Abdelrahman Badawy – 50000 Years

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The Day of Judgment is 50,000 years long and will be part of the punishment of the Day of Judgment. The length of the day is part of the punishment, and the length of the day is part of the punishment. The importance of fear and regret in the process of regretting actions is emphasized, and praying for the best is encouraged. The negative impact of people losing their lives in a d ring and on their families is emphasized, and individuals are encouraged to work on their heart and deeds to avoid punishment and achieve their goals. The speakers also discuss the rebirth of the world and the importance of praying for the best.

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			The Day of Judgment Allah says in the
		
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			Qur'an, O you who believe, fear Allah
		
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			as you should be feared.
		
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			Be conscious of your Creator as He deserves
		
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			and do not die except in a state
		
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			of Islam.
		
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			May Allah allow us to meet Him in
		
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			that state.
		
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			So brothers and sisters, the Day of Judgment.
		
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			The Day of Judgment will be 50,000
		
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			years.
		
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			50,000 years long as Allah tells us
		
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			in the Qur'an.
		
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			فِي يَوْمٍ كَانَ مِقْدَارُهُ خَمْسِينَ أَلْفَ سَنَةٌ On
		
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			that day whose length will be 50,000
		
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			years.
		
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			Now, many of us have heard this figure
		
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			before.
		
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			It's in the Qur'an, it's in the
		
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			hadith.
		
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			But I want to challenge you on this
		
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			blessed day of Jum'ah.
		
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			It is a day of reflection, a day
		
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			of returning back to Allah.
		
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			I want to challenge you.
		
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			Have you ever sat down and actually thought
		
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			about 50,000 years?
		
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			I want you to answer yourself truthfully.
		
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			Because very often we do ourselves a disservice.
		
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			When a number is big enough, we sort
		
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			of just categorize it in our head as
		
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			like, well, okay, that's a long time and
		
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			that's it.
		
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			We never think about it ever again.
		
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			Yes, I understand, the Day of Judgment will
		
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			be long, and that's it.
		
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			So we don't allow ourself one of the
		
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			functions that we're supposed to benefit from the
		
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			Qur'an which is reflection and thinking and
		
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			imagining.
		
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			50,000 years.
		
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			Just close your eyes and imagine what that
		
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			means.
		
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			The longest any of us gets in this
		
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			dunya is maybe 100 years, maybe.
		
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			That's the longest.
		
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			50,000 years.
		
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			What can you even say about that length
		
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			of time?
		
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			And in fact, the length of time itself
		
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			is part of the azab, it's part of
		
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			the punishment of the Day of Judgment.
		
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			May Allah protect us.
		
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			And I'll prove it to you.
		
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			Prophet Muhammad ﷺ advised us that a person
		
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			will feel the length of the Day of
		
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			Judgment based on their deeds.
		
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			If they did good deeds, it will feel
		
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			shorter.
		
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			If they did evil deeds, it will feel
		
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			longer until they feel the full extent of
		
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			the 50,000.
		
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			That means the more righteous a believer is,
		
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			they won't even feel 50,000 years pass
		
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			by, because it's difficult enough.
		
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			Imagine waiting for judgment for that long.
		
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			If me and you, God forbid, may Allah
		
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			protect us.
		
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			If we have to go to court, and
		
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			we have to wait for a court date
		
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			to see what our fate will be.
		
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			Are we gonna be free or are we
		
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			gonna go to jail?
		
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			May Allah protect us.
		
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			And you have to wait a few weeks
		
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			for that court date.
		
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			And then when you get there, you sit
		
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			outside, you have to wait 8 hours for
		
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			them to see you.
		
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			How are you feeling?
		
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			Stress and anxiety and I wonder and I
		
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			don't know what my fate is gonna be,
		
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			and I know what I did and I
		
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			just don't know what's gonna happen.
		
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			Imagine that for 8 hours.
		
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			Imagine 50,000 years.
		
