Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – 3 3 Ghazali’s Beginning of Guidance (Bidayat alHidaya)

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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The importance of having a clear mindset and being mindful of one's thoughts is crucial for achieving success. It is essential to avoid discomfort and long term health risk, as well as to find sacred knowledge and find the right person to do so. The importance of mental health and mental health for one's success is also emphasized, along with seeking out one's thoughts and emotions to avoid distraction and anxiety. The speakers emphasize the need for regular practice, regular mental health and mental health for one's success, as well as seeking out one's thoughts and emotions to avoid distraction and anxiety.
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Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim, when you wish to sleep, spread out your

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mattress facing the Qibla.

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And lie on your right side

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as one dead as one dead lies in his grave.

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When it says spread out your mattress, it reminds me of a

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madrasa that I went to. In Pakistan.

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The students don't have rooms, they didn't have rooms.

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They sleep in the masjid.

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12, one o'clock, when comes time that everything's cleaned out,

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they put out their bedding, literally roll out their bedding,

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and they sleep in morning time they wake up and then they put it

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away. So there's no permanent rooms. They're always in a state

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of learning.

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So I've already received the question that all of this is

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making us very despondent. But I tried to explain that in the

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beginning that this is to shock us.

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It doesn't mean that only if you're like that you will be

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successful.

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These are shocking.

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advices which takes us out of our sleeping mode and brings us at

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least halfway.

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So one mustn't feel despondent that if one can't do that, because

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the majority of people can't do that.

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So it's not for that reason. That's why I told you right in the

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beginning, he wants the absolute ideal. But you must put that in

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perspective, that even among the Sahaba without Radi Allahu Anhu

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used to have this opinion, which he said he heard from Rasulullah

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sallallahu cinema acquired from Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam that

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you could not keep anything for tomorrow. So you couldn't save any

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money. And he was quite vocal about this fatwa. Eventually

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reprimanded the Allahu Anhu had to ask him to go and leave and live

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somewhere else because he was quite vocal in trying to implement

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his fatwa.

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So one has to put things in perspective, that it's just to

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make us reflect, we try our best. And then we ask Allah subhanaw

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taala to accept because that's where the process has some sense

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said they do work Haribo either hit the mark, or get close, just

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don't aim in the wrong direction. So aim in the right direction, you

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may not hit the center, but you will hit somewhere close by so aim

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yourself, direct yourself in the right way and inshallah you will

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be accepted. That's why the prophets of Allah Islam also said

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to the Sahaba, that you are a people that if you left out 10% of

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what you have been ordered to do, you are destroyed. But the time

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will come when if they just fulfill 1/10 of what they've been

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told to do, they will be successful.

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So people, Allah will take people according to where they live and

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how they lived in the context. I don't think we're at that position

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where we only have to fulfill 10% will be successful, but we're

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definitely not at the place inshallah. I don't think so

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anyway, because we're not talking to Sahaba, where if we miss 10%,

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we will be destroyed, with somewhere in between, hopefully,

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that sense of consolation, not to make us

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not to make us lacks or not focus on this, but at the same time,

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don't allow shaytaan to give you so much hope.

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You have to have Raja in Allah you have to have hope in Allah as well

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that he will forgive me even though I've made mistakes.

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So, our deen is between the two. So don't misunderstand what we're

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saying. That's why I said it right from the beginning. He mumbles

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that he's on another level. He's on another level, but it shouldn't

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make us despondent. It should just make us think and it should just

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make us reflect and inspire us. That's the whole purpose of this.

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When you wish to sleep asleep, spread out your mattress facing

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the Qibla and lie on your right side as one dead lies in the

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grave. Know that sleep is like death and waking is like

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resurrection. It may be that Allah Most High will take your soul by

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night. So be ready to meet Him by sleeping in a state of purity

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your will written and placed beneath your pillow how many Allah

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ma even act on that

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so as you can see he's really like really extreme in that regard of

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doing everything to the but you don't have to have your will under

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your pillow. You know you might have your by your solicitors.

