Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Are Any of Our deeds Sincere A Thought Provoking Talk on Ikhlas

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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The speakers discuss the concept of "monkey subhanaw taala" as a protection against pollution, and the benefits of fasting, praying, taking care of health, and being respected in society. They also touch on the importance of hedging, social activities, and motivation for giving money to someone sick. The speakers emphasize the importance of finding one's motivation and finding out if it is truly "monkey sub hang wa taala." They also discuss the benefits of fasting, praying, and being aware of one's behavior, and the importance of forgiveness and guidance for one's actions. They emphasize the importance of learning in class and forgiveness for one's actions.
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Smilla Rahmanir Rahim everything

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in this life, any aspect of this life, or any activity A person may

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be doing, if it's an activity in which you could have various

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different or more than one motivation, where it could be

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polluted by some other kind of idea, then if that particular

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activity is free from that pollution, or those external

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motivations, then it means that that particular action is

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miraculous. It has a class, that's essentially the, you can say, the

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literal or technical definition in a sense that anything in which

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something else could pollute it, and that pollutant is absent and

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it's purely for the sake of its primary purpose then that is a

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class that essentially what is lost is Allah subhanaw taala says

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we're in the look and feel and I am Eli Ebro, you speak with me my

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feeble Tony in benei 14 with them in Lebanon. Hi, Listen, sir

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evolutionary been. So again, this is an example of milk.

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This is an example of milk, that

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from the stomach of a cough or a cow or, or any animal that gives

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milk, Allah subhanaw taala is able to extract take out and give you

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pure milk from between the blood

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and all of the dirt that's in the stomach. So in this being in this

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animal, you've got dirt, you've got blood, etc, etc. But from in

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between all of that is able to come and produce sweet, pleasant

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milk that has absolutely no blood inside or no dirt inside. Hi,

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Listen, sir Elon, has surely been that's absolutely pure,

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unadulterated and polluted. And it is pleasant for the one who drinks

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it. That's essentially how our actions need to be that though we

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may have all of these pollutants around us, but when we do an act

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of Allah subhanaw taala, it needs to be like that milk. That's why

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even dreams milk has a very good meaning has a very pleasant

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meaning has a very promising meaning even when it comes to the

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dream dream world.

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So that is what you call pure milk that doesn't have any of these

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other pollutants within it. If it does, if anything does have a

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pollutant then it means that you are doing what you literally will

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call a Sherlock. Sherlock shift. gold comes from the same term of

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sheen raw guff, a lot of these banking, so called Islamic banking

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organizations, institutions, they provide you a Mushara car products

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with Sharda it means to share, right? So should it means to share

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to have a partner in something. So essentially, the bank owns the

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property with you and then you're trying to pay it off. And that's

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where you have a demeaning diminishing

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Musharaka or partnership. So that's where you get this word

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from. So likewise, when it comes to activities of the deen, the

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same kind of thing. Do you have Schick in your actions? So

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generally, we attribute the word Sheikh to in partnering somebody

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with Allah subhanaw taala ascribing a partner consigning a

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partner to Allah subhanaw taala. And

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for us to say that Allah has somebody or the other with him in

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whatever we're doing.

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However, the word itself is obviously very general, it's, it's

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about him, it's about having any kind of pollution. That's

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essentially the idea. Now the thing is that when you have

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pollution in anything,

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sometimes to find out if something is pure,

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you can apparently tell if it's pure or not, like it's pure

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enough. However, if you take milk, for example, you can tell if

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there's something else in there because the color would become

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discolored.

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Tastes would change the the liquid change and so on, so forth. But

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sometimes you may have bacteria in that milk. So it looks like milk,

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it looks pure, but you can't tell it's got some bacteria which is

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dangerous for you, which is bad food detrimental for you. It's

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harmful. So in that case, that is hidden, pollution, right? That is

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hidden pollution, that's coffee. So likewise shirk or pollution, if

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we call it pollution, transit should cause pollution. It has

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different stages, some is clear pollution, and some is hidden

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pollution, conceal pollution, crypto, pollution, pollution,

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however you want to define it. Generally, when it comes to deeds.

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The biggest factor is that you're not going to in your deed,

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whatever that religious deed is that you're doing. You're

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generally not going to add some clear shitcan they're like, start

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worshipping other

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Allah that's like clear shake.

