Abdal Hakim Murad – Straight Ramadan Moments 1

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The serah and message from the Holy Prophet about pursuing straight path is discussed, including a quote on having a clear path and being in the right place to avoid distractions and anxiety. The importance of understanding the natural ways of life and the natural ways of thinking to avoid distraction is emphasized, along with the idea of " firstly," as the greatest spiritual principles within humans.

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			Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim Al
hamdu lillah wa salatu salam ala
		
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			Rasulillah were early he was off
by the woman who Allah Allahumma
		
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			indica iPhone Kareem on to hebbal
Alpha thought of one that
		
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			is
		
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			well known Quranic term which
needs careful definition,
		
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			which is indicated in a number of
ayat and our Hadith famous Hadith
		
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			in Sahih Muslim
		
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			on Sofian bin Abdullah radula Juan
		
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			cultural era Salalah polyfill.
Islamia colon Le s Allahu Anhu.
		
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			Kira who call call and then to
Billa semester.
		
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			So it's a hadith in Sahih Muslim
in which one of the Sahaba says to
		
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			the Rasul sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam in his asking for something
		
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			very short and sweet.
		
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			told me something
		
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			in Islam, which if I say it and
follow it, I will not need to ask
		
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			further. And he says, say
		
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			I believe in God, and then go
straight. Call me into biller for
		
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			my stuffing.
		
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			That's it. This is Minji Huami.
I'll kill him one of the words one
		
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			of the phrases that kind of
include all phrases everything we
		
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			need to know and very often we
find that that a hadith of the
		
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			chosen ones on Allahu alayhi wa
sallam are amazingly comprehensive
		
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			in telling us everything in a few
words.
		
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			So in this phrase, The Holy
Prophet is indicating to things.
		
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			profess your belief in the
creator, the one, the source of
		
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			the place of return, and mugdock
When I add, without that you are
		
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			kind of floating in a void without
a beginning without an end without
		
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			knowing your orientation without a
Nibbler you're kind of nothing,
		
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			nihilist.
		
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			And then it's stuck in
		
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			follow is Tacoma, go straight.
		
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			So it's a matter of statement,
Allah, and how you are Hala.
		
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			You can't have one without the
other. Going straight is difficult
		
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			unless you know where you're going
to.
		
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			saying Allah is not really very
meaningful unless you act in
		
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			accordance with the fact that the
world has a direction.
		
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			So this includes everything. It's
like the two Shahad Hustla ilaha
		
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			illallah, Muhammad Rasul Allah, no
god but God.
		
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			What should I do about that? The
Sunnah follow the Holy Prophet
		
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			salallahu alayhi, WA early he was
a lump.
		
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			So this is Tacoma. This going
straight, which is what we pray
		
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			for 27 times a day or more in our
Serato, no stop aim.
		
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			Guide us to the straight path,
upright path, the path of
		
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			rectitude the path, that is the
shortest line between two points.
		
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			is, of course where we go
straight. We go on other roads, we
		
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			follow the soul.
		
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			Maybe in English, the word crook
refers to the fact that somebody's
		
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			gone crooked, we're not straight.
We're not upright.
		
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			as the Americans say you're not a
stand up guy.
		
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			So we are created in absentia
Talquin. In the best of forms,
		
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			Adam is an upright creature,
unlike any other creature.
		
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			He is Havenwood in his direction.
		
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			But at the same time, we look this
way, and we look that way. And
		
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			it's tempting. The scenery of
dunya is pretty appealing.
		
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			In this time in this month, that
tap of temptations is turned off
		
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			or turned down. It's just a
trickle. Maybe we look at things
		
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			that we shouldn't look at maybe we
think about things we shouldn't
		
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			think about and maybe we maybe we
are not right? Not right with God.
		
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			We're not more studying. But the
benefit of this month is that it
		
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			is easier for us to see the
straight path in front of us
		
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			because the distractions The
scenery is kind of monochrome, the
		
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			temptations the possibilities are
constrained, especially at this
		
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			time when so many of us are in our
homes.
		
