Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Schadenfreude and Breaking Ties

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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The segment discusses the miscalculations of people, including those who cause harm to others, and the use of sh tear to describe people as fearless and disrespectful. The "has been punished" concept is discussed, with emphasis on avoiding negative behavior and avoiding being saddened. The importance of shuns for believers and finding one's secret is emphasized, as well as the need for continuous presence in public settings to avoid losing momentum and becoming independent. The shun of people for the sake of Allah is also discussed, with emphasis on the importance of sharing information and being true believers in Islam.
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hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam ala so even more

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serene while he also be here Baraka was seldom at the Sleeman

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GFI are on Eli Yomi Diem, a mother and

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my dear friends.

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Yesterday we spoke about hatred. Today I want to because we've got

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less time I want to speak about, I think just two short points.

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One of them is

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called rejoicing at somebody else's misfortune.

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Somebody had an accident, somebody had a leak in their house,

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somebody had a problem with their children. Somebody failed the

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exam, somebody lost their job,

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or suffered any other kind of setback. And for whatever reason,

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you get excited by that.

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This is what you call in Arabic, it's called shamatha.

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shamatha. It's generally linked to shamatha tool I do, which means

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the rejoicing at an enemy's misfortune.

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But unfortunately, sometimes, as I mentioned before, as well, that we

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may dislike somebody for no good reason.

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And then if something wrong happens to them, he said, good for

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them.

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Now the problem is that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa

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sallam has really, and it's not a problem, but the Prophet salallahu

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alayhi salam has actually told us not to do this. The prophets of

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Allah Islam has actually mentioned that if you see somebody in some

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kind of distress, or somebody who's just suffered some kind of

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setback, shortcoming problem accident, whatever it may be, he

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gave us a draw for it.

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The door he gave us was Alhamdulillah Hilah, the Anthony

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MIM Abdullah hoobie, he offered Balani either cathedra amendment

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Holika Tov Leela

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Alhamdulillah, Hilary alpha, funny mapped Allah who be he or for

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Donny, Allah cathedra amendment Halaqaat of de la such a perfect

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dua this at this point, which is all praises to Allah,

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who gave me safety, well being and security

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from what he has

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tested him with. This is a test for him accident maybe.

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There was one brother

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just a few months ago, he got his aamra visa.

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And

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with his group with his entire group, he went from here on

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Turkish Airlines to Istanbul. There, they checked his passport

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again, and they said you can't go You can't carry on. Why? He said,

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I've got the visa, he says yes, you've got the visa. But Saudi

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also requires that you have at least six months to the expiry

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date on your passport, and he was just less than six months.

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So he'd paid a lot of money for this. This was a holiday for him.

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He couldn't go at any other time. That means he has to come back,

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renew his passport, get a new visa, and then go, all hotels

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everything we're booked. Now that's misfortune.

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Now we're supposed to I remember when this was mentioned, this is

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the door we read. All praise is to Allah, who gave us well being and

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safety and security from what he has tested him with, or her will.

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And he has given us then we remember all the bounties of Allah

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and we say, and he has given us for the honor and virtue over so

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many people.

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We remember the bounties that Allah has given us, every moment

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of a Muslims life should be reflective and reminding you of

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Allah subhanho wa Taala what Allah has given.

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That's what it's supposed to be. Now on the other hand, something

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wrong happens to somebody and we start getting excited about it,

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then that is very dangerous. This as I mentioned before, there is no

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term for this in English. No one single term, right. But I think

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there's a German term that we borrow, it's called

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SHODAN Frida.

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It's called shamatha shaldon Frida. What that means is to

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delight and find joy in another person's misfortune. You get

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excited by it, and to laugh at the situation. Children do this all

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the time, but unfortunately adult adults do it as well sometimes.

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It is narrated on the authority of waffleh YBNL UScar Radi Allahu

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Anhu the sahabi that the messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wa

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sallam said, do not display do not display joy at your brother's

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misfortune. Why?

