Lesson 75 Take your precautions:

Allah says in the Quran meaning o you who believe. Take your precautions and leave in groups. Or leave at once. And if you want to know whether a scholar is genuine or not. See if they adhere to Quran and Sunnah up on the understanding of the companions in their own life.

And they are not a faiq, and see when they speak, how much do they speak from their own opinions versus how much they speak directly from Quran and Sunnah and count the words. The more words they speak directly from Quran and Sunnah, the more authentic of a scholar they are likely to be in relationships. Do not make relationships with people who may harm your imaan, your health or your wealth, or with people who speak negative things.

Because this increases cortisol, which decreases testosterone, which decreases your quality of life. And do not travel with such people.

Lesson 76. You either win or you don’t make a deal:

Allah says in the Quran meaning and spend in Allah’s way. And don’t put yourself with your own heads into destruction and do things properly. Indeed, Allah loves those who do things properly.

If you take a deal which brings you more bad than good long term, you are putting yourself in destruction with your own hands. Hence, it does not suit a muslim to take a bad deal.

Lesson 77 Wealth lands in port cities:

Allah says in the Quran, meaning among His signs. are ships sailing in the sea like mountains. You may move to a port city seeking the fadhl of Allah. Allah says in the Quran meaning. It is your Rabb. Who drives for you Ships in the sea. So you may get from the bounty of Allah.

Indeed He is very merciful to you. This shows us that port cities are nodes on the earth where ships carrying goods, land and price of goods increases just because of the fact someone took the time and effort and the risk to move them from one place to the other.

Lesson 79 Grow the beard and trim the moustache:

The Prophet. Peace upon him said meaning the prophet. Peace be upon him. Said Meaning the Prophet. Peace be upon him. Said meaning. Grow the beard and trim the moustache. All of the companions had big beards. The least amount of beard to keep is one fistful because Ibn Mas’ud may Allah be pleased with him, used to cut his beard beyond a handful.

Growing a beard is a great deed, especially in a time when there is corruption. There is a weak narration which says, he who attaches himself with my Sunnah when there is corruption in my nation. For him is a reward of 100 martyrs being born at a time when beard is considered strange. And growing it and reviving the Sunnah is a big opportunity for the Muslim men to prove their loyalty to Allah

And we beg Allah to forgive us and keep us on Islam to our last day. Ameen

Lesson 80. Allah helps a slave who is helping his brother:

The Prophet peace upon him, said meaning he who averts from a believer of hardship, from the hardships of this world. Allah averts from him a hardship from the hardships of the hereafter.

And He will makes it easy for the one who is in difficulty Allah makes it easy for him in this world and the next. And he who conceals the fault of a muslim Allah conceals his faults in this world and the next. And Allah helps a slave. The slave who is helping his brother. How ever you should do this after you’ve helped yourself.

Lesson 81 Divide money into three buckets:

because of the hadith of the man who used to do this and Allah sent rain on his garden. Once a man heard a voice say, Go and give rain to so-and-so’s garden. The man followed the cloud and reached this man’s garden and asked. I heard a voice saying, Go, go and send rain upon your garden.

What is the good deed? which you do? The man replied. He divides all of his produce in three buckets, uses one for himself and his family. He puts the other back into the business and he spends the third half in the way of Allah.

Lesson 82 traveling for work is blessed:

Allah says in the Quran meaning and other ones who travel the land seeking from the preference of Allah.

This shows us getting wealth is tied to traveling the earth. The value of things changes based on their location. Take the example of a city which produces a lot of rice and little to no wheat. People who live here have more rice than they can eat, and anyone can buy a sack full of rice. For one silver coin in the city.

Now, imagine you took a thousand sacks of rice, filled an entire ship with them, and sailed to a far away city bearing the pain of travel in this far away city. Wheat is local produce and rice is a delicacy. And people buy one sack of rice for one gold coin. So you sell the rice in the city and load up your ship with a thousand sacks of wheat and sail back, making lots of profits.

The value of people also changes based on their location.

Lesson 58. Stick to your word:

Because Allah says in the Quran meaning O you who believe fulfill your promises. This is the first verse of Surah Almaidah. For a muslim, a promise has to be fulfilled. Do not give your word that you will do something unless you have as good as already done it. When the customer expects you to do something in two days and you build it in one, you have under-promised and overdeliver.

You have exceeded their expectations. Now they will be happy to refer you more customers.

Lesson 59. The best horse is black with a white spot:

The prophet pbuh said, meaning the best horse is black with a white spot since the prophet peace upon him, said meaning the best horse is black. One may say the best color for a ride is also black.

The billionaire entrepreneur who drives yellow, orange, red cars pays taxes to people driving black cars. This is my personal observation. People who prefer black cars are more easygoing and generous. SUV is the best type of car because it has more ground clearance. It can offroad a car which cannot offroad is like a toddler still learning to walk. This is why I take issue with performance cars.

How can a sensible man consider something? A car which can only drive in the local neighborhood. On perfect roads.