Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Demanding Reward for Your Deeds [Hikam 121 & 122]

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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The importance of acceptance and understanding is emphasized in Islam, with rewarding actions based on acceptance and avoiding confusion. The need for change in behavior and behavior is emphasized, as it is a starting point for enhancing reward. The importance of rewarding actions based on acceptance and understanding is emphasized, as it is a starting point for enhancing reward. The need for change in behavior and behavior is emphasized, as it is a starting point for enhancing reward.
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sincerity actually truly existed in a person, one would not have

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rendered the deed in expectation of compensation in the first

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place. So hon Allah, that means to say that if I'm looking for a

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deed, I'm not sincere.

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If I'm looking for reward, I'm not sincere.

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As we said,

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starting something off for wanting rewards, that's just the starting.

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He's talking to more advanced people. He's not talking to the

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basics who don't even pray for them. You need rewards, man,

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you're gonna get rewarded and go to Paradise, you're gonna go to

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*. That's how you start off. Once you're on there, then after

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that, it's about expanding and enhancing. So that's what he's

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talking about. For such a person. It will just suffice that he is

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just not punished by Allah for giving him such a polluted act.

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Bismillahirrahmanirrahim Allah hamdu lillah wa Salatu was Salam

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Tada wala who had a kakum Warmerdam alone hamdulillah to

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continue with our series on even auto scan, there is GitHub will

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become the Book of Wisdom, we reach page 104 We will be

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Inshallah, looking at two of these. We will be looking at two

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of his aphorisms today. They are a continuation of the last session,

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but they add another level on it. So the last one was the discussion

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that whoever worships Allah subhanaw taala for something that

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he hopes from Allah subhanaw taala

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or in order to stave off the arrival of a punishment has not

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concerned himself with the real nature of Allah's attributes and

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is a shortcoming in that regard. Now he adds on to that theme.

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And really really makes it very, very clear. So this is what he

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says in number one to one which is on page 104. Mata Tala there are a

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warden and Amylin to lip the VA will do the sit key

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work Phil Mareeba, which Dan Salama amazing.

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The last time he was saying it was more of a guidance. Now it's more

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of a challenge. Are you still going to Are you still going to be

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just focused on asking Allah for the reward of the deeds that you

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do? The bit of relief work the extra sadaqa you gave the

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assistance that you provided, the extra Noah, Phil you performed,

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you got off at 100 and now you feel so great about it, you should

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feel great, but in thanks to Allah rather than this feeling that I'm

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better than somebody else, I'm going to have more reward, Allah

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has to give me reward. So now Allah subhanaw taala challenges

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the person and says, When you seek a recompense for a deed, when you

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seek your reward for a deed,

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then the existence of sincerity in it is going to be demanded of you

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in return.

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You will ask for reward fine. Let's see how much sincerity you

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had in your deed. Let's see how good God was.

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As for the insincere the feeling of security from chastisement

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suffices in

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in simple words, the one who is insincere.

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For him to just be free, and safe from being punished for not doing

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it right, should be enough for him as a reward.

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So totally different way this is Allah subhanho wa taala. This is

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on behalf of Allah subhanaw taala in saying that, you're going to be

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going around looking for and of course, there's nothing wrong with

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looking for a deed looking for reward or hoping for what at least

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right? But he's trying to get us to a higher level. And he's also

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trying to humble us that when your deeds are done is done by Allah

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for you. And that's going to be the next one. He's going to

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explain that. So what he's essentially saying here is that if

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you're going to go and your focus is just the reward for the deeds

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that you do the offering that you you give, then you're going to be

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asked, okay, let's see how much sincerity you got in there. Have

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you given us a full deed that is befitting us that is befitting

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Allah subhanaw taala and worthy of Allah. And then the insincere one,

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the one the one who didn't have any sincerity in it, for him just

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to feel that he is going to be secure from being punished that's

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good enough.

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So let's look at that in a bit more detail.

