Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – No Sin is too Big to Forgive for Allah [Hikam 49]

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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The importance of working hard to achieve success in life is emphasized, along with the need to avoid sin and focus on achieving success in life. The three categories of fear and hope are discussed, and the importance of practicing and showing one's success in changing one's environment to achieve success is emphasized. The speaker emphasizes the importance of balancing fear and hope, protecting everyone from evil, and focusing on pleasing Allah.
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That's why Allah subhanaw taala says that You better work hard in

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the beginning. Then after that we will show you our ways and it will

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become much easier. That's when soon to Lanka booth verse 69.

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Allah says, well, Lavina Jaya, do fina, Linda Deanna homeschooler.

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Now, those who make that effort in our path, who strive in our paths,

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he's telling us, you're gonna have to work hard in the beginning to

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get onto the right track. Give up your bad company, give up your bad

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environment, your bad habits. That's what we mostly that's what

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we're struggling with. Right?

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Because with children, I mean, you can set them on the right path.

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They don't have to struggle so much, and then they just have to

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maintain it. But us as adults, if you've been on the wrong side of

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things, we've had the wrong company. That's what's going to

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happen.

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hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam ala Sayidina Muhammad

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Ali, he was Safi he roba Rocco was seldom at the Sleeman Kathira on

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Ilario McBean Amar beret so we are on page 97. And today we're going

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to be covering a part of wisdom number 49. This is what it nata

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Allah al Eskandari Rahima hula, the author says he says

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La Jolla alumi them were in the crowd vomited the suit dukkha and

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Hosni Vandy Billahi Tirana

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la yeah homing later on alumi vembu, or indica other meten, the

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Suzuka and Herston 11, nebula Hytera.

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Let no sin reach such proportions in your eyes, that it cuts you off

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from having good opinion

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of Allah, hidden complete sentences for in them and out of

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robber who is stressed a lot of EGM me Karami he is a member who

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for indeed whoever knows his Lord considers his sin as poetry next

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to his generosity.

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So the main thing he is saying is that let there be no sin after

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you've sinned. This shouldn't be something that we think of before

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sending. This is something that if we do happen to sin,

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then let no sin reach such proportion in your mind that you

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continue to do it. Or that you think so gravely of it afterwards,

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because shaytan wants us to do sim and then once we do it, and if we

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have any kind of Tofik inclination towards repentance, and we regret

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it, and we feel some remorse, then what shaitan does is he tries to

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get us in another way by

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magnifying the remorse or magnifying the regret, and

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he causes some kind of despondency to set in. So then we actually

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forget about all the characteristics of Allah have

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mercy and forgiveness and clemency and forbearance and all of those.

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He wants us to focus on Allah's Anger and his might

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and His punishment, so that we become totally despondent, and we

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think it's not worth it,

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then you give up.

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So never give up. That's what he's trying to say. So let no sin reach

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such proportions in your eyes, that it cuts you off from having a

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good opinion about Allah subhanaw taala.

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The only way that's possible, obviously, is that if a person

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number one doesn't know who Allah is, and what Allah wants to give

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us and how forbearing it is, and how forbearing he is, and how

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forgiving he is, and how easy it is to

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make him happy, and make him satisfied.

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That could be one reason why somebody doesn't feel like he can

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his doesn't feel like he can get forgiveness. Or number two person

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knows about this, but it's been made to be forgotten, something

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else is in front of the person.

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So this, all of this obviously relates to the two really

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important aspects of our religion, which you've probably heard about,

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that a person needs to be both

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with hope, but with also some fright. With just pure hope a

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person is going to just become totally carefree. And with too

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much fright, a person is going to become despondent and hopeless,

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and none of those two, those two are both extremes and they're not

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healthy at all. So that's why every person usually needs to be

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in between hope and fear. We have to have some hope and some fear.

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However, depending on where we are on the path of

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recognizing Allah subhanaw taala and getting close to him.

