Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Allah does not Like A Shared Heart [Hikam 203]

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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The conversation discusses the importance of protecting one's actions and emotions in order to achieve success and fulfill their potential. It emphasizes the need for skillful behavior and avoiding racism, as well as the importance of showing oneself superior and avoiding racism. The conversation also touches on the negative impact of actions and deeds on one's success and weaknesses, and the importance of finding a reward for one's actions and finding a way to be rewarded. The segment also touches on the struggles of becoming a self-conied person and the importance of shaping one's behavior in order to achieve success and fulfill their potential.
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Remember, Allah creates everybody with a package of qualities,

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capabilities, and a package of weaknesses. The sixth that we

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should tell our children is this as well. The successful one is the

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one who has figured out their capability so that they can use

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them for whatever they want. And they've been able to understand

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their weaknesses and harness them. We look around behavioral issues

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of lack issues is because people have not recognized what their

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weaknesses are. Some people have recognized their strengths, they

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really using that but they have not recognized their weakness.

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Some people have not even recognized the strength, they just

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loses

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or their weakness, right. So we need to recognize both and the

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sooner the better, successful people that's who they are.

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They've recognized both and they've harnessed them in the

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right way and they thanked Allah subhanaw taala

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this villa Rahmani Raheem Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah wa

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salatu salam ala so you know Mohammed wider early he or softly

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he he married a mother

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may Allah subhanaw taala bless Ignacio Illa Allah Eskandari who

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gives us these wonderful wisdoms that we can benefit from and

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it's definitely for me but in sha Allah for you, those who've been

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following this along it's really gives you a better perspective of

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who Allah subhanaw taala is, So may Allah reward him abundantly

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and everybody else has tried to and made an attempt to get this to

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us, and this knowledge to us and may Allah bless all of our mache

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up to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So today it's

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more of a summary of the last several aphorisms that we've been

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reading. This is what he says it's aphorism number 203. PAGE 108 He

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says Comala you hibel MLL MOSHTARAK cathodic Allah you

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Hebrew Calvin MOSHTARAK

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Allameh rule which taarak Leia burrow will call will Mr. rocla

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yoke Villani. So until now, we were discussing actions which are

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not purely done for the sake of Allah subhanho wa taala. So he

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says, just as He Yanni Allah does not love the deed possessed of a

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soce sociation as NISM association is lism. In other words, just as

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He does not love, any deed that has anybody else associated other

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than Allah in it, like we did it for somebody else, just like he

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does not love that. So similarly, He does not love the heart that

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has somebody else in there as well.

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And a deed that is done for somebody else must come from a

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heart that has others in there. Because if there was nobody but

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Allah in the heart, then the deed has to be pure, because that would

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be a pure vessel,

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you have a dirty vessel, and you're trying to put some pure

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substance in there, like milk or something, you're going to corrupt

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it, it's not going to come out, right? That's very, very simple.

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Somebody just contacted me recently who's studying the dean.

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And something that the teacher told them has struck them, that

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you're studying all of this detail until you don't prepare your heart

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and purify your hearts, then it's like you're putting into your into

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a dirty vessel, pure,

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pure honey, for example, pure milk, the pure kind of juice and

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you're corrupting it, you're not going to have the same benefit

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when you taste it, it's not going to be the purity that you're

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looking for, because you've corrupted and polluted it. So

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that's why he said that, just like he doesn't accept actions which

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have others intended in there. He also does not like a heart that

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has others situated in there. So then he says about the two, he

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says,

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Ask for the deed that has others associated in it, he just doesn't

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accept it. And as for the heart, which is possessed of others, he

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does not draw near to it, he doesn't pay attention to it, he

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does not approach it, he does not become concerned with it, meaning

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he doesn't value it in any way. Now you could be learning

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something that he puts his attention towards to give it some

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kind of reward or something like that. He doesn't doesn't care

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about it much. So as you can see, this is a summation of what we've

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been reading so far. And Amarula MOSHTARAK, as he says, the action

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which, which is shared, so it's not purely for Allah, there's

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other things in there. It's shared. Just like we don't like

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things which are shared. Usually we like things for ourselves. So

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you can't have something Imagine, imagine having a coach that you

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share, right or a jacket that you share Subhan Allah. So he's saying

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that an action which is shared, which has some other pollution in

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there is the one that has any kind of

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if that has any kind of egotistic desire associated with it, whether

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that ego artistic desire, and again, this is all clarification

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will be done before so I don't have to go through in detail

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whether it's a done up or away, which basically means that you're

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doing it for something in the dunya like we mentioned that

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you're becoming pious because you've seen that pious people are

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well respected.

