Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Hidden Reasons Your Prayers Are Not Answered

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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The speakers discuss the complicated job of event organizers and the importance of understanding the effects of events on people and finding one's own success in event organizers' job. They emphasize the importance of rewarding employees and finding one's own success in event organizers' job. The speakers also discuss the benefits of having something beneficial for oneself and give incentives for employees to practice their behavior. They emphasize the importance of being aware of one's behavior and achieving their goals.

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			بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله، الحمد لله
		
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			رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على المبعوث رحمة للعالمين
		
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			وعلى آله وصحبه وبارك وسلم تسليماً كثيراً إلى
		
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			يوم الدين أما بعد قال الله تعالى في
		
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			القرآن المجيد والفرقان الحميد ادعوا ربكم تضرعاً وخفياً
		
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			ادعوا ربكم تضرعاً وخفياً Dear brothers, dear sisters,
		
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			dear friends I had a different topic in
		
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			mind but when I came here I observed
		
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			something and Allah put into my mind to
		
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			speak about this particular topic is how do
		
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			we successfully call on to Allah سبحانه وتعالى
		
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			so that our calling on to Allah سبحانه
		
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			وتعالى is accepted and it doesn't lead us
		
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			away from Allah سبحانه وتعالى We get constant
		
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			questions that I've been praying for so long
		
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			I've been making dua for so long and
		
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			it's not getting accepted I've done this, I've
		
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			given sadaqa I've completed this etiquette I've completed
		
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			that particular advice but still I can't get
		
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			married to him or if it's a man
		
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			I can't get married to her or it's
		
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			not working out I've done all of these
		
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			things So now firstly what I want to
		
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			explain is that we have to understand the
		
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			philosophy of dua first What exactly is dua?
		
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			So that we don't misunderstand this If we
		
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			misunderstand this we're basically doing the wrong thing
		
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			and then we get disappointed Shaytan then uses
		
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			that to make us feel bad about Allah
		
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			So then we feel despondent that there's no
		
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			point and Allah doesn't really answer and people,
		
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			their faith becomes shaken by this Firstly what
		
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			we have to understand is that we, you,
		
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			I, every single individual is just a small
		
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			individual in the grand scheme of things Allah's
		
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			creation is in the multitudes If you compare
		
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			ourselves in relationship to all the other creation
		
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			of Allah or just the human beings we're
		
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			just a small human being I know we
		
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			consider ourselves to be very special and we
		
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			individually are all special to Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala However, if I want X and
		
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			you want X as well and there's only
		
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			one X Who should Allah give it to?
		
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			You or me?
		
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			You want the same thing that I do
		
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			Who should Allah give it to?
		
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			We're both praying for it We've both given
		
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			lots of sadaqah done 10 raka'ats of
		
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			nawafil prayer and now asking Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala sitting in i'tikaf in the masjid
		
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			Who should Allah give it to?
		
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			Maybe He should give it to both of
		
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			us to share but some things can't be
		
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			shared So what are we saying?
		
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			How does that work?
		
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			So if you look at the reality of
		
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			the way matters are Allah juggles all of
		
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			this He doesn't juggle anything in our understanding
		
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			somebody who's so organized He's juggling multiple things
		
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			They say one of the most stressful jobs
		
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			out there is to be a event organizer
		
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			One of the most stressful jobs I don't
		
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			know if they've got any event organizers here
		
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			if you've dabbled in event organizers It's very
		
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			complicated because you have to worry about multiple
		
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			things with multiple parties and trying to get
		
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			all that right For Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala is effortless to literally deal with every
		
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			single event an incident, an individual in the
		
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			world at every single one time His knowledge
		
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			and power extends to every single leaf that
		
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			falls and imagine in autumn how many leaves
		
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			fall off just a single tree We're talking
		
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			about ما تسكت من ورقة إلا يعلمها That's
		
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			what Allah says He knows exactly about every
		
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			single leaf that is falling anywhere in the
		
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			world at one time simultaneously in their multitudes
		
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			However, now coming back to our perspective I
		
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			want something, you want something So, who gets
		
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			it?
		
