Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – How the Shaytan and Nafs Drive One to Allah [Hikam 237]

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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The use of shaytan in Islam is discussed, including the concept of "The kn" and the use of "soothing" to achieve spiritual health and happiness. The use of shay Assy statement, knits, shrouds, shrouds, and shrouds is emphasized, along with the importance of forgiveness and building a foundation for comfort and love. The segment also touches on struggles with negative emotions and the use of shrouds and shrouds to achieve success and love. The speakers emphasize the importance of serving others' needs and creating a positive culture.
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa

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salatu salam ala so you didn't more saline or either he or Safi,

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your well Rocco was seldom at the Sleeman. Cathy Ron. Hello Yomi

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Dean, Amma Bharath.

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Inshallah we

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in this series on

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if not, I thought it was come with the commentary ECMO regime.

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We were covering wisdom number 237.

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We did half of it in the last in the previous session

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just before Ramadan. So in sha Allah, we look at the second half

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of it quickly today, sha Allah, essentially this is what he says

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he says Gerrera who look I don't want Leo Lee gerada who like I do

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when Leah who shall be he la Wahaca Deaconess, Lea Duma Escobar

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Luca LA. And what that meant was he made the devil your enemy, so

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that threw him, he could drive you towards himself. So through the

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devil,

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Allah could drive you to Himself, and He stirred up your soul

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against you, so that you're drawing nearer to him, meaning to

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Allah would be permanent. So we discussed the first aspect of it

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of how the shaytan is used, and how the shaytaan then becomes

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instrumental almost have Allah subhanaw taala uses the shaytaan

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to make us turn to Allah subhana wa Tada. And the idea was that

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there are several enemies in front of the human beings, pursuit to

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reach Allah subhanaw taala everybody wants to get to Allah

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subhanaw taala we love him as Muslims, as believers, we love

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him, we're supposed to love him. What does it mean that we love

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Allah? What does it mean that we want to be close to him or that we

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should be close to him? Because Allah subhanaw taala says in the

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Quran, well, Latina, Asha de Bonilla, those people who believe

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they are most ardent in their love for Allah. So

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that's definitely something that Muslims are aiming for, or they

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should be aiming for. But what does it mean to love Allah? What

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does it mean to be close to Allah, it's very difficult to find out

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until we're able to overcome our knifes our soul, our desires, and

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also the shaytaan. And the wonderful thing about Ramadan

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you can say one of the greatest objectives of Ramadan is that

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Allah subhanaw taala takes the shaytaan out of the picture. So

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it's only the knifes that you have to worry about. And because of

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forcing us to constrain ourselves to not eating restricting

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ourselves to eating only in the night time and not eating during

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the daytime when we would normally have breakfast and lunch and so

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on.

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That helps to tell the knifes that I can't do your bidding because

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the nurses used to we're used to eating in the daytime right? You

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know we would be nearing lunchtime right now we would have had

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breakfast in the morning or sub being Sunday may have been a late

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breakfast. So we would have been used to eating but he says no you

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cannot eat because

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eating drinking sexual * is not allowed between Dawn and

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sunset that even though our knifes may feel hungry and want we say no

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you can't have it. So after a few days, he just stops asking you

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don't wake up in the morning expecting breakfast.

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So that means that when you do this for about 30 days, if we can

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then

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learn from that, that after we finished Ramadan, we're not

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supposed to actually jump back onto it, then that means we would

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have inshallah at least taken care of two of our enemies or shaytaan.

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And then enough's but enough says worse. So that's why if we learn

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about it in Ramadan, we train ourselves and get some control

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then even when shaytaan comes back after Ramadan, then at least we're

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still not completely slaves to our enough's then it's easy when

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shaytaan doesn't have the knifes as his colleague inside inside our

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lives, then it's better for us, and it's more difficult for him.

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So the first part we read already that why then why the shaytaan is

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such an issue, but it's actually not an issue and the only way to

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overcome it is by thicker. So that's already been discussed. Now

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we look at the next part of this. So Wahaca alikhan NAFSA li UDMA

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kabbah Luca la Alia Duma Escobar Luca Allah you can read it both

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ways. He stirred up your soul against you so that you're drawing

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nearer to him would be permanent. So how is that going to be? Allah

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subhanahu wa Tada.