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That's your reason for it. That's our reason becoming players were

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your players because you get discounts and you get free gifts

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and so on. Right That would be a do new benefits. And a benefit of

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the Hereafter would be that you do it because I want paradise I want

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those Hola. Amen. That

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they sound really cool. They like out of these worlds.

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So that's what I want. Now, you can understand you know, that

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Allah is not involved in that is it? I mean, yes, Allah is there in

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the back of the picture somewhere but the real Moxon all of these

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are literally just to get us away. So those who are leaner that if

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men desire haram in the world, despite them having something pure

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at home, but then they desire haram, then think of it this way

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that look if I fuego this haram suffice with the halal Allah will

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actually then give you pleasure in the halal and then we'll give you

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the reward in the hereafter as well.

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So it's really just for that that's really what it's for. They

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just bonuses on the side as perks, but the ultimate purpose is Allah

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subhanaw taala. That's why he's saying, Now Inshallah, I mean, if

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you heard that for the first time, then you'd be really confused at

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what's going on here. But I think he's given us the understanding

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of, so that's why he's saying that any heart which has any of these

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desires associated, that's any sort of any deed which has, which

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is done for any of these shared desires. That's a corrupted one.

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And then it says the heart which is MOSHTARAK, which is shared is

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the one in which there is love for anything but Allah, anything but

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Allah. So he's saying the deed, which is going to have something

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else accompanying it, that's going to be a corrupted action, and

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like, and anything corrupted, that's not pure is never accepted

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by Allah subhanho wa taala. Why? Because Allah says he's declared

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very, very boldly, and he has the right to declare diseases, and

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other than a short Okay, an issue.

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I am the most independent, I am the most independent. I'm the one

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who's least in need of having a partner like what's wrong with

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you? You want to you want to have a partner, you want to associate a

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partner do it somebody else, I don't need partners.

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I'm the most independent and most enriched and most separate from

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this. Right, I don't need this I'm I'm self subsisting. So then

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that's why I said then Allah says, in a hadith, Cozzi that whoever

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does a deed in which he has brought in anybody besides me in

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it, then I'm going to leave him and that partner that he's done,

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okay, I'll leave it to you to you and your purpose. Whatever you're

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doing before I leave you guys to it. I don't have to give you

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anything for it. I don't need any part of this. I don't need it

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anyway. So why should I take something that's corrupt? You

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know, and there's people who have a lot and then somebody tries to

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give them a bit half big they're like, Man, I don't need this

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stuff. Like what are you doing? You know, but people who are in

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need they will take scraps.

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Allah subhanaw taala is not in any need of anything What's he going

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to take you He only takes the pure right and you know, you go to

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somebody who's quite up their you know, well accomplished everything

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you have to think 10 times before you buy them something that isn't

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going to be according to their status. I can't get away with you

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know, something half baked with that because it's gonna seem city.

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So you're saying that whenever there's something besides Allah

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subhanaw taala in the heart, then it means that it is adulterated

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with those kinds of desires, and then that cannot stand in the

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course of Allah. It's not pure enough. It's not suitable. It's

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not qualified to be in the court of Allah subhanho wa Taala because

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Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran regarding his worldly abode,

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and his worldly places, we're talking about the real world water

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heater BTLE or even keep my house pure for those who go around and

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keep the mosquitoes pure. Right? Allah subhanaw taala tells us to

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take our best syllabus and our best adornment in the masjid. It's

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a place we're doing it for the sake of Allah subhanho wa Taala

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that's why

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a shoe study he says, Lee Habibollah in nama Hua your I've

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got a I've got a beloved but is very, very jealous. Protective

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jealousy. Very, very jealous. But in an honorable jealousy it's like

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a dignified jealousy not like a lowly jealousy man. Why have you

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got that? This is protective envy. It's it's a jealousy like i You

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can't end

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partner, if you want me, you need to be fully for me, you can't be

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messing around with others, as of what modern world is no pure

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relationships, right?

