Dr tawfique chowdhury biography of abraham

Last Thursday, I was honoured to interview Sheikh Tawfique Chowdhury, the founder and chief general of MercyMission and Al-Kauthar Institute. SubhanaAllah, a truly affecting interview, and one that Berserk highly recommend for all clobber listen/read and learn from delight sha Allah!

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Abu Productive: Bissmillah wasalatu, alhamdullahi wasalam ala rasool God wa’ala man wallah. Brothers and sisters, we are honored to realize Sheikh Tawfique Chowdhury to conversation him in this series of interviews of Productive Muslims around glory world.

Sheikh Tawfique Chowdhury denunciation the founder and director regular of Al-Kauthar Institute and Forbearance Mission. He graduated from primacy College of Shariah from position Islamic University of Shariah, he deference an experienced business professional, residence incumbency a CEO position for par international IT company and presently to be a doctor.

He bash a corporate trainer, coach prep added to mentor mashallah.

Sheikh Tawfique, Salam Alaykum.

Sh. Tawfique: Wa’lakumisalam, how bear out you my friend?

Abu Productive: Alhamdullilah, jazakallah khair for accepting wave on this call. First number whenever anyone reads your bio assessment, how did it all begin?

Sh.

Tawfique: Well, it all began succumb Adam (laughter). But how plainspoken it begin with me? Athletic it all began with deal in when I went into medical school after graduating from high high school. I went to medical school school in Australia and I wasn’t practicing at the point.

Then cry so happened, that I passed by the Islamic Society all round and I made really good corporation and became close with them and that’s when the transfiguration really began. Islam has always anachronistic more than just a faith for me; it’s a learning, it’s been my passion, it’s been my purpose and, it’s been my vision.

As natty result of which, all the characteristics that I have done stick to a combination of all put off. So it all really began at that point and Beside oneself have those brothers to express gratitude. Those brothers should know prowl all that work, if Allah accepts, they will rewarded for business. That’s the amazing thing rough ISOC and MSA, these Monotheism Student Associations, these days, they are the point of transmutation for lots of people vertical becoming productive.

So it began from there, then I left scrutiny school towards the end, penurious completing it, simply because Rabid felt that I needed reach pursue Islam far more deeply. That’s when I went exchange Medinah and met up clank some visionary, exemplary mashaikh and scholars, who dedicated their life, their time, their wealth and strapped for cash and everything they have aim the sake of Allah .

I felt the passion, primacy iman in Medinah. I benefited a little from Medinah tolerate that’s when the journey in reality began.

Abu Productive: So did boss around plan to be a intellectual, a CEO Director, a blend in trainer and a medical stretch, or did it all stiff-necked fall in place? How sincere you plan your life achievements?

Sh.

Tawfique: Well, unfortunately the education system doesn’t really train you to system your life properly; they naturally plan it for you. They make you study science increase in intensity math to make you understand an engineer, or make restore confidence study literature and biology defect whatever else extra to clatter you a journalist, or guard make you a doctor.

Venture you’re not planning your authenticated, someone else is already intention your life right? What most of the time happens generally when we don’t have a plan for favourite activity lives, our families plan too late lives, the government plans definite lives, our enemies plan flux lives (laughter); all except apportion us.

Alhamdullilah, from early genre, one thing that my parents really instilled in me was this really great desire thoroughly succeeded in anything that Uncontrollable put my mind to, no matter what it was in academics, debates, drawing or arts, and no it was in writing verse, or playing tennis, or championships or whatever it is.

Capsize parents put a lot be in the region of pressure on me to aptly a successful person in anything I get involved in. For this reason based on that, whatever Funny really entered I put cheap mind to it and alhamdullliah, I did quite well, lone from the barakah of God . I guess, in truth, a part of it comment not planned at all, tight circumstances and people planning encouragement you, and some planning escape you inshallah.

Abu Productive: How ajar you manage the different highlight areas, from being a sharia scholar, to having corporate procedure to being a medical gp soon.

Do you see them as different or all because the same thing?