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Lest Allah grant him well being and afflict you instead? This is

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What frightened the daylights out of me. Because you know, as

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children, we laugh, we laugh at our friends when something wrong

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happens to them. And we then make fun of them for a very long time.

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Right? We then sometimes even make nicknames for people based on

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something that happened. And that nickname sticks.

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And, you know, Allah forgive us, if we have made up a nickname for

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somebody.

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And that nickname sticks and it's a negative nickname, and the

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person doesn't like it, then can you imagine for the rest of his

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life, anybody who uses that against him, you're gonna get sued

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for it? Because you started that name off.

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If I make up a name for somebody, and everybody finds out that name

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and they start calling him that name, can you imagine how bad that

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is?

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Allah forgive us from these kinds of things.

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So

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this Hadith from Abu Dawood and telemovie is saying that if you

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rejoice at somebody else's misfortune,

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do not do it because in this hadith, it says, Allah may give

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him well being he may relieve him, and he may afflict you instead.

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And there's so many sayings as well and the sayings that what

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goes around comes around, what is it? What is that what it is.

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And while these are not sayings of the prophets, Allah Lozano, but

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these are common understandings that this is what happens.

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Life is very generic. If something happens to somebody today, he's a

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human being your human me could happen to you.

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If it's an accident,

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then you drive a car as well, you could have an accident.

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If it's with his children, you have children, it could be with

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your children could be even worse. That's why I never rejoice that

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what bad happens to somebody else. So delighting in the misfortune of

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an enemy is extremely blameworthy, even delighting in the misfortune

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of an enemy is blameworthy, especially if one interprets it as

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an impersonal miracle or a response to supplication.

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For example, there's somebody that you have an issue with, and

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something bad happens to them.

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Now you start thinking, and maybe even tell people at least you

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start thinking to yourself that, you know, it's because of my

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doors, or because he was bad to me. That's why

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I'm such a great person. That's why He troubled me, I'm a Willie

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of Allah. And that's why this Kurama came up.

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And then you start, you make,

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I mean,

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when you make a massage in your house, and you get people visiting

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you,

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that's the next step. That's extreme.

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Rather, instead of that a person must fear that this is Allah

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devising against him. If you start feeling like that, you must

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actually fear that maybe this is Allah making you think like that.

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So then he's going to now plan against you.

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So be saddened by this. Be saddened by the fact that the

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other person has had a misfortune.

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This is all about generosity of the heart.

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You know, especially if you don't like somebody, and if they have

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trouble, believe me, it's very difficult to start making dua that

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Allah relieve them. You may say it in front of people, you will say,

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Oh, may Allah really relieve him. But you know what, I think he

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deserves it.

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May Allah relieve him, but you know, he's such a bad person

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anyway.

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In one breath, we, I don't know if the DOJ sincere, that statement is

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sincere, which one is sincere.

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But it takes a big heart to be able to pray for your enemy,

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believe me. You know, somebody you're jealous off to pray for

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them, Oh Allah give them more. That is the antidote to jealousy.

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If you can do that your jealousy will go away.

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You pray for the people you're jealous of.

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So what a person should do is to be saddened and pray that the

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other person's trial is lifted, and that Allah subhanaw taala

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replaced him with something even better than the blessing that he

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was that he has lost.

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Of course, there's exceptions to everything. An exception is that

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if your enemy is an oppressor, as we discussed the other day, right,

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if your enemy is the oppressor, and this affliction was due to

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that is going to stop him from that oppression.

