupid thing that you can think about. Because experience comes with age. Experience comes with living life. You cannot have 40 years of experience when you are age 20. The only way to have 40 years of experience is to be 40 plus. It's not... is to be 40 plus. Now, having said that, not everyone who has 40 years of life experience can teach you something useful because of another very important factor, which is the tendency to document that experience. Because what is not documented is not learned. It's as simple as that. What is not documented is not learned. People live the life. So I'm 70 years old. There are millions of people who are 70 years old. But the 70-year-old who can teach you something will be the one who has taken the time and trouble to live reflectively and thoughtfully and he or she has documented their learnings. If they have done that, then what they have documented is potentially useful for you. I'm not saying everything is useful, but potentially useful for you.
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  • See with our nose

    See with our nose
    Nov 14 2025
    https://youtu.be/rWvlGzItHqY Auto-generated transcript:I'm back again in my favorite place in Hyderabad, KBR Park. And as I'm walking, I'm hearing the bulbul calls. All kinds of names it has, Indian nightingale, also they call it and so on. I don't know what it is. It's a bulbul. And whenever I think about these zoological names, and I can't remember one, I console myself and say, well, I don't know or I can't recall the name of this bird, but the bird doesn't know either. I don't mean that entirely facetiously. Of course, you know, feel free to laugh. But the reason I'm saying that is because one of the downsides of knowledge is that it makes you jaded. I was speaking to a young friend of mine, may Allah bless him, very, very knowledgeable. He's a high school kid, but extremely knowledgeable about wildlife, birds. He has a special interest in, literally passion for, insects. I call him Spider-Man. He loves spiders and scorpions and all kinds of loving beasts like that. And knows a hell of a lot about them. And his bird identification is incredible. Knows all the names. But yesterday when I was having a conversation with him, I went over the weekend to Sarpanparli Lake, which is a very beautiful lake. I'm saying this for those who are listeners from here, who know the places on the way to Viharbas. And we saw a bunch of birds. So, point herons, cattle egrets, painted storks, stilts and What is turns, river turns and so on. So, as I was telling him these things, for every one of them, he said, Oh common, oh common, oh common. Meaning, these are common species. It's not a rare one. Thought that came into my mind was, that this is the first sign of being jaded. Where you're looking at, looking for some, you know, scintillating experience, some aha moment, every time in life. Now, the bad news is, it doesn't exist. Because most of life is repetition. Most of life is seeing the same thing again and again. So, you have two options. One is, you are constantly seeking this aha experience, this new thing. And so, therefore, when you see the same thing again and again, you're just bored. You don't want to see it again and again. But guess what? That's your fate. You will see it again and again. On the other hand, you have another person like me, for example. I don't care how many times I see the same thing. I never cease to be amazed. I never cease to be astonished. I never cease to marvel at the glory and magnificence of the creation of my Rab, Jalal Jalal Hu. I don't care if I see the same thing 50 times, 100 times, 1000 times. Incidentally, this is also the secret of my life. The secret of marriage, of a good marriage. As I have said many times before, I fall in love with my wife every morning, and every evening, and every afternoon. Same wife for the last 40 years. Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. The thing is, if you find beauty in something, the beauty is there. And the more you can look at the same thing and enjoy that beauty, the happier person you are, the happier you will be. Because there are that many opportunities of enjoying that beauty. Whereas if you are looking for new things all the time, you will get them once in a while, but only once in a while. The major aha experiences of life, the major thresholds of life, are very few. Getting married, the day of the ceremony, the anticipation of it, and then the ceremony itself, and so forth, is one experience in your entire life. But your wife or your husband, you are going to be seeing them every single morning, every single afternoon, every single evening. And what happens to a lot of people, and I have seen this also happening, is that over time, they get bored. They get just used to seeing each other. They don't take care of their appearance. If you see them, if you turn up at their house, that's why I have, I make it an absolute rule, I always take an appointment before I go to some people. Because I want to share, save myself the shock of seeing this person,
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  • What do you want to be remembered for

    What do you want to be remembered for