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Sometimes you need to have more fear

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And other times, you actually need more hope. But you have to always

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have both, you can never do without

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both of them, or without one of them. Right, so you have to have

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both. But sometimes you could have more than others, and you could

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have a greater dose of one than the other. So essentially, the way

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the scholars describe this is that with regards to different types of

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people, there are three categories of people with regards to hope and

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fear. It says the people who are initiates, they've just started on

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their path. So before they were just just regular, now they're

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starting to actually focus. Because for people who don't focus

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on this, they're not even going to care. For people who are concerned

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about making Allah subhanaw taala happy and securing for themselves,

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the satisfaction of Allah in the Hereafter, they're going to be

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worried about this. So when they learn about fear and hope, for

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example, the people who start off they need to have more, more fear.

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That's always better in the beginning to have more fear.

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Because usually a person is very inclined to the dunya very

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indulgent, the person is usually away from the focus on the

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hereafter, they really like just really shackled to the dunya. So

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hope is better to first

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uproot us from that, that works much better than hope. So in the

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beginning, he says, it will be dire Yamba de la junta de Bucha,

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and Eagle health, they should constantly make the fear side, the

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fear factor dominate themselves. So focus on the punishments of

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Allah subhanaw taala. And read the verses in the Quran, where he

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discusses these things sort of terrible talks about his majesty

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and so on many other sewers. Then he says the people who kind of now

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get onto that path and they're, they're moderately onto the path

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now somehow, they've got some kind of stability on the path. They're

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not struggling as much as they did in the beginning. But shelter as

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they say, right, they are, what they call a little Wassup. There

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are people have, they've gotten a certain to a certain degree, Jamba

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healer home and Yatta de la hora, for whom Raja ovum now they can

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take a equal dose of hope, and fear. Because they're very

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balanced. Now. They've understood, they've got a routine in place,

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they've got the right kind of

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outlook, right perspective, the right kind of motivation. So they

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need to be flying. They say that it's like hope and fear are like

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the two wings of a bird.

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Once you take off, you need both wings to be balanced. Right?

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Initially to take off, you need a bit of more throttle. But

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afterwards, once you're there, then after that, it just needs to

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be balanced to keep both sides balanced.

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So their fear and hope needs to be balanced. What I really hire,

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people are on a much more advanced level.

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You've only been on a journey. But Raja for them, they must have the

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hope side,

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the hope factor, they must have that dominate.

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Why we'll explain soon. So if we start off with the people of the

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beginning, it's because usually they're they they benefit a lot

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more from the fear factor because it helps them to extract

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themselves from the bad habits. And to get them on to doing good,

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I must do this. Otherwise, I'm going to be punished, I must do

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this. I fear Allah subhanaw taala. So it helps them to get on track.

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Right, and to leave the bad habits. And if they do this well

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right now, they're going to set themselves off to get to that last

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phase where they can have the hope dominate instead. And that's why

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Allah subhanaw taala says that You better work hard in the beginning.

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Then after that, we will show you our ways and it will become much

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easier. That's when so to Lanka booth, verse 69, Allah says, well,

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Lavina Jaya, do fina, Linda, the unknown Sula, now, those who make

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that effort in our path, who strive in our paths, he's telling

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us, you're gonna have to work hard in the beginning to get onto the

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right track, give up your bad company, give up your bad

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environment, your bad habits. That's what we mostly that's what

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we're struggling with, right?

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Because with children, I mean, you can set them on the right path,

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they don't have to struggle so much. And then they just have to

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maintain it. But us as adults, if we've been on the wrong side of

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things, we've had the wrong company. That's what's gonna

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happen. A sister called me right now, she said that both her and

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her husband, they've been through some bad times, bad times in the

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sense that they were not as practicing, it seemed, from what

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she was explaining. And now she's really become more advanced now.

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So she's moved beyond that beginner stage and she's kind of

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on the middle part of the stage, but her husband, apparently is

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still on the beginning part of the stage and how do I bring him along

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because it's having some tension. So

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Oh, that's always difficult when husband and wife are generally,

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you know, people pick spouses, according to their levels.

