Abdal Hakim Murad – Own Your Wealth Ramadan Moments 2

Abdal Hakim Murad
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The world is a mix between rich and poor, and people are not realizing their true values. The Holy Prophet sallahu alayhi wa sallam means sincerity, truthfulness, and being real, and the world is a mix of rich and poor. The segment discusses the challenges of prophecy and giving, and the importance of supporting family members and neighbors. The segment ends with a call to action for action.
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Smilla hamdulillah are salat wa salam ala Rasulillah well Ali he

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was after he or manual Allah, Allah Allah Baraka, few shahada

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Siyam.

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The Holy Prophet says sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,

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lo candelilla insert any word in the hub, that Amanda and your

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Cornella Hallward en la em let Wolfer who elect Robert.

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He says sallallahu alayhi wa sallam if a man were to have a

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whole valley full of gold, he would want to have a second valley

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full of gold. But at the end, only dust will fill his mouth.

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Another of our deep problems as human beings is this humble Mal is

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love of wealth.

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It's no coincidence that some of the very first verses of the Holy

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Quran to be revealed. We're condemnations of this human sleepy

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acquisition of stuff, a futile exercise because the more we have,

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the more we tend to want

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and how Kamata khairthal

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rivalry in worldly increase has distracted you. There's three

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important lessons in those two words.

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Not just the problematic nature of wanting worldly worldly increase,

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but the fact that we compete with each other.

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This guy's got a billion I want to have 2 billion or I can't sleep

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well. And then the fact that l How come it distracts you?

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What does ultimo macabre until you can't go to the graves. All of

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these people who are at the very last minute of their life as still

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checking the footsy

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and the Dow Jones just to see what's happening to their fortune.

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They can't see the dark mouth of death yawning in front of them

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waiting to swallow them whole. But this is how we are.

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But at the end, only dust will fill our mouths.

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Holy Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam

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This is a Hadith.

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Good see 11 ADAM

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Oh son of man Halochem in Melaka illa ma occulta for F neat.

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Hola Vista for ablate outer. So Dr. B, for Unlight.

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That son of Adam do you own any of your wealth except for something

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which you end up eating and you

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pass it on? Pass it away, it goes through you is no longer yours,

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you destroy it. Or you wear it and you wear it out?

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All you give it in sadaqa and make it eternal?

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This is the irony. We think, ah, if I give 10 pounds to the

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Cambridge Muslim College, I'll be 10 pounds poorer? Nope. Actually,

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you're poorer if you hold on to it, because it's not going to go

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with you into the grave. But the esodoc art the investments deposit

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in the eternal bank.

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This Tiara townland taboo, this transaction, which never

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diminishes this hisab. This account, which is the account of

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the akhira the believer knows this. And with the expression of

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pain, perhaps he produces a cat when he can, as much as he can,

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and his sadaqa and his Lilla. And he's a cattle fitter, and these

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things but there's an element of pain, which is foolish. Because

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he's actually liable to lose these things, he may not even enjoy them

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himself. If he walks around this life with all of these coins,

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jingling in his pocket, what should he do? Put them in the

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bank.

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But not the Bank of this corporation or that corporation

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that may or may not in the current reckless world of casino

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capitalism and financial freefall go on.

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But instead, the only bank which wants the deposit has been made

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with a Bismillah that will keep it for eternity and will yield

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dividends eternally.

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That's intelligence. That's wisdom.

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But unfortunately, even though ours is a world of overflowing

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wealth, is the forgotten man gigantic cornucopias of money and

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money breeding money thanks to the river system river upon river

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Upon rubber and derivatives and futures and all of these very

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strange instruments which human ingenuity concoct in order to

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conjure money out of money that you haven't even borrowed yet,

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it's a very strange, magical world, so much money, and yet, so

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much poverty.

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So many rich people, so many poor people, but that is deductive the

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polarization of wealth between rich and poor gets greater and

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greater and greater. And we know that this brings the Divine anger

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because it's an injustice.

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And having 2 billion doesn't feel very different in practice to

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having 1 billion or even 1 million for most purposes.

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But for the poor, having $200 is very different to having $100. But

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still, they get poorer, and the rich get richer, and the world is

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kind of shaking as a result is one of the major imbalances of our

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time. And so this condemnation of how como to khairthal was from the

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very beginning of Revelation, but is absolutely appropriate to our

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time now and Islam as the religion that says, give and give and give.

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There's a cat and a sadhaka are the nerve filler obligations and

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optional forms of giving. Again, and again, a child is born there's

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the RP occur,

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somebody dies, there is the inheritance which can't go to just

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one person who gets distributed out again particularly to the

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young This is our system,

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give give give,

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we are a people who are Autocentre been given sadaqa is related to

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sit which is a word which means sincerity, truthfulness being

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real. This is the nature of the Holy Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa

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sallam, Allah the kana Edward in this, who is the most generous of

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people. Well, Ken Edward, Ma, Cornel fear Ramadan. And was it

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his Most Generous in the month of Ramadan? Well, the Rasul Allah He

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Edward will bill hiree Minari Hale mo

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Salah, the Holy Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was more generous

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and swift in giving, doing good than the wind let loose. In other

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words, it's there's no he said there's no calculation he just

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gives and gives and gives because he's not afraid of poverty.

