The Productive Muslim: Where Faith Meets Productivity Download Pdf
Melanie Council
The book also delves into the link between productivity, personal goals, and vision. It offers guidance on setting goals in alignment with Islamic values and provides practical strategies to overcome challenges and develop productive habits.
Furthermore, the book touches upon the concept of productivity beyond this worldly life, emphasizing the significance of preparing for productivity even after death, highlighting the eternal rewards of a productive life.
Combining his love for Islam with modern productivity techniques, Mohammed will teach you: How spirituality can boost your productivity; How to manage your sleep, nutrition, and fitness; How to be socially productive outside your home and community; How to manage your focus in an age of distractions; How to build productive habits and routines; How to manage your time and invest in your hereafter; How to be productive during Ramadan; and more...
The author realised that some of the most cutting-edge productivity theories were recorded in Hadiths over a thousand years ago. He set about learning more about Islamic productivity, with the aim to create a productive Ummah. The project was an enormous success, and Mohammed quit his job at a leading Islamic bank to focus on productivity science. Nowadays he runs professional coaching sessions and his blog continues to grow in followers.
In "The ProductiveMuslim" Mohammed Faris, the founder of ProductiveMuslim.com, provides this practical framework that helps urban global Muslims lead a productive lifestyle Spiritually, Physically, and Socially.
Combining his love for Islam with modern productivity techniques, in this book, Mohammed will teach you:
For the past 9 years, Allah (SWT) has blessed me to explore the question: Can Islam teach us productivity? I became obsessed with this question, not only because I cared a lot about improving my own productivity, but because I recognized the need to help the global urban Muslim deal with the challenges of modern life whilst remaining committed to their faith.
Under this mission to serve the Ummah, my global team & I dedicated ourselves to deliver productivity resources and advanced productivity training aligned with Islamic ethics and values via our website ProductiveMuslim.com. Moreover, I conducted a number of public workshops on how to lead a productive lifestyle inspired by Islam in many countries around the world, including UK, USA, Switzerland, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Bosnia, and Tanzania.
Enter the Productive Muslim, a book written by brother Mohammed Faris designed to make the quest for productivity one that is led by your Islamic faith. For me, it felt like a great time to read it as I had recently graduated from University and was starting another step in my life.
On completing the book, I was impressed with how manageable the steps were. I knew that I would need to revisit it in order to practice the advice he shared, and gain more benefit from it. So in this brand new series, I hope to bring you inspiration from the chapters in the book on how I am personally using it and general reflections on self-improvement.
Others find themselves working in hostile work environments where supervisors and colleagues who once befriended them now ridicule and harass them for their faith or for their ethnic heritage. Some Muslim Americans have received death threats from co-workers. Others have been forced to leave their jobs fearing for their personal safety.
SA: That is correct. It is abbreviated to KFUPM. We brag about it in Saudi as the MIT of the Middle East. It's not MIT, but it's one of the very prestigious technical universities. It was founded on the same grounds, or nearby, of the first productive oil well in Saudi Arabia. So it was oriented toward serving the oil and energy industry. They had engineering and business administration majors, and now they have more majors. So that's where I got my degree. It's where my older uncle got his degree. It's a good university and a different system than here.
But when I came here, I found two things. First of all, there is no engineering management program per se, it's under the industrial engineering. The second thing is that she's not taking any more teaching assistants or research assistants because she's going to her new job. So that was shocking for me. But that was the first inclination. My advisor in UTSA, when I did my internship in autonomous control lab, Dr. Mo Jamshidi, he got his degree in OSU, one of his degrees in OSU. And one of my professors in Saudi Arabia as well. I had a friend here who had her degree from OSU and I just felt it's a small town where you can really be resourceful but at the same time not break your budget. If I was living in Boston now, I know that I would barely survive in terms of accommodation, transportation. At one time, for five weeks, I used to drive for a total of four hours daily between work and home and another job in Saudi and Bahrain, so that was one of the criteria: I want small place where I can be productive, and that happened to be OSU.
SA: Absolutely. I might be not the best person to really talk about the great work they do, but I'm aware of it. I've been serving on many community service programs, especially inter-faith community programs, where we put all different people of faith and organizations of faith together for community service. And they put many programs, whether it is community service, educational. Students will visit the mosque to understand about religions whenever they're taking relevant classes. And I believe they've been very active in really creating a good community and a good sense of Muslims having a place to practice their faith.
SA: Thank you. I think that the Memorial Union Advisory Board was one of the first things that got me intrigued a couple years ago. I was intrigued about it because it's an advisory job where you look into budgets, policies, and it's a very big picture thing. And I felt it's really valuable for me. I did that on a very small scale on my start-up, where I would balance a budget of several thousands, but they work they do is several millions. And you have this public budgeting process, or semi-public budgeting process, which was fascinating for me, I wanted to learn about it. So that's where I applied for the Advisory Board, for the MU, and we did the first year. And throughout that, I used to be doing the inter-faith community service as a volunteer, and the ASOSU, the student government here, initiated a new position which facilitates inter-faith community service and inter-faith dialogue and all of these. The position was not originally mandated in the constitution, it was an ad hoc position that the president at the time, Taylor Sarman, initiated, and they wanted to continue.
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