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So whenever any good action, we do

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and then you're asking ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada to give you a

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reward for it. Allah subhanaw taala is just has absolute right

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to ask you that how am I

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truthfulness did you have in that and sincerity and focus did you

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have in that? Which means that did you have? Did you attain the

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secret of class? Did you have full a class where you're not focused

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anywhere else? What does that mean? That means when you did it,

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you realize that Allah allowed you to do it. You did it for nobody

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else you didn't care about anyone else. You were focused essentially

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on Allah and you're just like Allah was allowing me to do this.

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You did not think that you had any ability to do this except that

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ALLAH allowed you to do it. Did you focus on all of that in the

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Salah that you just performed? Oh Allah, I'm only praying this solid

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because you allowed me to do it otherwise I would never be La

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hawla wala Quwata illa biLlah there's no power

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to do good deeds or no shield of doing from bad deeds except with

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Allah

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nothing he said was Salah my terminal was worse you will have a

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terrible haha just had that Hakuna Salah to Kabila he will well Allah

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did in your Salah, did you were you totally free. Were you totally

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free of any whispers notions, outside thoughts, fleeting ideas,

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totally, totally focused.

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So that your Salah was purely for Allah and by Allah and for nothing

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else, and had no adulteration inside.

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And you were totally oblivious of everything besides Allah and

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you're just so focused on Allah, that there was nothing else that

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could disturb you, like the Sahaba had?

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Was your heart filled? And he said with the greatness and Majesty of

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Allah, why do you are praying? Was your heart filled with that he's

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telling us how solid should be essentially, so was your heart

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filled with the Majesty of Allah.

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So you are totally lost in Allah for the sake of Allah.

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Okay, so if all of these matters, and all of these affairs were

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correct, and you had achieved all of this, then okay, fine, you can

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ask for your reward. Go ahead and ask for your reward.

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But if you can't Sirtis be certain that you had all of these states

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in your heart, then know that your action was mudhole your action was

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interrupted, your ad your action was adulterated was polluted, was

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corrupted.

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So now, you should be embarrassed to ask Allah

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to give you a reward for a deed that is not perfect. It's a half

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big deed that you gave to Allah.

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It's not trying to distract you from praying, pray, just trying to

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say you need to really pray for the right reason. So don't get

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this wrong.

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Why should you offer something 100% for Allah because he is 100%

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in every sense.

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For what a thermo Workman, Allah is absolutely full, complete in

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every sense of why should he accept something incomplete from

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us, and Allah knows best.

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Number two, so that's essentially what he says here right. So now

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let me read to you what Sheikh Abdullah can go he explains this

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aphorism as we move into the next reason, because it just follows on

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from here. If the intention underlying worship and your other

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word virtuous deeds is solely solely the acquisition of reward

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and compensation from Allah, then Allah will show him that only a

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deed accomplished with full sincerity is worthy of reward is

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sincerity actually truly existed in a person, one would not have

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rendered the deed in expectation of compensation in the first

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place. So hon Allah, that means to say that if I'm looking for a

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deed, I'm not sincere.

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If I'm looking for reward, I'm not sincere.

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As we said,

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starting something off for wanting rewards, that's just the starting.

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He's talking to more advanced people, he's not talking to the

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basics who don't even pray for them, you need rewards, man,

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you're gonna get rewarded and go to Paradise, you're gonna go to

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*. That's how you start off. Once you're on there, then after

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that, it's about expanding and enhancing. So that's what he's

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talking about. For such a person, it will justify that he is just

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not punished by Allah for giving him such a polluted act.

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May Allah allow us to rise to the status and make our actions like

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that. So now, the next aphorism next wisdom, hikma is number 122.

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For those who are following, he says, laptops blueberry, well

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done. enamelling listello HuFa for Elan yak fie Meenal Jezza Illa

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Allah Allah Amelie en can Allahu kar bilum Right. For those who

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understand Arabic they'll understand the beauty of those

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words. Do not seek recompense or reward for a deed whose Doer was

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actually not even you.