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So that's the moral aspect but there's also the human aspect and

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one of the most challenging aspects of prophecy

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is that the Holy Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam prayed

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to be with the Moroccan Moroccan who had really poor, the

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destitute, those who have nothing. Your alot age, I'll go to Allah,

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Mohammed and Keifa. He used to pray, make the food for the family

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of Muhammad enough for

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today.

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That would panic us. We think, oh, maybe we'll run out in three

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months time. I've got a cushion.

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The bank says this. I've got these financial projections. But

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tomorrow, that's inconceivable.

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And he used to pray. Washington, leafy zoom routine Messiah keen.

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resurrect me resurrect me in the company of the destitute.

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Not the super rich, not the sleek Hollywood actors and the so called

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elites who are role models and who everybody wants to gossip about.

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But the poor, the asylum seekers, the refugees, the homeless people

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sleeping rough, the broken hearted

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as allies, and then one can theoretically go home with the

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broken hearted, the Holy Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam wished

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to be resurrected with those people.

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And this is challenging, because we like to have those coins

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jingling in our pocket.

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As a story that says that when the first gold and silver coin were

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minted,

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created, when somebody first had this idea, Iblees Allah, Allah,

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Allah He Lana raised them and put them to his eyes and kissed them,

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and said, Men are hubback Wolmer.

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For Hua Abdi hucog. Whoever loves you, is in reality, my slave, my

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servant.

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So the wealth that the believer has, which can be legitimate,

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hello wealth. Young did come be unwell in weapony. And God blesses

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you with wealth and children it can be a blessing

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has to be on the basis of the lack of the heart attachment to those

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things. It's for sadaqa it's for supporting the family. It's for

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supporting neighbors. It's for giving Iftar to people who can't

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afford it. It's for hospitality and

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This is the Edward Albee hiree mineral reef in mo salah, which is

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the quality of the Holy Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasallam more

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generous in giving what is good, then the winds let loose such a

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beautiful kind of desert image just free, unrestrained giving,

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why because there is peace in the heart, and there is no cashier to

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him lock, fear of poverty

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and extraordinary state.

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So

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the coins that are in our pockets, the numbers that

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are in our bank balances

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are to be accounted for.

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It said that you take them out only when you have taken them out

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of their source fee Hilda, what in Firpo, her for hockey, you take

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them in a way that is halal. And you dispense with them again in

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the way that represents what is the wet the rights of human

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beings. In other words, they are part of our service.

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So this month, this time when there is less to spend our

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unnecessary wealth on when we have to walk past cafes and so forth,

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even if they were open. And we can't do anything about it. And at

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the end of the day, perhaps there's more coins jangling in our

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pockets than there were before. This is the month of giving.

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This is the month of almost solidarity. This is the month of

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remembering neighbors, of thinking of family members who we haven't

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checked up on for a long time. This is the time of ciliata

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Raheem, this is the time of connecting family ties for

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toquilla. Lolita sir alula be he will or ham. They are God

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concerning whom you question each other and the ties of kinship,

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important in our religion.

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How are the old doing particularly at present, make sure you know,

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make sure they feel attended to that they feel noticed that

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somebody cares because this the age of wealth has become the age

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of loneliness as well. But as is not the ALMA of loneliness, as the

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OMA of solidarity or mutton wider, a single ummah. And we are to be

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an exemplary community to show how human beings can and should be

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together, in solidarity, in cooperation, in sharing, not in

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hoarding, but in sharing in giving, we're to be open handed

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people.

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So may Allah subhanaw taala in this blessed month,

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when we have fewer worldly temptations to distract us, and

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when perhaps we are thinking of higher things, and we have tasted

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in worship and in the Quran, something that is sweeter and

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truer and more nourishing to our hearts than any physical pleasure

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or experience of status could ever be. When we have been shown an

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alternative, reminded of what we truly are and of our homeland, to

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which we are called. May He make us people of generosity of people

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who are soft hearted towards the poor, people who do not just pay

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lip service to the Sunnah, but actually walk in the footsteps of

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the chosen one son Allahu alayhi wa sallam, by loving the poor, by

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supporting the poor by seeking them out. And by as it were

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putting our money where our mouths might be, by actually being people

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of generosity of Jude in his best month. So may Allah subhanaw taala

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open our hearts to this and grant us the the blessings of Ramadan in

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its blessing good nature for the poor, as people of giving people

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who are not misers people who are open hearted and open handed, and

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example to an increasingly lonely and selfish and self centered age

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Balak Hello fickle will our full name come to Kabbalah Hosea Macomb

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was salam aleikum wa rahmatullah

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