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			Is to karma is easier by God's
grace than it is when we're just
		
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			kind of enjoying
		
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			the pasture without thinking about
where we might be going.
		
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			So this is to comment is
important, but we get distracted.
		
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			That's our nature. It said that
the reason why man is called insan
		
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			Is that he is full of Nicotiana,
forgetfulness. It's one
		
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			interpretation, poetic, perhaps of
what the name of man means we, we
		
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			forget. We remember we forget. And
we remember and we forget that
		
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			alone his grace gives us lots of
times and opportunities and days
		
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			and months to go back to him. And
at a time when many are thinking
		
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			about, perhaps, a near return to
Him, this becomes easier. And this
		
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			Inaba, this turning back becomes
more real and more necessary and
		
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			more yearned for.
		
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			But it's still difficult. The Holy
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
		
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			sallam was asked by Abu Bakr,
Siddiq,
		
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			aerosol, Allah, I see that you're
turning gray.
		
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			All che your beds near who don't
want to have.
		
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			And he said, I've been turned gray
by the surah of hood, and sisters,
		
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			the other songs that begin with
the same letters.
		
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			And it is said one of the meanings
of this is that it contains the
		
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			phrase for stuck in cannot omit.
		
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			Go straight, be a person of
rectitude, as you have been
		
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			commanded. This is directed to him
salAllahu alayhi wasallam. And so
		
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			or inspiring is this command, by
the only one who has the right to
		
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			give commands, and so
catastrophic, the possibility of
		
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			just following impulse that turns
him gray. He who was muscle
		
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			divinely secured from straying,
nonetheless, feels this fear and
		
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			the believer is between fear and
hope. Could you know how your
		
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			thought your fear and hope are
like the two wings of the bird is
		
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			a stone, stone tire Arnall, if
they're balanced, the bird travels
		
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			goes right, if you like, in a
balanced way. So you have to have
		
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			fear, as well as hope. Life is not
just about enjoying the pasture.
		
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			Life is all about having a
direction.
		
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			And you're always going to be in
this field where you're monitoring
		
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			the grass, happily, you came in
through a gate, you're going out
		
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			through another gate. That's the
iron rule of life. For many Adam
		
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			and for every living thing. You
came in through a gate, you're
		
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			getting out through another gate.
So don't spend too much time and
		
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			just thinking this pasture and
this joyful munching is going to
		
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			go on forever.
		
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			So this is to karma
		
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			is in a sense what makes us human
beings, and is the greatest
		
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			miracle given the nature of our
impulses. And in this month, the
		
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			shayateen are Sophie that
		
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			as the Holy Prophet says in the
famous Hadith, duckula Shadow
		
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			Ramadan, when the month of Ramadan
comes in,
		
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			the doors of good opened and the
chains
		
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			of the devils are fastened, the
devils are fastened and we are
		
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			invited. We're nerd they're more
nerdy than your above. He'll hate
		
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			her long way above his sharp books
or an angelic voice calls out and
		
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			in this month, we can kind of all
hear that voice saying, Are you
		
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			who looks for good, arise, get on
with it. And you who looks for
		
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			evil desist. Shayateen are chained
and it's a little bit easier for
		
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			us to get back on the straight
path to find our true direction.
		
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			But this is the nature of many
Adam, that we have these two
		
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			enormous impulses. Just as we have
these two enormous spiritual
		
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			principles within us. There's the
knifes which is gravitational.
		
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			Animalistic wants to go down,
subject to the laws of gravity,
		
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			and is interested in every
possible way that the endorphin
		
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			circuits of the brain might be
tickled any pleasure. It'll be
		
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			really interested in like a dog
that looks excitedly in the
		
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			direction of anything that smells
good, that's us.
		
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			But there's also this roar,
		
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			the spirit, which is from the
Divine breathing in insufflation,
		
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			one a Faulkner he he made Rafina
the clay of Adam had the Divine
		
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			Spirit breathed into it and that
has a divine home.
		