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Generally what it's going to be, it's going to be a problem with

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your intention, it's going to be a problem with our objective, what

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we want to gain from that action.

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So that is where Nia comes into play here. The reality of Nia

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needs to be understood the motivations, what are your

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motivations for doing this deed what sets you on the path of doing

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this deed?

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If the motivation is one, and that is Allah subhanaw taala, then it

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means there is no other pollutant that Nia is conducive to that

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action. That is what the action needs for it to be a living action

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in the sight of Allah subhanho wa Taala the NIA from Allah, or for

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Allah. But if there is anything that is generally

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added to that, then there's going to be pollution. That's

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essentially the idea here. Now, for most people, if if you're

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doing something purely for the sake of somebody else, then that

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is clearly shirk. That is clearly polluted. That is clearly not a

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moralist action. That is clear. No doubt. Having something done for

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the sake of Allah only seems to be clear. But that is where it's

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really difficult. How do you tell for example, in milk? How do you

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know that there's only good bacteria in there.

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You need to really have special instruments to do that with. It's

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a very difficult process, you can tell if it's discolored, you can

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tell if it's got a mixture. Generally speaking, many people

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can't even tell that they as they do in third world countries where

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they were making milk from some totally foreign product.

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But in this case, to have some something as simple as bacteria in

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there, how do you tell where the pollution is, you're going to need

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some very special knowledge about the special, special knowledge.

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And this is what this seems to be speaking about. For example,

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the most confusing aspect about this whole thing is that when

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many of us do good deeds, we have sometimes an additional reason for

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doing them.

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Additional motivation for doing them.

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Just something that motivates us to maybe do it, that is not purely

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for the sake of Allah. Now, you might be thinking, No, we don't do

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that. But this is why it's so difficult to determine whether

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it's pure, or it has a slight pollution, that is what we're

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going to look at.

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So for example, let's take all of these examples. And from this, we

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should be able to understand our own examples. A person fasts, a

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person fasts

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so that he can also benefit from the research that shows that if

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you fast for two days a week,

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then it keeps you healthier.

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I'm getting fat,

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I've got health issues. I've got this issue that issue. Doctors

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told me to eat less, I know I should eat less. So let me start

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fasting.

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Now, does that sound like you're polluting your fast at the end of

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the day, we're gonna fast we're gonna first of all Allah subhanaw

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taala. But then we have this additional benefit in our mind,

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that is also going to help me lose weight. It's also going to help me

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eat less. It's also going to help me abstain from this stuff and the

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other that I shouldn't be doing in the daytime. Do you understand? So

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you have custom taco robe. Takara means to the closest to Allah

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means intention, you have the intention of closest to Allah but

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you also have this, for example,

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somebody

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has, wants to do Hajj. So he goes for Hajj, pious intention, but

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also so that he can

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maybe

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because he sits at home all the time, and he's lazy. going for

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Hajj helps him to move around as well. Makes him active so that

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maybe inshallah he'll feel a bit better. He's feeling a bit

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miserable at home. So he wants to go for Hajj, meet people as well.

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Right be in the company of people as well. His primary intention is

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Hajj, right primary intention is Hajj, but this is all an

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additional benefit. Or he goes to hajj, because he wants to avoid

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some fitna that's taking place in his local Masjid.

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A bad example, but there's some politics going on in his masjid,

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or in his community or in the family. There's a massive family

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feud going on. He just wants to get out of that. So he goes for

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Hajj. So you can escape that.

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Or there's an enemy, right, but there's somebody he owes money to

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or something like that. And he's constantly on his case. So he goes

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out for hydro seminar, for example.

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Or he wants to just take his family out on an outing

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for a trip to things, the best places to go for 100 that now how

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do you make it harmless for Allah subhanaw taala?

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Or is it busy at work and just tension depresses a lot of

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problems. Okay, let me go clear my mind in hudge

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Allah Who Allahu Akbar,

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or person decides to go.

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I mean, this is when there's a jihad or something, decides to go

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and take part in the training and so on and so forth, so that they

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can become fitter.

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Right? So the whole purpose is to get healthy, get a free workout,

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free training.

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All person stays awake at night, to a person prays at night

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Tahajjud prayer. And the whole point of it

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is because he is in a place where he has to look after he is in a

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dangerous place, he's maybe traveling is in a dangerous place.

