AbdelRahman Murphy – Thirty & Up – Treasury Of Imam Al-Ghazali #9

AbdelRahman Murphy
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Okay, salamu alaykum, okay, bismillah, bismillah walhamdulillah, wa

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salatu wassalamu ala rasulillah wa ala alihi wa

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ashabihi ajma'in.

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Welcome home everybody.

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It's good to see you alhamdulillah.

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Tonight, just to let you know, tonight we

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have a short session.

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It's the last one in the next week

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inshallah.

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We're gonna be starting after maghrib.

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So tonight maghrib comes in around 7.30,

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7.32. We're gonna be going over for

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prayer at 7.40 because prayer time is

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gonna be at 7.43 inshallah.

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And then next week when maghrib slides even

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further, earlier in the hour, the seven o

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'clock hour, we'll just be starting inshallah after

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the maghrib prayer.

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So this is kind of like that every

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year in October or September, sorry, we go

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through this transition of time.

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So it's kind of one or two weeks

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where we have a shortened halaqah.

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But inshallah, we can still find some benefit.

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And tonight's session is actually Allah Ta'ala,

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He protected me and He gifted me.

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Because tonight's session, the shortest one of the

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year, is on marriage.

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So He protected me because He knew that,

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you know, this is gonna be one that

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could go pretty long.

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But subhanAllah, I was actually just speaking with

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Shaykh Abdul Nasser about this.

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We just were discussing kind of like the

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notes that I put together in the the

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writing that or the passage that Dr. Mustafa

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chose from the Ihya.

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And I think it's really phenomenal.

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I think it's incredible.

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And Shaykh Abdul Nasser's reflection was very helpful.

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So I want to share it with everybody

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inshallah.

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As always, if you want to go to

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slido.com, you can go and questions, you

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can ask them at 30 and up.

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If you type 30 and up, the whole

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word or the whole phrase inshallah.

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So let's begin.

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Bismillah.

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So the section is called, it's chapter number

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9 on the book.

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It's called the merits of marriage, the merits

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of marriage.

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Now many of us have you know, attended,

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you know, weddings or nikah ceremonies.

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We've all heard the verses that are recited

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with regards to the purpose that Allah subhanahu

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wa ta'ala ordained marriage.

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Okay, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the

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Quran, He explains to us, وَمِنْ آيَاتِهِ أَنْ

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خَلَقَ لَكُمْ مِنْ أَنفُسِكُمْ أَزْوَاجًا لِتَسْكُنُوا إِلَيْهَا وَجَعَلَ

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بَيْنَكُم مَوَدَّةً وَرَحْمَةً إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَآيَةٍ لِقَوْمٍ

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يَتَفَكَّرُونَ That He says that Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala instituted from His signs, from His

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divine signs that He created spouses from amongst

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yourselves so that you could find peace and

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tranquility in one another and that you could

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exemplify and show each other this unconditional love

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and mercy and Allah ta'ala says in

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that there are signs for those who are

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people of thought and of intellect thoughtful intellect

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so marriage no doubt is a very very

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intriguing topic you know if we wanted to

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have a talk where we filled the hall

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we would have a talk on marriage and

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it's there's no doubt it's because it's something

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that naturally as Allah stated we find it

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within ourselves it's something that we desire right

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to have that companionship and that relationship and

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interestingly subhanallah the ayah does not refer to

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a lot of the other things that we

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talk about when we talk about marriage people

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talk about marriage you know you know for

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physical satisfaction for status for family uh uh

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you know family uniting two families and tribes

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etc they talk about all these tertiary benefits

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to getting married when Allah talks about marriage

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in the quran and the reason why he

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instituted it he created it as an institution

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he mentions for two reasons so you can

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experience tranquility sakina and so that you can

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impart upon the person that you're married to

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this mawadda and this rahma this unconditional love

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and this mercy so imam he says in

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his yeah when he talks about marriage he

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says so

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he says no that when it comes to

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marriage when it comes to this concept of

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should a person get married or should they

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not get married he says that some of

