Best lessons I have learned in 2021

Talha Tariq
4 min readDec 26, 2021

Indeed, 2021 is a gem and the best year for me till my this life. Hopefully, I will not forget this year in my whole life. This year, I found the real purpose of my life and found that this world is not more than an illusion.

Before this year, I was living in a fake world. I was totally fake with myself. My only job was making memes and roasting people and having fun throughout the day. I tried my best to make people laugh all day. And it was a cool thing for me. Fake appreciation, Best Memer of university titles were giving me a sense of celebrity and pushing me into this world more and more. And many more others things like that in my JDays. But Then Al-Rahman put his special mercy on me and introduced me to the channel of Muhammad Ali. After watching some of the videos of the Things that Matters series, I went through a mental shock. What kind of life, I’m living? Where are Allah and his Prophet in my life? Where is Qur’an in my life? Do I even know a single word meaning of the Qur’an? What is the purpose of my existence? Do I really want to live that kind of life? Where are the things in my life that matter most? and many questions like that.

Then Allah gave me a direction and I decided to start understanding Qur’an and Deen. As I started going into depth of the Qur’an, horizons of horizons were explored to me. I started to change myself, striving to be a better version of myself. I started to gain knowledge and improve myself. The more knowledge I gain, the more thirst arouse in me. I started looking at everything with a reason, with a perspective. Many sad and painful days also came into my life this year, but in every that interval, I learned something great.
so, In this article, I’m gonna share some of my best and amazing life experiences and learned lessons from 2021.

Let’s start:

Allah will solve your all problems

Whenever I have a problem, I asked it from Allah and some days it solves in such a way I can’t even imagine. Personally, I experienced many such events of my life in 2021, in which a solution to my problem isn’t seeming possible, but it was solved. How? I don't know? This is the best thing I have learned in 2021.

Don’t Please people

My job is to please people throughout my life. I woke up for nights just for useless chatting with friends. And that friends? vanished and faded out from my life with the passage of time. Ahh, that feeling 💔 I changed my many decisions just for pleasing people. But this year, through passing pains, I learned that Don’t try to please people. Try to please the creator, not the creations. People will never get happy. Never ever.

Spend your time wisely.

I wasted a lot of my time. A lot. My daily average time was 8h+, just on Facebook. In this year I realized knowledge with wisdom is the only thing that makes you different from others. Although I wasted my time now too, but not that much Alhamdulillah. I always try my best to spend my idle time doing something productive. We have to spend our time wisely. We have to manage studies, our learning plans for tech and Deen, gain knowledge about modern-day's challenges, and more things. But we have a very short amount of time. So, spend your time wisely by managing it.

Hard work never goes to waste

I personally witnessed this fact in my own life in 2021. How? This is between me and My creator. 🙂 Anyways, Now this is one of my strongest beliefs.

Work on your well-being

Instead of wasting time on social media, instead of becoming addicts and getting involved in disorders of social media, Work on your well-being. Read books, listen to podcasts, Lectures. It will nourish your soul and give you internal peace of heart. You will feel changes in yourself too. Work on self-awareness and self-esteem, it will save you from criticism of people and also gives you insight that how bigger are you.

→ Never ever break your connection with Creator

Whenever I goes low in my Iman, I faced problems and also my self-esteem goes low too. So, I learned that never ever break your connection with Allah. Whenever you’re feeling lazy in performing salah, doing good deeds then it’s mean our connection is getting weak. Work on it and make it strong somehow.

Through many lessons, these are some best ones. Now, it’s your turn. Think about yours and write them down. It will give you bliss when you will look back in the future.

Jazak Allah for reading!

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Talha Tariq

On the way to be a Software Engineer | Love to write about Islamic & Programming Topics | Founder of Learn & Grow