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Don't look for a reward for a deed that you didn't do. What do you

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mean I didn't do course I did it. I just

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stood up, I prayed, I gave the sadaqa It suffices you as a

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recompense for your deed that he just accepts it

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is just Subhanallah just blows you out of the water like blows you

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out of this, this state that I'm something that I'm deserving of

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something, we only become deserving. When we realize that we

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just doing it for the sake of Allah, then that's it, then he'll

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shower you. He wants us to be totally selfless.

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So this is what he says now. So Continuing from the previous

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theme, the question this is answering is, how can you ask for

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a recompense for a deed that you actually didn't do yourself? And

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number two, how are you going to even find out whether it is

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accepted or not? Meaning how do you know that it was an accepted

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deed that you did.

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So that's why he says this aphorism.

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This ties into a big discussion, which we don't have, we should not

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going to go into today. But if you haven't heard it, already, we have

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a we have the discussion about what exactly is predestination

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decree, Allah subhanaw taala, planning everything and knowing

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everything in advance of actually creating

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other Malissa for example, of, for example, that Allah subhanaw taala

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knew from pre eternity that this gathering today was going to take

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place, and our brother, what's your name?

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Brother Aziz was going to be there.

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I didn't know Aziz was going to be here. But Allah subhanho wa Taala

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knew from pretend the disease and a smile and,

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and safe Allah is going to be here.

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And our other brothers from Bihar on some erkunden.

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And Australia and other places, I didn't know that.

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Well, I knew about some of you. But Allah knew all of this from

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presented before we were born before a dad was born before our

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grandparents were born.

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Now how exactly that works out, this is not the time however, just

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to give you a conclusion, every human being definitely has free

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will. Because we feel an experience free will. Nobody was

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forced to come here today, you might have been strongly

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encouraged by your friend or your father, but you were not forced,

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like you just couldn't help him. Right? You came with your own

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choice, and we do everything with our own choice. However,

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ultimately, Allah is the One who facilitates everything. But he

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gives us that kind of understanding of independence and

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volition, and ability so that we understand that, you know, we're

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going to be answerable for whatever we do good or bad. But

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ultimately, Allah is behind everything. But our focus is not

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on that our focus is on the fact that I am responsible for the

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deeds I do, right? But ultimately, nothing happens in this world

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without Allah. It's just very difficult to reconcile those two

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things. But all we need to understand is for myself and my

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deeds and my akhira I'm responsible, because I have

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freewill, that I feel, but ultimately, Allah is behind

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everything anyway. Right? So that's what he says. He says,

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according to our annual health, according to our Muslim scholars,

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it's very, very clear that the human being,

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that every human being, every human being, is what they say in

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Arabic magic. Buuren Fie, Cardi B Mortarion. Where we are in we are

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really

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compelled from the perspective of Allah we are compelled. However,

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our form, and the way we do things is as if we have ability and

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volition and choice, doesn't everybody feel that they have

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choice in this world, right? But ultimately in the sight of Allah,

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we are whatever He wants us to be right. So there is no action, no

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choice except that the one who actually allows it and facilitates

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in and knows about it and everything is Allah Hydra. kahar

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is the one mighty one. How do you prove that Allah subhanaw taala

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says in Surah, two CASAS verse 68, what are Buka you have lucuma

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Yeshua way after your Lord is the one who creates what he wishes and

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chooses. Then after that ALLAH SubhanA wa Surah to sofort 96 wala

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who halacha Khun Amata Cameroon. Allah created you and your deeds.

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Allah created you and your deeds. Number three, so Taquile 29 verse,

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Allah tertia una Illa

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Allah Hora Bula lad, I mean,

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you can't choose a will except that Allah has willed it, that

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Allah wills it The Lord of the Worlds.

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However, we never know what Allah wills we just tried to do our

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will. If Allah has welded it works, whether it's good or bad,

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and if Allah has not welded it doesn't work. It's as simple as

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that. I try my best to start to do something that can

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doesn't start. The battery just messed up last night. It was fine

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till yesterday, but I do my part. But Allah doesn't want me to go to

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the class not gonna work, for example, a simple example. But at

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the end of the day, we can't blame Allah for messing the car up.

