Abdullah Oduro – Friday Jummah 16-08-2024

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The importance of praise and gratitude for Allah's actions is discussed, along with the need for understanding and actioning the words "will" and "willingness" to determine the value of a situation. The emotional and physical pain of a family member's death due to a road accident is emphasized, along with the importance of not letting things happen to oneself and allowing them to serve as a process for purification. The speaker emphasizes the need for practicing Islam to alleviate pain and improve behavior, and reminds individuals of the importance of not discounting pain and visiting others who are suffering from it.

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			We praise Allah. We seek his aid and
		
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			forgiveness. We seek refuge in Allah from the
		
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			evil of ourselves and
		
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			our bad deeds. Whomsoever
		
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			Allah guides, none can misguide, and whomsoever Allah
		
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			allows to be led astray, none can guide
		
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			aright.
		
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			And I bear witness that there is no
		
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			one worthy of worship except Allah, the exalted,
		
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			and that Mohammed is his last messenger and
		
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			servant. All you who believe, be mindful of
		
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			Allah and die not except in a state
		
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			of submission to him alone.
		
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			All humanity, be mindful of Allah who created
		
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			you from a single soul and from that
		
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			created his mate and from that scatters many
		
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			men and women.
		
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			Oh, humanity, be mindful of Allah and do
		
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			not cut off relations with your kin, with
		
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			your relatives.
		
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			Indeed, Allah is a raqib.
		
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			He monitor over you.
		
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			Oh, humanity,
		
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			be mindful of Allah and speak the truth.
		
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			In order for him to accept us of
		
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			our deeds and forgive us for our sins,
		
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			and whoever obeys Allah
		
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			the exalted has indeed achieved the greatest success.
		
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			As to what follows, indeed, the best book
		
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			is the book of Allah
		
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			The best speech is the book of Allah
		
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			And the best guidance is that of Muhammad
		
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			Peace and blessings be upon him.
		
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			And of the worst affairs in our doctrinal
		
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			system of Islam are the newly invented ones.
		
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			For every newly invented affair in this situation
		
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			is an innovation.
		
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			And for every innovation is a form of
		
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			going astray, and for every form of going
		
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			astray is in the fire of *.
		
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			God slowed my body down in order to
		
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			speed my mind up.
		
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			God slowed my body down in order to
		
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			speed up my mind.
		
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			This was a statement of a man that
		
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			contracted polio,
		
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			had something to do with the nerves and
		
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			the muscular system,
		
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			to where his left foot was shorter left
		
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			leg was shorter than his right leg. He
		
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			had to wear a a shoe that had
		
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			a bigger sole
		
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			than
		
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			everyone's typical shoe. But through the process of
		
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			this as a kid, he was born with
		
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			this.
		
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			He was made fun of. His brothers used
		
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			to tease him
		
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			to where they even offered to do a
		
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			surgery to extend his leg,
		
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			and he refused refused to do so.
		
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			But he went through life with this challenge,
		
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			and we have the opportunity
		
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			to say, instead of challenge,
		
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			this opportunity.
		
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			Because the statement that was just mentioned, god
		
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			slowed my body down to speed up my
		
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			mind, he became
		
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			a person that is well known
		
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			for helping people in business
		
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			and very, very eloquent and sharp.
		
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			But what's important here
		
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			is how you look if something was taken
		
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			away
		
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			that in his mind
		
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			and in in his heart,
		
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			he knows for sure that it's for divine
		
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			reason, number 1.
		
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			And he knows that Allah will replace it
		
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			in the way that he sees fit, number
		
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			2.
		
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			And with that in mind, he says something
		
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			that coincides with number 1 and number 2.
		
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			That Allah, he's
		
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			able to do all things.
		
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			And from the manifestation of his ability is
		
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			that he can take one thing away and
		
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			replace it with something else. As the prophet
		
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			even said, if Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, chooses
		
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			to take away,
		
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			the 2 beloved things to take it away,
		
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			to make them blind to where they are
		
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			blind.
		
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			Allah will replace that with Jannah
		
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			Jannah.
		
