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  • Find a problem to solve – #2

    Find a problem to solve – #2
    Dec 21 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen, wa salatu wa salamu ala ash-sharafi al-anbiya wa al-mursaleen. Muhammadun Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi sallam, tasliman kaseeran kaseera. Qumma baadu. My brothers and sisters, this is the second part of the Solve a Problem series. And that is, as I said, the secret of success is find a problem, solve it, scale your solution and monetize it if you want to. Now, for this, you need two critical essential things. One is curiosity and two is creativity. How do you get that? Practice this principle. Ask, how does it work? Then ask, how can I make it better? How does it work and how can I make it better? Now, this applies to everything in life. It is not only something that applies to mechanical processes. It's something that applies to human relations, for example. How's my marriage? How is it working? How can I make it better? My employment? How is it working? How can I make it better? Everything. You can apply it across the world. Right? Curiosity is, how does it work? Creativity is, how can I make it better? I always say this to myself and to all of you. Work for love, money will follow. Because only when you work for love, only when you work for the love of the thing you are doing, can you produce superb quality. And when you produce superb quality, you can charge a premium. Money will follow. But only if you have superb quality. Now, many times, people fail because they get discouraged. And that happens because they are concerned about what people will say. And I say to you, forget people. First of all, people won't say anything for the simple reason that people have their own stuff to do. They're not living their life wondering about you and commenting on what you're doing. And even if they're doing, forget them. They're not important. Forget. Forget people. Their opinion doesn't count. Don't seek approval from outside. Do the thing because you love it. And keep doing it. How many times? Until you succeed. Until you succeed. You don't count the number of attempts, except at the end after you have succeeded. You don't say, this is my 50th attempt. You don't say, this is my 10th attempt. No. You don't count the attempts until the end. After you have succeeded. So how long must I work until I succeed? Give you two examples. Thomas Edison, the great inventor who invented the incandescent bulb. His teachers said that he was too stupid to learn anything. This is what school does for you. His teacher said that he was too stupid to learn anything. And he was fired from his first two jobs for being nonproductive. When Edison was working on inventing the light bulb, they say that he made 10,000 unsuccessful attempts. Think about that. How long does that take? Right? 10,000 unsuccessful attempts. Now, when they asked him how he kept going after failing so many times, he said, I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Now, see that attitude. That is the secret. The secret of success. The attitude of saying, I am not going to feel sad, glad, bad, mad because of what people are saying. I am doing this stuff and I will do it until I succeed. So they said, you, how did you keep going after failing so many times? He said, no, I've not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Now, you can have that attitude only if you don't look for approval from people. And work for the love. Of what you do. There's no other way. If you are looking for approval from people, no way that you will succeed. There's a wonderful story about Thomas Edison. And the story is that he had his lab, uh, in a sort of granny cottage, um, outside his outside his house in his garden. And in that lab, he had all his experiments. All his documents. All his documents. All his documentation. His writing, his books, everything. And one night that cottage somehow caught fire. So now think about this. Here is a wooden building. It's full of paper. So what do you think happens? When it catches fire, you have the perfect fire. Got a huge fire happening. Edison's son says, I went looking for my dad because I thought to myself, you know, this, this is, it's a life's work and it's going. I'm going to commit suicide when I die. I'm going to commit suicide when I die. I'm going to commit suicide when I die. so he went looking for him he said I found him standing looking at the fire his hands behind his back just looking at the fire so he said to him the son came and said dad are you ok he said yeah absolutely he said go call your mom tell her she is never going to see a fire like this in her life her son is completely puzzled he said what here is the thing where your whole life's work is effectively gone down the drain and you are saying call your mom to see this wonderful fire he said yeah he said tell me how many people do you know who have the opportunity of having all their mistakes wiped off at once and they have a ...
