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Most of all, how many people here woke
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up this morning?
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If you woke up this morning, please raise
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up your hand.
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Everybody.
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Everybody.
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You will say, if I didn't wake up,
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how will I be here?
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Well, you didn't wake up, actually.
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It's Allah that woke you up.
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If Allah didn't wake you up, you will
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not wake up.
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It's after Allah woke you up that you
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woke up.
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And the reality is that it's Allah that
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woke us up.
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If you are not sure, then you take
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an alarm clock to the place they bury
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dead people.
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You see, if you put 500 alarm clocks
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there, they won't wake up.
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True or false?
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So it's Allah that woke us up.
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Why did Allah wake us up?
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There must be a reason why Allah woke
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us up this morning.
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And what is that reason?
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It's part of the reason why we are
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where we are.
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And if you understand that reason very well,
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then this life is going to be user
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-friendly.
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Allah designed this life.
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Well, how can you make life to be
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user-friendly?
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One of such ways is for you to
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understand from what Allah says in Surah Al
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-Balad.
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A'udhu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajim The
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part I want to use there is Allah
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says He has created human beings in toil
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and struggle.
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In toil and struggle.
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Even before we were born, by the time
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our parents are trying to produce us, let
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me use that word, it was with some
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movement, with some struggle.
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By the time the things that fertilize other
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things began to swim, they were swimming, about
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4 million of them, they were all swimming
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in struggle until only one of them got
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to fertilize the egg.
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And after that, one thing divided into another
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thing.
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We were inside the mother's belly, it was
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still with struggle.
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Because if the baby was not kicking, then
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there would be a problem.
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The mother would be taken to the hospital
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for examination.
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The day of our birth, there was struggle.
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Because we needed to switch from not breathing
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through our noses, through our lungs, we switched
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into breathing air.
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I'm sure it was not easy for anyone
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at that time, it's just that we can't
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remember.
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Imagine you that spent 5 months inside, that
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is the first 4 months, then the 5
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months when Allah put life inside the body.
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You were not eating with your mouth, you
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were not breathing with your nose, and suddenly
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you came into this place, you were inside
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a place where it was water bathed all
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around.
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You now had to come into this place
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that you had to breathe with your nose,
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and you had to eat with your mouth
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by yourself.
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It was not an easy experience.
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Then from there, baby is crying, baby is
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running temperature, baby is trying to grow teeth,
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baby is about to sit down, baby is
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trying to crawl, baby is trying to start
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walking.
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The walking is a struggle on its own,
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you stand up, you fall down, you stand
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up, you fall down.
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After that, they say, ok, the baby is
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now learning to talk.
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Ok, the baby is now going to start
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going to school from this kindergarten, then to
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that primary, then to that secondary.
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This is how we kept moving.
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We continue to move from one stage to
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another stage to another stage to another stage.
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Up until a person will say, ok, now
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this child is now going to the university.
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Then you start struggling.
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Now, I'm switching now to the parents now.
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When will the parent ever rest?
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Is it when the mother was just married,
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you are hoping she will get pregnant one
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day?
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Or when she is pregnant, you are hoping
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she will deliver safely?
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Or after delivery, you are trying to see
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what's going to be fed to the mother
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and the child, and then you continue to
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struggle, you continue to spend, you continue to
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invest.
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Ok, my child, my baby.
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After the secondary school, he has to go
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to social place for higher institution.
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You rally around, you struggle around, you gather
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wealth, you sponsor them, and it continues like
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that.
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One day they say they want to get
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married.
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Ah, who is my child going to marry?
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Which boy, which girl is going to marry
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my son and daughter?
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After you've done all you have to do,
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after the wedding, what again?
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Ah, what's going to happen to them?
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This is how we continue.
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And even yourself, at one point in your
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life, this is what you are looking for.
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At another point, this one has come, then
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you are looking for another thing.
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There's always something more, there's always something else,
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there's always the next thing ahead, ahead and
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ahead.
