My Prayer. How the Free-Range Path is unlocking the Sweetness in My Prayers.

I was never the guy...

...you’d describe as deeply devoted in my early days - in fact - never really up until recently - id say only past 5 years. I ticked the boxes. I knew my prayers were a duty, but they were more habit than heart. I was earning well, stacking up qualifications and the kind of corporate validations that made you feel superficially good. I was climbing the ladder, doing life the way I thought a man should — stable paycheck every month, family provided for. Predictability, comfort, and stability were my safety blanket — and rightly so, or so I thought.

But here’s what nobody tells you: predictability and comfort can numb your soul. They are the very opposites of real growth and soulful progression.

I remember one payday... during my old corporate life — I sat alone in my car in the parking lot, payslip in my inbox, yet my heart felt bankrupt. I’d done everything right, but my spirit whispered, Is this it? Deep down I knew: I’d rather be on the mountain, earning less maybe, but with my heart full — than sacrificing my life to grow a private company’s profit while my own purpose withered. That day, I made a dangerous prayer:

Show me what’s real. Show me what’s truly Yours. And another honest question followed: Why can’t I use my skills and experience to help real people, one by one, and bring their visions to life? I directed these questions to the One who knows everything — my Creator.

That prayer broke something open in me.

A few months later, I found myself standing at the foot of Kasteelpoort Trail on Table Mountain — alone at sunrise. I’d left the corporate cage behind; life no longer guaranteed a salary at month-end. But as the sun rose and my breath misted in the cold air, I felt a certainty I’d never found in those boardrooms. My feet were on rock, my heart was on prayer, and I knew: My Rabb, my Creator, provides — always has, always will.

Ever since stepping onto this Free-Range path, my prayers changed.

They’re no longer mechanical. It's certainly far from perfect - but again, there is no perfection in this world. My Prayers are real conversations now — raw, sometimes shaky, but honest. It’s not about how many minutes I pray; it’s about the presence and the state of vulnerability I bring. I ask for guidance. I ask for elevation in certainty. I ask for clarity. I ask for my family to have enough. And I watch my Creator respond — through strangers reaching out, through last-minute adventure bookings, through open trails when I need silence more than noise. How can I deny it? It would be heresy to doubt His perfect planning after all He’s done for me.

I didn’t just make dua anymore. I started to converse with my Creator, my Rabb.

I asked different questions, trusted different outcomes. I learned how to receive, how to surrender, how to pray with expectation — and watch the signs, the shifts, the doors He would open.

This path stripped away the illusion that the system feeds me. It doesn’t. He does.

So now, when I pray, I do it with a quiet boldness. I don’t cling to a paycheck. I cling to the Provider of all paychecks. And I’ve never been more free. When you leave the man-made system of safety, you begin to witness the real system at work — the divine orchestration of every moment. Clients coming through last-minute. Money arriving from unexpected places. Guidance meeting you in a conversation, a verse, a trail, or a deep breath of silence. My provision didn’t dry up. It multiplied — inside me and around me.

Because now, I don’t live off predictability. I live off certainty. And that’s a different game. A different world. A different kind of sustenance.

And I know now — I never would’ve tasted this if I’d stayed on the old path. The Free-Range Human journey didn’t just change my work. It transformed my worship. It unlocked something deeper than certainty: it unlocked the sweetness in my prayers.

It taught me to walk with Allah — not just work for a living.

To build my life around presence, not performance. To anchor my risks and decisions not in market forces, but in divine force.

If you’re standing somewhere between predictability and certainty right now... between the job you’re used to and the life you’re called to… I pray you listen.

Because something beautiful awaits you on the other side of trust. And may you too taste the sweetness in your prayers — maybe for the first time, or all over again.

Stay Free — and Stay True to Your Free-Range Spirit inside you.

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