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Says he might stay in this move of mine, this beloved of mine might

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be in the heart, but it's like a is like a like a bird that will

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just fly off

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at the slightest disturbance, very sensitive.

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We don't want to reduce Allah SubhanAllah. This kind of

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sensitive being is of such a dignified being that we need to be

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careful about this.

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So anybody who's going to protect their actions and secure them with

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a glass and sincerity, then that person then Allah shallowest Allah

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accepts it. So just as he's so particular about what he wants,

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when he when you give him what he wants, then there's no end to what

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he will give you. That's the beautiful part of this, it's well

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worth it, it's well worth doing the action, it's well worth doing

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it as pure as possible. And then the person will become of the

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house which means of the very specially selected ones by Allah

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and anybody who becomes specially selected once their heart will be

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free of fear.

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Likewise, whoever then pours purifies the heart from anybody

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else, that heart then will be showered with multiple blessings

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like knowledge, understanding, wisdom, lights, contentment,

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satisfaction, all of these things, so things won't bother them as

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much.

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And then after that, they will actually start talking a lot more

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sense a lot more wisdom, a lot more good things and people will

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benefit from these people.

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Right so now he breaks it down a bit more saying that what exactly

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is a corrupted action? How do you corrupt an action? Exactly.

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It says usually three problems corrupt and action. First one is

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Ria. We've discussed many all of these will just as a summary

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mentioned, Ria Rajoub Obatala or a warden. So three things outcrops

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and action first one is real, which means ostentation doing it

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for somebody else. I'm only doing this so that I can you know I'm

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gonna sit I've gone for ombre. And I really want to take that shot

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next to the car but doing tawaf

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that just looks so cool. My friend did it. So I have to do it as well

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so I have to literally do the whole tawaf you know with a with a

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call those selfie stick Yeah,

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that's what I really want to do.

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Brother, can you just do me a favor? I'm going to do Do I just

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take a just take a video of that, right? Like I'm gonna really do a

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really sincere draw. Like just take a video of that so I can

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learn from it next time. Seriously, people do this.

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It's just so crazy but people doing it gone to the house of

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Allah Subhanallah millions can't go and Masha Allah, Allah has

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given you so much wealth that you can even video it

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for the sake of showing everybody else I remember once I went to the

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sheikh would be in hajus so many times when he goes hijab as a chef

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how many and he goes I don't know what you mean you don't he said I

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don't know. I don't count how many here's where you're going to come

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from. If one of them is accepted to hamdulillah That's enough obrah

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I get to go home right every year man in Ramadan

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No, I've never been Ramadan actually I'm just saying some

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people it's like an accomplishment say to Allah Ya Allah thank you so

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much that you allow me to go in Ramadan for ombre you allow me to

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go in some other months to Mercy Luxa you know say that to Allah no

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problem say that sugar keep saying that to Allah but don't don't keep

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telling everybody else. So that shit that's what the Hadith was

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about that anybody was going to associate anybody else with me in

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his action. I'm going to leave that action with the with the

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partner you guys deal with it? So that's real

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and that's why the famous Hadith which is in Sahih Muslim you must

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all have heard it that the first few people that are going to be

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thrown into the Hellfire is going to be is going to be the quarry

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who read you know for the sake of

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other people to say well what and wonderful and Masha Allah Al

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Hamdulillah How come you guys aren't saying that the Egyptians

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are better than you. After every ayah the Egyptian say Allah you

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guys don't even know what you're doing.

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If you go to Pakistan mashallah they stand up and start waving

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their hands as well. Have you seen those Egyptians cardies in

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Pakistan and other places? Everybody asked everyone to kind

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of jump up and start waving their hands it's like some kind of

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concert

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Okay, they're getting excited about the Quran but come on.

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That's not you supposed to do the tetherball is not about oh, wow,

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what a wonderful reading. Yes. What a wonderful really nice

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penetrates my heart. I know we all fall

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bit of prejudice beautiful voices are, it's an attraction of the

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dunya. It's an ego thing. But I think we just need to know so that

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we can move beyond that. I think we're all guilty of getting

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excited with beautiful voices, beautiful signs and, and beautiful

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sights and so on. But it's just about moving beyond that

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eventually. And then the other one was the brave person in the path

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of Allah subhana, the warrior for the sake of showing off, and

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number three is the wealthy person who gives a lot of money, but it's

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again done to be to be known that my name is on that mosque, and

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it's on that mother's side, it's on that road and, and so on. So

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that's real, okay, that's real now, which is ostentatious. Number

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two, he says is urgent.