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Until we reach where we have reached now,
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have we rested?
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Nobody will rest.
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Because the creator of all of us says,
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It will always be struggle upon struggle upon
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struggle.
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The limbs Allah has given to us, if
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you close your eyes for too long, Allah
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will begin to withdraw the eyes, you will
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not see clearly again.
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If you block your ears, I don't want
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to hear anything, by the time you remove
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your hand from the air, if it's too
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long, then you don't hear well again.
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The same thing with every other part of
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our bodies, if you stop using it, Allah
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will start withdrawing it, because you must use
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it.
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And at a point in our age, they
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will even say you have to be doing
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exercise, you have to be doing diet, eat
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organic, eat healthy.
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They will continue to give us these rules
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and regulations, and we still have some things
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to worry about.
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There's no human being that will ever stay
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without something to worry about, without something to
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bother him.
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To make this life user-friendly, when will
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a person ever say Alhamdulillah it's okay?
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The day you say Alhamdulillah it's okay, that's
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the day you are going to die.
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Better don't say it's okay, you can say
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Alhamdulillah.
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Because after today, there's also another tomorrow.
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By tomorrow, another of its own thing will
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come.
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When Allah spare our lives, every day we
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wake up every morning, it's always one thing
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and another thing and another thing.
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Accept it like that.
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Everybody must accept that this life is a
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life of struggle, and it is never over
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until it is over.
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Another way you can make it user-friendly,
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you now continue in that surah.
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Allah says, Allah
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now gave all of those lines of the
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things you can do.
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Quickly make effort to help those who are
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in need, feed those who are hungry, do
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whatever good deed you can do, because that
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is the only gain of being in this
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world.
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What else?
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These children that we have suffered and labored
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about, someday we will shift to one side,
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and they will continue.
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So if you didn't take care of yourself,
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and you didn't take care of your Akhira,
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we will leave everything with these children, they
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will continue to enjoy themselves, and we will
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go and face Allah, and Allah will ask
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us, Okay, so, what happened?
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It is not one person, it is not
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two persons, it is everybody that has to
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be making effort every day, in order to
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improve ourselves, in order to improve our lives.
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Let us not forget the reason why we
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are here in this world.
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To struggle and to suffer is part of
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our existence.
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Let nobody complain over that.
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If people are bothering you every day, they
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are asking you for help, telling you they
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are needy, don't be tired, because if you
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didn't have, they will not ask you.
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Don't be tired, just do whatever you can
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do.
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And then the rest, be grateful to Allah
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and take life easy.
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So, to make life, to be user-friendly,
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be very ready to do the best of
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what you can for other people.
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The best of what you can.
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Because, even that one too, you can't help
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everybody.
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You can't help everybody.
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If people line up in front of your
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house, you keep helping them every day, every
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day, every one day, they will say, Why
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are you giving only chicken?
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What of pizza?
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What of belangu?
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They will ask for some other things and
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you can't cope.
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So, people will keep coming.
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People will keep needing help.
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They will keep asking you.
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They will keep bothering you.
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It will never finish.
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Even if you don't have, go and borrow,
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give them, they will still come back tomorrow.
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If you like, kill yourself, make yourself into
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pepper soup and give them to eat.
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They will still come again.
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Or somebody tells them that, Look, you have
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finished him now.
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You have eaten him yesterday.
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So, it is just life.
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That is just how life is.
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Let us all accept it, but be very
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moderate in everything that we do.
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Don't let struggle and strife, don't let them
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remove you when it's not your time to
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go yet.
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Take life easy.
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And you know that everything in life is
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in stages.
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When you are in certain stage in your
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life, accept that that's where Allah wants you
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to be.
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Do whatever thing you can do because you
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don't know the next stage that we are
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going to be into.
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Allah will keep waking us up every day
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until one day when He will not wake
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us up again.
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Even if you want to wake up, may
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Allah make it easy for us.
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Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
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