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the scholars he says they differed about the

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virtue of getting married and he says some

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of them they proposed that getting married for

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a person is better than that person withdrawing

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away from like society and socializing and becoming

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a like an ascetic worshiper of allah like

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withdrawing away and becoming an individual that just

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spends her life worshiping allah they said for

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some people marriage is better than that meaning

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what if you imagine like on the ranking

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of things you could do in your life

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that would be good obviously like taking a

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sabbatical and worshiping allah like pulling yourself out

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of the distraction of the dunya the material

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world and just focusing on your prayers and

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your dua and your salah like there's no

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doubt that would be great but he's saying

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some scholars argue and they propose that getting

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married is better than that and then he

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says he says and other scholars they

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acknowledge that marriage has a lot of merit

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and a lot of benefit but they say

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that's for certain individuals for some people it's

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better for these people to instead focus on

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worshiping allah pulling themselves away from the distractions

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and worshiping allah and then he continues by

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saying essentially i'll summarize it because we don't

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have a ton of time he says that

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this matter is a matter that it differs

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depending on the type of person that you

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are when you look at marriage in islam

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there are five categories that a person's that

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could fall into a person's definitive status when

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it comes to marriage we all know these

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words before have you guys ever heard the

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word haram okay i'm this you guys i

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need you to respond with your trauma from

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growing up you've heard the word haram before

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yeah we've all heard the word haram okay

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we've heard the word makruh okay haram means

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impermissible makruh means disliked but not sinful yet

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okay mubah means permissible something that is okay

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it's not necessarily uh uh praiseworthy nor rewarded

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but it's also not impermissible it's okay it's

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fine right like eating an apple is permissible

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okay and then there's mustahab or we know

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it better as like sunnah something that is

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not an obligation but it's rewarded if you

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do it so for example if i get

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up and pray my sunnah after maghrib my

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two rakah nafl that's considered a rewarded action

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but i'm not sinned if i don't do

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it and then of course on the other

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side of it there is obligatory wajib okay

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marriage is one of those things are you

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ready for this i need everyone to put

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on their floaties we're about to get deep

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here marriage is one of those things that

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depending on the person can fall into one

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of those five categories it's not static think

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about salah prayer does prayer ever move from

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one category what is prayer it's the first

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one it's wajib right you have to do

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it there's what if i'm sick okay well

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can you sit and pray no i have

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to lay down okay go ahead what if

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i'm traveling well you have okay then you

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can either pray now or you can combine

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and you can shorten what if i miss

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it well you have to make it up

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prayer there's no moving of the hukum of

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prayer it's always an obligation and shahab al

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-nasser mentioned this point and i thought it

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was so profound it's like allah sent him

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to me before the halaqa to give me

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this point and then he just left all

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right he said this point that i thought

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was so amazing he said there's a great

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scholar named shah wali allah who said that

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whenever allah wanted to display the absolute definitiveness

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of something he made the ruling of it

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definitive as well prayer is definitive because it

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never moves from obligation but he said marriage

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is an example of something that is not

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a preconceived guarantee for every person marriage moves

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because every person is at a different readiness

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and status and awareness and availability in their

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life and so for some people it's an

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obligation and for some people it's actually impermissible

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for them to get married right who would

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be impermissible get married for we'll talk about

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that somebody that is not mentally emotionally financially

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they're incapable and thus entering into a marriage

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contract they would inevitably oppress the person that

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they're marrying if a person knows that they're

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not ready to be in a partnership a

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companionship and they know that as a result

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of that they're going to commit an oppression

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or transgress somebody's rights marriage is impermissible for

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them right so islam is so powerful subhanallah

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so unique so beautiful because it addresses the

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differences between each human being and as much

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as people celebrate the idea and the aspiration

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and the hope of getting married one of

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the things that we sort of skip over

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on the pathway of talking about this conversation

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is the readiness and the ability to be

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ready for this major commitment you know beyond

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the shadi beyond the the farah beyond the

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walima beyond all of that there is a

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a deep deep level of responsibility and accountability