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It may be that Allah Most High will take your soul by night so be

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ready to meet Him by sleeping in a state of purity you will your will

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written and placed beneath your pillow in a state of repentance

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over sins begging forgiveness decisive about never disobeying

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Allah Almighty again. You must resolve to do good to all people

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If Allah Almighty most majestic should allow you to rise again.

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That's your Nia when sleeping tomorrow. I want to be a good

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person. I want to benefit people. That's a pure intention to sleep

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on it

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And by the end of it, majority of us, we're not going to fulfill

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most of what we've read today. But if we can even fulfill two or

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three things, what we've done today we've improved, and we have

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benefited. That's why that kid was a kid. But the Vertica Amara, then

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the other one, I got one, I got Serafina Lin Nursey.

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laleham, yet the cone, oh, you had a thought on vichara. You see,

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Allah subhanaw taala, repeats his advices over and over again in the

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Quran. And then he mentioned that the reason why we bring these

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stories bit by bit over and over again, is because when you heard

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moosari, some story there, it may have not impacted you. You may

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have not been in that state of heart to receive the message from

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the when he's mentioned it again, maybe not. Then the third time we

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mentioned long your tacos, are you headed to the home liquor or it

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will create a reminder for you now. So that's why Allah subhanaw

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taala mentioned these things over and over again, because it's not a

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story. It's a unique genre of writing, a composition is divine,

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it's written to appeal to the heart. So Allah knows you're not

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going to immediately impact to be impacted by everything. But you

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will be eventually as long as you keep reading. So like this,

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there's something going to really appeal to us other things we're

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going to ignore. That's the way we are, we just pray to Allah, Allah,

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Allah give us as much as possible.

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Remember, that you will put in the gray, you will be put in the grave

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this way, all alone with nothing but your deeds, and you will be

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rewarded only for your endeavors do not go to great lengths to

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induce sleep by preparing your bed in the most comfortable manner.

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because sleep is an interruption of life.

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How do we deal with this, go to dreams.

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And mattresses start all the way from 300 pounds to 3000 4000

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pounds. I went to a bad factory yesterday. And

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and you know he it's a friend of mine, a relative who owns a bed

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factory. And he's telling me about. So what he's telling me, as

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I said, be honest, what level of spring count is really something

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you should look for. He says 2000 Anything beyond that it's all a

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gimmick, they just add small, small ones at the top of those

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don't make a difference, then there's 20,000 What they do is,

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you know, these pen springs, they put them in between just to make

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up the count and people get involved. You know, people people

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people pay extra money. This one has stuffing made of velvet and

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silk and this hair and that hair, does it really make a difference?

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Now not necessarily. But people just like to hear all of these

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things. So they'll pay more money

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then you have a temper mattress, especially NASA, you know, and it

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conforms to your body. I mean, they are useful to the for some

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people at the end of the day because they do help you from not

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having a backache. And at the end of the day, should we just give

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all that up and just sleep on a board with you know, like a thin

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stuffed quilt is what we should do. If you can Yes, but most of us

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can't, it's completely fine to have a bed. What he's just saying

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is that again, it's that high level ideal. So don't feel too

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guilty. We've got bigger things to worry about. I don't want to

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diminish this either. But to have a nice bed we do spend many hours

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and if you've got a back problem there's nothing wrong with that

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result in a resilient view there'd be a problem but we it's very

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difficult for us to get to that level

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so don't have a bed just to show off.

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So you take people for a tour of your house and say this bed and

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this you know it's it cost this much. And it's made of this and

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it's got this many 1000 springs and memory foam and you ever been

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to a hotel once in Egypt, we tried to stay in a Muslim hotel. And

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it's a long story eventually we ended up in the Conrad Hilton and

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there was literally a menu of nine types of pillows you could order

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so you know the Nefertiti pillow, the Ramses pillow this one is

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medium hardness this one is this one is that okay? I want to try

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this one out I mean, so don't do it to show off don't do it as a

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status symbol if you are gonna get a bed because it's you know,

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you've tried it and it's beneficial for any costs 1500

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pounds 2000 pounds, there's nothing wrong with that. It's the

