Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Boldness in front of Allah

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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The speakers discuss the concept of fear and its impact on society, including its negative impact on veterans and subhanaw taala. They emphasize the importance of not being satisfied with one's position and not being a true satisfaction of oneself. The speakers also emphasize the need for more thought and research into the topic, and stress the importance of fully embracing all aspects of Islam and surrendering personal desire. They also discuss the benefits of fully understanding the Quran and finding one's own independence, and the importance of avoiding activities and letting fear control behavior. The segment also touches on a training program for controlling one's emotions and building a positive life.
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi wa salatu salam ala

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UD Mursaleen. What are the early he was so happy your Baraka was

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seldom at the Sleeman kefir on Eli omy Dean Emeritus, well Lavina

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caribou Biya Tina sunesta de regio whom in hydrilla Allah moon, this

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is what Allah subhanho wa Taala says, There are two things that we

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want to discuss today.

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Number one is a juror to Allah Allah, boldness with Allah,

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boldness in front of Allah, what is Allah going to do to me?

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While it's only outride, disbelievers and atheists who may

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do that, but those believers who don't think about Allah and have

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forgotten him for a while,

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thinking that I'm not being punished, everything is going

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very, very well in my life. I'm having success after success. I've

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just made that deal. I've just had that deal. I've had that

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promotion. Look, I've just been able to buy a house in that

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particular area. Look at the car that I drive, look at the clothing

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that I wear, I only shop in certain stores and everything like

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this. And I don't pray too much. I don't do this. I don't do that. I

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do I enjoy the Haram you know, I enjoy all of these things. That's

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what you call boldness in front of Allah subhanho wa taala. When you

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become

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no guilt, there's no feeling of guilt. In fact, there's a sense of

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security, that I'm secure from any punishment, I'm secure from

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anybody seizing me.

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When that happens for a while a person feels very secure.

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Feeling secure from the divine punishment and the wrath, feeling

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secure that Allah subhanaw taala has many, many ways that he will,

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he can

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take me to task. And once he puts me into this, then it's like

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it's actually like a like quicksand. It's quite dangerous.

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But shaytaan helps us to forget, and this is what the problem is.

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So this is a massive sin, iniquity, it's a sin and iniquity

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that a person has boldness with Allah subhanaw taala and you feel

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secure from his punishment, and his wrath. How do you deal with

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that situation? The deal the way to deal with that situation before

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it's too late. Before we're caught in that act is to inculcate fear

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of Allah subhanaw taala hope. So, the opposite of Jura is Hope is

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fear of Allah subhana wa Tada

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fear of Allah subhanho wa taala. When it's coupled with veneration

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and reverence, then it is called hush hear the word Hashem means

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fear of Allah subhanaw taala when it's a reverent fear, see fear of

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Allah subhanho wa Taala is very different to fear of people in the

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world generally, it could probably be better understood as fear from

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the mother for a child. When a child is shouted at by the mother,

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what does the child do? Does he run away? Or does that same child

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go and try to get into the lap of the Mother, the same mother who's

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shouting at him?

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Because he knows, as a child, he knows that this is where I'm gonna

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get security from. This is where I'm gonna get some assistance

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from. This is where my nourishment comes from. So he doesn't run

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away. But when it's anybody else in the world, people run away from

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the police, they run away from the authorities, they run away from

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people that they may feel that will harm them, they don't run

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towards them. You can only feel that sense of sense of comfort and

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confidence and security in your mother.

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And that gives us an idea of how believers should be with Allah

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subhanaw taala so that's why there's a special term in Arabic

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called Hush,

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hush, hush your own. They are hush your own in their salats that

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Allah subhanho wa Taala uses this term often is Reverend fear

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respecting is a respectful fear.

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A fear of veterans.

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It's reality. How do you know you have it?

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The sign of it is that the heart will quiver

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for the heart to quiver to suspicion of being afflicted with

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a harm like punishment.

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You feel a quiver in the heart a trembling in the heart if you feel

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that Allah subhanaw taala may punish you for this. Thus you want

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to be in his good books. You want to be closer to him.

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How do you inculcate this fear? How do we develop the

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sphere, how do we get more of this? So that we can be balanced?

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Its causes bearing in, in mind one's sins. You have to focus on

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our sins. I've got sins and sins are punishable. What's going to

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happen? You know, people who've been evading tax for a while.