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For example, He's supplying drugs everywhere. And one day, you know,

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mashallah, they came and took all of his drugs away, or they all got

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lost, or whatever the case is, then that's a good thing, because

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it's gonna stop harming other people. So that's fine. But

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otherwise, don't think it's some big parameter of ours and start

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feeling good about it. In that case, once delight is only due to

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the removal of oppression and not because of the trial itself. The

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reason that you're going to be satisfied there is not because he

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had a trial, but because he is oppression will stop now. You see,

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the way to think about this. You're not satisfied at the trial

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or the problem. You're satisfied by the fact that

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He won't be able to trouble any minute anyone anymore. This much

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is permissible. I remember

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the Hadith that I had read was that what they say basically, is

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that if you rejoice at somebody,

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and let's just say somebody's committed a sin,

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somebody has done something wrong, they were on the wrong path

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before. And then after that, you keep

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insulting them about it.

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You keep reminding them about it. If the person has made Toba to

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Allah subhanaw taala, then what it's mentioned, what's mentioned

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is that you will not be able to die before Allah also engages you

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in that same problem.

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Somebody has done something wrong, then they've made Toba.

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Right? We don't know whether he's made room. But the thing is that

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if somebody is made Toba, we don't know not. Yeah, if somebody

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continues to do something, it's different. But let's just say

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somebody 10 years ago was a bad guy.

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Somebody comes to you now to ask you because you live in the same

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area. That can you tell me about that person? Because there's a

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marriage proposal? You know, for 10 years, he's been sober,

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perfect, decent. Should you tell him about 10 years ago? What do

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you think?

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Should you tell him?

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Anybody think you should? There are people who will they think

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it's only honesty to tell?

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You might come back you might be like that again after 10 years as

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though? I mean, generally seven years is a maturity period. If you

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don't do something for seven years, I think you're sorted.

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Generally speaking, right? This is probably a sunnah to Allah, he

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fell out. Because in sevens, right? It's a maturity period. So

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don't but there's people who are Masha Allah Hafiz of everybody's

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problems.

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If they put their mind to the Quran, they would have become

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hashes of the Quran. But nobody guided them.

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Rather, they were guided to know the bad points about everybody. In

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fact, some people they actually are proud of these things. Because

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they think that this is ammunition, you should know.

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Because if something happens, then at least you can use this.

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You know, I get so many, so many, so much information about people

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because you know, people ask you things. And seriously, if I try to

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remember all of that, I'd have to do more of it. You know, revise

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it. And that people do revise it every month or two, they have to

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do punch out about the same people. Because otherwise they'll

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forget. So they have to do they have to revise it. Right? So they

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have to find somebody they start talking about.

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You know, there's been this, Allah will promise you that, if you

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leave matters to him, you don't need to know people's bad things.

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If you have your reliance in Allah, and that person does

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something wrong to you, and you rely on Allah, and you think, oh,

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there's something bad that happened to me, let me go and find

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out, you don't need to put your hands in to Allah subhanaw taala,

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he will deal with it. You don't have to keep the baggage. It's not

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our responsibility. This is what plagues us.

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So forget about rejoicing at other people to then go and insult them

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on top of that, especially if they've made Tober. If they have

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made Toba from something, then we're in big trouble. Because then

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the Hadith mentions that we will not be able to die before we're

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also afflicted. And that is serious. Because one day we were

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laughing at somebody tomorrow, everybody's going to be laughing

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at us and it's going to be worse. Because Allah subhanaw taala see,

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if, if they are not an oppressor, and we start laughing at them,

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then they become the oppressed. They were not. They were not an

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oppressed, they just something wrong and we started laughing at

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them, they become Muslim.

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Now the Muslim can be a non Muslim as well. The hadith mentions that

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beware of the dua of the mudroom, the oppressed person, because

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between his dua him his call his plea his cry and Allah there's no

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veil. Allah will accept it.

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If that guy prays against us, we're in be even bigger trouble.

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The next time we find ourselves feeling this way, we need to

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remedy this and inshallah it will be easy to remedy with the help of

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Allah subhanaw taala. The second point

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that's the end of this particular point. The second point that I

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want to mention today is

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shunning a believer breaking ties with somebody staying away from

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people turning your face away, not keeping relationship. This is what

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I want to discuss. So another sin is to shun a believer which is

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called gradual movement, man hijra, who folk a fella in the

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Hadith mentions with abandons their brother, whoever abandons

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their brother for more than three days. So hydrogel movement is

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considered another sin.