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			May Allah protect us.
		
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			So the Prophet ﷺ advised that some people,
		
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			they will have done such good in this
		
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			dunya.
		
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			They will be such righteous believers.
		
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			May Allah make us amongst them.
		
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			That the entirety of the day of judgment
		
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			will feel like how long it takes to
		
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			pray 2 rak'ahs.
		
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			Allahu Akbar.
		
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			How long does that take?
		
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			That's all.
		
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			And that's it.
		
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			The entirety of the day of judgment will
		
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			be finished for them.
		
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			Others, through their righteousness, يدخلون الفردوس الأعلى بغير
		
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			حساب.
		
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			اللهم اجعلنا منهم.
		
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			They will skip the hisab altogether.
		
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			Allahu Akbar.
		
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			Because of their righteousness.
		
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			May Allah make us amongst them.
		
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			And yet, with all the difficulty that the
		
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			day of judgment presents, and how much fear
		
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			we should have towards it, it must happen.
		
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			Because it is the great rebalancing.
		
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			It is the day of justice.
		
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			It is the day, وَنَضَعُ الْمَوَزِينَ الْقِسْطَ لِيَوْمِ
		
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			الْقِيَامَةِ Allah says in the Qur'an, We
		
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			will place the most perfect and just scales
		
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			on the day of judgment.
		
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			Every single thing will come and it will
		
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			be weighed.
		
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			Every good and every bad.
		
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			Every small and every big thing.
		
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			That's justice.
		
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			No oppressor will escape justice on the day
		
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			of judgment.
		
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			No oppressed person will be robbed of justice
		
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			on the day of judgment.
		
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			And that is the great rebalancing, brothers and
		
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			sisters.
		
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			So yes, we should fear it.
		
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			And yes, we should wonder what our fate
		
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			will be.
		
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			And yes, we should imagine how it will
		
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			feel for 50,000 years.
		
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			Imagine yourself.
		
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			Imagine yourself waiting in line, knowing the deeds
		
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			that you did.
		
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			لَا يَتَكَلَّمُونَ إِلَّا مَنْ أَذِنَ لَهُ الرَّحْمَنُ Allah
		
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			says in the Qur'an, Not a single
		
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			person will even utter a single word unless
		
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			they are given direct permission from the Rahman,
		
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			from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Standing at attention with fear.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ said, some people from the
		
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			evil that they did, they will be drowning
		
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			in their own sweat.
		
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			Because they know what evil they did and
		
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			what awaits them of punishment.
		
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			May Allah protect us.
		
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			They know that their court date will not
		
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			be an easy one.
		
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			They know that there are plenty of witnesses
		
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			that will testify against them.
		
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			They know that there is plenty of evidence.
		
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			You think those evil oppressors murdering our brothers
		
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			and sisters in Gaza and in Syria and
		
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			in Yemen, dropping bombs, pressing buttons, thinking they're
		
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			having a great time, taking photos, souvenirs.
		
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			You think those people are gonna have a
		
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			good time on the day of judgment?
		
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			You think they're gonna be enjoying that expectation
		
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			of that court date when all of the
		
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			witnesses, all of the people that they harmed
		
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			will be waiting in line to take their
		
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			haq, to take their right from them?
		
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			So it is not an easy day.
		
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			But it is important for me and you
		
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			to feel that fear now.
		
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			It is important for me and you to
		
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			imagine ourselves waiting in that line with the
		
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			zulm that we know we've done in our
		
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			life.
		
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			None of us are perfect.
		
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			We've done wrong.
		
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			But it's important for us to fear that
		
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			wrong doing now.
		
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			Because right now there is value in fear.
		
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			Right now in this dunya, me and you
		
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			are still alive.
		
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			There is value in nadama.
		
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			There is value in hasra.
		
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			Nadama is regret.
		
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			Hasra is remorse.
		
