Abdullah Oduro – Jummah Khutbah 05-04-2024

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The importance of knowing the power of Islam, including predestination, is discussed. The importance of the "we" in power is also emphasized, and the importance of listening to the word on principle is emphasized. The importance of gratitude and satire during the night is also emphasized, along with laying hands on spiritual teachings and witnessing one's weaknesses and mistakes to increase one's love for Allah. It is ingrained in our culture and is a blessing for the creator.

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			Whomsoever Allah guides, none can misguide. And whomsoever
		
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			Allah allows
		
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			to be led astray, none can guide aright.
		
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			And I bear witness that there is no
		
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			one worthy of worship except Allahu Ta'ala,
		
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			the exalted, and that Muhammad, peace and blessings
		
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			be upon him, is his last messenger and
		
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			servant.
		
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			All you who believe, be mindful of Allah
		
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			and die not except in a state of
		
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			submission to him alone.
		
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			Oh, 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. Oh, humanity,
		
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			Be mindful of Allah and do not cut
		
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			off relations with your relatives.
		
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			Indeed, Allah is a raqeeb.
		
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			He monitor over you. Oh, humanity be mindful
		
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			of Allah and speak the truth in order
		
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			for him to accept you of your deeds
		
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			and forgive us of our shortcomings.
		
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			And whoever obeys Allah and his messenger
		
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			has indeed achieved the greatest achievements. As to
		
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			what follows, indeed, the best speech is the
		
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			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. And of
		
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			the worst affairs in our doctrinal system of
		
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			Islam are the newly invented ones. Ones. For
		
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			every newly invented affair in this situation is
		
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			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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			Each and every one of us has heard
		
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			this statement, and we probably even know what
		
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			it means
		
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			if we don't understand Arabic.
		
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			It's the statement that is mentioned upon hearing
		
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			or reading or encountering
		
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			the departing
		
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			of the soul or the individual
		
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			of this earth when someone dies. As Ibn
		
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			Uqayim mentions death is mofaraka
		
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			turruhi
		
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			mineljesed.
		
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			It is when the soul leaves the body.
		
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			The prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, said that
		
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			there is a specific sign when the soul
		
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			leaves the body that their eyes will flip,
		
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			which is a sign that their soul has
		
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			that has left.
		
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			The sign of the believer is that their
		
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			body their soul will leave their body like
		
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			a
		
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			a water drop from the faucet,
		
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			and it will smell as mist. But then
		
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			the one that is the disbeliever, the one
		
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			that voluntarily disbelieves in
		
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			Allah, voluntarily,
		
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			knowing the truth and denying it, it will
		
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			leave as though
		
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			the the body as a thorn coming out
		
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			of wet
		
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			wool.
		
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			And
		
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			it will be a bad smell. All of
		
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			this.
		
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			We know that
		
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			insha'allah, one of our brothers that has passed
		
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			away,
		
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			doctor Ahmed Shaquille,
		
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			He's
		
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			in
		
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			he's one of the founders of the Masjid
		
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			Masjid al Rahman down the street,
		
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			Colleyville Masjid has passed away, and we know
		
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			that that is with the other of Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			It is what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has
		
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			predestined,
		
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			and it is another means of Allah conditioning
		
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			us
		
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			internally. Those of you may not know him,
		
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			but at the moment when I mentioned he
		
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			passed away, immediately some of you are thinking
		
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			of someone that passed away in your lifetime.
		
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			And you remember your emotions.
		
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			They may be renewed.
		
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			You're thinking about yourself, when will I go?
		
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			I just got my results from my physician.
		
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			I need to work on my health.
		
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			Whether it's sleep, diet,
		
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			I need to work on it.
		
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			Some of us know
		
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			the reality of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's power
		
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			and his
		
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			his ability.
		
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			And we know that Allah
		
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			knowledge
		
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			is Qadr,
		
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			predestination.
		
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			If you notice,
		
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			the same three letters,
		
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			qaf,dal,
		
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			ra
		
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			which have similar meanings.
		
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			We know that Qadr is predestination.
		
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			Qudra is ability.
		
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			The scholars, Alayhi Mus Salam,
		
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			Rahim Ullahu Ta'ala,
		
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			when they speak of this glorious, glorious
		
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			moment
		
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			that many of us
		
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			are longing
		
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			for, yearning for,
		
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			it is that night,
		
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			what is could be translated of power,
		
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			or night of predestination,
		
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			or night of decree.
		
