Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Achieving Balance in a Greedy World

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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The speakers discuss the history and characteristics of the name Ford, including its origin in the UK and its use in various countries. They stress the importance of staying steadfast and achieving a balance in Islam, as it is crucial for achieving a balance in Islam. They also emphasize the benefits of a "has been made" module for the father's desire to wake up earlier, get a sense of one's, the need for a responsibility, and do a 100 prayer to brighten one's face, treating others with mercy and giving them love for their hearts. They emphasize the importance of helping others, being a compassionate person, and doing a 100 prayer to brighten one's face.
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al Hamdulillah

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Al Hamdulillah Hamden girthier on the Yemen Mubarak and fie Mubarak

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anally Cana your Hebrew Robina where Allah

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Jalla Jalla who I'm in a word or Salah to a Saddam or others a year

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they'll have evil Mustafa SallAllahu Taala either orally he

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won't, he will suffer me he or Baraka said limit asleep and

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girthier on Eli Yomi Dean bird called Allahu terracota Allah for

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the Quran and Maji they will for carnal Hamid in the livina call or

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a boon Allah semester Semesta calm Dennis sinuata human Mala Iike

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alerta Hafele what a Tarzan Bashir will be the Jin Atilla T quantum

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to our dune nano Alia Oh, Conville hayati dunya Orfila Hera welcome

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fee Tasha he and Fuso calm water configure method their own Newsela

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min or foodie Rahim. So the Allahu Halim

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My dear respected brothers and sisters. Nice to be in your midst

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today. One of the first Masjid centers I've come to in a long

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time, which actually has a very nice smell. Mashallah.

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Actually, I was in last week, and they've got a wonderful Masjid.

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They've built a beautiful Masjid purpose built and everything. And

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they said mashallah, you've paid attention to everything.

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But the one thing we still need to pay attention, it wasn't smelling

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bad. But it wasn't smelling bad. Don't get me wrong. But there is

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car manufacturers.

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Not only do they focus on the design and the performance, they

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actually also focus on the sound the car makes. So the Jaguar needs

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to have a wild British aggressive sound. In the roar of its ending,

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there's a whole there's a whole

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science that goes behind this, and you've got the American Mustang

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and that kind of raus you know, there's a specific sound, I mean,

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how engines they tune them to make certain sounds because that is

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also part of the experience. And not only the sound, but then they

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also have the smell of leather. When it's processed and tanned it

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pretty much loses any smell of leather doesn't end up smelling

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like leather anymore with all the chemicals they use. They but when

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you get into a car, a brand new car has got leathers in there. You

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do get that smell of leather. They actually that's again, specially

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manufactured smell fragrance that's put in there. The other

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some some months ago, I have a relative up in the north in

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Yorkshire who has a bed factory. So I went into his showroom and

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there was a really nice smelling smell like textile, or cloth or,

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you know, mattresses actually had a very nice fragrance is what is

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this? So apparently had a dispenser.

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And these are professional, not the glade ones that you use. These

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are professional dispenses for places like this. And that's what

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they use in hotels. That's why when you walk into a hotel, it

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smells nice, even though if they didn't have those disciplines, it

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smelled very bad. It was so close to throw back in some of those

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passages. So mustards definitely we need that additional because

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look at the end of the day there.

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This is not somebody might say, Well, that's all artificial. It's

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about the spirit of it. Yes, it is about the spirit, but there are we

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as human beings that we are impressed, influenced by many of

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the things around us. And if I was to give you one example from

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history, we had a very great scholar in Baghdad around the

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seventh eighth century, was named was able forge Abner Josie, great

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humbly scholar, a prolific writer, he wrote so much in his life that

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in those days, they used to use the pens made of cane, you know,

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handmade pens. So he had actually saved the shavings of his pen

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manufacturer process. And he had written so much in his life, that

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the shavings from his pen throughout his life was sufficient

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to boil the water for his funeral bath.

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Right, so you're talking about a really great scholar, and he was

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so focused, so in his gatherings in his speeches, 100,000 People

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used to attend.

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We're talking about Baghdad of the time, that's the Dowdell Khilafah

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that's like, you know, the center of the Muslim world throughout and

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you had 100,000 people attend, and that's who he would speak to. And

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he used to use a lot of poetry.

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To create more impact. Poetry in any language is considered to be

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the highest form of articulation in that language. And to write

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poetry to compose poetry, you need to have to have a great mastery of

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the language because you need to in

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employ the right terms appropriate to give the right impact and

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effect. So you have to really try hard to make sure it's very

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succinct, very comprehensive, very impactful. And that's why a person

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could sometimes speak for two hours. But one poem placed in the

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right place will be remembered more by the listeners than the

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whole speech put together. That's how impactful poetry is. So he,

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his, he used to have a lot of, he used to have people crying in his

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gatherings, he used to have people, you know, he could really

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influence the people a lot. But then he, at one time, he felt that

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this was all artificial. So he has this great book, which he calls

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seydel, hotter. For those who understand Arabic, Satan, hotter

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means

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capturing your thoughts, hunting down your thoughts, side means

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hunted animal, something that you you capture. And basically,

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that's, you can say, the precursor to Twitter. So he was literally

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tweeting, in a sense, but not to the whole world yet, you have to

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wait until it was all put together. Right? Today, you got

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people who have 70 followers, but they got 20,000 tweets.

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You've got people who've got 300 followers, and they've got 60,000

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tweets, and I'm like, How do you say so much? How do you talk so

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much?

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Oh, I just saw these shoes. And then you got a picture of a shoe.

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They were walking down to town. And they saw somebody, I saw the

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shoes? Oh, that's so cute. You know? Subhanallah it's like, how

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do you say so much? I have Twitter. And I'm like, at a loss

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of what to say because I want to make sure I'm not wasting people's

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time. I want to make sure what I say is right, and I'm not going to

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be accountable for it. Because it's getting around the world. And

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the Prophet said Allah Islam has said and all of these things have

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been premeditated, you know, the bozos and said that sometimes

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somebody may say something without much regard.

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It goes around the world, and it takes this person * into

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hellfire, deep down into hellfire

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have to be very careful, because we will be questioned for

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everything we say. So anyway, going back to our fellowship, no,

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Josie, he,

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he had all of these thoughts. So he would observe things and put

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down his reflection. So one of his reflections was that one time I

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came, I began to think that my lectures were artificial. I should

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keep to Quran and Sunnah. No poetry, none of that, you know,

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strategies to get people to wake up and listen, then I found that

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it wasn't having the same effect. They seem dry now. Then I realized

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that if the objective is correct, which is that if the objective is

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to get people to be close to Allah subhanaw taala. And you do that by

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using poetry, or by using anything halal, then Subhanallah then

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that's completely fine. Because the the objective is to get to

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Allah. And human beings were very interactive. We were social

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creatures, human beings are social creatures. That's why according to

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Imam Abu Hanifa, at least, it's not considered to be encouraged to

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go and become a hermit. In Islam. There's no hermit shoot anyway.

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There's no celibacy. Right.

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But in general, he considers it to be superior to live among people

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and still be able to be steadfast. That's the challenge if you're

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alone in your house, and yes, in times of great fitna, we do have

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where at the end of times there are other Hadith about that not

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withstanding those in general times, so it's not artificial to

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have a nice smell when you go into a masjid you'll actually feel

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better in your salats

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is no doubt about you know, it shouldn't be too much he you know,

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the embellishment shouldn't be too much that you get a bit confused

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as to what's going on here. Right where do I focus my eyes? I'm not

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sure your copied is quite rich in terms of its design.

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But what I'm saying is these things are not artificial you

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know, they're not always obvious we've been told not to embellish

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the mustard too much that stuff all over the place. I mean, one of

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the messages I prayed he's got eight colors in there.

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The ceilings got about three colors the carpets totally

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different the walls have another two three colors. And according to

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any design, the maximum uses three colors. Generally two colors and

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one just for the embellishment, you know, just for kind of like

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finishes.

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So

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anyway, I hope that's not been useless.

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hamdulillah it's good. It's good. I'm just trying to say that indeed

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they need this there is an concept of richness. We are influenced

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from everyone and we can't help that. So then the masjid

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needs to be the best place of their influence. And subhanAllah I

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when I was in America, I was in Houston once. And downtown Houston

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there was the, what used to be the Houston the National Bank of

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Houston, or the Central Bank of Houston or something like that.

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They sold that property and there was this Nigerian basketball

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player, very famous guy called Hakeem Olajuwon. Right? And if

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suddenly you remember him, mashallah, he'd done some great

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work, he purchased that building and made it into a masjid. So

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downstairs, you had the big vault with that big round

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door, which they'd maintained but they'd made that a library. You

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know, that was the one Masjid that they offered you mouthwash

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in the workplace right. Now, I don't know if that's going a bit

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over the top. But it was just this idea of being pure and clean.

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Right? And there was a nice smell in that place as well Mashallah.

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We keep our home smelling nice. So why not the masjid Hamdulillah.

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Now, the point is, everything I'm saying right now is basically on

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our topic. It's all to do with our topic. It's about living Islam in

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this modern world, and trying to achieve a balance steadfastness.

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The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Call men to Billahi

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Thumma stalk him, say I believe in Allah declare your faith, I

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believe in Allah and then stay steadfast. Staying steadfast is

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the difficulty. Because staying steadfast means the example of

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steadfastness in this world is going to be reflected in the

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hereafter on that bridge that causeway over Jahannam, which

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everybody will have to pass, as straight fast as steadfast a

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person has been in this world, that is how they will cross that

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bridge in the hereafter. If they've not had any deviances of

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left and right extremism or short shortcoming. There's always two

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aspects of extremism and shortcoming. Then they will be on

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that bridge, they will get over it, and they'll go into Jannah.

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But if I was to bring you the expressions, the definitions of

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the scholars of the past of how they've defined is the karma.

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It's very complex. It's very complex. But there is a great

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reward promise for those who try to stay steadfast. That's why

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Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran, in the Lavina, Kalu, Rob

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Boone, Allah

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Verily, those, indeed those who say that our Lord is Allah, so you

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have to be proud of your faith.

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To be a good believer, you can't be hiding your faith.

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That's the challenge.

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A lot of people in this day and age in this current climate of

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aggression against the Muslims, the spread of

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animosity towards Islam, there are a lot of people who are Muslims by

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birth.

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And unfortunately, because they haven't had the opportunity for

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whatever reason whether the parents are to be blamed for that,

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or themselves or to be blamed for that, they haven't had an

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opportunity to really understand Islam, well, they happen to find

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themselves in a Muslim household, they haven't really taken on the

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faith for themselves, they feel a kind of a connection with it

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because of their forefathers, which is a an influential factor

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to a certain degree, but they don't know what it means to be a

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Muslim. Now, that's confusing enough. But what then happens is

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constantly in the media, we are being attacked, left, right and

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center about these Muslims here doing this, and a certain group of

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Muslims doing this somewhere else, and made it's made to look bad,

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it's sensationalized. And it's just made to provoke fear.

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instability. So a lot of there's a lot of Muslims out there,

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unfortunately, who are on the brink. They don't know where to

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go. They feel if this is my faith, which is not it is not their

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faith. But that's what they don't have any other source.

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One day in Santa Barbara, California, where I was the imam

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for eight years.

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I'd been there for at least six years. And then I did an

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interview, or I did a program and it came in the papers. And this

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Muslim family who had been there for many, many years with children

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didn't even know Masjid existed.

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They only found out when I had an interview in the local newspaper.

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So then they come to the masjid and say, you know, we want our

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children to learn something. They didn't know the embassy existed.

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And it's not like we were hidden. You know, it wasn't a we were

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hidden. We were fighting for, to get permits to build a new place

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for for so many years. We'd been in the media so many times. You

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could just check Islamic Society of Santa Barbara in there, you

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know, but

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we're so busy in our world sometimes that the religion comes

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second, because we're so engrossed in it. And that's why if not, I

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thought Allah says, if not, I thought he loved his country. He

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says don't be like

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For those who understand how to do the corluka bill, right, which

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means basically, the ox that drives the mill goes around and

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round. If not auto, Allah says, Don't make your life like that,

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that your end place is your starting place, you haven't

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progressed at all, you've just gone round full circle. And

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unfortunately our lives in many cases are like that. What is our

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life? How do you define our life today? Subhan Allah for most of

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us, isn't it just about

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making sure that our clothing, our appliances, our gadgets remain

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updated, and we remain up to date.

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Because this year, I have to update my phone. Next year, I have

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to update my appliance. And the next year, and every year, I have

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to update my clothing.

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There's a new bag out, I must get it. There's a new, whatever, I

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must get it. So we're constantly in pursuit of this because things

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become old. So we need to get something new. Nobody worries

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about mending anything anymore. It's all about disposal and

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getting something new. The amount of wastage recreating this country

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is amazing. It's totally SubhanAllah. I don't know if we're

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gonna be questioned for it. But it's, we waste a huge amount of

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things. We have perfectly fine things but we get more.

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And

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subhanAllah I just think that this thing about things becoming old

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and worn out and something new this is to be a lesson for us.

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It's not for indulgence, it's like, if this is happening to

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everything around you, then it's going to happen to you as well,

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because you are also a product of this world SubhanAllah. And that's

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why

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these are signs for us. These are signs for us that if this is going

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to wither away and become bad one day, it's going to happen to us.

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And what is the dua when you lose something?

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What's the DUA to read? What's the expression we should say? In early

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law, he were in a urology room. And we thought about it's not some

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kind of magical formula that we just say, without understanding.

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What does it mean? I am for Allah, I belong to Allah, myself, I've

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just lost something. I had an accident, somebody died, may Allah

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prohibits. But

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if that happens, then I think to myself, I belong to Allah as well.

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And I'm going to return to him as well. So if this has gone, I'm

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gonna go as well. It's just some more time.

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So the only way, I've been thinking about this for such a

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long time, how do we gain a stick on?

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How do we stay steadfast in this world, with everything that's

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attracting us, everything that's occupying us, everything that's

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keeping us busy, that's the world today. We don't want to be busy.

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Nobody wants to go to work. Meaning you'd rather have a good

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time at home. But we're constantly occupied.

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With everything, I get a call, I get an email from someone that

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I've got a particular phone.

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Is it a Samsung Note? Right? I've got a Samsung Note. But my

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friends, they're gonna make fun of me because I don't have an iPhone,

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or he had another Samsung. And he didn't want to buy an iPhone. But

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the pressure is making him by one. And he is asking the question,

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What should I do? Now I had to give him confidence that what you

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have is an ATM of Allah itself. Note three is not a bad phone. I

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don't mind one myself. Right. But you know what I mean? It's like,

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you don't have to have an iPhone.

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You know, and sometimes it's the other way around. So I mean, I

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found he's losing it right now. And I mean, there are other

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companies and Hamdulillah. But a competition is healthy.

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But what I'm trying to say is that there's this pressure. And that's

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an example of this individual, everybody has pressure. Everybody

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has pressure of some sort of the other to conform to something. Now

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if that pressure is to conform to the religion, and the pressure is

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from Allah Alhamdulillah we always have two pressures. We're always

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in that. We're always in that turbulence. One is, what am I

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doing for Allah? And the other is what do I need to do for others?

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We're constantly in that dilemma. And that's our life. Are we going

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to die like that? Subhan Allah, Allah help us, Allah help us. So

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today what I speak about I just thoughts, reflections, ideas to

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make us think because

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giving solutions you know, this is something people are gonna have to

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personalize. I'm gonna have to

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doesn't mean people are gonna have to think for themselves. Everybody

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has a unique situation.

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Everybody here is unique in the way the fitness effects them in

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the way that challenges affect them. Everyone is different. Yes,

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there are many commonalities, but we're all different. So these are

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all thoughts. And I'm not saying I'm perfect in this regard. This

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is just purely my reflections of this world that we live in. And Al

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Hamdulillah, we are enjoying prosperity.

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Everybody is sitting here. How many of you are sitting here with

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clothes that you don't really want on? Because it's a handout and

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because it's something that you have to it's your older brother or

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somebody or you have to buy from a secondhand store? How many of you,

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how many of us sitting here are in that state? There may be but you

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know, just put your hand up a bit. So you don't have to tell

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everybody if you don't want. I'm sure most of us if not all of us

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are sitting here with the clothing that they buy their choice

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purchased.

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By their choice purchased, this is what I want. It's this brand. It's

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this style. It's this, this is what I want.

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Now, isn't that a nerim of Allah, that we can actually have what we

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want.

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That's amazing. That's a great bounty of Allah subhanaw taala.

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We have to be constantly thankful to Allah subhanho wa Taala the

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Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was once asked about the

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challenges to come, which they call fitna fitness a kind of a

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confusing word to translate because it depends on the context.

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But in this context, it means a challenge, mean something that is

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going to attract you away from your deen. That's basically what a

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fitna is. All right.

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So there's the fitna of Daraa, the fitna of adversity, where you have

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little and there are people in the world who are unfortunately going

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through that.

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May Allah relieve them.

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And then that the Prophet Allah son was asked in this hadith in,

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in Muslim, then what about after that? He says yes, then it will be

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fitna to Sarah, then will come the fitna of prosperity.

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Wealth will come from under your feet,

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means you will be floating in the stuff.

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And today people have disposable income. Whether you really own the

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money or not is a different case. But you got credit cards, one

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doesn't work, the next one will

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then you just say you're bankrupt. You know, it's we've got ability.

