Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Help Yourself Overcome Anxiety and Hypersensitivity

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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The speakers discuss the benefits of managing one's life with anxiety, fear, and negative emotions. They stress the importance of avoiding overwhelming emotions and addressing health issues to manage one's life. The speaker also emphasizes the need to practice positive thinking and focus on positive things that have happened to one to avoid negative outcomes. They stress the importance of avoiding negative emotions and helping people to avoid negative consequences.
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hamdulillah Al Hamdulillah Handan Kathy are on the uban Mubarak and

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fie Mubarak and Ally governor, your hipbone buena

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De La Jolla, who are Manuel wa Salatu was Salam ala so you will

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have even Mustafa sallallahu alayhi wa aalihi wa sahbihi wa

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barakato are seldom at the Sleeman Cathedral on Eli Yomi Dean and my

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bad

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Allah subhanaw taala in sortal marriage says, I begin name of

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Allah most gracious, most merciful, I seek refuge in Allah

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from Shaytaan the accursed are all the bIllahi min ash shaytani R

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rajim Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim in the in Santa holy Kahaluu is

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Mr. Who shall rule Jesu whatever Mr. Hill, how you Roman who are

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ill mousseline. Alladhina Hamada Salah to him the moon. And then

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Allah subhanho wa Taala continues to discuss until it says Hola,

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ecoffee Jannetty Makara moon.

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What Allah subhanaw taala says here is that the insan has been

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created

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with anxiety, it's something that is within a human's potential to

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be anxious. So being anxious about certain things actually helps us

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to take care of them. If we had a carefree attitude to everything,

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and we were laid back in everything, then in that case,

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what would happen is that people wouldn't be too worried about what

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to do next and take care of their affairs and responsibilities, we

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wouldn't have much progress and people would be very laid back

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redundant. So there's a set of benefits in in having that concern

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for things. But just like with everything else, everything that

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we have even our internal faculties, our feelings are

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characteristics, they need to be on moderation in balance, they

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need to have they there needs to be an equilibrium. Otherwise, what

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happens is that it then begins to harm us. And it is extremely than

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detrimental. And that's what the problem is. So what we want to

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speak about today is how to deal with anxiety and fretfulness how

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to get over extreme worry how not to try to get there in the first

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place.

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Now, let me give you an example. You got some people who are just

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always so concerned about things to such a degree that actually

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debilitates them. Concern about things enough to spur you on to do

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something about them is actually very beneficial. But if it's

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something that's going to debilitate you, because you're

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just worried about possible outcomes, you're worried about

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negative outcomes rather. Because when your mind when a person's

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mind goes in overdrive, then the mind can go in various different

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places. I mean, you we all understand what kind of thoughts

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Our minds are capable of, and especially with shaytaan, who

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tries to rule us and tries to mislead us, by

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debilitating us through extreme concerns and worries and griefs

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and anxieties to such a degree that we feel overwhelmed and

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overpowered and we feel helpless. And that's essentially what

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shaytaan wants to do from us. And that is very debilitating. I'm

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sure we've all seen people in that kind of estate. And we will say,

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why can't they just snap out of it? Why can't they just help

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themselves, but sometimes we do the same thing. And I think it's

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very important whether we are prey to this all the time or whether we

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fall vulnerable to these things all the time or not. It's just a

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good idea that we understand how to approach these things, just so

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that we can insha Allah protect ourselves better and maybe we can

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help others as well.

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I'll give you an example.

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I came back from Hajj recently. May Allah subhanaw taala accept

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and generally when a person comes back from Hajj, they generally

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tend to have a bit of a cold or a bit of sore throat or something

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like that a bit of a flu maybe. And because, you know, Hajj is a

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very stressful situation you are mashallah day and night you are

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totally changing your schedule, different climate food is

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different, lots and lots of people and there's just the body becomes

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vulnerable sometimes and the immunity the immune system becomes

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a bit weaker Sometimes, though, mashallah, the heart gets

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stronger. And I think this is all part of it. I think a person when

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he comes back with some kind of, you know, cough or cold or

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whatever the case is, and just to suffer that for a few days, I

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think that's just kind of like the final wash after the hygiene or

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some, maybe final

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few sins, hopefully that that have that were remaining. This just

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helps inshallah with the sub and patients to alleviate those and to

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eradicate those things as well. So here, the problem is that it's

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it's 17 1819 and 20 degrees outside that's that's the

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centigrade and majority of people are not don't have a jacket on

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necessarily, right they got maybe just some warm clothes on

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Some people don't even have that. But most people are not with a

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jacket. But I felt cold. And I'm looking around and everybody else

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is fine, but I'm having to wrap things around me. Right? Why is

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that 95 98% of the people outside don't have a problem with that

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weather, but I am having an issue? Well, it's because of my raise

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level of sensitivity to cold, I feel just feel more cold, the

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degrees the same outside, the reality is the same for everybody.

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But everybody perceives them differently. The majority of

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people don't feel cold the way I did, and the way old people may

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do. So I thought about this for a while. And it's the same thing

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with griefs and worries, there are always going to be issues in front

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of us. And they could be very simple issues, they don't have to

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be very complicated. Or maybe they could be a bit more of a difficult

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issue. Now it's up to us how we want to approach that if you want

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to be bold and a bit carefree, willing to take a few risks, and

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you have some experience, then they won't affect you. Whereas for

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some people who are very sensitive, they just won't even

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venture in that direction, it will deplete them. They may, there's a

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lot of people who have great ideas to do things, but they never end

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up doing them. Because they don't have the humor or they don't have

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they just too beset with worry about the possible possible

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negative outcomes that may come out from something like this. And

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this is what debilitates people now, from a statistical point of

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view, let us just

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from a statistical point of view, let's just quickly look at

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people's concerns and worries and how many of them actually

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transpire and come to be. I mean, this is just normal research that

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this is just normal research that tells you about these things. It

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says that if you take a general person's average concerns they

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have about something's right. Generally, when a person feels a

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bit apprehensive about whether something's going to come about

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happened in the way they wanted, or a bad thing is going to happen

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or not a concern about something 40% of the things that we worry

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about will never happen. This is a kind of statistic. Now, this is

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obviously, the average 40% is just not going to happen. So you can

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minus 40 personnel, you're only dealing with 60%. Now, out of that

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now 30% of the things that people are generally worried and

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concerned about, they are about something of the past, they're

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done, they're a done deal, and there's nothing you can do about

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them anymore. But there's still 30% of the things that that will

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concern people will be things about the past. And they

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essentially what they're doing is they actually crying over spilt

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milk. So 40% will never happen 30% Are things in the past that you

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can't, you don't have any control over you need to we just need to

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get over them and try to do something better for the future.

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So that 70% 12% 12% statistically involve the affairs of others and

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actually do not concern us at all. So 12%, I've got to do with other

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the other people in terms of the concerns that we have 10% relate

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to sickness, whether that's real or imagined. So now, you've got

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only 8% left. Basically, 92% is something that you don't really

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have much control over. Because 40% will not happen. 30% is about

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the past 12% is about somebody else, and about 10% is about

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sickness. So all we've got left now is 8% of your worries are

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actual worries to be concerned about if there's anything but

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there's only 8% of that. So now you can decrease and you can rest

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you can relax, you can breathe, you can breathe comfortably and

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say okay, that's not going to happen in sha Allah. So this is

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just purely from a statistical perspective, that's why 92% chance

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that you're worrying about something that will never happen

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to you 92% chance that you are worrying about something that will

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never happen to you Subhanallah only 8% chance that it will happen

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92% chance that it will not happen. This is the average. And

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scientists that year university have actually discovered a worry

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gene that can be inherited. Sometimes if I if if the mother

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was very worried kind of person, sometimes some of the children are

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like that. But it's the what the studies show is that you can

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actually overcome it. It's not something that is just going to be

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a bit more challenging for some people than others. But that is a