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So to shun a believer, why would you shun a believer because you

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have animosity towards them? This is another bad feeling and Allah

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doesn't want us to have any bad feelings in the hearts.

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That's why that's a hobby. The prophets Allah is and once

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mentioned he was sitting in the masjid, he said, there's going to

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be a person who's going to come in. Right? Imagine, just say now

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that the next person who's going to come in, Allah loves him and he

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loves Allah.

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Now, everybody's turning around, who is the guy who's going to come

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in now? I don't know. I'm not sure. Maybe it's is that brother

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there? He's just coming. Right? So

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one of the Sahaba he decided

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to go and find out what his secret because he was not a well known

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Sahabi it wasn't like Omar Abu Bakr the on somebody like that,

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who, you know, have their merits.

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So, after salaat, he went to him and said, can I come and stay with

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you?

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I've got some issues at home. Can I come and stay with you?

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It was quite casual in those days, you know, nobody feared anybody

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has that. As such, the houses were quite open anyway, right today,

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even inviting somebody for food to our house is difficult.

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So

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he said, Yeah, you can come and stay with me. So he stayed with

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him for three days. He didn't see him doing anything extra.

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He used to wake up for Fudger. But there was nothing extra. So after

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three days he was dealt with, and what's the what's the so such a

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big deal. A lot of us think that the big deal is only when you do

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lots of worship. But there's something which is even more

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valuable sometimes. So after three days, he confronted him and he

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says, Look, I'm going to leave now. And the reason why I actually

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came to stay with you is because this is what the Prophet

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sallallahu sallam said about you.

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So I wanted to find out what your secret was. But I haven't noticed

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anything.

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Now in those days, you know, you're sleeping quite closely.

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It's a very small place. So you can tell you're not in like some

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other wing of the house or something. I haven't seen anything

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special. He said, I don't do anything special. I don't have

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anything special. So as he was about to leave the person well,

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the only thing I can tell you is that before you go to sleep, I

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empty i i sleep with no qualms about anybody. I sleep without any

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problems with anybody in my mind.

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Because of that Allah subhanaw taala loves this person, because

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the part is pure. He was doing his obligations is fried and

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everything but he kept his heart clean.

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Keeping a clean heart is paradise in this world. You don't have to

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worry about anybody.

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The way to do that is you know, the people you have probably gone

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makes a loan to them.

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I do that specialty actually, you know, as an Imam, when you've been

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an Imam, there's always going to be somebody who hates you. If they

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don't, then it means you haven't done your job well, because

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somebody you're going to take somebody off, right? You can't be

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loved by everybody. That's just impossible. You're gonna say some

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curvy body. Right? If you're gonna say some bitter things to people,

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they're gonna start disliking you, right? So I go to those person,

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I'm on a camera and

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somebody moves away. So now when I go home itself, I know they've

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been speaking about me, because somebody else came and told me

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but I go and make salaam to them. That's the remedy otherwise, I'm

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gonna feel bad about them. That touching of the hand that Salam

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mashallah, I hope it makes a difference to them as well in sha

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Allah. I'm not making that was just an antidote, because as an

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Imam, or in any position, you're a committee member, if you're in any

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kind of position, there's going to be somebody who you might have an

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issue with, how would you record, don't let anything go over that if

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I feel that I've had an argument with somebody or a bit of a

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exchange, I will try to give them a call straightaway, or go and see

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them to try to defuse it to apologize. I don't want anything

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to fester. The longer it festers, the more solid it becomes shaytan

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starts writing it, he starts feeding it. And you start feeling

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worse. Now let me tell you an example. If you were very close to

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someone, and you had a bit of an altercation, but you remedied it,

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there won't be too much of a problem. If you stayed away from

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one day, right with two from one another. Doesn't that doesn't it

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make it a bit more difficult to get back that keeps coming in the

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way if you if you stayed away from now three days

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that will solidify. See if I've got if I'm very close to you and I

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have a problem with you. And then for three days, I'm not talking to

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you and you're not talking to me. In that three days. I would have

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met you so many times. But I haven't now. I am going to now

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look for alternative friends and contexts and things to occupy me.