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			What's beautiful about this hadith
		
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			is every single one of us
		
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			with our
		
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			carnal self, our natural self, our natural inclination,
		
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			our disposition,
		
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			we know that vision and sight is crucial
		
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			for our existence.
		
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			To where the lack of vision and the
		
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			lack of seeing, whether it is totally absent
		
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			or whether it is deficient
		
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			or even more so deficient over time, which
		
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			may even be the majority of us, subhanAllah.
		
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			That that is something that is cherished, it
		
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			is valued, and some of us don't even
		
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			recognize its value until
		
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			it is decreased,
		
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			until the value of it or until the
		
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			the quality of it is lessened.
		
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			That is what will wake you up. But
		
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			do you wake up to praise and thank
		
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			and have good thoughts about Allah or is
		
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			it the opposite?
		
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			Allah
		
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			said, hadith Qudsi, when the prophet narrates when
		
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			the law says,
		
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			He said, I am as my servant thinks
		
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			of me.
		
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			So when Allah
		
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			takes something away or does what he wills,
		
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			what is your thought and your perception
		
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			about what he chose to do?
		
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			And that is why the of an understanding
		
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			predestination
		
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			that Allah chooses for things to happen is
		
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			for a divine reason.
		
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			And that's why
		
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			the blessings of pain
		
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			the blessings of pain is important for us
		
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			to
		
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			understand.
		
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			That when we face something
		
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			that we don't anticipate,
		
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			and that thing that we didn't anticipate
		
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			is not to our favor.
		
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			We have to understand that some of the
		
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			greatest gifts
		
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			are painful
		
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			when you receive them.
		
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			Some of the greatest gifts
		
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			are painful when you receive them. And I
		
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			firmly believe
		
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			that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			which is so amazing.
		
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			You know, in the Quran, the chapter of
		
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			Rum, Rum, Allah says, woman, ayati. Woman, ayati.
		
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			And from his signs from his signs. I
		
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			countlessly tell myself and all of you
		
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			that the word
		
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			aya, we can understand it to mean verse,
		
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			but that's only one aspect of the word
		
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			aya.
		
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			Because of the context of literature,
		
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			meaning the Quran, meaning the Quran, the word
		
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			of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, it is a
		
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			verse. But aya linguistically
		
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			means
		
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			a sign.
		
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			It is a sign.
		
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			When we say, Alhamdulillahi
		
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			rubbilaalameen,
		
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			alameen comes from alameen which means to know.
		
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			Because when you see a sign,
		
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			it gives you knowledge of something.
		
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			When you saw the street sign, the lights,
		
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			red is a sign that has a message.
		
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			If you don't implement the message, you could
		
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			face the consequences.
		
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			A stop
		
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			sign
		
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			has a message.
		
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			Every single thing other than the creator is
		
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			an ayah. Not only a verse of the
		
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			Quran.
		
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			It is a sign of Allah's presence,
		
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			and it is a sign of his beautiful
		
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			names and attributes. So
		
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			Allah, with the signs that he shows us
		
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			on this earth, with the signs that he
		
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			shows us via his names and attributes, creation,
		
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			love, protection, predestination,
		
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			It is important for the Muslim to search
		
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			and see what sign is Allah showing me
		
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			now.
		
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			And then to act upon that knowledge that
		
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			they have of Allah, and the knowledge of
		
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			that particular situation,
		
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			which most likely will be in this situation
		
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			with pain,
		
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			patience.
		
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			With pain,
		
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			perseverance.
		
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			With pain,
		
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			gratitude.
		
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			You know, from the signs of Allah, subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala, as we mentioned,
		
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			as some of the blessings
		
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			are found in pain,
		
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			we can give one example that all of
		
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			us know, childbirth.
		
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			Not all of us.
		
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			Not all of us. Men don't understand
		
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			We only sit and watch and, you know,
		
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			thank Allah for things, and then we ask
		
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			Allah to protect our wives, our mothers. We
		
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			don't
		
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			know the reality of that, and that is
		
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			from the wisdom of Allah
		
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			That the prophet
		
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			that he mentions that I am the most
		
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			I have the most jealousy or preserving the
		
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			right of 2 demographics, 2 types of people.
		
