AbdelRahman Murphy – Jumuah Khutbah 05-01-2023

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The importance of consistency in religion and staying true to one's spiritual is discussed in a series of segments covering the surprise surprise of Islam's behavior during the pandemic, the negative impact of poverty on people's health and success, and the importance of finding a meaningful year in spiritual investment. The speakers emphasize the need for people to test their ability to achieve success and pray for their book, finding a connection to others and staying in the church. They also mention upcoming events and events happening at the campus.

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			one of the gifts that Islam gives us innumerable gifts that we get from our religion is the gift of
consistency. I think sometimes when we think of excitement, or we think of novelty, we become
enthralled by the idea of change. You know, what will this new year bring for me? What will this new
position bring for me? What will this new job or this new phase of my life and my family bring for
me? And while there is a human reality, in celebrating newness and moments of change, it's important
to realize that anchors never change. And things that keep you anchored are just as important if not
more important than the things that change. And so when we look at our religion, we see that no
		
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			matter what era of life we are in whether we are young and energy
		
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			attic, whether we are getting to our middle years and we have aspirations professionally, whether
we're gracefully aging into the senior years of our lives where we carry the most good deeds, no
matter what era we find ourselves in good times or bad Allah subhanaw taala gives us the gift of
consistency in the Quran. And the Prophet ISIL Saddam, he reminds us this and he regiments this for
us. You know, sometimes when you have to give a child medicine, you have to sneak it into their
food. And so sometimes you can't tell your kid like Oh, take this medicine. You have to say okay,
maybe after you take your medicine, you can have dessert. Or if you're really desperate, you put the
		
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			medicine in the cupcake. And they say what this tastes weird you say just keep eating it. Right but
either way the medicine has to get there. So the Prophet I sort of said I'm gives us a hadith, in
which it's narrated, that he says about sorts of calf, in specific which we know sorts of gaff is a
sutra, the name of which is synonymous with the day of Friday, the day of Juma it's a sutra that is
absolutely filled to the brim with lessons and there's no way in one Joomla hook person can go
through all of the different lessons from sort of gap with adequacy. But the prophet ISIS will sit
down he says Men SCADA assorted Kathy Fiona Juma it Allah Allah Who mean Inuit Medina Juma attain,
		
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			that whoever takes the time to read this chapter, on the days of Friday, that they will be given a
divine light, maybe physical, but definitely spiritual, that will be with them, and that will
illuminate them in between the days of Friday. So their entire life from Friday to Friday, I know
that we live people live Friday to Friday, for recreational purposes, but we live Friday to Friday,
spiritually. And if a person takes the time, 1015 minutes to read sorts of stuff, not just read, to
recite, but to think about and to reflect and to ponder upon it. That light that they receive will
not just be something that's coincidental, but it will be practical. And the reason why we know that
		
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			is because source of care for the most part is filled with stories, four of them to be exact. And
these are four stories that all share a similar theme, even though the characters are different. The
theme is fitna. How do people deal with trials? How do they deal with moments that are difficult in
the first story? There's the story of these young, pious individuals who are struck with the fitna
of persecution. They're the only religious people in their town. In the second story, there's the
fitna of how we deal with wealth, whether or not you have it or don't have it. What's your
perspective, in the third story, we have the fitna of knowledge, Musa alayhis salam is being given a
		
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			teacher by ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. And in that relationship, the Prophet, who was the one who was
chosen by Allah, is being taught by Allah through hither that he doesn't know everything. And in the
fourth story, you have the Pfitzner, or the challenge of power, and how a person handles power when
they are given power, because we know that power can be a very dangerous thing to have, or it can be
very beneficial depending on the person and how they handle it for today's hold, but I wanted to go
over the second story. And the reason why I wanted to go over the second story is because when we
start the new year, without realizing it, whether it's because we consciously do it, or whether we
		
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			just are a product of our environments, we step into the new year with aspirations and goals. And
it's not wrong. It's not haram to have a New Year's resolution. It's not a fad. So I'm just telling
you, maybe somebody else can give that federal Mufti Come on, he's here, but it's just not wrong for
a person to set a time for them to have a new resolution for themselves. And a lot of times, the
resolution revolves around health and prosperity. And it revolves around all of these material
things. But I challenge everyone to think about on this first jump out of 2024, I challenge everyone
to ponder and think about the resolution of your soul, and your spirit. And as much as you have
		