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that every person who gets married has to

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understand and everyone who's married in this room

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i see you kind of like nodding slowly

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all right this isn't group therapy but it's

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an important step to realize something and that

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is that allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he

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made marriage something that is so beautiful if

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done correctly but a person if they're not

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ready to do it correctly it can be

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one of the most destructive things in their

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life and all of the ability to execute

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on that relationship properly or improperly is done

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with a person's own readiness when they are

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actually not married i'll give you an example

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somebody who wants to get married but is

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not married needs to look no further than

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their own life about their readiness to get

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married i've sat with guys and i've sat

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with sisters who have expressed to me a

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deep interest in getting married and the first

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question i asked them is what time did

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you get this morning and many of them

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right answer in a way that i say

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look this type of pattern of behavior this

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type of of way of living your life

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of carrying yourself if allah were to answer

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your prayers right now and send that person

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to you right now it would be destroyed

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instantaneously you and that person would not work

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because there are certain prerequisites individual prerequisites that

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are necessary in order for a person to

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be able to entertain a harmonious marriage you

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speak to somebody and you say hey how's

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your how's your temper how's your patience they

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say bad i'm hot-blooded i can't wait

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to get married that's not going to solve

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that and i think sometimes subhanallah marriage is

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proposed or is put in the eyes of

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people as if it's like a cure-all

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oh you're feeling this you're feeling that you're

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going to get married and some people may

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allah protect us they force their family members

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their children or their spouse or whoever their

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siblings sorry to get married knowing that they

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are ill equipped and thinking oh if he

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just gets a wife she'll fix him oh

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if she just gets married i one time

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wallahi i sat with a an auntie and

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she said i just need to marry her

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off it'll fix her and i i wallahi

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in my heart i said this is you

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know we're going to be sitting here across

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the table next year the exact same except

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it's going to be a complete different conversation

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the marriage didn't work so imam ghazali one

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thing i love about this passage and dr

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mustafa you know he he writes about this

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in his analysis he says that there's no

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doubt that marriage is a good thing there's

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no doubt marriage is a beautiful thing the

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prophet said nikah is from my way of

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life anything that he did cannot be bad

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so he's saying it's good and dr mustafa

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says it is the path of the prophet

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to get married the prophet himself said if

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somebody does get married then it effectively fulfills

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half of their deen you guys ever heard

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this before it's a brand even half our

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dean.com right but you know what's interesting

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subhanallah again this is one of those things

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that like because branding is so magical do

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you know why it's considered half of someone's

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deen have you ever thought about that what

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does that mean does that mean that you're

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not a full muslim like you could live

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your entire life practicing all of your five

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pillars and you're not a real muslim because

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you're not married that would make a lot

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of people in this room not full muslims

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like and that's not and that's not a

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shot but think about how that doesn't make

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sense is it possible for a person to

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be a full complete muslim and not be

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married yes absolutely were there people in life

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scholars of islam who never got married yes

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it's true would you ever say that say

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that mariam alayhis salaam is like not a

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true believer in god because she wasn't no

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of course not you would never say that

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so half of our deen when the hadith

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mentions that a person completes their deen the

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scholars say that this is specifically in regards

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to what their practical ability to take care

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of their responsibilities that if you look at

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the entirety of islam half of the rulings

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that apply to a person have to do

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with their relationship with their family how do

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i treat my spouse how do i treat

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my kids how do i raise them and

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all of that genre of questions and opportunity

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is closed off until a person gets married

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so that's what it means a person should

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not feel like they're spiritually deprived if they're

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not married no in fact marriage opens up

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the door to more responsibility spiritually than people

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realize so he says getting married is considered

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that one has fulfilled one half of one's

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religion but there has to be a correlation

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he says between marriage and spirituality and this

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is why imam ghazali mentions that those scholars

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who thought of marriage as preferred action in

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comparison to worshipping allah are differing than the

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other scholars who reverse the order nevertheless he

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says marriage is beneficial as it shields people

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from wrongdoing when going hand in hand with

