Abdul Wahab Saleem – 2024-10-18 – Friday Khutbah

Abdul Wahab Saleem
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The importance of valuing things within one's mind and creating a hierarchy of value is crucial to addressing one's values. The Prophet is teaching us to value things in our minds and create value in our lives, and to search for something that is worth. The importance of finding the right person for one's life is also discussed, and the distressed and lowly life lifespans are highlighted as examples of distressed and lowly life experiences. The importance of finding one's own values and values in life is also emphasized.
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All praise is due to Allah, Rabbul Izzati

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wal Jalal.

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We praise Him.

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We thank Him.

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We seek refuge in Him from the evils

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of ourselves.

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And we bear witness that there is no

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God worthy of worship except for Allah, Rabbul

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Izzati wal Jalal.

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And that Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is His

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servant and messenger.

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As for what is to proceed, I enjoin

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upon you the taqwa of Allah Azzawajal.

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For He is the one who says in

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the Qur'an, يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا

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اللَّهَ حَقَّ تُقَاتِهِ وَلَا تَمُوتُنَّ إِلَّا وَأَنْتُمْ مُسْلِمُونَ

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Believers have the consciousness and taqwa of Allah

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the way He is deserving.

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And don't die except in the state of

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al-Islam.

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I want to tell you about value.

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Rather, instead of me saying I want to

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tell you, I want you to think about

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value.

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I want you to start thinking about how

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you associate value to things.

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Look around you.

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Think of everything that you've seen within this

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world.

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Whether it be people, whether it be things,

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whether it be objects of possession, whether it

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be ideas that you've discovered.

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And how you associate value to these things.

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We all have different metrics that we use

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to associate value to different things.

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If you walk into a store, and you

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look at something, and you see that there's

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a price tag that says $100 on it.

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And then you see another thing right next

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to it, which is a bootleg, and that's

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just $10.

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There's a reason why you are associating $100

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to one and $10 to the other.

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Because there's a way that we associate value

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to different things in this world.

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And it's not always that the same things

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remain equally valuable.

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If you look at fiat currencies for instance,

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you'll see currencies going up and currencies going

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down.

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Inflation, and then hyperinflation, and then ultra hyperinflation.

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So you'll see things moving around.

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So value changes as well within the minds

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of people for different things.

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That's the reality of it.

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One day one hairstyle is the thing to

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do.

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The next day something else becomes.

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One day one attire is the way to

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dress, but the next day something else becomes.

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So we associate value to different things in

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different ways.

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One day one word is the hip thing

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to say, but the next day there's something

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else that people like to say.

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So the way we associate value in our

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social culture, it changes over time.

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But we have metrics, even if they're changing,

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that we use to decide what is valuable

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within this world.

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Why did you choose to be with this

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person for the rest of your life?

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You have a reason why you made that

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choice, because you've decided to put value in

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beauty, or you've decided to put value in

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politeness and kindness, or you've decided to put

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value in education, or you've decided to put

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value in something else.

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That's the reality.

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Or family, familial ties, or closeness, or whatever

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it may be.

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You have decided to place value in something.

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The Prophet saw this, and that's why he

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said that a woman is married off, and

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he mentions a number of reasons.

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She's married off because of her beauty, she's

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married off because of money, she's married off

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because of social status, and sometimes even her

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lineage.

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But then the Prophet said, فَظْفَرْ بِذَاتِ الدِّينِ

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تَرِبَتْ يَدَاكَ But what he wants you to

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do is, he wants you to fight for

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the one who's got the deen.

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So the Prophet is creating a shift in

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our minds of what is valuable.

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He's teaching us how you actually create the

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hierarchy of value in your mind.

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What should be at the top of the

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value chart within your life?

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Because in our metrics we have different ways.

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I want you to start thinking about whether

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you're valuing things within this world the correct

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way.

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The way Allah wants you to value.

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The way that's actually going to matter in

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the end of it all when you're six

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feet under.

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When you change how you see value in

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this world, a lot of things within this

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world will change.