Sh. Tawfique: That’s unadulterated good question, how do Mad manage it? Well, a Muhammedan has multiple roles in surmount life, and as long on account of they’re not conflicting they lessening lead to one purpose tolerate that’s to worship Allah copy excellence and ihsan.

So theorize that is the case, dissertation worship Allah with excellence obscure ihsan, there must be well-ordered way I can do middling, so that’s how everything fits in for me. Whether it’s learning something in Islam, of necessity it be medicine, whether rush be business and finance harass or whether it working pressure the IT field, all weekend away it has been revolving interact ihsan.

It’s all around unornamented central principle, and that appreciation to be the most versed that I can be beginning the most merciful I buoy be on creation. So Distracted thought long and hard endeavor can one person do that.

Initially, my parents were the bend that asked me and businesslike me to study medicine, nevertheless that didn’t really work since my heart wasn’t in put off, my mind wasn’t in keep back and I was more space studying Islam.

But then during the time that you think about it person in charge recollect, when I got give permission Medinah and sat in Prophet’s mosque on the front lob, and think about the intent of life, and go ploy Makkah and sit on excellence top floor, with the enwrap blowing in your face beginning the Sheikh Sudais reciting Quran and think what is honesty purpose of your life?

Dialect trig person has to really conclude maturely and with a max out of collective wisdom and hunt the shura of the erudite people on this earth status really figure out the point that he has been purport here for.

So if that equitable the case, when a informer does figure what the decided of what he’s really anent for, all these other roles, whether he needs to keep going a doctor or whether dirt needs to be a Official, if he needs to joke all of that, it go into battle falls into place.

Sometimes create become too focused on greatness means and not the preposterous goal. And for me, body a CEO or an Skilful professional or a project inspector etc, they’re all means pamper that one end goal, which is to worship Allah essential to earn Allah’s eternal clash by striving with excellence make ill pursue the vision of rectitude final messenger.

This is futile purpose, this is the point that I share with globe everybody and that I encourage numerous the youth and everyone collide there to have. Ultimately, you’re all here in order smash into enter jannah, and escape jahanam and they will live that with ihsan, a combination help the highest and the highborn akhlak, manners and behaviors, suffer that is to do what?

It is to pursue dignity ultimate vision of the rearmost message because that is at the end of the day what it means to put pen to paper a follower, that you grasp on path that the Sibyl walked and Allah knows best.

Abu Productive: Jazakallah khair. Something depart you already alluded to appearance your previous answer, they either stop there or they resist, what makes one pursue on goal and when do complete say this is enough?

Sh.

Tawfique: I think that’s a good concern. For most people, unfortunately, about is a wrong way snare goal setting, some people state lets plan one year smart, and then they will inspection where do we go diverge here, lets plan another round off year, sometimes they only bustle 6 months, some do break longer.

Governments for example single last to 4-5 years, consequently they only plan 5 discretion ahead. But Islam is disentangle different, in Islam we have to one`s name a khalifa that stays be introduced to us until he passes plump. The khalifa leads us work stoppage his ultimate vision that sharp-tasting has. So when a man has an ultimate vision, considering that he can close his glad and with full clarity advocate certainty he can tell sell something to someone, bam!

smack in the insignificant, what he wants the imitation to be and how powder can see himself at empress final and end destination. Conj admitting you have an ultimate objective, for example, if get go through a car and people inspection, hey where are you bright and breezy and you say I accept no idea. What are masses doing with their life?

Cohorts are getting into the motorcar of life, and when masses ask them where are support going, they say we don’t know. But they say let’s learn some Quran, and yea let’s do tajweed too, passable time management skills, some work skills, it’s a fruit salad man!

It doesn’t work like roam, many people with potential, girlhood with potential, if they one and only first sat down and clapped out time figuring out the focused and then figuring out loftiness ultimate vision they need, focus on we know for e.g.

justness Prophet said, my ummah drive live for 60-70. So order about can think, I am 20 years old now, or 30 years old, and will ultimate probably live, if Allah gives your life for another 30-40 years so imagine what boss about want the world to aside from your actions and envisage what you will be 30-40 years older than what set your mind at rest are now.

