Abdul Rahman Chao – Jumuah 2024-12-13

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The speaker discusses the importance of caution and being cautious in Arabic language, as it is not required for everyone. They also touch on the grey area and the moratorium force behind protecting religion, and how the Prophet is responsible for causing people to fall into the grey area and become corrupt. The speaker emphasizes the importance of being careful and staying away from negative behavior, as it is important to avoid distraction from companions and to stay away from negative behavior.

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			فَإِنَّ أَصْلَقَ الْحَدِيثِ كَلَامُ اللَّهِ وَخَيْرَ الْحَدِيهَةِ مُحَمَّدٍ
		
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			صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَشَرَّ الْأُمُورِ مُحْدَثَاتُهَا وَكُلَّ
		
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			مُحْدَثَةٍ بِدْعَةٍ وَكُلَّ بِدْعَةٍ ضَلَالَةٍ وَكُلَّ ضَلَالَةٍ فِي
		
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			النَّارِ The Prophet ﷺ tells us the very
		
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			interesting story that occurred before his time.
		
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			And he tells us of two men who
		
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			entered into a business transaction.
		
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			One man sold to another man a plot
		
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			of land.
		
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			And after that plot of land was sold,
		
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			the new owner discovered that there was a
		
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			buried jar of gold inside that plot of
		
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			land.
		
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			So he went back to the seller and
		
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			he told him, The land that I just
		
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			purchased from you, I found a jar of
		
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			gold inside of it, and you sold to
		
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			me a piece of land and not the
		
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			jar of gold.
		
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			So take back this jar of gold.
		
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			Now the owner could have just simply said,
		
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			Thank you very much for your honesty, I
		
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			appreciate it, and be on his merry way.
		
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			Well clearly, he was not the owner of
		
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			this jar of gold, this hidden jar of
		
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			gold.
		
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			So he said, Verily I have sold you
		
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			this plot of land and what is in
		
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			it, so you take it.
		
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			And so they disputed over this, and they
		
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			went to a judge.
		
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			And the judge ruled by saying, Do one
		
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			of you here, do one of you have
		
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			a son, the other has a daughter?
		
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			They said yes.
		
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			So the judge said, Well since we don't
		
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			know whose gold this originally belonged to, and
		
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			they are trying to find out who it
		
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			belonged to and they don't know, he said,
		
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			Marry your son to his daughter, and take
		
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			this jar of gold and give it to
		
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			the newlywed couple, and let them spend it
		
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			upon themselves, and use it as a form
		
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			of charity.
		
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			Brothers and sisters, from this story, the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ is trying to teach us the very
		
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			noble characteristic here.
		
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			And that is, you see in both individuals,
		
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			they were erring on the side of caution.
		
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			Neither of them were trying to displace their
		
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			counterpart in taking that gold.
		
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			Both of them were exercising caution and carefulness
		
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			in not taking what doesn't belong to them.
		
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			It was considered in the gray area, you
		
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			could say.
		
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			And this characteristic, brothers and sisters, in Arabic
		
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			we call it الورع.
		
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			It's a subset of being pious.
		
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			It is a subset of having God consciousness.
		
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			It's something that is more detailed, more refined.
		
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			And you could translate الورع to being cautious,
		
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			being careful, having piety.
		
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			And also, just fearing Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala.
		
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			And so, the scholars, they have differed over
		
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			the definition of what it means to have
		
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			الورع.
		
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			For today, we will keep it simple as
		
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			being careful and being cautious.
		
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			They said that to be careful and to
		
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			be cautious, is to leave things that you
		
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			fear might come to harm you in the
		
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			next life.
		
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			Even though they are not outwardly something prohibited,
		
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			because there is no difference of opinion on
		
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			something that is prohibited.
		
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			But something you have doubt in, something that
		
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			is probably in the gray area, something that
		
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			doesn't sit well with you.
		
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			And so, as a result, you stay away
		
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			from it.
		
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			And the scholars, they said, that الورع is
		
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			not only limiting yourself to not doing certain
		
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			things, or abstaining from certain things, out of
		
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			fear, out of abundance of caution, that it
		
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			could lead to something haram.
		
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			It also includes to do what is right,
		
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			even though it might not be required of
		
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			you at this moment, but you just want
		
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			to do things right.
		
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			Like you see in this story, in which
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ tells us about these two
		
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			men.
		
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			And brothers and sisters, this characteristic of الورع,
		
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			of being cautious, it's something that some of
		
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			us here, we misplace it.
		
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			Things that require our caution, we are not
		
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			being cautious of.
		
