AbdelRahman Murphy – Jumuah Khutbah 13-09-2024

AbdelRahman Murphy
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The importance of finding a way to achieve success on the Day of Justice is emphasized, along with practicing religion and being honest and sincerity. The Prophet of Islam uses the term al-m madh consent to remind people of their actions and to find a partner who inspires and push for success. Consistent and faith in life is crucial for success, and finding one's true partner and friend is crucial. The speaker also discusses the confusion surrounding Allah's policies and the importance of showing one's sincerity in everything.
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To put Bilal radiAllahu anhu, an African former

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slave, to be the muezzin of not only

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his masjid, but when the Muslims had finally

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entered into Mecca, and had made their pilgrimage,

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he instructed Bilal to ascend on top of

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the Kaaba and call the adhan.

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Because the Prophet ﷺ saw the incorrect understanding,

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and instead of making a slight adjustment to

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this really incorrect disposition, he said, no, we're

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gonna flip this completely to teach people what

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the truth teaches us.

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And so when you see our understanding of

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success being so far off what Allah and

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His Messenger have taught us, and when we

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look back at the Qur'an and at

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the Sunnah of the life of the Prophet

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ﷺ, we see that not only is the

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acquisition of things not deemed as successful, not

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only is it, if a person has a

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lot, it is not necessarily successful, but in

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fact Allah tells us that getting more is

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a liability.

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Achieving more means that we'll be asked more

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about what we've achieved.

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الهاكم التكاثر حتى زرتم المقابر Allah in the

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Qur'an, He says, you are gonna be

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distractedly destroyed by your obsession with acquiring more

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and more.

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حتى زرتم المقابر And you're gonna be obsessed

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with this until you visit the graves, meaning

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until you die.

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And so Allah is telling us here that

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we have this inclination.

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وَتُحِبُّونَ الْمَالَ حُبًّا جَمًّا He says, you love

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money.

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You love it with an almost unnatural type

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of love.

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And they've done studies that show that when

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people even see pictures of dollars, they get

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happy.

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Their mind releases the happiness chemical.

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So subhanAllah, this is something that's deeply ingrained

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within us.

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It's a vulnerability.

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And then society, right?

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Marketing and things like that have really taken

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advantage of that.

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The Prophet ﷺ said, ما قَلَّ وَكَفَى خَيْرٌ

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مِّمَّا كَثُرَ وَأَلْهَا Whatever is little but takes

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care of you is infinitely better than that

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which is in abundance, but it is something

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that distracts you.

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Or deters you.

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Or pushes you away.

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So we hear these narrations, we hear these

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verses, and we understand it mentally, we understand

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it logically.

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That you know what?

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Living a life of contentment, living a life

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of simplicity, living a life of having moderate

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expectations, is in fact truly the prophetic way.

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And it is the happier way.

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And as someone famously said, with more money

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there are more problems, and so I don't

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want to have that.

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But subhanallah, the heart is where everything resides

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in terms of integrating that knowledge into action.

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So while we could all talk about the

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benefits of being simple, and being humble, and

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being modest in our aspirations, and being content

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with Allah at all times, the heart wants

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more than that.

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And so today's khutbah, I wanted to speak

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about how this philosophical principle of seeking more

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is something that will absolutely destroy us from

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within.

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Now we know that economically, right, this is

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the reason why people struggle, maybe financially sometimes,

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because they spend more than they have.

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We know that socially, this is the reason

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why people burn out, because they give more

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than they have, right?

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They commit to more than they can.

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But what about religiously?

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What about spiritually?

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Yes, this same principle has made its way

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into our understanding of what religion means, and

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how we practice religion.

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We think that if we simply just do

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more, then that will be what will give

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us success on the Day of Judgment.

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But what we find, subhanallah, are many narrations

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from the Prophet ﷺ, and many stories and

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examples where you have individuals that did very

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little in terms of the measurable quantity of

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the deed.

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But the quality of the deed was so

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heavy, and so substantive, that the reward that

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was prescribed for that deed was absolutely mind

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-blowing.

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And we'll share some of those stories.