    Nov 13 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 the honour of the Prophets and Messengers. Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions, is very, very peaceful. My brothers and sisters, yesterday one of our dear friends, Muhammad Ali Saab, whose children were all my students, prominent among them was his son, Hassan Zeeshan, who is currently studying, doing his Master's in Mechanical Engineering in UMass Lowell, Massachusetts. He passed away. And so I went to the Janatah last night after Isha. We asked Allah to forgive his sins and enter him into the Janatah for those without his Saab, to fill his Kaabar with his Nuh, and to give Sabah to his family. Mashallah, beautiful family, beautiful people. As I was there in the cemetery, the thought came to my mind about what do I want to be remembered for. That particular cemetery in Masjid al-Baqi in Hyderabad has, many of my friends in it, some relatives, some friends, some very old, very good friends. They all, thoughts about them flashed through my mind. That when I think of each person, what comes, foremost, what is the first thought that I think about them? What is the first thought that comes? What do I remember them for? There is Ikram Hai in that cemetery, with Ahmadineen Sheikh Imam Saab. And the thing that I remember, soon as I mention him, soon as I think about him, is how he used to come for Salatul Fajr. To our Masjid. Even when he had, started, he was getting, you know, physical health problems, he would get in his car and he would drive. And once or twice it's, the car got knocked here and there because of his driving. And we used to tell him, please, don't come on your own. And, and, may Allah bless Saib, he was there always, he would bring him. And Saib would tell him, look, you know, if, someday if I'm not there, because Saib had to travel and so on, so, he said, then don't go that day. But no, Ikram Hai would come. No matter what. Until he completely got incapacitated, he could not come at all. So the first thing I remember about him is, how he used to come for Salatul Fajr. Salatul Fajr. There is my dear, dear friend Zulfi in the same cemetery. And the thing I remember about Zulfi is his big smile. And the love and the affection that he had for me and I had for him. There's some, I mean, losses are losses, but there's some losses which are very, very, very, very serious and you literally feel them in your heart. And Zulfi is one of them. Zulfi's father passed away in Kuwait. And after that, I had gone to Kuwait for some programs. And Zulfi said to me, he used to call me Yawar Bhai, like everybody else. But after his father passed away, he said to me, can I call you Baba? Now what do you say to that? I said, there's no honor that is superior in my view, than that, that Allah is giving me through you, Alhamdulillah. And in that same cemetery is another one of my dearest and closest ones, Adnan Mahmud, whose death was such a shock. I was in Vermont, the Arabic courts, when I got news that he had died. And so on. I don't know. I don't think I will ever recover from that shock. He, that day was like, I mean, I tried to force, obviously control myself and so on, but everybody noticed. People came and sat around me. They said, what happened? Something has happened. What's happening? What's, you know, why are you looking like this? And the thing I remember about Adnan is, is always this tremendous sense of confidence. And he's always used to say, Allah is the one who gets our things done. Allah is the one who gets our things done. Allah is the one who gets our things done. Similarly, there's another dear friend of mine, Alhamdulillah, may Allah grant him a long and healthy life. Imtiaz Beg, who lives in Mysore. Imtiaz also has this thing. For everything. Allah is there. Anything,
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  • Remember that you are only a visitor

    Remember that you are only a visitor
    Nov 12 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:My dear brothers and sisters, in the famous hadith of Abdullah ibn Awar r.a who reported from the Prophet s.a.w. The Prophet s.a.w. took hold of his shoulder and said, Be in the world as if you are a stranger or a traveler. Be in the world as if you are a stranger or a traveler. Among the teaching stories that we hear, the story of a man who came to the house of a wise man and he saw that the house had no furniture, absolutely nothing. The story is also told about the house of a man named Farid r.a. So maybe this relates to him. So he saw there was no furniture. So he asked him, where is your furniture? So this wise man, he asked the man, where is yours? So that man said, I am a traveler. He said, so am I. Ibn Awar r.a used to say, if you survive to the evening, don't die. Do not expect to be alive till the morning. And if you survive to the morning, do not look forward to the evening. In a healthy condition, prepare yourself for illness. And while you are alive, prepare yourself for death. And these are in Bukhari. I will send you the references of this also, inshallah. Another hadith in Bukhari, in Ibn Bajah and in Musnad ibn Ahmad, Rasulullah, Rasulullah said, What have I to do with the world? In connection with the world, I am just like a rider who sits under the shade of a tree, then goes off and leaves it. And this is in Tilmidi, in Namaja and Musnad Ahmad. Rasulullah said, what do I have to do with the world? I am like a traveler, I am like a rider on a horse who takes, rests for a little while under a tree and then continues on his journey. The great jurist, Al-Fudail bin Yaad, Rahatul Ali, said to a man, he asked him, how old are you? The man said, 60 years. Al-Fudail said, you have been traveling to your Rabb for 60 years, which means that you are about to arrive at your destination. So the man said, Al-Fudail said, do you know what is the meaning of that? He said, when a person knows that he is a slave and that he will return to Allah, he knows that he is to be asked about his deeds. If he knows that he will be asked, he should prepare answers to the questions. So the man asked him, he said, he asked Al-Fudail, he said, what shall I do? So Al-Fudail bin Yaad, Rahatul Ali said to him, that is an easy