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			Okay. The Yateem and the Marah, I am
		
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			very diligent in protecting these 2 for the
		
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			2 weak forms of demographic, meaning that they're
		
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			not totally weak. They can't handle themselves,
		
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			but they are the ones that need protection.
		
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			The Yateem is the orphan and the woman.
		
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			They need our protection as men. But with
		
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			that reality,
		
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			Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, is predestined for them
		
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			to give childbirth.
		
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			Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, is predestined for them
		
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			to face a certain type of pain that
		
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			we as men can't even understand. It's unbearable
		
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			if we were to think about it.
		
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			To the degree when Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			described Miriam,
		
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			when she per conceived
		
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			Allah gets descriptive.
		
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			He says, the pains of childbirth came to
		
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			Miriam,
		
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			the mother of Jesus.
		
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			She grabbed the tree.
		
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			And she said, I wish I was not
		
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			here at this moment,
		
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			that I was forgotten about.
		
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			The pain was unbearable, and then the pain
		
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			of what people would say, so emotional and
		
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			physical pain at the same time.
		
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			Allah
		
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			wisdom, we can never totally encompass it.
		
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			That's why it's important for us when we
		
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			face not if not if,
		
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			when we face this
		
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			pain that we allow it to serve as
		
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			a process
		
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			for purification.
		
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			That pain is a means that Allah has
		
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			predestined
		
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			for us individually
		
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			and collectively
		
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			for purification.
		
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			And once we understand that, we know that,
		
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			and we try our best to internalize it,
		
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			that is where the reward lies.
		
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			It's all within the color of Allah, brother.
		
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			We cannot say anything to this peace of
		
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			Allah
		
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			You know, my family, they came to me
		
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			and then they said,
		
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			why weren't you in the front seat?
		
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			I said, we can't say this in Islam.
		
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			This is what was mentioned to me that
		
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			from a brother in our community
		
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			that suffered a very tragic accident
		
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			very tragic accident here in Dallas.
		
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			He was
		
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			on the road, on a highway, and he
		
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			faced a flat he had a flat tire
		
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			on the right, the passenger side in the
		
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			front,
		
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			to where he veered off to the side
		
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			of the road. So there's the road, there's
		
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			the highway, then there's this shoulder,
		
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			and then there's the metal boundary.
		
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			So he is on the right side. He
		
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			and his sister-in-law are on the right side
		
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			trying to figure out the how to fix
		
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			the tire. So they're in between the tire
		
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			and the metal rail.
		
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			They went it was a July 4th. They
		
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			went to go see the fireworks, you know,
		
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			that some of us may do.
		
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			So he went there and he tried to
		
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			see, okay, how can we fix the tire?
		
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			Come to find out, they they didn't have
		
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			a spare tire. He looked under the car,
		
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			there was no spare tire.
		
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			And his daughter,
		
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			is very active as he is. Beautiful brother.
		
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			Very active brother.
		
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			His daughter wanted to get out the car.
		
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			He said, no. Stay in the car. No.
		
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			Stay in the car. And then he tells
		
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			me from his hospital bed,
		
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			After I said, no. Stay in the car
		
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			the 3rd time, that's all I remember. I
		
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			don't remember anything else.
		
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			Brothers and sisters,
		
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			this brother,
		
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			a truck, a a truck came 75 miles
		
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			per hour, hit the back left side of
		
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			the car,
		
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			and grazed the car, hit the back left
		
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			side, and grazed the car.
		
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			He said that he was told
		
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			that his car, that he was in front,
		
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			he flew.
		
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			And his sister-in-law
		
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			was pinned in between the passenger right front
		
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			side of the car and the rail
		
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			to where immediately
		
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			amputated,
		
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			cut off her leg.
		
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			Immediately.
		
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			He tells me that when I woke up,
		
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			I went, and I'm like, where's my daughter?
		
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			Where's my daughter? His daughter was in the
		
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			car.
		