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Because eventually when you figure it out, you'll find out the

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battery was quite messed up.

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Or maybe it was new was faulty.

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I mean, there's always an excuse in this world, right?

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For anybody who hasn't heard the lecture on freewill and how it

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relates to us and so in detail is a one hour 15 minute lecture that

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everybody should listen to it's on zamzam Academy. I think we need to

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re name it the mysteries of the Divine Decree or something because

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right now it's called Don't be depressed you don't know your

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future.

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Don't be depressed you don't know your future. It's actually one of

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the more popular videos after the 100 tutorial videos, I think,

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right? Because it's a very important subject. So go ahead and

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listen to that. Right. Move on the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa

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sallam said

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very famous Hadith Kulu Yes, sir Nima Haleakala, everybody is going

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to be facilitated towards the path that they've been created for

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based on what Allah knows of what we're gonna do. Right?

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For a moment can I mean early Saturday so those whom Allah

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subhanaw taala knows they are going to be people of good fortune

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then for you yes sir. Only I'm really sad. Then for them good

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deeds come easy. Well, I'm mom and kind of in Alicia cow, but those

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who are going to be from among the rich, then for them, the bad deeds

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come easy.

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And that might happen for a short amount of time. So don't think

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you're under Chaka, if you because you can try to change and you just

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have to make an effort to change and then Allah will make it easy

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in sha Allah.

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And then Allah the Prophet saw some read for Imam an outdoor with

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DACA was a DACA, listener for Scenario Cyril Julio usara, that

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Allah essentially in the Quran, Allah is telling us how to get

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better for a moment after the one who gives what DACA and has Taqwa

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God fear, right? Fear a fear of Allah. Was that DACA Bill husana.

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Right, he is true to the goodness that they do sincerity and

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everything. We're going to make that path easy for them. While I'm

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in Canada with Allah and the one who denies who turns away, then

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that's going to be bad way. We don't do that in sha Allah, we

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want to be proud of the first group. So then the idea is that

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once that becomes clearly established, and how can a person

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ask Allah for a reward when it's Allah was letting me do it. It's

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like you go to somebody who let you use his car.

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Right? To get to do something that you wanted to do he let you use

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his car gave you petrol facilitate, call the person for

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you everything. And then you went and did it and then you come I

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said, Can you pay me for this? I want to facilitate I gave you a

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car, organize it I gave you a booking every now you're, you want

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to reward like, that's your problem.

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So

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how can a servant ask for a reward on a deed that he is not the real

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doer of the real DOER of

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okay? The deed is attributed to me at least. Okay, I might be

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facilitated by Allah. But at the end of the day, I'm the one who

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pushed for it and like a scene everybody's gonna say I did it.

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Right.

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Okay, even if that's the case, reward has to be done based on

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acceptance. Was your deed an accepted one even if you did it

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Okay, fine. How do you know it's an accepted deed? That has all of

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the great ingredients of acceptance.

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For me in 130 Halle Hakuna Maka Mulan hola how you're going to

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find out and figure out and determine whether Is there a

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website you can go to tech in here, this was my prayer. The

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camera was on me check it out. And you know, I had ECG you know on my

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head and my heart right Subhanallah right you know, and it

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measured everything about me you can tell whether it's a sincerity

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or not whether it's even that you can't tell with accepted or not

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that just might show you might was focused but it's not gonna show us

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they accepted by Allah because he might want you know, he wants it

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perfect.

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There is a there is a twist here, right? Wait for it.

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And okay, even if Allah subhanaw taala has been graceful by

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accepting it, despite all of your shortcomings in it, and all of

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your whisperings and distractions

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that would be sufficient then for you that would be then sufficient

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as a reward for you anyway.

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That he's just accepted. Okay, fine. We'll take it off. He did

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it. That's enough. Why do you want to reward on top of that?