matter. So the man said, what is it? How is it easy? Al-Fudail said, you should stick to the straight path, meaning do not disobey Allah, do not anger Allah. He said, you should stick to the straight path for the rest of your life. You already live for 60 years, whatever is left, stick to the straight path for the rest of your life and Allah will forgive your past. You will commit sins, inshallah. And if you commit sins for the rest of your life, you will be held accountable for those and for the deeds that you committed throughout your life. So at whatever point in time we get some guidance, Alhamdulillah, straighten yourself from that time onwards. Don't worry about the past. And this is one of the things that shaitan tells. Shaitan says, oh, but you know, your whole life you lived like this. Your whole life you disobeyed Allah. What is the point now? There is always a point, even if it is two minutes before you die. We don't know whether it is two minutes or two hours or two days or two centuries. So from the moment you get the enlightenment, the moment you understand, yeah, I've been doing something wrong, immediately stop. Now, in the light of the above, a poet said, if a man walks for 60 years to a destination, then the destination will be very close. The destination will be very near. Ibn Abbas narrated that Rasulullah SAW said, there are two blessings which people lose. What are they? He said, they are health and free time. And this is in Bukhari, health and free time. Two blessings that people lose. Especially if you think about it, you know, in youth, how much of free time there is. Schools, colleges and so on. In your, when you start working,
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  • Who defines you?

    Who defines you?
    Nov 11 2025
    https://youtu.be/bmGtVp8Gpe0 Auto-generated transcript:As-salāmu ʿalaykum wa rahmatullāhi wa barakātuh. Wa ṣalātu wa ṣalāmu ʿalaykum wa rahmatullāhi wa barakātuh. I am walking in Shiran Palace, KBR Park. And as you can see, they have this road. So, they installed these concrete blocks in a completely undrown chain. And then when they finished that whole work, then it rained. Heavy rain and the whole road got converted into a drain. And then somebody says, oh, how can we, we need water for the, we need space for the water to run off. So, then they hired a whole bunch of labor and removed these blocks individually, one by one. Every so many meters. Right? So, nobody thought that it would rain. Can you believe this? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. rains is a discovery for the forest department okay i think the way money is squandered is not funny anyway the park is very beautiful it's uh massively destabilized left alone so uh they haven't tried to improve it uh meaning destroy it so we have uh the natural vegetation and it's like an urban forest of grasses it has all kinds of different trees and lots of birds uh mammals reptiles small mammals uh reptiles and so on one of the most commonly seen things is peacocks absolute profusion of peafowl in this part what i want to talk to you about today is a thought which is that when we talk about careers we talk about life and so on we talk almost exclusively in terms of success in terms of victory right so what are the successes what are the victories and so forth and we run away from failures especially failures where the failure was not due to was not due to natural causes but was due to our own lack of judgment or wrong judgments we try to avoid that and pretend that it didn't happen or it couldn't have happened well after all how can i be wrong no i suggest to you that hooking your self-esteem hooking your self-image to success is a very dangerous thing and the reason is dangerous is because of how we are conditioned to define success our conditioning is that we from the earliest childhood whether it's a parent whether it's a teacher and then as we grow older it becomes a boss it becomes a individual boss and might become few rise enough in an organization and it could be the board of the organization but multiple external people our success what we like to call success depends on what they start doing and how they keep dealing with success this is what we are constantly moving on, my God, success is highly traveling fellow nano bio environmentalist andinary and 150 and display profile among other things as you walk along the screen or beyond the screen you have a long Parkinson who will say what can i do this or where I can do that or what can i do that or what can i do it this way there is an increasing strength of love it is a responsibility to keep growing lines across business since you are involved in it it is a complement in life okay so i have just been in the last several months over school you tried to define but instead they say about it. So if they say, oh fantastic, great job, we feel happy. If they say no, bad job, we feel unhappy. The job itself, what is my view about my work? We don't think about that. So our self-image and our self-esteem is hooked to success as defined by somebody else. Now that somebody is only looking at a final output or outcome without having almost no knowledge or very limited knowledge of what it took to get to that place. They don't have that knowledge, more than likely they don't care. But they will pass some judgment. So we also have this habit. We say, oh great, good job, fantastic job. Tommy, you're a great guy. And Tommy feels sad, glad, bad, mad. Now, as I said, the big problem with this is that then our happiness is always in the hands of somebody else. And if we are not able to get that good,
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  • Who has the power?

    Who has the power?