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He is created enough see in a way

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to distract us to get us to enjoy things. That's

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The part of us which enjoys food,

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purely for the sake of enjoyment, sometimes you wonder, when you've

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had a large plate of something or too much of something, you wonder

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what enjoyment you actually get, once it's in your stomach,

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that enjoyment purely is beforehand that I'm going to get

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this. So there's a desire towards it, which releases all of these

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chemicals in the brain. And then after that, when you're actually

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eating it, there's an enjoyment there due to the texture of the

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food, the flavor of the food, the design of the food, the look of

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the food, the appearance of the food, whether it's hot or cold,

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and so on all of these individual factors, right, all of these

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individual factors come together to provide our knifes with a kick.

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Once it's down,

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then what benefit is there afterwards, it's purely

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beforehand. And while we're eating, but after it's gone, it's

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gone. Now it's unhealthy than is bad for us. Of course, if it's a

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healthy food, then we expect that it's going to nourish us, and we

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may have long term benefits from it. So that's the way to think of

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this. So that's just one idea of how the knifes want something,

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then if it wants to look at something which it enjoys, then

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you look at it. Now, if it's the kava you get reward for it. But if

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it's something haram, then the only the only physical pleasure

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and enjoyment you get is when you're seeking to look at it when

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you're wanting to look at it. And when you're looking at it. Once

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it's gone, then any true believer will feel like I've just wasted my

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time. I've just committed a sin. I've just put myself into jeopardy

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for what because now that I've looked at it, it's gone. Now I

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have to look at it again. For haram. That's the way these things

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work. You feel guilt afterwards. See, the way it deals with it is

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that we've discussed enough in several other talks. So I won't go

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into much detail into the different stages which you should

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be aware of by now anyway.

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But the knifes when the human aspect, you see the knifes is the

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faculty within us that is dealing like swaying between our human

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aspects which is our animalistic aspects. And I want I don't want

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to say human aspect because the human aspect is actually a makeup

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of two aspects that animalistic and the angelic, the rule and the

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knifes the knifes is always going to take us to fulfill our desires.

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So, when the animalistic bodily physical aspect of it overcomes

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than us,

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then it constantly the knifes our ego, our desire constantly wants

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to go downwards, to basically benefit from worldly, earthly

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desires

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earthly pleasures.

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Whereas, being

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a spiritual self as well, we want to go to the higher levels to

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fulfill our rights to abide by the boundaries of Allah subhanaw

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taala. So there's this constant swaying between those two states.

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Now I must fulfill these obligations, I must do this, I

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must do that. But then there's another side of us which is

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pushing us to earthly things. So, the knifes once the knifes comes

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from the human body, the body is made of soil. So, the knifes

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constantly wants us to go back to our origin which is basically this

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soil soil, the clay, the tween the the soil, the dirt of the ground.

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And

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our rule aspects our spirit aspect wants us to ascend with it to the

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artillery lean to the highest realms of of paradise and Jana,

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and for that the spirituality. So the rule wants us to go up. So

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there's the constant up and downward battle. The knifes wants

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to find rest and repose in the worldly forms. Being with people

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being with friends, one of the biggest challenges for people

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today

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in Western countries where people have food and so on mostly is not

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being able to see your friends not being able to visit people not

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being able to interact, sit with people, because that's everywhere,

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but it's a very particular thing that a lot of people deal with.

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So, that's a desire of the knifes why do we want to do that?

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Because it's a very nifty thing to do.

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whereas our role and spirit wants us to go more in the angelic

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state, to the realm of the unseen, to think about Allah,

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to be connected to Allah to develop love for him to feel the

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presence of Allah. That's why when a lot of people do thicker, and

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they think that after a few days of liquor or after a few days of

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few weeks of liquor, they're going to start feeling a certain

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presence.

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And that's the biggest mistake because then shaytaan makes us

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desirous again, for a sensation, a feeling.

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That's very wrong. If Allah wants to give us a pleasure, a, a

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feeling.

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Whatever that is, that's up to him. We mustn't feel bad if we

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don't get it myself as a slave.

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My job is just to remember him. So I dedicate an hour, half an hour,

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five minutes to remember him.

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My main objective in that is to concentrate and to think of his

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name and take his name. That's my job, to work on concentration.

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It's not to feel a pleasure or anything.