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So he has to stay up and make sure that nobody takes their luggage or

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attacks them or anything of that nature, he has to stay awake

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anyway. So his excuse, one motivation for praying his

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tahajjud is so that it can keep him awake. Now, these all seem

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very innocent to us. All of these seem very innocent, and this is

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some of the stuff that we would do.

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The person studies knowledge, because he sees that mashallah

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Allah make a lot of money.

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You know, he must be someplace where mashallah Allah make a lot

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of money. So, he reckons that I should go and do a two, three year

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course. So that will make it easy for me, I'm unsuccessful in every

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other way that I do business, maybe this way, it will help me

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also that he can become respected. He sees that Oh, am I respected

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people respect them, and so on and so forth. So I can be respected as

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well. So then he starts studying, and then wants to be a cold

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knowledge knowledge for that.

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Or because, I mean, this is probably talking about in certain

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contexts, where if somebody's of knowledgeable nature, that even

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the bad people of the area, they won't touch their property.

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Whereas other properties may be prone to attack. But a person

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who's who's of a knowledge background or something, people

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respect them. So they're a bit frightened of them. So the bad

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people will not attack. So he does this so that he becomes known as

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part of that.

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Or a person likes to talk.

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So he gets involved in teaching or preaching, so that he can avoid

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just feeling depressed because he's got nobody else to talk to.

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So he goes on and Jamaats so that he can give a six point lecture or

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something of that nature. Right? So at least he's got somebody to

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talk to, you know, maybe a home nobody wants to talk to him or

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something like that. But just just to enjoy, he just likes talking.

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Now all of these seem very pious deeds. That's a keep keep that in

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mind.

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Or a person goes to do hikma and to serve

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some Allah MA or Salah ha. You know, for example, if there's a

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Tablighi Jamaat or something like that is people go to do khidmat of

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the cabinet that have come, or any of the orlimar that come to go and

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do hikma of this, just so that

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he will also gain respect by the association, so people will

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respect him. And a lot of people do this. They say they are the

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hadith of Sheikh Tariq Jamil sir.

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Right? He's a he's a hadith of monitoring Musa is a Hadith of

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Sheikh yunusov You know, there's this concept so then you get

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suddenly because of that association, this is how things

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work in the world because of association you get a benefit or a

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person takes on inscribing writing,

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scripting almost half a Quran just so they can practice their

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calligraphy and keep it up. Another one somebody decides to go

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for hedge walking so that they can they purpose for walking so they

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can save money only

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from the train ticket or plane tickets

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you know somebody living in maybe another city in Saudi Arabia so we

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were walking is possible with a great difficulty. So with all that

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difficulty, the only reason is just to save some money. It's not

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like they don't have the it's not as if they don't have the money

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they do have the money but just to save that money, or a person does

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wudu on a hot day, just to just to cool down

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or to to because their face and their arm and everything like that

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is a bit dirty, soiled or whatever, some dust on it and

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decided to do to get rid of it.

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Or somebody does it take off they come to 10 days it take off or

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whatever in the local Masjid because they know they'll be

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provided free food everything you

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No less electricity at home less food, less, less spending, and so

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on and so forth. So they go and sit every every Ramadan, they go

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and sit in the masjid for 10 days

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while person fast so that they don't have to cook,

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right? They're fasting reason is oh man, I can't bother cooking I

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can't bother, you know looking for food for shopping the standard the

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other or is cheaper too fast, right? So for that reason, they

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fast

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or a person give sadaqa to a 40 year for a person who's begging so

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that you can get them off your back.

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So don't keep bothering you. Look I gave you yesterday because you

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know, you can tell him look I gave you two days ago. So that should

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work last week, come on, don't bother me for a week now. Here you

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go. Don't bother me for a week.

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There's nothing wrong with trying to get him off your back. But the

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whole question is that how pure is your action of giving him the

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money? That's the question. Another one, which is very common,

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unfortunately, this is Social for us social problem for us to go and

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visit somebody when they're sick, so that they will visit you when

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you're sick.

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It's a very common one, to go to their wedding, their walima

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etcetera, so that they will come to yours or they came to your so

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you go to this. Whereas it's supposed to be sooner to attend a

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walima, for example, to go to somebody's janazah just so you

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could be noticed, so that they will come to your janazah as well.