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			And that's the stick armor. The
lower self the knifes doesn't
		
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			really have a direction it goes
this way and that just like any
		
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			instinctual creature
		
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			goes whoever the pleasure seems to
be greater. The goat goes whatever
		
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			looks tastiest, that's us.
		
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			But that is the karma. The
uprightness which is directed and
		
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			oriented and secured by this
vertical dimension, which is from
		
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			the Faulkner V Hema Rafina. Ha is
to go straight, straight to the
		
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			exit of the field beyond which
there is true delight, nine
		
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			morpheme ongoing blessing and and
delight
		
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			So, we have these two dimensions
within us, the one which is going
		
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			this way and that. And Sedna,
Amara Eben hottub radula one on
		
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			the minbar wants was talking about
is to karma that's going straight.
		
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			And he said it means not weaving
like a fox caramba Varney Taleb,
		
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			you probably haven't been fox
hunting, but the fox moves this
		
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			way that it doesn't run straight,
it goes this way and that and
		
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			because it's a fearful creature
that wants to avoid the pursuing
		
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			dogs, or the Huntsman's gun or
that it's a foxy creature. The ego
		
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			is like that. Slimy, wants to get
out of difficulties wants to tell
		
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			fibs in order to extricate itself
it twists and turns, it's devious,
		
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			but the Spirit, what we truly are
the raw, which remembers the day
		
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			of Alice to be robbed, become just
wants to go straight back straight
		
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			for the light if the light is
there and seen and felt, why go
		
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			this way or that straight back.
And this is Tacoma.
		
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			So in this Blissett month, as we
travel from the first day of the
		
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			fast, to the day of the aid,
moving like all human beings,
		
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			always and forever in one
direction. That's a journey that
		
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			is my core, something that is
absolutely constraining us and we
		
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			can do nothing about it, even
though we wish Oh, if only it was
		
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			this time yesterday, and I hadn't
said this to him. And we often
		
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			make these futile, hindsight
limitations that we had in one
		
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			direction only. And we don't
revisit a single moment, a single
		
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			virtue a single life.
		
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			Fault vise of our lives straight,
		
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			straight for the grave, straight
for the entrance to the unknown,
		
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			straight back to the Lord.
		
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			Elahi to zero or more, back to
God, all things return. I let that
		
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			return for us be not trying to
escape it, but rather to welcome
		
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			that return. And to find in
putting our faltering and frail
		
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			feet directly in the footsteps of
the chosen once on Allahu alayhi
		
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			wa sallam whose march to his Lord
was absolutely straight and
		
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			beautiful. Shining, those
footprints still shine for us.
		
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			Flowers grow where he stepped to
go exactly in that way to follow
		
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			the sunnah to avoid all
reprehensible innovations and
		
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			deviations and the artwork, the
temptations of the ego. That's a
		
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			great thing. So let this Ramadan
be for us and for this OMA and for
		
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			a fearful penitent world, in sha
Allah a time of return my god,
		
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			that is going straight,
		
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			not resisting.
		
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			What is beautiful, not following
what is dark within ourselves. But
		
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			let us be a people who hear this
command in solitude. First acclaim
		
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			cannot omit go straight as you
have been commanded a commandment
		
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			directed to all of Benny Adam, let
us remember the monstrousness of
		
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			stepping off that path because we
think we know a better way. And
		
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			let us remember the great Grandia
and dignity and beauty of those
		
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			who stay on the straight path and
go as quickly as they can towards
		
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			the acceptance of their Lord's
decree. Whatever it might be. So
		
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			may Allah subhanaw taala make us
people who receive forgiveness and
		
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			blessings, and uprightness and
going straight and in sha Allah
		
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			discerning with the eye of the
heart, the luminous SNESs of our
		
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			final destination, so that there
is no temptation to step off the
		
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			path to the left or to the right
in sha Allah BarakAllahu fecal
		
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			with a couple of em Nico was salam
o aleikum wa rahmatullah.