[0:00]Most traders don't fail because of strategy alone. They fail because of how they think, how they react, and the decisions that they make. What's amazing is that everything that I needed to fix those things for myself was in the Quran. In this video, I'm going to share with you the exact verses from the Quran that helped me become a consistently profitable trader. These verses helped me change my trading and as you listen to them, it may show you why you may be struggling or stuck at a certain phase of your career. Now, let me quickly level set. I have many family members that are Christian, and I have Bibles in my home that I've read and that I read and I'm very aware of. Islam, Judaism, and Christianity are considered the three Abrahamic faiths. Because we share beliefs and we share the same prophets. So, the verses that I share in the Quran, I will also share a parallel Bible verse. One last thing if you ever see the word Allah used, just know that this is the Arabic word for God. The opening verse of the Arabic Bible is Fil-bad-i khalaq Allahu samāwāti wal-ard. In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth. So I'm not speaking of some moon God. We're speaking of the master of the universe, creator of everything. Now, this isn't going to be a deep scholarly class. We're going to mention the verse, the principle from each verse. The exact mistake that traders make and how applying it helped me. So the first verse is in the second chapter of the Quran, chapter 2, verse 3, the cow. And God is speaking of the attributes of those who are successful. He says that they have faith and they operate with faith in the unseen. What does this mean? When you have faith that God is directing you towards something, you will operate correctly. You will do the right thing even when you don't have feedback, even when you don't have the validation, even when you don't have the monetary return necessary. When there's no audience and when there's no immediate result, you will continue to believe in yourself and believe that God is with you. So, this is not blind faith. This is conviction in unseen outcomes. And this conviction will drive sustained action and work. Mike Bellafiore, who's trained eight figure traders, he says that there's normally a two to three year learning curve. And most traders fail because they stop too early. Most traders fail because they stop doing the actions that are necessary to be successful, even when you don't have PNL proof. When you're not making money, when it doesn't seem like you're getting better, and there's no monetary validation, this is where your faith has to kick in, your conviction has to kick in, and you have to continue to remain focused, sincere, and keep the action up that's necessary in order to help you eventually hit your goals and your targets. This is the most important concept that helped me remain steadfast. When I started off, I had multiple failures for multiple years, and I hit a point where all of the work, the learning, the back testing, the forward testing, all of that started to pay off. And eventually I got to a point to where I could lead a group and comfortably trade and call out a trade that I made because my conviction eventually produced results. So, you have to have faith and conviction, or you aren't going to make it as a trader. Now, another thing is this verse is about certainty. And certainty isn't about knowing the outcome. Trading is a probability game. So, you won't know the outcome of each individual trade, but you have to build a system that you can trust that you test. And when you build that system and the system shows you that if you trade this system correctly, you will eventually be successful. So in trading, it doesn't mean that you know the outcome, but it means that you know your rules and your playbook. And following your rules and your playbook will result in success. And here's the mistake that many traders make. Uncertain traders hesitate, they chase, they enter late, they exit early. So, to wrap this up, the problem is that most traders don't believe or have faith or have conviction in their process or their playbook. So what do they do? They hesitate, they second guess, they enter late, they exit early. What I used to do is as soon as I entered into a trade and it went into profit, I didn't trust or have conviction in my playbook, so if it went against me, I would exit early. When my playbook trade showed up, I didn't have conviction and trust in it, so I wouldn't enter when I was supposed to, and I would watch the trade go without me. So if you don't have faith in yourself first and God, and then you don't have faith and conviction in your playbook, you will always sabotage yourself. Okay, the second verse is in chapter 2, verse 2 of the Quran, and it reads, This is the book and it, there is no doubt. It is guidance for the God conscious. This verse helps you train the mind to seek clarity and certainty, to remove doubt from your decision making. And in trading, clarity doesn't mean you're going to win all the time. Clarity means building a playbook with clear rules and clear outcomes over a series of trades. So your playbook has to document your confluences, what gives you an edge in the market to be able to make money. And you have to have some stats that will show over a period of time that your win rate and your average RNR will make you profitable over time. I'd say 99% of the traders that I meet before talking to me, they do not have a playbook. They don't have strict rules and they have not built undeniable proof that their playbook works. So what does this do? As it says in this Quranic verse, that there's doubt. Now when you have doubt, you hesitate. When traders have doubt, they chase. They enter late, exit early, and they hesitate. When you remove doubt from your playbook and build undeniable proof, you remove hesitation from your execution. The third verse is from chapter 53, verse 39. And this chapter is about the soul, the self, the person, the internal person, not the body.
