Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – So Close to the Qur’an, Yet so Far

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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The importance of the Quran in shaping behavior is emphasized, along with the need for practice and learning to make mistakes and improve understanding. The speaker emphasizes the importance of memorizing the Quran and finding a way to boost one's immune system and avoid evil behavior. The importance of storytelling in helping people to learn from the story and experience the same way as a person is emphasized. The segment also touches on the use of light and how it can lead to negative emotions, as well as the importance of forgiveness and compassion in shaping behavior.
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Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa

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salatu salam ala so you will know Selene or he or Sahil Baraka was

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in limited Sleeman cathedral Elomi Dean amerit

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Allah al Hadith? If not I said Al Maha CB he says while I'm in the

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40s or Takita Billahi and the AMA will be hooked me him in an armory

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when nahi Well, hopefully what Roger will You are the hero were

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either Well, Iman will be moto Chavi Well, the bar will be the

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SOC he will unfairly

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he starts this discussion by speaking about our obligation

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towards the Quran. Since this is the month of Ramadan. We are all

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insha Allah performing you know, our trying to perform our rights

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towards the Quran. We are trying to

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read as much Quran as possible which is our tradition. MashAllah

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many of our Muslim mean they read a lot of the Quran during the

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month of Ramadan.

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So he says that you have to know that the furry law and the

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obligations towards the book of Allah is Allah Amma will be hooked

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me him in an unbeliever Navy,

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which is to practice its commandments, its commandments and

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its prohibitions to basically fulfill them.

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Generally, this has been processed for us through the fact the

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corpus of fact that we have, that way, you don't have to directly

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look into the Quran for your faith because the fit in the Quran is

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not as always as clear and doesn't cover everything in the depth that

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we generally need it for our everyday life. So the orlimar have

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taken that as the first source of the Sharia. However, there are

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many commands in the Quran that are very clear, and they don't

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need any, there's no ambiguity about them. There's the main

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follow up, that Hakim was salah, to the zakah. Obedience to parents

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Dakka Dakka was Xena. And many of these issues dealt with for

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example Riba and interest and everything of that nature. So when

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a person does read the Quran, then he gets a reminder of this, the

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fit that he generally knows, he gets the reminder, generally, when

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you read about these things that Allah subhanaw taala will provide

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a warning, or he'll provide a promise. So for the people who do

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certain good deeds, Allah subhanaw taala will provide a promise as

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well. So the Florida and the obligation of reciting of the

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Quran upon us is that we fulfill its commandments to the best of

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our ability. The second and this to a certain degree, most of us

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do, because we have a fifth to follow, which is a processed

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understanding of its commandments. The second point he makes is well

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hope for what Roger will hope for what Roger will he will do, he

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will add the second point though, which many of us miss, and

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even the who fails, who's supposed to have a very strong connection

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in the corner, if you look around the room, the people who have the

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strongest connection to the Quran seem to be the profiles people

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have memorized the Quran. However, the problem

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is that we have the system Alhamdulillah, which is something

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to be really, really proud of, and something to really, really be

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grateful for. However, the problem is that when when a person is half

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of the Quran, then the entire focus is on its memorization. In

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fact, the way they've learned it the way they read, it is all on

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its memory. And it's all about just making sure they know what's

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next that it has to flow, then it becomes very difficult to actually

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ponder the words when you start pondering the words as a half

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years of the Quran, you start forgetting what's next, because

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your focus shifts from remembering what's next to what the wording

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is. And for a person to be able to change that around. It takes a

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very long time. Because from a young age, generally,

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Hafez people have memorized the Quran or been learning the Quran.

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Just with a focus to know the next part, to make no mistakes, not to

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ponder the verses. So many, many of our fans are like this, that

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they do not know

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what any part of the Quran means. There's like no focus at all

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whatsoever. Even if it's a story. Even if it's a story, they just

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won't even think about it. Because the whole focus are the words. And

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to make sure they don't make a mistake. It's so important not to

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make a mistake, which it is. I mean, it's important not to make a

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mistake. So I remember when I started some years back in trying

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to overcome this, that look, it mustn't just be the words, it must

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be that we also understanding what we're reading.

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And I remember the first year that I tried that I tried it so while

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I'm learning I'm trying to focus on the meaning, but then that

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requires you to read a bit slower

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To ponder, it's a different kind of exercise of the mind that you

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have to start thinking of the meaning rather than just

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regurgitating the words.

