Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Study, Study, Study, Until You Depart

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The speakers discuss the importance of online treatments for a topic that is not covered for the first time. They emphasize the need for young people to be aware of the topic and preserve their own knowledge. The success of people learning from Allah's words and the importance of learning to understand and remember his words is discussed. The speakers emphasize the benefits of learning and studying in a casual and flexible way, as well as the importance of understanding and practicing one's intentions to achieve success in learning and knowledge. The importance of worship, reward, and intention in learning and practicing is emphasized.

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			Muhammad
		
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			Surah Al
		
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			My dear respected
		
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			friends,
		
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			this is a topic
		
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			which is not being covered, obviously, for the
		
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			first time.
		
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			Online,
		
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			you'll see numerous
		
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			treatments of this topic
		
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			covering it from
		
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			every angle, lots of experiences. That's why
		
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			when this topic was first suggested to me,
		
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			I
		
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			wondered why this topic would be chosen again
		
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			because if somebody's choosing
		
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			such an essential, such a basic, such an
		
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			elementary, such a fundamental
		
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			topic, then there must be a very good
		
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			reason to choose that topic.
		
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			And I don't think it's a topic that
		
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			we can have enough of because
		
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			most of what we speak about, generally speaking,
		
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			since this is not some kind of academic
		
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			seminar, academic seminars
		
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			generally tend
		
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			to go towards cutting edge
		
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			research,
		
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			new findings in the field, new investigations,
		
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			new solutions and researches.
		
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			That's generally
		
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			when you speak about academics, that's what it's
		
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			all about. It's about a new contribution,
		
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			something original.
		
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			But when we're speaking about
		
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			the real fundamental
		
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			talk,
		
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			lecture
		
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			with the believers, with the mumineen,
		
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			advice and naseeha is as Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala says, Wa dakir
		
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			fa'inna thikratan fa'ul mumineen,
		
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			remind because reminders benefit the believers.
		
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			So this is all about a reminder.
		
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			So as many times as this topic may
		
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			have been covered from as many angles that
		
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			it may have been dealt with, it is
		
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			still something Insha'Allah that we can Insha'Allah benefit
		
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			from because it's just to remind us again.
		
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			And the reason for it is quite simple,
		
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			it is
		
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			extremely important.
		
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			Without Ulm you can't have Tawhid,
		
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			you can't have the Oneness of Allah without
		
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			knowledge, you need a certain amount of knowledge
		
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			and guidance and light
		
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			to recognize the Oneness of Allah,
		
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			Divine Monotheism,
		
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			you need to have knowledge for Risaalah.
		
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			And that's why the first Wahi, the first
		
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			revelation as the verses that I recited earlier,
		
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			Recite in the name of your Lord who
		
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			created.
		
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			So creation is the
		
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			first
		
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			act by which we're in this world.
		
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			If there was no creation we would not
		
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			be in this world.
		
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			It's only after creation that everything else can
		
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			happen for us. This is where we start
		
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			becoming relevant.
		
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			Otherwise,
		
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			we're in the realm of the unseen, we're
		
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			in the realm of un existence.
		
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			Who knew who we were before we came
		
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			into existence?
		
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			If Allah had chosen not to bring us
		
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			into existence,
		
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			what would he have mattered?
		
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			Who would have missed us? Do you understand?
		
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			So if you really think about it, that
		
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			the fact that you
		
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			and I,
		
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			every one of us
		
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			was chosen by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala out
		
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			of all of
		
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			the possible creations,
		
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			possible beings,
		
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			possible insan and human beings that could have
		
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			come out of non existence into existence,
		
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			you and I were chosen.
		
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			So one of the most essential things is
		
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			Iqra
		
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			Bismi Rabbikal Lali Khalaq. Read in the name
		
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			of your Lord who created.
		
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			Very fundamental aspect. And then Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala says,
		
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			expressing how the human is created.
		
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			Procedure,
		
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			created from a clot of blood. Not created
		
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			out of nothing, but created out of a
		
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			clot of blood.
		
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			Of course the first human was created out
		
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			of nothing in a sense, but everything goes
		
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			back to its origin.
		
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			But Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala speaks about that.
		
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			Then to carry on,
		
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			again read,
		
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			and your Lord is the most honorable,
		
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			most benevolent.
		
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			Akram kareem, kareem generous,
		
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			benevolent,
		
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			open hearted,
		
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			honorable,
		
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			the most giving in that sense.
		
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			And He is the most giving, Akram.
		
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			And then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, what
		
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			did He say next?
		
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			Who taught
		
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			by the pen. The pen is being spoken
		
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			about after creation.
		
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			What a significance the pen has. But imagine
		
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			it, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is
		
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			receiving his first revelation.
		
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			The first wahi is coming to him. And
		
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			the first
		
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			point that's being made here after talking about
		
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			creation is the pen, writing. And what does
		
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			writing do?
		
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			It provides knowledge, it allows the transference of
		
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			knowledge,
		
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			that's what the pen does.
		
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			When it allows the capturing of knowledge, it
		
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			allows the recording of knowledge,
		
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			it allows knowledge to become etched forever,
		
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			it allows certain wisdoms
		
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			of knowledge
		
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			to be recorded
		
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			and then to be preserved for others.
		
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			You can only speak to so many people
		
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			at once,
		
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			But then to record it by pen and
		
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			then today with all of these other modern,
		
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			modern media,
		
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			instruments that we have, then that's another method
		
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			of getting knowledge to others. So
		
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			He taught the insan that which he did
		
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			not know. So now
		
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			the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is not being
		
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			talked,
		
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			addressed in this in these
		
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			series of verses, this cluster of verses that
		
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			he first listened to, there was no discussion
		
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			of Tawhid,
		
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			no discussion of the oneness of Allah.
		
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			There's no discussion of that, as Allah speaks
		
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			about that one of the major themes of
		
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			the Quran is
		
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			This biggest theme in the Quran is One
		
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			of the greatest of the themes in the
		
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			Quran is
		
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			No is mentioned here, the prophecy of the
		
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			Messenger
		
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			That's not mentioned.
		
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			None of these things are mentioned.
		