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possibility, but it can be overcome. So now let us look at

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what Allah subhanaw taala says in the verse that I read at the

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beginning in Al Insana, Holika Heluva. Now this shows that Allah

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subhanaw taala says man was created anxious, meaning that's

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within a man to do that. Allah says Holy call in son or daughter

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Eva, the human is weak. So yes, that's a weakness, but it's all

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relative, we have weakness. So when we have an anxiety, there is

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a benefit of having that while there's a massive debilitation and

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negative impact if you allow it to overcome a person then Allah says,

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so Allah says, in the inside a holy cow Khalifa either Messiah

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Shall Rouge Azusa, what is master hula Jairo Manu Ah, il mousseline.

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But he and he is fretful in bad times and miserly in good times.

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Now this is negative, this is negative that when something good

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happens to you become miserly, and when they are bad times and you

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become very fretful and you have no Torkel. Then Allah subhanaw

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taala makes an exception says there are people who are exempted

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from this who don't believe that who don't act that way who avoid

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this state, and that is people who, those who are regular in

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their prayers, they are constantly finding solace in their Sadat in

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the prayer, their prayer is proper is not just ritualistic, they are

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actually focusing, they are actually connecting to Allah

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subhanaw taala. They are actually feeling the presence of Allah

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subhanaw taala that is a massive antidote to worries and concerns

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and griefs for a lot of people. For anybody. That's what the

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professor Lawson says that the coolness of my eyes is in solids

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curato it is solid. And that is a massive, what Allah subhanaw taala

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says these are the exemptions, who give a due share of their wealth

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to beggars and deprived. So the first one is spiritual. The second

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one is when you become active, and you do some social work, these

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people will not have this kind of concern and worry, who take part

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in action, who give wealth to beggars and the deprived who

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believe in the Day of Judgment, their Eman is strong. So that

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means that they believe on the Day of Judgment, that if somebody has

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oppressed me, if I've been oppressed by somebody, if my

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rights have been taken by somebody, I need not worry as much

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right now. Because in the hereafter when the day matters,

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when it's the time that matters, Allah subhanaw taala will be very

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just and oppressed will be the oppressed will be events, and the

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oppressors will be taken care of by Allah subhanaw taala and

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punished, then Allah subhanaw taala at the end, then he says,

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and they fear the punishment of the Lord. So the Imam is strong,

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they believe in Allah, and they don't want to do anything wrong,

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they can be careful about that. And then it continues. And there's

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a number of other characteristics which you can check up in Surah

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till marriage, which is the between verses 90 and 35. But

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then, finally, Allah subhanaw taala tells us and informs us

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about the benefit of such a person who avoids this grief and worry

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and miserly sadness, and so on, and who prays and so on, they will

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be honored in the gardens of bliss, fie Jannetty Mokra moon,

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they will be honored in the gardens of bliss, this is the way

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that we want because that's our ultimate ending how we want it. So

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that's what Allah subhanaw taala says. Now let's look at a few

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examples of anxiety. If you look at the Prophet sallallahu alayhi

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wasallam

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the prophets of Allah who are alayhi wa salam had many causes to

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worry about, because Subhanallah the amount of things that he was

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doing, that he was responsible for the task that he had been

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Subhanallah if you're given a task and you and it's a mountain, it's

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a momentous task that you feel Subhanallah How am I going to be

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able to even take care of this, believe me, it really makes you

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concerned, it really gives you that anxiety, am I going to be

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successful in this endeavor or not? And the prophets of Allah ism

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is given one of the greatest tasks of all, which is to remove the

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ignorance of the world to remove the darkness is that prevailed?

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Because for nearly 600 years, just about nearly 600 years, no prophet

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had come into the world after essentially his sudden, he had

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come 560 or 70 years before. And now for all of those centuries,

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there have been no prophet world had just sunken into darkness. His

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job was to lift it out, to bring back the light, what a job what a

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task Subhanallah now, what happens is he receives a number of

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revelations ye he sees Jabril at Eastern RGB lighting console, he

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received direct revelation, suddenly it stops. Now the people

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around him who are his enemies, they begin to chide him, they

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begin to censor him, they begin to mock him, and they say that your

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shape on has abandoned you. They refer to Allah shaytaan. So your

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shaytan has abandoned you. And the Prophet sallallahu Sallam is

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concerned because he used to gain a lot of solace, a lot of comfort,

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a lot of reassurance and baraka and blessing through the Wi Fi and

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revelation that used to come but this was just Allah's plan. So the

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prophesy Lawson became extremely worried and concerned. Then

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finally, finally Allah subhanho wa Taala sends him Surah to Doha.

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What Doha and it's called sorta to die, it starts off by a swearing

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by the morning Allahu Akbar. It starts off swearing by the morning

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what Doha and Doha for a lot of people they know that a lot of the

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time their anxieties are worst in the night. Night is just one of

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those states that people mostly because of the darkness just

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because of how our bodies are made our our interaction with light and

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darkness. So generally for a lot of people darkness brings about a

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lot of misery and anxiety.

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when morning comes they feel better when the sun shines and sun

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comes out. They feel a lot better. So Allah subhanaw taala just

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starts off this is what Doha by the morning by the morning light.

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Well lady either soldier and by the night when it envelopes

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everything when it dark and then when it covers everything, Mao was

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corrupt Bukovina cada you Lord has not abandoned you. Your Lord has

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not forsaken you.

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So that is right from the beginning Allah tells him directly

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that your Lord did not forsake you. Your Lord has not abandoned

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you. Mao was a corrupt bukhoma color. What a hero to hire like

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Amina Lula. And that the ending the next life, the final

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consequence, the final abode is more superior for you is better

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for you than this world. So don't worry, there may be difficulties

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in the beginning, but later there will be openings they will be

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conquest, they will be victories, they will be successes, and you

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will reign supreme. So what I'll ask you to do highroller communal

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hula What are so for your ote corrupt Buka for Tada. And your

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Lord will give you will bestow upon you

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and you will be made well satisfied. What Allah will give

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you, it will make you happy, it will make you satisfied. Well, so

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for your de gras Buddha for Tada. Now, this is the initial message

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to the Prophet salallahu Salam that you will get all of this you

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will be satisfied, the later time will be better than your earlier

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time, the hero will be better than this dunya and your Lord has not

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forsaken you. Then Allah subhanho wa Taala takes a number of

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mentions a number of statements that relate to how we need to deal

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with this.

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First and foremost all of these are to do with our code so far,

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all of these are to do with reliance and Allah subhanaw taala

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keep your reliance strong in Allah and you will be successful. Then

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Allah subhanho wa Taala tells him to do two different things. And

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this is extremely important for us that anybody with concerns and

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worries, this is the strategy they must use. Number one,

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Allah subhanaw taala says Allah Mujib k a team and for our while

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we're gender cabal and for Hedda waterjet, aka Elan for Alana. He

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reminds him of three things, didn't you find you what you found

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as an orphan, but then you were taken care of, and you were given

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refuge? Weren't you then

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found without direction. Once you found without knowledge, unaware,

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darlin, the stronger term there would be deviant. But that doesn't

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apply here because it's talking about being unaware in this case

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for Haggadah, and thus Allah subhanaw taala guided you. And

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then Allah subhana wa Jennika Elan for Algernon when found you in

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need and thus he enriched you. So Allah subhanho wa Taala gave you

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guidance, you are very helpless as an orphans. orphans are some of

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the most help helpless categories of people that we have, because

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they have nobody. widows are helpless. But orphans are even

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more so they can't fend for themselves. They can't work, they

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can't do anything. They are the most vulnerable people in our

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society. And the Prophet said Allah was made to go through that

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stage. But Allah says, wouldn't you like that? But you were then

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taken care of when she then in need. But you were then supplied

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and you were provided? And Weren't you then unaware? And Allah

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subhanaw taala guided you? So it's done in the past? So this is a

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focus on the past? That look, haven't you had good times in the

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past? Why are you worried about having you done good things in the

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past? Haven't good things happen to you in the past? Haven't you

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been taken care of in the past, when you've been more vulnerable,

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when you were a child and so on? We can all think that way. Allah

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gave us things to look after us.