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			goals that are financial or professional, or personal or health related. Ask yourself what goal do I
have for my relationship with Allah? And this story is so particularly stunning because you see, and
you can put yourself in the shoes of these characters, you see the challenge that the dunya can be,
or the obstacle, the Djinn, the dunya can provide in a person's relationship with Allah subhanho wa
taala. And so the ayat that cover this story if you want to look later, it's chapter 18 verses 30
		
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			Two through 45 We're gonna go over today and we'll go over them relatively quickly so stay with me
in sha Allah. But Allah subhana wa Tada introduces the story. And he says to the Prophet SAW Salem
What do Riblah who methanol Raju Laney Janelia hottie Hema Jana teen,
		
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			Allah Tala tells the Prophet so Salam, O Messenger of Allah, give them the story and there's a
context of the Prophet SAW Salem, he was asked rather he was challenged to provide the stories that
were found within South Africa as a means of proving his prophet hood, that's a different color for
a different time. But this is why Allah is telling him tell them the story. The story is about a man
who had to Gardens, which is a sign of wealth by told you, for example, I owned two houses or two
properties or to this or to that you would see it as a sign of wealth. So Allah subhanaw taala says,
give them the example of the two men who had gardens. And one of the men, as we come to learn later,
		
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			is spiritually not as good as the other man. They are actually brothers or cousins per the
narrations, but one of them is distinctly closer to Allah. And the other one is distinctly distant
from Allah and just goes further and further away from Allah. Now, if you and I were to do the math,
which one of these people did Allah give more blessing to, and we knew one of them was religious,
and one of them was not religious, we would think in our head, Allah surely gave the religious
person more. And Allah punished the irreligious person, the rejecter, by taking away their
provision, but we know that that's actually not the case. And in life, you actually see that that's
		
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			not the case. Allah subhanaw taala does not tie your material wealth, your prosperity in this dunya
is not contingent upon the man and the relationship that you have with Allah subhanaw taala. And
it's a blessing that that's the case. Some of the companions, for example, would be given wealth,
and they would cry. And when they were asked, Why are you crying, they would say, I hope that this
is not Allah giving me my reward for my good deeds here in lieu of my reward there for the occupa.
They were so cognizant that this dunya is separate. It's a separate deal from the Africa that they
were worried that maybe if I'm not sincere, Allah is giving me all of my reward here instead of
		
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			there, oh, Allah don't deprive me of my reward there for my reward here. So the companions were
aware of this and in the story, Allah subhanaw taala. He describes the garden. He doesn't just say
that they had a garden he says that this garden we gave one of them two gardens, which had great
vines, and was surrounded by palm trees, and had crops and each garden Allah subhanaw taala says,
kill tell Jana Taney atit Akula ha, well, I'm totally mean who che that these gardens they were, you
know, sometimes if you're into farming and gardening, as many of us found out and 2020 sometimes it
goes well, and sometimes it doesn't you plant something and it blooms, it harvests sometimes you get
		
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			nothing. Allah says that this garden was so amazing, so miraculous, that he uses the word Loon, that
it never oppressed, the gardener. All the work that you do, you plant the seed you water you check
the soil, you maintain it, you do everything. Sometimes you feel like I did all that work, and I got
nothing out of it. Now that's the story of the dunya, isn't it? You do all this work and you don't
get everything back and you wonder to yourself, is that a sign is that Allah displeased with me? No.
It's up to Allah and the chances not the decision about the chances not yours. But with this
particular example, Allah wants to illustrate what how blessed one of these people were. This person
		
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			was so distant from Allah so far from Allah, yet in his garden in his palatial beautiful garden,
which you can imagine would be like Southern California I know it's kind of cold. So I'm not trying
to trigger us but nice and warm and beautiful.
		