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reason why you're doing it. Remember that it's the reason why

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you're doing it. That's where the profits are made a very clear

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person came to him after hearing all of these mixed messages for

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him maybe and he said that look I'm a person you can see how much

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handsomeness I've been given, very handsome individual. And I like my

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clothing to be the best to be really nice. And I like my

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Up to the My,

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the straps of my sandal I like them to be the best is that

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Kibber? Is that arrogance, pride and voice? I've said no, that is

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not what it is. What is arrogance and pride is when you look down

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upon people, and you deny the hack and the truth. So that is a very

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guiding principle for us. That yes, you can have good things. As

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long as there's a reason for it, you're not competing with others,

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you're not doing it because others are doing it.

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And the problem is, when you live with it, with any society, you

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start copying people.

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And you should not do that.

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Understand that the night and day comprise of 24 hours. Well before

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that, he says do not go to great lengths to induce sleep by

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preparing your bed in the most comfortable manner because sleep

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is an interruption of life. Unless being awakened is a burden for

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you, in which case your being asleep is safer for your religion.

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Understand that the night and day comprises 24 hours. Do not let the

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total amount of your sleep for the day and night exceed eight hours.

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That's very generous.

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Eight hours is decent. I wish I got eight hours. That's that's

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mashallah that's generous, it is quite enough for you if you live

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60 years that you waste 20 of them, which is 1/3.

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When he puts it in perspective like that, if you live for 60

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years, and you see for eight hours, it means you've slept for

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2020 years of your life.

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That sounds a lot

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before sleeping, prepare your to stick in your water for ablution

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and resolve to perform the night vigil. And to be up before the

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morning prayer to rakaats in the depths of the night are among the

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treasures of piety. So augment your treasure for the day of your

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poverty, for the treasures of this world will be of no use to you

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when you die.

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And when you sleep read the following dua. Again, this is just

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a sneak peek into this Kitab just some aspects we're looking at this

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Kitab needs to be read relaxed, bit by bit and reflected upon. And

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we do as much as possible. And don't become despondent. If you

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can't do as long as you're fulfilling your obligations. All

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of this other is to just get closer and closer and we have our

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whole life insha Allah will do as much as possible.

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There were some other sections but I think we don't have sufficient

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time to go through all of them. Let's just look at page 124

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Because this is the last section of

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part to

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the two areas that he said he was going to cover.

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Okay.

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To you then who aspires to seek knowledge reflect upon the

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characteristics upon these characteristics that we've spoken

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about. Realize that the greatest cause of these evils becoming

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deeply rooted in the heart is seeking sacred knowledge in order

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to outdo and compete with others. The lay man is protected from most

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of these traits. While the student of jurisprudence is very

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susceptible to them, and may be exposed to utter destruction on

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account of them. Against that initial reminder, he's bringing it

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back about correction of intention. So you must consider

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whether your main priority is to learn how to guard yourself

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against these destructive vices, occupying yourself with rectifying

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your heart and building your afterlife or to take part in

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foolish, foolish conversation with those who like to do so. Which is

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on Twitter and WhatsApp and things like that.

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And seek the type of knowledge that will increase you in

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arrogance, ostentation, envy and conceit until you along with the

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others are destroyed. Know that these three characteristics are

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among the major diseases, diseases of the heart, and they have but

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one seed bed, love for this world. They all done for the love of this

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world. And the three diseases he's speaking about are which ones

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envy, jealousy,

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ostentatious showing off and conceit, arrogance and pride.

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I just want to mention one Hadith in relationship to ostentation.

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There's a hadith of the prophets Allah son which says mon sama sama

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Allah obey.

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Whoever wants to be heard, Allah will cause him to be heard. Which

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means if somebody wants to become famous, there are certain things

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that you can do, and promote yourself and you will become

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famous. But that fame of this world does not translate into

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success in the hereafter. So if you're famous for even a Dini

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thing, a really religious thing, it doesn't mean that success in

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the hereafter. So that hadith is really frightening.

