Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Dealing the Loss of Loved Ones (COVID19)

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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The coronavirus pandemic has devastated people and their families, created a "overdose" of people suffering from various illnesses, and created a "overdose" of people experiencing various struggles. The virus is not new and has created a "overdose" for everyone. Safety and security are essential in managing one's life, and the importance of knowing one's own vulnerability and avoiding "ma'am," is discussed. The transcript also touches on the negative impact of people feeling emotional release of their behavior and the importance of learning to cure oneself.
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hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam ala Murthy Ramadan,

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Lila al Amin vida, he or Safi or Baraka was seldom at the Sleeman

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cathedral Eli Yomi Dean and my bad Oh dear brothers, sisters dear all

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of my Quran, Allah subhana wa Tada bless you all. Were going through

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some difficult times Allah subhanaw taala speaks about death

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in the Quran in numerous verses. Allah subhanaw taala says we're

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not gonna have enough sin and the mother in law isn't Allah He Kitab

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and what agenda Well, may you read sir but dunya naughty him in one

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minute it's our herbal tea team in her was energy shakin then Allah

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subhanaw taala says could Luna have seen the cultural note we're

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in number two a phone that was Eurocom Yeoman theum feminazi ha

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and in our world cradle Jen for God first woman higher woman

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higher to dunya Illa material Hooroo ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada says,

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I no matter who you drink Kool Moe to welcome to the Guru Ji Masha

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Yoda. And again Allah subhanho wa Taala says what will lead to yet

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our third can be labeled.

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Were either more Majira to me now. Some may have so comfy Leo, Kedah

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Jello mucem some HTML Jericho, some are gonna be welcome Macoun

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Tammy doin? Well, who will call hero phulkari Buddy, he will you

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will see to it come have other hat either. Como totowa Tooru Soluna

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or whom la youfor a boon. So we both know from Scripture. And we

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also know from experience that everybody is going to die. And

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just one simple test how many of us are there who,

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whose great, great grandfather's are still alive. In fact, our

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great great grandfather's, we probably don't even know them. Our

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great grandfather's, some of us may have seen them, otherwise,

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they've gone and everybody of that age has probably gone as well. So

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it's something which is built in innately in the human being, after

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so many centuries after so many millennia, from RMIT Saddam's time

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to this time of seeing that people die. So it's hardwired, in our

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understanding in our outlook, that we are going to die one day. Now,

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the leaders of many of these Silicon Valley firms who have made

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huge amounts of money, one of the

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one of those who actually founded I think it was PayPal, Thiel, his

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name is I think, out of the over 2 billion profit that he made is a

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huge chunk of money that these people, Larry Ellison from Oracle,

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I think he is he's actually putting some huge amount of money

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in longevity studies in trying to keep people alive forever. Now,

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that's something they can waste their time in, they can waste the

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they can waste their money. And but as you know, as we know it,

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death is an inevitable event. And it's something that will happen to

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all of us. Now, during this time, during this particular time of the

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pandemic, when Allah subhanho wa Taala with literally a jar full of

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viruses, meaning viruses of the entire world that are creating

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this chaos. And these lockdowns and people losing their jobs and

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industries being effected in a really, really, really severe way.

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All of the viruses of the world can probably be put into a single

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jar, and that is basically brought the whole world to a standstill.

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You know, so many industries have been effective, some have been

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destroyed and SubhanAllah. So many, so much of a difference. So

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there's a lot of people around us that are sick. And we know a lot

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of people who are sick. I mean, probably every one of us have had

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some kind of sickness, or know at least some people within our

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family or friend circle who have who are sick, or maybe who even

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died. I mean, there are

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so many cases like that. I mean, subhanAllah there are cases with

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multiple people being dying, actually, you know, okay, we have,

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we have people where there's multiple people in the family all

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sick. And then yeah, in some cases, we have people where only

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some people are sick. We have some cases where multiple people in a

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single family die. So for example, just somebody told me that there's

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a husband who died yesterday, his wife had died two weeks ago. We've

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got cases where the husband dies. And a few hours later in another

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hospital or two days later, the wife dies and then the son, the

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oldest son, he's also in hospital, and none of them know that the

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other person has died yet. You know, what times are we living in?

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I mean Subhanallah I mean, at least in our lifetime, we've never

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experienced something like this where you cannot even go to see

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your loved ones where if you're lucky, you might be able to have a

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video call with them. And many instances they die you know very

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soon and there's nobody there to even give them the the Kalima or

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the induced comas. I mean, I don't think in our lifetime, we, we've

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actually seen anything, anything of this nature. Now, what you have

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to understand is that there have been times in history where people

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have seen this, right, or similar things to this, for example, if

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you look at 16th, century London, right, you had plagues visiting

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London, you know, in the 16th century, and then you had the

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Vikings age, right, where they would come and basically cut

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people's throat. And, you know, that's just looking at the West, I

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mean, in the East, in other countries of the world that, you

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know, there's many things that have happened. I mean, if you look

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at North, North America, as well, you know, what's happened to the

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indigenous people people have, this is not something unique. This

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may be unique in terms of a small virus, but even then we've had,

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we've had plagues, and so on, and so forth. It's just that in our

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recent history, in kind of our timeline, we've never seen this,

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we never expected this, we actually thought that we've gotten

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rid of so many different, you know, because we've not seen a

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plague for a very long time, and may we not see a plague ever,

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inshallah. So we thought that all of this kind of thing had been

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pretty much taken away. I mean, even in current times, there are

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places where war has taken place. So it's a man made problem, right?

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You know, it's not due to a virus or a bacteria, or a plague or

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something. It's a man made problem where people are insecure in their

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homes, they've lost people, and so on. So this is, I mean, this is

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life. I mean, unfortunately, this is life. It's just that it's

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happened now, in the case of it's happened to developing countries.