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  • Find a problem to solve – #1

    Find a problem to solve – #1
    Dec 20 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafil amliya wal kursaleed. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasliman kathiran kathiran. From Abadu, my brothers and sisters, the secret of success in life, whether you are an entrepreneur in a business or whether you are an individual doing something on your own, the secret is very simple. Find a problem, solve it, scale your solution, monetize it if you want to. Fourth step. Find a problem, solve it, scale it, and if you want to, if you want to monetize it, monetize it. Make money from it. The Nigerian billionaire and car manufacturer, Innocent Efediaso Chukwuma. I love African names, it's so musical. And a friend of mine said to me, anything which has three syllables is musical. So Innocent Efediaso Chukwuma. In the 19th, 1980s, every businessman in Niniaibi, in Nigeria, was importing motorcycles from Japan and China. They imported them whole, which is fully assembled. Because a motorcycle is bulky, however, a 40-foot container could only hold about 40 motorcycles. This made the landing cost very high. Innocent Chukwuma looked at this and he said, why are we shipping air? I want you to remember this statement. Why are we shipping air? Because this applies not only to shipping, it applies to a lot of things in life. Why are we shipping air? So he instead imported disassembled bikes and then reassembled them in Nigeria and sold them. Now disassembled, you could get 200 bikes in the same container, same 40-foot container. Now while competitors were selling motorcycles for, you know, 150,000 Naira, Innocent started selling for 80,000 Naira. And he was still making a profit. Now once he started assembling bikes locally, he realized that he was buying a lot of plastic parts from outside. Again, he did the math. He said, why import plastic when I can melt it here? So same thing. Why are we shipping air? He opened a plastics factory to feed his motorcycle assembly. That same plastics factory later allowed him to start making car dashboards and bumpers. That's where he started in his car manufacturing business. He didn't wake up one day and build a car plant. He built the components first. Then the car followed. Now many, this happens all the time in all sorts of things. Because many of us, many of us, we are losing money. We are losing time. We are losing opportunity. Because we are shipping air. So the thing to ask yourself is, where in my business, where am I in my life? Am I shipping air? Right? Because if you are, if you are doing something, any process, which does not give you a direct return, then that is shipping air. So think about this and ask yourself, where in my life am I shipping air? And you will find out. In India also, we have several great examples of this, of the principle that I mentioned to you, which is find a problem, solve it, scale your solution and monetize it. If you want to monetize. And that is this company called Urban Company. Now, Urban Company guys, is a classic example of find a problem, solve it, scale it, scale your solution and monetize it. All of us had these problems and we still have these problems. At home, the kitchen sink leaks, the bathroom flush tank, something happens. You want to put a nail in a pipe, you want to put a nail in a place in a wall to hang a picture. But if you simply take a nail and a hammer and you start hammering, then a whole chunk of plaster falls down and now you have an ugly hole in the wall. Your table, your chair, something is loose, it needs to be fixed. You need a carpenter. So you need a carpenter, you need a plumber, you need somebody to knock a nail in your wall. Maybe you need a haircut. And going to the saloon and all of that is a hassle and you wish that you could get a haircut, you could get a barber to come home and cut your hair, trim your beard, give you a pedicure, manicure or whatnot, a massage. Guess what? That's exactly what Urban Company hooked on to. So what they have is a whole bunch of professionals, who are dressed professionally, they are in a uniform. They have been, their antecedents and their background checks have been done. So when you book on the app, the service that you want, this professional then is assigned to you. He comes at a specific time, which you have specified. So according to your convenience, the price is, he doesn't come, he doesn't haggle. You don't have to talk to him. The price is already there on the app and you already have, you have paid the price for the service. He comes, he or she comes and they do the service and then they clean up after themselves and they leave. And all this is done in a very, very nice and efficient professional manner. Same thing, it's just a knocking and nailing a wall. But you are prepared to pay 200, 300, 500, whatever it is, whatever it is for that service, because you are getting that service at the time you want...