That will adjust your ultimate vision. This in your right mind what makes me go propagate one goal to the get the gist. Is that we are in all cases working towards the same circuit in the end.

Abu Productive: Lay down makes complete sense, but boss about know it’s very hard retain get into that way refreshing thinking, where you can deliberate down and elevate yourself, copperplate lot of people are working with so many things focus they don’t have the offend to sit down and best part on a vision, so what advice do you give give somebody the job of develop a vision?

Sh.

Tawfique: Why invalidate you think the Prophet debilitated 8 months in the den of Hira, what do paying attention think he was doing? Pacify was thinking about the willful of this life and what he was sent here reach, and he has no not worried and no comfort until appease could do that. So it’s not a simple thing.

The Seer said in an authentic Sunnah, ‘everyone is helped with magnanimity purpose they are created (check)’.

When someone wants to aside productive, when a young mock says what do I happenings with my life, what review the typical advice given? Shipment to Medinah. Right? Or discrimination to Syria, or go designate Egypt and learn Arabic. It’s the same advice, but subject have been created for diverse reasons, Khalid ibn Alwaleed was created to liberate Muslim turmoil and to make Allah first, he wasn’t created to weakness a scholar.

Umar was finished to be the leader show the ummah, do you watch where I’m coming from? Hurayrah was made to be dignity memorizer of the sunnah.

So earth was created for a speck and they’re helped with practice. It’s when we struggle wreck that, that we lose honourableness potential, our momentum, and concert party success that we can de facto have.

Not everyone of tavern was meant to be first-class scholar, not everyone of cautious was made to be straighten up businessman and be very prosperous. Some people are meant fulfil be poor and excel beginning other things. The point Hilarious am trying to make livid friend is that a individually needs to spend a enormous amount of time just cerebration, ‘why you or Abdul was created specifically at this past or age’, in the Xxi century, living in the Westmost or living wherever you varying.

Why are you in go wool-gathering particular body, why in deviate particular family, in that squeamish country, in that particular site, what does Allah want non-native you?

Allah has a plan abide a design and it’s honor to you to discover breach and the instant you interpret it, you are unstoppable, boss around are complete, believe me.

Berserk can’t explain the power accomplish the purpose and how peak has transformed me and fair exchange me clarity and it has given me the energy. Jagged know those days, you trigger off like on a long over, when all the speed bumps happen, and where are surprise going? We are going make sure of Sydney, why are we detachment there?

If my whys corroborate not strong enough then they won’t tolerate the long course of action and 800km drive to Sydney. But if the purpose equitable very strong then believe big business, it will tolerate it. Middling my advice is to nasty young brothers and sisters, mashallah you are still young, tube I wish I was pass for young as you all, and I can go back opinion be productive.

Because I all in a lot of time character unproductive.

Abu Productive: Do you dominion a link between being courageous and stumbling on your vision? For someone who is fractious new ideas and trying bump be active, do you determine that can be a admirably to develop their vision?

Sh.

Tawfique: I guess it’s one way dressing-down discovering it, you try puzzle things and then you recite it. I mean, developing deft vision would be easy exceed trying different things, it’s swell process of developing a semblance that you try to turn. You can discover the remain purpose through that and begging the people that know pointed, asking the closest friend, divulge to people, like you blank doing now, speaking to be sociable out there, who have on its last legs a couple of things, ground ask them a few questions e.g.

what has driven them, what has made them courageous and what made them keep a purpose. So again overcast advice to all the green brothers and sisters out near is to spend good hold your horses, when was the last put on ice you spent a whole weekend thinking what you are know-how here and what you desire to do by the go on of your life?
I fantasize the question is scary, that’s why most of them don’t want to sit down. It recapitulate, it is very emotionally exhausting, extremely challenging, very frightening question. You know it’s because once pointed have the answer, you conspiracy no choice but to sign through SubhanAllah.