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What is their fear?

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Their fear is that one day they're going to get checked. And it's all

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going to open up. They've been doing many, many things. No

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inquiry has come yet.

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But if the inquiry comes, it's not very, it's not all very clear.

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You can hide from the taxman you can hide from lots of people in

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the world but with Allah subhanho wa taala, the chip is there from

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before smart devices in this world ever existed. Allah had this

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technology from before. The earth will speak on the Day of Judgment.

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What Yama is into Hadith, Bara, the hearts will reveal that's the

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massive database well who Silla mouth is sudo.

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The limbs will speak if that's not enough, the limbs will speak.

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undock and Allah, Allah, the undock ocular shake

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the angels,

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they're writing as an outside witness on top of that.

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So it's to fear

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and think about one sins,

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the intensity of Allah's retribution for them, how Allah

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can punish, especially especially when you hear about other stories.

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The weakness of the cell is that the self in bearing this

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punishment can I bear the punishment of a life it comes upon

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me. You know, when we say punishment, Jerry, you understand

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punishment as being beaten or whipped or something like that.

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But you know, Allah's punishment is a lot more smarter than that.

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It's a lot more sophisticated than that.

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Allah, His punishment when it comes, it's in the form of agony.

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It's a form of depression. It could be in the form of

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disquiet disquietude in the heart, despite having abundance, you just

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don't feel secure,

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being bothered by small things, psychological illness, OCD,

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numerous things of this nature, just very subtle ways that will

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just bother the person, and a person will be uncomfortable.

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A person will feel that the world is tight around him restricted

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around him, despite the vastness of the world. Despite despite the

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vastness of abundance and abundance of possession around

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them, they won't feel satisfied. This is we should think about it

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this way, not about punishment, just about in hellfire, because

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that seems so far away. When a person is thinking about

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punishment of the Hereafter, if you're so far away, that we kind

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of put a buffer between ourselves and that and we feel that we got

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time for that to rectify that. But it comes in this world,

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a form of an accident

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form of just a breaking in the house, a leak that you just can't

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fix. You've just spent huge amounts of money doing something

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and then suddenly there's a leak and he has to be all torn up.

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Just bought a business spent huge amounts of money there.

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But now you have to close it down or make another business.

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And then Subhanallah you don't even want to start on the whole

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magical issues that are easy issues. Especially if somebody

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gets you onto that track and says this is the reason then you're

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looking around the world and spending all of your money and

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trying to find a cure for it. Because you don't even know what

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the problem is.

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Allah has so many things.

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That's why they say that if somebody wrongs you, then rather

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than try to retaliate by yourself, do suffer and have patience in

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Allah subhanaw taala Allah has so many more ways of dealing with

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your aggressor and your oppressor than you have yourself.

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But it's about knowing that Allah system is like this and his

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capabilities, his power. Other conditions in Kadeem Brd, he could

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Lucia, everything is in his hands. So we think about the weakness of

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ourself in bearing it, the immense power of Allah to deal with a

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person. However, he wills whenever he wills, while the person is

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butter, lowly, powerless slave, in need of Allah for everything.

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Allah subhanaw taala created us from nothing.

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And it is him who sustained us. All of this time through our

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parents, guardians, whoever has brought us up. He's the one who

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has guided us

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yet

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How can we object to Allah subhanaw taala and disobey Him.

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So this leads to

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when a person inculcates the fear it will lead to a dismay, which is

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the heart will not get too excited about things, thinking that it's

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my doing.

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You'll have the right satisfaction, but it won't be a

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false sense of satisfaction, you won't be an arrogant satisfaction,

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you won't be a satisfaction of exultation. When you're walking

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around stomping on the ground as though you own the world now. It

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will be measured, you can still enjoy your riches, you can still

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enjoy your position, but it will be a humble position, like the

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Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam when he enters Mocha, mocha

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Rama as a victor, against those same people that threw them out.

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And yet, look at his softness and his gentleness. That's the kind of

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that's the kind of superiority, the humbleness, the humility that

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needs to be inculcated, not the arrogant one. I know the world is

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full of arrogant people.

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I know when you looked at when you watch Trump over and over again

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and his expressions I am this anime that and all the rest of it.