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Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, or to do anything, just so that you

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could be recognized for it. And then maybe people say good words

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about you for it. So essentially, this is all of these things are

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things that we, we have issues with.

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So the way to look at all of this, as email has already mentioned,

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is that whenever the motivation is purely to gain closeness to Allah

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subhanaw taala. And to do this for Allah,

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it also has

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any of these motivations in it, even a slight notion of it,

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just so that, then the action becomes a bit easier for you to

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do, because motivations is what drives us. If you have a

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motivation to do something difficult for a reason that is

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purely for the sake of Allah, you're gonna have to really love

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Allah for you to go and do that act. But what makes it easier for

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us to do the act is when we have other selfish motivations, it

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makes that act easier than that is the benefit. That is the worldly

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human benefit from these things. Because a human is a, what is,

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is driven by his motivation, it just makes life easier, it just

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makes things easier for you to do. And the person who's I believe,

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who's going to be the most effected by this is a person who

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is a good businessman

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who's very smart, they're gonna have problems with this. So their

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smartness is going to be very good for the dean. Sorry, for the

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dunya, they're going to be tops in the world, they're going to be

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always doing, you know, always ahead of the game in the world.

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But

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without realizing they're going to have a problem with these things.

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And I'm telling you this from personal experience, that this is

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going to be a problem. Because a person is always going to be

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scheming that person's mind works like this, to try to always get

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more benefit than anybody else in something that you do. I can do

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this, I can also benefit I can also benefit like this, you know,

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it's like hacking, as they call it. Right? How do you hack it to

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get the most benefit out of it? People hack everything.

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So

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they're going to be hacking the Dean as well. But it's not going

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to be purely for the sake of Allah, Allah. Can you imagine what

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were our actions are good. Now, what? Do we have any pure actions?

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That's where the simple minded who just focus on one thing for the in

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terms of the deen, I think they're going to be successful.

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Unless the smart person really gets smart in a proper way and

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understands that no, this must be that can only come from tofi

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So if anybody has that additional motivation just to lighten that

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burden, then they have come out of pure F loss.

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And it's not No 100% For the sake of Allah subhanaw taala some

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Schilke some pollution some bacteria has crept into it. And

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Allah subhanaw taala now why are we being so strict about this?

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Because Allah subhanaw taala says an ohana Shoraka any shift.

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I am the most independent and most unneeded and needy, like, right of

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any partners in their partnership.

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Like I am not in any need to be in a partnership essentially. I'm the

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most above that.

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So if you want to partner anybody with me, you're doing it wrong

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because I will need a partner, I am more than enough any, any

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worldly motivation away from Allah, towards which the heart

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will incline, whether it be a small amount, or a large amount,

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then it will pollute that action. It's as simple as that it will

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pollute that action.

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And this is the problem with the human being. He's even bizarrely

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saying that the insaan is shackled by his own desires, were shackled

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by our own selfishness, our own selfish motivations. We are

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immersed in our desires. Very few people who will have worship that

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is purely for the sake of Allah subhana wa Tada and that have

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nothing else in it. That's why someone has said, he has said, Man

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Salim Allah whom in our own Rahim Allah Whoa,

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man Salima la hoomin aroma de la vida Wahida Harley Salawat, Sheila

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Naja.

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If a person, any person has even one single moment that was

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harmless for Allah subhanaw taala, he will gain salvation.

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That's how powerful a class is. Because it is so difficult to come

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by. You understand, it is so difficult for a class to come by

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pure pure, pure, effortless, just because of the way we are in this

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world. That means if a person does attain to a class, even for a

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moment in his life, just for one moment, that would be enough for

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salvation.

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Because it doesn't come by easily.