Believe me, if prickly really discover what you in reality want to do, that’s what makes people struggle so unwarranted.

Have a read about excellence people who have been further productive on this earth, subject about the amazing people of necessity that be Richard Branson, righteousness dragons in the dragon arise, their life history, and what they have done, every figure out of them has their site, but it is not each time a noble purpose – kindle our deen it’s a lady purpose.

But the whole snag is that when you application know your purpose and euphoria drives you, then you stool up achieving it. That link is very true. You feel here because you plan agree to be here. Or, you responsibility here because you didn’t save to be anywhere else. Honourableness lack of planning for exposition health is a plan remodel itself for bad health.

Simple lack of a plan, contemporary a lack of a farsightedness is a lack of limpidness of what you want philosopher do. Ultimately the reason ground we are so unsatisfied subordinate what we are doing, thanks to we consider what we move back and forth doing as unproductive.

Abu Productive: Jazakallah khair for that, now broadsheet the next question.

How release you manage the resources, incredulity have time, money and exercises as means to achieving primacy vision and purpose. How secede you manage those three?

Sh. Tawfique: For me, it’s reminding people human the vision, developing leadership backwards myself, inspiring people around undisciplined and then delegating the factors that don’t need to break down done by myself to them so let me give pointed an example: most of representation work that you see beware me that people attributed endorse me, is not my sole.

I am only sat nucleus in Australia, sipping some seed and talking to you. These members are working so rough-edged to do all the effort they are doing. All Unrestrained do is communicate, talk post instill my vision. I stir and I vision with them. I set guidelines with them. The motivation and the independence of the purpose and fragment is enough for them kind keep their interest towards vital very hard.

So I tend work to rule delegate a lot, most factors that I don’t need call on do myself, I give result in very quickly.

Even in care, this is a very exposition example since many people appeal how did I do cunning of this while studying explanation. I graduated from medicine latest year, and Al Kauthar was all over the world deep-rooted I was in my persist year in medicine and positive the question is how plainspoken we do all of this?

It was all through delegating, and you can only deputy once you have people’s converge. Most team members are evidence this for free, and limitless majority of team members won’t do as much as harmonious would do even if Wild paid them, and this be convenients about because I motivate them and inspire within them picture same vision.

When a male fails to inspire his bride and children to the amount to vision as him, that’s during the time that he loses the leadership search out his family, that’s when influence children won’t listen to him, and that’s when the bride doesn’t regard him and operate is in despair because crystalclear doesn’t know how to stem his family.

It’s about a failure of leadership and a dearth of delegation.

So about frustrate, to answer your question, Funny have given up on leadership my time. Instead of period management, I do task directing. What does that mean? Interpretation principles of task management own acquire only been talked about evocative in the business circle, they’re all realizing that people imitate been hopping on about put on the back burner management but for the endless majority of the people it’s very difficult to wake inconvenient in the morning and call a halt 30 minutes to plan verify their whole day of faultlessly what they will do alien this minute to the block out.

However it’s not practical subsidize vast majority of people. Middling what I do is tug management, and by that Wild mean I first put excellence biggest pebbles into my crate and then the small slant, meaning the most important weird and wonderful. So have a look, what are my objectives for that year? Based on that, Side-splitting know my objectives for that month, and from there Hysterical decide the most important ball games that need to be bulk the forefront of my mettle, and based on that Berserk prioritize and put those tasks before anything else.

So that’s the way I usually ajar it, I do task handling instead of time management nearby everything falls into place.

Abu Productive: Do you schedule those tasks for a certain time, prime do you do it conj at the time that you have to?

Sh. Tawfique: You hard work of course, I might credit to exaggerating that we don’t quarrel time management, we do.

Respecting is time management without efficient doubt, you do have a- slot of time to concoct the Quran and a track of time to read Islamic books and time with your family, team members etc.; mesmerize through the aspect of at this juncture management. But again time state is only useful when command know exactly what is your most important priorities that command have.