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So I remember I think the first year, I probably understood about

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20 25% of it. And you just couldn't do any more. Otherwise,

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you just make too many mistakes, especially in Dharavi. It's okay,

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when you're learning it, you got the Quran in front of you, that's

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fine. But you also have to learn it. Right and during Ramadan is

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the time that a lot of us spend in just refreshing the memorization.

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So the first year was 20%. In tarawih, while actually standing

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there reading is about 20%. Then after that, in the second year, it

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was some more, I think, maybe 50%.

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And then after that, it was about 75%.

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Right? So

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I think to get that 100%, you actually have to learn it again,

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like that. Which means not page by page necessarily, but maybe sort

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of by spirit, or maybe half inches by half inches, where you actually

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pondering the meaning while you're while you're reading to so that

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you focus.

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And I think

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the only way that you could probably really just ponder over

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it while you're reading it is if you know it so well. And so slowly

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see, when it comes to health of the Quran,

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the slower you know it, the better. If you're only used to

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knowing it fast, then you cannot read slow, you start reading slow,

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you will make mistakes, you'll stumble.

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But if you know it very, very slow, then anytime you want to

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speed up you can you have the option of speeding up.

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And if you know it slowly, then you can really ponder over the

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meaning. So that's why the her files who read certain parts in

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the of the Quran, in the prayer in their salads,

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for example, sort of archaea, Surah Rahman or anything else like

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that, and they know it very slowly, they can actually ponder

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over the meaning. So I would say that for anybody who wants to do

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this, and you know, anybody who's a half is of the Quran, and who

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also wants to be able to learn this and think over it, then they

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start with the surah. So start with the ASEAN for example. So

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with a small sort of school Wallah, just ponder over their

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meaning, and have that as part of your recitation, then Inshallah,

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you can slowly progress to the rest, of course, stories excerpt

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use of right, they're much easier because they're much easier to

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follow, there's one story, there's not a move to many movement of

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themes, whereas everything else, you know, Allah subhanaw taala is

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providing some evidence, you know, he is speaking about the people

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who do evil is start providing some evidence from, you know, from

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the heavens and from the earth, then he starts providing some

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historical evidence from Ireland, thermal wood, and so on and how

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they were destroyed. And then you start providing evidence about the

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Day of Judgment. So it moves around quite a bit. So that

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becomes sometimes a bit more complicated. And of course,

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knowing that Tafseer helps you a lot. Of course, however, even if

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you don't know that I've seen for a normal person who's not a half

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is of the Quran. This is a free though this is an obligation, this

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is many of us are missing this obligation, which is a hole for

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Roger ol hole for what Roger only worthy he will wear either. This

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is the second for either of the Quran, which is to have fear and

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hope for the promises that are made, and warnings that are given

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basically having fear of the

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the, of the warnings that are providing the Quran and having

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hope in the promises. The only way anybody can do this is by

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understanding the meaning of the Quran. And that is by taking a

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translation, if you don't know Arabic, taking a translation and

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pondering over it, and pondering over that, because there are going

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to be many, many verses that you will pass you pick up any page in

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the Quran, where it talks about is when it gives some kind of promise

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for the good people write in general is that these were the

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people who follow their prophet and thus this is what happened.

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Well, you consider yourself to be one of them. And you also hope

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that there's an interaction that's going on in the Quran.

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So the interaction aspect, the sentimental, emotional

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interaction, that is what's important. So for example, if you

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just pick up any page here, it says

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call a call minima tester and you'd want to be see a couple of

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Hasson Alola to stop you don't Allah Allah Allah come to our

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hormone. Right? If if only you would seek forgiveness from Allah,

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then maybe you would gain some mercy. So that is not written just

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for them. It's written for, to be an inspiration for the rest of

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humanity, and not just humanity, but for everybody until they have

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judgment. So here we must be also pondering over this taking the

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lesson from this that yes, if I do is step four. I will also be

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treated by mercy hence I should do is the four Oh ALLAH forgive me

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for my sins. These are the thoughts that should be basically

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going through our mind

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And

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for example, it says

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what the Kula in Allah had a Weber Rahim you should fear Allah

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because Allah accepts all repentance and he's the Merciful

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One, these names of Allah they provide a lot of hope. So that is

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part of the hope of the Quran. Then you have numerous places

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where it will provide

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again another hope just hope versus today Alladhina Saba or

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behemoth of a cologne, those people who are patient and upon

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the Lord they they rely, this should spur us to patients. If

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we've got some trouble in our life they should spare us the patient.

