Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Living and Dying for Allah

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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The speakers discuss the importance of having a good time and being present during one's life, as well as the challenges of changing behavior and maintaining a good time. They also discuss the prophets of the internet and the importance of avoiding danger and not being too afraid of the "fitna" of Islam. The segment also touches on a young man who became a powerful preacher, but became hesitant to do so, and eventually became a powerful preaker.
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law he handled cathedra on a uban Mubarak and fie Mubarak and it he

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can mail your headboard Abouna where your La Jolla jeweler who

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I'm in the world was Salatu was Salam ala Sayed Al Habib Al

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Mustafa SallAllahu. Derrida are they he was. He was sabe he about

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Rocco was seldom at the Sleeman cathedral and, you know Yomi Dean

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Amma Barrett, my dear respected brothers and sisters, As Salam

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aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.

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It's really nice to see such a big crowd

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for the sake of the Day of Judgment,

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in sha Allah, may Allah give us the trophy to translate this into

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real practice.

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So that inshallah we can show this further when we die.

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Allah subhanaw taala says we're living in Amman or I should do

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herbal Allah, those who believe they are.

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They are, they have great strength in their love for Allah subhanho

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wa taala, they are very avid in their love for Allah subhanho wa

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taala.

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Most of the

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attendants that I see here

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seem to be less than 40 years of age,

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unless you look a lot, a lot younger than you are.

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Which is a good thing, because we still have some time.

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What I speak about here is that rhythm I have mentioned that a

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person when they they've given some milestones, they say that

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when a person reaches the age of 40, and if they good has not

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overcome their bad,

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then it's a sad case, essentially.

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Because 40 is the age where a person mentally matures, 40 years

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of life is sufficient for a person to track out their ways you see,

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because when you're young, when you're young, when you're when

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you're in the age of youth, which YBNL Josie says is from the time

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you become mature, physically mature 1213, until you're about 33

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years of age. So that's a good length of youth, isn't it. And

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youth has been considered to be a degree of insanity. And the reason

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for that is because that's when people normally discover their

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abilities, they discover their potential, and they want to follow

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that potential. They want to pursue their, their so called

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desires. Now they are going to now start questioning many things that

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they see around them, they're no longer just going to be just

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followers of orders as such, they are going to think independently

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as such. Right? You know what I mean, right?

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You can say, yes, it's okay.

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So

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when a person goes through this stage, and passes the stage, I

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mean, if we take 33, as the as the end of youth, that's a long time.

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By that time, we must have made up of our mind. Because normally, in

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the age of youth, if somebody is able to protect their youth and do

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something that that sets the course right of their life, then

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it's smooth sailing. That's why it is such a great reward for those

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who are good in their youth that are attached to Allah subhanho wa

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taala. In the youth, they're one of the seven that will be in the

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shade on the Day of Judgment.

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However, once we reach the age of 40, and if the good has not

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overcome the bad, then there's a great warning about that. And the

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reason is that it's very difficult to change after

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not that it's impossible. There's nothing impossible in this world

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hamdulillah when it comes to changing, the Hadith makes it very

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clear that a person could be all their lives doing evil, and at the

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last moment when there's literally a small distance between him and

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the hellfire, that a person changes for the good. And but then

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there is the flip side of this as well, where it said that there's a

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person who's good throughout their life, but then there's a small

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amount of time left between him or small distance or ham span,

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essentially, that's what the Hadith mentions, and the person

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turns bad. That could also happen. But the good thing is that the

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reader might have mentioned from observation and experience, that

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it's normally a turn from evil to good than the good to evil. The

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reason is that good cause to more good. And evil is something that

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can overcome a person that can that can be subdued once a person

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gets older and starts thinking and reflecting. But the age of 40 is

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the age of maturity of good or bad as well. So if a person hasn't

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been able to rectify themselves by the age of 40, then there's a big

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warning about that. And the reason for that is that after the age of

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40, it's very difficult to change. It's more difficult to change.

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It's not impossible, but it's more difficult to change.