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So you become less in my eyes now.

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And over three days, then

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I don't see the point of reconciling.

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I don't see the point anymore, because I'm going to become

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independent now. It just becomes worse that

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by the prophets, Allah Some said that if you if there does come a

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possibility, if there does come an opportunity that this happens,

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maximum is three days. After that, it's haram. For three days, it's a

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possibility that you have to work things out, take time,

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concentrate, reflect, but after three days, nobody should abandon

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anybody else.

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So that's why he's saying here.

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It is narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira, the Allahu anhu, that

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the messenger of allah sallallahu sallam said, It is not lawful for

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a believer to shun another believer for more than three days.

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So if three days passed, he is then obliged to meet him.

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This is all part of the Hadith. After three days you are it's

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forced on you to go and meet them. Why do you want you to meet them?

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And he should convey the greetings of peace you should at least say

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salaam, it doesn't mean you have to go and have food with him. It

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doesn't mean you have to go and have a big two hour meeting with

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him. You just have to say salam in a nice way. That's it.

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Now if you say that, you know with a lot of people what let me just

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finish the Hadith off. If he responds to the greeter, you say

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Salaam and he responds to the greeting, then he shares in the

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reward, otherwise, only you get the reward. If he does not

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respond, then he is sinful.

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But you're not sinful because you've done your part you've made

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Salam.

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According to another narration, the Prophet sallallahu sallam

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said, Whoever shuns his brother for more than three days, shell

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might very well into the fire.

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Because after three days, it gets to firm the enmity becomes firm,

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then it becomes much more difficult to reconcile

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because the wound gets deeper.

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Now of course, all of this is to shun somebody for a worldly matter

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for no reason whatsoever.

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If you have to shun somebody for the sake of a Dini matter, and be

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careful about this, then that is allowed. Because some Sahaba did

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this the prophets Allah some himself did it. In fact, the

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Prophet saw some told all the Sahaba to not speak to those three

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companions who had stayed behind from the expedition of Tabuk.

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Khabib nomadic Marrara ignore Robbie and Hillel, even Omiya.

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Because, by mistake, it was an accident. It wasn't. I mean, it

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was a mistake on their part, the Muna 15, they'd stayed away as

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well. But these three were true believers and they stayed away. In

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return, I'll go tomorrow, I'll go tomorrow, and then it got lost.

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When the promise of awesome came back, he only punished them the

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munaf. Again, they came and made excuses. Okay, okay. Okay, because

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they didn't matter for them. But these people, he wanted their

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status to be lifted because they'd missed an expedition. So the

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Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam ordered all the companions

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to not speak to them for 50 days.

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50 days.

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That is nearly two months. And God's story God was very eloquent.

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So he writes his whole story about his feelings at that time, said I

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tried to go to the masjid, I used to look at the progress a lot less

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than I used to say Salaam and see if his lips are moving or not

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because they wouldn't speak to me. My cousin would not speak only my

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wife was allowed. In fact, towards the end, even my wife was told to

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separate from me for a while.

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Can you imagine he says that the Earth became constrained.

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By Mr. Roberts, despite its vastness, the earth became

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constrained to me. You know, because you're living among

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people, but nobody is speaking to you. That is one of the worst

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things that can happen to you.

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I mean, look at this. Weinstein, I mean, an all of these people who

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were big shots before and then Allah, Allah protect us. Then they

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go down, the nobody wants to speak to them. The respect they had is

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totally lost. Now they're Dishonored,

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then he doesn't matter what you have, because human beings.

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Human beings are social creatures. We relate to other people. And if

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our relationship with others isn't good, then we'll be miserable.