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  • Interest based Student loans are Haraam

    Interest based Student loans are Haraam
    Dec 19 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. 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. Tasliman kathiran kathira. My brothers and sisters, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reminds us about the purpose of our creation. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reminds us about why He created us. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, وَمَا أَخَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونَ مَا أُرِيدُ مِنْهُمْ بِالرِّزْقِ وَمَا أُرِيدُ أَن يُطْعِمُونَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ هُوَ الرَّزَّاقُ ذُو الْقُوَّةِ الْمَتِينَ Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, And I, Allah alone, created not the jinn and the humans except that they should worship me. That means, I have not created them for any purpose other than that they should worship me. I do not seek any provision from them, that is provision for themselves or for my creatures, nor do I ask that they should feed me, that is feed themselves or my creatures. Verily Allah is the All-Provider, the Owner of Power and Most Strong. If you look at the grammar of the last ayah, إِنَّ اللَّهَ هُوَ الرَّزَّاقُ ذُو الْقُوَّةِ الْمَتِينَ You will see that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has emphasized the fact that He is our Raziq six times. And finally in the last word of the ayah, He jalla jallahu invokes His own power, قُوَّةِ الْمَتِينَ to allay our anxiety about our sustenance. The issue is not His ability to provide but our faith. My brothers and sisters, my sisters, the thing to understand very clearly is that there can be no benefit in whatever Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala prohibited and there can be no harm in what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala permitted. This is the lesson that the Sahaba, Ridwanullahi alaihi majma'in, learned so well. They didn't try to balance anything. We talk about balance between deen and dunya. Deen is the way of living in the dunya. There's no question of balance. Deen is the way in which, according to which if we live in the dunya, then we will have a beautiful life in this world and in the hereafter. The Sahaba didn't balance anything. They simply chose to obey Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala without question. The only question they asked Rasulullah s.a.w., whenever a command of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala was revealed, was how should we do this? They never asked why should we do this? That is why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave them control over their world. See the environment. I want to talk about one particular command of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, which is the banning of interest-based dealings. But before we go to the command, let's see the environment in which the command was given. The people of Makkah were mainly traders because Makkah has no industry or large-scale agriculture. They traded in the markets in Byzantium and Yemen, which were in Roman and Persian hands respectively. For this, they had a highly developed banking system, one of the mainstays of which was interest-based lending. They used various banking instruments, which had been in use in Roman Persia for a thousand years before Rasulullah s.a.w. was born. All the businessmen in Makkah were traders. Makkah used this system. And several, including al-Abbas bin Abdul Muttalib, and al-Anhu were bankers, with perhaps thousands of clients. It was in this context that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala prohibited the backbone of this whole system, which is interest-based lending and borrowing. Not only did Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala ban it, but he also declared war on the one who wouldn't leave it after the revelation of the ayah, after the ban. And neither did he offer an alternative to the system. Sometimes people ask this question and they say, if we leave this, what is the alternative? Give us the alternative first, then we will leave it. But that is not how the Sahaba saw it. They simply obeyed. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did not explain the reasons for the ban. He simply banned it. Allah said, يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا تَقُوا اللَّهَ وَذَرُوا مَا بَقِيَ مِنَ الرِّبَاءِ إِن كُنتُم مُؤْمِنِينَ فَإِن لَّمْ تَفْعَلُوا فَأَذَنُوا بِحَرْبٍ مِّنْ تَفْعَالُونَ Allah and His Messenger. And if you repent, then you will have the heads of your ancestors. Do not be wronged or be wronged. Allah said, O believers, fear Allah and give up outstanding interest if you are true believers. It's a conditional ayah. Prove that you are believers by giving up interest. If you are true believers. If you do not do this, then take a declaration of war with Allah and ...