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For Lola, Jimmy last Saturday, he let me you're gonna look, let me

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you're going to have a look at LM COBOL. Just remember that he's

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saying had it not been for his beautiful veil, his amazing,

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elegant

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veil, where he veils us from

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all the weird things that go on in our mind and other things, your

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action would never be worthy of acceptance. It's so deficient.

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follow Allah and Allah subhana wa Tada taffeta Allah Allah I buddy

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he will actually will Hill had it not been for the fact that Allah

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subhanho wa Taala mostly deals with his servants, and graces them

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and is benevolent to them with his forgiveness and clemency and

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pardoning and overlooking Mark Kabila Andalan kottu. He'd never

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accepted it because whose deed is perfect

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is the sphere to Lama al Qaeda the criminal mohale Because to get a

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such a perfect need that's worthy of Allah is well nigh impossible.

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They shouldn't put you off. The only point he's making is that for

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Allah the way it should be, because he's so perfect, to get a

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deed that so perfect to give to him is like near impossible.

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Right? He doesn't call it impossible. He says near

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impossible because it's very difficult probably only prophets

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can do it because they know Allah, and is so focused their full

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knowledge of Allah as much as anybody could have maximum only

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they can produce something we just don't we have so many

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distractions.

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Allah says mama cada Rue La haka cadre citizenry they did not

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give the value to Allah as much as this is right. They have not

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valued Allah as much they don't understand the position of Allah

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as much as this is right. We can't just we need to do a lot more to

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get that.

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Allah subhanaw taala also says in Surah Ibis or whatever Allah can

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Lum, yah Kadima, Amara never name they have not been able to fulfill

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what they have been commanded. Meaning we might do the praying

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and we fulfill our commands or praying and we've just fasted for

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30 days and or 20 days or whatever it was right. But was it up to

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scratch?

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were commanded to do it mostly seen Allahu Deen Alma O'Meara

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Ilaria Bula meclizine Allah within, they've only been

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commanded to give it to him fully with sincerity. Have you been able

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to do that? Yeah, you've been able to do a form of it, but never 100%

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Then Allah in certain, Tov says, will equal Adina Jakob Dhawan,

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whom accent I'm used to. But Allah is so gracious he says, These are

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the people though, who we will accept the best of them they do.

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We know your weak we know your division. You do your best, and

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we'll forgive will overlook will pardon and we'll accept

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the best of you as long as it fits a certain criteria, we'll accept

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it. Without that we'd be we'd be destroyed.

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That's why Allah's Rama always dominates his huddle. If he wants

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to deal with us in fairly like do it right. You get it if you don't

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do it, right. You don't get it, forget it. We'd be lost. But he

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allows so much.

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Now what's interesting here in this verse, whether you can Latina

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Anita cabello and whom asked anima Emmylou for Arabic Nakamura, we

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will accept and whom on their behalf.

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Allah didn't say mean whom, which means we're going to accept from

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you. Rather, he said, we're going to accept on on, you know, on your

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behalf,

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the best of what you do. What that means is,

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we're going to accept from you that it must be perfect. But

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because we're going to allow so much and we're going to ignore so

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much, you're like, I'll allow this to be from you. Even though it's

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not perfect. We're going to allow this as though it came from you.

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Meaning we're going to forgive a lot to get to get it to be

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accepted. Because if Allah subhanaw taala didn't overlook

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many of the deficiencies, we won't have accepted it. So that's what

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he that's what he's saying.

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Why does Allah subhanaw taala then accepted Lee Alimi Karami working

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reason Allah accepts it because number one, he doesn't need your

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perfect deed is not going to enrich him in any way. He just

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wants you to do it. So okay, that's the best you can do. You

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put your full effort. I'm going to accept it even though it's

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deficient because I don't really need it anyway. And number two,

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because I'm benevolence I'm kind of generous. That's why I'm going

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to do it.

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Full hamdulillah Heda even Lilla

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that's why all praise has to always be for Allah subhanaw taala

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that Hello, coffee Hill Iman, Allah allowed you and created that

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created the ability in you and then allowed you to do the action.