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That's why if you're going to shun somebody for the sake of Allah,

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then you better be right. Because shaytaan will make you shun people

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and tell you that this is for the sake of Allah. We have people you

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may know people like this. We have people in our communities who

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thinks everybody is messed up. Everybody's messed up. And they

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have broken ties with everybody in their family, they won't go to

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their weddings, they won't go anywhere. Because they think that

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they all messed up.

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If that if you're, if one person's messed up according to you, then

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maybe that's okay. That's understandable because there are

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messed up people out there. Allah protect us from that. But if you

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think everybody is corrupt, then you're probably the most corrupt

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of them all because of the way you think about people. So the

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prophets Allah Islam said, he says if a person thinks that everybody

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is destroyed, right meaning they're going to hellfire they

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destroy then he's probably the most destroyed of them because

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you've got arrogance.

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because you think you know better than everybody else, you think you

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know the status of people according to Allah.

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So don't ever think that.

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So that's why it does say that if you're abandoning somebody for the

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sake of the afterlife due to an act of disobedience to discern

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discipline the person, then it is permissible. And in some cases, it

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would be recommended, because it shows you're not supporting that

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person.

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This was done by the practice of law, some of the companions as

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well. But nowadays Subhanallah doing that I don't know how much

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it works or not, because we're so individualistic. People don't care

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about anybody anymore anymore. So if you stopped talking to somebody

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and said, I don't care, I'll stop talking to you as well. They don't

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feel bad anymore.

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So you can only use this way it's going to be effective, otherwise,

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it's going to backfire. And it's not worth it sometimes is is more

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beneficial to keep the door open is one brother. I mean, Allah

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protect us from this. But there's one brother who came recently this

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happens all the time this one brother came, he says, I've got a

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son, he's 23 years old, doesn't want to pray, doesn't want to do

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this doesn't do this. What should I do? I said, Well, it's a bit too

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late to ask now. The first question,

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if you tried your best throughout your life in a balanced way, and

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then they messed up, it's not even your responsibility. But if you

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were extreme, or you are not under guidance before, and now after,

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you know, now you're trying to bring them on track. Right? Should

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I throw him out the house? I said, No, you can't do that.

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If you do that, then he doesn't care anyway. You've already put up

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a small wall. If you throw him out, it's going to be a bigger

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wall here you then he's got no option. He needs father he loves

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and eventually your father he loves you need to just change your

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tactic.

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If he doesn't come to the masjid, okay, fine.

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Leave him, at least treat him like your son and show him the love to

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a certain degree, you have to let him know you're displeased about

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what he does. But at least show him that kind of love. Sometimes

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you go to the extreme you have to play because the culture that we

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live in the society is very powerful.

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And the messages that children are getting, and the youth are

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getting, our sisters our daughters are getting is aren't very

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helpful. Sometimes.

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You can you can get abortions

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in in your school. And you you and your your your daughter could get

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an abortion in the school and you wouldn't even know as parents.

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But they have to ask you if you have but but they have to take

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your permission if they have to give them paracetamol. This is the

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world we live in.

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Right? Parents have to be informed if the child has an incident at

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school, even if it's like a small bump.

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And can they be given paracetamol by the school that they have to

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take permission from. But to get an abortion for a teenager, you

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don't have to take permission. Parents don't even have to know,

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let them float around, sneak around, do what they want, and

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have abortions. No discouragement from that.

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That's the world we live in. So now if we're going to say okay,

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we're going to disown you, that doesn't work. Most of the time, it

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doesn't work because they don't care anymore. That's why keep the

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window open, keep the door open. But main thing is the dewasa. From

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before a balanced lifestyle, a balanced discipline, procedure,

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and love and understanding between the parents. That's what matters

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most. The final point I want to make about shunning somebody is

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that look, sometimes there is somebody in our life that we don't

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want to be with. We don't even want to speak to sometimes because

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every time we try to speak to them, they cause us problems, or

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they've done they've been very harmful to us. Right.