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the religious teachings of their faith for both

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men and women it avoids them from falling

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into temptation the prophet would advise people to

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get married if they could afford it otherwise

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he would encourage them to fast to be

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able to temper their desires the prophet he

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even said that marriage is part of his

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sunnah and that he forbade one of the

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companions from practicing celibacy so i know sometimes

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people say you know what getting married is

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too tough i'm just gonna be single for

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the rest of my life the prophet said

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you can't do that you can't do that

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but what you have to do is understand

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that in every step of your life with

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regards to marriage whether you're single looking engaged

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or talking engaged married been married for a

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day been married for a year been married

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for a decade been married for 16 years

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like hamdullah myself been married for a while

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every single element of your life is affected

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by this conversation of marriage and many of

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the people that are in marriages that struggle

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or that end up not working may allah

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protect us and give patience to those who

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have been in those some of the issues

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pertain to their inability to prepare themselves individually

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before embarking on that so let's look a

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little bit at some of the ayats before

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we jump to the q and a to

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talk a little bit about it okay the

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prophet he said that destruction when he was

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talking about this this hadith feels like it's

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going to be like one subject and another

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one they're actually all combined he says that

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right you guys may have heard this this

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word it means destruction so he said he

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says destruction is found in gold and silver

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this means what chasing wealth is one of

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the pathways for a person to destroy themselves

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if they put a material wealth at the

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top of their list priority wise they'll sacrifice

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everything they'll sacrifice their morals they'll sacrifice their

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relationships you know anybody who can be bought

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is somebody that sells out quite frequently and

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so he says here that if you make

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money the the object of your desire doesn't

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mean that money is bad in and of

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itself but if you make it something that

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you worship that you it adorns everything in

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your life it's not good for you okay

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so then he said see this is one

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of the best things about having companions who

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ask questions so Omar is there he says

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you you just said that gold and silver

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are things that lead to destruction and he's

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like I agree you know Omar is not

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challenging him I agree but then he says

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what do we do to work then like

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how do we how do we pay our

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bills like what do you think we should

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work for in life what should our goal

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be if our goal should not be money

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and gold and silver what should our goal

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be listen to what the prophet sallallahu alayhi

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wa sallam says he says number one a

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tongue that is frequently remembering of Allah number

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two he says and a heart that frequently

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is grateful to Allah and then he says

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and a spouse that encourages you toward the

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afterlife so this hadith again it starts off

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kind of in one area and then it

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ends in a complete different area the prophet

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isaah is talking about the danger of being

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addicted to wealth and it ends by him

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talking about what are the things that will

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help you be successful in the akhirah the

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first thing he says is what individually a

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person who remembers Allah frequently and a heart

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that is grateful to Allah and then he

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says the scholars say if a person wants

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a spouse that's going to help them to

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the akhirah you guys ready for this are

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your floaties on if you want a spouse

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that's going to help you to the akhirah

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did the prophet start with that one first

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or did he end with that one what

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was the order again a tongue that's remembering

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of God a heart that is grateful to

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God and a spouse that encourages you the

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akhirah one two and three the scholars of

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hadith say lists are never accidents if you

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want to have a spouse that takes care

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of your heart and pushes you to you

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have to be a person that qualifies to

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even marry that spouse to begin with and

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what are the qualifications if a person doesn't

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have a tongue that remembers Allah and a

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heart that is grateful to Allah then how

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on earth do you expect to find someone

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that's going to help you get to akhirah

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it's not it's not rocket science but many

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of us we delude ourselves into thinking you

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know what i will achieve all of that

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when i get there no no no if

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a person wants to be successful in their

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pursuit of finding someone that will bring them

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closer to Allah they have to first prove

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it before they even know that that person

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exists you see the wisdom of the prophet

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he's effectively saying if you want to have

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a good marriage you have to be good

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before marriage if you're not good before marriage

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marriage will not be the thing that turns

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you into a good person it only highlights

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what's already there and Allah taught to give

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us this the next thing the prophet says

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i'll give you another hadith that i think