    Nov 9 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. Peace and blessings be upon the honour of the Prophet and the Messengers, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family, and upon all his family. And after that, brothers and sisters, this morning at the time of the Hajj, I got news that one of my very dear friends in America, his mother passed away, his mother passed away very suddenly. I called him, he said, 15 minutes. She was walking, talking, suddenly had a heart attack. In 15 minutes, she was gone. We ask Allah for Jannatul Firdous, without Hisaab for her and for Sabr for the family. I'm mentioning this as a reminder for us. Last Friday, my father's sister passed away, my Poovi. So, her children, they requested me to do the Salatul Janaza and so on. So, I went there. The Kavarsan in Chilkal Guda, that one section, we have our family graves. So, there's not enough space. So, they buried her in my grandfather's grave, her father, my Dada. My grandfather died in 1965. So, they opened the grave and they buried my aunt there. I looked into the grave, there's nothing. There's nothing. It was very salutary. It was very holy. It was very holy. It was a very holy experience for me to actually look into the grave of my Dada, my grandfather. I was probably nine years old or something like this at that time. So, they did not take me to the Kavarsan. I did not participate in the Janaza and so on at that time. So, this is actually the first time I've... I mean, I visited his grave many times. It reminds me that, Alhamdulillah, Allah reminded us of this day. Which will come to every single one of us. About which Allah said, كل نفس ذائقة الموت كل نفس Every living thing will taste death. كل نفس ذائقة الموت every living thing will taste death, without exception. Good or bad, old or young, sick or healthy, makes no difference. Muslim, non-Muslim, makes no difference. The worst of them died, and the best of them died. Rasulullah s.a.w. himself passed away. Allah s.w.t. said, Everybody. And one day, we will die. And on that day, S.A.w. said, You will then really see. Because the curtains which are there over our eyes, will be pulled aside. And then we will really see the reality. We will see the Haqqah. And that is the day we need to prepare for. This world, Allah s.w.t. said that this world is except, it is nothing except deception. What looks like success in this world, is actually failure. And what looks like failure, is success. So when we look, when we hear and read, about the last days, and about the Jal, and we say the Jal will show the fire, and actually it will be the Garden of Jannah, and you will show a garden, but that will be the fire. You don't have to go all the way there. You can see it today. You don't have to go all the way there. You don't have to go, Allah protect us from being at the same time alive when Dajjal is there, because that's a time when the Prophet asked protection from that time. But you can see the Jaliyat of this world. You can see this deception of this world right now. As we speak. Where things which we aren't behind in this life. Just go on the street here. You know this, India probably is one of the, it's not the only place, but one of the few places where you can actually see this chasing behind money, and running behind money, and running behind this false name and fame, and see it very clearly in this society. Small things. Designation for example. I should be called senior vice president sanitation. Who are you? You are a sweeper. Huh? Somebody is, one friend of mine getting very agitated about this. No, they don't call me this, they don't call me that. I said when you are saying they don't call me that, and that is bothering you, who has the power? They or you? Mind is blank. You've lost our capacity to think. When you are saying they don't give me this respect,
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  • Rockefeller’s advice – 9

    Rockefeller’s advice – 9
    Nov 9 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:We come to the last of the principles. He says reputation outlasts riches. John D Rockefeller, he gave away 500 million in charities. He built the University of Chicago and Rockefeller University. He treated his people well with respect. And he always says money disappears, reputation echoes through generations. And your legacy is not your bank account, it is the name, the reputation you build for yourself. I'm reminded of the Gucci family slogan, which says quality is remembered long after the price is for water. Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten. He also said that his secret empire or the empire secret was not oil, it was people. He said, I'd rather earn 1% of 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own. And he spent personal time recruiting top talent globally. And very interesting what he said about who in his view was the best person to have. He said, I will pay more for the ability to get along with people than I will pay for any other ability under the sun. He said, I will pay more for the ability to get along with people than I will pay for any other ability under the sun. So he valued people of talent, he valued people who were present, who got along with people, who were influential. That's how you become influential, by being able to get along with people. You do not become influential by being crass or by being qualified. You do not become influential by being a good person. You do not become influential by being quarrelsome or by any other way. You build reputation and you build influence by being nice. Now being nice does not mean you don't stand for your rights. It doesn't mean that you let people walk all over you. No, it just means that whatever you do, you do with style and you do with kindness and you do that with good manners. Good manners are worth money. Believe me, they're good. They're worth money. They're worth money. They're worth money. They're worth money. I remember a little kid, maybe 