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			The Akhirah, eschatological
		
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			realities, the unseen world, life after death,
		
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			the day, such an important aspect. Again that's
		
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			not mentioned in the first revelation.
		
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			These are what we consider to be the
		
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			most fundamental
		
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			important aspects of our religion but none of
		
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			this is mentioned. What is mentioned is
		
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			how the human is created, the fact that
		
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			he's created now, he has existence,
		
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			He's a being and now knowledge.
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala taught and the pen
		
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			is spoken about here.
		
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			Anybody
		
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			that means anybody who's involved with the pen,
		
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			for the sake of the deen,
		
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			then this must be truly a blessing.
		
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			And the juxtaposition here is that the Prophet
		
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			is unlettered,
		
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			he is Ummi.
		
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			So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala teaches him, and
		
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			he brings his verse to him.
		
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			So in this verse Wahi there's no mention
		
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			of Tawhid or Isalah or the day of
		
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			judgment.
		
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			You
		
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			have so many verses about that but not
		
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			in this verse, It's about knowledge.
		
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			The first
		
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			message. This proves something,
		
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			that if that is the first receipt
		
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			of divine revelation
		
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			by the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is
		
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			about knowledge, then what does it tell us
		
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			about knowledge? It tells us the importance of
		
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			it. And the prophet
		
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			was not a younger man when he received
		
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			this first revelation.
		
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			How old was he?
		
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			He was 14.
		
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			And in this is a sign that knowledge
		
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			never ends.
		
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			Unfortunately, unfortunately,
		
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			I've heard so many people, I've heard so
		
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			many people, I've gone and given speeches in
		
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			areas.
		
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			And I'll get compliments from adults, from parents
		
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			generally,
		
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			and they'll say, really thank you for coming.
		
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			We need to hold more of these programs
		
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			for our youngsters.
		
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			As though it's the young people that need
		
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			these things and not the old people.
		
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			Seriously, there is an idea out there
		
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			that all the people it's all the focus
		
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			is on the younger people. Yes. The younger
		
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			people, there's a focus. We know now
		
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			that that the it's it's it's already tried
		
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			and tested that the older people where they
		
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			are. They know where they are. Right? But
		
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			now we wanna make sure we preserve our
		
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			young people. But if the entire focus is
		
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			all about what we can do for our
		
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			children, what we can do for our children,
		
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			not what we can do for ourself, then
		
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			it's almost as if we are outsourcing this
		
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			to others.
		
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			It's almost as if we're outsourcing this to
		
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			others. For example, just to bring the relevance
		
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			of women into this, there's
		
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			a really nice saying in Urdu, I'll translate
		
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			it for those who won't understand it. It's
		
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			that,
		
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			Right? It means if a man studies something,
		
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			then it means an individual has studied something.
		
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			In the general scheme of things, I mean
		
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			of course.
		
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			But it says, if
		
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			a woman studies
		
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			then
		
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			Right? The entire family. And it's only through
		
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			families that you will eventually get to the
		
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			community.
		
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			Because the amount of power that a single
		
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			woman have, the mother has, right from
		
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			the quality time that she gets with her
		
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			child,
		
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			at her breast, in her lap, that quality
		
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			time and the transference of that knowledge, the
		
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			more she knows
		
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			the better she will interact with this child.
		
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			And in Islam we also believe,
		
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			we also believe in the power of induction,
		
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			transference of spirituality,
		
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			Baraka, blessing through induction,
		
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			which means heart to heart.
		
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			Being in the company of people with strong
		
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			hearts, strong knowledge, strong understanding, strong connection, Ma'rifah
		
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			of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. It's only through
		
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			knowledge you're gonna get Ma'rifah of Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa
		
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			ta'ala. That's why they say that when you
		
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			do study, what should be the intentions of
		
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			your study?
		
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			Now when we say study,
		
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			let us break it down.
		
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			Unfortunately,
		
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			in, because we have so many formal ways
		
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			of study,
		
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			it's become reduced
		
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			to formal formality.
		
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			Let me explain that. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			says in the
		
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			Quran,
		
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			Those who remember Allah standing, sitting, and on
		
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			their sides.
		
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			Those who remember Allah standing, sitting and on
		
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			their sides.
		
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			If we tell people do dhikr of Allah,
		
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			most people as understand that to go and
		
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			sit down in a place quietly, head bowed
		
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			down,
		
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			close your eyes or whatever it is and
		
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			just immerse yourself in
		
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			a special session of the remembrance of Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. That is definitely a method
		
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			of remembrance of Allah and a very Mubarak
		
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			way of doing so. However, Allah wants us
		
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			to remember him more than on special occasions
		
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			and more than in a formal setting. Allah
		
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			wants us to naturally remember him all the
		
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			time, to be constantly connected with him. That's
		
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			why Allah says here, that those who remember
		
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			Allah standing, sitting and lying down
		
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			on their sides.
		
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			If we understand this from the perspective of
		
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			one who understands dhikr to be a special
		
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			sitting,
		
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			a formal gathering, then can you imagine what
		
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			kind of bad adab the person has what
		
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			Allah is speaking about who's lying down on
		
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			his side and remembering Allah? Have you got
		
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			no adab?
		
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			Don't you have any etiquette? Don't you have
		
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			any respect for Allah that that's how you're
		
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			doing dhikr? But that's
		
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			obviously a criticism based on misunderstanding.
		
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			The misunderstanding is that dhikr needs to be
		
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			done in a formal setting. It doesn't. Dhikr
		
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			is a state.
		
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			This sitting down in a special session in
		
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			a formal
		
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			state helps to develop a constant state of
		
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			remembrance which Allah wants from us. Those are
		
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			the ones closest to Allah And thus knowledge
		
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			needs to be like that as well. Then
		
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			a person is not going to reduce their
		
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			knowledge to something only taught in Maqdabs for
		
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			their children.
		
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			But it's going to be, I wanna teach
		
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			my children, I want my husband or wife,
		
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			my spouse to be studying, and I wanna
		
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			be studying.
		
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			That's why if you look at some of
		
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			the successful ulama of the past, not all
		
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			of them but a lot of the most
		
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			successful ulama of the past,
		
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			they didn't all necessarily start young.
		
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			Many of them were inspired later in life
		
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			and still Masha'Allah broke all
		
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			records in a sense.
		