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is interesting to share the prophet very famously

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said that a person here he said a

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woman but a person is married for four

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reasons you guys heard this one before this

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one is kind of well known usually when

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someone's getting the talk from their parents first

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he says a person is married or a

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woman in this case he's talking about women

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specifically but either side he says is married

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for their uh physical attractiveness and then they

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are married for their uh their status financially

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and then they are married for their family

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and then they are married for their religion

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these are four reasons he's not saying that

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they should follow these four he's saying that

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when you look at the scope of what

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people look at they look at these four

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categories what's the physical attractiveness what's their financial

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well-being or their family's financial what's their

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family situation what's the lineage the tribe etc

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where are they from and religion spirituality their

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deen and then he finishes the hadith by

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saying marry the person for their faith and

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you will have been the successful one if

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you choose religion as the reason why you

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are impressed by someone now think about it

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what are the reasons why people get married

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he mentioned them the first four and then

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he says if you marry for the purpose

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of a person's spirituality their faith you will

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have found that that decision will have been

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a successful decision it doesn't mean that the

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other three things are not important but it's

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asking you the question what do you prioritize

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there are many people that prioritize physical appearance

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okay there are many people that prioritize financial

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status there are many that prioritize family position

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name where they come from what tribe what

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country what city what village all of these

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things the prophet did not make it impermissible

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he didn't say look you can't look at

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these things don't look at those things but

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he said what he said if you look

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at the religion of somebody and here we're

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not talking about only the religion that you

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mark off beard fist length okay check right

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dopey matches shirt okay check i know you

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guys noticed the drip okay all these things

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check that's not the religion he's talking about

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he's talking about what he says what in

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the mabuh is doing it would tell i

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was only set to perfected character dean is

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a reflection of a person's practical behavior how

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do you know someone's a good muslim there

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are physical rituals that you look at but

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there's also the way they carry themselves do

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they get angry easily do they are they

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generous with their time and their wealth are

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they soft-spoken look at the prophet does

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this person have any traits that remind me

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of the messenger of allah if those traits

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are there then this dean this this category

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the prophet is advising that's there but i

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will say this and this is very very

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important and this is kind of the one

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thing that i don't think anyone wants to

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say out loud but i've been married 16

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years so i'll just say it all the

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other categories are changeable the dean thing is

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really hard to change it's really it's not

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impossible but it's hard a person can always

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like make more money a person can always

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get more attractive i've always said with money

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and a gym membership people can change a

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new wardrobe and a workout routine personal trainer

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like you know it's possible right did you

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guys ever see that meme i wasn't i'm

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not ugly i'm just poor and they show

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you the celebrities that became like better looking

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as i got it's true right a person's

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family thing like you're not it's not that

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invasive into your life but the dean thing

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is so difficult subhanallah because that stuff is

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like embedded it's integrated it's like flowing in

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their fabric and have you guys ever seen

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how difficult it is for like a person

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who stitches a tailor to change something to

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un sometimes they'll look at the shirt and

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they'll say i can't fix it and there

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are many people out there that because they

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didn't focus on their spiritual development at the

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right time they focus on all the other

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three things attractiveness family wealth status etc and

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then they say you know what i'll work

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on the dean side when i get there

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you can't change it's not a light switch

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and so these topics that the prophet brought

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before us we're wondering why there's a marriage

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crisis today the reason why quite frankly is

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because we have our priorities flipped and it's

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important for us to reframe how we look

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at them by the way i know that

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all the people who are not married think

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i'm picking on you i'm not if people

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who are married are struggling in their marriages

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ask yourself the same questions you know what

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is the thing that is keeping us together

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anytime i look at a couple that's successful

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and i'm that guy that's kind of not

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nosy but i'm a little bit like i

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like to interview i see couples and i'm

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like hey you guys look happy they're like

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we are i'm like why not because i'm

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you know but i'm just curious you know

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as like a community anthropologist i'm like just

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you know and and wallah al-azim like

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they always have some story some thing that

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ties them together that is related to quran

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and the life of the prophet you know