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			Number two If I do get that thing
		
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			Allah has, remember, He has full knowledge He
		
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			knows about everything If you look at aqeedah,
		
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			tahawiyah any of our books of creed, they
		
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			talk about Allah knows about everything from before
		
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			it happens He knows about something before it
		
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			happens and He knows exactly how it's going
		
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			to be when it does come into being
		
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			He knew all of that from beforehand So,
		
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			for example let's just say I do get
		
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			that particular car or I get to marry
		
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			that particular individual or I get that particular
		
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			business or whatever it is Allah knows that
		
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			that is going to bring the mischief out
		
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			in me It might make me arrogant It
		
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			might make me overly confident It might make
		
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			me haughty and proud and conceited I don't
		
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			know that, do I?
		
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			Right now, I don't know that I just
		
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			want it, I'm so tunnel visioned because I'm
		
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			obsessed by that thing I want it But
		
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			Allah knows in the future Plus, you have
		
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			to remember the world we live in is
		
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			a quantum world What that basically means is
		
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			that anything that happens in this world has
		
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			an effect on someone else I'll give you
		
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			an example Has anybody bought a car recently?
		
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			Please, somebody Has anybody bought a car recently?
		
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			Right, so you bought a car recently JazakAllah
		
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			for volunteering I do like to ask questions
		
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			You bought a car You think, what's anybody
		
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			else got to do with it?
		
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			I bought a car, I need a car
		
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			Maybe you're less compliant Whatever the reason was
		
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			Basic car, wonderful car Put it outside or
		
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			I put it into my garage so nobody
		
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			sees it I don't think you can unless
		
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			you're just going to store it there or
		
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			in the middle of the night you're going
		
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			to take it in and out You have
		
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			ten neighbors Imagine what your neighbors all feel
		
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			about your car One is going to think
		
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			MashaAllah, he's got a good car, good for
		
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			him He had a banger before, he's got
		
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			a good car Another one is going to
		
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			say Where did he get the money to
		
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			buy that car from?
		
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			Number three, the guy is going to say
		
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			Why did he buy that color, or that
		
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			make, or that model?
		
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			Number four, the guy is going to say
		
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			I need a car like that as well
		
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			Yes, I'm going to go and get a
		
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			car like that It's a really nice car
		
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			That's just four people so far Ten people
		
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			will have various different reactions and you can't
		
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			help that That's just the way the world
		
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			is, right?
		
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			You can't help that Everything we do has
		
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			some reaction somewhere else Everything and anything Now
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala whatever he does
		
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			for us is usually always in the is
		
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			in the best interest We just don't understand
		
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			the best interest right now Because if I
		
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			get that thing right now I might God
		
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			forbid, I might be in an accident the
		
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			next day He knows exactly how it's going
		
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			to affect everything else We don't know that,
		
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			we're just selfishly asking for ourselves So now
		
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			Allah has a system in place, he says
		
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			look, you need to ask me, you need
		
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			to make dua The hadith of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ said من لم يسأل الله يغضب عليه
		
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			The one who doesn't ask Allah Allah gets
		
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			angry on him Multiple places in the Quran
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying فاسألوني
		
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			Like ask me, ask me, ask me That's
		
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			a worship, in fact one hadith of the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ is saying that dua is the
		
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			kernel and essence of worship Salat is a
		
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			worship How does dua compare to salat?
		
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			Salat, we're offering something to Allah, it's not
		
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			selfish Is there any selfishness in salat?
		
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			Not that we can usually see Of course
		
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			we do it for our own benefit as
		
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			well, but usually it's an offering You know
		
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			when you make dua to Allah are we
		
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			offering him anything?
		
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			Or are we being selfishly asking for ourselves?
		
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			So how does dua How is dua explained
		
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			as being the essence of worship and devotion?
		
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			I couldn't understand So upon reading an investigation,
		
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			what it is is that when you make
		
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			dua you're actually devoting yourself to Allah, how?
		