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So

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The other thing, though, is that if we're listening to this, and

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we're thinking, I've got another 10 years to go, I'm 30 right now,

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or those who are younger, say, I've got 15 years to go, I've got

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20 years to go, believe we don't rely on that. Time flies for one

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thing. Number two, what we do, essentially calls to the same kind

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of action. So if we're involved in just having a good time, then

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we'll just want to have more good time. Because the ways that in

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which we're having a good time right now will only become boring

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eventually. And we'll find other ways more extreme ways. See a

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person who goes and you know, he does some weird things with cars,

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eventually, they're going to start doing even more weirder things,

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because eventually it kind of gets boring, doesn't it? Right, just

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doing the little wheel spin here and there. Right, or just driving

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at 100, for example, gets a bit boring. So people want to do more

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than that.

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Right? So when we get to the AI, if you're thinking that I've got

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10 years left, believe me from experience, don't don't relate to

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that, we want to set the course right. It's like if anybody's

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played golf,

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where you hit the ball is very, very important. If you hit it just

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a millimeter or two off the center, the distance that the

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distance of change the distance of difference, where it will land

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will be a lot more than just two millimeters. That will be

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magnified where it hits and essentially the same thing is with

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our lives.

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Remember the hola Juan

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used to ask who they for Ebola man or the hola Juan over and over

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again? What is it? Do you know anything about me that the

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prophets of Allah has told you that I need to be concerned about

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and the reason for this is that he held the he held the secrets of

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the prophets, Allah lorrison prophesy, Lawson told me many

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things which had not told anybody else, the names of the hypocrites

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of the time, people who didn't really believe inside but expose

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the Islam only outside only outwardly almoradi alone is

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concerned all the way through that am I one of those Am I one of

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those that might change towards the end from the good to the bad,

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and you're so concerned, that's O'Meara, the Allah who won,

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despite all of the great achievements of his life, and so

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on. This is his thought process is very important. There's a poet.

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There's a poem which says that, when a person is written as

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fortunate in the Hereafter, as one of the successful ones in the

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Hereafter, that it doesn't matter how they spend their life, they

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will end up being like that.

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And if there's a person who's written as being unfortunate and

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wretched in the Hereafter, that is how they will eventually become

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evil despite whoever nurtures them and brings them up. So it says For

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Musa Lizzie Europa who fear I will know Marcelo were Musa la vie

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robber who are Musa la vie Raba, who Jabri Luca, Pharaoh, the

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manifested in mentioned that Samiti if you've heard of somebody

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who has mentioned in the Quran, who is the one who misled the Tome

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of Musa the people of Musa Elisa and when he had gone to with for

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his meeting with Allah subhanaw taala sermon he was the one who

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misled them and cause them to start worshipping the calf the

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golden calf he took it took everything and he made a cough and

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and he got them to start worshipping it. Apparently what

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the first city in mentioned about him is that he was a survivor. He

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was a survivor on a shipwreck with an his mother and everybody had

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passed away. He had rolled up onto an island and Gibreel Ali Salaam

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for some reason the angel had decided to take care of him. And

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they move to Sydney in dimension, all sorts of ways of how he used

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to feed him and so on. And he was brought up by Gibreel

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Alehissalaam, initially before he went and joined the community, but

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he then became to be a bit careful and a mushrik apologist, despite

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being brought up by an angel, on the other hand, you had Musa

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alayhis salam, the story is famous. He was picked up by the by

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Pharaoh and his wife, they brought him up so the biggest calf here,

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we used to call himself God, right in the world at the time Pharaoh

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who used to enslave people brings up Musashi salaam, turn and he

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turns out to be a prophet, because the decree takes over the ending

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takes over. And this leads us to two concepts which are very

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important. And may Allah subhanaw taala allow us to be successful

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with the positive one that Sue will hurt him and his personal

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hurt him. Personal hajima is the good sealing states. The ending

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state which is good and pleasant for a person and the evil sealing

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state is the suit will hajima where we're about to die, the

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angel is there the soul is coming out and we cannot say La ilaha

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illallah

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that is an evil ceiling state brothers and sisters. That is what

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you call the evil ceiling state in the mail. Armello Bill Hawa team.

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Actions are according to the endings. Actions are according to

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the ending

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Regardless of how a person has lived their life, if the last

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point is where you cannot say the Kadima for the loop nor EOD, one

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of the great aesthetics of the past. He says that he was once a

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relates that he was once invited quickly in very urgently to a

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student of his house. The family is inviting him and saying that

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you need to come quickly because your student, he is on the last

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the last few minutes of his life, but as much as we try he will not

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say La ilaha illallah This is a man who was becoming a scholar.