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			There is value in that.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because if you feel it now, if you
		
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			imagine how scary the day of judgment will
		
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			be and then you say, you know what?
		
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			I'm gonna wake up for fajr.
		
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			In that case I cannot afford to be
		
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			held accountable for this fajr.
		
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			I can't afford to be waiting for my
		
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			court date for 50,000 years.
		
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			I'll pray that fajr.
		
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			Even if it's difficult.
		
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			You know what?
		
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			I was about to take what's not mine.
		
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			I was about to say something, backbite somebody,
		
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			say something that is unjust.
		
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			But I can't afford to meet that person
		
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			on day of judgment and give them from
		
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			my good deeds.
		
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			Why would I put myself through that?
		
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			You know what?
		
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			I'll hold my tongue.
		
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			You know what?
		
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			I was about to waste my money on
		
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			something that is haram.
		
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			But I have to answer that on the
		
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			day of judgment.
		
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			You know what?
		
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			I stay away from it.
		
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			That is the value of having these feelings
		
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			and having this conversation now and reflecting on
		
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			what 50,000 years actually means.
		
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			That's the value.
		
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			However, on the day of judgment there will
		
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			be no value to remorse.
		
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			There will be no value to regret.
		
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			Allah says in the Qur'an, وَأَنذِرْهُمْ يَوْمَ
		
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			الْحَسْرَةَ Warn them about the day of regret.
		
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			One of the names of the day of
		
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			judgment is the day of regret.
		
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			That's how much regret will be there.
		
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			It's been characterized by it.
		
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			It's been described by it.
		
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			So beware brothers and sisters, I'd rather regret
		
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			now and turn that regret into tawbah, into
		
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			repentance.
		
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			And turn that regret into beautiful actions.
		
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			I'd rather have that now.
		
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			I'd rather have those difficult feelings now.
		
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			I'd rather shed a tear of remorse now.
		
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			When it still produces value and it will
		
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			allow me to change course and allow me
		
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			to see the day of judgment in a
		
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			new light so that I can be saved
		
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			on that day by Allah's permission.
		
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			I want to recite some ayat from a
		
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			surah that we are all familiar with, surat
		
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			al-Ma'arij.
		
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			And this is a surah that we've come
		
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			across quite a bit.
		
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			It's at the end of the Qur'an.
		
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			We teach it to our kids.
		
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			But we have a flaw in which we
		
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			don't actually reflect on the Qur'an.
		
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			We just recite it to get some hasanat.
		
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			So I want you to listen to these
		
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			ayat and reflect on it as Allah teaches
		
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			us.
		
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			Somebody asked about the imminent torment.
		
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			For the disbelievers, none can repel it.
		
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			It is from Allah, the Lord of the
		
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			ascending stairways.
		
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			Unto Him the angels and the spirit will
		
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			ascend on a day whose duration is 50
		
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			,000 years.
		
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			So be patient with graceful patience.
		
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			They see it as far away, but we
		
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			see it to be not so far away.
		
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			It is near.
		
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			On the day when the sky will be
		
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			like molten brass, and the mountains will be
		
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			like flakes of wool, no friend will care
		
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			about his friend.
		
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			They will be shown each other.
		
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			The criminal will wish that he could be
		
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			ransomed from the punishment of that day by
		
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			giving up his own children, and his spouse,
		
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			and his brother, and even his family that
		
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			sheltered him, and everyone on earth, if it
		
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			were to save himself.
		
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			But no indeed.
		
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			He will only have a raging fire.
		
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			May Allah protect us from such a fate.
		
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			I say what you hear.
		
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			And I ask Allah's forgiveness for you, so
		
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			ask His forgiveness.
		
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			All praise is for Allah alone.
		
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			And peace and blessings be upon those who
		
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			have no prophet after him, and upon his
		
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			family and companions.
		
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			Allah says, So be patient with a beautiful
		
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			patience.
		
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			They see it far away, but we see
		
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			it near.
		