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			Allah Tada says that not only was this garden that belonging to this man, but this garden was
perfect. It was exactly everything that you could imagine. In the middle of a region that is
surrounded by desert and stone and mountains, this man had the perfect garden. And Allah to Allah
gives us that scenario. And our jaws they drop because we find out in the next idea that this man
goes to his friend or his brother or cousin based on the narration. And he says to who says to him,
and an exome income Alan? Well, Arizona Farah, he says that I am better than you. I'm better than
you because I have more wealth than you do. And also, I'm a more superior powerful person. This
		
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			seems to be an interesting way for the story. To begin, imagine
		
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			If you see two people walking together and you walk by them, and you only catch one line of their
conversation, and that line is I'm better than you, you would look at them. And you would say,
that's such a strange interaction. What would possess this person? What kind of person who has a
relationship with somebody, whether it's family or social? What kind of person would feel courageous
enough to look at a person in the eye and say, I'm better than you? And then not only do you hear
that, right, maybe they are better than them. Maybe they pray 200. Maybe they give sadaqa? Maybe
they fast, although a person who does that shouldn't even say those words. But and then you hear the
		
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			reason I'm better than you because I'm richer than you are.
		
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			And I have more power as a result of that wealth. All of us hopefully would look at that interaction
as so strange. May Allah protect us. But here's the thing. Although we would never utter such a
thing, I hope the question has to be asked because the Quran asks questions. How many of us, even
though we wouldn't say it, we might feel that way.
		
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			How many of us even though we would never utter that, when we look at somebody under a bridge,
asking for food, we say what? An extra extra Roman Kamara, I'm better than you. I'm in this warm
car. And you have to ask for food and clothes. See, this is one of the ways in which the knifes and
chiffon also illustrates this right? And I don't mean I'm better than him. One of the ways in which
the neffs opens the door into this irrevocable in this horrible disease, of denial of Allah is to
start to place yourself in the seat of Allah, which is what the judge between people, you cannot say
that I'm better than somebody. In fact, one of the most beautiful things about Islam is that we
		
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			learn in economical marine de la hui at caughlin. The most honorable amongst everybody in this room,
according to Allah is what the one with most taqwa and whereas Taqwa there is no visual indication
of your taqwa. There is no way that I can rank your taqwa no scale that we can stand on and measure
taqwa, taqwa. Hona, as the Prophet SAW said, him said, is in the heart. And if something's in the
heart, and it's invisible, our only assumption is that I don't know what you have, and you don't
know what I have. And we're going to leave that to the creator of both of us. May Allah either give
us a good end. And so this statement that I am better than you, and I have more wealth and more
		
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			power than you is a clear indication Allah is peeling back, right, peeling back the layers so we can
see what the heart of this person looks like. And we're already uncomfortable. We already don't like
this, we already don't feel like this person is the person that we want to emulate, or be after. But
the second part of this is what wealth can do to the heart of a person, what status, power and
wealth can do. And this is a very important topic right now. Because especially as we enter into
now, 90 plus days of an assault on our brothers and sisters in Gaza, or as we see the result of
poverty being inflicted upon for the sake of stealing resources, Muslim majority countries, che
		
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			Athan can enter into the consciousness of a person and say, why are all these Muslim countries poor?
And I heard this I was sitting in Oxford University with a young Muslim man, and he said to me these
exact words, if Islam were true, why does Allah make muslims so poor? And I told him, this is your
Oxford degree speaking not your email. And I said ever since day one, Allah has taught us Ibis that
what salah, and who,
		
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			that when Abdullah ibn Al Maktoum, who was invisible to the Mexican society, came to the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and asked him a question, as the Prophet SAW sent him was making Dawa
to the leaders of Quraysh even though they couldn't see him, Allah saw him even though he was
invisible to everybody. Allah subhanaw taala he was very visible to Allah, Allah will see you. And
Allah use that moment as a teachable lesson for all of us. That what you have in your bank account,
or how many followers you have, or who cares about all this stuff, none of that matters in Allah
leyendo to Allah Azza Comala so what he can what I can do elaphe glooby Kumar Maliko the Prophet SAW
		