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			Against all odds, Imam Abu Hanifa is one
		
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			of the biggest examples. Starts off as a
		
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			wealthy businessman,
		
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			a trader.
		
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			And how many of them do we have
		
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			out there? You know somebody who set up
		
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			his business, who just needs to manage it
		
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			now, you know, without wanting to you know,
		
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			because today, unfortunately, we're in a race game
		
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			today. You have a bit, you want more,
		
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			you want 3, you want 4, you want
		
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			5. Today, it's a crazy game out there.
		
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			It's a crazy game out there. Believe me.
		
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			I feel I I I feel the pressures
		
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			of it because I'm from a business oriented
		
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			family.
		
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			So I feel the pressures of it. There's
		
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			just so many things that I see that
		
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			I could do business in. I just have
		
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			to withhold myself because I've tasked myself with
		
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			something else, and I know that getting into
		
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			business is going to
		
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			encroach on my study of the knowledge and
		
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			trying to disseminate it. The paths that I've
		
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			chosen, I hope there's Tawfiq in there.
		
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			So
		
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			for those out there who are established,
		
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			the example of Imam Abu Hanifa is wonderful
		
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			it's a perfect example for them. That they've
		
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			got a business,
		
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			they can continue and oversee and develop their
		
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			time. If you're successful in establishing a business,
		
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			it means you've got the mind.
		
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			You've got the mind to study knowledge, to
		
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			remember facts, to correlate between ideas,
		
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			to provide some analysis,
		
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			to
		
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			take out the best possible meanings in in
		
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			cases.
		
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			If you're a person out there who likes
		
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			to remember everybody's bad points,
		
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			you're the repository
		
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			of everybody's liba,
		
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			you know about everybody the low downs,
		
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			you've got the ability to memorize the Quran
		
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			it means.
		
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			But what you've used your mind for? And
		
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			again I'm not talking to anybody specific,
		
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			I'm just speaking to the heart.
		
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			Different types of people, whichever category of people
		
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			a person may fall into. If you've got
		
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			that ability to remember everybody's good or bad
		
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			points whichever side you fall, doesn't matter.
		
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			You've got the ability to memorize hadith.
		
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			To remember those facts of hadith and knowledge.
		
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			Go and start studying.
		
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			Studying doesn't have to be formally in a
		
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			madrassa.
		
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			It can be by attending duroos and lectures,
		
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			then demanding from your ulama to provide,
		
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			to upgrade that to more focused durus and
		
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			lectures. Many masajid are still on lectures and
		
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			bayans and in spirit just to get people
		
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			inspired.
		
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			We need to move beyond that and provide
		
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			classes as well as many Masajid are doing.
		
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			You attend those things.
		
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			In our local area where I was Imam
		
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			for five and a half
		
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			years, Alhamdulillah, there was a demand from women.
		
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			I mean, there's, in that area, Masha'Allah, they've
		
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			got a lot going for
		
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			the the the guys anyway, the the men.
		
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			But there was a demand from the women
		
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			and they were, you can say, underprivileged in
		
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			that regard. They were deprived. This was a
		
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			deprived borough for women in a sense. There's
		
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			many deprived boroughs for women, we only talk
		
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			about it monetarily.
		
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			But in this case it was religiously deprived.
		
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			They had general piety but in terms of
		
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			solid knowledge that was a difficulty.
		
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			So we started a class for 2 years,
		
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			a 2 year class, a 2 year class
		
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			for older women and we had students in
		
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			there from the ages of 17
		
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			to 50 something, up to 60. Masha'Allah. A
		
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			range. The idea was a 2 year class,
		
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			4 days a week, 3 hours a day,
		
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			3, 6, 9, 12 hours a week. In
		
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			the morning, they were wondering, these were women
		
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			who were either not yet married, but weren't
		
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			going to university or not doing anything and
		
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			wanted to study but didn't want to pull
		
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			themselves in a full time madrasah and alima
		
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			course as such. Right?
		
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			And these were also women who whose children
		
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			had gone. They were either going to school
		
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			or they're already done, and now they wanna,
		
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			you know, instead of watching TV or going
		
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			and shopping, surfing,
		
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			doing a lot of gossip or whatever the
		
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			case may be that people use their time
		
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			making sure they keep on top of EastEnders
		
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			and all these other weird things that people
		
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			do nowadays just to pass their time, right?
		
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			They,
		
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			they they, MashaAllah, attended these classes. So 1
		
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			year was done,
		
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			2 year was done,
		
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			and they said we don't wanna leave.
		
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			What is this 2 years? We don't wanna
		
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			leave.
		
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			Okay, fine. So we developed a syllabus for
		
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			them for the 3rd year.
		
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			We don't wanna leave again.
		
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			So a 4th year, I believe they're in
		
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			their 5th or the 6th year now.
		
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			They don't wanna leave. This is a lifelong
		
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			thing. Yes. They determine when their holidays are
		
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			and, you know, and all the rest of
		
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			it. They they
		
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			basically
		
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			designed their own class there but we provide
		
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			it.
		
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			I've left them, it's still being provided Alhamdulillah.
		
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			But the main thing is that
		
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			they don't want to leave it once you
		
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			see you understand what knowledge is all about,
		
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			once you get that then and once you
		
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			feel the real benefit of it then you
		
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			will see that it's a never ending process.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			If I get the tawfiq to read a
		
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			book, a new book, new topic, you know
		
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			the amount of fulfillment it gives you, the
		
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			amount of elation it provides,
		
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			it's a ajeep. That's why I can understand
		
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			what Imam Shafi'i is saying. Imam Shafi says
		
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			that
		
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			the the the pleasure you get from learning
		
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			something new
		
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			for your Deen, learning something new. And this
		
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			may be the case across the board in
		
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			general, but obviously he's speaking about Deeni knowledge,
		
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			religious
		
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			knowledge.
		
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			He said, it's more pleasurable than sleeping with
		
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			a virgin.
		
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			New virgin each day.
		
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			It's a crude example, but it's a very
		
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			apt example.
		
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			And those are the pleasures that you get
		
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			from this. That's the only reason why people
		
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			can dedicate hours and hours and hours on
		
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			end to this thing.
		
