Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Always Greedy for More

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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The importance of learning one's knowledge to benefit oneself and avoid negative behavior. They also touch on punishment and the importance of being aware of one's knowledge to avoid embarrassment and negative behavior. The speakers emphasize the need for a healthy environment for everyone, especially those living in busy time, and suggest buying things for themselves. They also mention the benefits of ironing and washing dishes, the importance of learning to cook, and the need for a better public face to combat "monster behavior."
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa

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salatu salam ala so you will mursaleen while he was asked me he

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or the Rocco was a limiter Sleeman, Cathy Yan Elomi Dean

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Emeritus

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This is

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to continue with the advices of Imam Hadith al Maha CV.

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He says, while I'm on the hook am Allah Yoni bow no hurry Arma Katha

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Nicola you will be will be no real URL me in Toka

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he says you need to know and

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understand that just as the brightness of the day does not

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enrich the blind person.

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The blind person, generally speaking, does not become any more

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enriched during the day than at nighttime.

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Cathodic Allah UD will be no delay Hilmi Illa Allah Toka

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similarly,

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it's only the people of Taqwa and God fearing goodness

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that gain light and become illuminated by the light of Earl

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and knowledge.

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There's nothing wrong with studying a lot of knowledge, you

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can never have too much knowledge of the sacred. You can we can

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always have too much knowledge of the excess and the useless. And

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that which is not really to our benefit, just surfing all day and

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reading, consuming data, which to which there's no end, to be honest

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these days. We can keep going on and reading and reading and

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listening and watching and so on and so forth. There's no end to

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that

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sacred knowledge we can go on learning and learning. But if we

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want that knowledge to benefit us the sacred, sacred knowledge that

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we get, then

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what it requires is the taqwa. And the God fearing oneness, for that

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knowledge to become applicable and for it to make sense and for it to

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be operational

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operationalized in our life, applicable in our life, otherwise,

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it'll just become knowledge. And then what happens is that with

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that knowledge, because we're not putting it into motion, it makes

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us more arrogant, because we're not calmed by our taqwa and our

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God fieriness. So we think the knowledge is going to do X, Y and

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Zed things for us. So it becomes like a fitna for us. So rather

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than that, learn your knowledge, but also we need to work on our

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Taqwa. Insha Allah that's why we are here for and we ask Allah

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subhana wa Taala for dako.

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Then he says what come on May 8 lie in federal who Adobo because

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America you feed will edible, the early data.

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And just as

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medicine cannot benefit the dead, once a person has, has died, then

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there's no point applying medicine

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or getting him to ingest medicine or putting medicine on ointments

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on. It says likewise, anybody who just claims has too many claims,

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and no substance, then other is not going to benefit him. And

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etiquette is not going to benefit that person because their claims

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don't allow them to benefit from the other.

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And then what come Allah Yun beetle were below suffer cathodic

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Allah to three rule hikma to be called be more hibbett Dunya

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Allah, just like rain is not going to cause anything to grow

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on a larger, clean rock, because there's nothing for it to grow.

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When rain comes, then it allows seeds to germinate where there's

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soil and earth, but a rock there's nothing that's going to grow on

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there. So just as that's completely useless and you won't

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benefit from the rain, in fact, it will wear it away. Likewise,

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wisdom is not going to create any flowers or fruits is not going to

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cause any fruit to grow in the heart of a lover of the dunya.

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A lover of the dunya can't gain hikma. Even if he tries to gain

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wisdom from others, then there is no benefit because the love of the

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dunya is just too powerful.

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He can't put the wisdom into motion.

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Of course you can say this worldly wisdom but this is not talking

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about just worldly wisdom. This is talking about wisdom and prudence

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for the sake of the Hereafter even though it's related to this dunya

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So there's a spiritual wisdom we're speaking about here.

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Woman only for her who call a double who. Whoever becomes very

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obsessed with his desires, with his fantasies and whims, then his

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other will decrease.

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Because I mean, whims and fancies, we're talking about negative ones

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clearly, we're talking about

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positive, good types of desires to want to do good, then they're not

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normally called desires, because generally when use the word Hava,

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refers to negative desires, evil desires, egoistic desires, bad

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desires. So anybody who becomes too engrossed and obsessed by

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them, then the other is going to decrease because love of things,

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blind us from observing etiquette of others. So

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the other will decrease because of that.