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This is a man who is studying the knowledge of Allah subhanho wa

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Taala studying under none other than for the look nor yards. I

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Abidal Hara main as I'm delighted and boxes Yeah, I'll be the Hora

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Maynila absorb tener la limited, unlikeable arriba, that it'll Abu,

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the famous famous poem about him. He was considered the worshipper

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of the two horns, the two sank the two sanctuaries, his student is

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unable to c'est la ilaha illallah, despite for the luminaria coming

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there and trying to tell him and so on. He refused eventually, this

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is what he said. He says, he says, I am a disbeliever in what you are

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telling me.

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Not only did he go silently, that he just refused to read it. That's

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one thing but to say that I disbelieve in what you're telling

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me to read, I just believe in the creme de la ilaha illAllah. That's

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what he said.

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Upon making inquiry later, there were two things that were

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discovered about this person. One is that this person

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had two problems, he had a lot of jealousy, envy, and number two, he

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had a certain kind of illness and for that he used to take small

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amounts of liquor, small amounts of wine or something, which is

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supposed to be a cure it or something of that nature.

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These two things Subhanallah lead to a bad ending,

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lead to a bad ending Ranima have discussed this issue. And here

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Inshallah, we will provide some detail of these issues that

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normally prevent somebody from gaining the Kalama La ilaha

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illallah on their deathbed, despite despite whatever they do

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in their life.

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One is neglecting Salaat. Now, I'm not just going on about it, right?

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You know, every speaker talks about salad, but believe me,

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brothers and sisters, it's not something that we can take

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lightly. That's the fact. Salads need to be done. And if they are

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missed, for whatever reason, then they need to be repeated. They

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need to be made up.

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Salad is one of the biggest things it says that an abandonment of the

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prayer leads to this. Because essentially there are some

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narrations we'd say that the difference between Iman and Cooper

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is abandonment of solid

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Subhanallah

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that's one thing number two is neglect zakat payments.

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The young guys need to think about is not the cat is not just for the

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old men and old women. It's actually for the younger of us as

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well who have the nisab, which may be five 600 pounds, if that's how

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much you owe. I mean, I don't have the time to go into the laws of

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zakat. But if that is how much you've retained, from the

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beginning of the year to the end, about four or 500 pounds, you may

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have to be giving zakat 2.5% of that. So think about it, do

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consult your odema as Ramadan is coming up.

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Cheating, when you give measure, giving people less measure when

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you waste stuff. I mean, most of us may not be involved in that.

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But if you give less measure than you are promising people, they

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think they're getting a pound of something or a kilo of something,

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and Mishti you know G Luffy and you're getting less than that. You

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guys like G Luffy? Right?

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Jollibee jalebi here.

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We're in Whitechapel, so we have to say G Luffy.

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Right.

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defrauding others, this is what we're speaking about. And one of

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the big things that they speak about is intoxicants. A person who

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is in who takes intoxicants, that means wine and drugs, because they

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own intoxicants, that person will be in an intoxicated state when

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they die. Now think about it. The whole point of this, this thing is

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that at death, when you're in a critical moment, what do you say?

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What do people say when they sleep talk? What do people say when they

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initially are woken up all of a sudden? What do people say when

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there's a when they frightened? Who do they call out to? We

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normally call out to things. Just Just imagine this thing. If we cut

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off by somebody when we're driving what comes out of our mouth?

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Right? Fr for I don't know, whatever it is, right?

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That's not a bad word. But the whole thing is a bad word. Right?

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So no, that's a bad word.

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So don't say to anybody eff off as well. Sorry. Yeah.

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And please don't laugh too. It's not supposed to be a comedy. It's

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supposed to be about the Day of Judgment. SubhanAllah. Right,

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anyway,

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that this is critical, because at the end of the day, when we're

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about to die, what's going to happen to us? What are we going to

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say when you're frightened when somebody is just cut you up?

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Somebody's just done something to you. It's something to think about

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what is it that we would say what do we say? In law? You were in LA,

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you wrote your own? La hawla? Wala Quwata illa biLlah?

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Or will we swear? That's very important to understand that?

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It's really important to think about that, believe me, we can

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take it lightly today. But seriously, by the age of 40, we

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want our good to overcome the bad.