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			Because you're realizing our inability our need, our
		
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			servitude, our helplessness and we're saying, oh Allah
		
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			only you can give me this That's why
		
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			it's a worship We look at it selfishly,
		
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			ya Allah I'm asking for myself, I want
		
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			this and I want that But the reason
		
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			we're asking Allah and nobody else is because
		
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			we're seeing him as our deity, our great
		
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			one That's why it's a worship Dua is
		
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			a worship, Allah wants us to do dua
		
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			Prophet ﷺ said if you don't do dua,
		
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			Allah gets angry on you So then Allah
		
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			has a system in place Because he can't
		
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			just give us everything People wake up at
		
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			night they make dua for five different things
		
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			I want my daughter to be married to
		
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			this particular individual, I want me to, my
		
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			business to do this and I want to
		
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			open a second store here, da da da
		
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			da da He asks for five different things
		
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			Out of them maybe only one happened or
		
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			nothing happened within two or three weeks And
		
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			you're going to say to Allah, you're going
		
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			to get angry on Allah Now just think
		
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			about it, you get angry on Allah Why
		
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			didn't you answer?
		
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			Question I'm going to ask you now right,
		
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			this should really make us understand Is Allah
		
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			your slave or your servant or your employee
		
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			that he has to do your five things?
		
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			You come to work and you say Okay,
		
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			you get this done today, you get this
		
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			done today, you get that done today and
		
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			this one is your job and this is
		
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			your job, if they don't do it by
		
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			the end of the day, you're going to
		
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			be upset aren't you?
		
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			Why?
		
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			You have a right to be You're paying
		
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			them They're your servant, not your servant, they're
		
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			your employees, or if you live in a
		
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			place where you have servants and you need
		
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			to do some work, you're going to be
		
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			upset and you have the right to be
		
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			upset because you're paying them, are you paying
		
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			anything to Allah?
		
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			So you dictate, you bark a few orders
		
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			to Allah right, literally, and then you get
		
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			angry Why didn't you give me that?
		
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			Make any sense, does it?
		
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			And the reason we think like that is
		
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			because we don't know Allah and we don't
		
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			know the system of dua, we just hear,
		
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			we just understand dua as a selfish act
		
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			of ask Allah When we're asking Allah, we're
		
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			literally submitting to him Now Allah always gives,
		
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			remember that, you're like he's never given me,
		
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			he always gives But he just, because he
		
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			has to look after everything and what you
		
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			may be asking for may not be healthy
		
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			for you to have right now So what
		
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			does Allah say?
		
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			I will respond to you in one of
		
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			three ways, just depends on what I know
		
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			of how to keep everything in, I have
		
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			to run the whole world Allah is saying,
		
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			I'm running the whole universe everything has an
		
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			effect on something else, so I need to
		
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			make sure everything is right.
		
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			When I say make sure, I talk from
		
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			my perspective, Allah doesn't make sure he knows,
		
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			he doesn't make mistakes Right?
		
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			But from Allah's perspective, he can only give
		
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			us what is in the grand plan is
		
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			gonna make sense for everything else Right?
		
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			Where does he want it to be?
		
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			But he says, because you've made dua I'm
		
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			gonna reward you for that, just reward, reward,
		
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			reward thawab, but I'm also every dua you
		
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			make, I'm gonna respond to it in one
		
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			of three ways as well.
		
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			Number one, either I'm gonna give you what
		
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			you're asking for because it's healthy for you
		
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			to have it, or good for you to
		
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			have it, is beneficial for you to have
		
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			it, or it's part of the grand plan,
		
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			I'm gonna give it to you So you
		
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			get it, right?
		
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			And you get really excited Number two, it's
		
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			not good for you because it's supposed to
		
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			be for someone else, or it's gonna cause
		
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			this issue to you or I wanna test
		
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			you in this way, because I want you
		
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			to be this, or I want you to
		
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			do that, so what I'm gonna do is,
		
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			instead of giving it to you, I'm going
		
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			to actually relieve you of another calamity that
		
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			was supposed to come upon you There was
		
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			supposed to be some impending calamities and attacks
		
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			on you by you making dua, they've just
		
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			been removed one by one.
		
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			Number three whatever you do ask for, I'm
		
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			gonna give you a reward for that in
		
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			the hereafter That's for sure.
		
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			You ask for something, you've asked me, I'm
		
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			gonna give you a reward in the hereafter
		
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			Right?
		