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			sent him said, Allah has no interest in looking at what your body looks like what clothing you wear,
and the brand is on your clothes. None of that matters. The zip code does not matter. The label on
your car does not matter. None of that matters. All that matters is the heart of the person wearing
the clothes. May Allah give us good hearts. And so this disease is a pathway it's an opening for
future problems. And this is why Allah tells us what this person said next. Well definitely Jana to
Hua Hua volumen NFC he noticed, by the way, interesting, I'll
		
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			Last said the garden never oppresses. But because he got such a perfect garden, he became an
oppressor himself. Right, the same word is used, this person walked into their garden and Allah make
sure to tell us and this person was oppressing himself. You think that all of these moments are
satisfying ingratiate into your soul? No, this is oppression of the soul on the Day of Judgment, the
soul will look back, and the heart and the soul and the body will be debating Why did you do this to
me? Why did you make me feel this way, the heart will be yelling at the consciousness saying, I
reminded you I made you feel guilt and remorse. I told you not to do this, I told you not to hit the
		
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			snooze button for Fudger. You felt me for a short while before you covered me and buried me in dirt.
		
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			And so on that day, the day of judgment, the heart will have its due. And even if everything gets
punished, the parts of your body that tried to stand up and give you actually a fighting chance for
the Mercy of Allah subhanaw taala they will have their time in court to be able to testify against
May Allah Allah give us a good day on that day. And so he says God, a man of the new and to be to
have the evidence. He's so impressed by what Allah has given him. And if and I love this story,
because gardening is like a microcosm of being out of control. Like if you've ever garden let me
remind you 2020 If you've ever tried to plant anything, or garden, anything, you know, at some
		
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			point, you're not in control. And then you Google it, and it says humidity, you're like what? Have
to buy a humidifier, you buy a humidifier and then doesn't work again, you say soil with sand
density? Hmm. And you are reminded that this very simple when you look at a farmer, nobody's
impressed. No one's that. Did you go to Harvard? Did you go to Yale? Did you know when you look at a
farmer, you're like, these are simple people. But is it simple, really, it's not. And Allah uses the
parable to remind us that there are some things that people understand better than others. And
farmers understand more than all of us educated people that you are not in control Allah is. So he
		
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			walks in his garden, and he sees everything that Allah has given him.
		
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			And he says, what, I don't think this is ever going to disappear. As if he's in control SubhanAllah.
		
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			So stage one is that people, when wealth affects them, they can start to think that they're better
than others, and they can start to actually lose touch with reality, they can start to think that
there's something that they're not, there's a narration that even Cathar mentions in the diet. And
the higher, he says that
		
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			fell down, at one point was trying to demonstrate His power with people. And so he would call all
these people who had sick cows and tell them bring your cows and I'll cure them. And I'll book them
with Allah, I'm God, I'll cure them. So the way that this worked was that they had a stable of
healthy cows, the farmer would bring their sick cow, they would bring them into the chamber, the
healing chamber, fed on would do his performance. And then all of a sudden, they would find a cow
that similarly looked like that cow and bring them out. The farmer would be Oh, my God, He is God.
So this happened, and obviously word spread, and all these sick cows came, and they gave away all
		
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			the healthy cows. And one morning, as they made this call, bring your sick cows, the ministers want
to fit out and we're like, maybe today, we should take a day off because we don't have any more
healthy cows. For animals, what do you mean healthy cows? They said, We don't have any more cows. We
can't heal any more cows. He goes, What do you mean, they said for now, and we can't switch out
people sick cows anymore. We're out of our stock. He goes, What do you mean switch? I've been
healing them.
		
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			He became convinced why drunk with power.
		
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			This person was experiencing a very similar effect drunk with power.
		
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			I don't think this is ever gonna go away. And then he says, Well, Matt oven No. Assata ka Emerton.
And even if let's say that this this hour shows up, this Day of Judgment shows up.
		
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			He says whether included to eat our rugby that and I am returned to my Lord, that I didn't know how
you don't minha
		
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			when Carla that I will actually show up on that day. And as good as this is I'm going to get much
better than that.
		