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Rajoub is, it's more of a very personal thing. It's, I think I'm

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better than everybody else. It's a much more internal, personal kind

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of thing where a person is just walking high inside. He's just

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walking on stilts, by himself, though he's walking on the ground

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for everybody else is just like, but he's walking on stilts, he's

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higher than everybody else. So while he may be even shorter than

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others, he's like, looking down on others.

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Right? It's this mental superiority.

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That's a job. It's to see oneself and to attribute all of your

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actions to yourself, not to Allah. I did that. The worst part? Is

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this that Did anybody hear anybody here? Did you decide which

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family you are going to be born in? Did you have any involvement

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in that? No. What about the color your complexion? What about

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whether you are going to be a Han or a proton? Or Patel or something

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like that? No.

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You just turned up one day like that, right? So how do you show

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off? It's some? How do you show off and think yourself superior?

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Just because you're from a particular village or you're a

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certain color complexion? How can you think yourself superior? You

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didn't have anything to do with it?

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You should just be thanking a life it's good.

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Right? Whatever benefits are in your background, or ethnicity or

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color or complexion or whatever it is, just thank Allah. Otherwise

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you we had nice, so how can we gloat about something like that,

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that nobody else? That's why they just don't get it. That's why

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racism is so crazy.

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Racism is just so crazy. It's a point of shocker. I should do

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sugar if you've got something superior that you think it's

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superior, and then use it for the benefit of others. Rather than

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think yourself superior, and then put other people down. That's why.

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So, this is urgent, urgent, is is conceitedness form of narcissism,

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you could say, right, a mental health problem or you know, you

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can say shaytan had narcissism. That's why he was tunnel visioned.

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And the only logical point he could come up with was that fire

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rises and soil is low, not that fire benefits. Sorry, fire

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destroys, indiscriminately, and soil never destroys, but soil

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actually is used to grow everything that we need for life.

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You could have thought that right? These are a lot of other points.

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Even if I taught children like give me a comparison between fire

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and soil. You can come up with five different comparisons. He

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came up with the worst one and He's blinded of the others. That's

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what shows that when you love yourself more than anybody else,

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then you will have a tunnel vision is very difficult. Somebody

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explained to you unless you get clobbered one day with something

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where you know you just suffered a major setback then you're like,

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Yeah, I'm not as strong as I thought I was. May Allah protect

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us. So then that's why Allah subhanaw taala says fella to sec

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who and who second who are Aleppo.

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Be many taco. Do not. Do take care of yourself. That's it. Don't

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purify yourself. Don't consider yourself to be pure. Allah

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subhanaw taala is the most aware of the one who has taqwa. What

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that means, in other words, is that if you do an action, don't

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say I did this? Yes, you did do it because it happened from your

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limbs. But ultimately, where did you decide to do it?

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From where did you get the inspiration? Lots of other people

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just like you don't do it. You got to do it. You're sitting here

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today a lot of people that are your colleagues, your neighbors

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are not sitting there they are we don't know what they're doing.

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They might inshallah they're doing other good stuff, but there may be

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people who are not doing so good stuff. So why are you here? Why

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are we here sitting here today on this Friday evening. Because of

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ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. So relate everything back to Allah. So I

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just, I think you know, what this is telling us is just start

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relating everything back to Allah where it's due, and we'll sort

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ourselves out I think that's really what it all comes down to

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just keep going back to his keep related remembering Allah. That's

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really what this is saying. Just like Allah did this way. Allah

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allowed me to do it. Thank you, Allah.

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Alhamdulillah you know, you don't say Zakka Allah to Allah is Al

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Hamdulillah

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the Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam talked about three very

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destructive factors which we're seeing a lot today I think in the

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modern you know, the postmodern world we live in this is more

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truer than ever, ever Celestion Malika three destructive factors

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number one Shahan matar

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avarice and greed that is followed that is obeyed, because today you

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can do that society social culture is broken down to such a degree

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that you can do what you want it very few routes and you know, in

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fact they look down upon nowadays whereas people before community

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had a much better sense of ethics. So, you can see this is worse

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today, well when whatever desires that are followed and number three

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is a job will I mean, the first two are kind of related and the

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first one the third one is job will more eBay NFC is just person

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conceited person thinking himself Great. A person wonder in

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wonderment of himself. Wow, what a what a human you are.