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			All of those, Yesul, they're all correct.
		
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			There is a chapter dedicated to this night,
		
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			and the night is.
		
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			The night of power, decree, knowledge, etcetera.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the
		
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			Quran,
		
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			Verily, we revealed it
		
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			in the night of power or decree.
		
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			Allah
		
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			revealed the Quran
		
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			to Angel Jibril, which revealed it to the
		
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			prophet
		
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			wa sallam. And scholars mentioned in Laylatul Qadr,
		
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			he recited the whole Quran to him in
		
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			his night and in his last year twice.
		
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			Some scholars mentioned that
		
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			means means something that is tight or confined.
		
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			When Allah
		
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			says, and for mankind,
		
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			if Allah was to test them and restrict
		
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			his provisions.
		
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			My lord has debased me. My lord didn't
		
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			give me that job. My lord didn't give
		
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			me what I wanted. He's disgraced me. He's
		
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			debased me. Why am I calling on this
		
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			lord? He's
		
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			restricted his provisions for you, qadr.
		
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			Or taqdir
		
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			means something that has honor
		
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			or something that is revered.
		
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			All of those are present. When speaking about
		
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			the restriction,
		
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			the prophet
		
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			mentioned on the night of Qadr,
		
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			the night of power or the night of
		
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			restriction,
		
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			that the angels will fill the horizons
		
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			so much so that one four fingers you
		
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			cannot place 4 fingers in the atmosphere,
		
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			will be full of angels.
		
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			Full of angels.
		
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			That is.
		
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			So when looking at this, Allah
		
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			has mentioned this to be a blessed night.
		
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			Reveal the Quran in
		
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			And what will cause you to know
		
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			How will you know?
		
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			That the night of power decree is better
		
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			than
		
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			1000 months, over 80 years.
		
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			Meaning, that what ever act of worship you
		
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			do in that night
		
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			is better than
		
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			80 plus years of worship. If you were
		
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			to pray to Hajduk that night, it's better
		
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			than praying to Hajdu 80 8 pray 80
		
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			plus years.
		
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			He didn't say, yeah.
		
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			He didn't say equals.
		
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			He's saying it's better than.
		
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			Better than.
		
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			So
		
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			understanding the power of this power of this
		
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			decree,
		
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			of this virtuous knight is important for us.
		
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			And this reminds
		
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			us that Allah
		
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			is in ultimate control.
		
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			He does what he wills, and he chooses
		
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			what he
		
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			Muslims should congregate to the best of their
		
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			ability. And there's many
		
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			benefits behind this.
		
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			Getting to know Allah
		
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			by listening to the word on Jum'ah.
		
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			This is the day of the week.
		
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			Getting to know your community,
		
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			leaving off the dunya your work, your television,
		
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			whatever it is, for something much loftier.
		
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			That is virtuous.
		
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			A chapter devoted to that, Suratul Jumah, a
		
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			day of the week, a month of the
		
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			year,
		
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			the month that the Quran was revealed.
		
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			Shahu Ramadan
		
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			Quran,
		
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			the month of Ramadan
		
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			in which the Quran was revealed.
		
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			The 9th month of the lunar calendar, the
		
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			Islamic calendar. The best night of the best
		
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			10 days
		
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			of the year.
		
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			The best 10 days of the year, some
		
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			would argue, is
		
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			Hajj, the first 10 days of Dhul Hijjah.
		
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			And some would argue that when Allah says,
		
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			when
		
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			he says by the fajr, the the
		
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			dawn,
		
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			by the 10 nights. Some would argue that
		
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			it is the first 10,
		
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			days of the rilejha.
		
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			We have the best 10 nights of the
		
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			year being
		
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			what? Ir Tikaf.
		
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			The 10 days the last 10 days of
		
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			Ramadan, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was
		
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			known to make itikaf in the first 10
		
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			nights
		
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			of the first 10 nights of Ramadan.
		
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			Then angel Jibreel told him
		
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			a Ammek. So the prophet went and fasted
		
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			the next 10 days.
		
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			The middle 10 days, Jibril came to him
		
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			and said,
		
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			I'm Ammek.
		
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			Verily, what you are requesting is in front
		
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			of you. That's when he knew it was
		
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			the last 10 days so he would stay
		
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			in the Masjid, stationary
		
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			in the Masjid
		
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			to remember Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, separate
		
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			from his wives and his families,
		
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			to be in the masjid, to have undivided
		
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			attention. And there are so many lessons in
		
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			attention. And there are so many lessons in
		
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			Ir Tikav,
		
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			especially
		
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			in our day and age.
		