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So that's why I mean, we feel why are we so bothered about the

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pandemic? I mean, that's the question I'm asking when these

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similar things to this would have been the norm, you know, for many

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people in history at, you know, at different times. Now, the other

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thing is that, you know, death is nothing new. So people are dying

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from this, but death is also nothing new. Right? So would you

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call it we're already living in an age where we have, you know,

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cancer, people are dying of cancer, people are dying of AIDS,

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syphilis, train accidents, car accidents, bike accidents,

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paralysis, you know, people are suffering from air raids in

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certain countries, you know, so let's not try to exaggerate the

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novelty of this pandemic. I mean, it is novel, in a sense, because,

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but in terms of what it's doing, right, it's not entirely novel in

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the history of this world. I mean, I'm sure people have suffered even

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worse than this. So even before the pandemic came around, you

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know, even before there was any pandemic, you have to remember

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that we were all sentenced to death already, before any virus

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was released before any virus was detected. We all had a death

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sentence that's basically been hanging over our head since the

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day were born anyway, right from Allah subhanaw taala. And many of

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us out of those, you know, other people who have died, and who were

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going to die, even if there was not a pandemic, there were many

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people who are going to die in unpleasant, unpleasant ways,

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because people have always died in unpleasant ways, whether that be,

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you know, being attacked by an animal, whether that be in an

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accident, whether that be by falling off, whether that be some

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consuming something, whether it be an overdose, whether that be

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somebody murdering them, I mean, we've had all of these things,

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it's just that this has become like more of a single close based

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on a small virus, the virus that can essentially fit in a bottle,

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that would be sufficient for for the entire world. Subhan Allah

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SubhanAllah. So basically, what the virus has done is that it's

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just added one additional method, one additional excuse to die,

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that's what it's done. Right? It's one additional excuse to die. And

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it's everybody's fearful of it. So you know, see, everybody's not

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fearful of a car accident necessarily, or from an overdose

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of something, maybe just people into drugs or other addictions,

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they may be. But what this virus has done is that it's just created

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something overall for everybody to be worried about. Right. So that

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is what this Coronavirus this seems to be, you know how it's

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causing a pandemic, sorry, a panic rather.

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And I think in the West, we've just been, we just had a sense of

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security for a very long time. And that's why, you know, many of the

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people listening today will probably be immigrants or children

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of immigrants, descendants of immigrants, we've come to the

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west, you know, whose forefathers came to the West because of

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security and stability, good health care, you know, longevity,

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and people not dying of, you know, from a natural reasons. So often,

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although, you know, we've had problems in the West as well. So

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now, for a very long time, you know, we've had this sense of

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security in the West, right? From lots of ailments that used to be

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prevalent over millennia, right? And also, they're still prevalent

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in many, many, you know, in many, many parts of the world, even even

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today.

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So, what is the reason that we get so worried and Well, the reason we

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get worried out of all of this, the reason we get worried in all

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of this, right? The biggest thing is that you reminds us of our

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mortality that we're also going

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Today, that's essentially what it reminds us of. It just shows us

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how helpless we are. It shows us that the people we trusted to keep

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us safe, how helpless they are, how the politicians themselves,

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who make the laws, how other people who bring security and

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everything, everybody's in this together, and everybody is

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vulnerable. So it reveals essentially what it does is that

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it reveals that we as human beings cannot really be in control of

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everything. Right? We can't remain in control because Allah subhanaw

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taala, has Juno's has has has armies, you know that he can do

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whatever he wishes with them. That's the first point is for us

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to think about this vulnerability, that humanity has been made

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vulnerable. Humanity has understood their weakness. So in

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sha Allah in sha Allah, this pandemic will end, this pandemic

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will end everything ends in this world. And likewise, bad things

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end as well. And when it ends, then we're hopefully going to be

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better people, hopefully, we are already better people. Otherwise,

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the lesson in this, that Allah subhanaw taala wants to give us

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that's going to be lost. And we want to come out of this after

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having suffered this entire this entire journey, this journey this

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year journey that people have gone through, right? What's the benefit

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of it? What are we going to get out of this? What's to be gotten

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from this, if we're not better people, and we're not closer to

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Allah, at least as Muslims, you've got something to understand and

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make sense of this. That this is not necessarily all senseless.

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There's a purpose behind this. That's the point of being a

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believer that philosophically, theologically, we have a reason

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why these things happen. And we can actually carry a lot of reward

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out of this. So you can imagine it as a computer game where you have

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to do this difficult task of going through these arduous terrain, and

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the circumstances and there's lots of challenges. Now, the good thing

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is that Allah subhanaw taala says, if you have somebody and if you

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have patience, and if you remember Allah subhanaw taala, and you have

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Tawakoni, Allah subhanho, wa taala, and you do the right thing,

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and you keep the right emotion, of patience and reliance on Allah

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subhanho wa taala, you will actually get closer to Allah, you

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will even those who die among you could could be martyrs. So there's

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a lot of good things that come out of this. So you have to remember,

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going on to my second point now is that the people who have died,

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because our discussion is about basically how to manage death, and

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how to what we can do for the deceased and those who have died

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and those who are sick, that what's our responsibility, right?

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What can we do to help them because that's an emotional human

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feeling that we have. So the first thing we have to understand,

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right? There's one thing that bothers a lot of people that

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people when when loved ones die in a pandemic, right have died in the

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pandemic. And yes, it's true, that there's a lot of people who have

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died younger than we would have expected. All right, so they've

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died at the age of 55 or 60. I mean, that's kind of, you know, an

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age that you don't expect people to die they still consider that to

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be young, and the Prophet sallallahu Sallam according to

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him, he died at the age of 62. And he said that there's there's

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traditions that mentioned Merle Almighty, being 16 was a Marine,

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that the lives of my ummah are between 60 to 70. Of course,

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there's people who live beyond 70. And as people who die before 60,

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but generally between 60 to 70, is when people die. And I think the

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profits or loss I'm getting at the age of 62, sallallahu alayhi

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wasallam overcrowded, the Alon also died two years later around

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the same age ometer, the Allah one who's died also about 10 years or

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so later around at the same age. And earlier, the Allah one oz also

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apparently died around the same age. Right? The Almighty Allah was

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not really alone, he died. I mean, he lived a lot longer he died at

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around the age of 80 or so. So he died a lot longer. And we're not

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saying that's a certain age today, because death is in the hands of

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Allah subhanho wa taala. One thing that I want to establish, though,

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that anybody who's died, I mean, we get this thought, we get this

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idea that they've died before the age, anybody who's died in a

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pandemic, or any other kind of, you know, there's people who are

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murdered, I know, in Toronto, there was, there was a Muslim kid,

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may Allah may Allah bless him, you know, may Allah forgive him, there

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was a Muslim, Muslim, youth, young young man who died just I think,

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in the last week or so, right? Or maybe a week or two ago who died,

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you know, being shuttered or something of that nature. So

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people are going to die and we feel that people have died before

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their time. This is just human reaction, to feel that right now,

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we have to remember that everybody dies at their time, they could not

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have live longer, right? less diverse is a quote in the

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beginning they make it very clear, right that Allah subhanaw taala

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has a time for everyone, even before we were created before our

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parents were created. In fact, before the mighty son was created,

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everybody's life and death was written that's not within our

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freewill. You know, in terms of our prayer, our salah, what we

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eat, how we conduct ourselves what we do to others that we do based

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on freewill, though Allah subhanaw taala knows about it, but we do it

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based on freewill, but when we

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die, that is a death that comes and Allah subhanaw taala already

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knows the causes of these things from eternity. So nobody dies

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earlier than their age Yes, because of the way they died, and

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they died before the age of 70 or so we feel that a life has been

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cut short for them. So we for some reason, we feel a bit more

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miserable. But if we look at the grand scheme of things, from

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Allah's perspective, that was when they were going to die, whether

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there was a pandemic, or there was no pandemic, he's already

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designated that. Why do we Why do we feel like that for?

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Why do we feel like that? Why do we feel worse when somebody dies

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and unnatural death as opposed to dying? You know, through just

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normal causes? Why do we feel that I think it reminds us of our own

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mortality, right, because what it's doing is that it's actually

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breaking the norm that we're used to, we're used to people dying

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after the age of 6570. All right, or we know that somebody's going

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to die because they're very, very sick, and they've had cancer for

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five years, or six years, or they've got a debilitating

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disease. So we kind of expected, but when somebody would never had

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any of these things, and indeed, they've died in the pandemic,

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right, what it does is that humans like routine humans, like custom

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humans, like habit, things that are predictable, they don't like

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to be, you know, they don't like to be caught out by surprises. So

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what happens is, when you get caught out by a surprise, like

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this, regarding a friend or a family member or somebody else,

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then we feel like we could be caught out like that as well. So

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actually, it reminds us, it makes us worried, and that is good, that

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is good that it makes us worried for ourselves. Right? It should

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make us worried for ourselves, it should not just make it a source

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of complaint to Allah subhanaw taala. So we can also die before

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the age of 70. And that's something that we should be

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thinking about. Now, the third point I want to make, then, once

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we've covered those aspects, is that for those people now who have

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died, let us understand, you know, how did you know how they could be

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dealing with this? So what is the position of those who have died

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through COVID-19, for example, because that's what's in front of

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us right now. You know, we're feeling bad that there's people

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who've died, right. SubhanAllah. So a lot of people are asking the

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question, right, which is very closely related to this is

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COVID-19 a punishment? Right? Did you guys ever consider that

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question is COVID-19 a punishment? So I'm going to try to understand

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that question and try to answer it. So the answer of it answer for

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this question about whether COVID-19 or any pandemic for that

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matter, whether it's a punishment or not, it's a it's not an easy

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question to answer. All right, it's not a simple question. The

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reason is that Allah subhanaw taala is multifaceted. Allah

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subhanho wa Taala has everything at his disposal. Allah subhanho wa

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Taala is Latif, Allah subhanho wa Taala is Aleem Allah subhanho wa

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Taala is extremely sophisticated, Allah is so subtle, Allah subhanho

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wa Taala is so multi dimensional, Allah subhanho wa Taala can do so

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many things at once. There's an infinite number of things that are

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going on at the same time, right that Allah subhanaw taala can do

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and be in charge of all of these things. So I think the one thing

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that we can say is that somebody that COVID-19 is different things.

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So this is the answer. COVID-19 is different things for different

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people. And you can maybe have an idea of what it is for ourselves,

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right, depending on our reaction to it. That's one way to tell

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that's a sign to figure out what COVID-19 is, for me what COVID-19

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is for an individual, any individual, it depends on how we

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react to any challenges in this world. This is a way to find out

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about any challenges, whether that may be a small leak in your house

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from the roof, whether that may be that you've got a problem with

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your car, and you have to get it fixed, as it depends. So you've

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had you've got a mole, you know, you've got a cell phone contract,

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and they've overcharged you now you have to spend time in trying

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to correct the issue with the phone representatives. That's a

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difficulty. You know, that's a challenge that's, you know, that's

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come about, how do we rate how do we react to these things is what's

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going to, you know, maybe help to determine

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what this is for us. So now, the simple thing is that it could be

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one of three things broadly speaking, it could be many things,

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but it could be broadly speaking three things. The first thing is

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that when we have a difficult let's say we become sick with

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COVID, right, or somebody close to us become sick with COVID. And

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there we, you know, we start thinking that, you know, all of

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this difficulty, it's, it's I know now what it is, you know, last

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week or last month, two weeks ago, you know, I said these bad things

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to such and such a person. I acted unfairly, I saw something that was

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wrong. I spoke to somebody that I should not have been speaking I

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bet I went a bit over over the limit in this or that or maybe I

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cheated here or that. I missed my prayer. You

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No, I wasn't really punctual on my prayers, you know, whatever it is,

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it makes us think that this is something going on here is

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something that destabilize in my life in my action. So Allah

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subhanaw taala is sending this upon me. If that is the case, and

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we then make Toba and we repent and we seek forgiveness, then this

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challenge for us, this challenge for us is very simple. It's a

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source of purification. It is not a punishment, it's a source of

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purification. Because inevitably, it's what we do with it. Right

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now, it might seem as a punishment, but actually we're

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getting closer to Allah because we're purifying ourselves. So this

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is a source of purification, this is this gear. On the other hand,

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if we think back, you know, where we've got a problem with our car,

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or our bill or something tore or something, something happened, or

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we had a bit of a bruise or a graceful, little accident, or, you

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know, we've got a wound that's come out or a big boil that's

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appeared, God forbid, God forbid, right? Somebody's lost a child.