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			And things that are not as clear cut,
		
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			we are going around and imposing it on
		
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			other people.
		
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			And so the best way I can describe
		
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			to you is, الورع is a personal form
		
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			of accountability, and standard that you have for
		
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			yourself.
		
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			It's not necessarily meant for everyone.
		
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			It's for yourself to take your iman to
		
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			the next level, to be cautious and be
		
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			careful.
		
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			So what you are careful of for yourself,
		
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			that's good for you, alhamdulillah.
		
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			But it doesn't necessarily mean that if the
		
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			other person next to you, does not follow
		
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			your standard of caution, then therefore that they
		
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			are going to *.
		
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			For example, alayhadu billah.
		
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			But we have to be careful.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ tells us of the framework,
		
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			of what it means to be cautious and
		
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			to be careful.
		
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			And he tells us in an authentic narration,
		
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			he tells us, إِنَّ الْحَلَالَ بَيِّنُ وَإِنَّ الْحَرَامَ
		
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			بَيِّنُ وَبَيْنَهُمَا أُمُورٌ مُشْتَبِهَاتٌ لَا يَعْلَمُهُنَّ كَثِيرٌ مِّنَ
		
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			النَّاسِ فَمَنِ اتَّقَى الشُّبُهَاتِ فَقَدَ اسْتَبْرَأَ لِدِينِهِ وَعِرْضِهِ
		
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			وَمَنْ وَقَعَ فِي الشُّبُهَاتِ وَقَعَ فِي الْحَرَامِ كَالرَّاعِ
		
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			يَرْأَ حَوْلَ الْحِمَى يُوشِكُ أَنْ يَقْعَ فِيهِ أَلَى
		
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			وَإِنَّ لِكُلِّ مَلِكٍ حِمَى أَلَى وَإِنَّ حِمَى اللَّهِ
		
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			مَحَارِمُهُ أَلَى وَإِنَّ فِي الْجَسَدِ مُضْغَةٌ إِذَا صَلَحَتْ
		
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			صَلَحَ الجَسَدُ كُلُّهُ وَإِذَا فَسَدَتْ فَسَدَ الجَسَدُ كُلُّهُ
		
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			أَلَى وَهِيَ الْقَلْبِ The Prophet ﷺ, he says
		
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			in this ḥadīth, pay attention, he says Indeed,
		
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			what is ḥalāl, what is legal, what is
		
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			allowed for you to do is clear and
		
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			manifest and what is ḥarām and what is
		
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			forbidden is clear But between these two things,
		
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			there are some things that are in the
		
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			grey area مُشْتَبِهَات لَا يَعْلَمُهُنَّ كَثِيرٌ مِنْ نَاسٍ
		
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			Not many people know about them In other
		
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			words, some people indulge in them but they
		
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			don't really know if it's ḥalāl or ḥarām
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ, he tells us And
		
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			whoever stays away from what is doubtful Then
		
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			he has saved his religion and he has
		
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			saved his dignity and his honor And the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ gives us an analogy and he
		
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			says It's like the shepherd who takes his
		
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			animals out to pasture to let them graze
		
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			But he's not grazing in the areas that
		
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			are known to be okay for him He's
		
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			grazing along the border of an area that
		
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			is a sanctuary, that is off limits Maybe
		
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			his flock will go into that protected off
		
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			-limits area and this shepherd will be liable
		
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			Every king has their own ḥimā, their own
		
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			off-limits And the limits of Allāh are
		
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			those that He has forbade upon us And
		
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			then the Prophet ﷺ, he says In the
		
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			body is a morsel of flesh If it
		
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			is good and sound, then the rest of
		
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			the body is sound And if it is
		
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			corrupted and spoiled, then the rest of the
		
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			body is spoiled This flesh is the heart
		
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			So here the Prophet ﷺ is telling us
		
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			That it is better for you to stay
		
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			away from what is in the grey area
		
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			Because you could fall into ḥarām But what
		
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			is the guiding force behind you knowing better
		
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			to stay away from that it is in
		
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			the grey area It is if your heart
		
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			is sound But if your heart is disinclined
		
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			from doing that Then it will become corrupt
		
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			And it will look for those ḥarām things
		
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			and it will fall into the ḥarām Brothers
		
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			and sisters For those things that are clear
		
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			to us There is no issue about it
		
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			There is no room for a second opinion
		
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			on it As Allāh says in the Qur
		
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			'ān وَمَا كَانَ لِمُؤْمِنٍ وَلَا مُؤْمِنَةٍ إِذَا قَدَى
		
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			اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُ أَن يَكُونَ لَهُمَ الْخِيَرَةُ مِنْ أَمْرِهِمْ
		