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That seems to say that this is a trend in the world. So people are

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followers. Most of us are followers. So we tend to say the

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same things. Unfortunately, in fact, he's a reflection of who we

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are the who people are. This is what what leaders are generally

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reflections of their subjects. That's that's generally what the

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what the case is

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an example of divine action,

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that should be feared by true believers, but which is generally

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ignored by hypocrites. If not artha, Allah describes he says, Be

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well afraid. If the divine country continues to treat you well. I say

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Look, listen to this carefully. He says, Be very afraid if the divine

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continues to treat you well, despite your consistent

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wrongdoing.

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So what are you afraid of be afraid that he may be taking you

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to punishment or perdition in small, unnoticeable degrees.

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Everything is going well but you're still disobeying him.

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And he is not doing anything about it. He's just giving you success

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after success. Be careful there that all he's doing is that he's

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just taking us worse and worse down into the dump into the pit in

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small small unnoticeable degrees. And this is exactly where Allah

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subhanaw taala says in the Quran. Well Athena cos there will be a

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Tina sunesta Digial whom mean hate Allah, Allah moon.

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Those people who deny Our Verses, we shall take them

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we shall take them into perdition,

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in subtle degrees, in a way that they don't even realize.

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They're deluded

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Salah to study he explains the verses saying that we will

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continue to grant them our blessings, meaning Allah is saying

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we will continue to grant them our blessings. But we will cause them

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to forget gratitudes they will never make sugar they will never

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make sugar is acknowledgement of who gives you what you have. And

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we all know that it comes from Allah eventually, even though it's

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hard effort on our part, or maybe our parents left it to us in

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inheritance, right? Or somebody gifted it to us, but at the end of

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the day in this quantum world who put all that set that all up to

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work in that way so that we are benefiting and not somebody else.

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And we're not sitting as an orphan in Syria, or in a border camp

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somewhere and we're sitting here enjoying our life

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in this air conditioned place like this, and we know we're gonna have

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some good Iftar today

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that is Allah is doing placing us in the right position. Yes, there

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is human there is human contribution there in the sense of

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the facade of it. The outside features of it is that humans did

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this but the setup is all from ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. So, what

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Salah to study says Rahmatullah here, they, we continue to grant

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them our blessings, but we cause them to forget gratitude and

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sugar.

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So that so when they then begin to rely on blessings, all of those

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good things that are happening to them, yet remained veil from the

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giver of blessings. They are then suddenly swept away in sudden

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punishment, even artha Allah He explains in another aphorism, he

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says, Every time they commit a new sin,

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every time somebody commits a new sin, we renew a blessing for them.

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This is what

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lysing is just he's putting in different words.

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This talk today is just about reflection. It's it's not stories,

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it's reflection, it's just we have to just think about where we are

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in this regard. So it's gonna require just a lot of thoughts. So

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if not, I thought Allah says what this verse means. Every time they

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commit a new sin, we renew a blessing for them. And we cause

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them to forget repentance from that sin. They don't they keep

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doing the sin and they do it successfully. Nobody found out.

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Nobody found out. So they do it again. Nobody found out so they do

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it again. And the problem with sins is that you have to intensify

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sins because what happens with sins is they get boring, like

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everything in the world. So you have to do something more the next

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time and something more than next time.

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And it's, it's I remember once in our class, one of the students who

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used to

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be doing a lot of mischief in the class. One day when the teacher

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wasn't there. He was doing that and our one of our shoe whenever

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one of our teachers, Mufti Shabir His name is he walked in and he

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caught him that day. And he started to protest. He said, This

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is the first time this is the first time I've done this. And if

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this should be submitted, he said that even Allah doesn't catch you

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on the first time. Even he let you go so many times. There's no way

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that you've done it now. We all knew that he was right. This was

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not his first time. That's just what criminals say.

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If they can't process they will is caught in Act.

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imagined that with Allah subhanaw taala

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that's that's the danger.

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One thing though, we have to understand here is are we talking

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about fear today, the fear should not be so much that you lose hope.

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The Fear should not be so much that you lose hope.

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You shouldn't fear a state urge to such a degree that anything good

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happens and you don't enjoy it.