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But before we begin, the verse that I

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quoted in the khutbah, a verse from Surah

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Al-Bayyinah, Allah ﷻ teaches us the sequence

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of how to understand, how to structure a

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good deed.

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And He teaches us the prioritization of doing

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a good deed.

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وَمَا أُمِرُوا إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُوا اللَّهَ مُخْلِسِينَ لَهُ الدِّينَ

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Allah says that these messengers that were sent

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were commanded to do nothing more than to

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worship Allah in a sincere way.

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هُنَفَاءَ وَيُقِيمُوا الصَّلَاةَ وَيُعْطُوا الزَّكَاةَ Sincerely, devotedly,

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prayer, and charity.

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Now we know that prayer and charity, inarguably,

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are some beautiful deeds.

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When we get together, we pray.

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When we raise money, we give charity.

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We think that these are the deeds that

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are gonna take us to heaven, inshaAllah.

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But what we fail to realize is that

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in the ayah itself, Allah mentioned that each

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of these deeds, prayer, and charity, and everything

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else, has a qualifier.

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And that qualifier is what?

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مُخْلِسِينَ لَهُ الدِّينَ Ikhlas, sincerity.

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So before we actually stand up to say

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Allahu Akbar, it would actually benefit us to

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say, whom I actually even praying to?

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Before I write the check for a donation,

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it would actually benefit us to say, what

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am I donating this for?

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And if my heart and my action are

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not aligned, if I'm writing the check for

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a donation, but all my heart is thinking

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about is the tax exemption.

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If I'm standing up to pray, but all

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my heart is thinking about is, I can't

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wait to be done with this to go

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back to the playoffs, or go back to

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dinner, or go back to the wedding, then

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my heart is not aligned and my deed

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is not مُخْلِسِينَ لَهُ الدِّينَ.

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The sign that I'm sincere for Allah is

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that I understand the value of that deed,

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and I'm less focused about finishing it, and

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more focused about actually partaking in it.

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May Allah Ta'ala give us sincerity.

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So before Allah mentions the value of the

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deeds itself, He mentions what puts value in

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them, is the sincerity that we have.

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I want you to think about this.

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The Prophet ﷺ, right before the believers were

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making hijrah from Mecca to Medina.

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It's an incredible story, the hijrah from Mecca

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to Medina, leaving everything that they've known, leaving

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their hometowns, leaving their property, their wealth.

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It was not easy.

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You know sometimes we think of hijrah, we

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think of like almost a story, like a

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fairy tale, that it was something very easy,

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it was direct, it was simple.

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No.

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It was financially difficult, it required sacrifice, it

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required a lot of question, a lot of

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confusion.

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Anyone in here who's ever moved before, you

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know that when you move, even if everything

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looks good, you still have this anxiety.

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Now imagine if you have no idea what

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the future will be, you don't know what

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the new city is like, you've only heard

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bad things, you haven't heard anything reliable, you

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don't want to leave your hometown, but you

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still have to move.

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Now, it would be safe to assume that

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anybody who is going to make hijrah, would

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absolutely be sincere.

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Any person who's leaving Mecca to go to

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Medina, with the Prophet of Allah ﷺ, that

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they're gonna be sincere.

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That's a safe assumption for us to make.

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However, the Prophet ﷺ, he gathered everybody, and

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he addressed them before making this major move,

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this major migration, which required so much sacrifice.

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And he says to them what?

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Very famously, إِنَّمَ الْأَعْمَالُ بِالنِّيَّاتِ Every action that

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you do, is only made possible, and is

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only accepted, and deemed worthy, by the intention,

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that occupies the soul of the action itself.

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Why would the Prophet ﷺ, stand before a

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group of people, that have pledged their lives

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to him, that have pledged everything they have,

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that have sacrificed, that their backs are facing,

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all of their net worth.

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Every asset they own is behind them, and

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they are about to embark on taking their

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first steps, towards a new life, of which

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they know nothing about, the certainty of success

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there.

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But he still ﷺ, found it appropriate, and

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perfect to tell them at that moment, you

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have to be sincere.