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If that comes Alhamdulillah some people feel it some people don't.

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But our job is to score is Moravec remember the Name of your Lord,

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just take the name of your Lord with concentration, with presence.

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That's all we need.

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And as long as we're doing that we're doing the Dhikr of Allah.

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That in itself is difficult.

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We just want to make it easy on ourselves if you feel something,

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but what about if we'd never feel anything? For whatever reason?

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Does that mean we stopped doing the Dhikr of Allah?

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The command is to do the power of Allah the command is not to feel

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something. The command is to remember Allah with presence. So

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may Allah make us that easy for us and Allah facilitate it for us.

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That's why the nurse always wants to go down. And we based on our

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spirit always wants to go up. And that is what if not utter Illa

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means by Wahaca Alec Agnes Leah, do my echo look at that Allah has

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caused the movement, the turbulence of the knifes in us so

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that we can continue to go up because you need that resistance

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to be able to push up unit we to push up and to go to Allah subhana

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wa Tada.

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So, in that sense, if you look at it from that sense, some of the

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Allah ma say that the knifes and the shaytaan actually, for our

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inner self, they're actually blessings. Now, somebody's gonna

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say you're calling shaytaan a blessing. See everything has

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multiple purposes. That's the elaborate nature of Allah's

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creation.

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When he does something, is a harm to someone. Maybe a punishment to

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someone, but it's a lesson for another.

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It's a benefit for the other by saying if that's the punishment, I

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don't want that punishment. I'm going to avoid doing these wrongs.

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That's what we mean here. When the Allama say that the knifes and the

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shaytaan they are actually

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bounties and gifts from Allah to better our inside. Because if it

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wasn't for them, then we may have never pushed against them.

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towards Allah subhanaw taala and our journey to Allah subhanho wa

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Taala would not have become Initiated. One of the show you

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have the past was named was Mola Larrabee

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anybody who used to come and complain about the knifes because

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everybody complains about the knifes that I just It's my desires

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because that is what everybody is dealing with. That is what

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everybody is challenged by. It's the knifes it's the soul. It's the

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desire it's the seeking of pleasures can't get I can't get

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out of it. So people say even even in Ramadan it becomes it's

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difficult for some people but Allah makes it easy. So that's why

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when somebody would come and complain of the knifes to him

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common complaint he would say a marina for just Allah who are Nina

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FC Hira Subhanallah this person is really in tune he says as far as

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myself is concerned, I don't complain about the knifes I am

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saying that may Allah subhanho wa Taala on my behalf, reward my

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knifes with goodness

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May Allah reward my knifes on my behalf because my Allah Allah

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father Allah he will follow through ha

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I basically all I owe is Allah's grace and the grace that he's

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given me enough to fight against so that I can get higher to Allah

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subhanaw taala Wallahi Murnane said Jamila.

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The good aspect of it, that's not what we forget. So we're saying

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that

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nuff says there just to keep us on our toes. The shaytaan is on the I

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know it'd be very I mean, some of you may be thinking about why

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couldn't Allah just do away with the knifes

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do away with the shaytaan and just make it naturally that we think

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about Allah all the time?

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Well, that's not Allah's design. That's not what the purpose of

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this world is.

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The purpose of this world is to have the dilemma, the challenge,

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the choice, that's why we got free choice.

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And that's why there's a paradise in hellfire. So that's the reality

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now we can't change it. And we already feel physically

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perceptibly inclined to right and wrong. And we know deep down we

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all know inherently that the good is where we want to go.

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So it's just about trying to explain the reality now. Yes, by

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design, something could have been different. But as many orlimar

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have said that the way Allah has designed this world, and set up

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everything, and the challenge and so on, is the best that he could

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have ever done.

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Because Allah always do does the best that he can do. So this is

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the world is created. So he must be the best that he can do because

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there's nothing short in Allah subhanaw taala is ability.