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really frightening. Man, Sama, Sama, Allahu Bucha whoever

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Have a wants to be heard, gain fame, then he will make you to be

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heard if you want, but that doesn't guarantee you anything.

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At the end of it, he says it's all love for the world. Love of this

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world is the cause of every sin. As a prophet of Allah awesome

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said, at the same time, this world is the field we may cultivate for

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the afterlife. So whoever takes off this world only as much as he

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needs to help him towards his afterlife, it is his cultivated

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field. But For whoever desires this world only to live in ease

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and comfort, it will be his ruination.

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This then represents a small portion of the outer understanding

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of Taqwa. And it is the beginning of guidance. So all this book is

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the beginning of guidance.

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So if you have tested yourself regarding it, and yourself has

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compiled, complied, you've tested yourself in every one of these and

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you agree to all of these things, and you are now fulfilling those

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things, then continue on, then continue now to read the Revival

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of the Religious Sciences. Now you can really hear along with them.

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Now you've got the qualification to read here on machine to learn

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the methods of attaining the inner aspects of consciousness of Allah.

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This book is just to get you on the path, then you can go to

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Haroldo machine, when the innermost aspects of your heart

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become infused with the consciousness of Allah. It is then

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that it is then that the veils between you and your Lord will be

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lifted. And he is saying this from experience.

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The lights of Gnosis will be revealed to you, the springs of

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wisdom will burst forth from your heart.

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The secrets of the heavenly and earthly Dominions will be made

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clear to you. And it will be made easy for you by means of the

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sciences to now dismiss with disdain those contemporary

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branches of harmful knowledge, of which there was not even a mention

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in the time of the companions and the successes. May Allah play

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periods with them. That's why I say the way he writes is timeless.

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This applies as much as it did in his time, to it does in our time.

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But if you seek Gnosis from idle gossip Gnosis means knowing Allah

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Malefor if you seek Malefor, from idle gossip, or from disputation

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and argumentation,

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how immense indeed is your misfortune? How long you will

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toil?

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How great is your deprivation and loss? Do as you wish, for the life

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that you seek by means of your religion will never submit to you,

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while the afterlife will slip away from you. Indeed, whoever seeks to

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gain this world by means of His religion will lose them both. Yet

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whoever gives up this world for his religion, will profit profit

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from them both. This is the summary. This is a summary of the

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guidance you need to reach the beginnings of the path in your

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interaction with Allah, mighty and majestic. By carrying out his

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commands and avoiding what he has prohibited. We will now draw your

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attention to a short summary of good manners so that you can take

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yourself to account in your relationships with the slaves of

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Allah, mighty and majestic and your companionship with them in

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this life, that ends what he set out to do. And then this

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additional section is on some of the some of the HELOC, which

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inshallah you can read elsewhere. I'm just going to take these

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questions if there's any other questions if you can send them

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more quickly. So you know insha Allah.

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For a standard person nowadays, it is extremely difficult to do what

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Imam has already did, he spent 10 years solitude that is why he is

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accomplished. Imam Rizzoli state has made me feel despondent on

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myself. How is it possible to do all of these things? It took him

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10 years. And he's writing this at the end of it. This beginning of

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guidance was written afterwards, when he retired to his hometown as

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far as I remember for his students, so this is a life

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for him, he was only 55 years of age some, some of us are older

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than him, but at the end of it that marked the end of his life

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and we just have to do as best as possible inshallah.

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You know, without what we're told is that this Deen you can't try to

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overcome it, you can't try to do too much. Because if you try to do

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much it will overwhelm you. So by keeping that in mind, insha Allah,

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Allah will take us close to whatever it was that he wants us

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to be like. And at the end of the day, if that doesn't work, but

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we've had good intention, and we've done our best, then the

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Mercy of Allah reign supreme.

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His mercy dominates everything. So we've got lots of things to eat,

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to hope for. If if our actions are never going to miss the Mercy of

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Allah, which is going to help us anyway. How do we attain that

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mercy?