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  • Salah is the pillar of my life

    Salah is the pillar of my life
    Dec 18 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. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions. Peace be upon them all. And after that, my brothers and sisters, in life we have a principle, all of us. And that is that we value something based on that thing fulfilling its purpose. Everything has a purpose. The purpose of this chair is to provide a place for us to sit on. The purpose of this chair is not to be a table for us to eat off. You can still do it. That's not the purpose. Place to sit. If the chair stops performing this function, then there is no value for the chair. The purpose of this phone is to do some things, help us to communicate. If this phone goes dead, it happened to me. I had actually quite a new Android phone a few years ago. And one day it... went dead. Literally. I mean, it just became a brick. Then we asked the warrant... It was unfortunately, the warranty period also had just finished. And the only useful thing, if you can call it useful, is the guy tells me, Yeah, this happens. I said, okay, thank you very much. Phone is gone. Kalas. I had to buy a different phone, new phone. Now, point is, I spent money buying that phone, obviously. You know, whatever it was those days. 30,000, 40,000, whatever. Phone went dead. When the phone goes dead, it doesn't change its shape. It's the same phone. It just doesn't work. So, do you think I would have said, you know, okay, so I spent all this money on the phone. And even if it is not working, still I spent the money on the phone. And, you know, it's a nice phone. The time that it worked, it worked. For whatever, one year or something. So, let me just keep it. I'll keep the phone. Maybe put a chain and then hang it on my neck or something. Like a necklace. Will I do that? Will you do that? What would you do? It stopped performing. It stopped fulfilling its function. So, what do you do? You try to repair it. You take it to the shop, whatever, and say, can you repair it? And if you say, sorry, this cannot be repaired. It's finished. Then what do you do? You junk it. You throw it away. Right? The same principle applies in life throughout. Same principle for things. Same principle for relationships. You have an employee. You have a job. You have a job. You have a job. You have a job. You have a job. You have a job. You have an employee. You have employed him for a certain job. He doesn't come. He doesn't do the job. He does not do the job. And so on. So after a while what do you do? You tell him, please go find some other employment. I employed you for a certain job. You are not there. You are not doing this work. I employed you, for example, to drive my car. You are not there. Any time I need to go somewhere, you are not there. I am driving my own car. Then if I am driving my own car, why do I… Why am I paying you? water. Same principle. The same principle also applies to our purpose on this earth. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did not create this world without a reason. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told us, people will say, O our Rabb, you have not created all this batil, without any purpose, meaningless. No. It has a purpose. What is the purpose? What is the purpose of our creation? Why did Allah create us? Did Allah leave us to guess? You guess, what is your guess? No. Allah told us. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told us in so many words, and very emphatically. In Surah Az-Zariyat, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, وَمَا خَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونَ Allah said, I have not created the jinn and the insan for anything other than my worship. إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونَ Nothing but my worship. I created you to worship me. And the first and foremost and most important form of that worship is Salah. Salah at its time. عَلَى وَقْتِهَا Salah at its time. And for the men, by jam'ah in some masjids. Salah at its time. And then Allah did not leave us to decide what is the meaning of Salah, how to pray. No. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala showed us. Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, a group of young, Sahaba came and they spent two to three weeks with the Rasul alaihi salatu wasalam in his company. They stayed in masjid of the Nabi sh-Sharif. They were given food from the houses of the Nabi alaihi salatu wasalam. And these young Sahaba, they were young boys, but you know, they were Sahaba. Nabi sh-Salam taught them, gave them tarbiyah. And the narrator of the hadith says that, we learned so much that I cannot even narrate all of that at one go. He said after two to three weeks, these are all young boys, they have come from, some of them from distant tribes. So they were missing their homes and parents. But then they are with the Rasul, Rasulullah sallallahu...
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  • How to build Tawakkul

    How to build Tawakkul
    Dec 17 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. And peace and blessings be upon the messengers and messengers. Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and peace and blessings be upon him. Tasliman kathiran kathira famma ba'du. My brothers and sisters, in Jammu al-Tirmidhi, there is this hadith where Rasulullah, peace and blessings be upon him, is reported to have said, If you were to rely upon Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, with the required reliance, then He would provide for you just as a bird is provided for. It goes out in the morning hungry and returns full. In Jammu al-Tirmidhi, the hadith is reported where Rasulullah, peace and blessings be upon him, is reported to have said, the meaning of which is, If you were to rely upon Allah, if you were to rely upon Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, with the required reliance, then He would provide for you just as a bird is provided for. It goes out in the morning hungry and returns full. We ask Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, to help us to have tawakkul on Him and on Him alone because only He is