Muslim Millionaire Building a Bank | EP1

What's that? [music] Oh. [singing] [music] [singing] [music] >> [music] [singing] [music] >> So here we are in Marina Bay Sands in beautiful Singapore. The weather is amazing all of a sudden and we have only two days where I need to check everything. all the masids, all the madressas, all the Islamic communities and I have a lot of meetings with influential people. So I will be really productive in this days inshallah. And by the way, I just got positive news because I finally got featured in Forbes. Alhamdulillah. If I just look back, I was exactly here Marina Bance three years ago. And this was already after doing seven years of business and struggling. But now, of course, I'm in a completely different position. And the more money you have, the more employees you have, the more responsibility you have. And I really feel sometimes that I'm not guided anymore by, hey, I want this car. Hey, I want this watch. I really don't care anymore. I feel that I have that Allah subhanana wa ta'ala put me in this position where I'm a revert. I have a story and I have money and I have intelligence and I have no choice than using it because if we look out of the window, yes of course here it's beautiful in Singapore but not beautiful in most parts around the world and a lot of war and suffering and these banks they I mean I'm in I'm a part of the matrix. I need to work with them. Um but they are most of them are not ethically correct. Here we have my bank. It's the only good Islamic bank in Southeast Asia. But that's it. Basically, I feel there's no good solution out there. If I look at all the fintech banks, payment processing companies, they're not not one Islamic country. Where are the Muslim billion dollar tech unicorns? I don't see them. And I really feel that we need to do it because it's so easy nowadays. And the power need to be in the hand of righteous people. So you should try your best every single day. We try our best every single day because we know our responsibilities in life. We live in a world where we need to do more. We can't accept what's going on in the world. But we shouldn't complain. We shouldn't hate. We should do something because there's so much we can do right now in this world. We can create a new digital golden age. It is possible. It has never been so easy. And now the time is running. We are busy and we will take you with us. [music] [singing] [singing] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Go back to where you came from and other helpful recommendations on how to become American. [panting] >> Go back from where you come from. So I have to go to Egypt. Ali's >> advice. How do you become American? Just go back. >> [music] [singing] >> Z just tell me uh how about you feel about this trip this time in Singapore. >> I think I told enough we can you can tell us. [laughter] So what do you think about Southeast Asia, especially Singapore? >> Uh yeah, for me uh I think I started uh you know uh most of the countries in Asia because of Singapore here. They are very they're very you know welcoming. Yeah. I hope I hope this not going to be the last time here in Singapore. Maybe u can come soon. >> And let's go to the airport. >> Yeah. So, it's a little bit cloudy. We left Singapore, have spent 24 hours in Dubai, and we are already back on the airport in the Emirates Firstass Lounge. I didn't have time to film in Dubai because I was extremely busy with my team preparing the banking licenses because to get a banking license, it's not just about money. There are so many different documents and proof and so on that you need to prepare to get approved for something like this. And today we will fly to Istanbul, Islam, old Constantinople to visit our other team inshallah to visit the old center of the caliphate, the old center of the Ottoman Empire. And I will take you with me. Allahel. So we arrived here in Islam with the team. We had a good productive day. So in the next days we will visit few new offices here inshallah. So see you in the next days. [music] [music] Oh, [music] Lord. Now I need to share our five foundational Islamic principles of our company with John. I wanted to ask you the first question was how does iman influence a company like if you have a lot of people with good imm belief of Allah basically first and foremost and to believe in his books to believe in his angels to believe in uh the last day to believe in his decree whether it's good or bad um and to obviously believe in his prophets and um obviously the uh belief is that iman fluctuates. It goes up and it goes down and it goes up according to your deeds and it goes down according to your sins. The essence of our religion having taqua is fear of Allah. Like that's half of knowledge. If you have grasped that concept then you are already like a scholar anyway because that's why people study and learn so they can have fear of Allah firstly. So um I think working with people that have this concept of the fear of Allah to have iman um I think then they will you won't have to worry about them doing anything behind your back and then you wouldn't have to worry about them not doing their job accordingly or doing their doing a good job to the best of their ability. Of course everybody makes mistakes and I mean in terms of the imam part it's um believing in the vision. Do you actually believe in this vision? Do you think it's a just cause? Do you really believe that? So that's where I think that I iman part comes into it. Does everybody really believe that this is a good vision for the future that it's going to help people or it's going to help the community? Do you really believe in that? So I think the iman can be connected with the company there. [music] >> [music] >> So we are back with John. We need to finish our company values. So let's finish this withama. So karmama is to stay steadfast and firm upon the path. So you know it could be the path of Islam because you know obviously the hardest thing is to actually stay firm on on the path cuz you know as people we make mistakes you know sometimes uh we become weak sometimes we become stronger so it's really a test to really stay uh to stay firm upon something to stay firm upon your path to not sway you know to not leave your path basically that's what my understanding with stick to continue on that path to continue strong on that path that's reminder for us and thank you for everything brother. >> Welcome brother. Pleasure >> and see you guys in Dubai. So we are back in the office and I need to reveal probably one of the most important decisions ever of my life. The most important decision was that I converted to Islam. Alhamdulillah. And now I made the decision to invest all of my money, an eight figure dollar amount into my own bank and investment fund. And I want to document it here with Muslim millionaire building a bank on this YouTube channel because I think nobody ever did this. And if it works, it's amazing. If it fails, it's on camera. and I had a lot of insecurities but a few weeks ago I had a dream which I don't consider as a regular dream and since then I feel like I'm running on autopilot and the beauty as a believer is if you achieve something alhamdulillah if you get tested maybe it's even better and to make something like this work doesn't just require money it requires knowledge that's why you see the library here is growing and growing and growing and it needs the right people and you see we have already built a great team and we are hiring more people. So if you think you fit to us and you want to work for our bank and investment fund then you can obviously apply and in this video series I just want to document and in every video in the end I want to share with you one result and in the next video series we will share with you the results of our banking license. We will share with you the results of our hiring process. And in this week's the main result was mashallah this Islamic principles this wall art and the flag and the flag is the digital Islamic golden age flag. And with digital Islamic golden age what I mean is we have no limits nowadays. Everybody can build something online. Nobody can stop you. And I just want to inspire the right Muslims on this channel to build billiondoll companies inshallah. And what I do here is I just want to share all my content for free. And this is the real content of a real entrepreneur. I'm not selling any earn money business coaching. This is the real content and the Islamic principles because they also give me full clarity and every time when I see them and every time when I think about our vision since then I can't sleep. So even if I work 16 hours I still have time to read and to learn and to improve. And this is Isan. Since we wrote down Isan excellence and I realized that just fulfilling my obligations and responsibilities is not enough that I need to do more. It was already clear that I need to go go all in with this and I'm really excited. And please write your questions into the comments and I would say see you in the next vlog series in the next video inshallah or in real life inshallah. Are you hungry? Allah

Muslim Revert Multi-Millionaire Samuel Aziz Boubaous documents how he builds his own Bank: From Billionaire Business Meetings in Singapore and Worship in Istanbul Mosques, to the Creation of Islamic Principles in Dubai.