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			Be patient with a beautiful, graceful patience.
		
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			Because they think it is far away.
		
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			They see it as far away, but we
		
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			indeed see it as near.
		
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			So who is they?
		
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			Who sees it as far away?
		
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			So in here, Allah is referring to the
		
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			oppressors, the evil doers, the wicked.
		
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			They think it is very far away, come
		
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			on, they only think about this dunya.
		
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			But Allah says, no indeed, it is near.
		
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			And in fact, it is not only the
		
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			wicked who see it as far away sometimes.
		
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			The believers do as well.
		
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			And may Allah make us amongst the righteous
		
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			believers.
		
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			The righteous believer can feel like the Day
		
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			of Judgment is so far away that they
		
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			get deluded by shaitan.
		
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			They get tricked into doing evil deeds.
		
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			They get tricked into getting a bit lazy
		
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			with their good deeds.
		
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			They get tricked into using their wealth in
		
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			the wrong ways.
		
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			Or, the righteous believers get tricked into losing
		
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			hope.
		
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			They get despair when they see what is
		
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			happening to our brothers and sisters in Palestine
		
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			and Syria and Yemen and Sudan and many
		
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			places around the world.
		
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			May Allah lift the shackles of their oppression.
		
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			And may Allah punish their oppressors in this
		
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			world and the next.
		
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			So, a believer can see that, wow, justice
		
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			is so far away.
		
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			The Day of Judgment is so far away.
		
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			The rebalancing is so far away.
		
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			And they get despair.
		
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			Allah says, No, in fact, it is near.
		
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			It is close by.
		
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			Don't worry.
		
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			And I'll give you a visual that really
		
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			affected my soul a few weeks ago when
		
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			the videos came out.
		
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			Now, as you know, the tyrant Bashar al
		
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			-Assad may Allah curse him, was overthrown a
		
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			couple of weeks ago.
		
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			Now, I know everybody has their opinion about
		
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			the political situation.
		
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			All we can do is make dua for
		
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			our brothers and sisters and pray for the
		
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			best.
		
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			However, it is undeniable that thousands upon thousands
		
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			of righteous believers and innocent men, women, and
		
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			children were freed from the dungeons of that
		
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			tyrant over the past couple of weeks.
		
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			And the videos are endless.
		
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			And for me, those videos really, you know,
		
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			we knew that there are people, we know
		
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			that every day there's people unjustly imprisoned in
		
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			the prisons of the tyrants.
		
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			We know that.
		
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			May Allah Ta'ala free them all.
		
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			May Allah use us to bring justice to
		
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			the people of this world.
		
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			We know that, but when you see it,
		
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			it really affects your soul in a different
		
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			way.
		
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			And these videos are coming out, and I'm
		
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			seeing people tell their stories, and they were
		
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			thrown in jail for 10 years and 20
		
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			years and 30 years for not doing anything,
		
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			ever, at all.
		
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			And one man was telling a story, and
		
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			he was in that dungeon for 38 years.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			38 years.
		
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			I'm looking around here, that's more than half
		
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			the people here, that's more than your entire
		
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			lifetime.
		
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			Before you were even born, this person was
		
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			in jail, and he has been in jail
		
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			until 2-3 weeks ago.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			And I can't help when that man was
		
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			telling a story, and he says Alhamdulillah several
		
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			times throughout the story.
		
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			Alhamdulillah.
		
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			All praise is to Allah.
		
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			Imagine the reward, I pray that Allah rewards
		
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			them with the highest level of Jannah.
		
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			And I'm thinking, I can't help but feel
		
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			number one, we have let these people down.
		
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			All these years, I'm just enjoying my meals
		
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			and going on vacation and having a good
		
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			time, and these people have been in jail
		
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			that whole time, they've been in a dungeon.
		
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			And I call them my brother, what have
		
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			I done for my brother?
		
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			May Allah forgive us for our shortcomings.
		
