Jazak Allahu khayr for all the wonderful articles posted on the suhaibwebb. I am currently a final year student. InsyaAllah will be finishing my chemical engineering degree in 3 months time. However, I have a habit of procrastinate in doing my assignments/project since i’m taking this degree. As a final year students i ‘ve been given 3 different projects (for 3 differents subjects) where, the time management and own effort is crucial in completing these projects. What made me lazy in completing the projects on time is because all of the projects require me to recall/implement all the knowledge/ equations that I used to learn during the first, 2nd and third year which i don’t like at all. Besides that, I have problem in memorizing. Sometimes, once I read one technical paper, I’ll face problem of only remembering less than 10% of the content. I did prayers, recite al-qur’an & good deeds. But I can’t relate how these good deeds could help in my study. In addition, I like to read islamic articles/websites, but I don’t like to read chemistry-related books. I am asking the opinion,how do I fight my laziness, how to do time management, how to have drive in putting my effort to start the projects, to increase my memorizing capability, and lastly, how do I finish these 3 projects within 3 months time. I hope that u could relate also any qur’anic verses or any Prophet (pbuh) words that are related to this situation. Jazak Allahu khayr. 🙂

the reason you have been successful was not because of thinking about success or happyness ; but it is because you focused your mind on it.

As a human we tend to forget , so thinking regulary about positive things will help attaining it. Allah is the reason why u remembered urself why u think again and again about ur goal.

Thinking positvly is nothing new to humanity. In fact is it a weapon used by every nation to motivate ppl. There are hadith and ayat who speak about being realistic and positive-minded

in fact thinking negatively will lead to commiting sins also kufr.

Ps. The above-mentioned techniques are not proven. It is not proven that well formed goals in the mind lead the way to a thinking process that will help to acheive the goal. Even if popular books promoting it.
As muslims u should be a lil bit more careful for what u r promoting to the muslims. Im a personal n Business coach but i will give you the saying that Iman Ghazali and Ibn Qayyim r more powerful than medicine itself.

Maybe the muslims should stop being ignorant towards ilm ul nafs and what a ibn arabi can offer with a Allah guided faham

Perfect timing !

With Ramadan so close, now is the time to aspire and setup our goals. May Allah grant us the privilege of another Ramadan and insha Allah the ummah is revived once again.

Jazakillah !

A very well written article indeed..:)..I had a question that was lingering in my mind for a long tym..The issue goes as follows :

I have often heard people saying that ”If we imagine that at the end of the day,we are going to be happy ,we will be happy”..Similarly, if we imagine that at the end of the year we will be successful,we will be successful..I have personally tried that with quite a lot of success..

But the danger that I feel with this is that I start banking upon my “Imagination” , whereas I shud bank upon Allah for everything,and I fear that this may be a form of Shirk..This may be a silly question,but I really want an answer..

Thanks a lot..:)