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You know, somebody's had some major upset an upheaval at work,

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businesses gone down. Last the big contract, you know, subhanAllah

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there's just so many different things that could have happened.

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If you think if you think back and you think I can't think of any

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sins, I genuinely cannot think of anything that I've done wrong. But

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then you saying look, it's up to Allah, He has given me so much

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good in this world. He's given me so much. I mean, my whole

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existence is a bounty is a blessing of Allah subhanaw taala

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This is a bit of a difficulty. That's what Allah wants. Let me

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just make somewhere I know what my responsibilities and levena Is

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that a cyber Tomasi mahalo in the law, we're in LA Raj your own

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dough, those who went to mercy but attacks them, when they when they

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have a challenge when they have some kind of difficulty, and a

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calamity befalls them. They say, you know, we belong to Allah as

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well to him, we're eventually going to return. So I've got this

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loss, right, right now we're going to return. If we think that then

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this will raise our status in the sight of Allah. This will make us

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closer to Allah subhanaw taala. Now, think about it this way, the

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challenges there already. We've already suffered right now this is

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suffering we've already suffered. Now, is it worth going through

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this suffering and not getting anything out of it? Just

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basically,

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having all of this aggravation, having all of this anxiety and not

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getting anything out of it? Is it worth it? That's why people of

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faith have a huge benefit have a huge potential. When suffering

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comes suffering is inevitable in this world suffering is going to

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happen. We've never been guaranteed a suffer suffer a life

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free of suffering. Right suffering has been there since Adam Ali

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salaam Stein, when Kaabil killed, horrible suffering had already

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begun. And people suffered right people have always suffered. And

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Allah subhanho wa Taala is the loving God. He is the merciful

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God. He is the graceful God. He is the he is the gracious God. He is

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the benevolent Lord. He is the Generous Lord. And He is the

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extremely loving Lord. But at the same time, he also tells us He is

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the kahar He is the one with mighty is the one the Vanquisher

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he is the one that will attack him. He can avenge he can punish

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Allah subhanaw taala talks about his punishments in the Quran,

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Allah subhanaw taala says he can avenge and he everything is under

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his control. So Allah subhanaw taala is all of these things. We

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don't have the concept of Christianity of just a loving God,

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we have a very, very loving God that we're doing and Myrna Rahim,

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and surely His mercy and definitely, indeed, His mercy has

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overcome his, his, his anger, but he, he can have anger, and he can

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have all of these other things. And those are what manifests in

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the world. That's the reality. So let us not constrain our concept

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of God and then have a problem of why they're suffering and why

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babies die sometimes, or why the feeble die, sometimes it's

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inevitable. That's what the world is all about. And that's what's

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going to happen. So

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it's how we react going back to that point. Now, the third point

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that the third reaction would be that somebody has a problem and

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they freak out, and they start complaining, and they're like, Why

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me? What's wrong? What have I done wrong? You know, Is God really

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there is God.

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I mean, now with a biller, they say other things, right? Say Can

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God only find me this is if they still even have some kind of

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belief in God. Others would say, they can't be a god because

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they're suffering and God has to be merciful. But God never told

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you that he's only merciful, He said, that I am so many other

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things as well as we know from the 99 names. So if if somebody is led

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to this because of a mistaken theology, or a mistaken idea, or

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just not knowing and unawareness, or ignorance and not not checking

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it out, not understanding what Allah subhanaw taala is not

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understanding that Tawheed then that means this is a punishment

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for them. So now when people have died out of COVID, right, it

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depends on what their state was. If somebody died with a lot of

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complaints and everything, then I leave that to Allah.

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subhanaw taala but if somebody died with a lot of patience, they

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knew that they were just doing the bidding of Allah. Allah was in

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complete control. And they were just doing whatever Allah wanted.

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And they were, according to that, then you know, in sha Allah, maybe

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it will be Shahadat for them. So you see, that's the benefit for

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us. My mother passed away from about 10 years ago, 11 years ago,

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actually more about 12 years ago, suffering after suffering for 10

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years with cancer. She suffered from cancer. May Allah have mercy

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on her. She suffered from cancer for about 10 years. But I have to

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say that mashallah she felt all alone. Right. Now, there were very

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difficult times going through chemotherapy and everything, but

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Masha Allah, she had a lot of patients, she had a lot of summer.

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And I think she knew that she was going to go in a few days when it

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came to the last moment. That's why she wanted to come out of

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hospital, and she just wanted to be taken home, but she wouldn't

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say anything else. And when she came home, she said nothing else.

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She hardly said anything else. And she made all the preparations

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before that, of telling us you know, what's going to work, you

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know, your dad will help you do this and that, all the rest of it.

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Now, she she she died after 10 years now for me, she died. And I

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think that she's a martyr because she died due to illness and in the

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hadith of our school, allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, there

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are approximately 70 up to 70 categories of people that are

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considered a category of martyr. Right? And remember, martyrdom is

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one of those actions in Islam that has this huge, profound instant

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reward. Right? You know,

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what's so amazing about martyrs, right? And when you're talking

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about martyrs, we're talking about warriors are people who die

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actively in the path of Allah subhanaw taala, right, fighting in

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the path of Allah, that's what we're, that's what a martyr

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generally is. Not martyr, they, the reward of a martyr is before

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the blood reaches the ground, their sins are forgiven, then

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there's huge amounts of reward. I mean, Allah has prepared 100

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degrees levels in paradise, right, which are specifically for

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martyrs, and between the first level and the second level is like

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between the Earth and the first heaven. I mean, it's huge. It's,

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it's just mind bogglingly huge. Another thing is Allah subhanaw

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taala says, well attack salmonella, you know, co T visa

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vie de la, um, water, those who die in the path of Allah fighting

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in the path of Allah, they are not considered to be, don't consider

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them to be, you know, dead in the normal way that you understand

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people to be dead. In fact, the Earth does not consume and

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decompose the bodies of martyrs. And this is not just something we

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learned from Hadith, but this has been seen by observation. And

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there's only two categories of people that are given this merit,

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this vallila this virtue, it's the prophets and the martyrs. Now,

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these are and then the other thing is the martyrs, their souls, once

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they die, their souls go into paradise, right, and they are in

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the they are inside, in the form of green birds are inside of these

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green birds, then they fly around paradise and this other

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generations as well about that they have a very, very special

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category. So the Prophet said Allah was mentioned approximately

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up to 70 additional categories of people including those who die

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from stomach ailments those who die you know in different types of

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accidents or natural causes. Our teacher Monona, Hashem Patel's

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Masha Allah, may Allah may Allah relieve him of his difficulties,

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and may Allah give him a good life. He's written a book on this

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and I'm hoping that somebody in sha Allah can put this into

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English because I think at this point in time, it creates a lot of

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hope. So I think my mother has has has died as a matter of the

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hereafter. They're not the you know, the 70 or so categories,

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they're not going to die, they're not going to be considered this

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exact same as somebody who actively dies, you know, fighting

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in the path of Allah subhanaw taala. Those are considered to be

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people who are shaheed and martyrs of this world and the Hereafter,

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and people who die in these ailments of these unnatural

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causes. They are considered to be martyrs of the hereafter. So we

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deal with them as normal people who die, we bathed them, we shout

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them and we bury them and we pray, pray upon them and everything

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else. But in the in the Hereafter, they come up as martyrs. I think

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that my mother is in sha Allah Mata that makes me feel much

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better Hamdulillah that her suffering was not for nothing.

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Now, an atheist if they if they die, or if they Auntie or their

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mother has died out of cancer in a similar way, what are they going

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to get out of it? You know, how do they cope with this they died for

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nothing because they don't believe anything and they had a miserable

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miserable life as well so they don't get anything out of it. Now

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I I feel comforted by the fact that this happens that it's she's

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probably a martyr I'm giving you just the example of my mother

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right who died over 10 years ago. Right but you can relate this to

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insha Allah your own disease people write that in sha Allah

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there Marta, if they did well in sha Allah, if they did well, right

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and we can do a lot to inshallah help them as well. So now, the

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eighth is going to tell me that you know when you say that, Oh,

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They died as a martyr and you feel good about it. You're just, that's

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just the that's just your way of saying this. That's just your

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coping mechanism. That is, that is just the way to make yourself feel

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good. You know, it's just the feel good factor. So then my response

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would be that okay, fine, at least I've got a feel good factor, which

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I believe in and it makes me feel good Hamdulillah. Is there

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anything wrong with that? What's wrong with it? Even if it's a feel

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good factor? It's not. We believe in what our messengers Allah has

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told us, we believe in that. But even if it is just the feelgood

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factor, just from a human perspective, why why should we

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not? You know, why should we not at least be able to cope and have

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a coping mechanism? That's why people with faith are faring much

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better than people without faith, because they've got something

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they've got a bigger picture, they've got something to go for.

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So you should really thank Allah subhanaw taala, for what He has

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given us. So that's a very, very important thing. That's a very,

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very important thing. So that was the third point of, you know, is

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COVID a punishment or not? And I said that the it's it's a

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complicated idea. It's a complicated issue. And it depends

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on the person that it has afflict afflicted and what is done for

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them. Okay, what is done for them, there are people who are

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suffering, who are struggling to eat to struggling, their

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businesses are going down, you know, they are suffering losses in

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that regard. It just depends on how they're going to react. Right?

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It just depends on how they're going to react. Now, the next

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point, then, the fourth point that I'm going to speak about today, is

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what do we do for the people who have gone now? Right? What do we

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do for those who are sick? So this is this is these are two different

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points? What do we do for those who are suffering in sickness?

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Whether that be ourselves or someone else? What do we do? Let's

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start with that one. Firstly, there is no problem with having a

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release of emotion with shedding a few tears with crying, right and

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crying to Allah subhanaw taala. There's nothing wrong with that.

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And actually says that if you when you when you suffer a loss, like

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the loss of a, you know, a loved one, that it's actually sometimes

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good to release that emotion. And the Prophet SAW awesome showed us

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that he did this as well, when his grandchild passed away, he wept a

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few tears and some of the Sahaba were surprised by this. And he

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said, Look, this is just humanity. This is just the in sun. This is

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just the Rama in a person's heart that this is this is a

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an emotional release of the and there's nothing wrong with that

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what he had prohibited against the Prophet sallallahu sallam was

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obviously the NIA which is this veiling and rending the garments

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and shrieking and putting out the hair, which was done as a

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profession, which was done as something that people would be

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hired to do. So they had no feeling they will just do this, it

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was a tradition that you did, you know, like, people have these

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traditions that at the wedding, they must we must bring some

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dancers, right, or we must bring some music, or we must bring this

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or that. It's just they do something. It's all pretenses at

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the end of the day, right. So that is what that is what was

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prohibited, but other ways to release some emotion is good. And

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people actually say that if you keep it all pent up, then actually

00:33:03 --> 00:33:06

that can be bad for you sometimes as well. So just released a

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motion, that's fine. But the best thing is to actually really

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release the emotion to Allah subhanaw taala when you feel like

00:33:11 --> 00:33:14

crying, cry to Allah subhanaw taala. Now, I'm going to mention

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to you that when somebody is sick, there are, of course, there's DHA,

00:33:19 --> 00:33:23

right? But in addition to DHA, and so on, and the patience and our

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focus on Allah and reliance on him and just focusing on him. Of