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			That is this was not present. The telephone
		
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			was not present during the time of the
		
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			prophet
		
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			where you can literally, with one finger, scroll
		
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			for 16 hours
		
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			and distract yourself
		
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			from life,
		
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			from your purpose.
		
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			So the means of being stationary in the
		
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			masjid
		
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			is highly recommended in our day and age.
		
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			Scholars even mention if one was to be
		
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			stationary from one salah to the next salah,
		
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			this is good.
		
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			Or for one day or a couple of
		
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			hours, having the intention
		
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			to detach
		
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			is very important for the human being.
		
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			We are seeing many apps now that speak
		
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			about meditation,
		
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			gratefulness,
		
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			to have a gratitude journal.
		
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			All of this is
		
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			ingrained
		
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			in our faith.
		
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			At least 5 times a day, there is
		
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			a form of detachment.
		
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			There is the importance of being grateful
		
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			to where Allah equates gratefulness
		
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			with uncountable blessings
		
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			Allah says,
		
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			and your lord proclaimed that if you were
		
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			to be thankful,
		
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			He doesn't mention how many blessings. He leaves
		
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			it blank to show you the importance of
		
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			gratitude. All of this is ingrained in our
		
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			religion.
		
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			When seeing, SubhanAllah,
		
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			that we as Muslims
		
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			take it upon ourselves to detach at least
		
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			5 times a day is a huge opportunity
		
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			to take advantage of that which benefits us,
		
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			particularly
		
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			in this night of Laila Al Qadr.
		
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			Now Laylat Al Qadr is not known which
		
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			night it particularly is, but it is definitely
		
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			in the last 10 days or last 10
		
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			nights. The prophet
		
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			even mentioned that the individual
		
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			should
		
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			look for it.
		
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			They should look for it, search for it
		
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			in the last 10.
		
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			The last 10
		
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			nights of Ramadan.
		
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			Searching for it is continuously being in
		
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			associates the nighttime with many virtuous things.
		
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			When Allah
		
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			read in the name of your lord, it
		
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			was the night
		
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			time. When Allah
		
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			mentions, and during the night, wake up and
		
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			pray.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			Allah told the one the prophet, all you
		
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			covered in garments. Umil
		
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			layla.
		
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			Stand at the nighttime.
		
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			When the prophet was
		
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			going for hijrah,
		
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			the nighttime.
		
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			The prophet
		
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			when he entered
		
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			Medina, what did he tell the people? What
		
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			did he tell the people?
		
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			Ashush Salam.
		
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			Spread this spread the,
		
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			glad tidings or salutations, saying
		
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			or being good to people.
		
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			And feed the poor.
		
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			And pray at the night time when people
		
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			are sleeping.
		
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			You will enter heaven in a peaceful
		
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			Allahu
		
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			Adam. And there is so much divine wisdom
		
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			in that. To where we do just do
		
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			not rely
		
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			on 1 night.
		
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			To where we try our best to be
		
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			our best
		
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			at least for 10 nights.
		
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			At least.
		
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			This is such a beautiful opportunity
		
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			that this night of Leila Talqadr
		
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			is better than 80 plus months and for
		
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			us to embark on it to the best
		
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			of our ability.
		
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			Allah
		
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			says
		
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			that the angels
		
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			will descend
		
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			by his permission.
		
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			And the angel Jibril the angels and the
		
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			angel Jibril
		
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			will come down by his permission,
		
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			and they will know
		
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			every situation.
		
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			And scholars mentioned what is predestined for the
		
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			following year will be revealed at this night.
		
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			Allah
		
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			is in the chapter of
		
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			Allah says, we have the clear book,
		
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			verily we have revealed
		
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			this book
		
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			and the
		
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			blessed night.
		
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			And we are those that will be the
		
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			warmers.
		
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			In it, every situation
		
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			will be related.
		
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			For
		
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			a rough translation,
		
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			the scholars mentioned this night is the night
		
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			of Qadr
		
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			because what will be predestined for the following
		
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			year will be shown that night, not shown
		
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			to Allah
		
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			but revealed to the angels, and Allah
		
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			knows
		
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			best.
		
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			What is important for us, brothers and sisters,
		
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			just as we
		
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			may try
		
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			and with we this is be honest.
		
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			We may try to feel the spiritual euphoric
		
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			feelings
		
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			of this night, but it may just not
		
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			be there.
		