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			That's the only reason people can do this
		
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			because knowledge is so powerful, it has that
		
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			attraction once you get into it.
		
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			I've got a friend who's,
		
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			in a pathology department
		
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			and his sheikh
		
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			in pathology,
		
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			his teacher in pathology, he's a non Muslim.
		
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			Right?
		
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			He is so dedicated to his area of
		
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			study. It's a university hospital, so it's not
		
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			just an occupation,
		
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			but it's also
		
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			research based.
		
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			So when his wife will
		
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			really
		
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			prevail over him to take her on a
		
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			holiday, he'll call this is in America, so
		
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			he'll call one of
		
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			the hospitals closest to the beach in Hawaii
		
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			and he'll say, let me speak to a
		
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			junior pathologist there, one of the young trainee
		
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			guys. Do you want a holiday? I'll say
		
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			to him. Do you want a little vacation?
		
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			He says, Yeah of course I do. So
		
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			say, Okay you go for a vacation. He'll
		
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			organize that, he comes and works in his
		
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			place. The hospital is fine because they've got
		
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			a world class pathologist working in their hospital.
		
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			The junior guy goes off, he goes and
		
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			sits in the hospital and works there while
		
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			his wife enjoys herself from the beach.
		
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			Now that example just reminds me of the
		
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			people of iman like Imam Bukhari who wakes
		
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			up 17 times in a single night, goes
		
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			and performs wudu, and then goes and writes
		
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			down something because it's something that occurred to
		
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			him in the middle of the night about
		
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			hadith or something.
		
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			It's Ajay, today we just pick up our
		
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			phones next door better. If If that happened
		
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			to him, just pick up my phone and
		
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			either do a little memo recording or, you
		
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			know, do a little,
		
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			note electronic note in my computer, but he
		
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			know he has to go and kindle the
		
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			fire so that he gets some light,
		
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			voodoo because everything he did generally with voodoo,
		
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			and then he goes and writes it down,
		
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			records 17 times because there was somebody who
		
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			slept with him once and this is how
		
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			it happened on that night.
		
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			It's that dedication. Now I'm not saying you
		
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			and I both have to have that dedication
		
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			today, but come on, we can't have ignorance
		
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			either.
		
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			We need to get to a level
		
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			where at least we are studying and it's
		
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			not just something restricted to our children and
		
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			our young folk.
		
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			Knowledge is forever.
		
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			Knowledge is literally forever.
		
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			And if there's a demand that you create,
		
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			then this will happen. So when you go
		
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			back to our area where where I was
		
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			Imam at Stanford Hill, so then we started
		
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			that class.
		
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			Now it's reduced to 2 days a week
		
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			because we started another class after that. Aside
		
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			from
		
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			this first batch who are still continuing,
		
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			there's another batch that we, we we brought
		
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			in and it was difficult for a lot
		
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			of them to do 4 days. So okay
		
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			we reduced it to 2 days. I think
		
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			3 hours each day or 2 and a
		
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			half hours each day for 2 days. That's
		
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			very manageable.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, it gives you time to do other
		
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			things as well. And Alhamdulillah, that's continuing.
		
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			Then we had a, we had a lot
		
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			of pressure from women who are working in
		
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			the daytime that we can't benefit ourselves from
		
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			these classes because they're in the daytime.
		
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			So then for them, we organize the class
		
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			in the evening, 2 and a half hours.
		
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			One day a week only. Cause when it
		
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			comes to evening, the demands from the rest
		
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			of the family are too great. Cause generally
		
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			most of these women are married as well.
		
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			So you know it's difficult to give a
		
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			to go for an evening class for a
		
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			woman, very difficult. But Masha'Allah, we started off
		
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			with 20 women in that area.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So that was that. We had 2 Tajweed
		
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			courses for women,
		
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			you know, running concurrently,
		
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			because that's how many people. So
		
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			you it's it's there. You have to have
		
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			the desire and somebody will provide.
		
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			Don't sit back and complain that nothing is
		
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			being provided because in certain areas nothing is
		
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			being provided. You have to take the meds
		
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			and today An'Allah you can do a whole
		
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			'Alim Alimah courses online.
		
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			There are so many people who are studying
		
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			online nowadays.
		
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			And Masha'Allah, once this knowledge thing kicks in
		
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			for example in Pakistan,
		
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			one of our Sheikhs told us that last
		
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			year, I can't remember the exact figure but
		
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			it's around a 140
		
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			female
		
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			female medical doctors who are doing medicine at
		
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			university, one of the most, you can say,
		
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			challenging
		
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			or most,
		
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			engrossing
		
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			studies that you can have where it takes
		
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			away your whole life. Medicine takes away your
		
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			life, you know, 7 years, 8 years, 9
		
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			years. It it really like governs your entire
		
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			life for that time.
		
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			They,
		
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			while they're doing their medicine, complete Alima course.
		
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			A 140 of them. A few years ago
		
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			I heard another 70 had done it, last
		
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			year was
		
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			440 graduated.
		
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			And that's not impossible.
		
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			It is all a possibility
		
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			if you want it, if you desire it,
		
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			if your connection with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			is there that you want it. If you
		
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			understand it's the fundamental aspect of it. And
		
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			because it's so important and such a blessed
		
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			thing that's why a number of things happened.
		
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			Let me explain. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says
		
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			in the Quran,
		
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			Right?
		
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			Allah bears witness. Allah testifies.
		
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			Allah testifies that there is no God except
		
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			He.
		
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			Allah testifies to that fact.
		
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			Who else testifies? And
		
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			the angels also testify.
		
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			Now anybody that Allah mentions in this case,
		
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			there must be of some honor for Allah
		
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			to mention them. Allah is enough, Allah testifies,
		
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			halas, end of story.
		
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			If Allah testifies to something why do we
		
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			need anybody else to testify?
		
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			But when you just tag on a few
		
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			more names, what does it show? Are you
		
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			going to bother tagging on names that are
		
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			irrelevant?
		
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			If there's somebody that
		
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			you want to add into the merits,
		
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			do you add people who are significant that
		
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			matter? Or do you just add every everybody's
		
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			name? Well it's generally people who matter especially
		
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			when you're short of space or when it
		
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			has to be a very succinct knowledge a
		
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			succinct point and a succinct delivery of that
		
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			point.
		