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That anything good is happening and you feel that this is a

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deception. No. You can enjoy the good that you have. But anytime we

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sin we must be

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seeking forgiveness. And Ramadan is that best time to do that? To

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be honest, I mean yesterday I was thinking if it wasn't for Ramadan,

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what would our steak be? If Allah didn't give us this opportunity of

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Ramadan? Where would we be in our spiritual state? Look at the

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masjid today compared to what it was last week after us our prayer

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look at who is here today. And mashallah, the

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how this Masjid seems so alive compared to Saturday last week.

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If it wasn't for Ramadan, we would be somewhere else

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be doing so we wouldn't be thinking about these things.

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Ramadan is an absolute blessing in that regard, that we get that one

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month just to get back on track, just to reflect, reconnect with

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the Quran, reconnect with Allah subhanaw taala.

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And if we didn't have it, then we just stagnate and get worse and

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worse and worse and worse because there's no uplifters for hydro you

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have to go out. You don't get to go hike every time. But Ramadan

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comes to every single one of us, which is only done by about 3

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million people a year. So if not above he says that fearing is the

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estate Raj though, it should not suspend the belief believer with

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so much fright, but should rather inspire the believer to

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consistently increase in his chakra and gratitude and

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repentance. The calamity is when one persists in since the calamity

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The problem is when a person continues to do the same and

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becomes diluted that there is no ensuing punishment coming. That's

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when the problem is

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and assumes that the lack of punishment is an indication of my

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good status that I'm getting away with it. It's so easy to feel that

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way. It's so easy to feel that way and nothing happens and you just

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feel I haven't been caught for years.

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Why am I going to be caught now? I've never been caught in 20 years

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I've been doing this. Now I've been caught until now. Allah

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forgive us. Yes Atari Yes, Atari Assa tar, which means Oh

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concealer. Oh concealer. Oh consider. May He continue to keep

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us conceived and veiled.

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Finally, a particular form of St. Raj.

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This one listen carefully.

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A particular form of estate Raj is that one finds themselves speaking

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to others of virtue,

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telling other people about good things in virtue. This is for

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people like me, right?

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Despite lacking it, lacking it in one's own character.

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A bowl of man I believe

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basil Haley states, whoever speaks of higher spiritual shame, yet is

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himself not ashamed before Allah in his discourse, is a victim of

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est Raj.

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A person who's telling others, but they're doing the same thing and

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they're not concerned when is you're concerned. I'm telling

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others but I'm concerned about myself despite my weakness, I may

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be doing wrong things as well. But I'm telling others, but I'm

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concerned about I'm fighting. That's understandable. Allah can

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be forgiving, but I'm not concerned I do myself but I keep

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telling other people.

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Then that is a form of storage. In that light, it is said that Allah

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revealed to isa alayhis, salam, the Prophet,

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addressing through him, his community, and thus all believers.

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admonish your own self.

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If you are transformed by the admonishment.

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If you're transformed by your Naseeha that you give to yourself,

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give nasiha and advice to yourself first. And if you are

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changed, and you benefit from that, then go ahead and admonished

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others otherwise be ashamed in my presence to admit admonished

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others. May Allah subhanaw taala help us and protect us.

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Going back to who Chu, who which is fear of Allah subhana wa, tada.

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We already mentioned, the way you do that is to just feel how many

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sins have I done,

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not to let the punishment start and then feel that

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because once the punishment begins, there's still people who

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remain deluded. But a lot of people who are halfway there,

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they'll start feeling yes, there's something wrong with me, I need

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to, I need to get back to Allah subhanaw taala.

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It leads to being humbled, gives you a shoe.

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That is one's heart being filled with focus gravity in front of

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Allah subhanaw taala.

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You start we start feeling our position that we're nothing, we're

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weak.

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We've got so much wrong that we've done. It has said that it refers

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to hearts a base for the knower of unseen realms, they also fear

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leads to Yaqeen.

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That is, knowledge taking full the knowledge taking full control of

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the heart,

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that

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there is nobody but Allah subhanaw taala that can help me that is

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what you call your team to be fully convinced that it's only

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Allah subhanaw taala that can benefit me in any way whatsoever.

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Another benefit of health,

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it leads to complete a Buddha and servitude.

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That one becomes Allah servant in every situation. Just as Allah is

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the Lord in every situation, we start recognizing that in each

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moment,

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this is more complete than just mere worship, to understand that

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we are a servant of Allah subhanaw taala.