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			The car hits with the with so much
		
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			of an impact. He said that she had
		
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			a blunt dent in on her head. Very
		
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			and you looked at the you look in
		
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			the x-ray, you see that there's a big
		
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			crack in her skull.
		
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			His sister-in-law, he tries to pull her. He
		
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			pleases, I put my hand under her armpits,
		
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			and I tried to pull her out. She
		
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			was screaming, and she was biting me. He
		
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			said, I didn't even realize she was biting
		
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			me.
		
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			The adrenaline,
		
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			all of this happening.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			When talking to this brother,
		
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			all he kept saying is what I said
		
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			earlier.
		
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			This is what a lot of chose to
		
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			happen. Maybe it could've been this. Maybe I
		
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			could've been in the front seat of the
		
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			car. Maybe it could've been this. Maybe there
		
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			was some there was some things in the
		
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			back of the car, some some utensils, and
		
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			some of them rushed forward to the car.
		
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			What if I was in the passenger seat
		
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			at that time? Maybe it could have been
		
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			Allah knows best.
		
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			His speech, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah.
		
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			And his relative, he said that someone that
		
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			were coming to say, why were you why
		
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			didn't you stay in the car? This wouldn't
		
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			have happened. He said, no. No. In Islam,
		
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			we can't say that.
		
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			This is what he said. In Islam, we
		
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			can't say that. Because the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam, what did he say?
		
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			He said, and do not say, if this
		
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			would have happened, then this would have happened.
		
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			For really saying that is what? It opens
		
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			a door to Satan. How?
		
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			Because you do not have the predestinated
		
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			nature to understand future events.
		
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			You do not know.
		
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			When the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam which
		
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			was told by Ibn Abbas when
		
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			he would go and visit someone, he would
		
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			say,
		
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			When entering upon anyone that's sick or facing
		
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			an ailment that some scholars didn't even mention
		
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			in this situation,
		
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			you
		
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			say,
		
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			insha'Allah.
		
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			Insha'Allah,
		
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			translates to mean, don't worry. No problem.
		
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			It'll serve as a purification.
		
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			It's very important when seeing people that have
		
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			been afflicted with some kind of pain,
		
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			that you remind them of Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala
		
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			because it is very, very easy
		
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			to lose hope in him.
		
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			And I think this time when speaking about
		
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			what's going on around the world
		
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			remember my last quote, but I said it
		
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			is not for us to compare atrocities.
		
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			This is happening in Gaza, and this is
		
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			happening in in in in in China.
		
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			We know that all these are atrocities,
		
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			and people are facing this.
		
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			But it's important to know that the word
		
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			of Allah
		
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			is very important when visiting or seeing or
		
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			hearing about someone's affliction.
		
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			When we read on a WhatsApp message when
		
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			someone is in the hospital
		
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			or someone has passed away,
		
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			that should be a reminder for all of
		
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			us
		
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			that rarely, verily we are for Allah, and
		
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			to him we will return. We are on
		
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			this earth for Allah. We have no ultimate
		
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			control.
		
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			So when the brother was mentioning the accident,
		
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			it was statements of recognition of the Qadr,
		
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			recognition of Allah's knowledge and predestination.
		
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			Because that is a protective
		
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			mechanism
		
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			against
		
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			Jezreel,
		
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			against being impatient.
		
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			And being impatient
		
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			is saying, I'm in this situation. I kinda
		
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			like, why would Allah put me in this
		
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			situation? You know, the prophet, he visited an
		
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			old man and he said, let us support
		
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			it inshallah. He said, what do you mean
		
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			to hold on? I'm having this sickness, this
		
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			fever, and it's eating me up, and it's
		
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			gonna make me it's gonna make me to
		
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			cover.
		
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			He says, it's gonna make me visit the
		
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			grave. You know, the prophet, he said,
		
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			He said,
		
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			brothers, if you can come up and leave
		
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			space for your brothers, Insha'Allah, you can squeal
		
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			up. The
		
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			prophet said, then. He said, okay. If that's
		
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			what you say, then fine.
		
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			Right? It's important to have that spirit when
		
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			visiting the person
		
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			to be someone that up uplifts their spirits
		
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			because it is a very difficult situation.
		