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			So Allah says, shahidullahahu
		
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			He bears witness and so do the angels
		
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			and then He says,
		
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			and the people of knowledge.
		
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			Allah is putting them at that level that
		
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			it matters when they bear witness and when
		
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			they testify because
		
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			they will do it properly.
		
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			Which will be free of shirk, which will
		
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			be free of any other kind of blasphemy.
		
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			It'll be a pure, pure testification.
		
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			Based on all of that, now you understand
		
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			something that anybody who studies knowledge, look at
		
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			the Maqam, look at the status, look at
		
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			the status that they get.
		
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			Now
		
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			Allah makes a number of things happen
		
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			for a person who's studying knowledge.
		
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			Now again,
		
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			going back to my example of the person
		
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			doing Dhikr and what Allah means by Dhikr
		
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			is somebody who's constantly remembering Allah and not
		
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			somebody who's formally engaged only.
		
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			So do not, again, do not understand somebody
		
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			who's studying knowledge to be just somebody who's
		
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			sitting in a madrassa or a seminary
		
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			studying, you know, for this many hours a
		
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			day. You could be studying 2 hours a
		
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			day and you will be at Tanibuluill,
		
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			you will be Ululuill
		
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			as long as you gain some knowledge and
		
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			it's taking you close to Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala.
		
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			Somebody who's spending 20 hours but is not
		
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			taking close to Allah is not as superior
		
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			as somebody who spends 2 hours and is
		
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			taking you close to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			Because the objective of knowledge is to recognize
		
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			Allah by him. Otherwise there's a lot of
		
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			knowledge out there. There's a lot of 'ilm,
		
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			there's a lot of data, there's a lot
		
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			of Ma'lumaat
		
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			out there. But the ilm is that which
		
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			gives you an understanding of Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala.
		
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			And you see the description that Imam Ghazali
		
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			gives in his
		
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			in his Bidaatul Hidayah, the beginning of guidance,
		
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			the 'il is that which gives you an
		
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			understanding of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So yes,
		
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			you could be studying pathology, you could be
		
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			studying psychology,
		
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			you could be studying
		
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			philology, you could be studying lexicology, you could
		
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			be studying whatever you want. It's all
		
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			good as long as
		
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			your main knowledge is there and these additional
		
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			supplementary forms of knowledge are beneficial if you're
		
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			studying them for the Dunya, but they're only
		
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			beneficial for your Dunya.
		
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			If you're studying them to give you an
		
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			understanding of the Quran and Sunnah, then suddenly
		
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			they become even more beneficial,
		
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			even more Mubarak.
		
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			If you're studying,
		
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			philology and sciences of language, so that you
		
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			can get a better understanding of the Quran,
		
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			then suddenly that becomes
		
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			more beneficial than just studying something to earn
		
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			a living. Earning a living and studying something
		
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			for earning a living is also a blessed
		
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			thing because because the prophet
		
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			said that. It's a faridah that you have
		
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			towards
		
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			people. But again, do not think of knowledge
		
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			as a formal method of study, but also
		
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			a very casual method of study as it
		
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			used to be in the traditional lands.
		
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			And Alhamdulillah, Syria still had that.
		
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			When I studied in Syria it still had
		
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			that, most other Arab countries lost it but
		
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			Syria still had it.
		
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			Egypt became very formalized.
		
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			Egypt, Cairo, once you know the house of
		
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			Azhar became very formalized, you had to go
		
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			to Azhar, you had to go to a
		
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			madrassar.
		
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			But Masha'Allah, Syria still had high class Durus,
		
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			high class lessons going on in the Masjids
		
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			every day of the week.
		
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			You had Wahba Zuhaili, Rahimahullah now,
		
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			booty in another place, you know you had
		
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			the Abdul Fattah Bism, you had Sheikh Abdul
		
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			Razaat Al Halabi, you had Sheikh Adib Kallas
		
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			teaching in the morning numerous different types of
		
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			students that used to go, SubhanAllah.
		
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			Literally
		
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			with Sheikh Adeeb Callas, we used to go
		
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			in the morning,
		
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			He used to live in Muhajiri. Muhajiri is
		
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			on a mountain. It's on a hill, and
		
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			you had to they've made steps to climb
		
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			up outside,
		
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			right, on the side of the hill, And
		
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			it must be like a 100 steps and
		
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			you are dead by the time you get
		
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			to the top. Right? So that's that's how
		
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			you got up there. And then you went
		
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			in with your book and he taught you
		
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			and there were others waiting.
		
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			And then they then the next guy came
		
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			and said, okay, I wanna study the shahra
		
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			of, I wanna study Tafsir Khabir of Horazi.
		
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			So okay, he sits and teaches with him
		
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			teaches him for 15 minutes. And then you
		
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			can listen on to that. So you know
		
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			you get a whole range of sciences that
		
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			you can listen in on to and then
		
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			have your own book that you're studying with
		
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			him as long as he allows you.
		
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			Quite quite amazing
		
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			the way that that whole setup used to
		
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			be and I hope Allah gives them this
		
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			the stability again and removes the oppression and
		
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			the problems that they've been going through. It
		
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			is a very mubarak. Very mubarak. Very blessed.
		
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			Very blessed. That's what I mean casual.
		
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			So for example, on,
		
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			he had given me,
		
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			certain days to come in on the week.
		
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			I had only a few months to stay
		
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			in Syria, right? I was there in 98.
		
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			And
		
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			I was very pushy.
		
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			Right? And sometimes I did get onto the
		
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			wrong side. So, once I turned up on
		
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			Monday morning with my book because I wanted
		
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			to finish my book.
		
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			I was studying a commentary of Al Fikul
		
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			Akbar. Right? And I turned up on Monday
		
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			and the sheikh did
		
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			get upset.
		
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			Because that was a day when there was
		
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			a special dars
		
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			for the Ibnu Aabileen family, the famous Ibnu
		
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			Aabileen family descendants, they would come on that
		
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			day. Right? And he would be teaching them.
		
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			So I literally encroached in their space.
		