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Allah never does anything mediocre,

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or less than perfection. So this is it. This is exactly what he has

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in mind. So we have to live in that. We can't deny any of it. So

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that's why there are men who have understood this. The people who

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have understood this, they say look, I completely understand I'm

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going to take the knifes along for the ride but I'm going to use it

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for me to go higher to Allah. That's why Al Hamdulillah the

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nurse is something that you can overcome. While the knifes and the

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shaytaan are definitely sources of fitna and problem apparently

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speaking, calamities, difficulties, obstacles,

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hindrances, nuisances, distractions, name it, but the one

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who's been able to surmount it

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is able to then go overcome it, understand the benefits of it,

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understand that it keeps us on our toes so that we get to where we

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want to go. So the summary is that the knifes and shaytaan. And then

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we bring back the dunya. And the people remember, these are the

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lines in front of Allah subhanaw taala of

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distractions. So the knifes and the Shaytaan, The soul and the

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shaytaan, then the dunya. And the people,

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these are going to be the highway men, these are going to be the

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robbers of the path, the bandits. So if they want, if we're not

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careful, they will actually prevent us from the path and take

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us away.

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But those who know how to manipulate these things in the

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positive way, can use all of these things to actually get us closer

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to Allah subhana wa Tada. Now, among all of these things, you

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need obviously Tofik. To do this, the nasty is actually worse than

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the shaytaan is more difficult than the shaytaan. Because

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remember, with the shaytaan, you do a bit of thicker and it just

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goes away. Simple as that you do thicker and the shaytaan goes

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away.

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So all the urges that we feel, even when we're praying to Allah

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to let the urges go, those urges then can't be from the shaytaan.

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They're from the knifes that's what the whole benefit of nurses.

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That's why they say that the nurse is much more difficult to deal

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with than the shaytaan. Because Leanna who I do wouldn't

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metaxalone It's an enemy that's always with us. It's an enemy

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that's always

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in our bed, in our house, wherever we go.

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And the other thing is that we've got this really strange

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relationship without us. We're very compassionate to ourself.

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It's like we can't even separate it. It's something to think about.

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It's like, what is it in me? How can I separate it? And the people

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have been able to separate the idea that good of it from the bad

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is a who are successful. So that's why it's a tougher enemy to deal

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with because it's within us. It's with us, and we have

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a lot of concern for it. And we like to indulge it. That's why

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according to some orlimar the NEF says AKBA means Sabrina shaytaan

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fie got it buddy. It's worse than 70 shaytans in basically hindering

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from the Path of Allah for us.

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I would definitely agree the nest is about 70 times as worse.

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Because most of the time we are if you think about most of the time

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the wrongs that we are we may be involved in that were challenged

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by and that we are

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troubled by and that bother us and that repeatedly causes indulge

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Once they're going to be the habitual ones, not new ones,

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people don't do new things every day. Right you do a new scene once

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or twice and then it becomes a habit

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shaytaan is there to keep encouraging until it becomes a

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habit and enough takes over anyway then Jadon just has to remind us

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and then we feel like we want the fix. So 70 times worse and more

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difficult and more repugnant than the shaytaan. That's why ignore

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cluster learning

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transmits from Ahmed Musa al Rahim Allah he says, the Oka Rivera is

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telling us that you have four enemies or when you have a duniya.

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The first is the dunya. The second is the desire. The third is the

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shaytaan. And the fourth is the knifes or ego he is separated

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desire, our desire just desiring something which is very closely

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related to knifes, but he's separated the two out. So he'll

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explain. The first one is the dunya. And your weapon against

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that.

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Or the weapon in that the weapon of the dunya. Rather, is you

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meeting with people

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because then you have to do what they want. And you get into their

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unless it's good people, most people you know, and the way to

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imprison the dunya is by solitude.

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I mean, personally, this lockdown has been wonderful. I mean, I'm

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not even joking. It's just, I'm dreading the day it's going to be

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open. Because Alhamdulillah everything we want gets done. Last

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made it easy. Allah supplied us and provided us

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and it's just that minimize, there's just that, you know

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minimizing of doing redundant things is the perfect state. I

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hope it's been like that for a lot of other people.

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The weeks have flown by doesn't even feel like it's been over a

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month. May Allah allow us and people totally from a non

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spiritual sense, non religious sense. There's lots of discussion

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about this now. We've learned so much even from atheists, like

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we've learned so much from this lockdown question is that

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when it all opens up again

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then are we going to forget this newfound

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basis this newfound comfort are we going to forget it again. So this

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is not just religious people who are talking about this but

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everybody else and if somebody is

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people need to understand this.