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We're living in a false economy, though. We're living in a bubble

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at every level. It's a bubble.

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There is no I mean, the debt in this country is huge. It goes in

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the trillions. I were living in the gym, do you know that? And

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yet, mashallah, we can still go around the world, like arrogant

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people, you know, thinking we're in control of things. And yet, if

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you look around, we've got a massive problem, economy,

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economically

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massive problem. We all are still borrowing. I don't know how to how

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to balance that out. And it's not just this country, there's very

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few countries who are fine.

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They're the ones who are being attacked, actually. Which is

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really a weird situation of this world, because you guys need to be

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in the same boat as us. But it's just to make us think that the

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only reason I say this is just that we're part of the system. So

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are we also going to act in the same way on a micro scale? This is

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what's happening on a macro level, are we also going to act like this

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on a micro scale? Are we also going to be part of the false

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economy and put ourselves into it?

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SubhanAllah.

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Today, if you do business studies, MBA, etc. What you're taught is to

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make a business plan, find investors get a lot of money, put

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some stocks, whatever, get huge amounts of money, you're pretty

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much using other people's money. And you don't know where that

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money goes. When the stock goes down. I still wonder where that

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money goes, sometimes, you know, you buy some stock, and then

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suddenly, the money's gone, the stock just goes down. The big

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hype. That's crazy. People put money in there, that money is

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gone. Suddenly, that goes into the ground. Where did it go? Anyway,

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that's another story. I may be a bit ignorant on that subject

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anyway. But the point is

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that you want to do business businesses as soon as you want to

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do business in which you can sleep at night that you don't have a

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debt.

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Let me give you a short example of one of the sahaba.

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And now don't get me wrong, I'm not against having money. Because

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if you look at the 10 that were that were guaranteed Jana, I

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showed Mr. Bashara out of them. You had four of them that were

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millionaires, billionaires, extremely wealthy. In fact, aside

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from a boat or be the liberal gyro,

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the others were decently well off. They

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chose Amara didn't chose poverty but that's a different story. But

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you never had like Abu Huraira and others in the top 10 In a sense,

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they were great but they weren't in the mashallah mashallah

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Taha ignore Obaidullah, Zubaydah Osman ignore affirm, and

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Abdurrahman, even out of these were multimillionaires.

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Abdul Rahman himself very interesting Sahabi. And among the

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Sahaba,

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anybody today, if they want to find a role model, they'll find

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one in the sahaba. If you're a wealthy guy, you will find one in

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the sahaba. If you're poor, you will find the poor,

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your strong, you'll find that if you're an influencing person, if

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you're a maverick kind of individual, you'll find that kind

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of a person among this, if you're a follower, you'll find that among

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us, but if you follow the Sahaba, and you take the color that data

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consider that Allah woman asadmin, Allah is similar, then you will be

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successful. And that's the whole point of this sample that Allah

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gave us in the Sahaba, specially chosen selection, that had the

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same diversity that would be available in any community, but

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how they were all going to be successful because of what they

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did. It's a poor person, they took the emaan, to give them the

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patience and contentment with Allah's decree. And they went

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through this world, but they have successful in the hereafter. If

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they're wealthy, they did not allow the wealth to, to influence

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them the way wealth generally influenced. Now remember, wealth

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is not intrinsically a bad thing. It's not like some a snake. Yes,

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it has the potential. Generally, when you mix wealth with a human

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being, there's a certain short circuit that takes place, and the

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dean kind of gets fizzled out. It's I mean, I hate to give this

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example, but it's a very appropriate example.

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We have the mother in law daughter in law problems in our

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communities. And don't tell me you don't know about them. Right. Now,

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the thing, my observation after dealing with so many of these

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cases, if you take the mother in law, and look at her separately

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among the community, she's a perfectly decent individual, no

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problems. If you look at the daughter in law, again, she's a

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decent individual, independently speaking, you put those two

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together, and something happens.

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Not all the time. But you know what I'm saying that something

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happens, but you put them apart and they're fine. And our

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communities don't know how to put leave them apart.

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There's, we have some weird culture issues of having to be

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together, but we can't be together. It's like trying to

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unite opposites. And as opposites of magnets, it's just this real

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weird situation we're in.

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And generally speaking, I mean, I know have gone on to another

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subject. But generally speaking, as some of the greatest the aroma

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today are saying, it's the people who are bringing in the daughter

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in law who are normally the oppressors,

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the daughter in laws, oh, sometimes they're the oppressors

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as well, they're to blame. But most of the time, it's those who

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bring them in, because they have everything to their advantage.

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They're set, they set the scene. But again, their individual cases

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like that, but similarly in that kind of a situation, money, and

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people, it starts corrupting them. Unless they've got special

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fortification and their focus is on Allah, then that money will not

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do anything, then that money suddenly becomes gold in your

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hands. That's why the prophets and the lawyers have said, so great is

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pure wealth in the hands of a pious individual. Because you need

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money today. That's why the prophets of Allah Islam in the

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Hadith, where he said that there's two people who can compete, law

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has said the fifth, fifth and attain, there are two categories

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of people that can compete. One is the one with knowledge, and the

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other one is the one with money, as long as they're competing for

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the sake of Allah subhanaw taala. That's where the true competition

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lies only because both of these people can benefit one to educate,

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and the other one, to build and to inhibit, and to develop, and so

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on, you need both of these to come together. So wealth is very

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important. In fact, the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, there's a

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hadith that there will come a time when the only thing that will be

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of benefit or will speak will, you know will have any influence is

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dinars, underarms. And that's why one of the database in lathe Hypno

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said I believe was Sophia and Ignalina one of them Sophia and

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authority, or Sophia Medina, one of them, he said that if it wasn't

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for the worlds that I've been endowed with, then these, these

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rulers, the Omega bassins of the time, they would have literally

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treated me like nothing. But I've got respect today because I have

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my own wealth. They can't just order me around the way they want

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to. So well does give you a level of autonomy, but then there's this

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balance that you have to have with it. So now look at Abdurrahman

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Alfredo, and I believe doing business this way will give you

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more baraka and it's less prone to problems.

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He left a

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briefing from Makkah mukarram he's a Mahajan. He is one of the first

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seven to become Muslim. He was one of the friends of Abu Bakr, Siddiq

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or the Alon him Earthman. Set web workers, Zubaydah because they

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used to get these two they have friends with Abu Bakr, Siddiq

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Rodial. So when over Cardinal became Muslim, he mentioned to

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them he said, Yeah, absolutely, you know, if you Abu Bakr was well

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respected, right, we will accept it. So he was one of the first to

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become a Muslim. Now, remember, these people had been in Mecca

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macabre for centuries. These These were estate owners, how long is

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our history in this country? How long do we go back? 40 years, 50

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years maximum 60 years maybe somebody's you know, really been

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here for a long time. Right. But if you look at the Spencer's and

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the Windsors and all that they go back here for centuries, right?

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They're the big landowners. So can you imagine taking them people

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like them out of the country? Telling them go somewhere else and

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leave everything abandon everything? You'll never see it

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again? How difficult is that? It'd be difficult for us to go and

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we've only probably only own a house and a car.

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Right? Can you imagine? So they were told to leave everything so

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you really have to understand the sacrifice of these marjorine Then

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the profit center Lauridsen put the put a Mahajan, one of the my

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emigrants together with

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one of the unsolved now the unsolved.

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They've got everything, but they're giving away half of

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they're so sad. No, Robbie was the one who was important that as a

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brother with Abdurrahman, Dybdahl for the Allah on the process and

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put the two together. Side of Nairobi, Tolo Abdullah motive now

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as soon as he was brought together with him, he says, An authorial

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Ansari, Merlin, I am

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the richest of the answer, I have the most wealth, you take half of

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my wealth. I've got two wives.

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Whichever one you want.

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Right. Now, this is you might think, How can somebody do that

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with their wife? You've only got one? I mean, you can't do that

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with your wife. Right? You got? It's the level of SEC, how can you

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do that with your world? Forget it. This has got nothing to do

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with feminism or, you know, it's got nothing to do with that. If

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you if the guy if he's saying that I've got two waves, which one do

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you want? I'll divorce her and then you can after she's out of a

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waiting period, then you know, you can marry her. If you're, you

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know, you might think that's how can somebody do that? Well, how

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can you give half of your wealth away?

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It's the level of sacrifice here that we're talking about. It's

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another level they're going to where they just for the sake of

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Allah, you know? Now, of course, the wife will have to agree, you

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know, that they will have to agree and all that. That's another part.