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If I mean our practice of the deen is all based on patience, patience

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to do good deeds and patient patients in avoiding bad deeds. So

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this should encourage us to do that.

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I mean Alladhina mcaro say at a young Sif Allah Who behemoth out

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are yet to win either boom in Haiti Leia Sharon,

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those people who

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plot and do make evil plots Do they feel safe and secure?

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That Allah subhanaw taala will not cause the earth to collapse from

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under the under their feet basically have a sectarian

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collapse and they sink right? Oh yeah to one another will mean hate

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will I assure alone or the punishment comes to them from

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where they would never have you been anticipated? Oh yeah. Who the

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WHO Vita Columbia him? For whom Mr. juicin

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Or Allah subhanho wa Taala just ceases them and just whatever

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daily activity they may be engaged in at any time.

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From a homeomorphism they will not be able to enfeeble Allah subhanaw

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taala they will not be able to have any kind of defense in

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disregard.

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Oh, yeah. Who the Humala, the whole of

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for interrupt Bakula, Ufa Rahim. But then always at the end of all

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of this, Allah subhanaw taala balances it out with a bit of

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mercy. So if the the theme there is to do wanting, right, whether

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that be direct wanting, or whether that be wanting to some historical

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group or individual, then Allah subhanaw taala will always add

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Rama after it. And the benefit of that is, it's not about absolute

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condemnation. It's not about shutting the door completely. It

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is never about making people lose hope. So Allah subhanaw taala may

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show higher the highest condemnation for something but he

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always mentioned for in Arabic, Allah over Rahim, but your Lord is

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the Most Compassionate and Most Merciful Why is he mentioned that

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here when he's talking about this punishment, make people return.

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That is the balance of hope and fear that you learn from the

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Quran.

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Numerous, I mean, every page you'll you'll find numerous things

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of this nature. So this is the way of the interaction that we have to

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have with the Quran.

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Because it could be either or the Quran over here Vadim, in Accra,

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who Lehmann Chedid. And this is the way your Lord ceases

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when he sees his vicinity, when it is oppressive.

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And his seizing is severe, indeed, very, very severe. So that's a

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warning. So we say, Oh Allah protect us from that. It makes us

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reflect, am I doing anything that is even faintly connected to this?

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Am I an oppressor of any sort of I oppressed anybody? This is what

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will make a person pious, this is what will make a person connect to

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Allah. This is what will purify the heart, this kind of

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interaction and many of us are missing this. We read tons and

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tons of the Quran in Ramadan, and generally, which is hamdulillah

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very, very good. There's lots of Baraka that is brought up by that

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has many benefits of reciting the Quran.

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However, in the field early kala Lehmann Hoffer, I dabble in this

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is a sign. These are not just stories mentioned in a vacuum or

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anecdotes provided just for no reason in this science for those

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who fear the punishment of the Akira Now, are we oblivious to

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these signs though we're so close the whole point I'm trying to make

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is that we are so close to the Quran. Yet we are so far in some

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cases. We are so close that we have it in our hearts the offers

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at least we are so close that we read a several Quran in the month

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of Ramadan Masha Allah, but we're so far in terms of that extra step

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which is such a crucial step. Like we've gone all the way and we just

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missed the final step. Allahu Akbar,

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Yeoman Yeoman, yet de la tackle the wolfsonian

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But isn't it

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the day when they will come and no knifes will be able to speak

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except nobody will be able to speak except by His permission for

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men who shall be your side. Among them will be the wretched, yet

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among them will also be the fortunate ones. Again that makes

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you think which 1am i This is what you get out of interaction with

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the Quran, but it requires time. So that's why I said you can read

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as much as you want, but spend some time in pondering and you

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will see the absolute benefit in that for amila the inner shackle

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as far as those

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who are wretched, for free now they will be in the Hellfire Luffy

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has a fever OSHA hate, they will be they'll have screams and

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shrieks and everything this is this is what they will find in

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there. They will be doing this themselves. How did Nina fie her?