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The second one he says is the desire

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and the desire he doesn't mean nasty means however, just desire

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for things and he says the weapon used there is speech. So when you

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talk a lot with people, whether that be in texting or in writing

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or in speech, and the way to imprison this part of it is to be

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silent. The third one he says the shaytaan

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and the enemy the weapons of shaytaan use here is he says is to

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be fully satiated all the time.

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Fully satiated all the time. And the way to imprison it is to stay

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hungry. So there we get in the benefit of that in Ramadan. And

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the fourth one he says is the knifes is the lowly ego

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and he says the the way that knifes uses the knifes overcomes

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and the knifes uses as weapon is sleep and the

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imprisoning of it is through staying awake Ramadan provides us

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that as well. There's a poem it says in the bully to be a bear in

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your mean any be noble nebulae and ghosts in Lahore that wiro been

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enabling you to be a bear in your mean Annie be nobly and close in

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LA Hutto to a bliss who are duniya when fc will Hawa Yara be Anta al

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Hala, cerca de rue. I am constantly the poet says that I am

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constantly challenged by four things which are constantly firing

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at me constantly firing at me from a quiver just full of arrows never

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ending Who are these four Iblees the dunya

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my own knifes and my desire Oh my Lord only you have the ability you

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certainly have the ability to give me escape and delivery from this.

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So let us read what if no, I thought Allah says about this

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hiccup to complete. If not, sorry, Sheikh Abdullah gonna go he

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provides in his commentary as an explanation here. He says Allah

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Most High informed mankind in the Quran that the devil is there

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open enemy.

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By virtue of Allah's information and your own experience, you will

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now realize without any doubt that the devil is your enemy in

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addition to your soul.

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While your soul is your enemy from within the devil is an outside

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enemy, you will realize that he is the enemy of your welfare in both

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abodes. At the same time, you will know that on account of your

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weakness, and the invisibility of your enemy, his plots to destroy

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you will be highly dangerous. Furthermore, you will not find any

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friend on Earth to aid you against your enemy. When this knowledge

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becomes the condition of your heart, you will readily turn in

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supplication to Allah Most High, you will be anxiously turning your

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attention to him. This attitude is most desirable. This laudable

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attitude will in fact, be the consequence of the devil's

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animosity for you. So it's when this gets quite severe that people

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generally then think that no, I need to turn to Allah because only

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he can help me. Otherwise, people just go along with the

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deceit of the knifes and shaytaan most of the time. Similarly, Allah

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Most High has induced your soul to pursue desires. That's the design

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of the soul.

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The soul is always demanding satiation of its pleasures,

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sometimes the soul seeks expressions, expression of its

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desires to commit sin, and sometimes it desires, the bounties

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and the luxuries of the world. The Traveler usually becomes perturbed

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by these demands, because the * of these desires

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prevents him from the actual goal of divine proximity with Allah.

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However, the wisdom and mercy of Allah Most High for the servant in

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this trial is that he will struggle against his soul.

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We've been told to struggle, since the servant cannot overcome the

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soul by himself. He has no option but to supplicate to Allah Most

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High we have to ask him, Allahu Akbar, his attention will

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therefore be fixed permanently towards Allah Most High. Thus he

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will ever be alert against this enemy. It should be understood

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that the state of being permanently alert against the

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enemy is acquired. When the knowledge of the souls malice

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becomes one's attitude and disposition. mere knowledge is not

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sufficient. When we ask Allah subhana wa Tada for help. And this

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Ramadan especially that Allah subhanaw taala allow this Ramadan

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to have its effects, which is that we get dako Allah Allah conduct

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the Gunas Allah subhanaw taala mentions in the Quran that we

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actually do attain the taqwa by the end of it, and that Taqwa

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continues for the rest of our life until we meet with Allah subhanaw

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taala only to increase in sha Allah. Well, I can read that one

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and hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen Lahoma and the Salah and women

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because Allah and whatever their agenda or even a Quran Allah who

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may or how you yaka Yun Ramadan esta Leith Allahumma yeah Hannah

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and we in Illa Illa Allah Subhana Allah in Konami, nobody mean

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just Allahu Allah Mohammed Amma who

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are hamara he mean, Medina. Judy welcome. Yeah, Hieronymus Olean

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where Hiral Martine

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well yeah a caramel chloramine where they'll generally will