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Then he says, Woman, Hala, Fidella tell me he Katha Raja Lu Allahu

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Akbar, whoever opposes the indication of his knowledge,

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meaning whatever knowledge we have, and it tells us to do one

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thing and not the other and we go against that, then that's going to

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increase the ignorance.

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That's going to increase the ignorance.

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That's why a few points

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murdy given ODNR once said to Hasan Basri,

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what is the

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what is the punishment of the island in the Knower. Now, when

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you say Island, it doesn't have to mean somebody who's formally

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completed a course that's where our main generally goes, right?

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He's a scholar. Of course, they have a bigger responsibility, but

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here in Ireland would refer to anybody with any amount of

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knowledge. Everybody is an island, according to their level of

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knowledge.

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Right, everybody is a knower according to their level of what

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they know. So everybody's an alum of one salt, right? Of course, the

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more you have, the bigger the responsibility. So many COVID-19

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are set to hassle boss here are the hola Juan, that what is the

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punishment of an island, if he loves the dunya, if he loves it

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too much, called a moto Calbee. He says the death of the heart, it's

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as simple as that. It's the death of the heart for either a habit

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duniya Tala bahagi Amaryl Kira, because when a person begins to

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love the dunya, then eventually he's going to use, he's going to

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start seeking it more because you want to see more of it dunya will

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never satisfy, you will never get satisfied with the dunya. So you

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want to try new and new and new, looking for better pastures. So

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because of that, they may also end up

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trying to attain it.

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With those things that should have been reserved for the archaea are

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purely for the Asherah.

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And you know, that is so easy to do.

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It's so easy to do.

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You learn knowledge, right? And

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you become maybe very good at a certain subject or something like

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that. And then

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people want to maybe pay you or hire you for your knowledge. And

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then you start focusing on the money, part of it. Whereas when

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you actually studied initially, you just wanted to serve the

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community, then there's many types of justifications that are

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provided

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to oneself and by others sometimes that well, you need to survive,

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you need to live your life, you need to, you know, do X, Y and

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Zed. So that's why it's completely fine. And then it becomes very

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difficult to keep your intention clean as to why I'm doing it.

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That's the difficulty Illa Illa Allah and then he says woman

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lamium Pharaoh who Dawa okay for you who? Whoever cannot benefit.

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Whoever's medicine does not benefit himself, then how can he

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benefit other people? How can you cure other people? How can you

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provide medicine to other people?

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Allah forgive us. So then Malik giving you the sorry, madrichim.

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To the young going back to our Hudson boss, he said, he says the

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reason is that when a person starts to love the dunya, it kills

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the heart. And then the person starts to look for dunya even by

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using ways of the Akira. Now, I don't want you to think of people

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doing that. I want us to think about ourselves. Let's nothing

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Yeah, I know somebody who does that. Right? That's not the point

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of this. Because then that would just be creating despondency from,

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from people that we may be learning from. There's no point

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doing that. The point is to think about our own self, that we don't

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start doing that, for India, 30, Qatar hawan who Baraka Tula at

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that time, the blessings of the knowledge disappear, the blessings

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of the knowledge amazing, they carry their own, they carry their

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own now this is very difficult to even explain to somebody because

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this is getting

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into a metaphysical kind of side of things. It's only when you're

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willing to make the sacrifice that you will see that Allah subhanaw

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taala will benefit you because of your sacrifice, but he wants to

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see your sacrifice first is one guy, he decided that he is going

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to start teaching somewhere some

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Islamic sciences. And he decided, look, I'm getting some money from

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elsewhere. And I want to do something for free. So I want to

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do this for free. It was probably worth several 1000 pounds a year

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if he took the payment for it. Right? If he took the payment for

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it, it would be worth maybe about 1012 14,000 a year. So he's

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thinking I've got maybe 10 12,000 coming in anyway. And I know this

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would be a big hit. But let me just try it. Right, let me just

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try it. So what he told the employer, is that

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because he thought to himself, If I say no, and then after that

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immediate, what's going to happen? I don't want to go around begging

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them again. And you know, so then he said, Look, I'm not going to

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take any payment right now. If I need it later on, I'll take it. So

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the only problem with that would be a tax implication. That's

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that's only difference, right? Because if you take it month by

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month, and if you take it all together, I don't know, there was

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mentioned there was some kind of tax, possibly. So it felt really

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difficult doing that. But he just wanted to test it out to see

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that if I can do this, but clearly to take a 10 12,000 hit is decent

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amount of money, right?