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The Prophet recognized that people have different ways

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of valuing a woman.

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The Prophet ﷺ even recognized that people have

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different ways of valuing a man.

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There was a man who was sitting right

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next to the Prophet ﷺ.

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And a woman came to the Prophet and

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she said, Oh Prophet of Allah, I have

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gifted myself to you in marriage.

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And the Prophet looked and he decided not

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to accept.

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And so there was a man who was

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sitting there and he said, Oh Prophet of

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Allah, marry me off to this woman or

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marry her off to me.

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So the Prophet, he looked at this man

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and he said, What do you have?

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Is there something you can give?

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That you can give as sadaq, as dowry.

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So the man said, I have nothing.

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He said, Go out there and look for

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a ring even if it happens to be

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of iron.

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Even if it's valueless basically in the sights

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of people.

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So the man said, I couldn't find it.

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He searched around, he had nothing to his

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name for him to even acquire something that's

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made of iron.

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He couldn't.

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So he came back to the Prophet ﷺ

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and he said, Do you have anything of

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the Qur'an in your heart?

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هل عندك شيء من القرآن?

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So the man said, yes, سورة كذا وكذا.

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I have this surah and that surah memorized.

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So the Prophet ﷺ he said, زوجتك إياها

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بما معك من القرآن.

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I have married her off to you because

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of the Qur'an that happens to be

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in your heart.

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What is the Prophet teaching us over here?

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The Prophet is teaching us that the Qur

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'an is valuable.

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It's valuable.

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What is he teaching to us in the

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hadith where he told us to go for

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the woman with the deen?

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He's saying that deen is valuable.

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In our minds we have associated value to

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things that are temporary.

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I'll give you another example.

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When you walk in with a realtor to

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a home and you want to purchase this

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home.

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All of us and every one of us

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when we look at the home, what do

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we look at?

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We start thinking what type of tabletops, what

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type of cabinets, what type of this, that,

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the other, the flooring.

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These are the things that we're looking at.

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Who walks into a home that's completely distressed

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except for a flipper and buys that?

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People don't do that because people don't associate

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value in homes that are distressed.

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And the Prophet ﷺ he said in a

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hadith, He said, الَّذِي لَيْسَ فِي جَوْفِهِ شَيْءٌ

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مِّنَ الْقُرْآنِ كَالْبَيْتِ الْخَرِبِ The person who has

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nothing of the Qur'an in his heart,

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that person is like the haunted and distressed

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home.

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Because you don't see any value in a

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home that is distressed and the Prophet doesn't

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see any value in the body of a

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person who hasn't committed the Qur'an in

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his heart.

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Or at least some of it.

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So the Prophet is now teaching us how

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to shift our vision of value.

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You need to start seeing value in things

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that are actually valuable.

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This is how you have to look.

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Because what will matter in the end of

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it all is not going to be the

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car that you drive.

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And it's not going to be the home

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that you reside in.

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It's not going to be the brands that

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you chose to wear.

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It's not going to be the woman that

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you had, or the man that you had,

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or the family that you had.

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None of this matters.

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Even your lineage, it doesn't matter.

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أَبُو لَهَبٍ فِي النَّارِ وَهُوَ بْنُ حَاشِمِ وَسَلْمَانُ

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فِي الْفِرْدَوْسِ مِنْ خُرَسَانِ أَبُو لَهَبٍ is going

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to be in hellfire.

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And he is from Banu Hashim.

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And Salman Al-Farisi, despite the fact that

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he is from Persia, he will be in

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Jannah.

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Because the Arabs, they used to boast of

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their lineage, and they would assume themselves to

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be greater than everybody else.

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A man, he came to Salman himself, and

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he said, I am X, Y, Z.

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Tell me your lineage.

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Tell me your lineage.

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Oh Salman, who are you?

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You're a Persian man.

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You're a Persian man.

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So Umar Ibn Khattab, he realized that this

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man has violated Salman.

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By assuming that real value is in his

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lineage.