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Quran. Allah Houma Filipina ohana, fina watin Our zakenna Allahumma

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Filon Muslim in our Muslim and it will mean in our minute here in

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humble words. Allah Houma Farah Leonetti Sayidina Muhammad in

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Allah Houma, Filipina WallyWorld Idina

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Wadi Masha, if you know when he asserted that you know when he

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will Denali as well as you know, when he when you know what the

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Hawa Tina when he asked the car in a very carabiner when he called

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the Mandela who happened when he called him and also on with Dora

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Allah homearama home Wi Fi and Wi Fi Nome Allahumma Rohan Nabeel

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Quran Allah azza wa jal hula Imam Anwar who then went over Anwar

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Rana Allah Who Moroccan I mean who mana see now I live Nam in Houma

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Johanna Allahumma zakenna Tila water who Anna lady we're an hour

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Allahumma Ursula Helena shenana Cola Hola, Tequilana Illa and

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fusina tougher terrain

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Allahumma inna and our OB community Junoon he will do them

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he will borrow CVSA ilus calm or visit na elmen FIRA what is called

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wanna cry mela MotoCorp Bella Shiva Amin colada Allahu manana Oh

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they'll be coming I'll Mila Yun Wakil biller Yaksha when I've seen

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touchbar why in the allotted Mark Medora Illa use the job Allah

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Yeah, our hamara he mean we ask you for your special attention. We

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ask you for your special focus. We ask you for your generosity for

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your forgiveness for your clemency. For your forbearance of

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Allah we ask You for Your divine protection. We asked you for your

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divine enablement. Yeah, Allah

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Forgive us, purify us. cleanse us, of Allah this month is a month of

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forgiveness. It's a month of cleansing. It's a month of

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closeness. It's a month of love of Allah, it's a month of love. There

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are the world over. There are millions of people who are fasting

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for you have Allah in this month there are millions who are staying

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hungry, who are voluntarily staying hungry, oh Allah who are

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praying extra prayers. Oh Allah who are giving extra charity, oh

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Allah who are doing many additional deeds of Allah there

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are millions in this world today during this month, who are

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avoiding and abandoning those sins that they used to commit before of

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Allah? Well above all, and firstly, we thank You for this

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state fee. Thank you for the Ramadan we thank you for this

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opportunity. And above all, we thank you for being believers. We

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thank you for having you to turn to in these difficult times of

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Allah We thank you for being there for us in these difficult times of

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Allah. We thank you for making us of those who can turn to you and

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who can find comfort with you. Have Allah grant us greater

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comfort. Oh Allah grant us our entire comfort with you. Our Allah

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grant us our entire reliance in you. Oh Allah take us away from

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the reliance of everything else. Oh Allah especially take us away

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from reliance and sufficiency with the Haram of Allah grant us

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sufficiency with the halal with what you have given us. Oh Allah,

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you are there for us. Oh Allah, we ask that you've taken the shaytaan

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away from us keep the shaytaan away from us for the rest of our

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life. Oh Allah protect us from the mischief of the shaytaan

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especially on our deathbed. Oh Allah bless our family members and

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our community and those others who have died around the world with

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iman.

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Allah Allah grant them shahada and Jen nettleford dose of Allah, we

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ask you, to grant us health. We aren't just we ask that You grant

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us security. We got we You grant us humility. You grant us

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generosity. You grant us empathy for others, you grant us the

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ability to assist others, like you grant us the ability to be

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selfless, to be concerned.

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To want to do for others to love others of Allah protect us from

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the blameworthy traits of jealousy, the blameworthy traits,

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of animosity, of hatred, of discontentment of ingratitude of

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Allah protect us. These are severe indeed for those who have them. Oh

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Allah, these are severe indeed for those who have them, of Allah

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allow us to serve your Deen in some way or the other, make us of

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those who are not just uselessly just going through the world will

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have their own wealth, who have their own food, who have a good

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place to live, will have a good means of transport, but they don't

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focus about anybody else. Oh Allah make us of those who do something

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worthwhile in this world. Those who accomplished something extra

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in this world of Allah leave a legacy behind in this world, leave

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a positive,

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a positive aspect, and a positive goodness in this world that people

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can remember us with goodness of Allah allow us to be of those who

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people will remember with goodness but not with evil. Oh Allah make

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us keys for goodness. Allah Who Medina wa Divina or Jana who that

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eliminated our Allah make us of those who will you will raise on

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the day of judgment and give place in your shades and to give them

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the company of the righteous the pious to give them the company of

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the marches. Give them the company of the CD keen, oh Allah we asking

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you a lot. Our actions may not be able to carry us there, but we

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know that your grace will be able to carry us Oh Allah we are asking

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you this sitting in the masjid here. Oh Allah people are sitting.

