Abdulfattah Adeyemi

This lecture (delivered on the 21, of January, 2024) demonstrates that marriage is a sacred union of hearts. It is a refined relationship between two individuals who embark on a marital journey filled with joy, challenges, and growth. Understanding and patience emerge as steadfast companions in this journey that can lead to a resilient and lasting bond. Listen, learn, laugh, and think deeply, as y...

When a child loses either or both of his parents, he faces so many economic, social, and emotional issues down the line. The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) emphasized the importance of fostering or caring for orphans and considered it one of the noblest deeds in Islam. The lecture (delivered on 4 November 2023) shows us the “Big Picture”: we must never lose sight of the compassionate imperat...

This short lecture is an analogy of what a marriage can do to us: it can define, confine, or refine us, and whatever we make of it is entirely our choice. Listen, learn, and laugh as you edit your Youniverse! For more lectures and counseling services, visit: www.abdulfattahadeyemi.com

The crux of our marital relationship is love and mercy: there can be no mercy without love, and there can be no true love without mercy. This lecture (5, February 2024) posited that mercy is not just an emotion we feel; it is a decision to make, and an action to take. Listen, learn, and laugh as you edit your Youniverse! For more lectures and counseling services, visit: www.abdulfattahadeyemi.com

This is part of a leadership lecture (delivered on 28, January 2024). It examines the Islamic concepts of stewardship, intention, welfare, spirituality, and other parameters of ethical leadership in the home. Listen, learn, and laugh as you edit your Youniverse! For more lectures and counseling services, visit: www.abdulfattahadeyemi.com

This is part of a leadership lecture (delivered on 28, January 2024). It looks at the idea of religiousness of marital leadership in five ways: faith, devotion, experiential comprehension, consequential considerations, and deep knowledge. Listen, learn, and laugh as you edit your Youniverse! For more lectures and counseling services, visit: www.abdulfattahadeyemi.com

This is part of a leadership lecture (delivered on 28, January 2024). It is a philosophical view of leadership's contexts, limits, circumstances, and terrains, based on observations and inferences from the natural world. Listen, learn, and laugh as you edit your Youniverse! For more lectures and counseling services, visit: www.abdulfattahadeyemi.com

It is not such a bad thing to be concerned about others, helpful, or generous to increase your happiness level. However, when altruism is taken too far, it becomes unhealthy. How should you live a balanced life between pleasing others and pleasing yourself? How should you determine the right persons to please such that it becomes a pleasure pleasing them? What are the right approaches to pleasing...

This speech (delivered on the 14, of October 2023) suggests that couples can use social media to enrich their love story, fostering connection, communication, and shared growth. It is a tool that, when harnessed wisely, can serve as an extension of the love that binds them in the real world, nurturing and strengthening the marital bond in the digital age. Listen, learn, laugh, and think deeply as...

Welcome to the enchanted kingdom of "Socialtopia," where WiFi signals flow like rivers. Where hashtags grow on virtual trees, and where the quirky citizens embarked on a digital adventure like no other. This speech (delivered on the 14, Oct. 2023) invites us to explore the profound philosophical questions surrounding technology, identity, and the human experience in the digital ecosphere...

We are always busy chasing deadlines and dreams, such that we forget to live in the moment to enjoy the simple things. We are always busy; but what are we busy for? We need to pause and reflect to find our inner core. This lecture (recorded via zoom on 10 September, 2023) discusses how we are addicted to being busy and how to balance family and work. Listen, learn, laugh and edit your Youniverse!...

This lecture was held on 23, September 2021.  The mode of communication is mainly Pidgin English and it covers a wide array of metaphors to explain the factors that can help build a happy family life. Listen, learn, laugh, and think deeply as you Edit Your Youniverse! For more lectures and counseling services, visit: www.abdulfattahadeyemi.com

Some people’s stories are all about the friends who walked into their lives at a point in time, enemies who made them run in thorns, benefactors who brought happiness their way, and cruel people who pruned their wings when they were about to fly. Lucky ones amongst us can remember the stories of how they helped others to grow, how they helped a fallen little bird back to its nest, how they offered...

This lecture (delivered on 9 April 2023), is a theoretical understanding of taste, food, and eating within the framework of Islamic aesthetics and philosophy. It is a discourse built around the verse of the Qur’an (Chapter 7, verses 31- 33), that teaches us to savour only what is pure and lawful, and to relish the gustatory pleasures in our cultured cuisine with respect and gratitude, as against d...

You might not know the Swahili word for “Burden”, you might not know the Latin word for “Load”, and you might not know the Chinese word for what is heavy, but you know what the invisible burden you carry in your heart feels like. This lecture suggests ways out for those trapped in burdens that keep them trembling, scared, confused, disturbed, cold, sick, and collapsing under the yokes of inner rot...

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Our journey did not just start from this world. It started from somewhere else. But where did we come from? Why are we here? Where is our final destination? This lecture (delivered on 9 February 2023), is based on the “stranger-in-transit” mindset taught in the hadith. It shows that life in this world is just one of the six stages of our journey from Allah and back to Him. The homesick soul can on...

Instead of choosing to exist merely, this lecture (delivered on the 25, of December 2022) urges you to experience the good, wholesome, aesthetic lifestyle as the Qur’an and the Sunnah recommended. It describes how to live life as if it were a beautiful piece of art with its elements of harmony, variety, style, originality, and creativity. Listen, learn, laugh, and think deeply as you edit your You...

You were not born to live powerlessly. You were not born to struggle endlessly. You were not born to toil fruitlessly. You were not born to be subjugated perpetually. You are meant to experience life to its fullest with high energy, and fulfilled dreams, without having to organize a pity party for yourself. This lecture (delivered on 17 July 2022) takes a deeper dive and a closer look into the con...

Should we be concerned about the future generation? Do we owe them anything? Are we under any obligation to “prepare” anything for the unborn children? To what extent can we take respon­sibility for the future of the planet, humanity, our communities, and our children? This lecture (12 November 2022) charges us to be responsible custodians for the next generation. Listen, learn, laugh, and think d...

The future is time’s way of getting us curious and bewildered. The future is abstract, not tangible. It is vague, not clear. It is a speculation, not a certainty. Despite the uncertainties, some people are eagerly looking forward to meeting and embracing the future fruits of their labours. In contrast, others are afraid of walking into the traps that destiny has already set for them. We are all po...

Is faith something you have or something you do? Is faith a placebo, an emotion, a skill, or a kind of power? This lecture (delivered on 4 September 2022) asks more questions than gives answers, but it is an attempt to explain how our assumptions, perceptions, and expectations affect what faith means to us and what we do about it. Listen, learn, laugh, and think deeply as you edit your Youniverse!...