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According to one of the righteous people, he decided that defined

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servitude or Buddha, what does it mean to be a slave of Allah? How

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do you define that? He says it's fully embracing all that you have

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been commanded to do.

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And fully abandoning all that you have been prohibited from.

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If we can't fully do that, we will try our best to do as much of that

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as possible.

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That is how much fear we will have inshallah and mail free fear

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increase in that regard.

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Another set another define that as you see the benefit of seeing how

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different people define these things, you get a good working

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knowledge of it. Because different people are expressing what fear

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means to them. So one of them said, it's fully embracing all

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that Allah has commanded you. I'm fully I want to do everything that

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Allah has wanted me to do, I might not be able to do everything

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today.

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You know, Allah wants me to do my Hajj. I'm going to do it as soon

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as possible. Allah wants me to pray my slots, and I should have

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it in the masjid. I can't do it today. But I want to do that

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tomorrow.

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Do you understand? So

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I want to be able to read this much more Quran. I want to be able

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to understand the Quran one day, it's to fully embrace this idea

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that this is what I want, even if you can't do everything

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straightaway.

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Because if you can't do it today, but you have the thoughts and the

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will, that inshallah we'll do it tomorrow.

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And likewise, I want to abandon all that he has prohibited. So

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another expression is to serve to surrender personal desire

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regarding what unfolds of the Divine Decree.

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Whatever

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However Allah subhanaw taala wants to keep us, we try to concede to

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that. And we're satisfied with how Allah subhanaw taala keeps us.

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Mohammed IGNOU happy for us.

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When is a person's servitude complete? When do you know that

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you're a full servant of Allah subhana wa Tada.

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If we're asked this question, how would we answer it?

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Think about it. This is a very important aspect that Allah wants

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us to be His ABD. Because that's who we are His servant. If

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somebody asks you, when do you know that you're a proper servant

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of Allah that you fully accomplish that, that you are now playing the

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proper role of a servant of Allah? How would we answer that?

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While we reflect? Let's see what Muhammad Ibrahim says. He says, he

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was asked at what point is one servitude complete, he replied,

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when one casts all his burdens towards his Lord.

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Anything you need, you cast it to Allah because you have full

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reliance that he will do it for you. When you want something,

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you're going to be asking Allah first. Allah make this happen.

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Allah only you can make this happen.

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And then he patiently perseveres, with divine tests. That if Allah

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is to put us through a divine test, some trouble whatever, where

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we got sober, we don't start complaining and freaking out, but

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we turn in makes you turn more to Allah subhanho wa taala.

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Abu Hafs Abu Hafs al Haddad, he says, complete servitude is the

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adornment of the slave.

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It's a way of embellishing yourself, right? What that means

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is, if he leaves his if he leaves it, he has really relinquished his

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adornment. If he is not doing servitude, then he is not

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beautifying himself. How do you do it though? adornment, an adornment

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of loneliness, brokenness, and absolving oneself of any power or

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ability. While ascribing all dignity, majesty and beauty to

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one's Lord and Him alone.

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Not understanding that all greatness and everything is not in

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me, it's in Allah subhanaw taala.

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With respect,

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when fully realized, in such servitude, the believer will

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negate any of his own talents or abilities or faculties.

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Yes, I have a faculty I'm a, you know, I can make money, I'm good

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driver. Right? I can do good investment. You understand that?

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But you know, it's coming from Allah.

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It's not this selfish claim, like, of karoun that I got all of this

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wealth on my own volition due to my own discretion, not that it was

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from Allah subhanaw taala.

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So you recognize that you've got some ability, you recognize that

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you use that everybody have to recognize their ability, but you

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know that it's Allah Who gives with respect to any good that

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appears at his hands, then he sees himself as merely a vessel through

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which Allah is the sole doer and creator. And that he thanks Allah

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for making him that if he's doing something worthy, Allah, thank you

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for choosing me to do this, thank you for choosing me to do this

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work for the masjid, to administer the masjid, to help these people

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out, to do this relief work, to do this teaching, to assist my

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neighbor, to benefit my family.