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Brothers and sisters, the scholars say when they

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comment on this hadith, because sincerity, is the

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toughest thing to guarantee.

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Sincerity is the thing, that nobody else can

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see besides God, besides Allah.

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We can all appear to be a certain

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way, we can all present ourselves in a

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certain way, but it's only Allah who truly

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knows, who we are, why we do what

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we do, and why we say what we

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say.

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And so the Prophet of God is reminding

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his companions, that while you may, on the

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outside, be making hijrah with us, he's saying,

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I know, and you know, that there are

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other reasons.

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And in that narration he talks about them.

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He says, whoever is migrating to get married,

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then you're going to get married.

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Whoever is migrating to do some business, then

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you're going to do business.

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But whoever migrates for Allah and His Messenger,

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they have migrated for Allah and His Messenger.

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And what that means is, on the Day

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of Judgment, when they are called by the

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people who migrated for Allah and His Messenger,

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not everybody who did it will be able

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to stand up.

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Not everybody who did it will be able

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to stand and receive that honor, because their

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intention may have not been there.

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May Allah give us a sincere intention.

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This is why Imam Ghazali, when he talks

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about the way in which Allah measures deeds

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on the Day of Judgment, Allah uses the

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word al-mizan.

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He uses the concept of a scale.

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And it's interesting, because in the world where

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we count things, scales are useless.

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But in a world where we weigh things,

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counting is useless.

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And if we're convinced that counting something means

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that we're successful, but Allah is telling us,

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no, we're going to weigh your good deeds,

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what Imam Ghazali says is, don't worry about

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the amount of good deeds, worry about the

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weight of them.

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And worry about whether or not the good

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deed that you did was substantive enough, was

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filled enough to be heavy on the Day

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of Judgment.

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Brothers and sisters, I ask you one question.

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Filled with what?

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With sincerity for Allah.

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You see, there can be things that are

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very large in their size, or very many

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in their amount, but they're very light on

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the scale.

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Meanwhile, the Prophet, peace be upon him, uses

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this metaphor.

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When he says, there are two words, which

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are light on the tongue, خفيفتان على اللسان,

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but they are very heavy on the scale.

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ثقيلتان على الميزان.

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And he says they are what?

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سبحان الله و بحمده سبحان الله العظيم.

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Why did he say the metaphor?

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Because he wants to teach us that something

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that is so simple, as three or four

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words, that takes you five seconds to say

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while you're driving, or while you're putting your

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kids to sleep, or while you're getting ready

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for work in the morning, these words that

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you may very well forget you ever even

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said them.

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Allah Ta'ala does not forget that you

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said them.

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And on the Day of Judgment, when you're

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standing and looking at your deeds being measured,

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you're not looking at the words you said

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being counted, you're watching them being weighed.

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And that's why the Prophet, peace be upon

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him, says, for the person who says them

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with a heart that is full, and a

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heart that is focused, on the Day of

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Judgment they will be pleasantly surprised by the

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weight that it adds to their good scale.

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May Allah Ta'ala give us a good

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day on that day.

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So, how do we have sincere intentions?

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How do we have sincere intentions?

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There are a few advices that the scholars

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give us.

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And it's hard.

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It's hard because we live in a world

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where appearance is everything.

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We focus so much on what we look

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like and how we are perceived, that we

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don't give ourselves enough time to focus on

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what's on the inside.

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And we end up becoming, may Allah protect

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us, like the shiny red apple with the

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rotten core.

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And no one wants to be like that

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on the Day of Judgment.

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So, how do we really focus on achieving

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ikhlas?

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Number one, the scholars advise and they say,

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that one of the ways in which a

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person can develop sincerity, is to try to

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find Allah in the mundane moments of life.

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You know, everybody can remember Allah when times

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are really good, and times are really bad.

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When something is extremely, right, has a lot

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of providence, and when something is extremely challenging.

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We remember Allah, we're forced to remember Allah,

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because those times remind us of the miraculous

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nature and the presence of Allah in our

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life.

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But the everyday moment is when it's difficult

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for us to remember Allah.

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When you're putting your kids to bed, do

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you make as much dua for them then,

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as you did to have a kid in

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the first place?