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Even if somebody's making 50,000, take that 10,000 Hit

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10,000. I mean, what can you do? I can do a hedge.

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Maybe to hedge a video check a cheap package, maybe I can even do

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to hedge with that, right? Because your hedges at least 5000

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Nowadays, right? So okay, too cheap hedge, or maybe five

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cameras? No, no more cameras more, I take my whole family for ombre

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holidays, a new bed, new car, maybe it's a lot of money. You

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just don't think about that, though. I think the idea is just

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don't think about it. So then he started.

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And, you know, it's comfortable that if I do need it, I can ask

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and Marshallese as the year passed by, and what's amazing, is that

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Allah started opening other forms of income for him, like other

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forms of assistance, and now he doesn't even feel bad about it.

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That's what he said. He said, he doesn't even feel bad about it.

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Meaning, you know, in the beginning, he felt bad that No, am

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I taking a hit and so on. And then he kept that safety net, right? Is

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that I don't need to use the inshallah the safety net anymore.

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I'm quite comfortable the way things have become now.

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Right. And this is an example of nowadays, I'm telling you, this is

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not from Oman, or the Allahu Anas time, or Hassan basura. The Allah

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Hans time, this is this current, you know, this is the current time

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we're living in. And that's just simply one example. There's so

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many people that would,

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but you have to start. There's another person, he left something

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to do something else. Again, it's Islamically related. And as soon

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as he did that, again, that was a, the other one was he didn't know

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how much he was going to make there. But it was more important

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and Islamic endeavor that was more important.

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This was a guaranteed salary of you know, a full salary. So he

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left that job to be honest, he left that job. I think he had an

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imam a job somewhere. So he left that Imam a job to start something

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else, but in the salary would be up and down.

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And subhanAllah I think within a few weeks, he got an investment

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opportunity.

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Right with a very good return that some money that he had saved up

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you put in

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a jeep it's amazing, you know, for me, when I hear these stories, I

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was like, I wish I could do something like this. Right?

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Because you are satisfied.

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And you don't have to feel

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burdened a burden on others. And Masha Allah, Allah subhanaw taala

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blesses you with that. So these are examples I'm providing from

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nowadays, these are not previous examples. But they do need that

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initial. They do need the initial sacrifice. And the initial

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sacrifice means that you're doing it because you believe ALLAH is

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going to look after you. I'm doing it for the right reason. And it's

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not a silly reason.

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Is not like I'm going to lose all my business. I'm going to get rid

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of everything. And I'm going to see what Allah gives me.

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You see what I'm saying? That is not right. That's unless you've

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got a token of Ibrahim Ali Salam.

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Because even though Josie says that he says I've, you know, he

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says there's people who do that they give up everything. They've

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got a running business, maybe work, they give it all up and they

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think I just want to survive on the absolute minimum, but they're

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not used to doing that. And then what happens is that in the

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initial phase

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freshness of the whole idea, the vitality of the idea works gets

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him through 1234 months. And then after he starts missing things,

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right, that that vitality is gone, that freshness is gone. And then

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he becomes miserable. And then sometimes it leads to major

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depression. So this was done as in I know, this person is done in a

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very calculated way.

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And he left the safety net just in case that's important as well. So

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you have to be wise about these don't do in crazy ways. Don't just

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wake up one day and be impacted by certain event or something and

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then you just, you know, you can't do that you have to do in a safety

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way just so that you don't

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it's not shaytaan basically.

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Then he says while I'm Arwa Ottawa, Nursey, Abidjan and a

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loser, God forbid duniya.

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He says know that the most comfortable people, the most

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relaxed people, the most tension free people, right?

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In terms of body are the people of Zohar in this dunya meaning those

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people who don't love the dunya they may have the dunya. But they

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don't love the dunya there's no problems. There's no they have no

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nothing to worry about. What at the Urban Nursey collusion work,

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Farah who Sugarland demand, maybe dunya. And the people

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who are most occupied in their hearts, whose hearts are most

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occupied with burden with constant turmoil, and who are most li

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engaged, they always busy.