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			And I'm almost sure
		
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			that each and every single one of us
		
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			knows someone that has a relative or we
		
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			are relatives
		
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			of someone suffering in one of these countries.
		
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			I'm very sure that each and every one
		
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			of us has visited someone in the hospital.
		
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			So don't forget this particular dua,
		
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			The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam would also
		
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			say when entering upon someone,
		
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			The prophet
		
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			when you enter, he would make dua for
		
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			the person and say, oh, Allah, the lord
		
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			of the mankind.
		
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			Relinquish this disease or this pain that this
		
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			person is facing.
		
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			And
		
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			cure him or her.
		
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			Why?
		
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			You are the ultimate cure.
		
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			There is no cure except your your cure.
		
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			The the the cure that does not allow
		
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			the disease to the disease to prolong inside
		
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			of that person.
		
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			This is important
		
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			that we as Muslims practice these sunan,
		
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			these practices from the prophet
		
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			because not to sound cliche, when we practice
		
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			the sunnah of the prophet
		
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			it increases
		
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			our closeness to Allah,
		
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			which can serve indirectly
		
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			or directly as a means of increasing that
		
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			person's iman.
		
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			Because whenever we see someone that has faced
		
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			a challenge,
		
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			we can indirectly look at it as an
		
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			opportunity,
		
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			an opportunity
		
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			to come closer to Allah,
		
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			an opportunity to remind someone about Allah. You
		
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			know, as we're sitting with this brother, he's
		
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			relating. He's showing us video and pictures, and,
		
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			you know, he's he's he's talking about it,
		
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			and every time he say, you know, SubhanAllah,
		
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			that's the Qadr of Allah. I can't I
		
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			can't be displeased. His sister-in-law was in the
		
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			next room,
		
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			in a coma. She was in a coma
		
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			and woke up. Didn't know if she was
		
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			going to wake up,
		
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			but he's praising Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. His
		
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			non Muslim relatives, daughter was non Muslim.
		
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			Young daughter,
		
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			she came to him 15 years old. She
		
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			came to him and said, I think I'm
		
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			thinking about becoming a Muslim. Why? Because so
		
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			many sisters went over there to visit. People
		
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			that don't even know me are coming to
		
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			visit me and give give me flowers.
		
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			Brothers and sisters, let's take a step back,
		
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			It's important that we take a step back
		
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			and just look at the the the blueprint
		
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			of Islam.
		
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			Like, we understand that Islam is from Allah.
		
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			The system, the framework that Allah has set
		
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			up for us to practice.
		
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			Let's not get in this mentality
		
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			of I'm practicing Islam for me. Yes. You
		
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			are.
		
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			But you have to understand
		
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			when you practice to the best of your
		
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			ability and I'm not saying practice as though
		
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			it is monolithic
		
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			I'm or black and white. We all have
		
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			our struggles.
		
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			But when they see you try your best
		
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			to practice and you're doing that, it has
		
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			a rippling effect on those around you.
		
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			And you won't even know. And that is
		
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			the manifestation of.
		
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			That is the manifestation of guidance.
		
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			So brothers and sisters, whenever we see or
		
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			face or hear about pain,
		
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			know that it is an opportunity
		
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			for us to come closer to Allah.
		
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			Know that pain requires a process.
		
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			It is not overnight. It is not in
		
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			one second. And if it it it it's
		
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			possible that it could be that way based
		
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			on the type of pain that you're facing
		
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			and your wherewithal, what you're able to handle.
		
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			Maybe it was previous trauma that you faced,
		
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			and then you're facing it again. You know
		
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			how to handle it. Maybe you could be
		
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			someone that gives someone advice that's that faces
		
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			that similar type of trauma.
		
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			That pain was a way that Allah is
		
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			waking you up to teach you something
		
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			and a way
		
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			listen. A way that Allah is using you
		
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			as a means to teach someone else something.
		
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			Do not discount the pain by being displeased
		
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			with the fact that the pain exists.
		
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			The pain is from Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			knowledge.
		
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			It is what he has written. It is
		
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			from his will, and it is what he
		
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			has created. His predestination.
		