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They would have been sitting in a masjid if they could be Oh ALLAH

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people are sitting at home they've been forced to stay away from the

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masjid of Allah open up these massages again remove this rubber

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and this. This problem from us of Allah remove it from us of Allah

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allow us to learn the lessons from this of Allah allow us to learn

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the lessons from this so that they can be beneficial for us for the

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rest of this life. And especially in the hereafter which is the true

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life of Allah grant us our understanding of the of the of the

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life hereafter of Allah allow us to focus on this journey which is

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inevitable which is going to happen. Our Allah do not allow us

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to leave it too late. hour every day, every day.

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oment allow us to do something which is good of Allah make all of

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our normal daily actions into good actions by good intention of Allah

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correct our intention of Allah removed from us. futility removed

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from us redundancy of Allah removed from us.

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misunderstanding, Miss focus, distraction, negligence, Oh Allah,

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we ask that you allow us to really understand our priorities of Allah

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that you allow that switch to take place that we suddenly now we want

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to do good for you. And make your obedience beloved, in our hearts

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of Allah make there be nothing that is greater than your love in

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our hearts. make there be nothing that is more beloved, in our

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hearts than your obedience of Allah. Make your disobedience

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hated in our hearts, make nothing more repugnant, allow us to

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abstain from it allow us to avoid it. Allow us to stay away from it.

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Oh Allah, we ask You for assistance of Allah. We can't do

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this ourselves of Allah. We've seen that this is the normal state

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of human beings that when they see others in trouble, they assist

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them, especially parents assist their children, even when they're

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walking, when they're learning to walk. They can't walk anymore.

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They the child will be picked up by the parents. This is the

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compassion and the mercy that you've given to parents. Yeah,

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Allah, we know that you are more merciful than all the parents in

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this world, where you have more mercy than all the mercy that

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exists in this world. Oh Allah, we know that you are greater and more

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beloved to us than even our parents. Because in the Quran, you

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mentioned how people will run away from their own children and their

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own parents, their brothers, their sisters, their spouses, but our

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Allah you have also said in the Quran, that even though we are

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sinners, we should not be hopeless in your mercy of Allah. This is

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the mercy that we are invoking of you. of Allah accept this to offer

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of hours of Allah writers to be from the people of Paradise, and

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rate us to have been delivered from the people of hellfire of

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Allah in these nights of the month of Ramadan. Oh Allah, just the

00:37:10 --> 00:37:14

same happiness that you give us a Iftar time when we have our food

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and we break our fast. Oh Allah allowed the happiness and the joy

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on the Day of Judgment when we see you to be even greater than that

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of Allah.

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Allow us to easily and with facility with ease. And with

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success, have this Ramadan and be drenched in its mercy and its

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forgiveness and its blessings of Allah grant us from the all the

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types of blessings of this month of Ramadan. Oh Allah removed the

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persecution and the difficulties faced by so many around the world.

00:37:46 --> 00:37:49

The unfairness that is faced around the world by people, Oh

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Allah, allow people to do what is right.

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And make us of those who do what is right and to assist others who

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do right and to assist others to remove the wrongs that they may be

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

doing in their lives of Allah remove from us the wrongs that

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allow us to assist others to remove the wrongs make us of those

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who are instrumental of doing good and keys for goodness and virtue

00:38:13 --> 00:38:18

in this world of Allah accept our doors, accept whatever, whatever

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good deeds that we do whatever good efforts that we do, Allah

00:38:22 --> 00:38:27

accept them from us. And Oh Allah, we ask that you send your abundant

00:38:27 --> 00:38:29

blessings on our messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa

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sallam

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and that you grant us his company in the hereafter. Subhan Allah be

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corrupt, be lazy and I'll see for one hour salam ala l Mursaleen. Al

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hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen

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