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			If there is something that Allāh and His
		
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			Messenger have ordained As this is the ruling
		
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			that it is allowed or it is not
		
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			allowed It is not allowed for you and
		
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			me to say Well I don't see it
		
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			as such Or in my opinion it's not
		
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			as such If Allāh and His Messenger declared
		
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			that this is okay Then it is okay
		
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			If they declare that this is ḥarām, it's
		
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			ḥarām It is not okay for a believer
		
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			to say Well the verse on this speaks
		
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			to me differently Than it speaks to you
		
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			Because every religion is to unto themselves No
		
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			There is no room in Islām for that
		
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			And so that is why brothers and sisters
		
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			You look at the example of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ And how he was careful One time
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ He went to his house
		
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			And he was looking at his bed And
		
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			he found one date fruit, dried date And
		
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			he was about to eat it But then
		
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			he said If it wasn't because that I
		
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			feared That this date was given for ṣadaqah,
		
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			for charity Then I would have eaten it
		
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			And we know that the Prophet ﷺ And
		
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			his descendants is not allowed For them to
		
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			consume what is given to charity In another
		
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			ḥadīth Authentic ḥadīth, the Prophet ﷺ was one
		
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			time Leaving his companions in Asr And after
		
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			the ṣalāh he normally would sit And he
		
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			would do his adhkār And he would face
		
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			his companions But this time he got up
		
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			And he rushed into his house And the
		
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			companions were so shocked By the speed and
		
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			the urgency of the Prophet ﷺ They've never
		
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			seen this before And when he came out
		
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			he explained to them He said, I was
		
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			in ṣalāh And I remembered that in my
		
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			house There was a piece of gold or
		
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			silver And I did not want it to
		
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			be A source of distraction for me So
		
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			I rushed home to bring it out So
		
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			it can be distributed In other words he
		
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			wasn't sure What this gold was exactly Was
		
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			it ṣadaqah or was it conditioned But he
		
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			knew it had to be distributed But he
		
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			had forgotten it So look how careful the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ was He rushed home to take
		
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			care of business أقول قولي هذا وأستغفر الله
		
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			لي ولكم وإساء المسلمين فاستغفروا إنه هو الغفور
		
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			الرحيم الحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله
		
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			وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين صلاة دائمة مستمرة وسلم
		
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			تسليم كثيرا So some of you might say
		
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			Well what about those things That we're not
		
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			sure about What is the ruling on that
		
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			What should we do During the time of
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ A companion by the name
		
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			of Wa'b Came to the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			And asked him about what is goodness And
		
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			what is sin And the Prophet ﷺ gave
		
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			him this yardstick And this yardstick is not
		
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			meant for Things that are clearly haram Or
		
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			things that are clearly haram Or clearly halal
		
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			It's for the things that you're not sure
		
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			about He said you came to ask about
		
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			goodness And goodness in summary is all good
		
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			character And a good character with Allah ﷻ
		
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			A good character with the people etc And
		
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			he said والإثم And what about sin The
		
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			Prophet ﷺ described it as ما حاك في
		
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			نفسك It is something That gnaws at your
		
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			conscience And another narration In your chest في
		
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			صدرك وتردد في صدرك It's something that You
		
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			are not feeling ease with It's in your
		
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			heart There is this uncertainty You don't feel
		
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			good about it وكره أن يطلع عليه الناس
		
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			And you know that There's a good chance
		
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			that if you did it That you would
		
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			be called out for it That is the
		
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			yardstick That the Prophet ﷺ taught us Brothers
		
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			and sisters I once, many many years ago
		
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			I owed someone a few hundred dollars In
		
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			fact, we didn't even know Between him and
		
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			I There was no clear agreement Of how
		
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			much the amount was It was something along
		
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			the lines of I would pay him half
		
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			Or approximately one third to half of the
		
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			rent For that month that I was visiting
		
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			this person He was a Sudanese brother And
		
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			at that time I was very young I
		
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			didn't have a lot of money So I
		
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			wasn't able to pay him And I had
		
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			the intention of paying off this person And
		
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			so when I was ready to pay this
		
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			person off I couldn't find his phone number
		
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			ever I didn't know where this person lived
		
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			anymore I tried calling people in his city
		
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			And for 17 years I was chasing this
		
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			person 17 years I tried to do background
		
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			checks on this person Tried to see if
		
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			I could find them On yellowpages.com To
		
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			see if I could find their I tried
		
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			to call every number That was listed on
		
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			google.com It was going nowhere Started calling
		
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			all my friends Do you know this brother?
		