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But I just want to clarify, because I know that what will

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happen with some people, they'll think, How can you do that to his

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wife, you know,

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we can't do that to ours, we only have one we want to stick with our

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wives, we're gonna go to gender to them inshallah. And the waves want

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to stick with their husbands. In fact, that's the only relationship

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that's going to be together in Ghana. So you better make it good

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in this world. Right? Because who you're going to be engendered in

00:33:06 --> 00:33:09

paradise with your spouse, not with your mother, not with your

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father, not with your son, not with your daughter, not with your

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friend. Yes, you can visit, but husband and wife are going to be

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together in Ghana. So make sure you're fine with your husband and

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wife, you know, your spouse in this world. So

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Abdurrahman mouth, he could have said, Yeah, that's a great deal.

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You know, I've just moved in that sorted I'm sorry. No, is that

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Baraka? lofi Malika Alec, may Allah give you Baraka, in your

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world, and in your family.

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Just tell me where the market is.

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He went to the market. And that same day, he already bought back

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some foodstuff, some cheese and some butter or something. And this

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is the way he started his business. Now I'm going to tell

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you his secrets.

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And he's secretly such

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that there came a time when he said I can spend in the path of

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Allah in the morning this much and Allah will give me 10 times that

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amount at nights.

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Once he gave 500 horses in the path of Allah, the next time you

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get 1500 horses in the path of Allah, do you know what 1500

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horses are worth?

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Each horse is worth a few 1000

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We're not talking. This is not a small amount here. Can you even

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give you a kind of path of Allah one car that's worth 5000 10,000

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pounds? Can you even do that? Unless it's a bank and you don't

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want to get rid of it? Right? And you want to get tax write off or

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something? Then you donate it to someone you know, like his. He

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gave huge amounts of money. This is how we started off.

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In fact, when he when he became ill, and he thought he was going

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to pass away. Immediately he gave 1/3 of his entire wealth in the

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feasibility Allah.

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Now to give it to write that it be in the path of Allah after you die

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is one

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But it's much more difficult to give it while you're still alive

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because most people will think I'm still gonna get I may become

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better and there's many people who think they're gonna die and then

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suddenly they become better and live for another 1020 years. So

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many people like that. So for a person still to give away his

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wealth, even 1/3 of his wealth while he's alive is a massive, now

00:35:18 --> 00:35:23

he gave away 1/3 of his wealth and his wealth was in the millions.

00:35:24 --> 00:35:28

You understand from this? Then after that, after he gave 1/3

00:35:28 --> 00:35:34

away? Now he said that every buddy Sahabi every sahabi, who is who

00:35:34 --> 00:35:39

took part in the Battle of burden that was originally 313 or three

00:35:39 --> 00:35:43

and 15 Sahaba. So there must have been about 250 300 left at that

00:35:43 --> 00:35:48

time, however many they were left, every one. They're gonna get 6000

00:35:48 --> 00:35:49

leaners 6000 dinars.

00:35:51 --> 00:35:57

6000 dinars is a huge amount. 20 dinars today is valued at 2000

00:35:57 --> 00:35:59

pounds. That's the goal of nisab

00:36:01 --> 00:36:05

20 dinars, which is the goal nisab after which have to basic art is

00:36:05 --> 00:36:10

worth 2000 pounds to 20 dinars. So 6000 dinars, what are we talking

00:36:10 --> 00:36:10

about?

00:36:12 --> 00:36:15

I'm going to give that to everybody. Sahabi

00:36:16 --> 00:36:21

even Earthman, or the Alon came to take his share. Somebody said to

00:36:21 --> 00:36:24

the thunder, why do you need to take it was one of the I was

00:36:24 --> 00:36:28

loaded? He's the other million in a multimillionaire. Why do you

00:36:28 --> 00:36:34

need it? He said, How the merlon How Hala loompa YouTube. This is

00:36:34 --> 00:36:38

pure wealth. This is not sadaqa. He's not giving it a sadhaka. He's

00:36:38 --> 00:36:43

giving it a Silla to tie the bones of kinship. That's why he's giving

00:36:43 --> 00:36:45

it he's not giving it a Southerner, this is not for poor.

00:36:45 --> 00:36:48

This is for because many of the batteries are becoming wealthy.

00:36:48 --> 00:36:51

This is another reason he's giving you so I'm going to take his

00:36:51 --> 00:36:52

blessing in that wealth.

00:36:54 --> 00:36:58

Then what happened is, when he actually passed away, he had three

00:36:58 --> 00:37:02

wives, he left three wives behind. How much does the wife get?

00:37:04 --> 00:37:06

It when the husband passes away? How much does the wife received

00:37:06 --> 00:37:10

from his estate? Okay, they receive if there's no children,

00:37:11 --> 00:37:15

they receive one quarter. All right. And if they have children,

00:37:15 --> 00:37:18

then they receive one, eight, because you expect the children to

00:37:18 --> 00:37:23

look after him as well. Right? So they get 1831. Now, if you got if

00:37:23 --> 00:37:25

a person has more than one wife, they have to share in that they

00:37:25 --> 00:37:28

don't each get one eight. So that's probably one good reason

00:37:28 --> 00:37:32

why women don't want co wives. That's not the reason believe me.

00:37:32 --> 00:37:36

That's not the reason that's that they don't care about that. I want

00:37:36 --> 00:37:38

the money. I just don't want you to have another wife and have the

00:37:38 --> 00:37:43

right to do that. Right. It's it's autonomy. That's necessarily what

00:37:43 --> 00:37:49

they want. Anyway, each one of his wives just cash. They received

00:37:49 --> 00:37:52

liquid wealth and just dinars dinner their homes, been as they

00:37:52 --> 00:37:57

received. Each of them received 80,000 dinars. Three of them got

00:37:57 --> 00:38:03

80,000 Each, which makes it 240,000 dinars of just liquid

00:38:03 --> 00:38:07

wealth, which was which total to 1/8 of his estate.

00:38:09 --> 00:38:12

That was besides the camels and the real estate and the goats and

00:38:12 --> 00:38:16

sheep and everything else that he owned. Just the wealth that he had

00:38:16 --> 00:38:23

was that 1/8 of it amounted to 240,000 dinars gold coins, gold

00:38:23 --> 00:38:23

pieces.

00:38:24 --> 00:38:27

So what kind of money there Yeah, but

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Subhanallah this is, you see, look at the difference between him and

00:38:33 --> 00:38:36

somebody who gets their first nice car.

00:38:38 --> 00:38:43

And I don't want to stereotype but you haven't you just got a nice

00:38:43 --> 00:38:47

new dress or you got a nice new Louis Vuitton bag. Now the thing

00:38:47 --> 00:38:50

is that everybody's carrying a Louis Vuitton bag nowadays, I

00:38:50 --> 00:38:53

don't even know what the big deal is anymore. Right? So don't get

00:38:53 --> 00:38:55

one you don't need to it's not a big deal anymore.

00:38:56 --> 00:38:58

Just get a practical handbag.

00:39:00 --> 00:39:06

So a guy's got a nice suit. He just got a canali Giorgio Armani,

00:39:07 --> 00:39:09

right. Suit.

00:39:10 --> 00:39:14

And he's walking down he's very conscious. The woman is very

00:39:14 --> 00:39:19

conscious. I've got this suit on what reaction is it going to

00:39:19 --> 00:39:19

provide?

00:39:20 --> 00:39:24

And so hon Allah we're so into bling bling today that even the

00:39:24 --> 00:39:24

Khalifa.

00:39:27 --> 00:39:28

The so called Khalifa.

00:39:30 --> 00:39:31

Even he has a nice watch.

00:39:33 --> 00:39:34

What was it?

00:39:35 --> 00:39:37

Was it a Rolex? I don't know what it was.

00:39:39 --> 00:39:43

Allah, I mean, I don't want to judge but mashallah, everybody's

00:39:43 --> 00:39:47

into it. My watch. Alhamdulillah is a nice citizen I've had for

00:39:47 --> 00:39:51

about no joke about 17 years. Somebody gave me this as a gift

00:39:51 --> 00:39:55

and it's still running Hamdulillah 17 years citizens are quite good.

00:39:56 --> 00:39:58

But what I'm trying to say is that we're so into this. This is the

00:39:58 --> 00:39:59

world that we're around it

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But when you've got something like that on, it attracts attention.

00:40:05 --> 00:40:07

When it stops attracting attention, you buy another one.

00:40:09 --> 00:40:11

That's the nature. That's the way we deal with these things. That

00:40:11 --> 00:40:16

means it's become old. When that next Amazon order comes through

00:40:17 --> 00:40:20

the excitement you have the pleasure you have opening that

00:40:20 --> 00:40:24

box. Once you've done in, you've taken it out, it's finished. Now

00:40:24 --> 00:40:27

you have to order it again. You have to do the whole thing again.

00:40:27 --> 00:40:31

Isn't that how we feel? How do we deal with these things? This is

00:40:31 --> 00:40:34

what I'm this is the challenge of today. This is the challenge of

00:40:34 --> 00:40:38

today. Mass consumerism, mass consumerism.

