Career advice nobody told you: You have to demonstrate excellence in everything you do. Your income scales proportional to the amount of excellence that you're able to demonstrate. Strategic incompetence is a lie. You don't get to pick and choose when to show up, because the world will ignore your best and judge you for your worst. Everything matters. Every single thing. Top performers show up with energy and enthusiasm for the little things just as much as they do for the big things. If you're in the top-10% of performers, there's no ceiling for what you can do. But the self-awareness to identify where you currently stack up, and adapt to the honest feedback on it, is very rare. If you're in the top-10%, you know it. If you're not, figure out why and fix it.
4 factors to consider when making a career decision (none of which involve money):
1. Talent Density
You tend to rise or fall to the level of the people around you. When you work with exceptional people, you absorb their standards, pace, frameworks, and instincts almost through osmosis. High-talent environments compress learning cycles and force you to grow faster than you would on your own. If you care about compounding skills and judgment, there’s nothing more valuable than choosing the room with the highest talent per square foot.
2. Market Growth
A fast-growing market makes everything feel easier. It's a tailwind for skill accumulation, title trajectory, and opportunity set. Even average players can look like stars in a rapidly expanding industry; great players can compound outlier outcomes. Conversely, declining or stagnant markets create headwinds that even great performers struggle to overcome. It's very difficult to swim upstream, no matter how strong the swimmer.
3. Leadership Quality
Your manager is often the single greatest variable in your long-term development. Great leaders create environments where you're challenged, trusted, coached, and pushed into uncomfortable growth. Poor leaders create ceilings. They limit your exposure, suppress your risk-taking, and narrow your aperture of what’s possible. Choose leaders who invest in people, not just outputs.
4. Intellectual Stimulation
Intellectual stimulation is a leading indicator of future growth because curiosity compounds just like capital. You want to be in environments that make you feel alive intellectually. Where the problems are interesting, the challenges stretch you, and you're forced into deeper thinking. When your mind is engaged, you naturally develop new skills, pursue new ideas, and build momentum.
What would you add to the list (and why)?
87. Enjoin right, forbid wrong (31:17)
88. Do not walk in insolence through the earth (31:18)
89. Women should not display their finery (33:33)
90. Allah forgives all sins (39:53)
91. Do not despair of the mercy of Allah (39:53)
92. Repel evil by good (41:34)
93. Decide on affairs by consultation (42:38)
94. Most noble of you is the most righteous (49:13)
95. No Monasticism in religion (57:27)
96. Those who have knowledge will be given a higher degree by Allah (58:11)
97. Treat non-Muslims in a kind and fair manner (60:8)
98. Save yourself from covetousness (64:16)
99. Seek forgiveness of Allah. He is Forgiving and Merciful (73:20)
100. Do not repel the petitioner/beggar (93:10).
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[Surah Al-Anbiyāʾ: 16]
Tafsir
Na hatukuziumba mbingu na ardhi na vilivyo baina yao kwa mchezo.
Barzakh and Quantum Physics
A realm that exists beyond space and time — yet sees you now.
This is the Islamic afterlife like you've never understood it before.
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Most of us don't know what we should say during Salat Al-janaaza (prayer for the deceased):
1- After the First Takbeer : Recite Surat Al-Fatiha.
2-After the Second Takbeer: Salat Al-Ibrahimiyya (Allahumma Salli Alaa Muhammad Wa Alaa Aali Muhammad....to the end).
3-After the Third Takbeer: Pray for the dead but according how it is narrated from our Prophet ﷺ. One of them is:(Allahummagfir lahuu warhamhu wathabbit-hu Alal qawlu Athaabit).
4- Then lastly after the Fourth Takbeer: Say: (Allahumma laa tuharrimnaa ajrahuu wa laa taftinna ba'adahuu)
And you should pray for all Muslims.
5- And lastly end the prayer with one Salaam to the right (Just once).
Please share if you think its right for the benefit of others.
May Allah forgive our sins and grant us all a good end...