[7:00]And it says, whoever invests in the soul, or whoever purifies their soul, will be successful. And whoever corrupts the soul will fail. We have desires, we have a desire for money, which sometimes materializes as greed. We have a desire to protect our pride, which sometimes materializes as marrying a trade. We have a competitive spirit, which sometimes materializes as revenge trading. Most traders need to keep the soul in check. And most people don't lose because they don't know something. Traders, at times, sabotage themselves because they can't control the soul, they can't control themselves. One of the things that we do is we fast for 30 days, and this fasting helps us with restraint. So if you have problems with discipline, you may need to look into practices that will help you with restraint and restraining yourself. Having control over your desire, or having control over your impulses. This is extremely important, and it's an entire field of science and books written about how to do this. Now, verse 5 is about patience. This is chapter 103, verses 1 through 3. In this verse, God is explaining how people fail. What are some of the things that cause people to fail? And what are some of the things that cause people to succeed? And he says that, it says over time, over the ages, people will fail, will lose. Except people that have faith, and they do the right things, they do good deeds, and they do good works, they do wholesome works, they're building, they're trying to build. And they advise each other with truth and patience. Your edge is not expressed. Your playbook is not expressed. Your skill set is not expressed through trading more. Your edge is expressed through waiting. There's so many times. Most losses come from taking C setups. Setups that kind of fit the criteria. They come from jumping in, from FOMO, and from invented trades. That we took because we weren't patient and we didn't wait on our setups. The moment I started waiting for A+ setups, everything changed. There's an analogy from The Matrix that I love. In The Matrix, Morpheus is walking Neo through a crowd. And as they're walking, Neo gets distracted from a lady in the red dress. And when Neo turns back to Morpheus, Morpheus says, you got distracted. Now look back, and that lady in the red dress had turned into Agent Smith pointing a gun to his head, ready to shoot him. The C setups are like the lady in the red dress. They distract you, they call out to you, but you have to have patience and ignore them in order to be successful. Being patient is not being passive. Being patient is a strategy and an edge in itself. The sixth verse is about accountability. It's from chapter 65 and 3. It is said, whoever relies upon God, he is sufficient for him. Meaning, we do everything right, if we work on ourselves, we work on our craft, the outcomes will eventually be determined by God. If you aren't reviewing your trades and getting better and learning and facing your fears, you're more likely to be stagnant. So trading has a longer feedback loop than something like basketball or football or physical sport. You make an adjustment, you'll see it in real time, but since PNL progress is lagging, often times the work that you do today has a lagging effect on your PNL. So you won't actually feel that work or feel the progress most times until later on. That causes people to give up, to lose enthusiasm, to not to stay disciplined to their process. So you have a decision to make. I had a decision to make. I had to say, Abdullah, there's a verse in the Quran that says that every person, every soul should analyze what they're doing today that will impact their future. This is a call from God to us to be intentional. And if we're intentional, then we will have, it's likely that we'll have a greater future. So, the decision that we have to make is if we want to have a greater future, then we'll have to analyze our trades, we'll have to review our trades. We'll have to find the mistakes. We'll have to fix those mistakes and let today be the start of a better tomorrow as a trader. Now, I use chat GPT. I review my trades. I journal with TradeZella. You can click the link in the description for a discount with TradeZella. AI has a way of doing an analysis. You can do deep research on your trades, and it can give you feedback in real time. If you manage context, learn how to manage context, memory for your AI agent that will help you with trading, and there's, there's, if you can manage certain amount of context, then as you get better, AI will comment on your progress and help you deal with the the lag in PNL progress. So you have learning PNL and monetary PNL. That learning PNL comes a lot quicker than the the monetary PNL. At the end of all of this, we have to know that the outcome is only decided by God. And knowing that, it's sufficient for the believer. So, we have to do the work. We have to follow our rules, we have to build a playbook and back test it. Then we have to trade accordingly and let go. Let go of the will and hand our success or our learning to God. A wise man said, can't do anything about yesterday, but today you can act. He said, winners either win or they learn, and they never lose because they never quit. So, if this video resonates, I'm considering starting a halal Islamic investing channel. Comment below if you'd like to see that kind of content. If you're serious about upgrading your trading and not just watching videos, you want direct hands-on mentorship and live trading, click the link in the description for our accelerator. If you enjoyed this content, don't just stop here. 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