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oh i heard a narration once where the

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prophet said this or i heard in the

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quran allah tells us to be patient so

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i and that's what makes their whole relationship

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work but but if if you chose to

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be with somebody for any of those other

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three reasons it's so flighty it's so light

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it's it can disappear in a second the

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person who was rich becomes poor and you

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know hey what happened to the money the

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person who was attractive is no longer attractive

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we all get old look everyone's really beautiful

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until you until you see them sleeping all

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right and then they're just that's who they

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are okay and then you think the family's

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perfect and then you meet the uncle at

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the dow it's and you're like that uncle's

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crazy all right and then they're like that's

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my favorite uncle and you're like oops you

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know and and that's but the deen thing

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is the one thing that's how a lot

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of people focus on that it keeps them

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together a couple more ayats and then we'll

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go to the q a inshallah which i

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know is going to be so regulated tonight

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okay we already mentioned the ayah from surah

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room where says think about it this way

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one of my teachers something really powerful about

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this verse he actually said this at a

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nikah which is really funny he said um

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if you don't bring sakinah to the life

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to your own life and the life of

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those around you what makes you think you're

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going to bring it to the person you're

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marrying allah made you so that you can

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bring sakina to the life of this one

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companion but he gives you practice tests along

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the way if a person does not bring

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sakina to the life of their family and

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friends they will most likely not be able

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to give you sakina it's just a reality

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right people tend to be an amalgamation of

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their character traits they can't suddenly switch so

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if you're thinking about your life and getting

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married please please ask yourself this question am

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i a person that brings tranquility into the

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lives of those around me it doesn't have

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to be everybody but ask yourself about the

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really close relationships your family your close friends

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those people that you see every single day

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those people that you have a close tie

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with do you bring sakina to their life

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as a result of that sakina you will

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find a lot of marriages there's no there's

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no there's no love and mercy because the

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first precondition is not met how can you

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expect someone to be unconditionally loving and merciful

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when you bring chaos into the home love

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and mercy are the fruits of a plant

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that can only grow when there's tranquility when

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there is no chaos but a person is

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sitting in a home that's full of chaos

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and they say you know what if only

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this person loved me if only this person

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was merciful to me but you're not contributing

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to the tranquility you got to figure out

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a way to get there may allah ta

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'ala give us tawfiq and then the next

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verse subhanallah that we'll talk about is in

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surah al-a'raf allah subhana wa ta

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'ala no actually we'll go to this one

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surah al-baqarah verse number 187 it's a

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long verse where allah describes the nature and

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the permissibility of relationships between spouses and then

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he says this very famous line in the

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middle of the verse he says he

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says that they are a a garment for

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you and you are a garment for them

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allah subhana wa ta'ala mentions this here

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in the middle of the verse sorry he

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says allah subhana wa ta'ala here is

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equating the relationship status that a person has

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in their marriage to the function of a

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garment that a person wears when a person

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wears a garment the garment that you're wearing

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right now there's a function to that garment

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no matter what we say obviously you all

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want to look nice but the primary function

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of the garment that we wear is protection

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we wear this to protect ourselves physical protection

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but also social protection nobody wants to appear

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unclothed in front of anybody else it's embarrassing

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and then on top of that you want

00:32:00 --> 00:32:03

to have physical protection from the elements so

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if it's raining outside you wear like a

00:32:04 --> 00:32:07

rain jacket right if it's cold you wear

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inshallah it gets cold soon yarab if it's

00:32:09 --> 00:32:11

cold you wear like a thicker coat okay

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so all of these are forms of protection

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before adornment there's protection it's interesting that allah

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subhana wa ta'ala uses the word libas

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right clothing or garment to describe marital relations

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because in our mind we want marriage to

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be something beautiful before it's functional and this

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is kind of like the hyper romanticizing of

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marriage when we think of marriage we think

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of the more romantic aspects of it oh