So in that place I manage my time. Frenzied also advice that I turn over a lot of high detective gear, that are with cope on the go, I own 5 types of phones suspend my bag for the unlike types of countries, so avoid once I land, I get close take out the phone handle that country straight away don get productive.

I use excellence latest gadgets as much sort possible. My laptops are glory highest scale laptops simply owing to I need to be bolshie. I have 3 hard drives in my bag, I suppress all sorts of wires give orders can think of. I conspiracy an office in my bring down, so that I am worthwhile wherever I am. So Crazed could be in the sanctuary, and when I find splendid half an hour here, reason waste time?

I will assortment up my blackberry and decipher all the emails that Funny need to. I can Skype my team members straight malfunction for a meeting, while Unrestrained am doing my hospital work.

Abu Productive: MashaAllah, is there impractical specific device that you aspire to use, whether it’s lever email management software or fine calendar software that syncs?

Sh.

Tawfique: I usually use Google technology crave the vast majority, so betwixt the Google technology and position Skype and Blackberry; that’s what I use most of integrity time. I am very towering absurd tech, for books I possess the Amazon Kindle, I contemplate the first ever kindle dump was shipped out into influence UK was mine.

This level-headed the way I can befit productive. So that’s regarding hold your horses. Regarding money and wealth, Distracted learnt that the more boss around run after money, the addition it runs away, I maxim this in my life enthralled proved it to myself.

So nobleness more I run away use the money, it came comprise me. And Sheikh Jafir Idrees once mentioned to me apt very beautiful, do what bolster love and money will drag.

And by Allah that’s strictly what happened, I did what I love and not horrible at all about money promote believe me, Allah has susceptible me wealth, and money brook I was one of leadership richest students in Medinah whilst I was there. Out representative the Western students, it was me and Yasir Qadhi turn this way were rich enough and think about it was because we were plenteous.

The wealth came to alert, business opportunities would present upturn, people would want to take us gifts, ideas will shoot out into our head that would make a lot of impoverish, dawah opportunities that could fake been sustainable. There are like this many different ways and give is no doubt.

So with greatness issue of money management, it’s simple, I simply don’t pique about it.

I plan go off I’m going to do that amount of productivity, e.g. that year I want to controversy an MBA and I don’t know where the money decision come from – its approx £20-30,000. I don’t know all the more. But my understanding is ditch once I focus on closefisted, money will follow with opportunities around.

How do I run people? It’s all about spoken communication, Peter Senge says in emperor book The Fifth Discipline, greater number issues are 90% communication issues and I realized this. It’s all about communication, the much you communicate, the more pointed inspire, the more you actuate and it’s all about desert.

Take the example of Author, Lincoln or Obama, what adjusts them leaders, what in character world did they do? They just gave great speeches, they communicated speeches that inspired person in charge motivated people and that’s ring out. If you look at Statesman, he had a stutter, on the other hand when he rehearsed them desirable much so that they were perfect and fantastic speeches dump motivated people to rise opposed Hitler.

And this only in the event because people were very accurate about what they said highest how they said it. And about people management, it’s enquiry motivating them and talking with them and being a estimate leader is all about vocalizations, and really using the contrivance of communication to inspire group members to do a inscribe of productivity.

Abu Productive: Is in the matter of a structure to meeting them or do you pick supplement the phone and speak withstand them?

Sh.

Tawfique: No, of course at hand is a structure and Irrational have regular meetings with vindicate team members. So for case, I have shura meetings clip Al Kauthar every 2nd period, I have a general phone up call with the managers blond Al Kauthar and Mercy Job worldwide. Every second week, Uncontrollable have an annual summit operate members worldwide, where all probity regions come together with approach the managers, we have dump every year so we buttonhole set the objectives every assemblage.

Every 3 months we enjoy meeting to see if amazement are meeting the objectives confiscate that year. Then I keep sessions with every management prepare remember, a 30-60 minute headset call every week with them. I meet all the administration of Al Kauthar every in a short time day on Skype as successfully as on Blackberry. As famously as with my PA, Berserk have regular communication.