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course, we can, you know, we use medicines, and we try to acquire a

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

cure for ourselves, we do all of that. But in addition to that,

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there are some actions which are very, very beneficial. And one of

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them is giving a lot of sadaqa. Right, giving a lot of sadaqa is

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

extremely, extremely beneficial. You know, when chef Yunus

00:33:45 --> 00:33:46

our

00:33:47 --> 00:33:51

Schakel Hadith from sovereign poor who passed away just what is it

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about two years ago now, so, right Rahima, hula was one of our

00:33:56 --> 00:33:58

teachers who was with him at the time of the Shabbat. So he's

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saying that Sheikh Yunus gave huge amounts of sadaqa and his illness

00:34:02 --> 00:34:05

was critical. People thought he was gone, like he was going to be

00:34:05 --> 00:34:09

gone. But Subhanallah he recovered from that, and we had him for some

00:34:09 --> 00:34:13

some more time after that, and he gave huge amounts of sadaqa

00:34:13 --> 00:34:16

recently, somebody became ill somebody I know who became ill,

00:34:16 --> 00:34:20

and he remembered this so when he became ill, he got his laptop,

00:34:20 --> 00:34:24

right? And he started donating and I think in I think he said that

00:34:24 --> 00:34:27

within like half an hour or so. Right? He donated several 100

00:34:27 --> 00:34:31

pounds, right, you know, 100 pound here 500 pound there 200 pound

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

here 100 count there. And you know, he'd never donated that much

00:34:34 --> 00:34:37

in one go. I mean, he may have donated to a big cause, like you

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know, where you're in a fundraising you give 1000 pounds

00:34:39 --> 00:34:41

or something like that, he said, but but this one is just like

00:34:41 --> 00:34:43

quickly, quickly get some money out of the way just just like

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that. And mashallah, mashallah he recovered. There's also another

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

very interesting story that Allah subhanaw that is related by Imam

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

Behati In short, I will Iman I mean, subhanAllah I, you know, I

00:34:55 --> 00:34:57

was really affected by the story.

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

Imam Bihac

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Iraqi was one of our great Muhaddith in great archy the

00:35:02 --> 00:35:05

scholar theologian and so on amazing you know, he's very

00:35:05 --> 00:35:08

likable we there's a lot of books of his that are quoted like the

00:35:08 --> 00:35:12

short I believe and the branches of our faith. He says that it's

00:35:12 --> 00:35:14

got a chain that goes up to Abdullah hymnal, Mubarak, the

00:35:14 --> 00:35:17

great Madison Mujahid, and he says that I'm delighted that Mubarak

00:35:17 --> 00:35:21

was there. And somebody asked him about Abdur Rahman, you know, his

00:35:21 --> 00:35:25

title was Abdul Rahman, he says that somebody came to him and said

00:35:25 --> 00:35:29

to him that in my knee, I've got this boil, right, which is there

00:35:29 --> 00:35:32

for seven years, it's been hurting me for so many. I had a boil

00:35:32 --> 00:35:37

problem on my knee for about seven years now. Right? And I've tried

00:35:37 --> 00:35:40

everything I've been to every doctor that I could find who could

00:35:40 --> 00:35:44

try to cure me, I've been to every doctor and I've just not been able

00:35:44 --> 00:35:48

to benefit the boil just resists all kinds of therapies, all kinds

00:35:48 --> 00:35:52

of you know medicine and he won't go away. So Abdullah him

00:35:52 --> 00:35:56

normobaric just told him he says, if her funder Modi and yajnas Ilma

00:35:56 --> 00:36:00

for Pune Cubitron he said go go go somewhere, you know, on the

00:36:00 --> 00:36:02

outskirts or wherever it was, and find a place where people are in

00:36:02 --> 00:36:05

need of water, you know, where they where there's a scarcity of

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

water, right and go and have a well dug for them. Meaning go and

00:36:10 --> 00:36:15

dig a well for them. For me or June, I have all hope that and

00:36:15 --> 00:36:19

timber are gonna clean that as soon as you know, I have hope that

00:36:19 --> 00:36:22

as soon as there is water flowing there and a stream starts from the

00:36:22 --> 00:36:26

the wells starts from the UMC co anchor dam your blood flow from

00:36:26 --> 00:36:31

your boil from your knee will stop as well. Now I don't know what

00:36:31 --> 00:36:34

caused him to say that maybe you know, whatever the intuition was,

00:36:35 --> 00:36:37

and the person did that he went and found a place had a well dug

00:36:37 --> 00:36:42

they started a supply of water for Buddy and he became better right

00:36:42 --> 00:36:44

he became better now today we have a lot of these opportunities, you

00:36:44 --> 00:36:47

don't even have to go and find it yourself and dig it yourself or

00:36:47 --> 00:36:50

you know even stand around you can actually get these relief

00:36:50 --> 00:36:53

organizations to do this, you know, in different parts of the

00:36:53 --> 00:36:57

world. Subhanallah Imam basically then says right I didn't see

00:36:57 --> 00:37:01

Abdullah whom Barack is a few 100 years later, but Imam basically

00:37:01 --> 00:37:06

says that there's actually another story of the exact same nature for

00:37:06 --> 00:37:11

our shake, which happened with his teacher who is the famous How can

00:37:11 --> 00:37:14

a boy Abdullah and Nisha Puri you know, who wrote the big mustard

00:37:14 --> 00:37:17

rock is one of the big more Hadith and he was also from Nisha pool,

00:37:17 --> 00:37:20

which is where Imam Muslim Rahim Allah was wrong, which is in Iran

00:37:20 --> 00:37:27

today. Right? He says that Imam Hakim he got that there was a

00:37:27 --> 00:37:31

wound a boil or something. Right huge boil or something that

00:37:31 --> 00:37:34

appeared on his face. Right. Now that's even worse than the knee.