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To help my friends, you just think yourself that Allah has chosen you

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for that. Okay, another thing is that when a person develops his

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fear,

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it will another necess necessarily necessary entailment and

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consequence of it is true freedom. For real,

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this will be difficult, but it's true freedom, namely, that the

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servant is no longer enslaved by anything else in creation,

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and no authority of the contingent things preside over him.

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Which means now that you are your own boss, because it's only Allah

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you care about. Not in a weird way, you're respecting the rights

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of people. But you're not a slave to working for a particular

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position. You're not a slave, for a certain status. You're not a

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slave of the clothing that you must get or that car you must buy

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for that position you must have or that influence or that connection

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you must make. You're not a slave to that you can have all of these

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things, but you're not a slave to them. And thus when it comes to

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Allah subhanaw taala these things can be dismissed and they can be

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sacrificed. That's the true test of it. Am I

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Need to sacrifice for Allah my salah my religious deeds that

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which I have attained of the dunya

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that's that's the test.

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When a person develops freedom, they understand I can't mess with

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Allah, then you get this freedom then it doesn't matter okay? If I

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don't get this class is not a problem Allah will give me

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something else. Allah is going to look after me. He's looked after

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me all of these years.

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Another benefit is that it will give you spiritual resolve.

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Meaning the heart you will feel in your heart aspiration towards

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Allah subhanaw taala Allah will become real in your life, you will

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become detached, detached from customary norms. The general

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heedlessness that people have constant amusement. I don't know

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what to do.

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I need to play the game.

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I mean, a person is waiting an adult I'm talking about not a

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young man. Not a young not a child. Children are predisposed to

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playing. But imagine adults.

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You've got your smartphone now this smartphone mashallah has

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many, many faculties many, many things it can do. You're sitting

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waiting?

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For you've come to the masjid you came with too early.

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So would you sit outside and start playing Tetris?

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Or some other weird game on your phone just pastime? Just passing

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time? Or would you put up a Quran on there, or at the speed or

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something else and you just, you know, benefit yourself somehow. It

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just gets you to focus. You don't feel like you're wasting time

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anymore. You could be waiting somewhere for a long time. But you

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know that if I start doing mine to speed like,

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I'm going to be benefiting from this. So you understand that

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there's no time which is being wasted. Even if somebody makes you

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wait. You're not going to get angry because you know that you're

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benefiting from this place.

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So you're not in this customary constant amusement fully

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fulfilling elicit desires, and the like, is related on the authority

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of Abu Hurayrah. The Allah one.

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The Prophet sallallahu sallam said, that Allah said, by my

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honor, my majesty, and my Infinite greatness, I do not combine two

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fears, or two, securities in my servants.

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I do not combine two fears, fear two sets of fears coming together,

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or two securities in my servants. Now what does this mean? If he

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fears me in this life and lives righteously? I grant him security

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on the Day of Resurrection. You have fear in this world, you will

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have no fear, love, how often are they him what or whom he has known

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in the hereafter.

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Yet if he feels secure from me, in this world, in this life by boldly

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indulging in disobedience,

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then I give him reason to fear on the Day of Resurrection. And this

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hadith is related by Abner Hepburn, in Asahi. So it's just

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about an remember, remember, with all of this, this does not mean

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that you cannot enjoy the world. Just don't enjoy the world in a

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haram way.

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And if you think that there's no Halal way to enjoy, then it's just

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because you haven't put yourself into that narrative and that

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constraint. People in you know, humans have a lot of flexibility.

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You put them into different situations and different

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environments, they will adjust accordingly. And they will make do

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with what they have. So if we know that we have certain restrictions,

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but I can't do this, I can't do that. Like I give you an example.

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Simple example.

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Let's talk about an example of a man. Men have a natural attraction

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to women.

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It's almost like we've got a window opening ourselves in our

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mind that anytime you see a woman than a man likes to look at the

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one this is an attraction there.

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You don't have the same feeling for walls. Unless it's a very nice

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wall.

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Do you understand what I mean? There's a difference.

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Now,

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this is for generally those women that a person feels that they can

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have a relationship with

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a person had could have the most beautiful daughter, the most

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beautiful mother. But will that same window be open?

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For the majority of people, that they will look at them in that

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same way of attraction that they would look at other women.

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Their mother could be the most beautiful woman in the world.