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			But what I'm trying to tell you from
		
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			this is most of those who would come
		
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			there to study,
		
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			right, would be
		
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			not just Udama who would come to study
		
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			but there were also doctors who also were
		
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			Udhamah in a sense and who were coming
		
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			and studying books in Arabic.
		
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			So these were not Bayans he was giving,
		
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			like just general inspiration lectures. He was actually
		
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			speaking he was actually teaching books to,
		
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			I believe this doctor Samir
		
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			Nas,
		
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			who comes to the UK quite a bit.
		
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			Right? He was originally Syrian. I believe that
		
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			he used to come also to Sheikh Adi
		
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			Qullas from my recollection.
		
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			So I would go in on different days
		
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			and there would be different older people down
		
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			there. Some would be doctors, some would be
		
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			others. Right? And they would be coming and
		
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			studying.
		
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			Very casually. Unfortunately, here we don't have that
		
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			situation.
		
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			El never stops.
		
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			That's why,
		
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			for the last 5, last five and a
		
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			half years or something, we've been having classes,
		
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			now in my house before we had in
		
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			Stamford Hill when I was imam there, but
		
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			now in my house, with a group of
		
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			Ullama, every once a week we get together
		
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			and we've been studying,
		
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			you know, the right now we're studying Bayadis,
		
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			Ishar'at, maraman, ibarat, and imam a commentary
		
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			of on the
		
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			5 books on aqid of Imam Abu Hanifa.
		
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			Before that we've done Bajuriz,
		
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			Tuhfatul Murid, Aja Juharati Tawhid. Before that
		
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			we did a book on logic and mantik,
		
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			Isa Goji before that. So you have to
		
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			continue.
		
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			You can't say you stop.
		
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			And
		
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			you can't say I haven't even started. You
		
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			have to start.
		
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			How long are you gonna continue just to
		
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			go to Bayans for?
		
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			Right? You have to go beyond that, you
		
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			have to get some serious study.
		
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			You have to get to some serious study
		
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			and unfortunately in some, you know, in some
		
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			of
		
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			our areas,
		
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			in some of our circles,
		
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			the the Awam have been crippled.
		
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			What I mean by crippled is
		
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			the emphasis
		
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			on leaving everything to the Ulamah has
		
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			become so much
		
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			that they feel that all
		
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			and knowledge has to be outsourced to the
		
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			ulama, and it does.
		
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			But they think they can't do it anyway.
		
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			It has to be those who spent 7,
		
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			8 years.
		
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			And yes, they are the masters, they are
		
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			the
		
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			authorities.
		
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			But
		
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			they have to just stick to Fadail.
		
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			They just have to speak to,
		
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			to adhere to virtues and they don't learn
		
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			any Masaiil
		
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			or anything. They must not feel confident about
		
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			giving a, you know, of of of knowing
		
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			the halal and haram. It's it's just being
		
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			crippled.
		
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			It needs to be more casual. Now obviously
		
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			somebody who's gonna spend hours,
		
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			years,
		
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			a decade
		
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			on the feet of scholars, at the feet
		
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			of scholars, and a mother of salah definitely
		
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			is gonna become an Alim and get Ijazat.
		
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			But people who are spending 2 hours a
		
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			week, 3 hours a week, and going and
		
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			studying a darks on hadith or aqeedah or
		
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			fadail or whatever it may be, in a
		
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			dedicated study of a book or a text
		
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			or a proper dars, right? That's still gonna
		
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			be beneficial.
		
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			So do not underestimate
		
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			yourself.
		
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			Very important
		
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			to get whatever you can.
		
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			So
		
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			the benefit of such an individual
		
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			is this,
		
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			anybody who goes on to the path of
		
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			knowledge.
		
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			And that's why the prophet shalallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam kept it general, he never said, Whoever
		
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			studies this much, whoever memorizes the holy Quran,
		
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			the entire Quran,
		
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			whoever memorizes this many words of mine, whoever
		
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			studies this book or that book, he never
		
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			said that.
		
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			He
		
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			says,
		
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			Whoever takes on a path Now for those
		
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			who understand Arabic to some degree,
		
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			Not as in the path.
		
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			And when when anybody says the path, it
		
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			means in their mind they've got something very
		
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			specific.
		
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			That's a very particularized term, isn't it? When
		
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			you know when somebody says the house,
		
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			what what do listeners understand from that? They
		
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			mean he's talking about a particular house, Oh
		
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			I need to buy the house.
		
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			Which one are you talking about?
		
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			Right? I need to buy a house, I'm
		
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			looking for a house. Prices are going up,
		
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			I need to buy a house. Okay Falas,
		
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			we know he doesn't have particular money, he
		
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			just needs a house.
		
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			The prophet said, Whoever
		
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			follows a path
		
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			And again it's a flexible path. Somebody could
		
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			be doing 2 months, sorry, 2 hours of
		
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			study a week. Somebody could be just logging
		
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			in once a week or maybe every day
		
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			1 hour,
		
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			you know, onto an Alim course online. You
		
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			know, for women there's that Zainab Academy, for
		
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			guys there's what, Tazki Academy or something, right?
		
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			There's numerous of these, you know, there's Zamzam
		
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			Academy, we've got select courses. You can start
		
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			off from there you know the book of
		
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			salah, the book of tahara, the book of
		
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			the book of fasting. You know at least
		
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			you know your masal of a particular area,
		
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			Right? I'll talk about how to study afterwards
		
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			a bit maybe. But the main thing is,
		
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			whoever follows a path in which he is
		
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			seeking knowledge,
		
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			and it could be any knowledge of the
		
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			shayyah that takes you closer to Allah, Allah
		
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			makes the path of Jannah easy for him.
		
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			So Jannah is beginning to welcome this individual,
		
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			okay. So that's one of the greatest benefits.
		
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			The path of Jannah becomes easy, it becomes
		
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			facility. Allah Saa Allahu
		
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			Allahu Allah facilitates and makes easy the path
		
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			of Jannah. The more you know about your
		
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			deen the closer you can be to Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala because you just know more
		
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			ways ways to do it.
		
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			Right?
		
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			I was
		
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			looking
		
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			online,
		
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			and I fell across this blog about people
		
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			who travel a lot
		
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			and how they maximize their travel at the
		
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			lowest cost.
		
