About this book
Accept, ARM & Strive is an unfiltered, genre-defying narrative that explicitly bridges the parquet corridors of the corporate world with the absolute surrender of a modern-day Faqir. Written in a raw, highly conversational, and fiercely direct style, the book traces the author’s real-world journey, from surviving a horrific childhood inferno to waging strategic warfare against entrenched bureaucratic corruption and navigating profound spiritual phenomena. At its core, the text functions as a deeply moving monument to the author's late son, ARM, transforming immense parental grief into an uncompromising rallying cry for spiritual steadfastness and moral accountability.
The book strikes directly at the core crises of modern life, dismantling everything from the deceptive global banking systems of riba and institutional laziness to the toxic digital addictions fueled by tech tycoons. Covering essential realities, including severe stress, anxiety, depression, and the parental grief of losing a child, accept, ARM & Strive refuses to compromise with superficial societal norms. It is a powerful, urgent demand for readers to reject distractions, starve the corrupt structures of the world, and return to an authentic life defined by halal earning, unconditional service to others, and absolute faith.
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In short, this life is an examination hall. We enter and exit it in a wink. Yet, the journey seems unending, requiring us to make choices just like in an examination. There are some questions which are compulsory and unavoidable; for the rest, we have choices.
My young son, Abdurrahman Mazhar, met his Creator on the 30th of June, 2024. I felt deep pain for my loss, and my Ammi Jaan felt deep pain for me. Once my son ARM took his wings, I lost purpose in life and went completely ‘silent’. On some days, I could not even lift my arm; on others, I had to rely on a wheelchair or a folding walker just to take care of my worldly affairs. My beautiful wife was tormented and torn apart by her loss, and yet, like a true lioness, she held me and our daughters together. Piece by piece, she began to rebuild the beautiful mosaic of our broken life.
More than three decades later, the pieces finally fell into place, and I realized why I had been chosen to lead the funeral prayer for Pa Hameed. Perhaps it was Nature's profound way of allowing me to finally say to him: ‘Thank you. You saved my life.’ We live in an inter-dependent world, and the purpose of life that I learnt from mystics and good souls is ‘help others unconditionally’.
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A few pages from the book, so you can see how it reads before you buy.
