I want you to meet a brother named Dylan.

Before IMA, he was a teacher at a high school in Lewiston, Maine, earning about $3,000 a month.

And his life had a problem that no amount of hard work at that job could ever solve.

Actually, it had three.

Stuck, Three Different Ways

The first problem was his salah.

Dylan's work schedule didn't allow him to pray Jumu'ah. Friday after Friday, the most important congregational prayer of the week, and his job simply didn't leave room for it.

The daily prayers weren't much better. He was praying in stairwells and whatever uncomfortable corners the schedule allowed. Folding his worship into the gaps of someone else's timetable.

The second problem was bigger.

Dylan was married and his wife was living in Uganda at the time. She couldn't be with him in America, and getting her a US visa was going to be a long, expensive process with no guaranteed end.

The third problem was the one that locked the other two in place.

His income was chained to a classroom in Maine. As long as the money came from that building, he was staying in that building…. stairwell prayers, missed Jumu'ahs, empty apartment and all.

His own words: "I was stuck and I needed a way out. IMA was my way out."

The Inversion

Here's what I love about Dylan's story.

Everyone in his position asks the same question: how do I get my wife INTO America?

Dylan realised he was asking the wrong question. The visa queue was the obstacle only because his income had a country attached to it.

So he built an income that didn't.

An IMA agency doesn't care what continent you run it from. Brands don't ask your zip code. Influencers don't care what school district employs you.

And once the income moves with you, you stop begging one country to accept your family and start choosing a country that accepts all of you.

What the Business Looks Like Now

Today Dylan averages around $10,000 a month.

And pay attention to the shape of that income, because it's different from a string of one off wins.

Dylan builds long-term contracts deals where an influencer commits to a set number of videos every month for six months, a year at a time. The agreements are signed once and pay repeatedly. In his words, at this point it runs close to passive.

That's more than triple his teaching salary, without a schedule that owns his Fridays.

And now that the chaos of relocating is behind him, he expects to multiply it from here, in shaa Allah.

What He Bought With It

Here's Dylan's own list of what came after starting his agency. Read it in order, because it climbs.

He quit the 9-5.

He was reunited with his wife.

They took a vacation in Zanzibar.

He bought a car.

He got residency in Oman and moved there, to a home directly across from a masjid.

The brother who used to pray in stairwells, hiding his ruku between floors, now opens his front door and the masjid is right there. Jumu'ah isn't a scheduling conflict anymore. It's a walk across the street.

But he wasn't finished.

Because residency in his hands meant he could sponsor others. So he sponsored his wife.

And then he sponsored his father.

The Greatest Return

Dylan's father is moving to Oman in a couple of weeks.

And Dylan told us that, in shaa Allah, his father will become Muslim after moving there and that this "would be the greatest impact of IMA on my life."

Not the $10k months. Not Zanzibar. Not the car.

His father, close enough to see Islam lived every day… the masjid across the street, the family praying together, the life his son built on halal money close enough for Allah to open his heart.

Guidance belongs to Allah alone. No business can give a man iman. But a business gave Dylan the means to bring his father near, and nearness is where hearts change.

Ask yourself what job on earth pays a return like that.

What I Want You to Take From This

There are brothers reading this who are stuck the way Dylan was stuck. Maybe it's a spouse on the other side of a visa queue. Maybe it's a job that treats your Jumu'ah as an inconvenience. Maybe it's a country you know your family shouldn't grow up in, and no way to fund the exit.

Understand what Dylan's story proves: the cage was never the visa office or the work schedule. It was the fact that his income had an address.

He changed the income. Every other lock opened after that.

From $3,000 a month and stairwell prayers to $10,000 a month, his wife beside him, the masjid across the road, and his father days away from seeing Islam up close.

May Allah open his father's heart to Islam, bless Dylan's home in Oman, and put barakah in everything he builds.

Barakallahufik,

Abu Lahya