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Not just

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By claims of it not just by claims of love for Rasulullah sallallahu

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Sallam but by actual trying our best said they do Watari Boo in

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Another version says we're up Shiro and accepted Glad Tidings

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are we held responsible for the thoughts that come into our mind

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sometimes I don't know whether they are my own thoughts or

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shaytans so I find myself questioning and worrying

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unnecessarily and keep going through in my mind over and over

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again.

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So, it depends on the thoughts the other might have split thoughts

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into five levels. You have heard just Harter Hadith knifes hum and

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Asan. So Hodges is a fleeting thought, just something that comes

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in mind without you

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thinking about it. Just some something came in your mind and

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then it disappeared. Just the thought crossed your mind just

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fleeting thoughts. hearted is when it's settled in your mind for a

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while, but then again, it disappeared. Hadith enough's is

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when you engage this thought, and you start thinking about it.

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And then you dispelled it. We're assuming that this is a bad

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thought here because this is what the question is. So a bad thought

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came through your mind and went another one stay for longer and

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then it went the third stages where you actually engage it

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thought about it contemplated it and they said no, no, haram haram

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Toba, Toba and left it out. Right. Hum is where you contemplated it

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even more you nearly plan to do it, you were inclined towards it.

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And then you managed to distance it. And Assam is where you resolve

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to do it. So you resolve to commit Zina, you planned it, you resolve

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to miss Fudger by purposely not setting your alarm clock, like I'm

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not going to do it. And I'm going to think that if Allah wakes me

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up, he wakes me up. It's like the guy who said, Do you pay somebody

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ask them do you pay Zakat is every I offer my zakat to Allah but he

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never takes it?

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How's that?

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That's a good idea that let's find out how do you do that? He says,

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Well, what I do on my second day is I take the cut amount, I throw

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it up and say well, I'll take whatever you want, give me back

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whatever you don't want.

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I don't know if that's a true story or not. But

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so

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as them, the other mentioned, the ISOM people, there is a difference

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of opinion about this, but as them is like full resolve to do

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something, then it was raining too much. So you couldn't go, you were

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gonna go to the club, or whatever it was commit Zina, etc. But then

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your friend didn't show up because he had an accident. So you're

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swearing at him.

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And you think it's really bad. But then after that, 10 years later,

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you thank Him that Alhamdulillah I saved I will save that day. So as

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is what it is. So now depends on what level of thought you're

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talking about. A lot of the time, if you take it to the level of

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Hadith enough, so you start conversing about it in your mind

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and you engage it, it becomes an obsession. For some people, this

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might be an OCD problem, extreme right, where they can't help it

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they need, they need medical treatment, and they need to do

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thicker as well. But the way to rest your case, is to do some

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formal vicar, preferably through a sheikh who can guide you in that

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regard was accomplished who understands the maladies of the

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hearts and who can prescribe certain things to you. But

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basically, if you're having a lot of these problems, depending on

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what level the problem is, they can really, really helps so many

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people. They've been through problems, griefs, setbacks in

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their life, divorces, whatever now they're feeling frightened or

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whatever. They do thicker within two weeks, that they're sleeping

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peacefully. So thicker is very powerful because the heart needs

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that and most of our problems today come from

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absence of Allah subhanaw taala in our hearts, they become dead. When

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you don't eat for many days, our body will become emaciated.

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Eventually we will die. Though we look after our physical bodies,

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when we don't do proper dhikr of Allah subhanaw taala Our hearts

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are dead we're carrying biologically they're alive, but

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spiritually, they're dead.

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And we're going around with it. And that's why the smallest things

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that affect us, we have no happiness in our life.

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We have no happiness in our life. And that's what the that's that's

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what the problem is. Then they complain that this is happening

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and that's happening and so on. Do vicar and remembrance of Allah

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subhanaw taala will will bring about great strength in our

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hearts.

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How do we perfect our Salah and protect ourselves from the devils

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that distract us while we pray? And how can we be sincere in our

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Salaat there's actually a video I have on zamzam Academy which

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discusses this in particular zamzam. academy.com there's a

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particular one that

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This how to develop concentration in prayer. But what I found to be

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beneficial is it goes back to our destructive lifestyles. It goes

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back to our destructive lifestyles when you have so much distraction.