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			Like for me, it's a win win. I'm just so perfect. I'm so blessed. But this was clearly a delusion
that had infected the person's heart and had just like the heart pumps blood to the rest of the
body, the spiritual kind of pumps whatever's inside of it to the rest of the person's consciousness.
And so we asked Allah to purify our hearts, because whatever's in there goes everywhere else. I
don't have a lot of time left. So I'm gonna go through quickly. So Subhanallah stage two sets in.
Now the person is no longer settled on I'm better than creation, but now they think that they're
better than
		
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			And Allah and this is a dialog to show us two pathways. And another source in the Quran, Allah to
Allah mentions Kerala in Santa Lietuva or Rahu sadhana. One of the diseases of human beings is that
they see themselves as self sufficient. So when we reject Allah, it's actually a sign that we've
completely accepted the material world.
		
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			Because you either accept one or the other, the more that I reject the material world, the more I
leave room to accept Allah. And the more that I've invested in, attended and attach myself to this
dunya, the less space I have in my heart to find Allah. And that's why according to all of Islamic
history, from the time of the Prophet SAW Salem, to all the great scholars, the setup the Debian,
and all of them up until this day, you find that some of the people that were the closest to Allah,
they were given the Headstart of being tested with wealth, not in the way that we hope, which is
more wealth, but they didn't have enough of it.
		
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			But that opened up a door for them, and that gave them access. And if you want to ask anybody about
access to Allah when you're being deprived, write a letter to our brothers and sisters in the prison
system, the unjust prison system, but write a letter and see how many people you know my brother
used to call prisons, Muslim factories, because everything else is taken away and deprived and all
your heart can do is find guidance. And I will tell you firsthand that Gautam, we receive stacks of
letters every week, from brothers and sisters saying and humbler ly converted to Islam as a result
of the podcast, for example, and they said, I had nothing else to do but listen, I finished up the
		
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			Nasir 200 series sera podcast in three days. That's the kind of Netflix binge I can get behind.
Right. But why? Because deprivation Robomow Menaka foul taka. Sometimes you're deprived, but you're
given in your deprivation. And we see that happen. Next, we see that Allah subhanaw taala says in
the Hadith, he says, what
		
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			that truly I bet the asylee Aina malah Ainu rot, he says, if you can get past this dunya there will
be something waiting for you that I have prepared to my righteous servant. And in order for us to
get it you almost have to disconnect.
		
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			Disconnect from what from what you expect here. Because he says what is waiting for you there
because you gave it up here is something your eyes have never seen. Way better than that one hallway
in North Park Mall.
		
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			Way better than the Ferrari dealership down the road. Something the eyes have never seen. I want you
to imagine everything the eyes have seen is limited with what Allah has unlimited.
		
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			And he says what out although don't send me out and you will hear beautiful sounds that ears have
never heard what a halter Allah has been Bashara, or you will experience things that the heart was
never even able to fathom.
		
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			That's what's waiting for you and I but only for those people that are so disconnected from their
dunya we indulgences that they can be salted. Hey, may Allah Tada to make us amongst them.
		
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			And so his friend upon hearing this says to him, do you disbelieve in the One who created you? Are
you serious? you disbelieve in the one that gave you this and then developed you from stages, right?
You were just a drop. And then you graduated and grew and then you eventually became this big man.
And now you're walking around forgetting where you came from. You know, one of the greatest
tragedies that we see is when someone was poor and they become rich, and they forget what it was
like to be poor. Right? And all of us do this. We forgot what it was like to be helpless. Allah to
Allah created us in a stage of helplessness, to strength, and we forget when we're strong, how weak
		
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			we were. And that's why Allah makes us weak again, to remind us that just like you were back then
don't get it twisted. You're gonna become that way once more. It's Allah Allah give us a good
ending. And then this man, he says, But as for me, Allah is my Lord and I will never, I will never
do what you have done. I'll never associate anything with Him, not even myself. And then he gives
him this advice and he says to him, Well, Lola is defaulter John nataka quilter Masha Allah, Allah
Quwata illa biLlah. He says, If only everyone who is blessed is not a problem, but the ones who
forget Allah because of their blessings or a problem. May Allah protect us if only you walked in?
		