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There'll be in there forever Madame Addis Ababa to allow the

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Illa Masha or book as long as the heavens and earth stay around and

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as as long as unless your Lord desires in Rebecca Ireland Lima,

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you read you Lord does, absolutely does as he wills Well, I'm Melina

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sir Edo. And those people who have the good fortune will have the

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salvation who are fortunate fulfill Jannetty highly dena. They

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are going to be in paradise forever in the and the same thing

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Madame in the summer was what are the Illa Masha Arabic, outer and

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outer and later on? This is a wonderful gift. Nothing held back.

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It's a wonderful gift for the Taku familia team in Maya Allah do not

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be in any doubts about what these others worship.

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Do not be in any doubt whatsoever whatsoever. Don't have no doubt

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don't let that make you doubtful in the least because what you have

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is the truth. What am I doing Illa camera yeah, boo, boo me in Kabul.

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The only thing they're worshipping is the only worshipping in the

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same way that their forefathers worship before. And we're in that

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more fullness Eva Maria Rahman coos and we're going to give them

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their full share, right without any decrease whatsoever.

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So this is the way of interaction with the Quran because when I read

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this, I said okay, you know, people are going to need to know

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how you interact with the Quran. How do you have fear of the

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warnings in there? And how do you gain some hope with all the well

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it's by this is by literally pondering over everything, and

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there's no way the Quran will not move you if you start reading with

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that meaning, and then it says, well, Iman will be moto shall be

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hee hee, which is Iman, Iman with its ambiguous verses. So Allah

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may, Allah has left a number of verses in the Quran that are

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ambiguous for wisdom, best known to him. But like, for example,

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what does Alif Lam Meem mean? Right? What does Tahseen mean? For

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example, those are the simple ones they clear, you know, you don't

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understand the meaning, although some have tried to provide a

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meaning for them. But then there's other things which are more

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difficult to discern, like, for example, the Hand of Allah, your

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doula, he felt like at him, the Hand of Allah for enema to aloof

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at some or wedge hula, whichever way you in whichever direction you

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face, and that is where you find a countenance of Allah, what exactly

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does that mean, to me, You shift oneself in the day when the shin

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will be revealed. What does that mean? You know, because we're not

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allowed to give any kind of human ascription to Allah subhana wa

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Tada. So, Iman Bimota shall be we believe in it. However it is,

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whatever it is part of the Quran, we believe in it.

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Whether it bar BT sauce, e 130, he coming back to the same point, and

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for a person to

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take heed, and lessons essentially reflect and benefits from its

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stories. And it's anecdotes that he provides. That's where you get

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the stories. Usually, some story is mentioned in the not just to be

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just a beautiful story, a wonderful composition. It's there

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for us to take heed, and there are so many lessons, that story can

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move you to tears, if you read it with meaning. That's how beautiful

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that story is. I

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mean, unfortunately, I know we're in times right now. And we just

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have a few hours, you know, for Iftar and tarawih and SOHO and

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maybe throwing two rockets of tahajjud if possible, right? I

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know, we're kind of struggling right now and Ally except,

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although the bright part of it is that at least you get to sometimes

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read your Fajr with the wudu of your Maghrib sometimes or at least

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with all of Asia and stay up the whole night in worship. I mean,

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when else are we going to get that? Allah subhanaw taala is just

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making his contracting time for us just to make it easy for us people

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here, you know to be able to do that that okay, you've read this

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stories of the people of the past who for this many years they did

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you know, apparently they did a Fajr with the widow of Aisha here.

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Let me give you let me make it easy for you. Right. So, Hadassah,

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I mean, there has to be some benefit of living where we are in

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this part of town in this part of the world.

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But this is very important is that when we read the stories they are

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to take heed and lesson from because these stories are very

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specially selected out of 124,000 prophets that Allah subhanaw taala

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sent, he chose these 25 or so names, right, which he mentioned

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in the Quran of the prophets out of 120. These are very special

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selection. So, Ibrahima Islam story, which is scattered

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throughout the Quran is very important, because of the

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experiences that he went through. They relate to basic human

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fundamentals basic human challenges. They're not something

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just for his time. They deal with the hawk and bottle they deal with

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discerning what's right, and what's wrong. They deal with

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submission, because that's what your brains Alison's story is all

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about, am I going to submit to My Lord despite everything seeing

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seeming contradictory, despite everything seeming to be not

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logical, right, and he passes in flying flowers, fly, flying

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colors, me basically go and drop your wife off in Makkah, where