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Usually, I've seen people, they don't want a more righteous

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spouse, because they feel I don't know that I won't be able to have

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a good time or something. And yet, I've seen other people who, you

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know, are not really very practicing, but they've actually

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on purpose chosen to pay a spouse so that they can get there.

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Because they know that good company is what helps. So I told

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his sister, I said, Look, you know, everybody has their own

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journey. And if you force it, you're gonna break it, you could

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possibly because there's tension. So I said, so how do you change?

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Well, look, you know, you probably have company, you probably have

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friends, your circles, and so on, which you've had for 18 years, and

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now you've changed,

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your husband needs to see incentive in what you're doing, he

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needs to see the benefit, rather than being nagging. In this case,

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you're gonna have to show the benefit, you're gonna have to have

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a totally different strategy of showing what's good and why it's

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benefiting you, you may need a whole new group of associates and

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friends that you mix with that you can see a lot of people are

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fearful, because they don't understand how to be more

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practicing, they feel they're going to lose out, they're going

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to lose the enjoyment, lose their friends, or whatever. So I think

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what's really beneficial is when you see somebody doing good, when

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you see somebody where you want to be where they are already, and you

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actually see them that they also enjoy, and they're happy. And

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they're people who are satisfied, and they have accomplishment, that

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helps a lot. So to change your scene.

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So that's, that's what he's saying that, in the beginning, you have

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to make some efforts. You can't just become a weenie of Allah,

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just like that. unless for some reason, there's something really

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good you're doing and Allah just chooses you and just totally lifts

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you on praise from one place and put you another place in that

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room.

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There was a guy in one of the worst rooms in the body, it had

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the worst characters, they're really mischievous characters. And

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the supervisor came one day and said to him, I'm going to change

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your room, generally, changing your room and going to a worse

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room. This was the worst room. Right? But he was okay then.

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Right? Along with all the mischievous guys, he was don't do

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an okay, I'm gonna change your room, to which room the best room

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in the body. That's not a punishment. But he made it look, I

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mean, secretly inside, he felt Oh, great, I'm going to a better room.

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Right. But outwardly, he couldn't do that, because people might make

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fun of him. So he protested. But that was the that was the change

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for that person. Subhanallah that was the change for that person.

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Because when he shifted to the other room, many of the bad habits

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went away, because a lot of bad habits come because of people

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around you.

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Unless you're so evil, that you change everybody for the worst.

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SubhanAllah. So, change of atmosphere is very, very starting

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to sit with gathering of, you know, the people you want to be

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like, is always the most helpful for me, because humans, we need

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others. We learn from others, we get support from others, we get

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strength, we derive strength from others. SubhanAllah. So if you

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can't make your own Serani you have to find the group like that

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to sit with. You have to ask Allah find me, somebody, give me an

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account, give me a companion like that. And then Subhanallah you'll

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be surprised you'll find somebody at work. Your colleague will be

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that force for you. Sometimes you'd be surprised.

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You'll meet somebody on a bus, you will meet your neighbor, you know,

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you'll hit it off with somebody in a masjid. And suddenly you'll

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you'll have that but you have to ask Allah. If you want something,

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ask ALLAH and he will never deprive you.

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You really have to ask Allah and make an effort to get it.

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So as Allah says, Those who make an effort and strive in our path,

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we will guide them to our pathways, we will guide them to

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our roads, no doubt about that. Right, the people have the middle

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path. That's because

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by getting onto that path and changing the whole scenario, and

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getting into doing good action, they've managed to really cleanse

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the inside.

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So they've managed to polish their hearts and purified to a certain

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degree. So their worship now, as opposed to the guys on the

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beginning stages. These guys worship comes from the heart.

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There's a lot more spirits and Rouhani.

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There's a soul in their worship, as opposed to the people that have

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been rough to force themselves and it's a struggle. These people

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they're getting something because their worship is now coming from

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the inside as well. They've got some inner third

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Have a and sincerity in their worship, we can all decide where

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we are with this.