00:40:39 --> 00:40:43

A poor sister she contacted me the other day by email she saying, I

00:40:43 --> 00:40:44

just can't help shopping.

00:40:46 --> 00:40:49

I go online so many times a day and and then I go to town so many

00:40:49 --> 00:40:52

times a day. And I don't know if you guys understand going to town.

00:40:52 --> 00:40:55

It's a very northern thing in London is like going to the city

00:40:55 --> 00:41:00

downtown. City Center, West End, but in up north is going to town.

00:41:01 --> 00:41:04

So then I was like I have to help her. So I told her a few things.

00:41:04 --> 00:41:05

And then I said okay,

00:41:06 --> 00:41:09

maybe next week, just let me know how many times you've been in the

00:41:09 --> 00:41:12

last week. So when you have to answer to somebody, it's somebody

00:41:12 --> 00:41:13

I know well, so

00:41:15 --> 00:41:19

she still went twice, and reduced the online but because she'd been

00:41:19 --> 00:41:21

very busy because she was traveling, but she still went to

00:41:21 --> 00:41:26

town twice. It's just a shopper to be Shopaholic is a massive

00:41:26 --> 00:41:29

problem. Both men and women did they have a problem with this?

00:41:30 --> 00:41:33

Once you get into it, and you don't understand what is the real

00:41:33 --> 00:41:36

substance of life, then you just go behind these things.

00:41:38 --> 00:41:42

So massive problem. So you got a nice car now you're there's a

00:41:42 --> 00:41:45

smirk on your face. People you know what, what are they thinking

00:41:45 --> 00:41:48

about me? You're not really focused on your driving. You're

00:41:48 --> 00:41:51

focused on what people are watching what seeing what not

00:41:51 --> 00:41:54

everybody is like that. But this is generally what money does to

00:41:54 --> 00:41:58

people. So how do you not do that? Then we find the examples and

00:41:58 --> 00:42:01

people like Earth man with the Allahu Anhu. So reclaiming what

00:42:01 --> 00:42:05

the biographers they say that when he started his business, this is

00:42:05 --> 00:42:06

the way he started his business.

00:42:07 --> 00:42:11

He went to the market purchased a camel on credit.

00:42:13 --> 00:42:17

Let me buy this camel. I'll pay you for it in a few hours. Right

00:42:17 --> 00:42:22

now. It's very clever. Very clever what he did, I'll pay you and then

00:42:22 --> 00:42:25

he sold it pretty instantly for the same price I think oh, he sold

00:42:25 --> 00:42:27

it minus the rope.

00:42:29 --> 00:42:33

Minus the rope. I bought the communist mine now. He I'm sending

00:42:33 --> 00:42:35

you this couple but not the rope. You know you buy your own rope.

00:42:36 --> 00:42:39

The price is what I paid for it. I'm going to have a quick sale but

00:42:39 --> 00:42:44

I've made a little profit. Slowly, slowly these ropes added up and he

00:42:44 --> 00:42:44

bought his own camel.

00:42:46 --> 00:42:50

Then he carried on and he had many many combs. And you know a camel,

00:42:50 --> 00:42:55

a sheep goat today is about 80 to 100 pounds. 120 pounds a nice one

00:42:56 --> 00:43:02

cows of about 400 500 Nice Angus beef, you know from Scottish is

00:43:02 --> 00:43:06

probably seven 800 Maybe right? Camels at about 1000 pounds today.

00:43:06 --> 00:43:11

So mashallah, eventually he had quite a few camels. So what you're

00:43:11 --> 00:43:13

going to start buying cars and like pulling out stuff from it

00:43:13 --> 00:43:13

tomorrow.

00:43:16 --> 00:43:16

I mean,

00:43:18 --> 00:43:19

today, what's the string today?

00:43:21 --> 00:43:24

So many disposable, we're gonna throw this away. But in those

00:43:24 --> 00:43:29

days, those things mattered. There was value for everything because

00:43:29 --> 00:43:32

we didn't have the false abundance that we have today.

00:43:34 --> 00:43:38

You think the company that makes this water or this company called

00:43:38 --> 00:43:39

Kleenex?

00:43:40 --> 00:43:44

You think it buys everything with money that they do have? What do

00:43:44 --> 00:43:47

you think they buy it on credit for so many years? Okay, there are

00:43:47 --> 00:43:49

some companies who are just taking everybody's money like Apple,

00:43:50 --> 00:43:55

right, who's got huge reserves, right. But generally, it's all on

00:43:55 --> 00:43:57

interest. So we're in a bubble.

00:43:58 --> 00:44:01

So slowly, slowly, and then it says I love the word. I just can't

00:44:01 --> 00:44:05

translate it properly into English for Rob ah, who be sadaqa

00:44:07 --> 00:44:09

for a deja Arata who will be sadaqa.

00:44:10 --> 00:44:13

he nurtured his business with sadaqa.

00:44:14 --> 00:44:18

You know, you have to put compost and you have to water your, your

00:44:18 --> 00:44:24

your plant. So he watered, he looked after he nurtured his

00:44:24 --> 00:44:25

business with sadaqa.

00:44:26 --> 00:44:30

And it just increased and increased and increased. Until

00:44:30 --> 00:44:31

came a time when he said

00:44:33 --> 00:44:37

I can pick up a stone and I'll find golden dirt. Not literally.

00:44:37 --> 00:44:40

But Allah has given me so much Baraka now.

00:44:41 --> 00:44:46

Now look at his state. What we learn from this approach to

00:44:46 --> 00:44:51

business is that you take on only what you can deal with. So at

00:44:51 --> 00:44:56

night, you can sleep, everything goes you're not in debt. It's what

00:44:56 --> 00:44:57

you have is your what you have

00:45:00 --> 00:45:02

And this is a big problem that people don't understand today.

00:45:03 --> 00:45:06

What benefit do you get from buying a new sofa?

00:45:07 --> 00:45:11

Or a nice new television? Or a nice new

00:45:13 --> 00:45:16

memory foam bed that costs What's that company?

00:45:18 --> 00:45:23

Tempo, right? Cost 2000 pounds beds right? Now if you need is

00:45:23 --> 00:45:25

good, it's you know, martial, it's good for your back. It's It's good

00:45:25 --> 00:45:28

if you're used to that. But what I'm saying is, if you're buying

00:45:28 --> 00:45:33

all of this on credit, I'm going to pay over three, three years. I

00:45:33 --> 00:45:35

wouldn't I don't feel comfortable with that kind of stuff. It's not

00:45:35 --> 00:45:38

yours, you don't feed it's yours. And by the time you've actually

00:45:38 --> 00:45:40

paid off, it's worn out now.

00:45:41 --> 00:45:44

So what are we doing?

00:45:45 --> 00:45:50

What are we doing? Why not just buy something outright. With

00:45:50 --> 00:45:53

filter work Quran, Allah subhana wa Tada because being in debt is

00:45:53 --> 00:45:54

not a good thing.

00:45:55 --> 00:45:59

Of course, you have to be sometimes if you have to be, but

00:45:59 --> 00:46:05

buy what you can buy, don't be extravagant, don't take on beyond

00:46:05 --> 00:46:06

our means.

00:46:07 --> 00:46:11

And you'll be much happier. If I've paid for what I've got, I

00:46:11 --> 00:46:15

will feel it's mine, I will feel much better. There's more Baraka

00:46:15 --> 00:46:15

in it.

00:46:16 --> 00:46:19

But otherwise, it's like it's on my head, it's on my head, it's on

00:46:19 --> 00:46:20

my head.

00:46:23 --> 00:46:26

So this is the world we're living in. These are our challenges.

00:46:27 --> 00:46:30

These are things to think about. Because right now regardless of

00:46:30 --> 00:46:34

what our state is, we have a lot of money. And if we don't think

00:46:34 --> 00:46:38

Allah subhanaw taala we don't know how long it's gonna last. You look

00:46:38 --> 00:46:41

around you look at the abundance in these big stores, you go into

00:46:41 --> 00:46:45

the amount of merchandise, which is coming from many countries in

00:46:45 --> 00:46:49

which they're paying peanuts. But you think why are we chosen to be

00:46:49 --> 00:46:53

here in this position, and to benefit from this, the people we

00:46:53 --> 00:46:57

could have so easily have been on the other end in Bangladesh, or in

00:46:57 --> 00:47:01

India or wherever it isn't doing that. Allah has chosen us to be

00:47:01 --> 00:47:05

here. What are we going to do with that? We don't thank Allah

00:47:05 --> 00:47:08

subhanho wa Taala we don't show gratitude, they will take it away.

00:47:08 --> 00:47:12

It's just dips, the we're just it's just where we are right now.