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			And instead of saying, Look at my garden, you said look at what Allah has given me. There's nothing
wrong with having things that are nice, unless you forget the one who gave you the nice things. So
he advises his brother and says, You should have walked into your garden and said what Masha Allah
Allah Quwata illa Allah and then he says, Even though I am lesser than you, in terms of offspring
until
		
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			terms of wealth he says even I know this. And this is Subhanallah a lesson that only tests can teach
you. When Allah gives you prosperity sometimes you forget him when Allah gives you depravity Allah
to Allah forces you to remember him. And that's one of the reasons the scholars say tests exist. So
his brother then says to him, maybe my Lord will give me something better than your garden.
		
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			And then Allah Tada set down upon this garden, a tragedy, a Thunderbolts from the sky, Allah Tada
says, turning it to a wasteland. Or he says maybe water will come and sink the entire piece of land
that you have and you will never be able to find it again.
		
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			So Allah Tada fast forward for us and says what all of this produce was totally ruined. The man who
once walked in paraded through his garden, it was taken away from him in the blink of an eye.
		
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			And he started to wring his hands. He started to turn his hands over Allah mountain for coffee, ha,
because of all of his investment in it, everything he put into it. And he says, what a waste that I
did.
		
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			And then he says, this beautiful line where you have to do Yeah, late honey, lamb, or should it be
Rob be ahead?
		
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			Oh my God, I wish I had never
		
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			distracted myself from Allah and given to anyone else besides Allah what He only deserves. I wish I
had never fallen short.
		
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			Now, at this point, in the suta, I know it's easy to think of this person as just like the worst
person in the world in the world. But at the end of the passage, he actually becomes a winner.
		
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			When Allah tested him, he became successful. Because why he had the realization that all of this was
from Allah. Now do you think moving forward in his life, knowing what we know about this response?
he's ever going to forget this moment? Do you think when Allah Tala gives him something else down
the line, he'll ever forget this moment? No. This test was given to him, his wealth and it being
taken away so that he could make this statement. I wish I had never done shirk with Allah EBITDA.
And that's why Kela in Santa like Ottawa, Ottawa who's still gonna what's next in Isla or bigger
Raja, the cure for this disease? When you look at something and you find it afflicting you, and you
		
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			find that your goals are to material and not spiritual. Remember that to every single person,
they're returned to Allah is their eventuality We ask Allah Tada to give us a beautiful year. We ask
Allah Tada to reconnect us with him. We ask Allah Tada to make this year a year of spiritual
investment. We ask Allah to Allah to make us wealthy not just in our material wealth, but we ask
Allah to give us wealth in our hearts. I mean, you're a bit odd. I mean, Subhan Allah will be 100
Nisha, the one La ilaha illa antenna stockfeed are going to read
		
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			hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam ala shuffle MBA would listen in saying that Muhammad
salallahu salam ala early, he was hobbies running out of anatomy.
		
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			This story is one story and I know I spent too much time on it today well and now in sha Allah, but
I wanted to end with a reminder to everybody. The Quran is filled with moments like this, to the
brim. What we did together today in Juma is an example. But all of us have the capacity to open up
the book of Allah, and to go and to read the stories and to connect. And I guarantee you that you
had realizations during this club that I did not have. And that's for you to share with Allah
subhanaw taala. One of the biggest commitments we talked about resolutions, one of the biggest
commitments we can make in this year is to commit to a meaningful relationship with the book of
		
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			Allah subhanaw taala. You know, I saw the most incredible and tragic video the other day, and I'll
end with this amidst all the bombing amidst all of the destruction. You know what I saw, I saw
resilience but I saw the most beautiful form of it in a boron School for Girls in hon Yunus.
		
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			Not one that was already there. One that was amongst the rubble and amidst the destruction, you had
women that had memorized the Quran that had said, let's go ahead and learn from the book of Allah.
No matter what we're going through, we're never going to find ourselves disconnected from our Lord.
If brothers and sisters in the Gaza can sit not knowing when their next meal will be, but they can
have some time for Quran I'm not sure any of us will have a valid excuse to Allah about why we
couldn't we ask Allah to Allah to give us a connection to his book. We ask Allah Tada to allow us to
be inspired by his words. We ask Allah to Allah to guide us and to make us guidance allow us to
		
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			guide others. We ask Allah Tada to bless everybody in this gathering. We ask Allah Tala that for
those that have lost anybody that Allah Tala forgive them. We ask Allah that if anyone is sick that
he gives them shifa.
		