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Now it's talking about activity, keep yourself busy, go and do

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something for somebody else. So Allah subhanaw taala says after

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that, or is it a doll and father Oh, agenda items for Amelia team

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are further Takahara what a messiah Illa forgotten her. While

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I'm been here, Matthew, Rob Baker for Hadith. It tells him to do two

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three things now, which is actively doing something. The

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first three things were reflection, we're just to get

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positive in our life. And that's why many therapists today are

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saying that if you suffer from anxieties and things of this

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nature, depressions and so on and over, you know oversensitive to

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grief and worries about things and you're always fretful about

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things, then what you should do before you go to sleep, is that

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you should take a pen, and you should actually write down a

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number of good things that have happened to you. The reason for

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all of this is because our mind has unfortunately become

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habituated in that in a person who's like that, to think about

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negatives all the time. It's just a habit to think of negatives. And

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thus you just start focusing on negative Haven't you seen people

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were always talking about negative things. When they assess a

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situation that you know about, that is not as bad as they making

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up they still make it to sound bad, and you can you can see

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through it because

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Do you actually know the reality? So when they talk about other

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things that we don't know about? Right, we sometimes take their

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words for granted. But when you actually find out, we'll find them

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speaking about things that you do know about, and you see them

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exaggerating and being overly negative, then you realize that

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that's actually a negative trait that they have. And the way

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they're coloring the picture, the way they're painting the picture

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and depicting the scenario and incident to you, it's actually not

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the reality. And this becomes a habit, right? And you'd rather

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have a habit of being positive about things and overlooking the

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negatives than being focused on the negatives and overlooking the

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positives, because that is detrimental is bad for ourselves

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and is bad for others in what we say to them. So Allah subhanaw

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taala first tells the prophets, Allah Islam, to think of all good

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things, therapists do the same thing today to make you write

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things out that have been good, that that good things that have

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happened to you. So you slowly, slowly start focusing, turning

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away from the negatives, then

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the Prophet SAW Allah Islam is told to be active. So he's saying

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that anybody who comes to ask you a messiah, Allah, right, anybody

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who comes to ask you who is in need, do not ever repel them? Do

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not ever chase them away? Do not ever shoo them away, do something

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for them. Right? Well, I'm Malia, tema, and he the orphan look after

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them do not repel them either. So when an orphan comes to you, when

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a person who's needy comes to you, you and you see somebody like that

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look after them. That is exactly the same case with the Rohingya

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issue today. We are basically WhatsApp people, that's what we

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are. We're seeing all of this being downloaded onto our phones,

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we're seeing the images, we're seeing the videos, and so on, so

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forth. We're going on about we're forwarding them to others. But

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really, what is the benefit of doing that? The only benefit of

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that is to raise awareness, and you can do that. But why don't we

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take the second step and actually do something about it, which means

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either collect some money, send some, you know, do some

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petitioning, do some campaigning, do some lobbying for our

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government to do something because that's what's in our hands to do.

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We don't do that kind of stuff. We just sit back and fret about it.

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It's actually doing something. And as the professor Lawson, as Allah

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says, In the Surah, to Doha, or Doha, a lady that says the same

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thing, when you when there's your team, then you need to do

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something you don't just repel them by not doing anything. And

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lastly, what Allah subhanaw taala says, What am binaire Murthy Rob

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Baker for Hadith

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and when it comes to your the bounties that Allah has given you

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Binette material because your loads bounties that he showered

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upon you His gifts, and think about it be positive, what are the

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gifts that you have Subhanallah, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi

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salam said in a hadith, you know, when you compare ourselves to

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people in so many parts of the world, and probably the majority

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of the world, there's one Hadith a small part in the province of

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Assam said that anybody who wakes up in the morning, with good

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health, decent enough health that you can pass through the day, you

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don't know suffering from serious illnesses, you have security, and

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you don't feel frightened. You don't feel you don't feel

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threatened, you actually have secure Al Hamdulillah. We have

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that in this country. And may Allah allow it to continue and

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enjoy and prosper. And may Allah bring about security in other

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parts of the world. It's bad, it's bad when you don't have security,

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you have security and you have health two things. Number three,

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you have your days needs you have food for the day.