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When you're looking at your spouse on a

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Wednesday night, do you make as much dua

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for them then, and thank Allah as much

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for them then, as you did when you

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were hoping to get married to them?

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When you're going to work on a Tuesday

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morning, do you thank Allah as much then,

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as you did when you were begging Allah

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for the interview for a job?

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The mundane moments, one of the challenges of

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the mundane is exactly that.

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It's mundane, it's not special.

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But believers believe that we can make those

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moments special by remembering Allah whenever we can.

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That's why the Prophet ﷺ, when he talked

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to Mu'ad bin Jabal, he said what?

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اتق الله حيثما كنت.

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Remember Allah and be conscious of Him wherever

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you are.

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Why?

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Because that is what will separate you as

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a person.

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What will separate you from a mediocre believer

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to make you an incredible believer is that

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the believer who is incredible is able to

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see Allah in everything.

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The believer that is just hanging on by

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a thread only sees Allah in the miraculous

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moments.

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But guess what?

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Everybody sees miracles.

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But who can see the miracle in the

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mundane?

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That's what makes a person special.

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May Allah give us this.

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What are the first words that come out

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of your mouth in a time of happiness

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or sadness?

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Does that reflect Allah or does it reflect

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myself?

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If somebody congratulates you or offers you condolences,

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do you remember Allah or do you remember

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yourself?

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The scholars say this is a sign of

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sincerity.

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Number two is the gift and the miracle

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of consistency.

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One of the things that the Prophet ﷺ

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had that made him so special was that

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he was the most consistent person.

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Predictable, reliable, everybody knew who he was.

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You know why when he was the age

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of 40 ﷺ, he was given the nickname

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of As-Sadiq and Al-Amin?

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He was given that nickname not because he

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was truthful or trustworthy one time, or twice

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or three times.

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He was given that nickname of the truthful

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one and the trustworthy one because for 40

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years he was known as being nothing but

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truthful and trustworthy.

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Consistency in and of itself is a miracle.

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Anybody can do something once or twice, but

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how many people can do something for 40

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years?

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And all of the signs show us that

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the people who are able to do things

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consistently over a long stretch of time are

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ultimately the most successful people.

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You know when you interview these people that

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we deem as successful in this life, may

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Allah forgive us, but the dunya-we-success

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of corporate success or fame or this and

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that, the one thing that they all sort

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of underline, generally speaking as what gave them

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success, was their consistency and focus in hard

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work.

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And so we see the flashes, we see

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the highlights, but they say what you don't

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see is the work that was put in

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late into the night when no one was

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watching.

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That is consistency.

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And that consistency in faith is even more

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successful, bears even more fruit than the work

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that we put in this life.

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May Allah give us consistency.

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Number three for Ikhlas.

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Ask yourself one question.

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Well, really two questions.

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Number one, am I a good friend?

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And number two, am I surrounding myself with

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people who inspire me?

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The Prophet ﷺ, unmistakably, he advised everybody with

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deep sincerity that you need to make sure

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that you look at the people you surround

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yourself with.

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And you need to make sure that the

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people you surround yourself with inspire you and

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push you to be the best version of

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yourself.

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This is why the Prophet ﷺ gave the

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example of the blacksmith and the perfume seller.

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When he talked about how we spend our

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time and who we spend it with.

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Now we don't have blacksmiths today, and I

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apologize if this is your industry, but I

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want you to think of the mechanic.

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The person who is working on cars and

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has oil and has soot and grime all

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over.

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If you step into a mechanic shop, even

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if you don't work on the car or

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do anything that has to do with the

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work of the car, you could accidentally pick

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up some smudge or smear on your clothes

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or at the very least you walk out

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and you smell like oil or gas and

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then you come back and pick it up.

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It's not the best of environments for you

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if you want to remain pure and clean

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in your appearance and in your smell.

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But the example the Prophet ﷺ gave of

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the other side, being around good people, is

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that of a perfume seller.

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That you might be in it with them,

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selling perfume, trying it out, this and that.