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			What he is allowed for a divine wisdom
		
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			that it is none of our business to
		
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			know all the time why it happened. But
		
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			we know for sure that it happened in
		
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			front of
		
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			us. That is what is most important. What
		
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			do you do when that pain is there?
		
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			And how do you act? Because make no
		
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			mistake,
		
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			it is a test from your creator
		
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			to place something in front of you that
		
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			you don't want.
		
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			And that test
		
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			is not going to be easy.
		
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			But know for sure
		
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			that the severity of the pain, the reward
		
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			is contingent upon the severity of the pain.
		
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			The more you outlast that pain,
		
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			the more you deal with it,
		
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			the more you remember Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			The more you thank Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Every single time you face that pain, as
		
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			the prophet said, not a thorn pricks a
		
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			believer, A
		
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			thorn. A thorn
		
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			pricks a believer,
		
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			except that it'll serve as expiation.
		
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			Well, I went to see one sister,
		
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			she couldn't even move. She said, all of
		
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			a sudden, I'm facing pain in my midsection,
		
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			and it's it's radiating everywhere.
		
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			Just went through a situation with her spouse.
		
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			They're separated,
		
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			and she's facing this pain,
		
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			but she's remembering a lot. She's patient.
		
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			She's saying, I went around to these physicians.
		
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			Maybe is there an opportunity to see someone
		
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			that does a and that reads Quran?
		
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			They're patients.
		
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			They're patients,
		
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			and they're active in their hearts. Their iman
		
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			is active.
		
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			So brothers and sisters,
		
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			use this as an opportunity
		
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			to remind you
		
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			of how blessed you are as a Muslim.
		
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			And I say Muslim because
		
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			you have an anchor to go back to.
		
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			Allah
		
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			is the one that he's the repository
		
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			that you turn to. He's the one that
		
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			you empty yourself
		
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			to.
		
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			You totally empty yourself, and you exhaust yourself
		
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			with trust with the trust in him,
		
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			with love with loving him.
		
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			That is very important in times of anguish.
		
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			So when seeing this in these these stories,
		
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			brothers and sisters, when visiting this brother,
		
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			it was very, very beautiful because we didn't
		
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			even realize it. We were talking. We were
		
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			laughing. And then we started to make fun
		
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			of each other, the brothers that we were
		
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			visiting him. And he said something so powerful.
		
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			He said, man, brothers, I needed this.
		
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			I needed the brotherhood.
		
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			I needed this. He just lie he started
		
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			laughing. He said, I just really I really
		
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			needed this.
		
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			We didn't even realize it.
		
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			So brothers and sisters, if you can,
		
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			if you can,
		
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			anytime
		
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			this week before next Jum'ah,
		
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			to go and visit someone
		
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			that is suffering from pain.
		
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			Psychological,
		
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			physical,
		
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			spiritual.
		
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			Go and visit someone that is suffering through
		
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			some kind of pain. If they're in another
		
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			country and you know them, write them a
		
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			letter.
		
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			And I would prefer that you write with
		
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			a pencil or pen, and you send it
		
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			via mail. Because they're going to wonder, what
		
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			is this mail? It must be something important.
		
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			They couldn't send an email? No. Because it
		
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			shows the the the gravity of the matter.
		
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			So remembering, brothers and sisters, that Allah
		
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			that he is able to do all things,
		
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			and whatever he puts in front of us,
		
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			we want to handle it in a way
		
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			that increases our iman, purifies our sins, and
		
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			serves as an influence on on those around
		
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			us to remember him and be grateful.
		
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			Allah help the weak Muslims all over the
		
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			earth.
		
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			All our help our brothers and sisters in
		
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			Gaza and in China and in Sudan.
		
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			And in Burman Yara Bilalamin and Rahingi Yara
		
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			Bilalamin.
		
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			And
		
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			in and the remembrance of Allah is the
		
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			greatest thing and Allah is well aware of
		
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			what you do. Establish the prayer.
		
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			Those that know know how I get down.
		
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			I'm
		
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			about to pray.
		
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			So I take the little have the baby
		
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			next with the constraint