worthy of being and He is worthy of being relied upon. The question is, how do we build tawakkul? How do we build this reliance on Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, and on Him? And the answer is that we build reliance in the same way that we build reliance on anything else. And that is, by focusing on the power and the strength and the ability to provide of that entity that we are intending to rely upon and also to look at our own history in that relationship. And that is why they say, we should trust, we should verify, verify, verify, verify, verify, verify, intending to rely upon. And the second one is interesting because the second one starts from where the first one finishes, which is that having learnt about the greatness and glory and power and control of the entity we are intending to rely upon, to actually have this reliance, to have this tawakkur, there has to be a leap of faith. A risk has to be taken. At that point of risk, our true belief on this entity is called to question. You really believe. If you really believe, then step forward. I want to tell you two stories. One is a hypothetical story, it's a teaching story. And the other one is a true story that happened to me. The hypothetical story is that there was this man, it's a teaching story, so it's very useful. There was this man who wanted to climb the Matterhorn, which is one of the most famous mountains in India. And he was one of the very difficult mountains to climb in Europe. And he wanted to climb it, climb one particular phase of it, which was a very difficult phase to climb. And nobody had until that time attempted it solo, alone. This man decided that he wanted to do that. So he trained for it and so on, a couple of years. And he came to this mountain, and he said, I want to climb this mountain. And he said, I want to climb it. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. 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And as he went higher and higher and higher and higher, the weather kept on worsening until it came to a point where this man was... It was very high up. And it became pitch dark. And there was a terrible wind and gusty wind and pitch dark. And this man is climbing on his own. No help. And then the inevitable happened. He reached up for a handhold. He caught a place in the rock. And as he was lifting himself up, his whole body weight on his one hand. The rock gave way. And he fell. It's pitch dark. He can't see anything. And as he's falling, his whole ...
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  • No pain no gain

    No pain no gain
    Dec 16 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, this is a follow-up on my previous khatira, that happiness is a choice. Happiness, you don't become happy because of the possessions you have or the circumstances you find yourself in or because of what somebody else does for you or does not do for you and so on. Happiness is not a factor of external things that happen to you in life and definitely not of any material possessions. Happiness is a choice. You become happy when you want to become happy. And that's a very powerful and very empowering thought to keep in mind because you will find people in the best of situations who are constantly complaining. I have a friend of mine who, I even joke with him, but that's his life. He's had the best of jobs. He's risen to the maximum height possible in his career. He has wealth. He has properties. He has, you know, all kinds of stuff. But anytime you talk to him, you always say, yeah, you know, this is a but, yeah, but. I mean, this but is the root cause. The but is the biggest and the most clear symptom of this disease of ingratitude, of being ungrateful to Allah. 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And his whole life's work, so it was, you know, God knows, a few thousand experiments maybe. And one day there was a fire in the night. It was a huge fire, completely uncontrollable. And Thomas Edison's son says that the minute I discovered and I realized there was a fire, I went looking for my dad. I thought he must be going completely crazy because that's his whole life's work. And it's just, you know, going up in flames and nothing can be done to stop it. And he said, I saw him standing there with his hands clasped behind his back, watching this fire. So he said, I went to him, I said, Dad, are you okay? Is it, you know, this terrible thing has happened? He said, go call your mom, tell her she'll never see a fire this big again. Now imagine, this is the attitude of the man. His whole life's work is going up in flames before his eyes. And he tells his son, go call your mom because she's never going to see a fire like this again in her life. So the son says to his father, he said, he says, that's okay. But I mean, you know, this is your whole life's work. I mean, what do you have to say about that? He said, look, how many people get a chance to have all their mistakes wiped out and to start afresh? Yes. How many people get a chance to have all their mistakes wiped away, wiped off and to start afresh? Now, the same thing. It is a fire. All your life's work, all your experiments, everything is going up in flames. The question is, do you go into despair? Do you commit suicide? Do you say my life is over? Or do you say this is a fresh beginning? Who makes that choice? It's as simple as that. Who makes that choice? And the answer is very simple. You know, I don't need to tell you the answer, right? But do we make that choice? This is our challenge. Allah SWT did not promise us ease. Allah SWT promised us growth. And growth comes with pain. No pain. No gain. Growth comes with pain. The question is, how do you see that? I used to do Aikido at one point in time when I was in Bangalore. And we were sparring in the dojo. My partner and I using Bokken, which is wooden swords. Basically wooden sticks, slightly shaped like the, like the katana, the Japanese samurai sword. But obviously they have no sharp edges and so on. So my partner, obviously we are all friends. So he was, you know, sparring with me. So he's attacking me and I'm blocking and so on. Our sensei, Julius Abe, he came up to us and he said, you know what? The best, the best partner, ...
