Auto-generated transcript:Salam alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
Alhamdulillah, Rabbil Alameen.
Wa salatu wa salam ala al-sharafi al-anbiya ibn Musaleen Muhammad Rasulullah.
Sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam tasliman kathiran kathira.
So, amma baadu, my brothers and sisters,
Jazakallah khairun to all of you, especially the brothers from UMass
for taking the time and trouble to come and see me
before I go to India.
May Allah bless you and keep you in His special care and concern.
Some of you are freshmen and some of you are seniors.
And I don't know by the time I return, you would have graduated and gone.
May Allah Ta'ala keep you safe always in His special care.
May Allah Subhana Ta'ala protect you.
May Allah help you in ways that you cannot imagine.
May Allah Subhana Ta'ala open doors for you from places where you can't imagine.
May Allah Subhana Ta'ala protect you from all evil.
That which you know and that which you don't know.
May Allah Ta'ala make it easy for you.
May Allah grant you your wishes, your goals, your aspirations
with khair and barakah and maafiyah.
I want to share with you four,
what I call my four hard truths.
And I call them hard truths because these are painful to accept to face,
but they are true.
I used to go to a gym in Hyderabad called Talwarkots.
In that gym, there was a huge scene to floor poster
which had a picture of a very,
over-muscled, big, huge man.
And the slogan said,
shut up and train.
And I think that's a very good,
very good rule to follow for yourself.
To shut up and train.
Meaning, to focus on our life goals.
You're here at the university.
And remember that you're here for one reason only.
There is no other reason.
You're not here for the clubs.
You're not here even for the MSAs.
You're not here for absolutely any reason other than
to get the best possible grades that you can get.
Absolutely the best possible grades that you can get.
Because you're here for the best possible reasons.
And the best possible reasons are doing it.
Because what you do in these three, four years that you're here
will determine your future for the rest of your life, more or less.
So therefore, it makes absolutely zero sense
to spend this time focusing on anything other than your studies.
Now, once you have finished with your studies
for the day, for the week, for the month,
and then you have spare time,
by all means, spend that spare time doing another six.
And in that, I would put your MSAs as the top priority
because to learn your deem and to do something good for people,
this must be your top priority.
Do spend time also on your physical education,
on being on physical fitness.
You must be known for the best food
among all American universities.
And usually that also means that it should be known for the...
its capability to fatten you the fastest.
Because all best food translates into enormous number of calories.
So you want to be in a situation where
by all means, enjoy the food,
but make sure that you burn it off.
So hit the gym,
have a beautiful campus,
go running,
go walking.
10,000 steps per day.
Make this into an absolutely invaluable rule.
10,000 steps per day.
And those 10,000 steps must be done at one stretch.
It's not throughout the day.
So the routine that I always recommend for people to follow
is number one,
wake up one hour or one and a half hour
before the time for fajr starts.
And then make sure that you pray tahajjud.
Make tahajjud firm on yourself.
And once you've prayed tahajjud,
then read one juz,
one zibar of Quran.
And depending on your speed of reading,
if you can't finish the whole juz,
read as much as you can.
And then go and pray salatul fajr by jama'ah.
Go to the masjid,
go to the masjid,
make sure that you pray salatul fajr by jama'ah.
And when you finish praying salatul fajr,
then you sit there in the place where you prayed,
and make this.
And make zikr
until the time for ishra comes.
And then pray two rakat and two rakat,
four rakat, but in twos.