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So if they, if they were to also keep the fear dominant, then

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they would start doing it out of fear again, which means they will

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only do it as a ritual again.

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You only need the fear to get you to at least ritually do the

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worship even if your heart is not in there, but okay, I'm gonna do

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my salah I don't want to burn in * this way.

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Right? Somebody told me he says that's what I used to do it for.

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Like I just didn't want to hellfire. That's all. That's why

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he did at least put down a few records. Right? So I'm putting the

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form out. Now the people in the middle who are beyond the form now

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they've got some hot felt further in it. Some Rouhani attended. If

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they're going to focus on the fear, he's going to go back to

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just being a ritual. Whereas ullmark Lu minhang, a bilateral

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bouton.

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Allah Raja elu Sunni, we're hopeful Katya

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their focus now is actually what is their objective is worshiping

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fully outside and from their heart so that they can reach Allah,

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their objective is now I'm doing our love for Allah, they've gotten

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to that level of doing something for the sake of reaching Allah

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subhanaw taala. And fearing that I'm going to be away from Allah,

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they don't care about Hellfire as much anymore. They focus is I

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don't want to be cut from Allah. I don't want to be the one that is

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not the one who does not receive this special attention of ALLAH

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SubhanA wa Tada. This is to enjoyable, I can't, I can't give

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up these perks. So that's why for them hope and Raja, fear and hope

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they're both the same. They work with both of them just a bit of it

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each, and it works. Now those people who have now reached this

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is something that may be difficult for us because you need the

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experience for this. But for them, they've reached such a stage that

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they're just thinking about Allah all the time. They don't think of

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themselves much anymore. They're doing their worldly deeds or

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whatever. But Allah is everywhere for them in the sense that they

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are always thinking about Allah, wherever they are. They do

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everything for Allah. They don't notice anything but Allah subhanaw

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taala.

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So they just seeing Allah's actions, they just viewing

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everything as Allah has made me do this. Allah is letting me do this.

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Allah has allowed me to do this. So whenever they do something,

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it's Allah making me do this. It's so present in their heart, for

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example, to give you an idea,

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if you're hungry, right, you know that it's only Allah that can say,

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see, that can provide satiation because sometimes you eat and you

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still don't feel hungry, you still need to keep eating and eating

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until you've overdone yourself until you become sick.

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But

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many of us most of us, when we're actually eating that food, we're

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going to think the food is benefiting us.

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Whereas it's actually Allah was creating the satisfaction not the

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food.

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Some people think no man is the food man What's wrong with you?

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Because every time I food I feel satisfied. Yes, that's what we

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see. But it's really Allah subhanaw taala who makes us

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satisfied?

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That's really what it is. These people think about that. We might

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believe in it but we don't actually think about it when we're

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going to take a paracetamol we actually think in the paracetamol

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is going to get rid of my headache. But these people if they

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did take a paracetamol, they're gonna think it's Allah who is

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going to get rid of my headache, but I'm just using this as a means

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because Allah told us to use means.

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So these people, they're at that level where it's everything's

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Allah for them, right? He they just witnessing Allah's actions

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everywhere.

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So for them,

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they're just moving along.

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They just moving along, according to Allah subhanaw taala is decree.

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If it's a good deed that they end up that they do, they thank Allah

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subhanaw taala and they see in this a gift of Allah, whenever

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they do any good deed which is if there is constant, this is a gift

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of Allah, this is a gift Allah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah

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constantly thanking Allah subhanahu wa Tada.

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However, if they do happen to do a bad deeds, then nonprofits

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remember, right if they do happen to fall and do a bit of a bad

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deed, immediately they recognize that this is bad. So they

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immediately seek forgiveness.

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And they read

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they get back into the edit mode with Allah subhanaw taala they got

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lost for a moment. They're back with Adam.