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there's nothing he does. So, these are the stories usually some story

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of the Huck always prevailing afterwards and Allah subhanaw

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taala providing safety to people right Allah subhanaw taala

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providing safety though it comes at after some time, you don't get

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it straightaway Musa Islam story that they had to stick around for

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about 40 years they don't I was accepted afterwards. So yeah, your

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duurzame gonna be accepted the next day, there will be struggles

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that you will have to go through, then insha Allah would ask you but

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to deal with DACA and you're told in the Quran so many times that

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you're arqiva

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and the final consequence final solution and be positive is going

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to be for the Moroccan is going to be for the people who talk about

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it will always come to your benefit for either a DW Dalek.

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Then he says that, yes, if you fulfill all of this, right, by

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fulfilling its commands, and by fearing its warnings and

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hoping in its promises, and Eman with its ambiguous verses, and

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also taking heed and lesson from its stories and anecdotes, if you

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do all of this fucking harsh them in Lulu Myrtle, jalila anodal Then

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you would have extracted yourself from the darkness is of ignorance

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into the knower of knowledge. That's when you have knowledge.

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Not knowing so many other small small fine if

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my would you call it subtleties, but rather to really have this

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kind of interaction with the Quran, then that will take you out

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of the darkness. Because otherwise we're in darkness, you may know a

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lot but if we're finding it difficult in our life to

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to get it right, then we are in darkness, because we're stumbling.

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Darkness cause us causes you to stumble. That's what darkness

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does. So when there's light, then you know the way so the problem

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here is that we still have a veil of darkness over us Wamena either

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be Shakeela rowhill Yaki.

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Another thing that it will do for us is that it will take us away

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from the punishment of doubt, punishment of doubt, to a row to

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the Rohingya teen Rohini Aki, which means to the luxury, and the

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comfort of conviction, what words he chooses as well, from the

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punishment of doubt, how is delta punishment? Doubt is a punishment

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for now this is speaking to people who are concerned. People who are

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not concerned, they don't care about doubts. They don't care

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about not even knowing. Do you understand? Doubt is a stage after

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not knowing if I don't know, I don't know. What is I think I

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should know, but I don't know what I'm doubtful. That means you got

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some concern there. Right? Doubt could only be a person who has

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some concern, because for a person who doesn't have any concern, then

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absence of knowledge and awareness is his lot. Right? So he's saying

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that for a boatmen for a believer who wants who's attempting to get

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somewhere down is something very severe. Is my prayer done or not?

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Have I done it, right? Think think of this, you did some prayer, you

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did your Juma prayer, and you made a mistake in there. And you don't

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know whether you've whether that mistake invalidates your prayer

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and whether you should do that, or they you know, you should repeat

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your prayer or whether you should not. How significant is that? This

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is just a simple example.

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A person said something to his wife, he and she, they don't know

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whether it's a divorce or not. They go to some of these. And some

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of these are saying it's a divorce and some things it's not a

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divorce. Can you imagine how

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Uh, can you can you see the punishment of doubt? That's a

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punishment. It's not a punishment in the hellfire, right, but it's a

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punishment in this world. When a person gets enlightened, then they

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move out of that punishment of doubt, to the comfort of

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conviction. You know, when you are confident, when you are confident

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that I am here to stay, I am here because I am rightfully here I am

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on the right course. You flew, you basically

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did that exam, and you came out absolutely confident. Can you

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imagine how you feel after that, when you really did an exam? Well,

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you know, the comfort it gives you the satisfaction it gives you. And

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on the other hand, if you had doubt about that the punishment it

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makes you feel it's only an exam, but it makes you feel

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punished. Right? That's basically where it's not imagined that part

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of our deen. Unfortunately, a lot of this stuff is only going to be

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revealed in the hereafter. For the people who are unaware it's I

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mean, they won't even know God Allah Who Gela the Quran, Allah

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subhanho wa Taala Allah who's mentioned, be mighty, right? He

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mentioned Allahu Allah you Lavina Armano. Allah is the Wedi.

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The friend of those who believe

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the word Wali, the wedding of Allah is a very interesting word

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in Arabic because it can both act with the meaning of an active

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participant and also with a passive participle meaning so you

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can both have an active meaning and a passive meaning because we

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diet and Dowell law means to take care of something,

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to be mindful of something and to

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take care of that's why the worldly is the governor because

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he's supposed to take care of the affairs of his subjects, right? So

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the worry of Allah is the One who is actively mindful of the

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commands of Allah and the Sharia. So he's very active and mindful of

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the boundary boundaries. So he is mindful.

