2. PURPOSE OF LIFE
When you thought to get into this university what was your
primary motive ? What was your purpose in life ? Was it to
become a mere engineer or a programmer or to get a 9 to 5
job and die as a anonymous person whom the world does
not shed a single tear. Don’t you want to leave your imprints
in this world ? Don’t you want to become a person who
contributed a lot for welfare of mankind . Ok lets just forget
about getting a job but all you want is money, fame and
power. RIGHT? If that so then your purpose is just subjective .
3. What if I tell you that our purpose is already predefined by Almighty . Would
you agree with me on this or would you think that these all religious talks
were suitable in the era of Camels .
But my dear fellows IT IS WHAT IT IS ! Our purpose was predefined and it
was not to earn money or to gain power .If earning money or owning
empires was one than Namrood and Pharaoh would be successful . But
didn’t your historians provide you with enough data that they died
worthless death.
4. AN INFLUENCER
SO if it is not power or fame or money than what it is ?
As a Muslim your motive is to create positive influence globally , how many
lifes you change ? How many people get comfort from you ? Or how much
effort you put in bringing the world from the times of ignorance to the light
of eloquence ? And when you die , you die as a martyr .
Have you ever thought logically that how can you be an influencer ? If not
than I will help you out and Insha'Allah in the end of this presentation you
will rethink about your life choices and set your priorities right .
5. HOW CAN YOU CREATE INFLUENCE
While talking about influence first you should be aware about the chemistry and
psychology of humans. There are typically four main hormones around which your
life revolves which are Dopamine, Serotonin, Oxytocin, Epinephrine . Oxytocin and
Serotonin can be called as love hormones , they basically makes you a Giver
Whereas Epinephrine gives you energy to get on work. Dopamine is like a reward
chemical it pursue you to do things for your own self but if you consume so much
of it ,then it makes you self centered and no one wants to be in a company of a
selfish person. And what if I tell you that we all are addicts of high level of
dopamine that our capability of giving has just become an ancient thought to
sacrifice our own needs and become providers for others. Do you really think that
you can become a INFLUENCER with such kind of mindset.
6. SOCIAL MEDIA
When I said addict what came to your mind , you must have disagreed with me
ok lets just take an example we all are addicts of social media It would be better
if I call it a Drug and it is engineered by smart people to be a drug !
As we were talking about the dopamine chemical, what it does that it makes you
addicted to social media and makes your life miserable. HOW ?
Well when you use an application you see various kind of content which looks
very appealing and gives rise to the base line level of the hormone dopamine then
suddenly you start thinking that your life is devoid of colors . You suddenly lose
interest while hanging out with friends or being alone in a room . Cheers to the
capitalist world They have succeeded to destroy your life .
7. Same goes with the MUSIC. Do you really think Music gives you JOY ? Have
you noticed that the same song that you use to enjoy three days ago now it
does not gives you the same joy . Now you want an other trendy song to
satisfy your soul while being ignorant to the fact that it is NOT satisfying you
BUT destroying you and making you think about depressing thoughts ,
questioning your EXISTENCE and making you pursue drugs or want you to be
a useless creature who is in pursuit to have a imaginary dammed love life.
YOU ASK ME WHY. Because YOU are what you CONSUME ! as your “POST
MALONE “ or “NICKI MINAJ” only contaminate your thinking by their vulgar
lyrics
8. PERKS OF LIVING WITHOUT SOCIAL MEDIA
Such thought maybe sounds scary but don’t you think that living without it makes
you to spend more time with yourself, thinking about your life making you a
critical thinker. The boredom makes us do things that are productive as well as
which are good for our society.
Most important, It lowers anxiety as “ YOUR WORLD IS WHAT YOU PAY
ATTENTION TO “ as social media depicts a terrifying, scary and upsetting image
of this world. The world in which people are castigated. HAVE YOU EVER MET A
FREQUENT TWITTER USER WHO WAS HAPPY. NO! WHY? Because the world
that your mind is exposed to is not a nice one !
9. OK , If you don’t want to see the political stuff or fighting on twitter you move to
instagram ,highly curated protrayals of people’s lives where everyone is happy,
leading a happening life and doing more interesting things than you. THAT’s the
point where you feel INFERIOR !
BUT when you don’t have social media on your phone ,when you are not exposed
to this weird unnatural type of content THE WORLD YOU SEE IS ACTUALLY MUCH
MORE THE WORLD AROUND YOU. Your friends, family, what you read in a book,
what you saw on your walk home. Its like calmer world, less anxiety producing
world, a slower world and Above all a more Sustainable world !!
10. ENTERTAINING YOURSELF
Entertaining yourself is a good idea to get rid of social media.
Everybody wants break .For example if you are studying for six
hours you need a mental break you can watch something
productive or go out, attend gatherings, sitting with your friends,
doing something productive that brings you at peace, learning
any skill or joining any course, learning calligraphy or any art
skill.
11. DETOXIFYING YOURSELF
When you stop injecting yourself with such external dopaminic things. First your
life becomes dull and you find yourself in a pit of boredom but this boredom can
do wonders like you get plenty of time to rethink about your life choices redefine
your purpose . Run for the real CAUSE which is to find God and learn about his
Book and his Prophet because trust me on the day of judgment you will not be
asked about your DEGREE ,Your followers on Instragram,about your music
playlist, or how many seasons you binged watched last night BUT what efforts
you put in to Learn about Islam and establish it as a SYSTEM. Because when get
aware about Islam you acknowledge the fact that Allah encourages you to study
about the psychology physics chemistry etc. and it is not a mere religion but a
COMPLETE CODE OF LIFE and you can lead your daily life upon the principles
Islam.
12. As it is stated in Quran Surah Ali-Imran 191 :
ِ
ت ٰ
ﻮ ٰﻤاﻟﺴ ِﻖۡﻠ َ
ﺧ ۡ
ﻰِﻓ َن ۡ
وُﺮﻜَﻔَﺘَﻳ َو ۡ
ﻢ ِﻬِﺑ ۡ
ُﻮﻨ ُ
ﺟ ﻰٰﻠَﻋو اًد ۡ
ﻮُﻌُﻗو ﺎ ًﺎﻣَﻴ ِﻗ َﷲ َن ۡ
وُﺮُﻛ ۡ
ﺬَﻳ َﻦ ۡﻳ ِﺬاﻟ
﴿ ِاﻟﻨﺎر َ
ابَﺬَﻋ َﺎﻨِﻘَﻓ َ
َﻚﻨ ٰ
ﺤۡﺒ ُ
ﺳ ۚ ً
ﻼ ِ
ﺎﻃَﺑ اَﺬ ٰﻫ َ
ﺖ ۡﻘَﻠ َ
ﺧ ﺎ َﻣ َﺎﻨﺑَر ۚ ِ
ض ۡرَ ۡ
اﻻ َو
3:191
﴾
(3:191) those who remember Allah while standing,
sitting or (reclining) on their backs, and reflect in the
creation of the heavens and the earth,135 (saying):
'Our Lord! You have not created this in vain. Glory to
You! Save us, then, from the chastisement of the Fire