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So they never resort the for too long, back to the animalistic side

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too much. So that's why for them

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They would rather be more focused on the hope from Allah subhanaw

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taala because everything's from Allah them and it's purely from

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Allah for them. So that's why for them they don't have to worry

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about fear as much. They'll still have a bit of fear. They have to,

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but it's more hope because they're so connected to Allah. They just

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need more hope from ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada Imam Shafi Rahim Allah

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he's a poet as well. He had some very deep insightful poetry. This

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is what he says philam Casa Appleby what docket muda Hebei JAL

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to Raja Meneely Africa so lemme

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when my heart became hard,

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and my options became restricted,

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be

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probably went through some experience in life. He says, Then,

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I designated hope.

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I designated hope in your forgiveness as my

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staircase

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that hope I could use as an escalator to get to your

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forgiveness

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that are womanism Nizam be firmer Quran to be Africa, Rebekah and

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Africa Ivana. He says, My sin was massive in my sight, it was

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magnified in my sight.

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However, when I compared it to your forgiveness, and your pardon,

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the pardoning of my Lord, then I found your pattern to be much

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greater than my sin.

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See, he's a person who recognizes Allah so He can look at that and

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balance himself.

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For Mozilla virtue, then we're further in law mean that you do a

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34 minute and whether karuma because you are the one of immense

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generosity and grace and bounties, you are generous, you are

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forgiving as a gift and as Ana via later Shadi, help us see religion

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nuttin. ohana, we're in this sorry, different dama so he says,

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I don't know. I don't know. You know, I don't know what my

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situation is. Am I going to go and move on to a garden?

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For which in which I'll be greeted? Or is it going to be to

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the blaze? And then I would be

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I would be very regretful but at the Zoomer verse 53 Kalia Eva the

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Alladhina sofa and foresee him documented to me Rahmatullah

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say that oh, my servants who have transgressed against themselves

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are sinners, essentially, people who have messed up, don't become

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despondent from Allah's mercy because Allah forgives all sins in

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Allah Yaffe Luna with Jamia in the who who will have full Rahim

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because he has the most forgiving and the Most Merciful One.

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He tells us at this point to think of the story of the 99 people, the

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guy who killed 99 people.

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It's an interesting story. He kills 99 people he goes to, he

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goes to this worshipper, not a scholar, a worshiper.

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A very devoted worship, but what do you what do you think? 99

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people I've killed? Any kind of hope for me says how can they be

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hopefully you kill 99 People come on, like, what kind of hope is

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there going to be for you? So then you said, Okay, I'll make it 100

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And you made it 100 He killed this guy as well.

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And then maybe Allah wanted to give him Shahadat, or something. I

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don't know. But from his perspective, that was that then he

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comes to an island and finds an island scholar, who knows, Allah

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knows Allah has attributes, he has so many says, So that person says

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me Who lubaina Kobina who who can come between you and Tober nobody,

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you have direct access to Allah subhana wa Tada. But for that,

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you're gonna have to change company.

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Company is very important to change. You can't, you can't

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straighten yourself, you're going to keep in the bad company. It's

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just not gonna happen. It's too powerful. Unless you're the

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influence and you change everybody.

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go to such and such a place and there's good people that you can

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worship Allah subhanaw taala with them,

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and stay with them until you die. So as he's on the way, he's only

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halfway through, he's actually still closer to the place he was

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leaving. And then he dies. So now the angels are arguing the good

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angels and the angels that take bad people like I'm taking him I'm

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taking him. So he said, Okay, fine.

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Let's measure the distance from where he was going into where he's

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going, whichever is shorter. So Allah has everything in his and

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this is where Allah Subhanallah likes that act. So then he changes

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everything for you. So what he said to the law

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and that he was going from you just increase a bit. Sorry, you

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short you increase a bit. And the other line is that you decrease a

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bit contract yourself. So when they're measured he was actually

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closer to the destination. So they took him to paradise

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Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammad

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Sheikh Abu Abbas al Merci,

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another great scholar. He's actually one of the grand sheiks

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of if not I love this country.