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You might be at least enjoying the fragrances

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or at the very least, when you walk

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out of the shop after buying nothing, you

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at least carry on the smell of beautiful,

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pure perfume.

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The Prophet ﷺ, he said that every person

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in their friendship and who they spend time

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with is either spending time with a blacksmith

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or a perfume seller.

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If you spend time with people who are

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sincere, you will inevitably start to value sincerity.

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If you look at somebody and are in

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awe of how much ikhlas they have and

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how they're able to be sincere in every

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relationship with Allah, with their family, with their

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friends, with their colleagues, their co-workers, even

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strangers, you will inevitably learn something.

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But if you and I don't value sincerity

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in our life, then naturally we're not going

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to find ourselves being amongst gatherings where sincerity

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is found.

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And so looking and making sure that you

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spend time not only in good company, but

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in the company of the sincere.

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Number four is to focus on Allah and

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not on your actions.

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And I'll finish with one narration here.

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There's a beautiful chapter in a book that

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we've been reading here at Roots on Tuesdays

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by Abdullah ibn Mubarak.

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And the chapter is very beautiful.

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The chapter is called Small Deeds That Lead

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To Great Rewards.

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And the whole thesis behind the chapter is

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there are some deeds that on the front,

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they look very small and insignificant.

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But on the Day of Judgment side, on

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the afterlife side, they are going to be

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incredible, magnificent.

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So the Prophet, one day it's narrated that

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he finished his prayer and he turned around

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to face everybody.

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And he said to them, I want everyone

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to listen closely.

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He said this to his companions.

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So they all paid attention.

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And he said, there are people that Allah

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has created, special people.

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And he says, they are people who the

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Prophets and the martyrs even envy them.

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They are very unique status with Allah.

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So everybody starts to think to themselves, wow,

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what an incredible person.

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And they all start measuring the same way

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that we measure, which is what?

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Who are they?

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They must be very well known.

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They must be very famous.

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Because if they are the object of envy,

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then of course, we must all know who

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they are.

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The Prophet answers, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, that

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question immediately.

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And he says, they are completely anonymous.

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He says, they're so anonymous that their tribe

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is unknown.

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Are you with me?

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Their tribe is unknown.

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You know what that's like?

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Moving to a new city and nobody even

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recognizes your last name.

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Nobody even assumes.

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You know, you move to a city and

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you can say, oh, I'm this or I'm

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that.

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I have a cousin here.

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I have an uncle there.

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And even by association, even by rough association,

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you're welcomed in.

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Now, I want you to imagine somebody who

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moves to the community has no association, completely

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unrecognizable.

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You could pray at the masjid for five

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days and leave and not even know if

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they were there or not.

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The Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, says, this

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person is so close to Allah that the

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Prophets are intrigued by him or her.

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And then he finished his statement there.

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So the companions, they were all shy.

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And they typically did not like to dive

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too much into things.

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But a Bedouin was there.

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And so this Bedouin man, he says, ya

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Rasulullah.

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And he says, as soon as the Bedouin

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looked up, all the companions were like, yes.

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Because the Bedouins were a little bit more

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aggressive in their questioning.

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So while Omar and Abu Bakr and the

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ones who were used to, were very humble,

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radiyallahu anhu, they didn't want to ask.

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The Bedouin was like, I'm going to ask.

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So he got up and he asked.

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And he said, ya Rasulullah, wait, let me

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get this straight.

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There are people who are completely unknown, totally

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unknown, not recognizable, not rememberable, completely obscure.

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And they are close to Allah in a

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way that the prophets and martyrs are intrigued

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by them?

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The Prophet ﷺ said, yes.

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The Bedouin says, so tell me about them.

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Again, shameless.

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The Prophet ﷺ said, their reward, listen to

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this, on the Day of Judgment is that

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they will be given thrones of light.

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On the day when there's no light and

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there's no relief, they will be given light.

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The Bedouin says, what did they do to

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earn this?

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The Prophet of Allah ﷺ, he said, when

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they came to the gatherings at the masjid,

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they stood up next to each other and

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they lined up for the sake of Allah,

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and they prayed for the sake of Allah,

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and Allah ﷻ rewarded them for that sincerity.