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Never thing like Who created you as one? Man? What an

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accomplishment man? Look, I've got this and I've got that and I've

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got that

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wonderful human, I am

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lovable, I don't think that will come back.

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It's like, okay, that's fine. But where did you get it from? Who

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inspired you who facilitated the way for you? Who made everything

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conducive for you to get there? Okay, you've got it now. All

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right, fine, just turn it around. Now say Allah gave it to you and

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you will suddenly see that this will have a bearing on the

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hereafter in a positive way. Not in a negative way anymore. So

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fine, you're there, no problem. Just change it. They did not

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Islam. He said that led to the coinfalls What Allah Subhana Allah

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said, Don't purify yourself. It means that don't consider yourself

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to be sorted in the hereafter. Because I've studied for this many

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years, I give lectures or whatever I come in the masjid and I see

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that mashallah, there's another brother who's always in the first

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role. And he hasn't studied as much as me. I think he's better

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than me, in that sense, just so that he doesn't think that yeah,

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it's okay, just the universe to have learned anything. They want

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Him to be deceived, either. But it's definitely better me than me

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being in the first because he's in the first row, and I'm not in the

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first row. So there's always somebody superior to us. We're not

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done, we're not sorted. We have some accomplishments as everybody

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does. Remember, Allah creates everybody with a package of

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qualities, capabilities, and a package of weaknesses. The sixth

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that we should tell our children is this as well. The successful

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one is the one who's figured out their capabilities so that they

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can use them for whatever they want. And they've been able to

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understand their weaknesses and harness them. We look around

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behavioral issues. a HELOC issues is because people have not

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recognized what their weaknesses. Some people have recognized their

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strengths, they really using that but they have not recognized their

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weakness.

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Some people have not even recognized the strength, they just

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loses

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or their weakness, right. So we need to recognize both and the

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sooner the better, successful people that's who they are.

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They've recognized both and they've harnessed them in the

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right way and they've thanked Allah subhanaw taala

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uses a Hadith of the Prophet salallahu Salam, which says that

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loan them to the Naboo the Hashi to la cama who Akbar una de lluvia

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LA region if you did not sin, this is actually talking about those

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people now who think that they accomplished in the sight of

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Allah, their worship is to such a high so we're not talking about

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worldly accomplishment anymore. We're talking about people who

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mashallah get to do a lot of worship. And then suddenly, the

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shaytan comes there to make you make a person feel that because of

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their abundant worship, they're better than anybody else, and

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they're guaranteed paradise. So that's why this narration is

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brought here that look, if you did not sin, then I fear upon you

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something even bigger, some a bigger sin,

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meaning in you're not singing, right? If you did not end up

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singing, sometimes slip up basically what it means then I

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would fear a biggest thing, which is that you start becoming self

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conceited

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and start thinking you're, you're accomplished, which is another

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sin.

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The whole life is a bit of a struggle, but as long as the

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person recognizes Allah then it becomes easy.

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One of the one of our pious predecessors said that if I can

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seek the night right sleep through the night and wake up in the

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morning and I haven't been to hygiene and feel bad about it, is

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that that superior then I stand many hours of the night in tahajud

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and in the morning, I just feel like I'm topping.

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You can feel on top of the world that all hamdulillah look what

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Allah has given me to do. That's fine.

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But to think I'm better than everybody else in the room I doubt

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if there's anybody in this locality that stands for this

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long. Do you think there's anybody else like

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shake hands is gonna give us various ideas. You know, I've

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spent this much money behind this Masjid. I've spent all of this

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effort I was in this masjid, this mercy, but no mercy from day one.

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I was the one who brought the first donation.

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You know, all of that, and I feel I'm better than anybody else

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because of it. Now, if I do sugar, then that's fine. Somebody asked

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Aisha Radi Allahu anha. When is a person a bad person? When does he

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do a bad deed?