00:37:34 --> 00:37:38

Maybe, you know, I'm not sure. He says again, he tried to have it

00:37:38 --> 00:37:42

cured. He tried to get a remedy for it various different ways, and

00:37:42 --> 00:37:47

it just wouldn't go. Right. And it was nearly a year it stayed for so

00:37:47 --> 00:37:50

he had this problem. He's suffering from this problem for

00:37:50 --> 00:37:53

about a year. Okay. So he went to one of his teachers. He went to

00:37:53 --> 00:37:57

one of the squat one of the righteous Olia of the time, whose

00:37:57 --> 00:38:02

name was Imam Abu Earthman Asad Guney abou Earthman CyberZone and

00:38:02 --> 00:38:05

he went to as much as you know when they have the modulus of

00:38:05 --> 00:38:08

dhikr or the Maori the Beyonce or whatever, right like if somebody

00:38:08 --> 00:38:12

comes today to monitor him Samana has a mana bill also this Can you

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

please make dua for me very very similar to this right. And I'm

00:38:16 --> 00:38:18

assuming that after this as a mana belongs, I'm one of them so we're

00:38:18 --> 00:38:22

gonna get a huge amount of dollars to you know, for people to make

00:38:22 --> 00:38:23

the doors for them, right.

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

And may Allah subhanaw taala accept this message and make him

00:38:27 --> 00:38:30

robotic that it is the source for cure for a lot of problems. So

00:38:30 --> 00:38:34

anyway, this is what happened. He he went to a board with mana Seibu

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

Rahim Allah to ask him that he made the offer for Hakeem Hakim

00:38:40 --> 00:38:43

asked him right that can you make dua for me in your Mejlis on

00:38:43 --> 00:38:46

Fridays that you hold in your gatherings on Fridays that you

00:38:46 --> 00:38:51

hold, make dua for me? So likewise, with mana Cibona he

00:38:51 --> 00:38:54

obliged and he made dua for him. And mashallah, there was so many

00:38:54 --> 00:38:58

people there men and women and they made army they said army,

00:38:58 --> 00:39:02

right? Oh Allah except, so when it was the next Juma for the next

00:39:02 --> 00:39:07

gathering, right Subhanallah a woman came and she threw into the

00:39:07 --> 00:39:11

gathering a note. I mean, this was probably similar to today where we

00:39:11 --> 00:39:13

can do it online now, but you know, women attended the

00:39:13 --> 00:39:17

gathering, but they would send the comments or notes or questions on

00:39:17 --> 00:39:20

a piece of paper, she Alcott in Ratan film actually see raka B.

00:39:21 --> 00:39:26

And she basically gave a narration about her story she narrated what

00:39:26 --> 00:39:29

happened since last week. She said from last week, when I heard about

00:39:29 --> 00:39:34

Imam Al Hakim and his his boy on his face. I went and I made a lot

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

of dua for him. Subhanallah women's two hours there are a lot

00:39:36 --> 00:39:40

of women listening today and we would request them as well to make

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

dua for us as well. And for one of those people who are suffering,

00:39:43 --> 00:39:46

right she said I really made a lot of effort in my dua for Hakeem Abu

00:39:46 --> 00:39:50

Abdullah that night. And at that, in that night I saw the Prophet

00:39:50 --> 00:39:53

sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in my dream and the prophets of Allah