00:47:14 --> 00:47:17

Allah placed this where he where he's placed us, we have to be

00:47:17 --> 00:47:21

thankful to Allah subhana wa Tada Subhanallah sometimes I look at

00:47:21 --> 00:47:26

our breakfast or lunch or supper and you will literally see that we

00:47:26 --> 00:47:29

have things from five different countries

00:47:30 --> 00:47:32

you know your your child will will be from basmati from India or

00:47:32 --> 00:47:37

Pakistan, your masalas will be from somewhere else. Right spices,

00:47:38 --> 00:47:43

your your oranges will be from Spain, your grapes will be from

00:47:43 --> 00:47:47

Peru or wherever it is. Your dates will probably be from Israel or

00:47:47 --> 00:47:51

you know, Inshallah, you know, not Palestine.

00:47:52 --> 00:47:56

Remember what the Hadith mentions the Hadith mentions that if your

00:47:56 --> 00:48:00

substance is increasing, but you are not getting closer to Allah

00:48:00 --> 00:48:05

subhanaw taala then that is a deception. That's STD Raj. That's

00:48:05 --> 00:48:06

just Allah loosening the rope.

00:48:08 --> 00:48:11

So if we're not getting closer to Allah, but things are just going

00:48:11 --> 00:48:15

right in the world, then don't think that Allah loves us.

00:48:15 --> 00:48:16

Necessarily.

00:48:17 --> 00:48:21

That that's why he's giving us so much he gives to his enemies who's

00:48:21 --> 00:48:24

the richest people in the world today? Who are some of the richest

00:48:24 --> 00:48:28

people in the world today. The world is doesn't is not of any

00:48:28 --> 00:48:33

value to Allah subhanho wa Taala some said low in the Hadith dunya

00:48:33 --> 00:48:38

low the low end Allah He Jana hubba Oh, Dalton, masa caca Ramona

00:48:38 --> 00:48:44

schibetta Mima, if this world was to amount to even the wing of a

00:48:44 --> 00:48:45

mosquito

00:48:46 --> 00:48:50

wing, in the sight of Allah, he would not give a disbeliever even

00:48:50 --> 00:48:53

a drop of water to drink. But because it's not worth even that

00:48:53 --> 00:48:57

much he gives world is for everybody. Allah does not

00:48:57 --> 00:49:01

discriminate there. It's what we do with it. It's the state of the

00:49:01 --> 00:49:05

heart. It's what we're going to do, and our approach, that's why

00:49:05 --> 00:49:08

we have to be thankful to Allah subhanho wa taala. And we have to

00:49:08 --> 00:49:12

be trying to get close to him. Imam Hassan Ali is one statement

00:49:12 --> 00:49:15

just really makes me frightened. It gave me spiritual crisis.

00:49:17 --> 00:49:22

He said that if a person reaches the age of 40, and his good and

00:49:22 --> 00:49:25

virtue does not overcome his evil, then he has less of a chance

00:49:25 --> 00:49:26

afterwards.

00:49:28 --> 00:49:33

And for me, that was gave me the shadows for me. Because

00:49:34 --> 00:49:37

40 is a mature age. That's the age when people become prophets.

00:49:38 --> 00:49:42

And if our good has not overcome our bad, then we've matured on

00:49:42 --> 00:49:46

evil, then it's less it's more difficult afterwards to change.

00:49:46 --> 00:49:52

You can't mess around until 3939 and a half then I got six months

00:49:52 --> 00:49:57

to change. Because the way our life works is that one thing takes

00:49:57 --> 00:49:59

to another it's very difficult to change and

00:50:00 --> 00:50:03

less, some massive occurrence happens in our life and gives us a

00:50:03 --> 00:50:06

wake up call. That's why there's only one thing that is going to

00:50:06 --> 00:50:09

wake us up. Believe me, there's only one thing that's going to

00:50:09 --> 00:50:13

wake us up, which is the feeling of our mortality, that we're going

00:50:13 --> 00:50:16

to die one day, you know, when that realization hits you, that's

00:50:16 --> 00:50:18

the only thing that works in this world.

00:50:19 --> 00:50:22

You you're involved in an accident, you see an accident, you

00:50:22 --> 00:50:25

wake up on one of those miserable mornings having had a bad dream.

00:50:26 --> 00:50:30

And you just think about your life and you had one of those, you

00:50:30 --> 00:50:33

know, one of those reflection reflective moments, unfortunately,

00:50:33 --> 00:50:37

doesn't stay for too long, and you think it's good, it's gone. But

00:50:37 --> 00:50:39

those are the thoughts that are going to keep a street in this

00:50:39 --> 00:50:39

world.

00:50:41 --> 00:50:43

I'm gonna die one day.

00:50:47 --> 00:50:49

People have changed their lives when they thought about death,

00:50:49 --> 00:50:53

when the concept of death hit them. They changed their lives. We

00:50:53 --> 00:50:57

have some of the biggest scholars today who became Muslim convert

00:50:57 --> 00:51:00

scholars who became Muslim because they realized that they were going

00:51:00 --> 00:51:01

to die, they could have died.

00:51:03 --> 00:51:07

Until we don't think about our death enough. That tomorrow I'm

00:51:07 --> 00:51:10

going to stand in front of Allah. Tomorrow, I'm gone from this

00:51:10 --> 00:51:15

world. Then what? What am I taking? What am I doing for that

00:51:15 --> 00:51:18

house up there? That's going to give us balance in this world.

00:51:19 --> 00:51:22

Without that mind process, we're stuck.

00:51:23 --> 00:51:28

We're in this chase, blind Chase, going round and round ending up in

00:51:28 --> 00:51:32

the same place as we started from. That's our life today. It's no

00:51:32 --> 00:51:36

different. Now you might think it can't change. It can change you

00:51:36 --> 00:51:42

have Oui, oui, oui. The problem with us is that we're so engaged

00:51:42 --> 00:51:47

and engrossed and so stuck in our material system and the systems of

00:51:47 --> 00:51:51

the world that we've reduced ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada.

00:51:54 --> 00:51:58

Do you think it's beyond Allah subhanho wa Taala to make you a

00:51:58 --> 00:52:01

person who can make the Hajj every night you think he can't do that

00:52:01 --> 00:52:01

for you?

00:52:02 --> 00:52:05

You think he has no power to do that? Allahu Allah Khalifa in

00:52:05 --> 00:52:07

Cadiz. You think he can't do that?

00:52:09 --> 00:52:14

He can do everything he you know, this world I recently I saw this

00:52:14 --> 00:52:14

website.

00:52:16 --> 00:52:21

It shows you a picture of the world, the earth as compared to

00:52:21 --> 00:52:26

the moon size factors, then it shows you the Earth and the Moon

00:52:26 --> 00:52:32

as in comparison to the larger planets, and the smaller planets,

00:52:32 --> 00:52:35

then it shows you all of these planets in comparison to the sun.

00:52:35 --> 00:52:39

And you can just imagine the scale here. Alright, then it shows you

00:52:39 --> 00:52:45

the Sun and Earth in comparison to a greater planet to get what it's

00:52:45 --> 00:52:49

called right now. No, no, no, no, sorry, another star out of the way

00:52:49 --> 00:52:53

out of the out of our solar system. Another star, the Sun is

00:52:53 --> 00:52:57

just one star in all of those stars that we see. And that's a

00:52:57 --> 00:53:01

bigger star. And then there's another one. And then after that

00:53:01 --> 00:53:06

it shows you 1000s of stars that you can just see twinkles. Then it

00:53:06 --> 00:53:09

zooms into one place and says Do you see anything there and you

00:53:09 --> 00:53:14

don't. But then the Hubble telescope was fixed on that place

00:53:14 --> 00:53:19

for several months. And what they captured was there was amazing

00:53:19 --> 00:53:24

what they captured in what seemed to be emptiness. They captured a

00:53:24 --> 00:53:31

whole other galaxy that has all of these different stars in there. So

00:53:31 --> 00:53:35

we are totally insignificant in that sense. We're nothing in that

00:53:35 --> 00:53:39

sense, that really struck me as to where are we who are we and what

00:53:39 --> 00:53:43

is Allah subhanaw taala. And but the great thing is that Allah

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chose us out of all of these creatures and made us It made us a

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shuffle mclucas Welaka Khurana, buddy, Adam, we honored the

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Children of Adam, that's us. SubhanAllah. But we have to act

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like servants of Allah, it's for a test this world is for a test. The

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real world is the Hereafter. And achieving the balance can only be

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done if we focus on what this life is where we're supposed to go.

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And the only thing that's going to remind us is our death to be

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constantly thoughtful of our day. So the few things just to finish

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up, I'll take some questions just to finish off a few things that we

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need to do. We of course, we need to make sure we make our

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obligations on time, our salah, etc. That's the minimum we can do.