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			And it's ajeeb things. I'm a major traveler.
		
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			I love traveling. Right? That's my hobby.
		
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			It's part of my vocation as well. But
		
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			when I looked at that I thought, SubhanAllah,
		
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			look at the knowledge and the experience that
		
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			they have in this thing.
		
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			Right? The experience that you can get
		
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			that you thought you know everything, you know
		
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			the ways to travel and the best ways
		
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			to travel. And I learned so much in
		
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			a single day just looking at that blog.
		
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			Knowledge
		
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			that that that tells me
		
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			there's another website that we have, in the
		
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			UK,
		
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			Hot UK deals.
		
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			Right? People go on there. They find, you
		
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			know,
		
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			hot products that are going for a really
		
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			good deal. If you want to find, for
		
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			example,
		
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			maybe a USB drive or something like that,
		
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			you go on there, you check, and it
		
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			gives you some of the best deals out
		
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			there because the guys who are out there
		
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			looking for deals, this is their hub. This
		
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			is them. This is I mean, I hate
		
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			to use the word Mecca, but Mecca has
		
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			become this kind of word, unfortunately,
		
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			a place where people gather. Right? Unfortunately, we've
		
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			got Mecca bookmakers as well, but that's a
		
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			different story. So it's that we need some
		
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			hot u hot beanie deals
		
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			where you can get the best out of
		
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			these things.
		
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			But what I'm trying to say is that
		
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			when you start looking at these things,
		
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			you and you start studying knowledge,
		
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			if I benefited so much from that one
		
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			day or one one visit to that blog,
		
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			can you imagine how much I can how
		
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			much anybody can benefit by just studying a
		
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			new set of hadith?
		
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			Suddenly the world opens up to you, possibilities
		
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			open up to you, and then it takes
		
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			you closer to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So
		
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			what else happens? What are the other perks
		
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			that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala provides for people
		
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			to study? Another one is Allah gets the
		
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			angels
		
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			to lay down their wings
		
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			in honor of the people of knowledge.
		
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			So when they walk,
		
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			angels have lowered their wings
		
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			in respect and honor for them. We can't
		
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			see this but we're being told this and
		
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			our belief is on this. What else happens?
		
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			Suddenly when you start studying knowledge, you start
		
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			getting Baraka,
		
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			you start being blessed, things start happening. Allah
		
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			makes things easy. There is an initial test
		
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			period sometimes,
		
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			Allah wants to test us. But Allah then
		
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			provides in Namal Ursuli Yusa.
		
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			So what the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said
		
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			that the birds in the skies pray for
		
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			the students of knowledge.
		
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			The fish in the ocean
		
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			pray for the students of knowledge.
		
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			You know how many fish we're speaking about,
		
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			that fish kingdom,
		
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			any program on the deep oceans, Allahu Akbar,
		
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			amazing.
		
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			The birds,
		
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			they pray for the Shurzal, for them it's
		
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			all beneficial.
		
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			The reason is that anybody with knowledge will
		
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			be expected
		
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			to keep the equilibrium of Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala in this world. Allah says
		
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			Allah has placed a balance in this world,
		
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			do not
		
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			disturb this balance,
		
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			do not go over this balance.
		
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			If you have knowledge then you will keep
		
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			the balance of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in
		
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			this world. When When you keep the balance
		
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			of Allah
		
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			in this world now, this world is quantum.
		
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			Everything is linked to each other, whether we
		
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			see those links or not.
		
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			Everything
		
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			links to others. That's why Allah says in
		
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			the Quran,
		
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			Beware of a fitna, a trial, a test
		
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			that will come to you or a punishment
		
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			in this case
		
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			that will not
		
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			only
		
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			afflict those
		
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			who were oppressive.
		
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			It's not only going to be targeted at
		
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			those among you, 1, 2 people who are
		
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			oppressive, but it will reach all of you
		
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			because of those oppressive people. Allah says in
		
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			Surat Al Isra, Allah says,
		
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			When we want to destroy an area or
		
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			bring punishment to them,
		
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			That when we want to destroy a place,
		
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			we just get the first kin in the
		
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			area, the transgressors in the area to do
		
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			their transgression
		
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			and then the the decree comes upon them.
		
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			The decision is made and then we just
		
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			destroy them.
		
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			So remember, everything has an impact on others.
		
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			If you start studying and you're a businessman,
		
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			you start studying and you're a doctor, you
		
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			start studies and you're a street cleaner or
		
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			you're a taxi driver, you will add to
		
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			the benefit of this world,
		
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			the equilibrium and the balance of this world.
		
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			And that's why the angels make Dua for
		
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			you and lay down their wings.
		
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			The birds,
		
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			the animal kingdom makes
		
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			Dua for you because
		
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			when there is Baraka in a place,
		
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			the Baraka is
		
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			spread beyond the individual.
		
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			When there's even in a place, it spreads
		
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			to others as well. That's why we have
		
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			the whole concept, Amrul Ma'ruh Vandayyanil Munkar. You
		
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			know, to assist each other and to prohibit
		
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			each other Because it's a whole quantum theory
		
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			you're dealing with. So if some people are
		
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			if more people are studying in an area,
		
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			then the birds benefit because there's more food
		
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			and sustenance out there.
		
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			Real sustenance out there.
		
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			Allah doesn't put away the sustenance because of
		
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			the sins that people commit.
		
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			So there's huge amounts of benefit and that's
		
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			right one statement Allah makes in the Quran,
		
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			Can the people who know
		
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			be the same as those who don't know?
		
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			It's a question, it's Allah asks this question
		
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			in the Quran to make us think, can
		
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			they be the same?
		
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			So when we know something, can we be
		
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			the same as when we don't know something?
		
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			Forget about comparing people to people. Those who
		
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			know, those who don't know. That's obviously what
		
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			the verse means but it also can
		
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			mean the people who didn't know and now
		
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			they know.
		
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			Can they be equal? So which state do
		
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			we want to be in?
		
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			Huge amounts
		
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			huge amounts of these benefits.
		
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			That's why in Madinah Munawwara to finish off,
		
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			in Madinah Munawwara there was a madrasah.
		
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			I heard this from our Sheikh recently, there
		
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			was a madrasah in Madinah Munawwara.
		