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People can change.

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And that's the great thing about our Islam. People can change and

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they can change in a minute. But you have to have the desire to

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change. And that's what's important to have the desire to

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change.

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There's a

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it's related

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by if knowledgeable.

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immuno Kodama al makdisi, in his Kitab Otowa been humbly scholar

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that used to funnel Hussein says that I was once with the noodle

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mystery, the noon the Egyptian he was a very pious ascetic of that

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time. He says that we were at the edge of a lake. We were at the

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edge of a lake. And suddenly what I noticed, I noticed this really

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large Scorpion, I noticed a very large Scorpion that the largest

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one I'd ever seen. It was at the bank of the lake, it was just at

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the at the edge, as though it's waiting for the next ride.

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Literally, it just seemed like that.

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Suddenly, a turtle comes along, Turtle swims up, this this

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Scorpion gets onto the turtles back in the water as as mythical

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as it sounds, I mean, this is

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this is a narration from them. It gets onto the back of the turtle,

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and this turtle takes it across to the other side. As soon as it gets

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to the other side. The noodle mystery is reporting that this

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Scorpion was an omission in the hovel, akorbi le Shannon it was on

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a mission in knew what it was doing. It wasn't just idly walking

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around.

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It carried on and so if the non missus said to his companion

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quickly, we need to watch what's going on because this is

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extraordinary. So he they carried on following it. And it seemed to

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know exactly what it was going suddenly in the distance. They

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noticed that there is a drunken drunken young guy sleeping,

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probably, you know, sleeping it out sleeping, sleeping it off as

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such. And as the scorpion is going in its direction he notices that a

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snake is slithering towards it comes on to this man stomach onto

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the front from the navel area and starts climbing up it was

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supposedly going towards the ear for some reason.

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As soon as the scorpion reaches there, you think that both of them

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are going to attack they're competing for the attack? No, the

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scorpion goes off to the snake and attacks the snake and the snake

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dies and falls off and the scorpion goes back and the turtle

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comes back it gets on its back. It crosses it over and it goes to the

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other side.

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Do normal the normal missus absolutely taken aback dumbfounded

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astonished. He wakes this guy up. Yeah, Fatah Oh young guy over me

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man a jerk Allah. Look what Allah subhanaw taala has just protected

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you from this guy just suddenly wakes up. He looks around what's

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going on? Right? He sees the snake lying on its side. And then the

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noon explains look at that Scorpion that's going across

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that saved your life. This was the turning point for this young guy

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he just needed that wake up call. It was the turning point.

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The noon began to say to him yeah hola Manuel de la Rosa who? Sorry

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ya feelin well jelly la Russo, who mean coolly su in your dog boo.

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Feel good to me. Can you fit a normal or you know unmedicated

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that T him in who for? For what? You don't need me. That team in

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HuFa. A donate. I mean, he addresses him he says oh heedless

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one. Oh heedless one, while the most majestic one is protecting

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him from every evil that that crawls on that crawls in the

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darkness. How can the eyes sleep? How can the eyes sleep in

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heedlessness from the Sovereign King from whom comes the greatest

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of these bountiful benefits? This young guy just suddenly woke up

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He suddenly came out of his stupor. He snapped out of it. He

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said Allah He had a fear Luca Beeman. ISOC for K for riff Cuca

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Bhima ut rock. This is what you do with someone who is disobedient.

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This is the way you deal with somebody who's disobedient. How is

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your dealing with those who are obedient to you?

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I asked him, Where are you going? The noodle Missy says, I asked him

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where you're going. He says, it'll Bardia I'm going to the jungles,

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I'm going away from the towns I will never return to the towns.

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That's where all the fitness for me so I'm returning to the towns.

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I'm not returning to the towns. This is not what we're not saying

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that this is the answer to everything, but sometimes that may

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be the answer. But we have to learn to worship Allah subhanaw

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taala and be obedient to him while we are living within the

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community. It can happen this is how a single person was saved by

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Allah subhanho wa taala. We need to know Allah subhanaw taala loves

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us. We need to know Allah subhanaw taala looks after us. If Allah

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subhanahu wa taala was to seize us and take us to account for the

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small, the small or large, wrong things that we do. Can you imagine

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where we would be today? If everything was written on our

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doors as to what we did? If there was an announcement made and

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everybody could see the wrongs that we did this big list of

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things behind us? Can you imagine? Where would be the greatest one of

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the greatest bounties of Allah subhanaw taala is that he conceals

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us so that we can go and show our face to somebody else, and they do

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not consider this to despicable SubhanAllah.

