Ep 51: How to Transform Your Prayer & Connect with Allah Like Never Before | Iqbal Nasim

Complete Change the Way You Think About Salah & Develop a More Meaningful Relationship with Allah

This week we’re joined by Iqbal Nasim. He’s an educator, writer, speaker, former investment banker and non-profit leader, and a Hafidh of Qur’an. In our opinion, he is one of the most forward-thinking visionaries in the UK Muslim community today, and in this episode you’ll get a flavour for why that is!

Iqbal has a long-standing passion for aiding Muslims lead a more meaningful, purposeful, God-centred life. After a decade as CEO of the National Zakat Foundation, Iqbal’s focus has turned to creating and delivering transformational educational experiences through his courses on salat, the Qur’an, and leadership.

In this episode we discuss his journey briefly, and then dive into the mindset shift we must make if we want to improve the quality of our daily salat, and deepen our relationship with Allah. Get ready to hear some seriously thought-provoking thoughts about salah that you might not have considered before.

We’ll also hear about the ‘Transform My Prayer’ course which Iqbal is teaching LIVE this Ramadan.

Stay tuned until the last portion of the episode to watch Iqbal and Usman play the Reflection Deck card game together. Things get very deep!

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Iqbal’s journey towards building the National Zakat Foundation.
• The true purpose of Zakat vs how Muslims treat it today.
• How Iqbal combines Zakat, salah, and leadership as part of a logical journey towards building strong foundations.
• Why the Muslim community will never become great again unless they establish strong foundations.
• Why weak salah = weak foundations.
• The current state of most of our prayers and why this is a major problem (are our prayers just a performance?)
• How people treat their daily salah vs the reality of what it actually is.
• The problem with mindless salah .
• How Allah describes the Believers’ motivations in the Qur’an vs what we think they are.
• Start practising or stop pretending! A scary but eye-opening question you need to ask yourself.
• The number one priority you must address before trying to fix the components inside of your prayer
• Do we believe in Allah because we’re Muslim, or are we Muslim because we believe in Allah?
• What’s comes first, the mindset surrounding prayer or establishing prayer first?
• More info about the Transform My Prayer, Club Revelation and Last Day Leader courses that Iqbal teaches.
• The Prophet’s (s) Companions’ (ra) journey with