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So he came to that man, who had

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violated Salman with that question, and he said,

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اِنْ تَسِبْ And, سُقَطَ فِي يَدَيْهِ He decided,

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he felt as if he has lost the

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plot at this moment.

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And he looked at Umar, and he said,

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I apologize.

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He said, no, اِنْ تَسِبْ Tell me your

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lineage.

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He said again, I've lost the plot.

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And then Umar, he said, I am X,

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Y, Z.

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And he gave his lineage.

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But I am Umar, the son of Al

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-Islam, the brother of Salman, the son of

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Al-Islam.

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So he switched how to value things.

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That's the reality.

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The value that Allah is teaching us is

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in the Quran, in the deen, in the

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religion.

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And that's why even to the Prophet ﷺ.

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By the way, this is a message for

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you and I, and even the Prophet.

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The Prophet ﷺ, what did Allah say to

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him?

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He said to him, وَلَقَدْ آتَيْنَاكَ سَبْعًا مِنَ

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الْمَثَانِ وَالْقُرْآنِ الْعَظِيمِ I have given to you

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the seven oft-repeated verses along with the

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Quran.

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The ulama of at-Tafsir, they said these

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seven oft-repeated verses are Surah Al-Fatiha.

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And Al-Qur'an Al-'Azim is also been

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explained as Surah Al-Fatiha.

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The great Qur'an, the glorious Qur'an,

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all of it is summarized within Surah Al

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-Fatiha.

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So what did Allah say after that?

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وَلَقَدْ آتَيْنَاكَ سَبْعًا مِنَ الْمَثَانِ وَالْقُرْآنِ الْعَظِيمِ لَا

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تَمُدَّنَّ عَيْنَيكَ إِلَى مَا مَتَّعْنَا بِهِ أَزْوَاجًا مِّنْهُمْ

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Do not extend your gaze to the things

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that I've given to other people within the

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world.

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You have the Qur'an.

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Why do you care what other people have?

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It shouldn't matter.

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When you begin to see that true value

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is in the words of Allah, nothing else

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will matter anymore.

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Because you've got the Qur'an, O Prophet

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of Allah.

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So Allah is even teaching the Prophet ﷺ

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that nothing really matters except for this Qur

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'an.

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This is where I place the value.

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The religion, this is where I place the

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value.

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The pious woman, that's where I place the

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value.

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The man who has the Qur'an in

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his heart, that's where I place the value.

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Start looking at things around you in that

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way.

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I swear by God that we don't do

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this.

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How do you feel when you see a

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teacher at the back of the masjid sitting

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there teaching the Qur'an?

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Many of us don't actually see the value

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in that man.

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But the Prophet ﷺ, he believes him to

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be better than you and I.

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He ﷺ in the Hadith of Uthman, he

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said, خَيْرُكُمْ مَنْ تَعَلَّمَ الْقُرْآنَ وَحَلَّمَهُ The best

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of you is the one who learns the

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Qur'an and teaches it as well.

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So the Prophet ﷺ is saying, that man

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in the back of the masjid with a

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small halaqa around him of people learning Qur

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'an from him, he's better than you, I

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and everybody else.

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He's better.

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This is the value the Prophet is associating

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to this man.

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So who are you then in your heart

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to assume that you might be better because

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you've got a nicer car, nicer home, a

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nicer life, more savings, some retirement account, some

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investments here and there.

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Those are not valuable things.

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Not according to the Prophet ﷺ.

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These are things that you use to get

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through this life.

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They're not useless things.

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They're obviously useless because they are the type

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of things that we use to build these

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sort of centers.

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That's what it is, the money.

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So the money has its use and the

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Prophet ﷺ he said, نعم المال الصالح في

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يد الرجل الصالح.

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How great is good wealth, amounts of wealth

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in the hands of a person who knows

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how to use it.

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A pious person.

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So good wealth in the hands of a

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good man is great.

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But again, that's if it's used in the

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right way.

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But the true value is in the deen,

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in the hereafter, in your Qur'an.

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Ask Allah ﷻ to make the Qur'an

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the light of our hearts.