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Their daughter could be the most beautiful their sister could be

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the most beautiful

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majority of men will not look at them in the same way as others

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because there's a psychological mental door that shut.

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You don't even think about it. Look, I know there are exceptions

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in the world, I know there are problematic people in the world

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who they've opened every door.

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So for for them, everything is the same, they are deviant. But that's

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a minority, the majority of people will have shut that door that's

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you're going to look at them differently.

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You're going to look at it differently. Your sister, you will

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look out with admiration and love,

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not with lust.

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Whereas with others, there's that door. Now, of course, we have to

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regulate that door. But it's so easy to do this. When you look at

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fear, sorry, when you look at beauty, and attraction.

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In some of those, if it's a woman for a man, then they look at it

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with sexual attraction. If it's a cute child, then you look at them

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just out of admiration. It's a different type of approach.

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The same way, it's just about changing the approach. We've just

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allowed those doors to be opened up too far when it comes to all of

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these worldly things. And thus we feel that there's no pleasure when

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it comes to just Halal things.

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And it's very difficult to convince somebody by just

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explaining

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the way you do it is that you restrict yourself and understand

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okay, these firearms are out of the way. I'm only going to do what

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is halal.

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And then Allah will start giving you enjoyment in that.

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As the narration mentions that if a person stopped them stops

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themselves from doing a haram

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because of Allah like you're about to do it and you say no, I'm not

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going to do it and you make a dua at that point, your door will be

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accepted.

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So as this is the month of Ramadan, the perfect practice in

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place the perfect training ground for controlling the hearts for

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controlling the knifes for inculcating fear of Allah subhanaw

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taala by I think we need to sit down once a day at least at some

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time, whether it be before Iftar and just think how many sins have

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I done? What is my state what's going on? And what difference do I

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have to make in my life and inshallah this will get us onto

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the road of inculcating fear in our hearts and in sha Allah may

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Allah allow that to increase and thus give us Taqwa? Well here Dawa

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Anil hamdulillahi rabbil Alameen wa sallahu manda Salam into Salam

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develop their their journey with the Quran, Allah who may have a

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unique medical history the Allahumma Jana Yama, Nan La Ilaha

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illa Allah Subhana Allah in Konami, nobody mean Allahumma

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salli wa salam ala Sayidina Muhammad were either early so you

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then are Muhammad or vertical Salim

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Allahumma fildena Wareham now, if you know what, what is Allahumma

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kulana well you already know what the Messiah is you know when he

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asserted that you know we need to love you know, what do we learn

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you know when he has words you know what it was and you know when

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he hovered you know when he couldn't remember who happened it

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you know, when you call him an O Sana dua Allahu Allah homothetic

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li Mota and Al Muslimeen Alladhina Shahe doing it can be done at OMA

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to other Xotic Allahumma Filion Muslim you know almasi Matthew

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well mumineen or more minutes, here a minimum 1am Words

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of Allah we ask you for complete forgiveness of Allah. This is a

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month in which your blessings have suddenly started. Oh Allah, we ask

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you to drench us and completely cover us and infuse us with this

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mercy and this blessing during this month. Oh Allah, remove our

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sins of Allah remove our wrongdoings of Allah keep your

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veil over us of Allah do not allow us to fall into a state of

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knowledge of Allah do not allow us to fall in the sense of security

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this false security of Allah grant us your fear grant us your

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reverence of Allah grant us. Grant us your reverent fear of Allah

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allow us to come closer to you during this month of Ramadan more

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than we've ever been in our life. Oh Allah make this Ramadan like no

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other Ramadan before it. Oh Allah make this Ramadan a means of us

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becoming

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close to you, of us being forgiven by you, of us being purified by

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you and Allah of us. attaining a much higher status than we've ever

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had before in your sight of Allah We ask that you bless us during

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this month and you bless our families you bless the Muslim

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ummah of Allah bless us and make these fast day fasting days easy

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for us. Oh Allah allow us to take the greatest benefit of these days

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of Allah don't let a day passed with any kind of waste of time and

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from us of Allah allow us to train ourselves during this month so

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that we can better ourselves even after the month of Ramadan. Oh

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Allah. Oh Allah, we ask

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You bless us and you grant us the best of this month Subhan Allah

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because mobilicity I'm you'll see phone was ALLAH and when Alamo

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city you know when hamdulillah

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