00:39:53 --> 00:39:57

symbols as if he was telling me that go and say to avoid Abdullah,

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

which means Abu Abdullah

00:40:01 --> 00:40:06

Who is Abdullah Al Hakim? Right, go and inform Abu Abdullah Al

00:40:06 --> 00:40:12

Hakim, that he should somehow expand his distribution of water

00:40:12 --> 00:40:14

for the believers meaning somehow distribute water among the

00:40:14 --> 00:40:19

believers. It's an essence of life water essence of life. Go go and

00:40:19 --> 00:40:25

do that. Right? So that's why I have sent this message on this

00:40:25 --> 00:40:30

piece of paper. So how can Masha Allah was told about this Imam

00:40:30 --> 00:40:34

Hakim Rahim Allah was talking about this. So what he did was

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

outside his house, he got a what you would call today a cooler

00:40:38 --> 00:40:44

place there, right he something to provide water and he also had ice

00:40:44 --> 00:40:47

put in there. You know, nowadays, it would be like getting a cooler

00:40:47 --> 00:40:50

place somewhere where people would be going past they do this and a

00:40:50 --> 00:40:53

lot of hot countries that you you see, like in Syria, they've got a

00:40:53 --> 00:40:57

cooler down there and it says Ilahi you know, shaken or

00:40:57 --> 00:40:59

whatever, you know, somebody has done it for their father or their

00:40:59 --> 00:41:03

grandfather or somebody, their mother or whatever it is. That's

00:41:03 --> 00:41:07

what he did. And he put a lot of ice in their head, a lot of ice

00:41:07 --> 00:41:09

and so people were you know, mashallah very satisfied with the

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

water as they're drinking when they're going past. Within a week,

00:41:12 --> 00:41:16

he says, not a week had passed for Mr. Murali, who spoke had davara

00:41:16 --> 00:41:21

shifa, not a weekend pass until he got shifa. And all of those

00:41:21 --> 00:41:24

pimples and those other problems of his face, they they went away

00:41:24 --> 00:41:28

with another wedge, who will accidentally McCann and became

00:41:28 --> 00:41:32

again, pristine as it was before and after that he left for a very

00:41:32 --> 00:41:35

long time, mashallah, for a number of years afterwards. So I'm saying

00:41:35 --> 00:41:38

we can try this as well, if you've got yourself or a loved one who

00:41:38 --> 00:41:43

have who have who has this issue, you know, go and get a well dug as

00:41:43 --> 00:41:46

soon as possible and do many other good things. It's not just the

00:41:46 --> 00:41:48

well, you can do many other things. But this is related by

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

Imam Bihac in a shot, I will Iman and inshallah that will be of

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

benefit. The last point I want to make is that for those who have

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

passed away, we are the only source now the prophets of Allah

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

Islam said in a hadith of Muslim that when a person passes away,

00:42:01 --> 00:42:04

then his active actions they stop, they cease, they finish, he can't

00:42:04 --> 00:42:08

do any more active actions. However, there are some sources by

00:42:08 --> 00:42:12

which he still a person continues to receive the rewards. And that

00:42:12 --> 00:42:16

is a southern Nigeria, some knowledge that can be benefited

00:42:16 --> 00:42:19

from and a wonder don't salehoo near the ruler who which is

00:42:19 --> 00:42:23

basically a child, right? A child, male or female, right that could

00:42:23 --> 00:42:26

make to offer them. Now we are those who are left behind. And I

00:42:26 --> 00:42:30

don't think that this is just restricted to a child, okay? If

00:42:30 --> 00:42:33

you are a brother, and I'm sure if you make dua, Allah will accept it

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

as well. If you are the father, and your child has died, you're

00:42:35 --> 00:42:38

the mother and the child has died, or your brother has died, your

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

uncle's died in sha Allah, if we pray for them, and we give sadaqa

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

for them, in sha Allah, Allah will accept that as well. I don't think

00:42:45 --> 00:42:49

this is has to be just restricted. Generally, it's the son or the

00:42:49 --> 00:42:51

daughter, that's generally going to be the closest who's going to

00:42:51 --> 00:42:54

have who's going to be probably out who's going to outlive the

00:42:54 --> 00:42:57

parents, and that's why but otherwise, all of us can be welded

00:42:57 --> 00:43:01

on salehoo, all of us can be that in sha Allah, and I think it

00:43:01 --> 00:43:04

benefits because if we are so inspired for our for our disease

00:43:04 --> 00:43:08

to do that, then they they must have done something for us that we

00:43:08 --> 00:43:12

are inspired to be able to pray for them. So there are multiple

00:43:12 --> 00:43:15

ways we can do that. But I think one of the things that I've

00:43:15 --> 00:43:18

learned from my teachers is a very, very, very simple thing,

00:43:19 --> 00:43:24

right? And I'm sure Insha Allah, you can do this. And it, it

00:43:24 --> 00:43:28

amounts to so much, but it's so easy, simple thing you do is that

00:43:28 --> 00:43:31

after every prayer that you perform, right, so you finish your

00:43:31 --> 00:43:35

prayer, and now you're getting up to go and do something else. As

00:43:35 --> 00:43:38

you're getting up or before you get up. Just try to make a habit

00:43:38 --> 00:43:41

of just reciting Kulu Allahu Allah three times now I said, there's

00:43:41 --> 00:43:44

nothing in the Quran sunnah directly that tells us to do it

00:43:44 --> 00:43:50

this way. But we know that certain class equates in some ways to 1/3

00:43:50 --> 00:43:53

of the Quran. If you read it three times, whatever its rewards are,

00:43:53 --> 00:43:57

it's a huge amount of reward for reading Quran. And pretty much

00:43:57 --> 00:44:00

most of the Allama agree as well that you can take the reward of

00:44:00 --> 00:44:04

your Quranic reading, right? And you can donate that to somebody

00:44:04 --> 00:44:08

all you have to do is oh Allah recited this Quran Oh ALLAH the

00:44:08 --> 00:44:12

reward that I am receiving from this Quran reading of three Surah

00:44:12 --> 00:44:16

ikhlas of Allah give it to so and so. So what we're going to do as a

00:44:16 --> 00:44:19

very simple thing is recycle Wallah who had three times the

00:44:19 --> 00:44:23

whole sort of three times it will take us less than a minute, right?

00:44:23 --> 00:44:28

As a habit, and then we say, Oh Allah, send the reward of this to

00:44:28 --> 00:44:34

my parents, and send a reward of this to all my teachers and those

00:44:34 --> 00:44:37

who have benefited me. And subhanAllah I'm going to request

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

that you include me into that. It's up to you, but I'm going to

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

request that right because in sha Allah, I'm hoping that you will

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

include me in this because you're you may be learning this from me.

00:44:48 --> 00:44:52

But it adds to so much. I did it for so many years when I heard it

00:44:52 --> 00:44:57

from my teacher, right? That Oh Allah give the reward of this to

00:44:57 --> 00:44:59

my parents and my

00:45:01 --> 00:45:02

My teachers

00:45:03 --> 00:45:07

five times a day, imagine the amount of reward that you can do

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

the amount that this will eventually accumulate, accumulate

00:45:11 --> 00:45:15

to, after so many days, so many years and whatever, it's a very

00:45:15 --> 00:45:18

similar when you make a habit of it becomes very, very easy as

00:45:18 --> 00:45:21

well. Allah give us it's all female except this from us. So

00:45:21 --> 00:45:24

this is what we can do. And one of the best things that you can do is

00:45:24 --> 00:45:28

to do some kind of endowment. The sadaqa that you want to find is

00:45:28 --> 00:45:31

something that is going to last as long as possible and that's going

00:45:31 --> 00:45:35

to have that huge, the greatest potential you can give it to a

00:45:35 --> 00:45:39

masjid. But once messages are, you know, once mustards are being

00:45:39 --> 00:45:43

taken care of, then I think the next best thing, right has to be

00:45:43 --> 00:45:47

madrasahs has to be Institute's that are going to train you know,

00:45:47 --> 00:45:51

the for LM and Allah ma May Allah subhanahu wa taala accept this

00:45:51 --> 00:45:54

from us, may Allah allow us to think ahead, and may Allah

00:45:54 --> 00:45:57

subhanaw taala bless our deceased and may Allah subhanho wa Taala

00:45:57 --> 00:46:00

protect us and may Allah allow us to come out of this pandemic

00:46:00 --> 00:46:04

better than when we entered into it and give us a better

00:46:04 --> 00:46:07

understanding of Allah subhanho wa Taala and may Allah subhanho wa

00:46:07 --> 00:46:09

Taala accept from all of you and bless all of those who set this

00:46:09 --> 00:46:12

program up and bless all of you, those of you who are listening,

00:46:12 --> 00:46:15

whilst you read that Werner and hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen

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