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			When we get to the hereafter, unfortunately we
		
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			can't experience this right now so it's difficult,
		
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			but when we get to the hereafter and
		
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			we see the rewards of all of our
		
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			duas amassing up, which we never expected to
		
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			get, because we wanted it in the world
		
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			and we were kind of upset sometimes as
		
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			well, we're gonna think, I wish none of
		
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			our duas were accepting me right now, because
		
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			that's the real life But remember, Allah always
		
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			gives you something back, He's promised that, that's
		
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			for sure Give you an example, you went
		
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			for a trip to Bangladesh or Somalia Right?
		
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			Or wherever you wanna go I just thought
		
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			of Bangladesh and Somalia So, you brought back
		
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			something really valuable but very delicate Maybe it's
		
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			this really art piece some, you know, ornament
		
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			or something, it's very common, your little one
		
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			year old wants to play with it because
		
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			it's so shiny and sparkly, he's like, give
		
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			it to me Are you gonna give it
		
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			to him?
		
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			It's very valuable, you bought it for 250
		
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			pounds Are you gonna give it to that
		
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			kid to play with?
		
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			Because it can easily be broken, because it's
		
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			very delicate, would you give it to him?
		
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			Again, kid starts crying Starts bashing at you,
		
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			like You're not gonna give it to him
		
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			What do you do instead?
		
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			What do you do instead?
		
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			The kid is crying and he wants something,
		
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			you don't wanna give him that thing, what
		
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			do you do instead?
		
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			You give him an alternative You give him
		
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			a sweet or something, alright?
		
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			Keep him happy, usually the kid is like
		
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			Okay, but some day they see that again,
		
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			no I want that thing, alright?
		
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			So what you do is, you satisfy them
		
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			some other way, you give them an alternative
		
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			This is exactly what Allah is doing with
		
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			kids as well We don't know that whether
		
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			something is good or bad for us, that
		
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			kid doesn't know that that thing is not
		
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			appropriate for him right now When he grows
		
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			up, go ahead, Bismillah Go and enjoy enjoy
		
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			that thing, but it's not for you right
		
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			now because you're too young for it, you'll
		
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			break it up Same way Allah deals with
		
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			us, we are actually like children, basically in
		
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			front of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala So,
		
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			he gives us something else, but we need
		
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			to keep asking him So keep asking him,
		
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			and if it doesn't work out, then just
		
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			realize If it doesn't work out, just realize
		
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			it wasn't for me That's very very pacifying
		
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			and very very comforting Ok, I tried my
		
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			best, it wasn't for me I won't get
		
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			it, I'll get something else instead Otherwise, if
		
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			you don't feel that way, you're still not
		
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			going to get it, and you're going to
		
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			feel upset, so what's the point of that?
		
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			Understand the way Allah works, the philosophy of
		
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			dua is very good to understand, so keep
		
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			asking because calamities will be thwarted because of
		
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			that, and repelled because of that, and we'll
		
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			be rewarded and inshallah we'll be definitely rewarded
		
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			Or, if we're lucky, we'll get the thing
		
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			in the world A lot of the time
		
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			Allah does give us, as long as we're
		
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			doing the right thing, where it's appropriate, we
		
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			usually get what we ask for Anyway, Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala connect us to him
		
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			in a way that we really understand Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala and may Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala accept our duas in the
		
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			best way possible and make us satisfied The
		
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			point of a lecture is to encourage people
		
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			to act, to get further an inspiration, an
		
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			encouragement persuasion The next step is to actually
		
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			start learning seriously, to read books to take
		
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			on a subject of Islam and to understand
		
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			all the subjects of Islam, at least at
		
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			their basic level, so that we can become
		
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			more aware of what our deen wants from
		
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			us, and that's why we started Rayyan courses
		
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			so that you can actually take organized lectures,
		
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			on demand, whenever you have free time especially,
		
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			for example, the Islamic essentials course that we
		
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			have on there, the Islamic essentials certificate which
		
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			you take 20 short modules, and at the
		
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			end of that, inshallah, you will have gotten
		
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			the basics of most of the most important
		
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			topics in Islam, and you'll feel a lot
		
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			more confident You don't have to leave lectures
		
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			behind, you can continue to listen to lectures
		
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			but you need to have this more sustained
		
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			study as well.
		
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			Jazakallah khair Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh