Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – A Message of Condolence for Our Friends in Texas

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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The speaker discusses the challenges of dealing with people in the first world country and how it can lead to failure. They emphasize the importance of educating oneself and finding out more about Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to become more confident in their beliefs. The speaker also emphasizes the need to be prepared for unexpected events and to learn more about the religion before making a decision.
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Our

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brothers and sisters

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and many others

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are being,

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they're suffering in

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Texas, for example. It's a really interesting,

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really kind of shocking

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situation that with all the pandemic and that's

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going on, really, people are stressed. And then,

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okay, when you're in India, Pakistan, or any

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other third, world country, you expect that the

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lights are gonna go off, and you've got

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kind of things in place to deal with

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that.

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Right? So you've got generators,

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and you can deal with it. Right? There's

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all backups and everything like that, and you're

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used to it, so there's no surprise element

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there. But when it happens to

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a first world country,

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place like Texas, where you don't generally get

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those kind of freezing weathers anyway because it's

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generally a warmer area.

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So you lose your lights, you lose your

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electricity, you lose your heating,

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subhanallah.

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You lose the water because the water is

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not from, you know, your natural sources that

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you just go and get it from a

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ground well. It's actually through a whole system,

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and all of that is gone. So now

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what's gonna happen? People have found it very

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tough. You know, I've heard from some people

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from their people. I found it very tough.

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But I think at the end of the

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day, with the our response to that for

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people I mean, just still as an example.

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Right? This could happen anyway. Our response to

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that should be that

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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, he brings whatever he

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wills. I mean, the the virus which,

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nobody expected that to affect so many. In

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our lifetime, we never expected that. These are

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things that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala wants to

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do. And we have to understand that they

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could be much worse.

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So this is this is nothing compared to

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what could have happened and what does happen

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in many other parts of the world. It

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should teach us empathy. It should teach us

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that we need to rely on Allah more

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than anything else. We've had reliance on all

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of these,

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organizations and all of these setups that we

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have and we relied on them. Well, this

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has just woken us up to the reality

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of this dunya, that you can't really rely

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on all of these things. Alhamdulillah, they work,

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they work. If they predictably work, alhamdulillah, we

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thank Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. But if they

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disappear, we need to be prepared for it.

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And the good thing about this is that

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if we're prepared for it and we deal

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with it with dignity in front of Allah

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Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and we do sabr for

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the few days or whatever it may be.

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Right? May Allah, you know, bring it back,

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then it's a source of huge reward. Otherwise,

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it's a source of punishment.

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So that's gonna be a punishment for some

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people who are freaking out and who don't

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know, so they're being punished by it. But

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for other people, it's a source of purification.

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It's a source of teskea. But the only

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way that you're gonna be able to deal

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with matters in life, you know, forget just

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Texas but anywhere, that anything that happens in

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life, the last 3 of our talks have

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been on this subject. Right?

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And they should be on Zamzam Academy soon

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if they're not there already. But the main

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thing is that we need to know Allah

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more. Once we know Allah more, it becomes

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much much easier to deal with

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unpredictable events, surprises in in our life, difficulties.

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It becomes just easier. Allah has given us

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a full vision, a full way, and a

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full paradigm to understand this. But if you

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don't know Allah, you don't know your religion

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well enough because you've been

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just, focused on building the dunya, developing the

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world, developing your businesses, developing your personal lives,

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you know, in terms of this world, then

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you're not we're not faced with these. And

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the biggest calamity we're gonna face is in

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the hereafter. It's gonna be on our deathbed,

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in fact. We have to be prepared for

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these things. So go and educate yourself. Take

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some classes of Islam about Islam from good

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you know, listening to motivation lectures is good.

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It just motivates you. But what's the next

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step?

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People need to understand that you can't just

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listen to religious lectures for the rest of

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your

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life. That's just first step.

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After that, you're supposed to go and take

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something, a class on fiqh, a class on

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aqidah, a class on spirituality,

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a class on the tawheed and oneness of

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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

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That will give you an understanding what the

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religion wants from us and what we need

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to be doing.

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That's why it's very rare. Take this opportunity

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to understand. And those who are not in

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Texas and other places, you know, the reason

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we use the example of Texas is because,

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you know, maybe a third world seems too

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far, but Texas seems like home. You know,

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that it could have happened in London. It

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could have happened in Birmingham. It could have

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happened in New York. It could have happened

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anywhere.

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So use this opportunity to get closer to

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Allah, to do Azkar, to remember him, to

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have that everyday

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connection with Allah and to learn more. Because

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only with learning more that you'll be inspired

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to do more.

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Right? And,

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you know, generally motivation lectures,

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they they talk about general ideas, general things.

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But you need to get more deeper

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into these things and into our religion. Make

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it yours. May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala make

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it easy

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and and, make this truly a source of

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purification, elevation, and remove the difficulties that we

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are all having. And may Allah allow us

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to be stronger believers than weaker believers.

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