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Is a hello at Mommy with dunya are the people who have the greatest

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concern for the dunya. Because look at this, right? If I

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am doing one business, and somebody gives me an opportunity

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to do another side business, or another side investment, or

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whatever it is, I'm going to do that. I have to watch out for it.

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I have to make sure I follow it up, especially when you invest

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with others. Generally they seem to disappear. Right? Very few

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people give you reports, right? So you have to chase them up. That

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sometimes keeps you awake at night. Right? Where's my money

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gone? Do I trust this guy? It's too lucrative for me to let go to

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just let it go by. It's all about risk anyway. But then am I going

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to get something out of that or not?

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Somebody tells you to put money into the stock market because

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these particular stocks or shares are going to, you know, they're

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really doing very well right now. And you do that and then after two

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weeks, that whole oil industry goes down. Right, and you lose

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money.

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So

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the more we have, the more it's going to concern you. We're at one

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o'clock Eolas zoo, the

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sorrel, Emily will Accra wahala to modify the chrome Kia mandala here

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as a region called Allahu Allah azza wa jal in Allah hookah Anna

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and eco MerKiVa. So he's saying that the most

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the most

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assisting character the most helpful characteristic to have

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that would help a person from not loving the dunya too much.

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Is kissel ml, which means to shorten your hopes.

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You can have hopes but just have shorter hopes.

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Not too many.

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You can even have a lot of hopes, but as long as they for the right

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reason. So you can't have just too many dunya we hopes

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to shorten them. You need some hope, but shorten them.

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Make them manageable.

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Somebody said to Mohamed Minnewaska. Give me some advice.

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He said oh Sica and Hakuna Milliken for dunya. Well, Akira

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colicky father called the internet for dunya.

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He said, The advice I give you is that you should become a king of

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this dunya and akhira

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you should become an influential ruler of this world and the

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hereafter. Now that means I must work hard right? But what he meant

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it is in the real sense. He said How am I going to do that? He said

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become abstinent of the world. Don't put your heart into the

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world and you will be a king of the world because

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you will a king a leader is supposed to not need anything.

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He's supposed to be so enriched and independent, that he doesn't

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need anything of anyone.

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Because he's got everything. So if a person thinks that I don't, I've

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got my base and we're not talking about having nothing in the house

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and bare threadbare carpets. Right? That's not what we're

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talking about. We're talking about that we just suffice.

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with what we have. So the next new car that goes past it doesn't make

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a difference. I was in Knightsbridge, I had a invitation

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at somebody's place in Knightsbridge the other day, and

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all you're passing by is just these Bentley's and, you know, all

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the rest of it. Okay, I know I can't deal with one of those in

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Hackney that's going to get scratched anyway. So what's the

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point?

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Seriously, right? I went past the

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these designer hotels and all sorts down there. That's what it

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is. A designer hotel was that was a designer company, it's got its

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own hotel. It's on Knightsbridge Avenue or whatever it's called in

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front of the park.

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During

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doesn't mean I you know, that doesn't mean we don't love the

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word but it's just like uses Why should I? Why should I want that?

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There was a really nice one they had a thing of Muslim

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or not sure it was there was like a plate, you know, one of those

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personalized plates as well. It was really nice. Right? But I was

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looking for the guy's house, I couldn't really pay too much

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attention.

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So yes, if you are abstinent in this world and the Hereafter, then

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inshallah you will become the king of this world and the Hereafter,

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we ask Allah subhana wa Tada

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to suffice us with what he's given us, because I'm sure every one of

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us here has

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enjoys life to a certain degree, you know, mashallah, we have the

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clothing we want, right?

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Within a certain amount, I mean, we've got decent clothing, we got

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decent food, we can eat out in decent places when we want to when

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we need to, of course, unless you want to do it every day or

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something like that, that could become a bit obsessive. There's

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always more to have. But if we're sufficed, if we're being suffice,

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and we have enough in the daytime, we have a security, we have enough

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food for our day, every day, we have enough food hamdulillah more

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do you want?

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Yes.

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Depends on how you want to.