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			But that's my first thought.
		
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			My second thought was I feel pity.
		
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			I felt pity for him, I felt so
		
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			sad for him.
		
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			In my eyes, as a limited human being,
		
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			his whole life is gone.
		
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			38 years, he never had kids, never had
		
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			a family, never had a career, he's free,
		
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			Alhamdulillah, but 38 years of his life is
		
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			gone.
		
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			You can't help but think that way, you're
		
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			only human.
		
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			And I felt like, man, SubhanAllah.
		
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			What can I say to him?
		
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			How can I ever face a person like
		
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			that?
		
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			And say, sorry, for not helping you.
		
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			And I thought to myself, if that's how
		
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			I feel about 38 years of a person
		
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			being in difficulty, how will we feel about
		
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			50,000 years?
		
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			And what reward does Allah have for these
		
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			people, inshaAllah ta'ala, in the next life
		
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			in those 50,000 years?
		
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			I'll recite to you a hadith of our
		
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			Prophet ﷺ who said, يَدْخُلُ فُقَرَاءُ الْمُسْلِمِينَ الْجَنَّةَ
		
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			قَبْلَ أَغْنِيَائِهِمْ بِنِصْفِ يَوْمٍ وَهُوَ خَمْسُ مِئَةِ عَامٍ
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ said, the poor Muslims will
		
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			enter Paradise before the rich by half a
		
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			day, the length of which will be 500
		
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			years.
		
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			So the poor believers will enter Paradise before
		
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			the rich believers, they're both going to Jannah,
		
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			they're both believers, they're both good people.
		
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			But the poor will enter before the rich
		
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			by 500 years.
		
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			Allahu Akbar.
		
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			500 years, not 38 years.
		
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			So there will be a rebalancing, but everything
		
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			that happens in the next life will be
		
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			magnified.
		
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			This is a principle.
		
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			You always have to keep this in your
		
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			mind.
		
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			Every single thing that waits for the next
		
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			life is magnified.
		
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			The good and the punishment.
		
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			So if a person gets punished in this
		
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			dunya for their sins, they're better off, they
		
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			got cleansed.
		
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			Because it's better than waiting for the hellfire.
		
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			If a person did not get rewarded for
		
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			their good in this dunya, they are better
		
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			off.
		
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			When they receive it in the next life,
		
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			it will be magnified more than they can
		
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			ever imagine.
		
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			That they will say, Oh Allah, I wish
		
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			I didn't get any reward in this dunya.
		
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			I wish I didn't have any good because
		
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			I would have waited, I would have been
		
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			gladly waited for all of it to be
		
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			in the Akhirah.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ said, a person who
		
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			lived the toughest life in this dunya, the
		
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			toughest life, but was still a believer, they
		
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			will be dipped into Paradise for a split
		
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			second.
		
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			And then they will be asked, did you
		
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			ever suffer in your life?
		
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			And they will say, Wallahi, I have never
		
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			suffered.
		
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			Just that split second in Jannah made them
		
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			forget everything.
		
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			And a person will be brought, the most
		
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			wicked person, who lived the easiest and most
		
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			comfortable, luxurious life in this world, but they
		
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			chose to be wicked.
		
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			They will be brought on the Day of
		
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			Judgment and they will be dipped into the
		
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			hellfire for one second.
		
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			Just a split second.
		
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			And they will be asked, have you ever
		
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			tasted any luxury or comfort or ease in
		
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			your life?
		
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			And they will say, Wallahi, I have never
		
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			felt any comfort ever.
		
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			That's how much one dip in hellfire made
		
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			them forget.
		
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			So you see, brothers and sisters, the great
		
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			rebalancing occurs.
		
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			Everything gets balanced.
		
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			And in this dunya, we look at this
		
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			man who lost his life in a dungeon.
		
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			We look at our brothers and sisters who
		
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			have lost their homes in Gaza.
		
