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that is making some kind of headway, some kind of service

and trying to instill Islamic values into our coming generations.

But today I want to speak about this from another perspective,

the same subject but from a different perspective.

Coming from a business background and a management background,

I can tell you that when you have a project,

you have to be very clear about your goals.

And once you have clarity about your goals,

then you decide what steps you're going to take to achieve those goals.

And in what time will you achieve those goals?

And for each one of those steps, what resources are you going to need

to be able to get to those goals?

So the first thing you have to be clear about is the goal.

And then everything else you do, all the steps,

are now determined by that goal.

And at every step of the process, you have to stop and ask yourself,

is this step taking me towards that goal or not?

And is there a clear connection between this step and that goal?

What happens often in businesses, in education, in institutions,

is people start with a very clear goal.

Like I'll give you the example of politics.

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