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There's nothing wrong with wanting more. But it depends on what you

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have to do to want it and how obsessed you are by it, and what

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sacrifices of the deen and spirituality and we have to make

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for it. So it's not as simply as saying don't want more. Right? If

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you want more so that you can, for example, a person who is into a

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relief organization and he wants more because he can help more

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people? Well, that's a good more that he wants. Because he doesn't

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want it for himself. But then not to say that if we if you want more

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for myself, it depends on what's more. Now how much is more.

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More is a very relative term.

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Yeah, that's a that's a really bad addiction.

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Right? If you if you've got a mobile phone and it's working, and

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you don't need another one, then I would know, I would think that

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it'd be a waste to upgrade just for the sake of upgrading.

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Right?

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The problem is that they do start deteriorating after two years, I

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mean, the battery starts going. And then they don't let you change

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the battery because it's built in. So that gets complicated. So then

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you're forced to buy it's planned obsolescence anyway.

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So that gets a bit complicated that justifies for you to buy it.

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Or they justify it for you to buy it. I don't like changing phones,

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because it's just too much hassle trying to take everything over to

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the next one.

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Right.

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I personally just think that you should just go and buy the best

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thing out there so that it lasts for a very long time anyway,

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when you can.

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And men should help their women in that in that sense. So if your

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wives or women at home are doing ironing, so I think it's

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completely justified that you spend about 100 250 60 pounds to

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buy one of those steam ones.

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You know, those big steam generator ones, because they just

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make the job much easier? Why do you want them to start aiming for

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five hours instead of can do it for two hours.

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And what the orlimar have written is that it's the man's

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responsibility to buy everything, you know, husband, wife

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relationship to buy everything for the wife. So that would mean in

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other countries, most countries they would have servants. So it

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would be his responsibility to pay for that. We don't have servants

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who is too expensive for us because you have to pay them same

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money you pay for yourself. Right? So our servants are a washing

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machine.

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The other day I asked somebody, we're talking about dishwashers.

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What's the dishwasher?

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Right? What's the dishwasher? So it's like you don't know what a

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dishwasher is? He says No, nobody's got one. He says in his

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family. There's nobody that has one. It's a very convenient

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aspect. If you've got a big family, then dishwashers are very

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convenient. Why would you want the women washing the dishes for

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especially if they're busy doing other things?

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For men, they think that they're just gonna get lazy if they keep

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literally, this is what somebody came in, told my wife that

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she basically didn't want to go home early that day, although

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she'd finished early. She didn't want to go home early. Because she

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said,

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If he sees me at home, Ernie, he's going to give me a whole list of

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things to do. Because he thinks you get lazy. She does a lot of

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work. I know that Personally, myself, right? She does a lot of

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work. But the husband just has this idea

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that she doesn't do enough work with me with my wife. I've told

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her you buy your rotis. You don't have to make him because she

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teaches, right? She's teaching for the dean. She's got kids to look

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after. So

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you don't have to follow my example, right?

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Don't think I'm messing up your wives here. Right? But I've just

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said, Look, you don't have to make the roti go and buy them. Because

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now you have these supplies, and they're not that expensive. So

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just by the rotis. Right? You want to get a good iron, go ahead and

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get a good iron. Right? You want to get a good washing machine, go

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and get get one.

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Use the facility. Of course, then you'll say but my wife likes to do

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this. She just watches TV all day. She's online all day. Well, that's

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a different issue, then then I don't know what you can do it and

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that's a different issue. Right? But my wife doesn't do that. So

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I'm saying okay, then you just

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because even as a Shakespearean Rahmatullah hear it in Ramadan,

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especially. He said, Why should we make the women cook so much, he

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said that we used to only tell them to cook one dish, like a

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curry, right? It says the samosa whatever we used to order from

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outside the row to use the non to use order from outside. And they

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said, That's it simple.

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So that kind of stuff. I don't think if you need something, for

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example.

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I may have told you this before, but my cars I used before I

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started teaching here, I used to do most of my day spent on the

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computer doing writing and so on. So you're, um, you know, you get

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the would you call that the carpal tunnel syndrome, whatever it's

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called, right. So I spent over 200 pounds, it's worth I got it

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cheaper, I got it for just about 100 pounds. Under special keyboard

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tray, that you can basically in the master that you can basically

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put in any position you want. Then my chair, right, my my chair that

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I have at home is worth about 950 pounds, which is just a crazy

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amount. I know I got it 470 Which is still expensive. But because

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you're sitting on there for so long, you don't want to start get

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big, you can literally that chair is such that it's our H 400. You

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can check it up online, if you're interested. It was supposed to be

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better than the Herman Miller chairs, which are like the

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standard, right? Basically what these are, is that you can

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literally adjust every part of the chair.