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There's a

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another story

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of Harris Alola. See, great, pious individual of the past. He wasn't

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always pious though. He relates again, if no Kodama like this, he

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relates this. Here. He asks one of you he told one of his students

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one day he says that that he gave a kind of a marito Betty, do you

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know that how I became like this? And he said, No, I don't. He said,

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I was a young man who used to enjoy himself, who used to just

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take time and do whatever he wanted. I wasn't I wasn't into

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religion or anything of that nature. I used to just enjoy

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myself.

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One day, I was in the state of heedlessness, I was just walking

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around he guess he didn't have an eye. He didn't have a he didn't

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have an iPhone. You know, he didn't he didn't have

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Twitter or whatever. So that, you know, talking to your friends,

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even when you're walking, right, I'm walking on White Chapel Road

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right now. So what

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you know.

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So he's just walking around doing aimlessly, I guess you guys have I

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mean, I guess people have things to do. Now they can twitter, you

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know, while they're walking. Anyway.

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He says, as I was walking around, I saw this, oh, I saw this really

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disabled kind of person that was lying on the side of the road, a

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disabled kind of person lying on the side of the road. He seemed to

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be very ill and kind of suffering. So for some reason, I mean, these

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guys, they don't care for anybody today. The people like that the

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very selfish is just about them how they look, you know, they're

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worried that if they go and touch that person, you know, they might

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get a speck on their clothing, they might not look good enough,

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or the jeans might be pulled up or pulled down a bit more, right or

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something of that nature.

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He says for some reason, I went to him and I said, Hello Krishna He

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che and Do you want anything? Is that do Do you want anything? Do

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you need anything? Is there something I can get for you? So

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the person asked him strangely enough for a pomegranate for a

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Romana pomegranates. So I went he says I went and I found a

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pomegranate. Right. Just imagine on the street, you found somebody

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asking you for a pomegranate or for you know, for an orange juice

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or something because he's got, you know, he's suffering from low

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blood sugar because of diabetes or something. You go to the local

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shop, you find some orange juice, you know, you go back to the

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person, okay.

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I put it in front of him and he looked up at me. He looked up at

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me. And he said that Allahu Allah, the DUA that came out of his mouth

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was dub Allahu Allah. May Allah forgive you, may Allah accept your

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Toba. I had never thought of making Toba. That's what he says.

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I never thought that thought of repenting, but the DUA the person

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made for me stab Allahu Allah, which means May Allah except your

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Tober, which means you have to make Toba first.

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He says, it wasn't even nightfall. Yet, that same day before

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nightfall came before Maghrib time came, my heart had changed. My

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heart had changed, and everything in it that I had of just enjoying

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myself and just going beyond going after frivolous activities and

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just these pleasures and, and so on. All of that disappeared from

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my heart. No longer did that appeal to me. And hope and fear of

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Allah subhanaw taala entered into my heart.

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I got rid of everything that I had that was to do with enjoyment and

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amusement, and I went out to go for Hajj. I went out to go for

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Hajj. I used to walk during the night look

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had this person look how solid His intention was. He says, I used to

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travel at night. Because in the daytime if I, there was too much

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fitna, and I could relapse. So to protect myself, I used to sleep

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during the day and hide during the day. And I used to travel during

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the night.

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I mean, nowadays, you can even travel during the night.

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As I was traveling one day, one of those days as I was going towards

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the Harlem, I was at nighttime, there was suddenly a group of

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people on the site. When they saw me, they called me and made me sit

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down next to them. They gave me some drink, can some some food,

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and

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I said to them, I need to relieve myself. Can you take me to a place

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to relieve myself? I had a little bowl. So they got this young

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person to take me to a clearing. You know, those days, there's

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probably no cubicles or public bathrooms. So took me so

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when I was at a distance from them, and there was this young

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person with me, I said to him, can you just kind of turn around and

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go a distance so I can relieve myself? You know, I need some

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privacy. So he turned away, and I disappeared. I ran into the

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jungle. I just didn't want to go back into that place. So I ran

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into the jungle. I got into the jungle. And there suddenly I'm

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confronted by a wild beast.