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What are what are they hereby tell Munna will ml and then Allah

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subhanho wa Taala gave us on top of that. So essentially what's

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going on here? Is that the best thing to ask Allah subhanho wa

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Taala for now

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not to ask him for a reward of your deed, but to ask him from his

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grace, you will get much more out of your grace because you've got

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more to look forward to and to get something from his grace, to pull

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from that, rather than say, This is my deed, give me something,

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because our deed is usually different, nearly always

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deficient, but we're better off and we got more chance of getting

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so Oh Allah, I've done whatever I could just give me from your

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grace. Just give me because you're kind just give me because you're

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my Lord, and only you can give me ask him in those ways.

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And then you're better off getting things from that. So having read

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all of this, I think this makes it very, very, very clear. Sheikh

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Abdullah can go here in his commentary of this says, It should

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be understood that Allah is the to true DOER of all actions, the true

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facilitator and everything. Therefore in worship, the servants

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gaze should be on Allah Most High, he should understand that Allah

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Most has created the act of worship in him, and that it is his

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favor. Since the servant is not the creator of his own good deeds,

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it is highly improper for him to desire compensation as though it

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is his right.

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Therefore, if he is only in pursuit of reward, then sincerity

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is going to be negated. In fact, the seven deserves to be

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apprehended, on account of this deficiency. Don't go around

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telling this to people who don't pray already.

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Because this is, once you get on track, you will understand Allah

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you start loving Allah, then you increase this, otherwise they're

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going to think, man, that's just too difficult. Allahu Allah,

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Allahu Allah. You know, sometimes people are in tune with these

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things, they understand these things. Because if you understand

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the logic behind it, the reality behind it, it makes perfect sense,

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right? In the five, six different aphorisms where he's explained, it

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makes perfect sense that don't ask for reward. Number one, Allah

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choosing you to do it is a good enough reward. Allah giving you

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the ability to do it is a good enough reward. And if you do ask

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for a reward, and why are you asking reward for something

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deficient? Were you perfect in it? Did you take all of the boxes? Was

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it befitting Allah subhanaw taala. I mean, it's just good enough that

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you don't get punished for this kind of offering that you gave

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like what kind of punishment I mean, in the in the world when

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there's cruel people if you if you have to, you know, suck up to

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them, someone you have to give them something, they'll probably

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knock you out. If it's not worthy of their Allah is not cool like

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that. That's the thing. So you're better off just asking, just doing

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it because I'm a slave of Allah. He deserves it anyway, I'm a slave

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of Allah, I need to do it. Then after that, he's going to look

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after me anyway, I don't have to worry about that. He's going to

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look after me. Anyway, those of you who didn't listen to the last

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one, you should listen to the last two or three, because that really

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adds to this. Right? And hopefully, I've been able to put

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it all together today.

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And insha Allah so that it continues, it continues on to

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another theme Insha Allah, we'll, we'll do that next time. May Allah

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subhanho wa Taala give us the tofield and may Allah subhanho wa

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Taala grant us from his column, and from his generosity, and from

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his grace and father and his benevolence, because that's all

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and that's why prophesy also made it very, very clear when he said

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that you're not going to go into paradise with your deeds.

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Yes, your deeds, you usually usually you need deeds to get to

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Paradise. But you're not going to go to Paradise because of your

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deeds, you're gonna go because of the karma of Allah. You're gonna

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go because of the grace of Allah. That's why these people have gone

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into paradise literally this Sahabi this non Muslim at the turn

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of our service and became Muslim. And there was a battle going He

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just joined the battle become Shahid and never prayed, never

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fasted, never did any other good deed except that and he's gone to

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Jana.

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Grace of Allah.

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May Allah make it easy for us. May Allah make it easy for us and may

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Allah accept from us whatever we do, may Allah protect us along to

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Santa Monica set up a lot of the attention earlier with the Quran.