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And we avoid the Haram as much as possible. Anything that's

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prohibited. And if we ever do the Haram then we make Toba and stick

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for as soon as possible. Because Allah understands that we will

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make mistakes and that's why we have this whole institution of the

00:54:40 --> 00:54:45

of Istighfar. Now besides that, that's just that's just enough,

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that's just fulfilling the obligation. How do we get into

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Allah's good books? How do we turn Allah's attention to us? How do we

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get him to shower us with his real favors? Give us contentment of the

00:54:56 --> 00:54:59

heart. Look after our families

00:55:00 --> 00:55:04

Let us not see a bad day with our children, with our businesses, how

00:55:04 --> 00:55:07

we can remain away from depression, sadness, worries and

00:55:07 --> 00:55:11

grief, law hope and pray him, whether hunger has known how we

00:55:11 --> 00:55:15

can be satisfied to meet Allah subhanho wa Taala look forward to

00:55:15 --> 00:55:20

meet him. How we can be of the earlier Allah can make us of

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those, if we have that desire that will project our life in that

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direction. So if anybody is cutting themselves in the foot is

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us. Allah is there to give, he has the ability to give everyone there

00:55:32 --> 00:55:35

is no restriction in the bandwidth here. It's available the Rama and

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mercy. It's all there as much as you want. Everybody can tap into

00:55:39 --> 00:55:45

it. But the problem is that we have restricted our thought the

00:55:45 --> 00:55:47

Prophet sallallahu sallam said that Allah said,

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in the Vanya dB, I am with my servants as he thinks of me.

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So if we think Allah can't really do it, he's not going to do it for

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us. If we think Allah can make me a weenie of Allah, He will make

00:56:02 --> 00:56:06

your way of Allah. Eventually you will get to that position. Allah

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why do we restrict ourselves? Can you guys not sit and think? Can we

00:56:10 --> 00:56:13

not think I want to be a half is of the Quran

00:56:15 --> 00:56:20

sounds miles away. But is it haram to have that thought? Does it cost

00:56:20 --> 00:56:21

to have that thought

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the men and the women should have this thought I mentioned this

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point in a in Gloucester, I was in Gloucester. And

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I met a guy came to me afterwards 64 years old. And he said I

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started memorizing the Quran.

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A year ago, something like that. And I've done seven years of the

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Quran Seven Super 64 years old.

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Then I had an I met a friend of mine, a classmate of mine,

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who is older than me.

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His mother just finished memorizing the Quran.

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And you know, she's a mother, she's a grandmother, she just

00:57:01 --> 00:57:02

finished memorizing the Quran.

00:57:04 --> 00:57:05

You got the desire.

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And you just start off is difficult, but you make dua to

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Allah subhanaw taala, you will see Allah can do whatever he wants.

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And if he if you don't have enough life, and it's not written for us,

00:57:17 --> 00:57:20

you'll get the reward for it. There are people that will be

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given the reward of a martyr even though they died on their bed.

00:57:23 --> 00:57:25

Because there was that desire

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is the desire that matters. So don't shortchange ourselves. Is it

00:57:30 --> 00:57:33

too difficult for Allah to make us half of the Quran to make us a

00:57:33 --> 00:57:37

weary of Allah to make us Mr. Gela with that word, that Oh Allah,

00:57:37 --> 00:57:40

every day I make it becomes accepted. Even as beyond Allah.

00:57:41 --> 00:57:45

It's beyond us. It's not beyond Allah. We don't even ask. We

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become Satan has told us you're doomed. shader has told us your

00:57:49 --> 00:57:53

sinful shaitan has told us your fossick is only for the molana as

00:57:53 --> 00:57:56

it's only for the other mites only for this and it's only for those

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people. No, it's for everybody. Doesn't matter who you are.

00:57:59 --> 00:58:01

Whether you drive a taxi or whether you're adopted does it

00:58:01 --> 00:58:06

make a difference? Every that's just a worldly occupation. What

00:58:06 --> 00:58:09

matters is our heart with Allah subhanaw taala that's what

00:58:09 --> 00:58:13

matters. So aside from the photo is that we do and the Haram that

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we abstain from the few things that we should do each day.

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100 is still hard in the morning and evening. Which is so Navasota

00:58:22 --> 00:58:26

Sallows stuff EULA Robin colada may want to do it 100 times

00:58:26 --> 00:58:28

morning 100 times in the evening.

00:58:29 --> 00:58:32

It doesn't take that long, but you will actually start feeling warm

00:58:32 --> 00:58:34

in your heart that I'm actually doing something

00:58:36 --> 00:58:40

number two 100 times Salawat on the prophets Allah Allah is a

00:58:40 --> 00:58:44

morning and evening we owe so much to him Rasulullah sallallahu lism

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Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala Sayidina Muhammad

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are vertical 700 times morning 100 times evening. Number three, read

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some Quran a day.

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Everybody think how much Quran can they read a day?

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I don't care if you say one page. I don't care if you say half a

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page. There's one one woman who

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the Sheikh said to you know how much Quran Can you read a day? I

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don't have time. I got no time with my kids. I don't have any

00:59:16 --> 00:59:20

time. No, no, you must them. You have to there has to be some. So

00:59:20 --> 00:59:22

just to get our wishes I'll do one versus there's no point you do

00:59:22 --> 00:59:23

want versity

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hamdulillah today she thanks the sheikh she says that

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I opened the Quran for one higher obviously I'm going to read more

00:59:31 --> 00:59:35

than one so now she reads more than that. We have a right to the

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Quran. The Quran inspires the Quran is the lights. Everybody

00:59:40 --> 00:59:43

should at least open the Quran once so it tells me how much can

00:59:43 --> 00:59:43

you do

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everybody you know if you have is of the crown you'll be able to do

00:59:47 --> 00:59:49

more some people can do one Jews some people can do to some you're

00:59:49 --> 00:59:52

gonna do have some people new quarter, somebody who can do one

00:59:52 --> 00:59:57

page, but whatever it is Think to yourself right now. I'll do half a

00:59:57 --> 00:59:59

page I'll do two is whatever. Pull a Quran down

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open it and read that much a day.

01:00:02 --> 01:00:04

Brothers and sisters

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right so Quran

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number four, do some additional vicar whether that be La Ilaha

01:00:12 --> 01:00:17

illa Allah Subhanallah hamdulillah or more powerful meditation just

01:00:17 --> 01:00:20

to be focused on Allah subhanho wa Taala with your heart because that

01:00:20 --> 01:00:22

then gives you focus even in your Salah and so on.

01:00:24 --> 01:00:28

Meditation is very powerful maraca vicar of the heart, which is pure

01:00:28 --> 01:00:30

sunnah. Just wonderful.

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One more thing I'll mention, especially for the sisters,

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because they don't have the wood job of going to pray with Gemma in

01:00:40 --> 01:00:44

the masjid. There's one thing I'll tell all the sisters they, if you

01:00:44 --> 01:00:45

can do you will be

01:00:47 --> 01:00:51

all it is is doing if you wake up for Fudger anyway, most people are

01:00:51 --> 01:00:53

in the habit of waking Fudger towards the end of the times you

01:00:53 --> 01:00:57

get a bit, you get half an hour more or 45 minutes more, what I

01:00:57 --> 01:01:01

would suggest the women can definitely do this. And the men

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can also do this, especially if they don't come to the masjid to

01:01:03 --> 01:01:04

preach amount.

01:01:05 --> 01:01:10

What you do is find the beginning time of Fudger and wake up 25

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minutes before that

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you're only going to be awake for another 1015 minutes more than

01:01:15 --> 01:01:19

normal. But you're just going to wake up earlier one hour earlier.

01:01:19 --> 01:01:22

That's it. So rather than trying to wake up 10 minutes before Fajr

01:01:22 --> 01:01:25

time and quickly rush and do we'll do and then get a few sessions

01:01:25 --> 01:01:32

Done. Done. Right. Not that wake up before Fajr 25 minutes, do

01:01:32 --> 01:01:36

we'll do five minutes, whatever. And then do two or four gods of

01:01:36 --> 01:01:36

Tahajjud prayer.

01:01:38 --> 01:01:40

Minimum two records, if you can only do if you can only wake up 15

01:01:40 --> 01:01:44

minutes do five minutes of will do. Women can definitely do this

01:01:44 --> 01:01:47

on the days they pray, and then do to record for the cuts of the

01:01:47 --> 01:01:50

Hydra pray and then five minutes of DA and when you finish your

01:01:50 --> 01:01:53

door and be Fajr time pray to the gods of sunnah and then forward

01:01:53 --> 01:01:54

and go to sleep.

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Especially for the women, for the men, they have to come to the

01:01:58 --> 01:02:00

masjid they should, you know, preferably pray and jump out or

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whatever. But the women can definitely do this. And what I've

01:02:03 --> 01:02:07

observed is that when women start doing this in the house, the

01:02:07 --> 01:02:09

husbands will follow.