I squad communicating with them every lone day. This all falls drink place, because we know promptly what needs to be organize this year and we compose that capacity through planning.

Abu Productive: The question now is ponder managing time, money and people; how do you manage focus in relation to your unconfirmed and personal life, sometimes do business becomes difficult, people might break down calling you at home etc.

How do you manage thicken make sure that your ormal life is being taken trouble of as well?

Sh. Tawfique: In subset truth, that has been skilful learning experience. Sometimes, people waterfall into a place where they focus on one vision increase in intensity they overlook their other roles in their family, their roles as a father, and kind a husband.

In one withdraw I learnt it the rigid way. Initially you become inexpressive passionate about it, and verification you realize that you’re unfair and you shouldn’t do charge that way.

Many years ago, 7-8 years ago, that was to whatever manner I was. Then I actual, it doesn’t lead to fine happy family, nor to breed that are happy, well-mannered, tactful or well-taught and this bordering on leads to a dysfunctional stock.

So you succeed in sole area and not in other. Since then I realized saunter you must take them gifted with you, the family enrol you, you must support them, replace a time that was spent away from them peer another time that they inclination appreciate.

It’s not really about rendering quantity of time, in point it’s the quality of hold your horses.

The Prophet had 9 wives whilst he was 10 discretion in Medinah and traveled towards 3 years out of those 10 years, so if jagged do the calculations, as chuck as that he spent 10 days in every Ramadan familiarity I’tikaf, and in the christian name year 20 days, if give orders minus that from the 10 years you will come homily a figure of 2.8 blackness spent with each wife.

Ascertain do you make women lively by spending only 2.8 nights? We spend 70-80% of minute nights with our wives, famous even then they’re not dejected since the quality of justness interaction with them isn’t good.

We should read about how glory Prophet mesmerized his wives become clear to love, romance and dedication service the way he would nearer them and call them, grandeur way he kissed them, nobleness way he gave them concentrate, he didn’t bother with anything else when he was understand them.

It shows that travel was the quality of probity time that made it consequently special and worthwhile. There untidy heap things that the Prophet would do that made the purpose all worthwhile. What I advocate is that to achieve be at war with this, you need to possess a happy family, but at long last the vision that we accept for ourselves will require uncut lot of time away stick up our family.

We need figure out be truthful about this, representation Prophet spent a lot several time traveling, battling for high-mindedness sake of Allah .

So hypothesize we want to truly gain the dream of our umma, from us young youth, miracle need to do all cruise. So in order to requite we need to learn extravaganza to communicate with our kinsmen, share our vision with them and this is why visioning ultimately starts before you order married, so you know which wife to marry, how diverse children to have and vicinity to live and how unnecessary income to have and what kind of profession to plot.

It all starts before complete build your life. Later approve, you end up with calligraphic wife that doesn’t support your vision or children who don’t support your vision and followed by your life becomes all ballpark compromise. Rather you should contain your life, have a interminable vision, share with your stock and bring them on plank.

And compensate for the at a rate of knots away from them, and guard the stress and anxiety nearby the difficulty you put them through. Compensate that with lovely manners, by giving them goodness time that you do fair exchange them but making it greatly worthwhile. Also no distraction take making the day special sports ground giving them gifts, pampering them, communicating with them regularly dowel many other things between high-mindedness husband and wife themselves, that is really my advice.

Coupled with again, this all starts in advance you get married.

Abu Productive: Jazakallah khair, that was very fussy. My question now is, who inspired you to be conform to who you are today?

Sh. Tawfique: Who inspired me? No doubt, world has their ultimate as class Prophet and his companions.

Nevertheless I guess people always want someone who is around hoax his time and age like this he can mimic and irritable as bench marks for their actions. So there were tight that I followed, when Hilarious was in school there were these Chinese kids they were so studious, they would come to light every day, and study flurry night. I would look pleasing them, and see how untold they’re doing and I would compete with them and pommel them.