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He says, a llama to either who we fall Hafele when the regular

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people in the beginning you know when they are given fear they

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generally do become fearful. It gives them a bad story they will

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become fearful usually what either Rajaraja but when they're given

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home, they also get hope.

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Well, ha sir, to matter who we fall Raju, we're Mata Raja Hafele.

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Whereas the elect people the very special people who have advanced

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there are people who if they if they become fearful, they get

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hope. And when they get hope they get fear because they know when to

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do that you can never be without fear. You can never get to a stage

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where there's no fear there's always going to have to be fear

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that I don't become complacent. So in order to summarize this

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he says that

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the common people the normal people who are initiates and

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beginners they usually always dealing with the apparent meaning

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of the outcome. They've not got a soul in there yet. So they they

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always they go after to my salah right I have to do these acts I

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have to do four cards, and I have to make sure I finish it on time

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and you know they've got that kind of a focus rather than I need to

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do it for Allah. Is Allah going to be happy? Was my solid good

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enough? Totally different focus? Was my salad good enough? The

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other one was that I hope I got it right. This one was I know I got

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it right. But was it good enough? Was it acceptable?

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So when those kinds of people are given a fear factor, they

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definitely feel fearful

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because they have no other way to understand this. They they can't

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look at they don't know Allah subhanaw taala enough to be able

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to use anything else to move themselves along the fear works

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best for them. However, the people who have Masha Allah who already

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know Allah subhanho wa Taala when they're given fear, they actually

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get hope as well. Because they know that behind all of that fear,

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there's characteristics in Allah subhanaw taala that have that

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promise so much. They never forget those they know the Allah subhanho

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wa Taala has Rama and his mercy in the verses so that's why they try

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to focus on pleasing Allah and as soon as you start focusing on

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pleasing Allah, rather than just fulfilling an obligation once your

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focus turns away from the worship to actually pleasing Allah in that

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worship,

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then

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that becomes a much more superior act. And they all is that you see

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the people who are advanced even if they have a lot of hope they're

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gonna be worried that is Allah testing them.

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So then I said no, I better be fearful that I'm not being tested

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here.

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So then when I Islam was tested,

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the prophets are tested in that sense and they have to recognize

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it's a test. When we say test, it wasn't through difficulties. So a

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man is around test was not through difficulties it was through being

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giving give being given a lot say that are you going to be Shakir?

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Are you going to be thankful to Allah?

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So the people who are up there Allah test them in their different

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ways, and they usually pass in flying with flying colors anyway.

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One day Junaid Al Baghdadi Rahima hula, he went to visit the sheikh

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study as somebody and he found that he was in a contracted state.

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He was not very exhilarated. So he said, what's wrong? Che?

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Why do I see you like this in this kind of almost like depressed

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state? Like you don't seem very excited today? He said, Yes, there

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was this young man who came to ask me a question.

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And the question he asked was, can you tell me what the reality of

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Toba and repentance is? What's the reality of Toba? Like how do we

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keep it in motion? And how do we make sure that our Toba that we do

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stands afterwards? So I said to him, that you should never forget

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your sin.

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If you want your Toba to be sincere, don't ever forget your

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sin.

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So then the youth said to me,

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but isn't the Toba that you forget your sin

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that is erased that you should forget your sin? Those kind of

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sounds like a very theological discussion, doesn't it? I'm

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thinking you better not forget your sin. And he's saying but

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aren't you supposed to forget you forget your sin and that's what

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will eventually means that you know, you've eradicated it. And

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then he went, and I'm like, now he's really confused me. So

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Junaid, he says

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what he said was right, what the young man said was actually

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correct.

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Because

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think about it, if I'm in a disobedient state,

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and then I managed to get out of that disobedient state. And now my

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heart is pure about something. So imagine I had a bad thought about

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somebody. And now a lot of us purify that.

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If I start feeling bad again,

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in that state of cleanliness, I'm going to mess it up again. So he's

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actually right. You shouldn't be focused on your sins anymore.