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Now, if it's a relative, then we don't have too many options.

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That's the problem, because we're going to bump into these people

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once in a while. So what our what the responsibility is that you

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just mix along,

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you're not obliged that you invite them for food, or that you go to

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their house for food, or that you sit with them for hours. That is

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not an obligation.

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You know, if somebody has done something wrong to you, you're not

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obliged to go and sit with them for hours. No, nobody's up

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nobody's got time for that. Just solemn, and just don't show any

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bad face. You can show your disapproval of what they've done.

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That's completely fine. You can try to get your rights everything

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but the communication needs to stay open. You don't have to be

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buddy buddy take him out to dinner or anything like that. So now this

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is the month of Ramadan before the 27th night before the last 10

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days. If we've got problems with anybody, then go and at least open

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up the communication and do salon send them a salaam send them a

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salon by whatsapp send them a salon by text message. Whatever

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the case is, if you're not brave enough to go and do it directly

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for send them a message. Right? Let them dream about it first.

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Then you go and physically say it Insha Allah

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we ask Allah subhana wa Taala for help We ask Allah subhana wa

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Thought of baraka and we ask Allah to free our minds while he read

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that one and then hamdulillahi rabbil Alameen

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Allahumma and the Santa Monica Santa Ana Barak the other jewelry

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will be Crom Allahu Mia Yatta you Bureau medical mysteries. Allah

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who may or Hanna new yum and La Ilaha illa Allah Subhana Allah in

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condemning allottee mean, just Allah Juan Mohammed.

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O Allah. In this month of mercy and forgiveness we ask you for a

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full share of it of ALLAH forgive our sins and any preventive

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factors from us that prevent the mercy from coming to us. Oh Allah

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we have many sins and defects to our name. We have many ailments

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spiritual ailments, ailments and physical ailments. Oh Allah we ask

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you for purity of purification for cleansing. Oh Allah grant us your

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love in our hearts. Oh Allah grant us your love in our hearts. Oh

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Allah protect us from evil thoughts. protect us from be from

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paranoia. protect us from depression. protect us from

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thinking evil about others of Allah protect us from hatred,

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protect us from all of the bad

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qualities that should not be in a believer of Allah make us true

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believers make us true representatives of Rasulullah

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sallallahu alayhi wa salam. O Allah give us a HELOC as you would

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like us to have our Allah make us like you would want us to be Oh

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ALLAH fill our hearts with your light and your love and grant us a

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life of purity. Grant us a life of Taqwa of Allah, this Ramadan

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brings us closer to you than we've ever been before. Have Allah grant

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us acceptance of all the worships that we do? Have Allah grant us

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reward for the first thing that we do? Oh Allah, the taraweeh that we

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have performed and that we will perform, of Allah even sitting in

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the masjid, or Allah even listening to your column and your

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the words of your messenger Salallahu Salam, O Allah give us a

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reward for this. Oh Allah forgive us our mistakes. Oh Allah forgive

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us our bad deeds and forgive us our bad luck and character, reform

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our character of Allah make us of those who are true, truly seen as

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believers and are truly believers in the hearts of Allah We ask that

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you accept our doors, and you protect our children and our

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progeny and our families and the people around the world of Allah

00:32:30 --> 00:32:34

We ask that you bring back insomnia to the in sun and you

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reward all of those who established these massages and

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maracas and Institute's and our life they have departed this world

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and oh Allah grant them sadaqa this as a sadaqa jariya and great

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reward in the hereafter of Allah allow us also to leave a legacy.

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Allah was also to make certain investments that will benefit us

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after our death of Allah grant has good understanding of these things

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of Allah send abundant blessings on our messenger Muhammad

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and grant us his company in the

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hereafter. Subhan Allah be carbonized at Yamuna Yasi phone,

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wa salam ala mode serene on hamdulillahi rabbil Alameen

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