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The first in a multi-part series. This episode delves into what the Billion Dollar Muslim identity might look like and addresses the first 3 tenets of this mindset and identity.

The central question is "Who do I have to be, in order to achieve what I want". It is the BE-DO-HAVE model.

Chapters:

00:00 Snippet

00:26 Introduction

00:35 Preface and Disclaimers

1:51 Who Do I have to be?

2:53 Growth Mindset

4:18 Visionary

6:56 Ethics

9:29 Resilience

11:00 I'm learning too

11:30 Conclusion

There seem to be less and less spaces where men can hang around with each other and just be "men". Those "third spaces" seemed to have disappeared more and more in recent times yet men are in desperate need of these third spaces where they can just talk to each other without feeling like they have to spend money or be censored/policed or where something takes up the majority of their attention.

Chapters:

00:00 Pre-Cap

00:26 Making a new friend

3:05 Start of a great friendship

4:22 Ashraf's sudden departure

5:11 Re-connecting

6:28 The decline in enthusiasm

8:10 The lack of male bonding

9:12 Ashraf finishes his PhD

10:06 Staying in touch

10:55 The Male Bonding experience

11:48 Out with the guys

13:33 Men always talking "shop"

16:14 Men don't know how to bond anymore

18:20 The committees have taken over

20:40 The Social Hub

Hamza is the co-founder of TheMinted.com. It is an app that makes it super easy to own and sell physical gold straight from your smartphone.

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In this guest episode, Hamza talks about how inflation devalues our wealth and why Gold may be the best bet during the current major shifts in global banking.

Chapters:

00:00 Pre-Cap

01:03 Hamza's Bio

01:36 Business Partnerships

03:33 The Facade of LinkedIn

11:05 Learning about TheMinted.com

12:58 How Inflation devalues our Wealth

18:12 Shifts in Banking

20:14 An alternative monetary system

25:16 The merits of Gold as a currency

28:51 Will TheMinted pull through?

34:41 BRICS

36:31 A New Currency

37:42 Examples of devaluing currency

41:40 House Prices

45:30 Wealth Preservation

52:42 The Rise and Decline of Empires

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My plea to men is, please be careful about the vice you choose in order to feel like a man. The greatest act of courage in today's society is to live authentically as men and to stray away from vices as best as we can.

Chapters:

00:00 Pre-cap

00:25 Filling the void

03:46 The risk of vices

06:07 My plea to men

07:06 "Halal" vices

07:24 Safe spaces for men

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Emotional trauma can play a decisive role in creating ailments within the body. It is as Rasool (SAW) said, when the heart is sound, the limbs are also sound.

I share a short story on how I cleared an ailment with the use of istighfars.

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You might find it hard to believe, but the nafs plays a direct role in our inadvertent arrival at anxiety and depression that we do not realise is often self-inflicted.

In this video, I share my acute personal experiences so that you can save yourself from the angst that I went through.

Ever since the increase in cost of living and the trauma of the global events of recent years, everyone is talking about emigrating to another country. But where do you emigrate to?

What is the best choice for the long term?

I cannot answer that question with much confidence, so what I have tried to do is present a case for which factors should at least be considered.

Discord: http://patreon.com/khurammalik

Who'd have thought a little bit of fungi on your dinner plate could make you better at DIY or improve your arithmetic skills or even make you a better writer?

Well, it turns out, mushrooms are neither a plant or an animal but a species within their own right that have existed since the dawn of time and have the unique attribute of being neural networks.

Do they have the ability to affect the neural network in our brains? It seems so!

I've never felt like I really fit in at the gym and I never quite found the right martial art that worked for me. There was just no sports activity that truly satisfied me and at the same time gave me what I was looking for in terms of stamina, strength, endurance and overall well-being until I discovered Qigong.

Hear about my journey from quitting the gym to taking up QiGong while trying a number of things in between.

References:

Kelly Brown, the lady that taught me about the science behind Tai Ji Yang Sheng:  @kellybrown3355 

And as promised, my playlists that I compiled regards Qigong.

1. Background to Qigong and the concept of Qi: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqt_Ru8xE-OMdAVSsYZvoG8VK20oNX657

2. Dayan Wild Goose Qigong for the Kidney Meridian: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqt_Ru8xE-OMSoFNDSuvCP1_9HgS1iu20

3. Tai Ji Yang Sheng performed by various people: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqt_Ru8xE-ONfYy9B5bACccdYKsFOPPlL

4. Key knowledge about the individual steps in Tai Ji Yang Sheng

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqt_Ru8xE-OO-ki1cIrqC5SkzA2zAVX0g

Chapters:

00:00 Intro

07:31 How I discovered Qigong

08:44 Introduction to Qigong

11:52 Dayan Qigong

15:12 Chinese vs Western Philosophy

17:48 Tai Ji Yang Sheng

18:49 Personal Experience

23:39 Qigong History

24:24 Final Thoughts

There's something very unique about British Muslims that isn't experienced by anyone else anywhere else in the world.

Let's be honest, while we're intelligent, affluent and outwardly very religious, we're also cold, distant and judgemental.

Maybe it's the British weather or maybe it's our collective colonial trauma. Lord only knows!

Chapters:

00:00 The Failure of My Book

02:35 Drama in the British Isles

03:58 British Muslims are unique

04:35 Adab

04:50 Latent Racism in the Muslim Community

05:59 Inward vs Outward hypocrisy

08:55 Easily led and manipulated

11:14 My Friend's Experience

12:05 No Real Sense of Community

15:00 Devoid of Spirit

Link to my friend Will Noor's video:    • Leaving Islam or Leaving Muslims