Barakah Culture

How Getting a Chicken Roll Can Be an Act of Worship

I asked our Barakah Effect course students to practice a simple exercise. Before every action, they needed to pause and ask themselves, “How can I please Allah SWT through this?”

🔊 The Global “Allahu Akbar” Reprogramming

The genius of Islam is that it gives us spiritual seasons to remind us of our purpose in life: Ramadan forces us to slow down. The five daily prayers create mandatory pauses. And these ten days of Dhul-Hijjah? They’re asking us to step off the hamster wheel and witness the sacredness of these days and the year’s greatest event: The Hajj.

Slow down your life with #SlowSalah

Alhamdulillah, we are blessed as Muslims to have the five daily prayers that help us pause in the middle of our busy lives and turn to our Creator. But sadly, many of us rush through them trying to catch up with life.  The irony is that we rush through our meeting with our Creator, Who has control over everything in our lives, to hurry towards meetings with people or tasks that only Allah can facilitate in the first place! The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ spoke directly about this issue. In a hadith narrated by Abu Hurairah, the Prophet ﷺ noticed a man praying in a hurried manner. He said to him, “Go back and pray, for you have not prayed.” This happened three times, until the man said, “Teach me, O Messenger of Allah.” The Prophet ﷺ then explained, “When you stand for prayer, perform wudu properly, then face the qibla and say takbir. Then recite what you can from the Quran, then bow until you feel at ease in ruku’, then rise until you are standing straight, then prostrate until you feel at ease in prostration…” (Bukhari)

The Tyranny Of The Mechanical Clock

Time wasn’t “precise” – divided into 24 hours, each hour 60 minutes, and each minute 60 seconds. It was more free-flowing, more natural. Below is a description of how Muslim societies organized their time from a book called “Time Sticks”: How Islam and Other Cultures Have Measured Time by Dr. Barbara Freyer Stowasser:

Nurturing Barakah in our Creative & Entrepreneurial Journey with Peter Gould 

How might we, as modern-day designers, entrepreneurs, and professionals, reconcile the deep understanding and spiritual practice of our creative predecessors with our hyper-digital, Hustle Culture lives?

Beyond Urgent: Prioritizing Life Using The Intention-Impact Matrix

The intention-impact matrix is a conceptual tool we’ve developed at The Productive Muslim Company to help individuals align their tasks and actions with long-term impact and underlying intention. This is particularly aligned with our Barakah Culture approach to productivity.

Ego is the Enemy of Barakah

When Souls Meet: How to fuse Barakah into your meetings?

We tend to think of meetings as spaces where minds meet, however, what if we redefined meetings as spaces where souls meet? How can meetings be conduits of Barakah (Divine Goodness) for ourselves and organizations, and even a means of personal and team-wide spiritual development? In this article, we explore how we can approach meetings from a spiritual perspective and the impact this will have on the quality of our meetings.

How The Productive Muslim Company Went Hijri-First & How Your Company Can Do So Too

Learn how The Productive Muslim Company Went Hijri-First in 1442H and 4 Steps to help your team and organization go Hijri as well.