Welcome back to our 11th Episode, part II of our #EntreSeries featuring an incredible guest speaker. 

Salah Sharief is currently a PhD law student at the University of Leeds, Founder of two companies; authoring over 3 eBooks as well as instructed  a course on Udemy. All of the while, he has amassed over 4 years in an islamic scholarship programme at al-Salam institute as well as taking sabatticals to study abroad in Egypt on more than one occasion. He has a close student-teacher relationship with Sh. Akram Nadwi, a scholar of Islam residing in Oxford.

In this EP he shares his amazing story getting into entrepreneurship as well his lifestyle choices made for a higher purpose in his deen.

We discuss:
@0:42 The Chronicles of Qaylula
@8:42 Life of a Young Entrepreneur #OrganicGrowth
@29:29 Do something you are an expert in. #Advice1
@30:14 Businesses don't run themselves, you need to run it. #Advice2
@36:38 Price is everything. #Advice3
@42:00 You either have to be cheaper or better. Quality and Customer service is key. #Advice4
@43:55 Travelling the world while doing work. The benefits of entrepreneurship.
@55:00 the mindset is universal. #TransferableSkillsFromEntrepreneurship
@55:45 Entrepreneurship is expands Islam.
@59:20 Salah's passion and zeal for 'ilm.
@1:04:10 Travelling for Knowledge.
@1:04:57 When a teacher became a student at Sh. Akram's seminar.
@1:10:39 Attached to personalities #fanboy
@1:13:00 It is about being convinced. #Ilm
@1:15:17 Perspective of finding resources and teachers locally.
@1:22:00 Ilm is not for show.
@1:28:50 How to overlap between ilm, PhD and Business? #Priorities
@1:32:25 Everything, for me, was to facilitate for Taalib al ilm.

Ibn Battuta's Boat