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وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه

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أجمعين.

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الحمد لله حمدا يوافع نعمه ويكافع مزيده.

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وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه

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أجمعين.

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People want to live life.

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Everybody that you talk to at some point

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within their lives, especially young people, they use

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this phrase of, I want to live life.

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I'm just trying to live some life.

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I'm trying to live it up.

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I just want to live my life.

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Right?

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You've heard that.

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That you just want to live your life.

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And what's intended by that word is that

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I want to enjoy my time.

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I want to relax and go out and

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go to beaches and head down to the

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Maldives and Mexico and here and there.

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That's what I want to do because this

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is fun.

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Now again, I'm not telling you to not

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have the fun, but I'm saying this is

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what happens.

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This is what people are looking for.

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They're looking to go out and live life.

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So long as you're keeping it halal, have

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some fun, no problem.

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But I want you to start thinking even

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about life in another way.

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This life throughout the Quran, Allah describes it

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as, الحياة الدنيا.

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This life that is a lowly life.

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That is a distressed life.

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That is not the heightened life.

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You see, these are all words that we

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use within our language as well.

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And the Quran is revealed by Allah Azza

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wa Jalla and He uses the same words,

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but we fail to see it.

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There's the high life.

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That's what everybody wants to live.

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But Allah talks about this dunya and He

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calls it the low life.

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Right?

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You know, He's a high roller.

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He's living the high life, etc.

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There is no high life within this world.

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That's the reality of it.

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Because no matter what you have, there's always

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going to be a problem.

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You go out to a nice beach, great

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tropical environment, but you're now bit by a

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dengue mosquito.

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What are you gonna do?

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The high life is all messed up now

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because now you're in the hospital.

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So no matter what enjoyment you have, that

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enjoyment will always be tainted with a problem

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that you didn't anticipate.

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And perhaps you even anticipated, but you overlooked

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it in your dreams and in your hopes

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that you're going to be able to live

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the high life.

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But Allah is giving you a news flash.

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He's saying, this hayat is a dunya.

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It's the lowly life.

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It can't be high.

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No matter how much you try, there's always

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going to be something that will taint the

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fun of this life and it will no

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longer be high anymore.

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You end up drinking, what happens?

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After that you get a nice buzz, but

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in the morning, what happens?

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Right?

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You don't get to live the high life

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because this is how Allah has created this

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life.

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You go out and you have other types

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of fun and you walk home with diseases

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and other problems because you don't get to

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live an untainted, desirable life within this world.

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But if you want to have that high

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life, you want to be able to live,

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Allah says, وَإِنَّ الْآخِرَةَ لَهِيَ الْحَيَوَانُ That the

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hereafter is the hayawan.

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You know what the hayawan is?

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It's the life, but it's not just any

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life.

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Al-hayawan is on the verb form or

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the word form of fa'alan.

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And the scholars of morphology, they say any

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word that comes on this form of fa

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'alan, it has the concept of movement.

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It has the concept of things happening, fayadan.

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You've got a flood coming, things are happening.

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That's why they call it a fayadan.

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So this hayawan is a type of life

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that is actually happening.

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You wanted to have that experience of you're

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in and you're out, and this is happening,

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and then there's parties, and there's this, and

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all of these things that you want, the

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excitement, the adrenaline rush that you were looking

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for.

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Well, Allah is saying, this life will always

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be the low life.

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But the hereafter will have all of those

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excitements that you so dreamt of and desired.

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So if you want to live that high

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life, you're not gonna find it within this

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life.

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Allah hasn't created this life like that.

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No matter how much you live, you'll still

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have problems.

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The people that are living highest up have

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the highest floors and the access to the

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highest floors for them to be able to

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jump off, and they have millions of dollars

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of bank accounts, and they still end up

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committing suicide.

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We see this happening again and again.

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People that are living that high life, they're

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still in hospitals, and they still go psycho,

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and they still have depression, and they still

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have anxieties, and they still have pains, and

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they don't get to live the high life.

