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Find a problem to solve – #3

Find a problem to solve – #3

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 Auto-generated transcript:Alhamdulillah, Rabbil Alameen, wassalatu wassalamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen, Muhammadu rasulullahi sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahibu sallam, tasliman kathiran kathira. Fammabadu, my brothers and sisters, somebody asked me a question, I've been, last two further reminders, we've been talking about, of secret of success, and I said find a problem, solve it, scale it, monetize it, and one of our listeners, he said, how do I find a problem? Now, on the face of it, that looks like a trick question, so I'm sure he's trying to trick me. But seriously, if you think about it, how do you find a problem? That reminds me of a story. I was, many years ago, I was walking in Nizamabad with a friend of mine, and we went down, we were going to some place, and we went down a lane, and this lane was absolutely stinking. It was the foulest smelling thing that you can imagine. So my friend obviously expressed his disgust, and he said, what a horrible smell. So I said to him. That is the smell of money. So he thought I was speaking hypothetically, you know, that like money is dirty kind of thing. Of course, I don't believe money is dirty, money is money. What you do with it makes it dirty or good. So he said, do you mean, what do you mean? So I said, I'm not speaking hypothetically. This is the smell of money. So he said, I didn't understand. I said, what are you smelling? He said, garbage. I said, okay. So if you apply to the city and say that I want to remove this garbage, do you think the city will agree? And I said, apply to the city. I want to remove the garbage. He said, yeah, I'm sure they'll agree. So he said, if you apply to remove this garbage, who will pay you for that? He said, the city will pay. He said, yes. The garbage itself, you get. And the city is paying you to remove the garbage. Now you take this garbage and then you take it to a place and you separate it. You recycle it. Plastic separate, inflammable separate and so on. And you make a plastic melting factory. You make, you create a factory to make briquettes, fuel briquettes, for example. You take other garbage which can be converted into vermicompost. So you have fertilizer. So I said, there's three different revenue streams. Now you can upscale the plastics into making different kinds of consumer products. So that is a revenue stream that can be scaled up some more. So he said, fantastic. I never thought of that. I said, okay, then I'm not finished. So I said, here you have got three revenue streams. The raw material for which you are getting. Not only are you getting it free because garbage is garbage. People just throw it. But you are also being paid to bring it to your place from wherever it is. Right? So here is raw material being donated to you free of cost. And somebody is paying you to move that raw material from wherever it is to your factories. Right? He said, fantastic. I said, okay, I haven't finished yet. He said, what more? What is there? I said, I'll tell you. The real punchline is to come. So the punchline is to remove this garbage, you need labor. To separate the garbage into different, you know, basic raw material products for your different factories, you need labor. Who are the people that you are going to employ? He said, well, people who are very poor, people who have really no options in life, people who are completely uneducated. And since we are talking about India, we'll, we'll probably employ people of lower castes who are already oppressed and so on. So I said, there you go. Now you are providing employment for all of these people. And all of them, all of them are people in need, people who are, you know, who have, who have serious life difficulties. So I said, now think about this. So when you are doing this, you are getting Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will reward you because you are helping all of these people. At the same time, you are cleaning the streets. So now your city, instead of smelling like a garbage dump, now start smelling like a rose garden because the whole place is cleaned up. Plus you have provided employment for all these people. Now you being a good Muslim, inshaAllah, and you being, the purpose being to please Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, you will not exploit these people who you are employing. You will employ them. You will maybe start schools for their small children. Maybe you will start and you should start, you know, you should start a free medical facility for them to, you know, to give them, provide them medical aid. And then you expand the schools, employ, you know, make them absolutely top class schools and then open them. So now you've got a fourth revenue stream, which is schools. And it's a very, very popular and a very lucrative revenue stream. You have your hospitals. Now again, in the hospitals, that's a fifth revenue stream, right? And again, I'm not saying do it like the corporate hospitals do make it into an absolute profit center. Don't do that, ...
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