00:32:42 --> 00:32:45

this person is going to propose i always

00:32:45 --> 00:32:46

think it's really funny when muslims propose to

00:32:46 --> 00:32:48

each other because it's like you kind of

00:32:48 --> 00:32:53

had it already have known right um like

00:32:53 --> 00:32:54

i'm waiting i'm still waiting for the guy

00:32:54 --> 00:32:56

down on one knee with roses to her

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dad like uncle is it okay and then

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he's like yes and then so all of

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these shall license all of these are romantic

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ideals of marriage but notice that before we

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think about the aesthetic impact of clothing we

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always focus on the actual impact of it

00:33:21 --> 00:33:24

does it function as a shirt before it

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looks good and if it looks good but

00:33:27 --> 00:33:30

it doesn't close it doesn't actually close then

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i'm not going to wear it many marriages

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we focus a lot on the aesthetic of

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it on what it might look like or

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what it might appear to others to be

00:33:42 --> 00:33:45

like but we don't focus on how it

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feels and what it actually does and because

00:33:50 --> 00:33:53

we have not thought about those questions we

00:33:53 --> 00:33:56

look all for the aesthetic qualifications and we

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move forward and then when we get too

00:33:58 --> 00:34:00

far in we say man i'm not really

00:34:00 --> 00:34:02

feeling as if this is providing me protection

00:34:02 --> 00:34:06

it's not serving its purpose it's not clothing

00:34:06 --> 00:34:09

me right it looks good looks fancy but

00:34:09 --> 00:34:11

it's not clothing me and so the scholars

00:34:11 --> 00:34:13

they write a long bit actually in this

00:34:13 --> 00:34:16

tafsir it's very long they talk about the

00:34:16 --> 00:34:19

function of libas and they say that if

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every marriage were to function like clothing functions