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I'm confronted by a wild beast.

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I'm saying if I go back there's that fitna, if I go here, there's

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danger. What should I do? He made a dua to Allah subhanho wa Taala

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Allahumma in Nicotero, Allah will metric to Allah Houma in the Qatar

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Allah mu methodic. To woman mother homage to

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our Allah, you know very well what I have abandoned, you know very

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well. What I have just come out from first three Phoenicia, her

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her the suburb, remove the evil of this wild animal from me. As soon

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as he made that the other animal just turned around and

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disappeared.

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I went back onto my path, and I got to Morocco, Morocco, Rama and

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that's where he got there. And he began to study among the scholars

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total change of life.

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Do not think it's beyond Allah subhanho wa taala. Ramadan is

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coming. Even though Kodama relates another story, which is the final

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story we'll finish with this one.

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in Madina, Munawwara. I'm sure many of us can relate to this in

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Madina Munawwara there was a woman, very pious woman.

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Have we got moms that tell us off? Right, don't do this, don't do

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that change, you know, become like this become like that. So there

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was a really pious woman, and she had a son who used to just enjoy

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himself. He wasn't into the Masjid. He was in he wasn't into

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the salaat. And he wasn't into worshiping Allah subhanho wa Taala

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used to just go and enjoy himself. In fact, he was considered to be

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the biggest * of Madina, Munawwara at the time, he was

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literally considered to be the biggest * of Madina

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Munawwara of the time. She used to continue to, she used to continue

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to advise him and counsel him and say, Yeah, Bonilla would call

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mozzarella feet in public. Were our cable back Paulina cuplock.

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With Quran Missoula Mote

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she used to say, just think of the stories of those people who were

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evil before you what happened to them, all those things, people who

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thought they were bold and great and so on. What was their

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consequence? Think about

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the descent of your death soon. And he used to say to her when she

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used to persist on him, and she used to kind of get tired of

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listening to her. He used to say politely he used to say to her,

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Goofy, I need that 31 Low me was the Pz min Synod in Nomi in New

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York, to feel that he will be what our say to Kofi lomi or Zhu Min if

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dolly hito button then coolamon Coleman Illa Comey he used to say,

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oh mother refrain from telling me off and censoring me continuously

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wake up from the some slumber of your sleep.

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Even though I have sent my heart behind my desires, even though

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I've been allowing my heart to go behind my desires and have

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disobeyed you, in your counseling me I've constantly disobeyed you,

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despite your advice, I hope of His grace. This is what you have to

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realize, I hope of His grace for repentance, and for transforming a

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person from one type of a person to another person,

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despite the fact that he was enjoying himself and he was doing

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all of that he had Iman in his heart and he knew that Allah

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subhanaw taala would help him. That is very important. Do not

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ever be so despondent and depressed that this is my life.

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Allah will never do something for me. Keep a window open to Allah

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subhanho wa Taala and it will make a difference. This is the poetry

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that he used to

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Return they'd read to his mother. One day after Tara we had

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finished.

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Ramadan time, people suddenly gathered around and

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a visitor had come to Madina, Munawwara he was the great

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preacher, Abu Hamad Al Bonanni, very famous individual. He was

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considered the preacher of ages, the western border of Arabia,

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Malcolm Medina and everywhere. So when he came in Ramadan, people

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asked him that if he could sit after taraweeh prayer like we do

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nowadays, and give a lecture, give give some advice. So he agreed to

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do that. In the masjid of Rasulullah sallallahu, some in

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Masjid in Masjid Nabawi. So it was a Jumaa. It was a night of Jumuah

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Torah we had finished, people had gathered around Abu middle buena

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Annie, and this young man came along. He sat down with this group

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of people. This is the first time he sat in that gathering. There

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may be people here brothers and sisters, who may be the first time

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that they've sitting along, their friend has pulled them and made

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them come. They've always made excuses. But today they've come

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along. This may be your day, and those who always come in Sharla

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this is all our day as well. Right? We're all in the same boat.