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Right, the armrest, put them back forward, out in

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the back, there's a lumbar support everything. So I got it, you know,

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mashallah online somewhere for very cheap for 770 pounds,

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which is a very good price.

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So

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you can understand that if you need something for utility, it's

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fine. But if somebody looks at the chair, they're not going to

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believe it was it's worth that much.

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It's not a flashy chair, see what I'm saying.

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So, I believe if you're gonna get something for utility, like

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there's a jacket that's very, it's, there's a certain, you know,

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purpose of it,

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you can get that jacket. As long as it's not just for showing off.

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So likewise, if you're going to get a phone for the utility of it,

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get it but as long as it's not for showing off, do things for

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yourself, don't do it for others.

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Right? Do it for the health of yourself, for the benefit of

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yourself, eat good food, if you want.

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Like you know, go and spend in you know, gone shopping, Ocado if you

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want, right or wherever it is that you shop,

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buy expensive things, but just just take it easy on them.

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So I think that's mainly what we need to be concerned about Insha

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Allah, exactly wanting and needing something because we live in a

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time of consumerism. It's a massive problem we have right now.

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It's a time of consumerism. And

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it's not going to last long because they're already saying

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that

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when it comes to Christianity, this is a Peter Hitchens who is a

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Christian brother of the atheist, Christopher Hitchens. So his

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brother Peter is a Christian. So he's complaining he's telling the

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Christians he said what we've done, essentially in the West is

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that we've pulled out religion from everywhere we've stripped

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religion away from public places, from schools, from workplaces,

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from even the media for that matter. Like the mainstream media,

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there's no they only talk negatively and sensational

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Religion, there's nothing positive and hardly anyway. So he says,

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right now everybody's in materialism. But people are

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becoming completely disenfranchised, and they're

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getting tired of it. So now, when they turn around to look for

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something, they're not going to find Christianity anymore. They're

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gonna find Islam.

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He says, Because Muslims are the only ones that are

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disproportionately

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practicing. Right? among Muslims. If you look at Faith, people with

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faith, Muslims are disproportionately practicing

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people. Right? You have 10 people who are Christian 10 People who

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are Muslim, seven of the Muslims probably may be practicing, if

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not, or maybe five, when the Christians how many are going to

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be practicing, right. So the other the other thing they've done is

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that in Christianity, even the Christianity that still exists, in

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order to increase numbers and attract people, they've started

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chipping away and diluting a lot of the especially the difficult

00:31:01 --> 00:31:06

things, you know, the lenient fatwas as such, right? They've

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done that to Christianity already. And the this is not just Peter

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Hitchens. Now, this is somebody else that other day said that I

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heard them saying that, and what that's done is that that's had an

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adverse effect, that if it's just a feelgood factor, why do you need

00:31:20 --> 00:31:23

to good come here, because there's a lot of other better, easier,

00:31:23 --> 00:31:28

feel good, more enjoyable, feel good places. You can go to a club,

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you can go to a party, you can go read a book, you can just watch

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YouTube, there's so many feelgood factors, why does a religion need

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to be a feelgood factor? So then Peter Hitchens, I think it's him

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who says about this, that in Islam, they've still have those

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rigors and strictures because that's what people are looking

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for.

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Not everybody, but the ones who are looking, they're looking for

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strictures. And if he says, but then even in Muslims, they've got

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people who are trying to chip away. Right? So that's why these

00:32:00 --> 00:32:04

ideas, right, this really opened up my eyes that these ideas of

00:32:04 --> 00:32:08

trying to like just cut away, chip away at difficulties within the

00:32:08 --> 00:32:13

religion. It's disingenuous. It's going to have the adverse effects

00:32:13 --> 00:32:17

anyway. Right. I think it's just the fact that there's a guilt that

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I can't practice, but I want to stay a Muslim. So let me just

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conform the religion to my idea that that's not always the reason.