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And we can't concentrate on something for too long, because

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our eyes are always roving around looking for something different.

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There's some people who can't even watch one, one program, they just

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they watch a bit, it gets a bit boring. So they turn to the next

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channel and then the next channel, The next channel, it just, we're

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just like that our brains are like that. So solid, we can't

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concentrate, it becomes very ritualistic. The only thing that I

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found to be beneficial, they're like, very beneficial is to do

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Morocco. Because we need to Morocco but you are concentrating

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your heart on Allah subhanaw taala.

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The one that I found to be beneficial is where you just cut

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everything from your mind and just focus that the Mercy of Allah is

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coming over your heart and washing away all the darkness and then

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your heart begins to say hola, hola, hola.

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You do that for five to 10 minutes and build it up 1520 minutes. If

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you become successful at this, your Salah will automatically

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become better because you will learn Allahu Akbar, you're

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standing in front of Allah

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and you will just have more concentration.

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But pondering over the words of what you read, learning the

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meanings of Surah Fatiha cut out a bit of Bill Fela Kurata bit

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openness whatever other suitors that you read Subhanallah that

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must be heard that the yards and focusing on that meaning that

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helps as well.

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So there's a number of things

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which which are beneficial. It's much more detailed on that.

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On that talk that we have on there.

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And any other questions?

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Allahu mantha Salam Inca Salam Tabarrok the other jewelry will

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Quran Allah who may or you Europa Yun bureaux Medina story. Allahu

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Mejia Hannah yum and Illa illa Anta so Hanukkah in condemning

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Allah do you mean?

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Just Allah Who Allahu I know Mohamed Allahumma salli wa salam

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ala Sayyidina Muhammad while earlier so you didn't know Mohamed

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Roberto Salam.

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O Allah, we extend these ponds out to you from these dirty huts. Oh

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Allah, Oh Allah, we plead in front of you, from these hearts which

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have been soiled with years and years of sin. Oh Allah, Oh Allah

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allow these words that we've read of this beloved servant of yours

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to penetrate our hearts, to allow us to understand it correctly and

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to imbibe it in ourselves. Oh Allah, Oh Allah, it's a struggle

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day in and day out as we as we live this life. There are so many

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challenges and there are so many fit and out there there are so

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many challenges and so many fit and out there. We want to be good

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we want to have st karma we find ourselves failing day in and day

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out. Oh Allah we ask you We beseech you that you make your

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obedience beloved to our hearts, so that we can avoid it so much.

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We can avoid disobedience so much more easily. Oh Allah and we ask

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that your your disobedience be made hated in our hearts so that

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we can avoid your disobedience? Oh Allah, Oh Allah bring your

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obedience close to us. Oh Allah grant us your love and the love of

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those who love you. Oh Allah, Oh Allah, we find ourselves failing

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every day. We find that we come into the masjid and we pray. We

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come into a class and we study we go out outside and one wrong look

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wipes out all the newer that we've just attained, wipes out all the

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benefit that we've just been given, oh Allah allow all the good

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that we do to to accumulate and to benefit us and to benefit our

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families when we get back home. Oh Allah your 30 was so beautiful,

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that the men they go to the masjid to pray and they bring back the

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* into the houses. But Allah we are failures in that regard. We

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make our Salat in the masjid and yet we don't take any of that note

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back. Oh Allah. Oh Allah purify our hearts and our gazes, our

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every aspect of our body of Allah the hadith of your messenger

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that he related from you that you make

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people, your close ones and your Olia that fulfill your obligations

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and that do the Nawab Phil Oh Allah make us of those of Allah

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because we can't be left to our own. We can't be left to our own

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knifes of Allah don't leave us to our own pneus of Allah you take

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charge of us. Oh Allah you take charge of us. Oh Allah we know

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were insincere servants. We have a lot of darkness in our heart. And

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these hands that are extended to you and these tongues which are

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which are speaking to you are soiled and dirty, but we have

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nobody else to ask. Even the worst of us when they make such that

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they make it in front of you and nobody else. Yeah, Allah Yeah, or