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It's when he thinks is really accomplished. And he's doing that

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he feels that he's just on. He's just fully accomplished. Now. What

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is one of the advices that has been given is that anybody who is

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so enamored by themselves, right, because mashallah, he does, you

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know, he does his four months every year, or he volunteers this

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much time and you know, whatever other good deeds or that person

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does.

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What his issue is, is that he's usually going to be because he's

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just so enamored by himself, he makes you blind, to any defects,

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to any slip ups to any weaknesses.

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The problem with deeds is that it constantly has to be refined.

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That's the way this world works, even cooks, if they start just

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doing it, without really focusing, they'll get it wrong one day, even

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though they've made it 20 times. So any deed in this world, you

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have to put attention to it. Otherwise, one day, you'll go

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wrong with it.

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And when that happens, when you're not careful and considerate about

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what you're doing, then you could actually start singing. When it

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comes to deeds, because you've lost sight of the purpose. You're

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too enamored by oneself.

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Now, what then happens is that because you think you're better

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than anybody else, you're not even going to ask anybody for advice.

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And if somebody even volunteers advice, you're not going to take

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it you're going to think, Man, this guy's jealous of me, very

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necessary. Allah has Salam o Allah for you, we ask Allah subhanaw

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taala safety and well being from this. And the last one that he

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said, the third thing that pollutes and action is when you're

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actually seeking a reward for it, other than Allah, the reward can

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be Allah, Oh, Allah, I want you. Right? I want you to be pleased.

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If there's any other remember, we've talked about that. If you're

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even looking for the hills of paradise, or a certain, you know,

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place that you're looking for whatever the case is all of that.

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Because if that's the case, then Allah is going to say, Well, look,

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if that's what you want, let me see your class. Let me see how

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good your deed was.

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Do I have to accept it? Do I have to give you your reward? You had

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this? You thought about this while you were doing the reward? You had

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this shortcoming? Why'd you did? Why do you did this deed.

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So if there's any corruption in your action, Allah doesn't have to

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reward you. So it's wrong. Just say, oh, Allah, I'm doing this to

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the best of my ability for you. Thank you for letting me even do

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this. Whatever Thank you means. And what is thank you means.

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It's just a gesture. It's like, Thank you. You just feel good that

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I said, Thank you. But what's the literal meaning of Thank you? I

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guess, give thanks. Like, I'm grateful to you.

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That makes a bit more sense. But again, what is that?

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I'm just expressing my gratitude. Once in hudge, you got these guys

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from Sindh? they the ones usually doing the edema within the camps,

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because Cindy's a very hot place. So I think they can stand it down

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there, right? There is this really nice kid like 20 something years

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old, he was serving tea, and I said to him sugar, and he said, By

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the way, you can do what you know of sugar and you get it at St.

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Joe's Alcala or something and give me a doll. Like shukran you're

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basically saying thank you. I'm grateful to you. So I'm expressing

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my gratitude give me $1 as well man, like you know, like, may

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Allah reward you with a good point see nothing always a shukran or

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thanks, but give it was well, because then you actually given so

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he wanted to us.

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Allah bless him wherever he is, whatever he's doing, he taught me

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something. The heart which is corrupted, also has been corrupted

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by three things. Number one is love of the world. Love of being

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special. That's number two. And number three is a love of anything

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but Allah subhanaw taala in terms of the Hereafter, all of those are

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going to encroach on our loss and our sincerity and take us away

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from Peurto Hades. We need pure Tauheed Peurto here is to do

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things purely for the sake of Allah subhanho wa taala. So this

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is what if not, I thought ILA this country says sorry, this is what

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she had to lug and go he says in explaining this and finishing he

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says association is Association ism is

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I don't like that word. In worship is a deed that is contaminated

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with ostentation. Allah does not love such a deed. Similarly the

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heart of

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association ism is a heart in which is found the love of others

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besides Allah. And Allah does not love such a heart. Allah Most High

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loves the heart that contains only his love. When deeds are performed

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solely for the pleasure of others, they are not acceptable to Allah

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Most High, only deeds devoid of ostentation acceptable to him. So

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is famous or do couplets which says that somebody's calling out

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to Allah, Oh Allah, he's saying, oh, Allah Now, please enter,

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please enter. Now my heart is clean cleansed of all US. Now

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finally, I've managed to get all else out. Now please enter. You

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have not entered until now that these now enter.