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We all want to get close to Allah subhanaw taala. That day he sat

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down and who I am it was a very powerful preacher. He continued

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to, to warn them and to relate heart rendering, softening stories

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to them, until the hearts were totally overtaken by him. And

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people became extremely desiring of Jana. He created this desire of

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Jana in their hearts. And for this young man does not see her and

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advice a found the place in his heart. His color changed. He got

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up and he went to his mother. And he began to weep in front of his

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mother for a very long time. He continued to weep in front of his

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mother. She's wondering what's happening to him. And he said,

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again, he was he was poetic. He said them to Leto, but he urged

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him early. Were to katawa early. What, up to what Toba? To cut feta

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headman Cooley, odwin Lee aka Dalai Lama, huddle herdy Kobe Illa

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authority rugby FATCA Avila Ali Baba to a jab to hula Baker me

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more good in number habitus Gary of Ferny 30 year old hon Yakubu

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UniSA ye Allah, Allah the Kotka. And I mean, Hurley was so in Radha

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Neha Ibn rugby Well, I'm your Dobie cubberly This is what he

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says to his mother. He says,

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I had, I have made full firm a decision to make Toba and I have

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come while those people who have who give me guy who gives me

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advice have come very close to me, meaning the person who heard in

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the masjid, I've returned, and the Toba has opened up. Because you

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see until now, despite the fact that he wanted to do good he

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couldn't it was just like he was stuck. So he says the Toba that I

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have decided to do has opened up the locks from every one of my

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limbs, I've suddenly become free. When the Inspire

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has inspired my heart to go and worship my Lord, then he has

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removed all my shackles. And I have responded to him by saying

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love bake. I am here for you. Such a great Warner and advisor

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who has removed me from my heedlessness, oh my mother. Now

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he's very worried, oh, my mother will My Will my Lord forgive me?

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Will my Lord accept me? Based on whatever I had done of my past and

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what had been my state will he accept me?

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How evil it will be if he if he rejects me as a loser. And my Lord

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does not accept my coming towards him.

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And then he began to worship Allah subhanho wa taala. And he was then

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so excessive in his worship, that he used to make Iftar after

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taraweeh please, this is my crew to do so do not I mean, this is

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not something you do. Right. But he was just so overtaken that he

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used to make.

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He used to make he used to make a star after taraweeh. He never used

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to sleep until after the sun rose. One day his mother went close to

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him with the Iftar and he refused to eat this day. He just refused

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to eat. He said that i i have i have a heavy fever today. And I

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feel that my time is coming to an end. He was only he was a young

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man. But he said My time is coming to an end. Then he went to his

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place of prayer. And he stayed there doing dhikr of Allah

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subhanahu wa taala for four days on the interstate without eating

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anything. His mother was really, really worried. He then faced the

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Qibla one day and he said ILA he I say took a Covidien. Oh my Lord, I

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have decided

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We'd disobeyed you while I was strong Well I thought to cut the

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Ethan and now I am being obedient to you while I am weak what Scott

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took a gelatin waha them took a knife and I I made you angry while

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I was very strong and powerful and now that when I'm very weak and we

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can thin that's that's when I'm coming at your service for later

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shoddy Hulka built Honey Are you are you going to accept me? And

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then after that he fainted. He fainted

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his mother standing around him and saying Yeah thermadata For the

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record rotini route the Joby Oh flower of my heart Oh

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coolness of my eyes oh gladness of my eyes respond to me say

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something to me respond to me. Eventually he came back to

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consciousness and he said yeah Amma herbal Yom Allah the Quinta

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to help continue to have the rainy waha the locked couldn t to how we

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Fini for your Sofia, Allah Yamaha earlier Oma. He said, Oh, Mother,

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this was the day. This was the day that you had been warning me

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about. This is the day that you had been frightening me from

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all those days that have passed in heedlessness Oh mother in Neha if

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another NFC and your tool if in a hurry has Finnerty hub see, I have

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so much fear of Allah subhanaw taala that I'm gonna have to stay

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a long time in the Hellfire Billahi alayka OMA, I swear by

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Allah to you Oh, my mother called me further eg lucky Allah hottie

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Hatta. Aloo Katara Missoula Allahu your harmony. Oh my mother, I

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swear to you stand up and put your foot on my put your foot on my

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cheek so that I can I can feel some humiliation. I can feel some

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humiliation so that Allah subhanaw taala when he sees that, He will

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have mercy on me. He will see that his mercy will come into power

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