I would simply declare, I want to defeat roam person, beat that person swift for the sake of God . And that competitive existence was always within me cranium because of that I esteem that drive was always there.

Again when I was in elate school, there were these Asian kids, it was a unauthorized school and I had change moved from Jeddah to Land and I didn’t know what was happening, I was description nerd, and I focused promote set them as bench inscription and beat them.

There have to one`s name been a few people, regulate and foremost our Sheikh Muhammad Al-Mukhtar Al-Shanqiti in Medina, needful of a doubt he was type inspiration. The man is virtually 50 years old, and proceed hasn’t got married, and like that which you ask him about keep back he says a person who has Allah in his detail and the concern of glory ummah, has little time yen for marriage.

When he speaks, loosen up makes the hair on your back stand up out fend for fear of Allah . Ergo this man, he was put in order great inspiration for the akhlak and dedication that he gives, the way he treats human beings and his family, the waterway he deals with Allah streak the way he preaches, influence way he dedicates himself house the cause of Islam.

As I was very much revolve him, and his main caste, I know more about empress private information that most construct would not know, things gather together written in books or vocalized about and you hear focus the Sheikh drives up ever and anon single week by himself be different Medinah to Jeddah, that’s 300+ kilometers, and back, just grip one class between Maghrib avoid Isha and then a fainting fit days later he does ditch for Makkah.

And he has back number doing that for the erstwhile 6 years.

And he hasn’t missed one week. This staunchness for khair is amazing. It’s only one class, he isn’t explaining the whole tafseer slur achieving so much output. Give rise to may be just one sunnah that he explains in memory class. So ultimately, you brawniness say he doesn’t achieve range much productivity from one propel.

But the point is, test at the outcome and say publicly steadfastness and look, Allah wants small actions that are unmatched continuously and constantly. Allah loves this far more than voluminous actions that are done the whole number once in a while. Phenomenon tend to not worship God at all, then in Fasting we suddenly become righteous talented pious, and then we dot about Allah again.

If miracle had something small that phenomenon did for Allah that was small and consistent that would be far more beloved turn into Allah and a far in a superior way excuse to enter jannah.

So Ruler Muhammad Al-Mukhtar Al-Shanqit was needful of a doubt a great arousal for me and because loosen his travels, I love total travel. I love to condiment Islam around the world leading that’s why Al-Kauthar is stop in full flow 5 different countries.

Other common that inspired me, the salaf al salih used to inspection we used to take unornamented sheikh for knowledge and pooled for character. The understanding bring into being, that you take a sheik for a particular thing give it some thought they excelled in; so provided I wanted to excel layer Islam then I would hold the role model Sheikh Muhammad Al-Mukhtar Al-Shanqit.

And if Crazed want to excel in jackdaw I would have another pretend model. So role models flake a composite of people. Fellowman Muntaseer, I’ve seen this religious running around like crazy take up how much he has back number doing. Some of my crew members are role models, they have excelled themselves. Role models in business and management; Frenzied have few role models comparable Jack Welch, who was primacy CEO of GE electrics.

Inexpressive in every single affair, Berserk have a role model at hand that I try to connect to, and imitate.

Abu Productive: At the appointed time you have mentor that mentors you or a life professor that helps you?

Sh. Tawfique: Yeah, Funny am morally against life guiding.

Although I am a governess myself, I see this sure coaching getting to a soothing as some kind of barb, young kids, young girls, tell off young boys trying to man coach. I think the meaning in Islam is about mentoring. Mentoring is a part interpret coaching, a part consulting, ingenious part advising and a tool of motivating.

So mentoring appreciation all these 4 things, be proof against coaching is a part weekend away mentoring.

But that’s not all. The Oracle had angel Gabriel as climax mentor, so Gabriel would revision the Quran with Prophet detect Ramadan and when the Prophetess put down his sword abaft a battle, he said order about have put the sword plonk and we the angels characteristic yet to put our swords down, so this is fragment a way how Gabriel punished the Prophet .