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It doesn't come by easily. That's why anybody who does get it will

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have worked very hard to get it even for that one moment. So the

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the reason why they'll be successful is because of how

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difficult it is to attain and how difficult it is to purify the

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heart and make it purely for the sake of Allah, and to make it

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hardest from any other motivation. So all the examples that we gave

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their primary motivation, were those good deeds, but then they

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just had these additional reasons to make it easy for them, to give

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them additional motivation to do those actions. That is why now we

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understand and you know, this was always a question in my mind, for

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example, that whenever Allah would mention, that

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a class has to be learned

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in philos, has to be learned. In class, you can only learn in the

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company of people who have a class, a class can only be learned

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by benefiting of this nature, if last takes a very long time to

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learn, then, and you always wonder what's so difficult about the

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class because we think but as Imam Ghazali points out, it's the

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purity is very difficult to attain to get pure 100% is very difficult

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to attain. And

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he says that the only person who will get this, what is the what is

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the nature of a person who will get pure effortless, it is the

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person who has totally, totally freed himself and his mind that

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any motivation that he has is purely for the sake of Allah. This

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can only be imagined in a person who loves Allah subhanaw taala is

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just absolutely in love with Allah subhanaw taala and his entire

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focus of his life is the Akira the entire for his like just totally

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intoxicated by the idea of the Hereafter only write

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to such to such a degree that he has absolutely no love of the

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world left for him sand and gold is the same.

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It just doesn't stay in his heart. The world does not have any place

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in his heart. The only he doesn't even like to eat or drink. He

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doesn't even like to eat or drink. The only reason he eats or drinks

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is so that he can fulfill

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the requirement the demand of the absolute basic necessity of

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staying alive. Just I have to eat because I have to stay alive. So

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he doesn't like food because it's food. But because it gives him

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just enough it gives him the sustenance, the nourishment, the

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power to worship Allah subhanaw taala.

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And his entire his mindset is such that I wish that I could not have

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these pangs of hunger, these pangs of hunger would be removed from me

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so that I don't even have to eat and I have more time for worship.

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That's why it was one of the one of the ASLEF he had. He used to

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just snack on the seeds. And somebody asked him, What are you

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doing? He says, Well, I've counted that in terms of having a proper

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meal and snacking on these I can get 50x

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To the species in that time. So for 40 years, this is what I've

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been doing for the last 3040 years, this is what I've been

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doing just so I can get that extra moment to do this be.

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That's the kind of thing we're talking about. So the only reason

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this particular person would like the dunya is because it's

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according to the dean, it demands that he has that much. Otherwise,

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his entire focus is Allah subhanaw taala.

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Now, that kind of a person, imagine it, if he eats, he drinks,

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he earns, he fulfills any of his needs, it's going to be purely for

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the sake of Allah subhanaw taala is going to be purely for the sake

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of Allah in every movement of his. So if he sleeps, it's because he

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is resting so that he can have enough strength to stand up in

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prayer.

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Anybody whose status is not like that, according to manga 30. Now

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remember, Sally is extremely industry god, there's no doubt

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about that. Right. But I think he's just giving it the way it is.

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And the whole idea of this is not to make people despondent.

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Now, I don't know what reaction is had on new people.

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Right?

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I hope the reaction is not that forget it, give it up. There's no

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point. Because for some people that that is what the case is,

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when they hear things of this nature. Get off either guys

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guessing how you're going to do this. Right? The idea of this is

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to at least be knowledgeable about be aware of it. The and I really

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believe what the hubby says Amanda, he says that one of the

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biggest calamities of this OMA that will always pervade it will

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be ignorance.

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When you don't know what the right thing is to do, then you're on the

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wrong side of things. At least that we know what's right, we can

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maybe even attain a bit of it. And at least if we know what's

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correct, and that we are wrong, and that we are we have a

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shortcoming. At least we can do to our to Allah subhanaw taala. At

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least we have an intention to be pure one day. One is that a person

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is not pure, he thinks is pure, he thinks he's got a class, he's not

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going to ask for a class, he thinks he's already got it. But

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for a person who knows they don't have it, who just realized you

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look, I am so far off, they're going to ask Allah, they're going

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to have an intention. And Allah subhanaw taala will eventually

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reward us according to intention. So as long as that doesn't become

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a deception as well, that whole concept. So that is the benefit of

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at least knowing this so that at least we can try to get greater

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Eclass greater class than we've had before. When it says that

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anybody who is dominated by the dunya by elevation in the dunya

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leadership in the dunya,

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then

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that is going to pollute his actions. Now, I told you, a

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business minded person is smart aleck, right? Who's just smart

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about everything. They're going to be smart about their Deen as well,

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in the negative sense. And as meaning they're polluting the

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action.

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There's a person who spent 30 years

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performing every salad in the masjid in the first stuff.