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Allah homea HeyYou yaka Yun, mythical mystery de la homea

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Hannah Ania Ilaha illa Allah subhana que now Konami Navali mean

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there's a lot more now Mohammed? Yeah, Marin. Deena God well

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Karamja Karim Allah crummy meanwhile so you don't miss od in

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while you're on my team. We have a thorough if yes

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yeah, I'll leave

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Yes. Yeah. huffy Yes. Yeah, that agenda anybody Quran.

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Allah have mercy on us our life accept us. Oh Allah bring us

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close. Oh Allah teach us how Allah educate us. Oh Allah grant us

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understanding of Allah grant us. zeal, grant us desire to do the

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right thing. Make your lover beat. Make your obedience Beloved to us.

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Make your disobedience hated to us. Oh Allah protect us. Oh Allah

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protect us from all of the efforts. What are the calamities,

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all of the tests and trials of this world?

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odds are Allah, we ask You for protection from all the forms of

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evil which are out there of Allah allow us to make the right choices

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protect us from bad choices. Oh Allah protect us from all the evil

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which is out there, protect our brothers and sisters around the

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world and remove them from their problems in the various different

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parts of the world that are suffering, whether from natural

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calamities and natural causes, or from other challenges. Oh Allah,

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Oh Allah, we ask You protect them from their subjugation of Allah,

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we ask You to forgive us all of our misdeeds and our wrongdoings

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those that we've done, purposely, Oh Allah, those who have done

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accidentally, those that we remember, and especially those

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that we have forgotten, Oh Allah, we ask You to forgive us. Those

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things that bring difficulties in our life, reject us those sins

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that have turned people against one another, that have taken away

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the contentment from our lives. Oh ALLAH that I've stressed our lives

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out and Oh Allah, those that have now become part of our life and we

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don't consider it a sin anymore. Or Allah turn us back to you.

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Allow our actions to be worthy of you of Allah and our options to be

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Worthy are you we are so grateful to you all praises to you all

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thanks is to you that you even allow us to sit here today in the

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masjid otherwise we would not be here. Okay, we could have been

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doing so many other things but Allah you chose to allow us to be

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here. And we are immensely grateful of this. Oh Allah let

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this be a sign of good things. That has be this year sign that

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our doors are accepted. Oh Allah, let's be a sign that you have

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accepted us for your closeness and you're happy with us. Oh Allah

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make us the way you want us to be. The rest of the time we have in

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this world of Allah allow us to use it fruitfully and beneficiary

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of Allah and protect us from one of the biggest calamities of this

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time which is the wasting of time and the distractions that are so

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much there in abundance, and that are there to grip us wherever we

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look wherever we go, wherever we do, oh Allah protect us, O Allah

00:32:03 --> 00:32:08

accept us. Accept us for some kind of service of your need. Oh Allah

00:32:08 --> 00:32:12

accept us for some kind of service of God make us useful and

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productive people in this world of Allah grant us beneficial

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knowledge, accepted action, and our Allah

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protect us and our families and our children and our progeny is

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from all of the challenges which are out there and keep, keep Islam

00:32:28 --> 00:32:33

Iman the Quran, the heat, and the love your men, your messenger

00:32:33 --> 00:32:36

Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam in our generations until the Day of

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Judgment. Allow us to be constantly remembering you our

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hearts to be in constant remembrance of you. Oh Allah, Oh

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Allah allow us to focus and not be distracted nation of Allah. Oh

00:32:49 --> 00:32:52

Allah, we ask that you send your abundant blessings and our

00:32:52 --> 00:32:55

messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, grant us his

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company in the hereafter. So Hannah rhombic Ramona is a DMARC

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phone was sent out when I want to say you know what hamdulillah here

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is.

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

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further an inspiration, and encouragement, persuasion. The

00:33:12 --> 00:33:16

next step is to actually start learning seriously, to read books

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

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

00:33:23 --> 00:33:27

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

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courses so that you can actually take organize lectures on demand

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whenever you have free time, especially for example, the

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Islamic essentials course that we have on the Islamic essentials

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

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

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

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

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

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this more sustained study as well as local law here and Salam

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aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.

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