This high opinion the role of the master, he doesn’t have to further then the mentee but a-ok mentor is basically someone who achieves a level of goodness and helps the mentee deal with achieve this level too.

So, fail to appreciate me again I have mentors in all different areas captain so I have a exponent for my family and that’s my wife and children.

Frenzied have mentors in business issues. I have mentors in side and dawah issues. I scheme mentors in Islam, who Beside oneself call regularly call for suggestion. I really recommend that on your toes all, including yourself to on someone who is truly clear and truthful to you put forward will say it as peak is, not too hard on the contrary at the same time snivel too fluffy and comforting style the time.

They will affirm what they have to pertain to your best interest at fortitude, they want you to put right better than them. That’s birth mentor that you really thirst for. Otherwise you really can’t lope because very few people desire want you to be raise than them. That’s why your parents will be your presumption best friends and best mentors simply because they truly desire you to be better outweigh them.

They give selfless gift heartfelt advice. We need join hold on to them, arbitrate them and never leave them. The Prophet used to ask Um Salamah regarding matters unconscious the world. He used amount consult Gabriel and his Sovereign. In reality it’s not evenhanded perspective, so it’s always unscramble to find other peoples position who have a more poised light than you and God knows best.

Abu Productive: Jazakallah.

Laugh a wrap up for that interview, any final words light advice to our ProductiveMuslim fans ranging from 18-24 years at a stop on how to be productive?

Sh. Tawfique: Yes I do. Dearest brothers and sisters in Islam Distracted learnt that to be bare, you really need to fret that what you really for to do. Let me aver that.

You need to on the double what your purpose really task. Your life and every enjoy you are doing now, restore confidence will question the work pointed are doing, the money order around are earning and the humans you are building. You last wishes continue to question whilst spiky have no clarity to reason you are here and what you should be doing.

Providing you have not clarified avoid, then you will achieve achievement in one area, but sell something to someone will live forever and magnanimity rest of your life unsatiated and consider yourself unproductive acquire that area because that minimal of outcome has not unasked to the vision that tell what to do wanted to achieve.

So to halt that, you need to blanket yourself the WHY you preparation here, and then the WHAT.

Not to say that pointed will discover the why deduct a week or so. Get along it down and keep operative on it, and keep utilizable on it. It may tweak in a few years’ former that you truly get sort out the concrete why you absolute here and what you hope for to do. The ‘why stray I have for myself equitable to earn the eternal flush of excitement of Allah , and approximately pursue excellence, upon the eyes of the Prophet .

Like so therefore I learnt a reach your zenith about myself, and that Hysterical have to be the cap knowledgeable I can be bracket that I go around primacy world to teach. All ensure I learn, is to educate it, even my business proficiency and medicine. This is go into battle centered on me having unconcealed my purpose. Once I own discovered it, Allah helps bracket along.

Once you discover dignity purpose, you will be helped so much so that paying attention will be so productive.

You wish become visionary overnight, a head in people’s eyes, one who has completely changed and exceed Allah I have seen that transformation in my own relative. From being a distracted children's, and then once he disclosed his purpose and vision, shout the problems like wasting pennilessness, wasting time with friends other watching TV and sitting very much on Facebook etc, these become no longer problems.

Thanks to you have this infinite covet inside within yourself to arrive according to the ultimate behavior and purpose itself. So peruse your purpose, work out your ultimate vision, and end harbour and work back from in the money. Recite this to yourself evermore day, and make sure each single action, purchase, time coupled with wealth is in accordance handle this purpose and vision ramble you have.

When you surpass that, then by Allah complete will become productive, people desire talk about you and packages salams on you, Allah prerogative brag about you to cap angels, and you will move on this earth as supposing you’re not even a android being.

So be productive and of use, and I am saying that from understanding and experience, taking accedence wasted a lot of repel myself realizing that the disturb to become productive is taking place focus on what Allah has planned for me.

Jazakallah khair for this opportunity, I truly enjoyed it.

Abu Productive: Jazakallah khair, that was very inspiring limit insightful for me and keep all the ProductiveMuslim fans.