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			May Allah Ta'ala grant them better than
		
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			what they lost.
		
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			We look at people who have lost 30
		
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			of their family members in a bombing.
		
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			We look at people who have been orphaned
		
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			by these evil tyrants and murderers.
		
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			May Allah punish them in this world and
		
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			the next.
		
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			We look at them and we feel pity.
		
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			But I want to ask you, and this
		
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			is a reflection point, I want you to
		
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			think about when you're driving home.
		
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			On the Day of Judgment, when the rich
		
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			amongst the believers are waiting in line to
		
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			answer for all of our things, our comforts.
		
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			You're answering for your cars.
		
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			You're answering for the thousands and thousands and
		
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			hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars that
		
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			you've earned throughout your lifetime and how you
		
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			spent it.
		
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			You're asked about the vacations.
		
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			You're asked about all the food that you
		
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			threw out.
		
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			You're asked about all the things that you
		
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			wasted money on when other people could have
		
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			benefited from that money.
		
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			You're asked about all of the endless amount
		
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			of clothes that we have in our closets
		
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			that we never wear.
		
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			You're asked about all of this because I
		
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			mean that's fair.
		
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			You gotta be asked about it.
		
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			See what you did with what Allah gave
		
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			you.
		
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			While the rich believers are waiting in line
		
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			and then these believers who were faced a
		
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			difficult dunya and had nothing to answer for
		
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			because they were stuck in a dungeon for
		
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			38 years, when they are given the fast
		
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			track to Jannah.
		
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			While the rich believers are waiting for 500
		
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			years.
		
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			I wanna ask you a question.
		
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			Who is going to pity whom on that
		
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			day?
		
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			In this dunya we look at them with
		
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			pity.
		
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			But on the Akhirah they will look at
		
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			us with pity.
		
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			And there is a justice in that.
		
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			There is a rebalancing in that.
		
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			However, and I know our time has run
		
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			out, I wanna leave us on a good
		
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			note.
		
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			I wanna leave us on a positive note
		
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			because it is entirely possible for the rich
		
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			believer who got blessings in this dunya to
		
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			still get on the fast track to Jannah
		
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			as well.
		
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			To still have the entirety of the Day
		
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			of Judgement feel like two rak'ahs.
		
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			To still get on the Sirat in the
		
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			fastest way.
		
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			They will cross the bridge to Paradise like
		
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			lightning.
		
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			And that's the wording of the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			It is still possible for the rich believer.
		
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			And trust me, if you're living in America
		
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			here and you have a roof over your
		
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			head and you have heat in the winter
		
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			and you have AC in the summer and
		
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			you have food everyday, you're a rich believer.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah.
		
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			We have our problems.
		
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			I'm not dismissing our problems.
		
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			We have our struggles.
		
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			But we are the rich.
		
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			By the worldly standards, we are the rich.
		
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			Alhamdulillah.
		
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			So if we want to get that shortcut
		
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			to Paradise, if we fear the 50,000
		
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			years and if we fear the 500 years
		
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			even if we're righteous, then we need to
		
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			get that shortcut.
		
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			How do we do it?
		
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			We have to do work on our hearts
		
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			and we have to work on our deeds
		
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			as the Prophet ﷺ said.
		
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			وَلَكَنْ يَنظُرْ إِلَىٰ قُلُوبِكُمْ وَأَعْمَالِكُمْ وَلَكَنْ يَنظُرْ إِلَىٰ
		
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			قُلُوبِكُمْ وَأَعْمَالِكُمْ Not towards your wealth, not towards
		
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			your appearance.
		
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			So work on your heart and work on
		
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			your deeds and ask Allah ﷻ, أَللَّهُمَّ أَدْخِلْنَا
		
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			الْفِرْدَوْسَ الْأَعْلَىٰ بِغَيْرِ حِسَابٍ May Allah ﷻ enter
		
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			us into the highest level of Jannah without
		
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			accountability.
		