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The other reason is that they think that these things people

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won't accept. So for Islam to have a better public face, let's get

00:32:30 --> 00:32:33

rid of this stuff. Oh, that's not really Muslim. That's not really

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Islam. That's the difficulty. So generally, I'm telling them, Look,

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you got to living in a free world go ahead and start a new religion.

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It's not a problem. No, maybe go to Chelsea and do it there. You

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might even have a more faddish kind of idea. Start a religion in

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Chelsea Made In Chelsea kind of religion. Right. That's what I

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mean. Like, if you're going to do that, that's fine. Leave this

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

religion alone. If you can't practice it, it's fine. Right?

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Practice as much as you can. Fit the Kula Moscato.

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Fear Allah as much as you can.

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And ask Allah for forgiveness, for the rest, we are all weak.

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We are all weak. Even if people like me may be overtly outwardly,

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you know, doing practicing. That doesn't mean that we're perfect.

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It's easy sometimes to do that. But every one of us are basically

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challenged. We ask Allah for Tofik We ask Allah to give us more

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Taqwa. Allahu Mantis, salam, wa salam to

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me are you going to study Allahumma Hernan Yamanaka you know

00:33:40 --> 00:33:44

he learned this. Okay, now could nominal body mean Allahumma salli

00:33:44 --> 00:33:45

wa salam ala so you didn't

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you see that I'm Humberto Burdick was sending a lot of them are

00:33:49 --> 00:33:52

filling our home now or as you know, you know, a lot of my field

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I know him now if you know what you know was looking at Allahumma

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salli ala Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam

00:33:59 --> 00:34:02

Allahumma Filon Muslim enormously Matthew and what minion on what

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Marina de la jolla immuno more than words of Allah we ask you to

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forgive our sins. Oh Allah we ask that you forgive our wrongdoings

00:34:09 --> 00:34:14

our excesses of Allah our MIS understandings or

00:34:14 --> 00:34:18

misrepresentations. Oh Allah we ask that you purify our hearts you

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purify our gaze, you purify our ears, you pray you purify

00:34:22 --> 00:34:25

everything that we do. Oh Allah make us of those who are close to

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you, or what Allah grant us your love and the love of those whose

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love benefits us in your court. Oh Allah we ask that you keep us away

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from all of those things that are harmful for us. Oh Allah, we ask

00:34:38 --> 00:34:42

that you you allow us to only indulge in those things which

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please you or Allah that you can't take our obsession away from those

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things which are harmful and there are distracting for us. Oh Allah

00:34:50 --> 00:34:55

sometimes it is very difficult. Oh Allah this such a such an

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attraction such an alert of these things. Oh Allah, we ask that you

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grant a string

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Do not allow our knifes to go after these things. Oh Allah do

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not our allow our egos to be infatuated with these things and

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to be filled in with the obsession of these things. Oh Allah we ask

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that you accept from us whatever little that we work that we do Oh

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Allah we ask that you give us a trophy to do a lot more who Allah

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that you increase us in your worship you increase us in your

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sugar you increase us in your gratitude you increase us in your

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remembrance

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of Allah keep us safe and grant us security and give security and

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safety to all those all those who are being oppressed in the world

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and remove that oppression from them. Oh Allah allow us to be of

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those who are useful in this world of Allah allow us to be the doors

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of goodness as opposed to the doors of IE being the doors of

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evil. Oh ALLAH There are many haram and wrong things out there

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that we can easily get involved in Oh Allah we ask that you protect

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us from these things. Oh Allah.

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Reward all of those who and forgive all of those who are here

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and do not allow us to be returned without being forgiven of Allah.

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We spend these these few moments every few every every two weeks.

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So Allah we ask that you accept this from us. And you make this a

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source of closeness to you. You make this a source of light for us

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in the weeks to come. And oh Allah make the rest of our life better

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than the previous part of our life. And our law makers just

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better day by day. And Allah grant us health and grant us baraka and

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blessing in all of our permissible projects. And Oh Allah, we ask

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that You grant us the Karim, Allah, Allah, Allah Allah on our

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deathbed, and you protect us and our children and our projects the

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project is until the day of judgment

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of Allah send you abundant blessings on our messenger

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Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa salam and grantors his company in

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the hereafter. Subhan Allah beaker Rob belies the term IOC fool was

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Salam on Ireland.

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