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			In the lobby of America to hold your saloon at another year you were living in mo Salah Ali was
sitting with us Nima Allahumma Salli. Ala Muhammad Anwar Ali Muhammad came out so late to either
Brahim or other early Ibrahim for Alameen. in Accra, Jaime de Majeed. Allahumma barik ala Muhammad
Anwar Ali Muhammad came about after either Ibrahim Ibrahim Phil Alameen in Hammond of a deed in the
law yet multiple annual exam what each either quarterback or any alpha will monkey with your
computer algorithm to the current optimal.
		
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			Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar. A shadow Allah. Allah Losch
		
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			Allah, a shadow a nama her mother a Zulu law shadow nama her mother a Zulu La Jolla la sala Salah
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Akbar Allahu Akbar La ilaha illa Allah
		
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			straight neuros Please fill in the gaps in sha Allah pray this prayers if it's your last prayer
		
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			Allahu Akbar
		
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			Al Hamdulillah he romped dinner on me in Ottawa for man you'd want him Manichean MIDI been in Canada
I've been doing Jack ins during it he then also went off on a little stamping game slid off on Deena
and now I'm down at him laying in my boobs are laying him one a bomb on knee pain
		
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			oh yeah tanjun Number one ashcan NaVi Aslan out on como la. Mata amo two v one Yeah. Are the F la
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			fall in love in Saurfang Finn una Sofia emote on email why moves
		
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			along
		
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			send me I love you man. Hi Mina
		
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			along
		
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			hola
		
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			hola
		
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			Allah hu Akbar Al
		
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			Hamdulillah he Robben Island mean I'll wash them out and you'd want him Manichean meat Dean in Ghana
Ubuntu and eat yuck and asteria staring it then also it almost stamping slid off on the INA and now
I'm down at him why he didn't melt
		
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			him while I'm on the screen
		
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			when they're all sitting in Santa Fe host in an arena um and while I'm you know sorely
		
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			wants I want someone being happy you want to one sound is somebody
		
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			along
		
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			Semi long Hooni men Hamidah
		
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			along with
		
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			Allah
		
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			Allah
		
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			along
		
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			Tell
		
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			us more aleikum wa rahmatullah Issara I'm Ronnie Kamara.
		
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			Salam Alaikum
		
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			ask Allah Tala to accept our Jamar sha Allah. To those of you who are visiting from out of town
Welcome, welcome. We're happy to have you in sha Allah for those of you who are regular Welcome back
from the Rila. As you head out Charley, you'll notice that there's some refreshments and treats for
the kids. That's why you see them sprinting right now, in sha Allah after most of the kids are all
the kids have made their way out then to everyone else goes the spoils. But we ask that if you're
above the age of childhood that you leave the cupcakes for them. And I can tell by the icing around
your lips insha Allah when I'm talking to you, so please don't try to hide it. We have one daughter
		
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			that will make sure Allah on behalf of one of our friends, one of our graduates here from cudham
Hello there. He
		
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			He's a close family friend who passed away Mata lube Achmed, DFE. And so we asked a lot to Allah to
shower him with his Rama and to accept him into his agenda with the Prophet solo Salam as well as
anybody else who has experienced loss or difficulty or the loss of a loved one or family and we ask
Allah Tada to make it easy for them and to give them clear and quick pathway to paradise. Of course
please remember our brothers and sisters. It's one thing to talk about them from the member but to
constantly remember them in your eyes whenever you have time. Even if it's a few minutes after your
prayers. Those two hours are so valuable who asked us how to to accept if you're interested in any
		
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			of the programs that we have here on campus please check outside of the the monitors the TVs, they
have all the flyers for all the events that we have going on whether it's the clutter macadam e
classes for those who want to step into a more knowledge position in their life Inshallah, or the
community events we have going on. At roots. The coffee shop has also opened about a coffee coma
salaam aleikum wa rahmatullah.