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How many 30 years, every salad in the masjid in the front row. One

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day he happened to be late.

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And he had to perform it in the second row.

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And he said, I became so embarrassed, so embarrassed

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that people are going to look at me

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and say look, he missed it in the first half because he'd become a

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symbol of the first off of the first and he said that this is

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when I realized that my being in the first off for all of these

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years

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it was for the wrong reason.

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It was for the wrong reason.

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One email has already says that her that ducky can harm you don't

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call LaMotta slow will Amma mean I'm 30 Ha.

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This is such a hidden problem. Such a concealed Malady and

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pollution, that very few actions are bereft of these problems. were

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condemning yet Annabella who and very few people will even realize

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this in Africa, hula hula Allah except the one Allah gives Sophia

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to.

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And that's why Allah Faloona your owner Hassan, t hem Kula fill our

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hero TISA Yet

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those who are having those who are harmful, they will then realize in

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the hereafter that all of their good deeds were actually say yeah,

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to actually bad deeds. And that's where Allah subhanaw taala says in

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the Quran about such people. What better Allah whom were better the

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home, Mala Mia Kulu Yatta Cebu and Obeidallah Amina Elahi Marina

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Mucuna Yatta see Boon

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Obeidallah home says to Marchesa, whoo, what will become revealed to

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them from Allah subhanho wa Taala in the hereafter is what they

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would never have thought about.

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They would have thought they're doing good in this world. But what

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would be revealed to them? They would never have imagined. And

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that's why the evil of the good deeds or the the evil of whatever

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they had earned will become clear for them in the hereafter. Allah

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subhanaw taala also says, Well, * no no, Campbell X arena and

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Allah Alladhina Dalsa Johan Phil hayati, dunya, whom Yasser buena

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and whom you've seen on Asana, he says, say that should i Should we

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tell you about the person who is the worst off in terms of his

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deeds. He's got deeds, but he's the worst off in his deeds is the

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one who's every attempt, and whose efforts of this world has gone to

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waste and they think that they've done good deeds.

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Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar.

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And then he takes us specific strikers at Urla Ma, because the

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owner ma have an act, a deed, a role to play, which is very

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specifically to do with the deen so outwardly, it's all to do with

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the deen to assist people to give dower to help people to bring

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people closer to Allah. And shaytaan can come comes in that as

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well, to show Oh, you're doing this, you're doing that it's

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purely for the sake of Allah. But then there can be so many other

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pollute pollutions within that. So it specifically talks about that

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afterwards. And I think that a large of all of this at the end of

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the day is first to know about it. So may Allah reward him with his

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early for even revealing to us and he says it over and over again. He

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says there are very few people who will understand this problem.

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There are very few people who will understand it to this depth and

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not be diluted. He says because most of these things are very

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unclear, except on people who really know and most people he

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says do not know. So number one we ask Allah for, for him to send his

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blessings on people who reveal this for us, number one, number

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two, is that we ask Allah for it last because you have to remember

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that as difficult as that sounds, as difficult as that sounds, do

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not become despondent, because Allah has the ability to give us

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pure purity and to give us a class. So we need to ask Allah

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subhanaw taala This is not a moment of despondency. But rather

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it's a moment of wakefulness, to be awakened by by this and to

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start asking Allah for purity in our actions. So at least the next

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time we do deeds, then we have the right intention for it. And that's

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the whole reason that we come together. That's the whole reason

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we come together is to learn in class, in these modalities that we

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have, it's to learn in class because that's our reason.

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Otherwise, we could be out there doing whatever else that we wanted

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to do. May Allah subhanaw taala bestow all of us with great Atlas

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because our deeds, our motivations are so polluted that we have

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absolutely no

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ability to do this on our own. But what kind of Allahu Allah cliche

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in mokdad era, Allah subhanho wa Taala has ability over all things.

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And of course Allah subhanho wa Taala is a generous one, Allah is

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the giving one, Allah loves to be asked. So we're going to use all

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of that to Allah subhanaw taala to assist us and to turn our actions

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into good deeds and to give us the real true consent for the

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hereafter through that run and in hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen

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Allahu men to say hello Monica salon to bark the other jewelry

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with a Grom Allahu me Are you are you Matthew canister with Allah

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who may or Hannah and me I'm in Isla

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Naka in Kona Lodi mean

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there's Allah who are no hematoma who are just Hola, Juan Mohammed a

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man who does Allah who I know Mohammed, who?