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			It may just not be there.
		
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			Sometimes, when we're so indulged with work, school,
		
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			thinking about work, thinking about school, thinking about
		
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			our relatives,
		
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			proper perspective.
		
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			It will put things in proper perspective.
		
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			And there are 2 particular wings
		
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			that I will mention
		
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			that if we use these wings, it will
		
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			allow us to fly in ways in a
		
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			way of humility.
		
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			So understanding
		
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			the importance of Laylatul Qadr,
		
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			Allah has revealed this whole chapter regarding this,
		
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			that it is a virtuous night and qadr
		
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			can have numerous meanings, but all of them
		
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			are virtuous and they all coincide with each
		
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			other, which shows the importance
		
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			of trying our best be of those of
		
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			worship. And this night can particularly be any
		
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			night of these last 10 nights.
		
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			The nighttime is particularly after Maghrib
		
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			till the dawn of Fajr, till dusk,
		
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			till when the sun rises. That's the nighttime.
		
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			So if it's after if it's
		
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			you're praying Isha, you pray TahaJu. Great job.
		
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			If you don't pray to Haggou or or
		
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			Torah Way, if you don't pray Torah Way,
		
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			at least be at home reading the musaf.
		
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			When you would watch a television show, even
		
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			an Islamic show, think, how can I step
		
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			it up a notch from watching the Islamic
		
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			show? Let me go and read the chapter
		
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			of Yusuf.
		
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			Let me go and read go to the
		
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			index of the Quran,
		
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			look at Moses, and just read all the
		
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			stories of Moses.
		
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			Let me look in the mirror.
		
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			Let me look in the mirror by myself
		
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			and be totally honest with myself.
		
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			Brothers and sisters, when is the last time
		
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			keep it real with me or keep it
		
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			real with yourself.
		
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			When's the last time
		
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			you've looked in the mirror
		
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			and you just let it all out?
		
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			You were just honest with yourself
		
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			to where people are knocking on the door.
		
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			What's wrong? Why are you crying?
		
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			When's the last time you've done that?
		
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			Laylatul Qadr, the month of Ramadan.
		
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			Laylat al
		
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			Qadr, best time to do that, to dig
		
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			deep and to be honest with yourself and
		
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			use the two wings of humility. If that's
		
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			difficult, brothers and sisters,
		
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			I totally understand.
		
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			But the 2 wings of humility, the 2
		
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			wings that Ibn al Qayyim mentioned is so
		
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			beautiful.
		
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			He said,
		
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			He said, verily those that are knowledgeable,
		
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			those are the ones that have knowledge of
		
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			life,
		
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			and they know how the religion and life
		
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			are intertwined with each other. So when they
		
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			speak, it's always in consideration
		
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			of their presence in front of Allah
		
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			So they said there's 2 things that they
		
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			the 2 wings. The first one
		
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			is Musa Hadatul Mina.
		
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			It is witnessing
		
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			the Mina.
		
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			Mina
		
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			means
		
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			the
		
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			blessings that have been bestowed upon you,
		
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			the favors that Allah has given you.
		
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			You can even think about a favor that
		
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			someone has given you,
		
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			but know that that person wouldn't have been
		
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			able to unless
		
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			Allah has given it to
		
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			them. So start proximal. Start with the people
		
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			that are around you.
		
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			What you like about this person?
		
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			What you dislike about that person? And it's
		
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			an opportunity for you to forgive them
		
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			or to be good to them.
		
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			Recognizing
		
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			the blessings,
		
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			that's the first wing. The second wing is
		
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			and approaching
		
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			the
		
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			deficiencies
		
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			in your self and in your actions. These
		
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			two things.
		
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			And what's so beautiful about this
		
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			is that none of it the only thing
		
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			that is attributed to you
		
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			are the faults that you have.
		
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			And looking at your faults, as we mentioned
		
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			before, is one of the strongest
		
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			means
		
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			to obtain sincerity of God, to be sincere
		
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			towards Allah. That's what I talked about. Look
		
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			in the mirror and look at your mistakes.
		
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			Count your mistakes. Count your blessings. And you
		
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			know what? After you do that, it's not
		
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			enough.
		
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			It's not enough,
		
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			and that's fine. You know why? Because Al
		
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			Aileen knows.
		
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			He knows that you have more than those
		
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			5 that you thought about at that moment.
		
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			He knows that you made an effort
		
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			to get to 4 and then you stopped.
		