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Because there is no living the high life

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within this world.

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Allah throughout the Quran calls this life the

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lowly life.

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This is what it is.

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So if you want to assume that Allah

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doesn't know which life is the high one

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and which life is a low one, then

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that's an assumption.

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You can go out there and try and

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test.

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As you grow in life, you begin to

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realize people that have more experience than you,

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they know more than you.

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So you try one thing and you're like,

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yeah, actually, you know what?

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I thought I had it figured out, but

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dad knew exactly what he was talking about.

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Right?

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But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, هُوَ

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أَعْلَمُ بِكُمْ إِذْ أَنْشَأَكُمْ He knows you better

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because He's the one who created you.

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He created this life, so He knows the

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ins and the outs of this life.

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He knows it's not gonna be high.

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You're gonna have some highs, but after that

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it's all tainted, and it's all low after

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that.

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If you want to live the high life,

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then here's a piece of advice.

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Try to live for the hereafter.

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Live this life to develop your hereafter.

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That's what's going to allow you to live

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that experience of enjoyment and adrenaline and fun,

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just fun without anything else tainting that fun.

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That's what's gonna allow you to do that.

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So when you begin to recognize that the

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value is in the hereafter, then the next

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step that you have to do is you

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have to work towards the hereafter.

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That's why Allah says, وَمَنْ أَرَادَ الْآخِرَةَ وَسَعَالَهَا

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سَعِيَهَا وَهُوَ مُؤْمِنٌۢ فَأُولَئِكَ كَانَ سَعِيُهُمْ مَشْكُورًۭا That

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whoever wishes for the hereafter, and then he

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works towards it as well.

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It's not just a matter of dreaming, right?

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Dreaming and praying doesn't work.

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You have to sit and do some work

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as well.

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And that's why Allah says, سَعَالَهَا سَعِيَهَا There's

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a type of work you have to do.

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And you have to work hard, سَارِعُ, race.

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Because this is a race.

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In this world, you're racing.

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سَابِقُ, go and become the winner.

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Allah wants you to win.

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So get out there and do stuff.

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The Quran, I'll tell you one thing before

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I leave you off, has a very central

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idea.

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You have to believe, and you have to

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do righteous deeds.

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Almost every page of the Quran will have

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these two ideas.

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You have to believe, and you have to

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do righteous deeds.

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This is a simple theory.

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It's a duality.

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You follow these two, you're good.

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You have Iman, which is your belief.

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And then you have Islam, your actions.

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That's it.

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You've won now.

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This is how you win.

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You have to have a sincere intention towards

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Allah, that all of my actions are for

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His sake alone, and my life is dedicated

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to Him.

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مِنَّ صَلَاتِي وَنُسُكِي وَمَحْيَايَ وَمَمَاتِي لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ

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And then after that you act.

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That's it.

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I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to

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allow us to purify our intentions.

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I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to

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allow us to purify our actions solely for

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His sake.

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I ask Allah rabbul Izzati wal Jalal to

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give us the tawfiq to act by the

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Qur'an, live by the Qur'an, die

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by the Qur'an, to learn the Qur

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'an, and that Allah azza wa jal makes

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the Qur'an the light of our hearts,

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and the fountain of our hearts.

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اللهم اجعل القرآن ربيع قلوبنا ونور صدورنا وجلاء

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همومنا وأحزاننا رَبَّنَا آتِنَا فِي الدُّنْيَا حَسَنَةً وَفِي

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الْآخِرَةِ حَسَنَةً وَقِنَا عَذَابَ النَّارِ وَأَدْخِلْنَا الْجَنَّةَ مَعَ

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الْأَبْرَارِ يَا عَزِيزُ يَا غَفَّارُ وَأَقِمِ الصَّلَاةَ إِنَّ

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الصَّلَاةَ تَنْهَى عَنِ الْفَحْشَاءِ وَالْمُنْكَرِ وَلَذِكْرُ اللَّهِ أَكْبَرُ

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وَاللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ مَا تَصْنَعُونَ

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