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			Do you know this brother?
		
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			And it would all go into dead end
		
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			And I know That if I cannot find
		
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			this person Forever Well, then maybe I should
		
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			just give that Small amount to charity And
		
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			Ask Allah for forgiveness And every few years
		
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			I would forget if I actually gave it
		
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			to charity or not So I would give
		
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			it again Fearing that I didn't give it
		
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			And Alhamdulillah In this past year I found
		
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			him He was in a hospital He was
		
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			in Washington DC He was in a hospital
		
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			And he was very sick And so I
		
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			finally found a brother Who was in charge
		
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			of his finances And I said I don't
		
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			remember the exact amount But I'm going to
		
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			round it up to a higher number This
		
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			is the point that I want to talk
		
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			about I'm going to round it up to
		
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			a higher number And Alhamdulillah And that brother
		
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			May Allah have mercy on him Within two
		
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			weeks he passed away after that This is
		
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			what it means to be careful Brothers and
		
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			sisters During the time of Umar Ibn Al
		
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			-Khattab R.A He used to have a
		
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			servant who used to Make money for him
		
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			And he used to take a percentage from
		
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			him This hadith narrated by Aisha R.A
		
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			Abu Bakr had this servant that would go
		
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			make money And as his lord and master
		
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			He would take a small percentage from him
		
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			And most and almost all the time You
		
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			know he had no doubts in him He
		
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			was fine And this one young man That
		
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			one day he came to Abu Bakr He
		
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			said to Abu Bakr That day after he
		
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			gave him his share of food And Abu
		
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			Bakr had eaten it This young man reveals
		
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			Abu Bakr He says you know before Islam
		
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			I used to be a soothsayer I used
		
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			to fortune tell But I wasn't very good
		
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			at it Side note, no one's ever good
		
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			at it Because it's all lies He said
		
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			I wasn't very good at it And so
		
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			I used to make up stuff And so
		
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			that person gave me an amount of money
		
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			As payment for my fortune telling And that
		
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			amount came through today's food When Abu Bakr
		
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			R.A heard this He immediately inserted his
		
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			finger into his throat And he vomited all
		
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			the food out Even though from a legal
		
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			perspective It was not haram for him to
		
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			consume this food It was not haram to
		
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			consume this food It's a sin upon that
		
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			young man But Abu Bakr didn't want to
		
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			be in that position Imam Nawi R.A
		
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			He used to live in the city of
		
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			Damascus And there were fruit orchards And he
		
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			would never eat from them Because he wasn't
		
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			sure if the fruit orchards Were a public
		
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			domain Or if some of them were Belonging
		
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			to an endowment Intended for orphans Brothers and
		
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			sisters This characteristic of being careful And being
		
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			cautious in our deen Is something that will
		
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			protect ourselves And our children And our religion
		
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			We ask Allah S.W.T to give
		
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			us tawfiq We ask Allah S.W.T
		
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			to forgive us And to give us the
		
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			strength to stay away from what is doubtful
		
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			Inna allahu malakatahu yusalluna alal nabi Ya ayyuha
		
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			allatheena amanu sallu alayhi wa sallim wa taslima
		
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			Allahumma salli ala muhammad wa ala ali muhammad
		
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			Kama sallayta ala Ibrahim wa ala ala Ibrahim
		
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			innaka hamidun majeed Wa barik ala muhammad wa
		
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			ala ala muhammad Kama barakta ala Ibrahim wa
		
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			ala ala Ibrahim innaka hamidun majeed Rabbana aatinaa
		
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			fid dunyaa hasana wa fil aakhirati hasana wa
		
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			qinaa athab alnaar Rabbana laa tuziq quloobanaa ba'da
		
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			idh hadaytana wa hablanaa millatun ka rahmaa innaka
		
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			anta alwahab Allahumma ansur ikhwanana almustada'afina fi
		
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			Filastin Allahumma ansuruhum nasruna muazzara Allahumma ansuruhum fi
		
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			ghazza Allahumma ansur ikhwanana almustada'afina fi libanan
		
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			wa fi alsham wa fi alsudan wa fi
		
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			kulli makanin ya rabbal alamin Ibadallah inna allahu
		
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			ya'muru bil adli wal ihsan wa itadi alqurba
		
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			wa inhaani alfahsha'i wa almunkari wa albaghi
		
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			ya'idukum la'allakum tazakkaroon uzkuru allaha al
		
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			'ali alkabeer wa shkuruhu ala ni'mihi yazidkum wa
		
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			ladhikuru allahi akbar w'allahu ya'allamu maa
		
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			tasna'oon waakunin as-salaam