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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.9.1 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:29:02 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>Welcome Message</title><subtitle>Welcome Message</subtitle><id>http://www.productivemuslim.com/founders-message/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://www.productivemuslim.com/founders-message/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.productivemuslim.com/founders-message/atom.xml"/><updated>2009-10-15T14:11:08Z</updated><generator uri="http://www.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace Site Server v5.9.1 (http://www.squarespace.com/)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>-</title><id>http://www.productivemuslim.com/founders-message/2009/10/15/dear-visitorassalamursquoalaikum-wa-rahmatullahi-wa.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.productivemuslim.com/founders-message/2009/10/15/dear-visitorassalamursquoalaikum-wa-rahmatullahi-wa.html"/><author><name>ProductiveMuslim</name></author><published>2009-10-15T13:52:17Z</published><updated>2009-10-15T13:52:17Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Dear Visitor,</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Assalamu&rsquo;alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Thank you for visiting <a href="http://ProductiveMuslim.com">ProductiveMuslim.com</a>. My name is ProductiveMuslim and I&rsquo;m here to make your life a Productive one - inshaAllah!&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I&rsquo;m honoured with your visit and I appreciate you taking the time to learn more about ProductiveMuslim. I want to share with you my story, a story that has changed my life and which resulted in this website!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">My story began 3 years ago, when <strong><em>I became obsessed with everything productive!</em></strong> I learnt the latest techniques about productivity; read the major self-help books about being productive, living productive (even sleeping productive!). I subscribed to numerous blogs that brought me the latest info about gadgets/software solutions that would make my life more productive. Even spent a big chunk of my hard-earned money on books, software, gadgets related to productivity.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em>I truly became a productivity addict</em></strong> (a.k.a workaholic!) and the passion for doing more with less time and resources was always burning within me.&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>But ... something was missing. </strong></em><strong><em>With every book i read, every blog I followed, I felt that I wasn&rsquo;t getting the complete package on how to live a productive life.&nbsp;</em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I prodded along...thinking deeply about this, questions like <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>&ldquo;What would be the ultimate Productive lifestyle?&rdquo;</strong></span> started bothering me. They bothered me because I knew there was an answer but I didn&rsquo;t know where to look for it!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Then it hit me. Like a brick wall. And I couldn&rsquo;t believe I was blind to it the whole time. It hit me, that <strong><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Islam was the answer! and Islam provided the ultimate productive lifestyle! </span></em></strong>You want proof? We have a living one: <strong>Prophet Muhammad&rsquo;s (Peace be upon him) life as captured in all the seerah books! A&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: normal;"><strong>truly productive man;</strong><strong> he achieved in 23 years what no human can achieve in 100 years.</strong>&nbsp;</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">From that day, I began a new journey. A journey of self-discovery and a journey of knowledge. I started noting the secrets of Productivity in our beautiful Islam. Applying them to my life first, then sharing and discussing with others. I started a diary, then I moved to a blog, and now to a website, and inshaAllah soon, very soon to an independent organisation &amp; consulting group that empowers the young &amp; old to become Productive members of our Ummah inshaAllah! (Make dua! :D)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>My ultimate vision: is to make this Ummah the ProductiveUmmah. </strong>And leave a legacy that would be an ongoing charity for me when nothing would benefit me except whatever little good deeds I leave behind.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I pray that Allah (SWT) make our life for His sake,&nbsp; and our actions for His sake, and our words for His sake. Ameen.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Yours sincerely,</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>ProductiveMuslim</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">P.S. Make dua for me.</p>
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