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			Ask Allah and He will grant you.
		
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			Work and He will grant you, subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala.
		
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			اعمَلوا So it is still possible for me
		
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			and you.
		
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			Hope is not lost.
		
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			As we think and imagine and reflect and
		
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			fear the day of judgment here in this
		
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			dunya, we are better suited to avoid its
		
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			punishment in the next life because we still
		
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			have an opportunity.
		
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			We are still alive, me and you.
		
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			Feel that regret, feel that fear, feel that
		
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			remorse.
		
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			Let those tears shed over the wrongs that
		
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			you've done, over the blessings that you've neglected,
		
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			over the times that me and you have
		
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			complained about our normal problems while somebody was
		
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			sitting in a dungeon at the same time
		
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			that we were complaining about something small.
		
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			Cry over those things.
		
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			If you cry in this dunya, you'll reduce
		
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			the chances that you will cry in the
		
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			akhirah.
		
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			I will leave you with an ayah that
		
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			I always reflect on when I think about
		
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			these people.
		
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			When I think about my brothers and sisters
		
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			who have suffered so much more than I
		
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			have ever suffered in this dunya.
		
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			May Allah ta'ala alleviate their suffering.
		
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			May Allah ta'ala grant us and them
		
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			the highest level of jannah.
		
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			And may Allah reward them for every single
		
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			minute they've spent in a dungeon or under
		
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			oppression or any difficulty.
		
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			I think of the following ayah where Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala says, اِنَّ أَصْحَابَ الْجَنَّةِ
		
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			الْيَوْمَ فِي شُغُلٍ فَاكِهُونَ اِنَّ أَصْحَابَ الْجَنَّةِ الْيَوْمَ
		
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			The people of paradise on that day will
		
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			be very busy.
		
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			Busy doing what?
		
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			فِي شُغُلٍ فَاكِهُونَ Literally, they will be so
		
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			busy relaxing.
		
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			هُمْ وَأَزْوَاجُهُمْ فِي ظِلَالٍ عَلَى الْأَرَائِكِ مُتَّكِئُونَ They
		
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			and their spouses will be reclined, not even
		
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			sitting, reclining, relaxing in the shade in the
		
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			shade of Allah on the most comfortable of
		
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			couches and thrones.
		
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			لَهُمْ فِيهَا فَاكِهَةٌ وَلَهُمْ فِيهَا مَا يَدْدَعُونَ سَلَامٌ
		
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			قَوْلًا مِنْ رَبٍّ رَحِيمٍ They will have fruits
		
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			and they will have whatever they call for
		
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			and they will hear the word, سَلَام, peace,
		
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			a word from a lord who is most
		
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			merciful.
		
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			الله أكبر.
		
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			They will be so busy they will be
		
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			at work being relaxed.
		
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			And I think that is the great rebalancing.
		
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			Those who suffered in this world will get
		
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			a shortcut and will get to relax first
		
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			and more.
		
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			So if we want to be amongst those
		
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			people then we can work towards helping them.
		
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			We can work towards using all the blessings
		
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			Allah has given us to do good in
		
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			this world and inshallah ta'ala we can
		
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			be granted the gift of being on that
		
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			fast track and not have to go through
		
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			the difficulties of that day.
		
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			I ask Allah ta'ala to allow us
		
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			to use what He has granted us to
		
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			do good.
		
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			I ask Allah to forgive us for our
		
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			shortcomings.
		
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			I ask Allah to aid our brothers and
		
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			sisters who are suffering around the world and
		
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			make us a means of aid for them
		
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			and to use us and not replace us.
		
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			I ask Allah to make our homes and
		
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			our masjid a place of His light.
		
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			A place where His light will shine and
		
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			it will grow.
		
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			I ask Allah ta'ala to protect our
		
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			children under His light and the light of
		
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			Iman.
		
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			Al Fatiha.