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TAZKIYA PRACTICAL SESSION
MUFTI SYED ABRAR
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 Activity 1: Define your Spiritual Goals

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Spiritual Goals

GOAL SETTING
Goal setting is important and having clearly defined
spiritual goals is crucial to achieve your dreams.

WRITE DOWN YOUR GOALS

It will drive you to take action and will help you to
become more focused and achieve your spiritual
goals.

SMART
Your spiritual goals should be specific, measurable,
achievable, relevant and time-bound.

Achieve Your Goals

You can achieve your spiritual goals with discipline,
patience, persistence and with Allah’s Help.

GOAL BASED STRATEGY PLANNING 3

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Golden Points

Goals are like a GPS system leading the way. But to be the led, first of all you have to
know where you want to go.

People with clear, written goals accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than
people without them can ever imagine ( Brian Tracy).

Most people overestimate what they can do in a month and under-estimate what they
can do in a year.

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Golden Points

By writing your spiritual gaols, you will declare to your mind that out of 50000 to 60000
thoughts you have a day, this one written down is the most important.

By writing your spiritual goals, you start concentrating and focusing on the activities that
bring you closer to your goals.

Having a look at your written goals every day forces you to act and helps you to prioritise
your actions for the day by asking yourself questions such as In this moment , is doing what
I am doing brining me closer to my goals?

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Golden Points

Before starting the change process, you have to be clear about your
spiritual goals.
Then breakdown into small achievable action steps and make a list
of all the steps that you will take to get there.
Calculate how long it will take you. Don’t forget to set a deadline
for each action step and goal.

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DEFINE YOUR PLAN days days

Define your Spiritual Goals

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Define Your Spiritual Goals

 In the following exercise, I want you to write down what you

want to achieve in the hereafter and in order to achieve that
what you want your life to look like in the next 10 years.
 Write down what you want, not what you think is possible. So
Go BIG and there are no limits to your imagination.
 The answers that you write here are the spiritual direction in
which your life is headed.

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Define Your Spiritual Goals

 Create a clear vision of your goals in your mind. See yourself

as already having achieved the goal : How does it feel? How
does it look? How does it sound?
 The spiritual goals have to be yours, specific, stated positively
and you have to commit to them.
 When perusing your spiritual goals, reward yourself for the
efforts put in, and not just for the results.

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Define Your Spiritual Goals

 Put a little card with your goals written on it in your wallet and
reconnect four-five times daily.
 It’s very beneficial to have a to-do list. Put your action steps on
it, as well as the times it takes to do the task and put the
deadline for each task.
 Balance your gaols ( Physical, economic, social, professional,
family , spiritual).

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Exercise

1. What do you want to achieve in the hereafter? There are no limits ! Go big!
2. What do you want your life to look like in 10 years to help you achieve your goal in the
hereafter? There are no limits !
3. What do you need to have achieved in five years to get closer to your spiritual goals in 10
years?
4. What do you need to have achieved in a year to get closer to your spiritual goal in five
years?
5. What do you need to have achieved in three months to get closer to your one-year
spiritual goal?
6. What are the things that you can do NOW to reach your three months spiritual goal?

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Timeline

30 days
60 days
90 days

30 Days Plan 60 Days Plan 90 Days Plan

What would You accomplish in What would You accomplish in What would You accomplish in
your first 30 days? your first 60 days? your first 90 days?

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1year
5
years
10years

1 Year Plan 5 Year Plan 10 Year Plan

Where do you see yourself Where do you see yourself Where do you see yourself
in 1 year? in 5 years? in 10 years?

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 Write down at least three things and TAKE ACTION!

Action step:
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 ……………………………………………………………………
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10 Year Plan ( Ibadat)

Spiritual Goals 30 60 90 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 10

Days Days Days
Observing ( Musalli Perfect Khsuhu Khsuhu Ihsan Level 1 Ihsan Level
Salah ( Faraidh) How many /Khuzu /Khuzu 2
salah)

Observing
Salah ( Nawafil)
Observing
Saum
Observing
Zakat/Sadaqah
Observing
Haj/Umrah
Observing
Tilawat /Dhikr
Others

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10 Year Plan

Spiritual Goals 30 60 90 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 10

Days Days Days
Observing
Iman (Talluq Ma
Allah)
Observing
Ibadat
Observing
Muamalat
Observing
Aadab
Observing
Taqwa
Observing
Ilm ( Knowledge)

Others

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