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And passively. Allah is mindful of him, he has been taken care of

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because you know the famous Hadith that mentions

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that when a person becomes close to Allah, by fulfilling the

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following and then additionally the Noah Phil then Allah becomes

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the hands by which he touches and eyes by which he sees and the feet

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by which he walks essentially he's in divine guidance then I

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generally speaking he is now divinely enabled with a lot of

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Tofik right and thus he is taken care of because Allah is the

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willie of those who believe

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Allah is the worry of those believe anybody who believes Allah

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is there Willy but the Wilayat is based on how much they Iman is the

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more your iman increases the more realize that you get the more care

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that you get. Right and people may be thinking that the person who

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has the least demon very weak image then he should be getting

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more help when he has to want it. And once you start wanting it and

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ask Allah for Tofik then you increase in your iman because it's

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a color your iman so person has low Iman yes they need help. Right

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but if you don't want it because in hola hola yo Hey yo Roma. Be

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calm in Hatha Yoga. You're gonna be unfussy him Allah subhanaw

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taala doesn't change people until they take the step first and

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change themselves. That has to be very important. Allah is the worry

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of those people of those who believe you hold your home in a

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little Mattie Eleanor.

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You heard it You mean Illuminati Elon node, He extracts them, he

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removes them from the darkness to the light. Both in this world from

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the darkness is of shock and doubt and kufr and everything else and

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the FARC and etc. and in the hereafter light we're going to

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need light if you read surah Al Hadith,

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right? So total Hadith has two things to note to two main

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concepts. And if you look at it, it has the word newer in there

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quite a bit. I forget the exact number of times five or seven

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times you mentioned the word node. And number two, it mentions

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sadaqa. You mentioned spending that is sort of about node and

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spending. Right. And it speaks about

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Yomi a poodle monashee Hakuna

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Well, we're gonna have your call today. Latina Amano. Where is it?

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On Luna Nocta disminuir recom. Just look at us. So we can take

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some of your light Allahu Akbar. The munaf 18 They will say to the

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believers, just look at us. We can take some of your light knock the

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disminuir ECAM theater Algeria whare can filter mizunara Now you

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go you guys go go go look behind you filter me soon are gone. Look

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for your own light. So I said from Allah whom endures Allah

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subhanaw taala says in another place, they will have no light on

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that day, we need light in the hereafter. Light in the hereafter

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will only be provided by the deeds and by things like Isabel who, and

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the things that the Prophet sallallahu Sallam has told us

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about. So Nora is, it's very important that we think over this

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verse, we think of a sort of Hadith. Very important. It's a

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very good sort of to ponder. And there's lots in there about

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sadaqa.

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Sadaqa will be a source of light and Day of Judgment.

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Sadaqa is numerous. It's basically fundraising, you know, for all

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good causes. Sadaqa sadaqa, sadaqa, and the concept of light,

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it's well connected.

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So Allah is the willie of those who believe He extracts them from

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the darkness into the light. And we're in the My uma years with

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Ehrlich where her Buffy adelakun Anila. The only people that will

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make distinction between this the good and bad, the light and the

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darkness, where or how goofy and also desire it, want it or the

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people who have are culled from Allah.

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Well, alcohol is being praised here. The uncle is being praised

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here. And the whole point here is that uncle is a NEMA from Allah

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subhanaw taala let us never diminish uncle because without

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alcohol, you know, Allah, from anything else.

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With the uncle is how you recognize you get mad if, right,

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generally speaking, I mean, I know that Allah subhanaw taala can

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place it into the heart, and then your uncle will will follow

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clearly, right? But Apple helps you distinguish Allah has placed

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there for human to be able to distinguish between right and

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wrong. That's what he says. Lulu actually Anila the people of

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color, who are who have gained it from Allah, not just very

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intelligent in this world and smart individuals who figure

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things out. You know, we're, who are just very sharp. It's talking

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about people who have a special form of akal that also gives them

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an understanding of the good and bad Alladhina Sofia aka Gumby vied

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with another who Annie shuba those people who have practice who have

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practiced and made all of the efforts to to strengthen the

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external aspect, what then is the who is shuba and they have avoided