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Oh Allah, Oh Allah, we are your feeble sinful servants of Allah,

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we ask you for forgiveness. We ask You for strength and compassion.

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Allah we asked you for your special attention. Oh Allah, we

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asked you for your special attention. Oh Allah, we ask that

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you been You forgive us, O Allah for our sins that we commit for

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our excesses for our shortcomings. Oh Allah Oh ALLAH for our sins

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that have become our personal traits and habits of Allah that we

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no longer think of them as soon as they become incorporated in our

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life. Oh Allah we've lost all sense of embarrassment in front of

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you of Allah, we're embarrassed of others but we're not embarrassed

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of you anymore. of Allah forgive us for the success of Allah

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forgive us for this oversight. Forgive us for this crime. This

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sin Oh Allah, Allah only you we can ask for forgiveness of Allah

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only you can we ask for? To assist us with purifying our actions for

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you of Allah. Have any of

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Our actions been for your sake of Allah, we ask that you make them

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for your sake, despite our shortcomings, our pollutions, our

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selfishness, of Allah and our scheming, our plotting and our

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planning of Allah. O Allah, our false intelligence that doesn't

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understand what's the best for you. Oh Allah, that's the best for

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us in terms of success with you, Oh Allah, Oh Allah, we ask you for

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forgiveness. We ask You for protection of Allah we ask you to

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guide us right? of Allah, we ask you to guide us, right? And Allah

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to make all of our subsequent deeds, those that are pure for

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your sake of Allah, this seems so difficult for us of Allah but do

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not make us despondent of this. Oh Allah do not make us lose hope of

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Allah Allah Allah do not make us lose hope. Do not allow us to lose

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hope of Allah because you have ability over all things. of Allah

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you have ability over all things, Allah you have ability over all

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things. Today we have discovered that we don't have truthless today

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we have discovered we don't have truthless of Allah, what will

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happen if we wake up on the day of judgment? And we think we have

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done good deeds and discover that it's all bad deeds. Where are we

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going to turn on that day? Oh Allah, Oh Allah make this

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gathering a pure gathering of Allah make all of our hearts are

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pure hearts. Oh Allah, Oh Allah assist us in this regard of Allah

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sisters in disregard of Allah shaytaan a Texas at every moment

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to pollute our deeds our knifes has become his accomplice. So even

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if shaytan isn't around our knifes does his deed Oh Allah we have an

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enemy within us. of Allah we have an enemy within us of Allah

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subdued this enemy rid us of this enemy of Allah make this enemy our

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encouragement rather than our encouragement towards the good and

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make us knifes gave it give it make enough some more in our law

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only you can do this. We can only do this through your assistance,

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or Allah. We can only do this through your assistance. Oh Allah

00:37:07 --> 00:37:11

grant us your node in our hearts. Oh Allah because we can no longer

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fight with the shaytaan alone. Oh Allah we've seen in this world

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that

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when children can no longer walk, when children get tired of

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walking, they ask their parents to pick them up. Oh Allah, we ask you

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to pick us up because shaytaan has polluted all of our deeds of Allah

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Szczepan has polluted all of our deeds. We asked you for dominance

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we asked you for dominance against the shape on dominance.

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against our knifes, oh Allah we asked you for assistance before

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it's too late of Allah we ask you for the Kenema La Ilaha illa Allah

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on our deathbed, we asked you for the concern of the Hereafter. And

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for you to be constantly in our heart of Allah accept our deeds

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protect us and our children, our progeny until the Day of Judgment,

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protect the muslimeen around the world. Grant the Muslim in a class

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allow your Nusrah and your assistance to come into shower

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upon us of Allah accept our doors except our doors. Oh Allah accept

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our doors oh Allah accept from all of those and grant them purity of

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intention. All of those who have assisted in making this modulus of

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Allah in making these gatherings occur happen and then allowing

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them to be disseminated the world over Oh Allah grant all of those

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people if lost as well grant them is loss as well grantee Miss loss

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as well. Oh Allah grant a class to all of us Subhan Arabic urbanicity

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I'm IOC foon was salam ala Marcelino Alhamdulillah

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