Finding your passion is a lie
Realise the value in what you already do.
Too much freedom is stopping you from achieving your goals
You know what really annoys me about Muslim content?
It’s when they tell you the path to happiness is finding your passion. But people aren’t dumb. They need to earn a living too.
So it becomes, “find a way to get paid for what you love doing”.
Really?
That’s where I was going wrong? I didn’t figure out how to get paid for sleeping?
Ideas like “follow your passion” are popular is because they give you false hope. And the ideas evolve when you question them. It’s also the perfect excuse for avoiding hard work.
Listen. It takes a massive amount of effort and sacrifice to achieve great things.
Some of the biggest platforms today came as a result of writing code in dark rooms, non-stop, for days at a time. Historic deals were made after hundreds of phone calls—all ending in rejection except the one that got accepted.
But you don’t need to do any of that.
Just follow your passion, right?
By the way…
This pops up in other forms. Like when people tell you to “find your purpose”. It’s just another way of saying you must figure out how to mould yourself to chase the goals they deem to be important.
And you get sucked in because on their own these are worthwhile goals.
Make hijrah. Make more money. Make a difference.
But what bothers me the most is when they tell you these ideas are the solution for the Ummah’s problems. They’re basically saying…
You need to find your passion. Find your purpose. Get paid doing what you love. Everything is a lie… but not my thing. My thing will save you…
And it will save the Ummah!
But it doesn't stop there.
Apparently Muslims aren’t already doing amazing or Important things.
Muslim dads giving their blood and sweat to provide for their families aren’t men yet. They need masculinity content. Sorry—Muslim masculinity content.
In fact—according to them—Muslims in general are losers. They’re weak. Many are traitors. A great deal of us aren’t even proper Muslims.
Basically whatever content they’re spewing out is necessary because Muslims are failing to get it through their thick skulls. And the only solution is to align ourselves with their ideas.
I think I know why this happens.
I think it’s because content creators say too much. They present their emotional, reactionary ideas as real solutions. Then they come under pressure to see those ideas through.
And so they just default to what they know.
If they studied Islam then their solution is for you to enrol on their course. That’s why there is a new institute opening every other month. They just want to create clones of themselves.
(I really need to write about this one day.)
If they consumed masculinity content then guess what? The Ummah is suffering because men aren’t men.
Copy/paste. Copy/paste.
Same old ideas on repeat.
And what about all the “news” we consume?
Ideas like “follow your passion” are the lies disguising shallow thinking. You can’t actually do what you like because you also need to become a scholar and a political scientist plus whatever ideas they consume themselves!
And if your passion or purpose doesn’t align with what’s trending online then you’re doubly at fault.
It seems like we have an endless stream of reasons why we’re not doing enough and how we ought to do something “better” (i.e. what they dictate).
But we have virtually nothing telling us what we already do is valuable.
I want to change that.
And I’m going to start by taking away your freedom.
Don’t panic.
I simply want you to understand something:
The reason you’re bombarded with a thousand different paths is because you allow them in.
We simply have too much freedom. Or, put in the language of this publication—we lack proper constraints.
-- Pro Muslims --
It's too long to go into in this email. But the sure fire way to stay poor, feel stuck and get stressed out is trying to do everything at the same time.
I'm teaching Pro Muslims to focus on one thing at a time. It's what allows them to make massive progress in a short amount of time.
And more often than not they're already doing great things. But they're were taught to look down on the rizq they're given.
Pretty much all goals need money. And if you're a Muslim who's goal is to help the Ummah and you have a job...you're already a hero in my eyes.
Let me try to persuade you to believe the same. DMs are always open.I can’t just tell you all the ways you’re already valuable to the Ummah—even though it’s absolutely true—without first getting you to drop all the noise telling you the opposite.
You see when you’re working in your “normal” job and earning a living, it’s one of many ways you’re helping other Muslims. But aspirational content wants you to believe otherwise.
If they claim to have something “better” what they’re really saying is what you have now is inferior. And it’s fine to want more. But are we using what we have now to it’s full potential.
You don’t need to follow someone else’s path. You need to only follow your own. And guess what?
Your unique path is the most valuable because only you can walk it.
Don’t believe me?
First have a look at all the groups and experts battling for your attention.
How many “Islamic courses” have you seen in just the past month? How many of them say anything unique?
Revive the “golden age”. Master Arabic. Learn Islamic history.
Copy/paste. Copy/paste.
And the thing I want you to really focus on is how readily we belittle the efforts of so many Muslims.
That’s the real tragedy behind all this.
I speak to a lot of Muslims in private DMs. If they’re working on helping Muslims in some way or another you best believe I’m messaging them. I want to know what they’re doing. How it’s going. What their ideas are.
And more often than not it breaks my heart reading their replies.
The disdain they have for fellow Muslims. And it’s their disdain that fuels their ideas. It can’t work this way, can it?
They disparage Muslims and offer their elitist solutions in the same breath.
They say things like:
“Muslims are pathetic… we’re going to teach them to be X!”
“Muslims in the East aren’t capable… they look to us in the West to help them with Y!”
“Muslims are sheep… I’m going to wake them up by doing Z!”
It’s too much freedom.
Freedom to say anything and freedom to consume everything.
The freedom to be a horrible person but think you’re helping the Ummah.
The internet has made it possible for us to spew any crappy idea in an instant and reach thousands if not millions of people. And we have free access as consumers of information to endless nonsense.
I want you to remove this freedom. But I can’t do it for you.
It’s in your hands alone.
Just do this one thing:
Eliminate everything that doesn’t take you closer to your goals.
That means the content you consume. The people you listen to. Even the random social media accounts that come in your view.
Everything.
If it doesn’t help you reach your goal… what is it for?
Of course this means you need to have goals in life. If not you’re probably feeling stuck in life right now. Which makes you an easy target for bad content.
I urge you to follow this easy guide to get you started.
We all need definitive goals to lead us to better things. But goals alone make you vulnerable to BS.
Everyone wants more money, better health and relationships. And with only a goal in your head, you’re in danger from the confusion and stress that comes from too much freedom.
Goals need constraints.
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