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Men can't let women go ahead candy. But the path to Allah were

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both the same. And sometimes women just by looking after their

01:02:18 --> 01:02:22

children and working behind their children, gets them higher up in

01:02:22 --> 01:02:26

the sight of Allah than men can do by sitting and doing a vicar

01:02:27 --> 01:02:30

because you know, the effort that they have to put that women have

01:02:30 --> 01:02:35

to put into work, sacrifice, sleepless nights, the show, you

01:02:35 --> 01:02:39

have said that we've seen women who are on the path, progress

01:02:39 --> 01:02:42

faster than young guys who are doing lots of dhikr sometimes

01:02:43 --> 01:02:45

Allah has made a difference. They've given them you know, the

01:02:45 --> 01:02:48

given this natural responsibility, and I'm not saying legal

01:02:48 --> 01:02:52

responsibility, okay? I'm saying natural responsibility. But

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there's a massive benefit in that. But I will say to the women make

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your Tahajjud prayer is only going to take 15 more minutes, but

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believe me, it will brighten your face. This is the secret of the

01:03:04 --> 01:03:08

Olia. It's a secret of the people of Allah they you can't become

01:03:08 --> 01:03:11

close to Allah without the 100 I mean, generally speaking, that's

01:03:11 --> 01:03:16

what's their secret. So from tomorrow inshallah wake up earlier

01:03:16 --> 01:03:18

and do the 100 prayer, and then you'll find your prayer. And then

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inshallah the menfolk will follow. I'm telling the women fall but you

01:03:21 --> 01:03:24

guys are listening, you're in between, between me and the women.

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So you better do it as well.

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Allah subhanho wa Taala accept from us, Allah subhanho wa Taala

01:03:31 --> 01:03:34

accept from us. May Allah subhanho wa Taala make this easy for us

01:03:34 --> 01:03:38

just make a quick dua Allahumma into Santa Monica Sara Tabarrok

01:03:38 --> 01:03:41

the other jewelry with the Quran Allah Houma Yeah How are you?

01:03:41 --> 01:03:44

Yeah. Are you in bureau of medical mysteries Allahumma Yeah, Han No,

01:03:44 --> 01:03:48

no, you haven't learned the Subhanak in Quran I mean authority

01:03:48 --> 01:03:52

mean? Just Allah who are no Mohammed Amma who? Oh Allah except

01:03:52 --> 01:03:57

our doors of Allah except our gathering in this Masjid. Oh

01:03:57 --> 01:04:01

Allah, Oh Allah we ask that you treat us with Your Mercy of Allah

01:04:01 --> 01:04:04

We ask that you forgive us our sins of Allah We ask that you

01:04:04 --> 01:04:08

forgive us our shortcomings of Allah We ask that you purify our

01:04:08 --> 01:04:12

heart of Allah, O Allah, we ask that you shower us with Your Mercy

01:04:12 --> 01:04:16

of Allah We can't go to any other Door of Allah all those are

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closed. Oh Allah, all those are useless except your door. Oh

01:04:21 --> 01:04:24

Allah. Oh Allah, we know that you're the only giving one. You're

01:04:24 --> 01:04:28

the generous one. You're the Jawad al Karim. You're the Clement one.

01:04:28 --> 01:04:32

You're the forbearing one. And you're the extremely generous one.

01:04:32 --> 01:04:35

Oh Allah, you're the merciful one. You're the Compassionate One. Oh

01:04:35 --> 01:04:39

Allah, you're the loving one. Oh Allah. Oh Allah we ask that you

01:04:39 --> 01:04:43

treat us with Your Mercy of Allah you treat us like you treat your

01:04:43 --> 01:04:48

chosen servants of Allah. We ask that you purify our hearts. Oh

01:04:48 --> 01:04:52

Allah, we ask that you make our hearts the way you want them, of

01:04:52 --> 01:04:55

Allah that You give us love for obedience in our hearts so that we

01:04:55 --> 01:04:59

want to do it and that you take away the love for any disobedience

01:04:59 --> 01:04:59

from Allah.

01:05:00 --> 01:05:03

hurts that we hate to do it. Oh Allah, Oh Allah we don't want to

01:05:03 --> 01:05:08

do your disobedience. Oh Allah but Allah these are the pressures that

01:05:08 --> 01:05:11

surround us. We ask that you make our surrounding conducive to our

01:05:11 --> 01:05:14

faith to fulfilling your sunnah of your messenger sallallahu alayhi

01:05:14 --> 01:05:16

wa salam, O Allah,

01:05:17 --> 01:05:21

we ask that you treat us and you purify our hearts because we're

01:05:21 --> 01:05:26

worse than children sometimes, Oh Allah, sometimes you have a child

01:05:26 --> 01:05:30

who become soiled, and is a child that everybody wants to pick up.

01:05:30 --> 01:05:34

When it dirt is it's nappy, and it becomes dirty and smelly. Nobody

01:05:34 --> 01:05:38

wants to pick that child up anymore. But Oh Allah, when it

01:05:38 --> 01:05:41

comes to the mothers, you've given so much mercy in their heart, they

01:05:41 --> 01:05:45

will pick this child up, they will dirty their own hands, they will

01:05:45 --> 01:05:49

wash this child and perfume this child and then draw them close to

01:05:49 --> 01:05:53

their heart again, oh Allah and make that child nice smelling

01:05:53 --> 01:05:57

again. Oh Allah, our state, internal state. If it was to be

01:05:57 --> 01:06:02

exposed outside, then people would shun us. People would shun us, Oh

01:06:02 --> 01:06:06

Allah, we ask that you who are more merciful than all the mothers

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in this world, pick us up and purify us. Oh Allah you. We learn

01:06:12 --> 01:06:16

of Your mercy through many ways. You told Musa and Harun Ali he was

01:06:16 --> 01:06:21

salam to go and speak to Pharaoh, in a gentle manner, said Gula

01:06:21 --> 01:06:26

Allahu Kola, Li and Allah Allah Who here does echo Yaksha and

01:06:26 --> 01:06:30

Pharaoh was someone who used to say hon como Allah, I am your

01:06:30 --> 01:06:36

highest load of Allah far from that we say Subhana neurobiol we

01:06:36 --> 01:06:41

say that our Lord Most High we're believers in you. So Allah if you

01:06:41 --> 01:06:45

told Musa and Haroon to gently speak to Pharaoh who is a tyrant,

01:06:45 --> 01:06:48

then we expect that you're going to treat us with mercy. And if it

01:06:48 --> 01:06:52

wasn't for this mercy, then we'd be totally doomed. Oh Allah we've

01:06:52 --> 01:06:57

seen that UNASUR the Allahu Anhu he served the messenger sallallahu

01:06:57 --> 01:07:00

alayhi wa sallam for 10 whole years. And he says that never did

01:07:00 --> 01:07:03

the messengers and Allah doesn't ever tell him. Why did you do

01:07:03 --> 01:07:07

this? Or why did you do that? So much mercy, so much mercy shown by

01:07:07 --> 01:07:10

your messenger, that he forgave all of his aggresses on the

01:07:10 --> 01:07:13

conquest on the day of the conquest of Makkah. Oh Allah but

01:07:13 --> 01:07:19

still you gave him that mercy. And then you you retain 99% of all

01:07:19 --> 01:07:24

mercy. So Allah we our focus is entirely on your mercy of Allah

01:07:24 --> 01:07:27

that You forgive us our sins, that you forgive us our sins. You help

01:07:27 --> 01:07:30

our Muslim brothers and sisters around the world. You help our

01:07:30 --> 01:07:34

Muslim brothers and sisters around the world, that you have mercy on

01:07:34 --> 01:07:37

the Muslim ummah. Oh Allah have mercy on us. Oh Allah, Oh Allah

01:07:37 --> 01:07:40

have mercy on our streets with compassion. Oh Allah.

01:07:42 --> 01:07:45

Make the make the later part of our life better than the earlier

01:07:45 --> 01:07:48

parts of our life. And oh Allah make the best of days and best of

01:07:48 --> 01:07:52

moments that day and the moment we stand in front of you, Oh Allah,

01:07:52 --> 01:07:55

that we're pleased to be in front of you and you're pleased to see

01:07:55 --> 01:07:59

us. Oh Allah and we ask you one final thing that you send your

01:07:59 --> 01:08:01

abundant blessings and our messenger Muhammad sallallahu

01:08:01 --> 01:08:04

alayhi wa sallam that you give us to drink from his hands on the day

01:08:04 --> 01:08:08

of judgment and that you give us his company in June little fear

01:08:08 --> 01:08:13

dos engender to fear those? Oh Allah, Oh Allah accept our do us

01:08:13 --> 01:08:16

Subhan Allah because Allah is at the end, you'll see food in our

01:08:16 --> 01:08:18

salah, and when I'll more Selena will hamdulillah

01:08:20 --> 01:08:26

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