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Now, if I told you the entire story

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but I left that good deed out, and

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then I asked everybody here, what do you

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think the good deed they did was?

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Everyone would come up with the most incredible

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good deed.

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But what is about a person that walks

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into a masjid, lines up, prays, and leaves,

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is that their sincerity is undeniable.

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They come and they line up, they're not

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here for business, they're not here for social

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posturing, they're not here for any other reason.

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They're here to pray and worship Allah ﷻ.

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A following narration the Prophet ﷺ, he describes

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these people even further.

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And he says that these people have earned

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the love of Allah.

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He says, حَقَّتْ مَحَبَّتِي Allah says, لَلَّذِينَ يَتَحَابُونَ

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مِنْ أَجْلِ Why did they come to the

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masjid?

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Because they love each other for my sake.

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There's nothing that they need to have in

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between them except for the love of one

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another.

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Well, he says, وَحَقَّتْ مَحَبَّتِي لَلَّذِينَ يَتَزَاوَرُونَ مِنْ

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أَجْلِ And these people have earned my love

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because they would visit each other for my

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sake.

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They would stop by someone's house, say salam,

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maybe drop off a little something, just for

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my sake alone.

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He says, وَحَقَّتْ مَحَبَّتِي لَلَّذِينَ يَتَنَاصَرُونَ مِنْ أَجْلِ

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My love has been mandated upon people that

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have helped one another just for my sake.

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It's not trading favors, not I owe you

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one, hey, I'm gonna help you today, can

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you help me tomorrow?

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No.

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يَتَنَاصَرُونَ مِنْ أَجْلِ For my sake alone.

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وَحَقَّتْ مَحَبَّتِي لَلَّذِينَ يَتَصَافُونَ مِنْ أَجْلِ He says,

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and there are those who earned my love,

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who will be given my love because they

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were sincere with each other for my sake.

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And then he says, وَحَقَّتْ مَحَبَّتِي لَلَّذِينَ يَتَبَاذَلُونَ

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مِنْ أَجْلِ And ultimately there are those who

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sacrificed for my sake.

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Again, when you look at the list, brothers

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and sisters, it's not an incredible amount of

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raka'at that were prayed.

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It's not an incredible dollar amount that was

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given.

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It's not an incredible amount of days that

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were fasted.

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It is the presence of sincerity in the

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deeds that they did that gave them presence

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with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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We ask Allah ta'ala to make us

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sincere and to give us the gift of

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sincerity, and to give us the ability to

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be sincere in everything that we do, whether

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that deed be large or small.

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أقول قولي هذا واستغفر الله لي ولكم ولي

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سائر المسلمين والمسلمات فاستغفروا إنه هو الغفور الرحيم

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الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على أشرف

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الأنبياء والمرسلين سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم

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على آله وأصحابه أجمعين إِنَّ اللَّهَ وَمَلَائَكَتَهُ يُصَلُّونَ

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عَلَى النَّبِيَّ وَالَّذِينَ آمْنُوا صَلُّوا عَلَيْهِ وَسَلِّمُوا تَسْلِيمًا

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اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ كَمَا

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صَلَّيْتَ عَلَى إِبْرَاهِيمُ وَعَلَى آلِ إِبْرَاهِيمِ فِي الْعَالَمِينِ

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إِنَّكَ حَمِيدٌ مَجِيدٌ اللَّهُمَّ بَارِكْ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى

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آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ كَمَا بَارَكْتَ عَلَى إِبْرَاهِيمُ وَعَلَى آلِ

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إِبْرَاهِيمِ فِي الْعَالَمِينِ إِنَّكَ حَمِيدٌ مَجِيدٌ إِنَّ اللَّهَ

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يَأْمُرُ بِالْعَدْلِ وَالإِحْسَانِ وَإِيتَائِذِ الْقُرْبَى وَيَنْهَى عَلَى

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الْفَحْشَاءِ وَالْمُنْكَرِ وَالْبَغْيِ يَعِذُكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَذَكَرُونَ

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أَقِيمُوا الصَّلَةُ

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