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But you should be fearful of doing them again, but you shouldn't be

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focused on that. So you see different perspectives.

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So what the teacher was looking at silly as somebody was thinking

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about people in their beginning state, but maybe that young man

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was actually in a very advanced state, so he was looking at it

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differently. So inshallah we will continue the rest of it later.

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Because he says, For indeed, whoever knows his Lord will

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consider the sin that he's already completed, to be very

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insignificant next to his generosity.

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sha Allah we'll look at that next time. When we ask Allah subhanaw

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taala to move us from beyond the beginning. So that our worships

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have a soul to and we're not doing it just to fulfill the ritual May

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Allah subhanaw taala make us those kinds of people with a balance

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cough and Raja fear and hope and may Allah make it easy for us

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along man to sit down because we have an agenda every cron a local

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mayor how you pay your medical history Allahumma Yeah, honey, I'm

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in the either Hey, learn discipline again. I could name and

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avoid me and just allow one Muhammad.

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Allah have mercy on us.

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Allah, we ask for your special attention. We ask for your

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generosity. We ask for your bounties or Allah, we ask for your

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forgiveness. Forgive us our misdeeds our wrongs, forgive us

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our negligence is or Allah forgive us our laziness, of Allah forgive

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us.

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For our sins and transgressions, oh Allah forgive us and purify us,

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O Allah purify us, O Allah, we have nobody else we can tend to

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only you can return to an O Allah, we know that you're the merciful

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Lord, you're the Generous Lord, you're the benevolent Lord.

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Yeah, Allah we know that you're just looking for an excuse. Oh,

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Allah, our worships aren't up to standard. Our offerings are not

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complete. Oh Allah we are embarrassed with what we do. But

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Allah move us. From the beginning stages to the more advanced stages

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of Allah allow our worships to be filled with the soul that is

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required with the love that is required with the attention and

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the focus that is required of Allah do not let our worships be

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thrown back on our forehead. And in a rejected state of Allah make

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them accepted ones of Allah, allow us to love you. And Oh Allah, we

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ask that you, you love us of Allah, grant us your love and the

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love of those people who will benefit us in your court of Allah.

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Grant us good company, remove us from bad company and bad friends

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and bad habits and bad attitudes, bad behavior and bad conduct. Oh

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Allah, we ask that you do not allow us to leave here without

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being

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changed them without being more connected to you than when we came

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here. Or Allah allow your mercies, your mercies and your forgiveness

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to envelope us of Allah purify us, especially from those sins, and

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have been part of our life for a very long time. And those sins

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that have that are part of our life and we don't even consider

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them sin sins anymore. Or Allah grant us the strength to turn

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towards you. Oh Allah grant us hello with an EMA and the

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sweetness of faith of Allah so that it becomes easier for us. Oh

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Allah, we wake up in the morning and we have good intentions, but

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Oh Allah, we fail by the evening. And likewise in the evening,

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sometimes we have a good intention. But by the morning we

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have failed. Oh Allah protect us from all the calamities and all

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the evil that you have created out there. protect us from the fitness

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and the challenges that are out there of Allah the not just the

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misdeeds, but the misunderstandings the

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misconceptions of Allah and the wrong ideas that are out there. Oh

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Allah, protect us protect the entire Muslim community. predict

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all the Muslim countries of Allah allow them to do that which is

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right, and allow them to do which is correct. Protect us and our

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progenies and children

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till the day of judgment of Allah bless everybody here and everybody

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that is listening, oh Allah except from all of us and our Allah, make

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us of those who are advanced in their faith and who are steadfast

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on their faith and Allah accept from us Subhan Allah bigger. Rob

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belies that young man your cell phone or cell phone Alamo Salina,

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Al Hamdulillah.

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Jazak Allah here for listening, may Allah subhanho wa Taala bless

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you. And if you're finding this useful, you know,

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as they say to that like button and subscribe button and forwarded

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on to others, just like aloha and Salam alaykum Warahmatullahi

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