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Then it is as though the person said then this is as though the

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whole world has been put at your, at your feet. The whole world has

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been rolled up and given to you because that's all you need. You

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need security for the day. You need your food and sustenance for

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the day. And you need your help for the day. And day by day. If

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you're getting this then you've got the whole world that's all you

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really need. Subhanallah so what Amma be net material bigger for

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Hadith acknowledge the bounties focus on the good. That's why

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therapists that you focus on the positive things, many positive

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things have mostly likely happened to you. There's no point fretting

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over the wrong even though things do happen in our lives, but try to

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focus on the good.

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You see what we have to understand here, going back to the original

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discussion that it's a level of sensitivity, it just

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hypersensitivity to two things that concern people, while most

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people will just deal with it, for example, there is a percentage of

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people that can never fly, I actually ran into somebody

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recently, they just can't fly, because they have a massive phobia

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for flying even though it's actually more dangerous to ride in

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a car than to fly in a plane in terms of the statistics of what

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could go wrong in a car and what could go wrong in a plane and

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you'd have to take literally 1000s of flights for that probability to

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even exist that something wrong would happen to you but they just

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have that phobia Subhanallah it just something in their mind. Now

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that's, you know, whether that's a medical issue or psychological

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issue. Allah knows best I won't deal with that because that's not

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my realm. But what I'm saying here is that it's hypersensitive, just

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like when you have a flu and a cold, you get more hypersensitive

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towards

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The cold even though other people don't feel it. So same thing here,

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there's going to be concerns in our life, majority of the people

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will have no problem with those things, but we will get anxious

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over them. That is not the character of a Muslim. That's not

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the character of a believer, we have to remember, try to surround

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yourself with good people that talk positively otherwise, it just

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aggravates the matter. It compounds the matter. I'll give

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you an example. Allama Rumi,

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a great Sufi from from Kanye, he gives a story. It's a very

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interesting story. There was a race really one of these rough and

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tough teachers who just seemed to be very merciless. And he was just

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like a slave driver he had, he seemed to have no mercy for the

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children. It was just very rough, very tough. And he's probably

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living in a place where you can't actually go to the police and

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complain, or you can go to the head teacher, they don't care, you

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know, because it's the teacher, they just whatever the teacher

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says goes, right. So now,

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there was some clever, there was a clever student in his class, he

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says, we need to do something about this. So he hatched a plot.

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He said, Tomorrow when the teacher comes, right? Everybody must say

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to the teacher, as they come in, oh, teacher, you look so pale

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today, are you sick? You look different today. Your faces all

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pale. So they all decided to do this. And of course, there's some

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students who are frightened the beginning. But that one clever

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story says, No, we need to all do this. And there can't be any harm

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in this. So the next day that student walks in first, the

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teacher is all sitting there ready? And students and Oh,

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teacher, you know, how are you today? You look so different

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today, You look pale. Now, the teacher immediately dismisses that

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thinking that, you know, he just has to hold up that kind of very

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strong and rough and powerful mode. So he says Go, go go sit

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down, prepare for your work.

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The next student comes in a few moments later, and he looks at the

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teacher he says, Hello, Teacher, how are you? You know, you look

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different today? What's going on? Are you Are you sick? So now the

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teacher again tells him to sit down. But clearly now, these two

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people have said it. And this is how humans react. He starts

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feeling that is there something wrong, the third student comes in.

