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The REAL Ways People Build Wealth

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Redefining Education and Financial Success

This chapter challenges the myth that prestigious universities are essential for financial success, revealing that many successful individuals come from public universities. It emphasizes the importance of strategic educational choices and a financial mindset accessible at any stage, advocating for informed decisions around student loans and personal finance.

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Yeah. And when that happens, what you have to realize is you're only making the problem worse by chasing. When you're losing your self-respect by chasing. If you hurt someone's feelings and you have to apologize, apologize, but don't live in apology, Allah asks for one sincere ist'khfahr and he forgives. And human beings want you to ask for their forgiveness- life. I said I'm sorry, wasn't sorry enough. And they keep wanting to- they want you to live in ist'khfahr. Allah wants humility. Human beings want more sajdah than Allah. Don't fall, don't fall into emotional surrender to other human beings. Even if you wronged someone, sincerely apologize to them. Offer them the opportunity to make things right. If they choose not to do that, you did your part. Stop living in guilt that they built a wall. Stop living in guilt that you're not able to make things perfect. Don't do that. And if you cannot- if you don't take this advice, the price you will pay and I pray none of you have to pay that price is that you'll end up just losing your self-respect. You just live your life trying to please somebody who can't be pleased. Make someone happy who can't be made happy. Make someone love you who doesn't want to love you. That's what you'll end up doing your whole life. You'll be miserable. And then a lot of people live like that and then they say, but I'm making so much dua that this person breaks their wall. Allah is not answering my dua. Then you come to speakers and say, how come Allah doesn't answer certain dua's? I keep making so much dua, but it's not being answered. I was like, who are you trying to change in? Allah is not changing. Why are your dua's about changing someone else? Your dua's should be about softening the heart towards Allah first. Yeah, Allah guide. Yeah, Allah guide. When Allah guide somebody's heart, all the other matters start getting sorted out. But that's not up to us. We cannot just wish someone's decisions away. They have to take steps themselves, right? We have to recognize that. So I wanted to share that with you because every bit of a story in the Quran has an entire treasure trove behind it, right? And there's so much to learn from practically for our lives from the smallest of things, from the smallest, smallest of things. Now some of you are very inspired by today's discussion. So you're going to call your dad right now and say, my beloved father. I saw myself eating samosas last night for dinner in my dream. But by the way, even if you just, even if you just try this, my beloved father on the phone with your dad, you know what he would most likely do? Talk to your mother. But I mean genuinely, let's, let's, I pray that Allah gives all of us genuine deep relationships in our family that protect us in every way that we that we should be protected. Allah has given us in the Quran the instruction to have takwa of him. And he's given us instruction to have takwa of family ties. What the Allah said, he said, I mean, he won. Oh, well, those are family ties. They have takwa of family ties. So the way, the same way in the same eye that we should be mindful and cautious of God. We should be mindful and cautious of family ties. And just like we don't want to do anything to hamper our relationship with Allah, then if we messed up, we fix it the same way we should do everything we can to preserve and to nurture our relationship with our loved ones. And if we messed up, we got to work on fixing it. And last of which will give us all the ability to do that. Thank you so very much for listening today. I have an announcement to me. Unofficial. Unofficial. You guys might know that I'm traveling quite a bit of the world. My objective over the next 15 years is to complete a study of the entire Quran. In the last 15 years, I've been able to finish about half of that and the other half remains. And the way I'm doing that for the next two years is I take a short surah that I have not yet deeply studied. And with my team, we spend about a couple of hundred hours studying a four page or three page surah. And then I do a lecture series on that surah, a deep dive. It's called Quran Week. So I do it for seven nights in a row in a community. So I did it. The first one was in Glasgow and Scotland and in Jakarta, then in Kuala Lumpur, New Jersey here in Union City, just before I got here. LA was the first one in the US. Last year I did it in Texas and some other places. And I only have one slot left this year. All the other slots are filled. And I'm thinking about coming back for. OK. All right. So I'm officially mark your calendars for the week of July 12th. July 12th. OK, for the week, like if I come, I'll be we'll start on a Friday night. I'll torture you Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday night, all the way to Thursday. So Friday to the next Thursday, every night we're going to try to go through one surah in depth. That's that's the idea. If I confirm it, I'll confirm it in the next day or so in Shallah. But the reason I genuinely hope as many of you, especially younger people, can make it to that wherever I've gone and taken that program with a different surah, it's more work for me because I never repeat myself in that program. It's always a new surah, a new study for myself and my team. What it's really done is for a lot of students, Shadiya students, Islamic study students from different seminaries, kids that are doing have a public school kids, adults alike, there's a renewed interest in studying the Quran more deeply. And I want to be able to show you what that looks like. And I also want to give you the tools to be able to start doing that yourself. Right. So it took me quite a while to kind of get a figure out how to navigate Quran studies properly. And now that I have kind of a handle on that, I'm applying that method. And by the end of it, I want to show you how you can do that for yourselves in Shallah Tala. So that's hopefully July the 12th. I've just had such a fantastic couple of days. My dad and I, and we just love Dr. Zofikar, just round of applause for him, personally. And I'm also very, very grateful and very humbled by the warm welcome of this community. It does bring back a lot of memories. I mean, here I was here almost a decade ago, more than a decade ago, teaching Arabic in this room too. And so it's a real blessing to see how much this community has grown. It was so beautiful to see so many youth involved in good boys involved in sports and these girls' groups and martial arts students and activism going on here. So just keep this place alive. And the real life of it is not some visiting speaker. That's cool. But the real life of it is the youth of this community. And we should push them and nurture them and take our place. I mean, the biggest success that I can imagine for our coming generation is people like me become irrelevant. That would be amazing, right? Because then there's a hundred of me or better in every community. And that's what we should be aspiring towards and much better than me, of course. But that's the success that we want to aim for. And I pray that for all of our kids in our coming generation. Zakum al-Arunde, everyone. Sallam al-Aruk. Wa Alaykum. Alaykum.

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