10 years old or something, and I was in the riding club and Syed Ahmad Khan Sahib passed away. He was my riding instructor. And I would always, you know, in our Hyderabadi way, I would say, I would make salaam to my elders. And I was not conscious of it, but I evidently had a big smile on my face. And Syed Khan Sahib was a good rider. Syed Khan Sahib was one of the first to say, , He told me that you are respecting people. You are doing salaam to people and you are smiling will open doors for you that you cannot even imagine. And he told me this when I was 10 years old. Today I'm 17. I believe that is so true. I'm so grateful to Allah . for such good teachers and for enabling me to do that. Now, reputation outlasts riches. John D. Rockefeller's competition and rivalry with Andrew Carnegie was not only in oil, but also externally in philanthropy. And both of them, they tried to outdo each other in giving more and more to charity. And obviously, that's a wonderful thing. It's a thing which the whole of society benefits from. And they did that, you know, amazingly well. The thing he says is he treated people with respect. That's the whole thing. The whole point is, how do you build reputation? Reputation is a very... First of all, let me say this. Reputation is your most valuable asset. Nothing in the world comes even close to your reputation. In terms of its value, as far as you're concerned. Reputation. The thing I say to myself and I say to anyone who's listening, what do you want to be remembered for? What do you want to be remembered for? Always ask yourself this question. Any situation that you are in, what do you want to be remembered for? And then go and do that. Do the thing that will make you memorable, that will give good memories to people. So if you are a parent, raise your children, the way you want to be remembered by those children. If you are a teacher, teach the way you want to be remembered as a teacher. If you are a manager,
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  • Rockefeller’s advice – 8

    Rockefeller’s advice – 8
    Nov 8 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the worlds, and the most gracious of all the messengers. Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, and peace and blessings be upon him and his family. And after that, principle number eight. John D. Rockefeller says, reinvest everything or lose everything. Reinvest everything or lose everything. His pending rule was never touch principle. Never touch the principle. Reinvest 90% of the profits, live on 10%. He says men fail, and this is before all the equality stuff, so therefore people fail, because they spend tomorrow's fortune on today's pleasures. He's talking about the never-never. He's talking about borrowing or getting into debt in order to fund today's pleasure. Compound interest builds empires. He's saying men fail because they spend tomorrow's fortune. You don't have it with you. Tomorrow's fortune on today's pleasures. Compound interest builds empires. Truest words spoken and completely reflect the Islamic principles of zero interest, zero interest finance. Just see. Just see what people usually spend on. People will spend, I'm talking about America especially. People will spend on, first thing they spend on is a car. They will try to get a new car, and then they will try to get the latest car in that bracket. I mean, not everybody is aiming for a Ferrari because they know they can't afford that. But if they're buying a Toyota, then they want the best and the latest and so on and so on. Fully loaded. Whereas if you just ask yourself, what is it that I need? You don't need a car, you need transport. I lived in America for six years, and I never had a car. And I never needed a car. People used to laugh. They used to say, you're the only person in the whole of the United States who does not own a car. I said, exactly. I am proud of that because I did not own a car. And because of that, two things happened. One, I saved a huge amount of money. And secondly, I helped another brother with some income. I had this dear brother and friend of mine, Abu Hadi, who used to drive Uber. And then he used to drive for me. And anywhere I wanted to go, my wife wanted to go, we would call Abu Hadi. We just did a very simple thing. I said, if I lease a car, obviously I will not take a car on finance by paying interest. But even if I take, and I did not want to spend the money to buy a new car. So I said, now what's the option I have? One is to buy a secondhand car. We don't know what kind of condition it is in and so on and so forth. And you drive it. So now you're paying insurance. You're paying for gas. And then of course the liability. If you, you know, you're driving, you have an accident, all of that. If I lease a car, it would have cost me the lease about $500 per month, plus insurance, plus gas, plus this. Whereas in terms of my usage, I'm not saying everybody has the same usage. If you have to drive to, you know, 100 km a day, you have to pay $100. 100 km, 100 miles a day or 50 miles a day commuting, that's a different thing. I didn't have to do that. So for my usage, I, in six years, I don't think I spent $500 in any one month. So I used to call him, call my, this, my friend to drive for me. And so therefore I had access. To a driver and a car. And he's a good friend of mine. So, you know, he would, it would be good company. I was learning Arabic. So I would speak my sort of practice my Arabic with him. And he would help my wife whenever she went shopping. The point I'm making is that when you use your money wisely, which is never touched the principle. He says spending tomorrow's fortune on today's pleasures. This is what happens. That's why they send you the send you credit cards in the mail. That is why they have all these great schemes where you can get a house straight away and you will get a mortgage. Apart from being completely haram. It gives you.
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