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hamara he mean, only you can we ask because there's nobody else to

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turn to our

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Are we've seen in this world that when a child becomes all soiled

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and nappies dirty, nobody wants to pick that child up that smelly

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child up. But the mother you've given her such a Rama and such

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mercy, that this mother will go and pick this child up and clean

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it, clean the child and make it smelling nice again, and we'll

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draw, draw this child close to her heart, Oh Allah, we are soiled

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with our sins were worse than that child. If the sins were to smell

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and the stench, nobody would come close to us. Nobody wants to pick

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us up. But Oh Allah, Oh Allah, we ask that you purify us, because

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you're Rama and Your Mercy knows no bounds of Allah, you've

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mentioned that your mercy, Your mercy is more than all the mercy

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that is available in the earth. Your rivers of Your mercy are

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constantly flowing, we ask for one drop of it to be given to us that

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would be sufficient for us, that will allow us to reach that will

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allow us to get close to you, that will allow us to be in the company

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of your messenger sallallahu alayhi wa salam, O Allah, your

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your mercy has been manifested in many ways. Oh, Allah give us the

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Tofig to understand that mercy and to seek that mercy from you. Oh,

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Allah, your messenger sallallahu alayhi wa salam. And so the Allahu

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Anhu for 10 years was in his service. And it mentions in the

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Hadith that not once did he tell him off? Not once did he turn him

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off? He must have done something wrong. He must have made a

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mistake. But your messenger had so much patience, so much compassion

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and so much mercy that he never once told him off. We see that as

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a reflection of your mercy. Yeah, Allah so we asked you to give us

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of that mercy. If your messenger SallAllahu Sallam could be so

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merciful, then your mercy is so much more than that. Use of

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Alehissalaam forgave his brothers despite the crime that they

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committed. The Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam forgave all the

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people of Makkah, despite all the aggression that came from them, we

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ask that you we hopefully we're not where we are not as bad as

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those people who, who aggressed against the Prophet sallallahu

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alayhi wasallam we're still your believers. We haven't blaspheme,

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do we? We haven't. We haven't denied you. We haven't ascribed

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partners to you of Allah. Our problem is our sin and our

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weakness, but we waste our time. We waste our time in redundant

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activities. We don't fulfill

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our time in the in the most useful ways we have in sincerity and our

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intention. Oh Allah, Oh Allah. Oh Allah we can expect much more from

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you. We can expect much more from you. Oh Allah we know we have this

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hope in you that you can give us all of these things. Oh Allah. Oh

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Allah don't turn us away because there's nobody else we can turn to

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if you turn us away. Oh Allah, the shower your blessings on the great

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people that have benefited us. Imam Ghazali and Chela Annie, and

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Immanuel, Josie and all our occur between all our elders, all people

00:32:54 --> 00:32:58

who have helped an O Allah, O Allah reward us, Oh Allah, what

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all the good intentions and this course was designed for and was

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convened for Oh Allah allow it to be accepted in the fullest of

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ways. Oh Allah take this institution and the organization

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that arranged this course and the venue and everybody associated

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look the same for Islam and everybody that's associated Oh

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Allah grant them great elevation in your in your sight or like

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random elevation in your sight. Remove any obstacles in the path

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and allow this to prosper and be a source of guidance for for for one

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and all of Allah we ask you to forgive us for any mistakes that

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have been made for any weaknesses. And Oh Allah, we asked you to

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grant us Baraka in our lives, Baraka in our lives that we turn

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away from here, with with full, full repentance and full

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purification of our heart with a new outlook to life, a more

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positive outlook to life and Allah that our life changes and we

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become more conscientious people. Oh Allah, Oh Allah accept our

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doors. And finally, we ask you one last thing that you send your

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abundant blessings in our messenger Muhammad sallallahu

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alayhi wa salam until the last day until people continue to send

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blessings. You continue to send blessings on our on our behalf and

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give us his company on the day of judgment and make the best day of

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our life the day that we stand in front of you Subhan Allah because

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Allah is here and you'll see food was more saline will hamdulillah

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