
Preparing for the future
Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center · Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center
February 7, 202611m 12s
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https://youtu.be/mnGqUuPFzsc
Nvidia CEO on future jobs: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-says-160735219.html?_guc_consent_skip=1770435644
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Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wa salatu wa salamu ala ash-sharafi al-anbiya wal-mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Dasliman kaseeran kaseeran. My brothers and sisters, I'm in Bidar, in the Black Buck Sanctuary.
And I'm looking at... You can see what I'm looking at.
On my right is a huge strand of Glycidia, which is something that the Forest Department themselves planted here.
This is their tendency to plant trees in every open piece of land. Unfortunately, for the Black Buck, this is a terrible thing because Glycidia completely covers the soil and doesn't... does not allow grass to grow.
As I'm walking here, there is a Black Buck male, which is in the grass there. I don't think you can see it, but it's there. Now, Black Buck are an endangered species, and they exist on grass. They eat grass. And if the grass... is gone, then the Black Buck is gone. It's as simple as that.
But there we have the department in its wisdom.
They have planted the place full of Glycidia. As you can see here, they're looking at a beautiful sunrise.
Amazing. Beautiful sunrise. MahaAllah. Allah Ta'ala's khawarat is everywhere. You see this whole strand of Glycidia. Glycidia has this very pretty pink flower, pink flower, almost like cherry blossoms, but for grasslands and for Black Buck, it's very bad news. Now, this is a very interesting thing. It's a very interesting thing. The sanctuary itself is about what you can see here, which in terms of the territory, in terms of what their need is, way, way, way less than afternoon.
But there you are. And on top of that, grass is obviously susceptible to burning. And so, you know, somebody throws a cigarette butt or something, and that's the end of a huge wave of grassland. You can probably see here. Okay, there you go. Now, that's a nice male. It's a very good male. It's a nice picture. He is standing there looking at me. Okay. And then he's going off on his own. Lovely big buck. .
! This is ideal territory for me to come to the point that I want to talk to you about, and that is the question of looking at ourselves. And I'm especially talking to now the, especially the youth. There's a wonderful, well wonderful for want of another word, but wonderful statement by the head of Nvidia, a man who runs a company which has a market cap, which is more than the GDP of India. And I imagine this one company. If it were to be a market cap, nation state, it would be bigger than India in terms of its GDP. And it's run by one man, obviously he's the head of the company. Now he says that the millionaires of the future will not be people with college degrees. They will be plumbers and electricians. Because AI will automate and take over everything which can be automated and taken over. And the only thing which will be there for you to use and also as a means of livelihood are things which cannot be taken over by AI. And that is things which needs a human being with hands and legs to fix it. So AI is not going to unblock your sink. It's not going to redo your toilets. You need somebody to do that. AI is not going to wire up your houses. You need someone to do that. So he says, get a skill. Get a skill that you can do with your hands. In other words, get a trade. That's a, that's a good idea. As you can see, the clouds are very pretty. And the sun is shining. But this is serious bad news for grasslands. So to come back to my topic. He says, do something with your hands. Get a trade. Now, believe me, I can't possibly agree with that more. I completely agree with it. And I strongly recommend for all of you to go and learn something that your hands are good at. Yeah. you can do with your hands. The issue is that many people seem to have attitudes of, I mean, ridiculous attitudes where they look down on tradespeople, on tradesmen and tradeswomen, and they think that there is something wrong with, you know, something in Fradig and something not so nice about working with your hands. And that's why I say to you, first and foremost, if you have any reluctance to learn, ask yourself, what is the reason? If you say, I don't like to become a plumber, say, ask yourself, what is the reason? That reason might be a cancer of your mind, where you are looking down on something which is, something which is not so nice about working with your hands. And that's why I say to you, if you have any reluctance to do something which is not right, ask yourself, what is the reason? wonderful work and you know they're doing very well for themselves one is Anil who is Bosnian and the other one is Jihad Akal who is Lebanese both of them dear friends of mine and they do a phenomenal work they build houses they do all kinds of stuff all of which is non AIable if I can use the word this is so the good sense so ask yourself if you don't like doing this if you don't like getting a trade why what is the reason the second thing I would say is that do this analysis for yourself and say that what I'm doing how valuable is that my work my current work how AIable is that how automatable is that if you are my guess is that if you are doing in any area of IT or ITS then you are looking at a dead man yourself when you look at the in terms of your career when you look in the mirror you are looking at a dead person because all that stuff will get as soon as they have AI agents to take care of it they will take care of it and you will be out on your sit upon looking for a job without any talent without any trade in your hand that's not a nice situation being in you know I don't know if it's a matter of comfort for you that you would have brought that on yourself so I strongly recommend that figure out what you want to do in your life and go learn fast because even learning takes time and AI is on your neck whether you like it or not I'm not against AI or something it's not a matter of being against or not against AI is not an ideology it's a tool I'm just looking at the future as I know it or I can see it and I'm not a magician and that's why I'm quoting the hero NVIDIA but think about it from your own perspective and say what do I want to do in my life and then go ahead and you know do something about it and we ask Allah to help us to do that which is pleasing to him and save us from that which doesn't please him and may Allah bless you and may Allah bless you