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  • Happiness is a choice

    Happiness is a choice
    Dec 14 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafi al-anbiya wal-mursaleen. Muhammadun Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi sallam. Tasliman kathiran kathiran. Amma baadu, my brothers and sisters. I was talking to a friend of mine, and we were talking about the different kinds of things that are happening in the world, almost all over the world, and everyone seems to be in some kind of problem or the other. For someone it's financial, for somebody else it is political, for somebody it's health, it's old age, it's, you know, all kinds of stuff. And the conversation was kind of going towards, you know, a lot of negativity. And I was, then I remember I said, I said to them that I was really repeating something which I read many years ago and which I try to hold on to because of how beautifully it's done. And the story was about this lady who, an old lady, this Uber guy gets a call. And when he goes to pick up, there's this very elderly woman. And she just comes to the door. She says, will you, can you help me with a bag? So he comes, he goes up there. There's one single bag. And as he picks up the bag, he sees that it's a small little house. And he sees that it looks like she is vacating the house. The house seems to be, you know, completely empty. And so he takes the bag. Takes her, helps her down the stairs. And then they are going to the car. And this woman seems to be very happy. Absolutely, you know, top of the world. So he puts the bag in the car. And then she gets into the car. And he says, he has the address. So he knows that he's taking her to a sanitarium, an elderly care facility. So he asks her, you know, just, you know, a conversation. He says, you're going to this facility. And, you know, who is there? Anyone in your family? She says, no, I have nobody. I'm alone in the world. And I got to a stage where I can't really stay alone by myself. So I need to go. I need to take this. I need to go to this facility. Now, this Uber driver, he doesn't know me. Should he sympathize with her? What should he say? So he says, spontaneously, he says, you know, that's terrible. I mean, there's no one here. Even to go to this facility, you have to go on your own. She says, well, you know, I'm not going to go. I'm not going to go. I'm not going to go. You know, you are there. I mean, I'm so happy that you're there. And thank you very much for being there. So the man says, of course, absolutely. I am honored. I'm very happy to be with you. And so he said, how are you able to maintain this kind of equanimity, this kind of, you know, there's no anxiety. You're not upset. Nothing, you know, you seem to be so happy. And really, I mean, what is there to be so happy about? So she said something which is fantastic and which has, Anandila stayed with me. And I'm sharing that with you because I think it is such a beautiful thing. She says to him, every morning when I get up, I'm at an age where I get up, I have aches and pains. And every day I wake up, I think I have a new one. And so on and so forth. But she said, every morning when I get up, I realize that I have a choice. And my choice is, that I can either think about this new pain I have. And I can think about the fact that I can't remember things too well. I can think about the fact that sometimes because when I need to go to the bathroom, the need is so urgent that sometimes there is an accident. I can think about all kinds of things. Or I can look out of the window and I see this absolutely beautiful, glorious sunrise. I see this absolute glorious, you know, sunny morning. I see it's now winter, so I see snow everywhere. It's beautifully white. And then there is a cardinal sitting on a rock. It looks like a ruby which is on a bed of white silk cotton. I can listen to the thrilling, beautiful sound and song of the skylark. I can think about the fact. I can think about the fact that while it is true that I am old and I have these aches and pains and stuff, but alhamdulillah I am able to walk. I am able to move around. I am not in a wheelchair. I can think about the fact that I am able to more or less eat whatever I like to eat. I don't have any crippling diet restrictions. I can't even go to the doctor. I can't even go to the doctor. And so on and so on. So meaning that she says that I have a choice to think about many, many things. And she said that I thought to myself that all of those things are true. While it is true that I have aches and pains and the rest of the list that I mentioned to you, it's all true. It's also equally true that there are so many positives. Right? That I am not in a wheelchair. That I am able to move around and so on and so forth. And a whole lot of them. It's not just these things. There are more and many more. So she says, I therefore have in my life all these choices. Now, my thing is, which of these choices do I want to focus on? Right? Which of these choices do I want to focus ...
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