00:34:21 --> 00:34:24

on a person that both spouses would find

00:34:24 --> 00:34:27

tranquility in one another to protect one another

00:34:27 --> 00:34:31

to guard each other from the elements to

00:34:31 --> 00:34:35

hide nobody wears clothing that looks bad right

00:34:35 --> 00:34:39

to hide the deficiencies and vulnerabilities right we

00:34:39 --> 00:34:41

all want to wear clothes that highlight and

00:34:41 --> 00:34:46

accentuate our best features right and so that's

00:34:46 --> 00:34:48

what a spouse should do for the other

00:34:48 --> 00:34:52

spouse they should protect and highlight and and

00:34:52 --> 00:34:56

accentuate the best side of this person you

00:34:56 --> 00:34:57

know i have a rule and for those

00:34:57 --> 00:35:00

of you who are married listen up i'm

00:35:00 --> 00:35:02

at the point now in my life where

00:35:02 --> 00:35:05

i no longer worry about saying things i

00:35:05 --> 00:35:06

think we call that an uncle i'm an

00:35:06 --> 00:35:09

uncle okay if you have friends that speak

00:35:09 --> 00:35:13

poorly to you not seeking advice but speak

00:35:13 --> 00:35:15

poorly to you in front of you and

00:35:15 --> 00:35:18

other people about their spouses you got to

00:35:18 --> 00:35:24

reconsider that friendship guys and ladies if you

00:35:24 --> 00:35:27

get if you get together and all the

00:35:27 --> 00:35:28

wives are talking about how bad their husbands

00:35:28 --> 00:35:33

are same with the guys not not okay

00:35:33 --> 00:35:34

by the way you can back you cannot

00:35:34 --> 00:35:38

backbiting still is sinful against your spouse and

00:35:38 --> 00:35:41

one of my teachers subhanallah may Allah preserve

00:35:41 --> 00:35:43

him he said the most beautiful thing he

00:35:43 --> 00:35:45

said number one you're not fulfilling the verse

00:35:45 --> 00:35:48

itself the verse is that you're supposed to

00:35:48 --> 00:35:49

be a protection you're not supposed to be

00:35:49 --> 00:35:54

an embarrassment number two he says when you

00:35:54 --> 00:35:57

share negative aspects about your spouse to your

00:35:57 --> 00:36:00

friends you go home that night you wake

00:36:00 --> 00:36:02

up the next day and you've forgiven each

00:36:02 --> 00:36:04

other but guess who hasn't forgiven your spouse

00:36:04 --> 00:36:07

the 10 guys or 10 girls that you

00:36:07 --> 00:36:10

talk to about them they remember that and

00:36:10 --> 00:36:12

they are forming their assessment and judgment of

00:36:12 --> 00:36:15

this person and just because you were overwhelmed

00:36:15 --> 00:36:17

in that moment and you shared too much

00:36:17 --> 00:36:21

you now have given these people who don't

00:36:21 --> 00:36:22

know your spouse they don't know any of

00:36:22 --> 00:36:24

the good beautiful things that they do the

00:36:24 --> 00:36:27

intricate mercies that they display all the things

00:36:27 --> 00:36:29

all they know is what oh i can't

00:36:29 --> 00:36:31

stand when she does that oh i can't

00:36:31 --> 00:36:34

stand when he does that and in their

00:36:34 --> 00:36:36

mind they just get the one-star reviews

00:36:36 --> 00:36:40

of your husband or of your wife they

00:36:40 --> 00:36:41

get a couple one-star reviews they think

00:36:41 --> 00:36:43

this place is not worth it they don't

00:36:43 --> 00:36:45

get the millions of five-star reviews that

00:36:45 --> 00:36:49

this person displays every single day some four

00:36:49 --> 00:36:54

-star some some three okay so this ayah

00:36:54 --> 00:36:56

as much as it sounds like just a

00:36:56 --> 00:37:00

metaphor there's a beautiful meaning here and if

00:37:00 --> 00:37:01

you are not a person who thinks that

00:37:01 --> 00:37:03

you can do this then marriage might not

00:37:03 --> 00:37:06

be ready for you yet right maybe allah

00:37:06 --> 00:37:08

ta'ala is giving you time to work

00:37:08 --> 00:37:09

on that to be able to hold your

00:37:09 --> 00:37:11

tongue if you backbite all of your friends

00:37:11 --> 00:37:14

you might backbite your spouse too so allah

00:37:14 --> 00:37:17

gives us the practice for these things before

00:37:17 --> 00:37:19

we get to that point there's a few

00:37:19 --> 00:37:21

other verses but the time for maghrib is

00:37:21 --> 00:37:22

is coming now in a few minutes so

00:37:22 --> 00:37:25

i want to dismiss while we're uh able

00:37:25 --> 00:37:27

to make the prayer time inshallah in short

00:37:27 --> 00:37:29

i want to share this imam ghazali includes

00:37:29 --> 00:37:31

this topic on marriage because it is a

00:37:31 --> 00:37:34

reality of life but he does say and

00:37:34 --> 00:37:37

he does qualify that a person should only

00:37:37 --> 00:37:41

get married if they deem themselves fit and

00:37:41 --> 00:37:43

able and ready to get married and those

00:37:43 --> 00:37:46

qualifications the taught to us allah ta'ala

00:37:46 --> 00:37:47

gave to us may allah ta'ala make

00:37:47 --> 00:37:49

it easy for us to be those who

00:37:49 --> 00:37:51

are righteous spouses may allah ta'ala give

00:37:51 --> 00:37:54

for those who are looking righteous relationships may

00:37:54 --> 00:37:56

allah ta'ala give to those who have

00:37:56 --> 00:38:07

beautiful pious moments in their marriages if

00:38:07 --> 00:38:08

i could ask for those who sat on

00:38:08 --> 00:38:11

chairs to help us out inshallah just because

00:38:11 --> 00:38:13

maghrib is going to start just momentarily so

00:38:13 --> 00:38:14

if we can go ahead and take the

00:38:14 --> 00:38:16

chairs uh out to the hallway or in

00:38:16 --> 00:38:18

that hallway there's the dollies there and then

00:38:18 --> 00:38:20

also for the backjacks if you'd help us

00:38:20 --> 00:38:22

by stacking them in the front and then

00:38:22 --> 00:38:23

we'll head to the musalla for maghrib

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