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May Allah subhanaw taala allow us such hearts. It sounds very

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difficult but I think one lesson that we get from today it's very

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simple. Is that just start thinking of Allah subhanho wa

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Taala and associating and attributing everything to Allah

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subhana wa Tada Allahumma salaam Inca salam ala their their journey

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will

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love me or hate you. Yeah. For you. Yesterday? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah,

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Allah. Yes. Yeah. Hafi Yes, Salam Yeah. Latif the other jewelry with

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a crown. Lama crimina Allahumma fildena Wilhemina y Athena Dena

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was ALLAH Medina Where have you been now Jana? Who the Divinity

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the Allah we ask you for your special mercies of Allah we ask

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you for you of Allah we ask you for you all our hearts are

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polluted our actions are polluted. Who Allah purify our hearts purify

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our actions. Allow us to at least to some days before we depart from

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this world purely for the sake of Allah allow us to experience

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sincerity. Allow us to experience if last allow us to experience

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your love of Allah allow us to experience that so that everything

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else can be forgotten. All these distractions this all these

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distractions can wane in our sights of Allah allow us to

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experience that so Allah grant us the hello with an Iman grant us

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the sweetness of faith of Allah allow us to attribute everything

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to you for there is nothing but you have Allah there is nobody

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nothing that can do anything besides you. So Allah allow us to

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attribute allow us to be true in this world allow us to have truth

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in this world. Allow us to be of the study of key in the Siddiqui

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and and be with the syndicator as well. Oh Allah allow us to draw

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closer to you. Allah bless all of our teachers and our mache all who

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have taught us good in this world. Without them up to the prophets of

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Allah some would be lost souls, Oh Allah, Oh Allah protect us from

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the sheep and protect us from the punishment of the grave and

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protect us from the

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punishment of the Hellfire of Allah keep this demon in class and

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sincerity in our families and our progenies until the day of

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judgment of Allah, we asked you not for our just ourselves, but

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for all of us and for our progenies and descendants. And I

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would like accept us all for the service of your deen and make us

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of those who abundantly remember you and who are grateful to you

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who have gratitude for you Subhana, rahbek, herbalist city

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and mercyful was Allama Alamo city in Al Hamdulillah.

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The point of a lecture is to encourage people to act to get

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further an inspiration and encouragement, persuasion. The

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next step is to actually start learning seriously to read books

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to take on a subject of Islam and to understand all the subjects of

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Islam at least at the basic level, so that we can become more aware

00:33:43 --> 00:33:47

of what our deen wants from us. And that's why we started Rayyan

00:33:47 --> 00:33:52

courses so that you can actually take organize lectures on demand

00:33:52 --> 00:33:55

whenever you have free time, especially for example, the

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certificate which you take 20 Short modules and at the end of

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that inshallah you will have gotten the basics of most of the

00:34:09 --> 00:34:11

most important topics in Islam and you will feel a lot more

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confident. You don't have to leave lectures behind you can continue

00:34:14 --> 00:34:17

to live, you know to listen to lectures, but you need to have

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this more sustained study as well to Zach Allahu Salam aleikum wa

00:34:21 --> 00:34:22

rahmatullah regard.

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The point of a lecture is to encourage people to act to get

00:34:27 --> 00:34:32

further an inspiration and encouragement, persuasion. The

00:34:32 --> 00:34:36

next step is to actually start learning seriously to read books

00:34:36 --> 00:34:39

to take on a subject of Islam and to understand all the subjects of

00:34:39 --> 00:34:43

Islam at least at the basic level, so that we can become more aware

00:34:43 --> 00:34:47

of what our deen wants from us. And that's why we started Rayyan

00:34:47 --> 00:34:52

courses so that you can actually take organize lectures on demand

00:34:52 --> 00:34:55

whenever you have free time, especially, for example, the

00:34:55 --> 00:34:59

Islamic essentials course that we have on the Islamic essentials

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To get rich, you take 20 Short modules and at the end of that

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inshallah you will have gotten the basics of most of the most

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important topics in Islam and you'll feel a lot more confident.

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You don't have to leave lectures behind you can continue to live,

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you know to listen to lectures, but you need to have this more

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sustained study as well as local law here in Santa Monica.

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