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And he says something similar in a very sympathetic tone. So now the

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teacher is building up the story for himself. And he actually is

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now looking at himself. Am I really sick or not? Right? And

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when all of the students have said that they've come in, they're

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actually the student, the teacher actually now does feel bad. And

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his face does change slightly. And he decides to call it a day. He

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stops the class early and he goes home. When he goes home, his wife

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is completely surprised that he never comes home so early. What's

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going on? says How come you home so early?

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And he just looks at and says, can't you see that I'm ill country

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see my face has changed. Even the other strangers are sympathizing

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with me about this, the students are sympathizing with me, you got

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no sympathy, you got no sympathy, he starts an argument with a says

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give me the blanket and, and the pillow I'm going to sleep. He made

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himself sick, a rough and tough guy makes himself sick because of

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what other people are saying, Stay away from negative people stay

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away from negativity, that is basically the lesson of this

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story. Stay with positive people, it will impact you positively. You

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talk about negative things, it's going to impact you negatively,

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it'll make you look at things the same way as they look at it. And

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I've seen this as an example. Right? There was a woman that I

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know she lived in an apartment complex with others, there was

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another woman who was going through some miserable time with

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her in her married life. And every day, every two days, when they

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would meet, she would give her like a running commentary as a

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soap opera, her whole life story was being told to this other woman

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for you know, for for a few weeks. And the husband of the second

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woman, the husband of this woman who was listening to the

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stereotype found that she was now becoming edgy and agitated. And

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similarly, you know, anxious, and

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would you call it concerned as well. And what they discovered is

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that this is actually just happening because she's listened

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to the other person's story every day, and it taken a big interest.

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And soap operas are actually designed to be you know, they're

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artificial, clearly, but they're designed to create controversy,

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and, you know, just be saucy, and be, you know, all of these

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dramatic and everything else. And then sometimes we do the same

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thing in the house and everything's artificial. That's

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the problem. So even when you use words towards your husband and

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wife to you or towards the spouse, it's just basically copied from

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something and it's artificial. It's just doesn't work the same

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way because that's the set scene that's been made up that's been

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designed. Whereas we are natural human individuals that should just

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say things in a spontaneous natural matter with a lot of more

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love and concern and concern and affection for the other person. So

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these are the issues that we have. So to to to finish. All we need to

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do is a few things as men

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should insert to Doha as the prophets Allah. Some did, though

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that was a message for the prophets of the Lord assembly was

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a message for all of mankind. Number one, let us just think

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about the past and dwell on the past that there's great things

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that have happened to us. We should never dwell on evil things

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that have happened to us because they've happened already. And they

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don't have to happen in the future. That's number one. Number

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two, go get up and do something, clean the house. Right. There's a

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lot of people who survive by

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cleaning the house and just just doing things this is their way of

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distracting themselves. Go and volunteer. You got we got this

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Rohingya problem. We constantly have different problems, go and

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volunteer and do something, collect some food, collect some

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money, go and volunteer at your local center, your local masjid,

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your local school, local Institute's, there's just so many

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different things that you can go and help your neighbor, figure out

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something, think of something.

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Because what happens is that when you are occupied and doing things

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for others, then your troubles our own troubles become miniscule,

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they become insignificant, we see the trouble of others and that

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gives us an extension to work on others than just concerned about

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because we think we can't help ourselves. When we help others. It

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gives you a great amount of satisfaction, a great amount of

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satisfaction. And studies show that helping others gives you that

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kind of satisfaction, when you actually are able to produce

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something for others. So think about the past, think of the

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positive things about the past and try to actively do something for

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the future. And we ask Allah subhanho wa Taala to grant us

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Tofik and divine endurance, divine divine capability, divine ability,

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benevolence,

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Providence to do these things for the sake of Allah subhanho wa

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Taala and to remove our concerns and griefs and remove our problems

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in over sensitivity of these things. May Allah subhanaw taala

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help us may Allah subhanaw taala help us and may Allah subhanaw

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taala assist us working with that Reiner and Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil

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Alameen

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