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			And you really made an effort, and you
		
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			remember that 5th thing that you said to
		
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			your wife 2 years ago, and it hurt
		
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			her feelings, or your mother, and it hurt
		
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			her feelings.
		
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			You remember now.
		
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			Allah knows that there's 50,000.
		
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			He knows that there's many more,
		
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			but he knows and appreciate the efforts.
		
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			That's what he appreciates.
		
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			So those two wings,
		
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			recognizing the blessings
		
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			and also being aware of your sins
		
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			in yourself
		
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			and in your actions. You notice how he
		
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			makes this this tafreq, this differentiation.
		
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			That you're aware of the
		
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			the deficiency in yourself.
		
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			Meaning,
		
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			your desires,
		
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			your shahawats,
		
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			those things that will cause you to go
		
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			online and look at what you know you
		
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			shouldn't be looking at.
		
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			Or saying something badly about a person that
		
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			you know you shouldn't be saying in front
		
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			of your children,
		
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			in front of Allah.
		
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			But the actions are the things that you
		
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			actually do. So joining those 2 together,
		
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			you think about that and you ponder over
		
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			that, and you use that as a means
		
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			to debase yourself. Yes.
		
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			To debase yourself in front of Allah.
		
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			If not now, when?
		
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			And I'm saying now because you're seeing people
		
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			all over the world, particularly our brothers and
		
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			sisters in Gaza.
		
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			All over the world, you don't know when
		
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			your time will come. You never know. You
		
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			never know.
		
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			So the more that you have that Muhasaba,
		
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			holding yourself accountable
		
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			via
		
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			by looking at what Allah has given you
		
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			and looking at your deficiencies.
		
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			This is how you will fly with the
		
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			wings of humility. And even, okay, he goes
		
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			even deeper. He
		
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			says, SubhanAllah,
		
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			When you
		
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			recognize the blessings of god,
		
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			the blessings that he's given you
		
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			And, you know, when we say given you,
		
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			we automatically think of, he's given me this
		
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			phone. He's given me this job. He's given
		
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			me tangible things. This is great. He's giving
		
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			me my intellect. He's giving me the spirituality
		
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			to come here. This is even better.
		
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			What about what he's taken away from you
		
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			is a blessing as well?
		
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			What he has taken away from you that
		
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			you wanted so dearly
		
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			is a blessing
		
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			in disguise.
		
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			That's the blessing. What does that necessitate? Love.
		
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			That is how you can increase your love
		
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			of Allah.
		
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			When we may have doubts in something that
		
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			Allah has done, let's take a step back
		
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			and see what has he given me.
		
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			You know, our gratitude journal. What has he
		
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			given me?
		
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			What has he taken away that I still
		
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			haven't got over?
		
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			He is Al Alaim Al Hakim. I know
		
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			he knows better. I don't.
		
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			Let me take a step back, be patient,
		
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			and accept what has happened. And it's not
		
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			easy, but the fact that you're making the
		
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			intention to go through the process, that's what
		
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			Allah loves.
		
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			And then the second is to witness your
		
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			deficiencies.
		
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			When you witness your sins, your deficiencies, your
		
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			shortcomings,
		
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			your mistakes, you are human.
		
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			But when you witness them and you bring
		
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			them to life,
		
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			when you are alone
		
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			in the masjid,
		
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			it's
		
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			When you are alone in your room,
		
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			when you are alone looking at the mirror,
		
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			what does that necessitate? What will be the
		
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			fruits from that
		
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			that you would debase yourself in front of
		
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			Allah?
		
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			And then even goes even deeper. He says,
		
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			and your heart is broken,
		
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			and you feel deprived.
		
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			When is the last time that we have
		
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			felt deprived
		
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			without Allah's mercy?
		
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			Like, we feel, I am no one, and
		
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			I will get nowhere
		
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			unless I have this connection with Allah.
		
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			You know, yesterday, I felt that I was
		
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			the I I felt that I was the
		
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			source of that blessing.
		
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			It was Allah that was the source of
		
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			the blessing. When we think of that, that
		
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			process will make us of those that call
		
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			on
		
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			him in secret and in open. So remember
		
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			remember the blessings of Allah
		
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			and remember your sins. This is how we
		
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			can maintain this humility. May Allah
		
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			make us of those in these beautiful nights
		
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			to come, of those that use these wings
		
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			of humility and to allow us to fly
		
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			in this beautiful nights with many
		
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			means of forgiveness from Allah
		
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			and to increase us in this dunya, but
		
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			most importantly