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and taken a path of precaution from from doubtful matters,

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because Allah subhanaw taala says no Rasulullah sallallahu sallam

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said the halal is clear and the Haram is clear. And between them

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are matters of doubt. Wait, who's who's abandons basically is better

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than then taking them. So inshallah we'll stop here. May

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Allah subhanaw taala grant us a greater connection, understanding

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and association with the Quran. If Allah subhanaw taala has given us

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hills of the Quran, then may Allah subhanaw taala take us to the next

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step. If Allah subhanaw taala has given us

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with the ability to recite the Quran a lot, then Oh Allah

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subhanaw taala again, take us to the next step alojamento dilemma

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and because Salam devaglia that agenda anybody come along me Are

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you

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gonna study

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Allahumma salli wa salam ala so you know Muhammad woreda And you

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say you know him and him about equal Salam

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Allahumma Filon our home now if you know you know what I'm talking

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about Allah haemophilia Muslim you know, and Muslim Matthew and what

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many know and what we need to know here even when I'm what, Oh Allah,

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we ask You for Your forgiveness of Allah we ask You for Your Mercy of

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Allah, we ask You for Your compassion of Allah. This is the

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month in which you open the doors of gender. You've closed the doors

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of hellfire you've locked up the shaytaan of Allah you have much in

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store for your believers. Oh Allah make us among those who receive

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this mercy from you. Oh Allah make us among those who receive this

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blessing from you. Oh Allah this month of Ramadan has come to its

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middle point. Oh Allah, we ask you, we ask that you forgive us

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for our shortcomings in the first half. And Oh Allah, we ask that

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you give us the full full portion of the second half of Allah We ask

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that you bless us in this regard. Our Allah we are in need of your

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compassion of Allah. We are self confessing sinners of Allah. You

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do not have to establish any proof against us. We don't need any

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proof. We are self confessing sinners. Oh Allah we ask that Your

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mercy overcome our sins of Allah for it has Oh Allah, it has all

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the scope to take all the

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disobedience is of the world of Allah We ask that you make us of

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those who attain your special mercies during this month of Allah

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every night your messengers Allah has told us that people are being

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freed from the hellfire. Oh Allah make us from among them. Oh Allah

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make us from among them. Our Allah do not deprive us among those who

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you may deprive our life there are any actions that we are doing

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We don't realize are critical and dangerous. Oh Allah we asked you

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for recognition of them. We asked you for awareness of them in a

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soft way of Allah we asked you to deal with us in a gentle manner of

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Allah. We can't take your punishment of Allah We can't take

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your punishment. Oh Allah.

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We ask You for gentleness just as you told Musa and Harun alayhi

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salam to do to Speak gently with the pharaoh of Allah we can expect

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this gentle gentleness from you, oh Allah we don't call ourselves

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the highest Lord as Pharaoh did. Allah but we go down into such

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that and we say that you are the highest Lord. Oh Allah Oh Allah we

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say these things we know we make mistakes we know we still sin. We

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know when we finish our prayer we return back to sin. But Oh Allah,

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we know that

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in the depths of our heart we love you of Allah allow this love to

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permeate every aspect of our body. Oh Allah grant us your love and

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the love of those who love you. Or Allah grant us love for your

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obedience and hatred for your disobedience of Allah we ask for

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closeness to you. We asked for Wilayat for us and our entire

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family and project isn't in the Day of Judgment. Oh Allah fulfill

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our permissible needs of Allah the last 10 days are coming up of

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Ramadan. In there is a special night of Allah We asked you for

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the greatest blessings of these of this of all of these nights and

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especially the Laila to Ricardo. Oh Allah give us the trophy to

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associate ourselves with the masjid and your deen as much as

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possible. Oh Allah grant us the conviction in our heart remove any

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kind of doubts that are in our heart. Oh Allah we ask you for the

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ability to fulfill the commands of the Quran in every in a very

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thorough manner. Oh Allah strengthened the Quran in our

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hearts and in our minds of Allah strengthen our understanding of

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the Quran. Oh Allah accept our Tada we are fasting and all of our

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worships during this month. Oh Allah we ask you if I knew that

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you send your abundant blessings and our messenger Muhammad

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and that you grant us his company in

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the hereafter. Subhan Allah be caught up binaries that are male

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see if when I was set out when I'm in What does any you know what

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handling

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