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			With it had sleeping quarters
		
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			but not dedicated ones.
		
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			People slept anywhere,
		
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			wherever they found space.
		
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			There were no rooms or dormitories,
		
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			there were no beds,
		
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			there were no special mattresses
		
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			like the way we have them today.
		
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			You know take
		
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			your son to a Madrasa, you look at
		
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			all of these things today. In that madrasa
		
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			there was nothing of that nature. There was
		
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			no kitchen,
		
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			there was no refractory,
		
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			no dining hall,
		
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			no refrigerator,
		
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			no supplies.
		
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			They used to stay hungry for days on
		
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			end sometimes.
		
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			It's whatever came, full lesson on Tawakkil.
		
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			So the lessons
		
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			were being learnt as they studied,
		
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			and that was a lesson in Tawakkil as
		
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			they continued.
		
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			And
		
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			the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was told, ordered
		
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			by Allah
		
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			to focus on these individuals, keep himself with
		
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			them. So Allah says in the Quran,
		
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			Restrict yourself,
		
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			withhold yourself, keep yourself
		
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			with
		
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			these people who call on to their Lord
		
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			morning evening,
		
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			seeking just Him.
		
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			This was the state of these people, they
		
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			were in a constant state of Dhikr with
		
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			their knowledge.
		
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			They weren't just
		
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			formal students
		
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			in the way we understand as formality.
		
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			And
		
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			the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			used to stay with him.
		
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			Then
		
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			what was their syllabus?
		
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			They had a very simple syllabus,
		
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			but it was rich.
		
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			And their syllabus was the Quran.
		
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			Their syllabus was the Quran, as it was
		
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			being revealed fresh fresh.
		
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			And their teacher was Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
		
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			So they had the teacher as Rasulullah,
		
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			the Quran was their syllabus.
		
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			Time table,
		
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			24 hours.
		
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			No sleeping time this time, and this time,
		
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			and this time, 24 hours schedule,
		
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			That was their study.
		
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			Because their study was not from a book,
		
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			their study was heart to heart.
		
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			Their study was full on observation,
		
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			experience,
		
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			induction
		
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			and benefit like that. Good companionship
		
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			with the sahbab of Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam, 24 hour timetable.
		
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			Who was their examiner?
		
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			They had an exam, and you know their
		
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			exam wasn't once a year,
		
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			wasn't twice a year, wasn't 3 times a
		
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			year, there wasn't a test every week, there
		
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			was a constant state of tests.
		
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			And their test
		
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			was given by whom? Who was the examiner?
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			Allah is their test,
		
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			Allah test them day in and day out.
		
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			That's why Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says about
		
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			these people,
		
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			These are the people who Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala has tested their hearts for their God
		
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			fearingness,
		
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			for the purpose of knowledge,
		
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			for the purpose of the knowledge that they
		
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			were
		
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			withholding themselves therefore.
		
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			But SubhanAllah
		
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			the teacher had trained them well.
		
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			Did they pass in their knowledge? Did they
		
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			pass in their exams? Of course, every minute
		
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			of it they passed. Because their teacher was
		
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			Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			So
		
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			they passed and thus Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			gave them graduation,
		
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			a certification.
		
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			What was their graduation?
		
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			It wasn't a graduation
		
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			that will happen one day and you have
		
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			to
		
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			remember it somehow,
		
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			It was a graduation that was to be
		
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			remembered forever,
		
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			that the entire population of those, the entire
		
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			readers of the Quran until the day of
		
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			judgement
		
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			will continue to sing their graduation
		
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			RadiAllahu
		
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			Anhu Baradhu Anhu. Allah is pleased with them
		
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			and they are pleased with Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala.
		
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			This was their graduation.
		
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			So this is, you can give it the
		
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			name,
		
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			Jami e Tu Sufah,
		
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			Madras e Tu Sufah,
		
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			the Sufah University,
		
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			the Sufah College,
		
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			whatever you want to call it, give whatever
		
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			fancy name you want to it, but that
		
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			was it.
		
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			The one that Sufah which means
		
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			that platform. That was the crude,
		
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			essentially the setup,
		
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			but rich in content, rich in experience,
		
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			rich in benefits. And subhanAllah,
		
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			look at what they get,
		
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			Even prophets have been sent to study.
		
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			As
		
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			and the points that he derives from there,
		
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			it's amazing. Maybe for another time. But for
		
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			now all I will mention is that it
		
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			doesn't matter what age you are, what you're
		
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			doing,
		
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			dedicate some time to some serious study of
		
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			knowledge. Find some classes out there and Allah
		
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			has made it easy.
		
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			You know, Allah has made it easy in
		
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			this time
		
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			of dearth of scholars.
		
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			It is time when we don't have enough
		
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			scholars to go around and teach.
		
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			Well, in England we're blessed anyway, we have
		
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			that. But in America, for example, they don't
		
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			have that. And in some areas in England
		
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			we don't have that. But what we do
		
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			have, especially subhanAllah, in those places that are
		
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			deprived of ulema,
		
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			they have online
		
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			access.
		
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			You know, cheaper than anybody else.
		
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			More available than anybody else, like in American,
		
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			many western countries where there's maybe a dearth
		
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			of scholars, SubhanAllah.
		
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			So access online, this class is at your
		
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			disposal, put it on when you want. How
		
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			in history, if you told somebody in history,
		
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			you know, 2 centuries ago, that you can
		
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			make the Sheikh speak when you want, and
		
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			stop him when you want, rewind him when
		
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			you want.
		
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			They say, What are you talking about? Subha
		
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			Allah. What are you talking about? Can you
		
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			imagine it? In those days, the sheikh said
		
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			something, hundreds of people in the class, you
		
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			had to write it down or memorize it.
		
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			You lost it, you lost it. It. But
		
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			now you can rewind the shaykh,
		
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			take him back, start him again, listen to
		
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			him 10 times,
		
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			put him on repeat,
		
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			He's yours Allahu Akbar.
		
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			The shaykh is yours today,
		
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			do whatever you want with him, use him
		
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			Allahu Akbar, just don't abuse him.
		
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			So it's made it so much easier, so
		
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			much easier. So dedicate whatever time that you
		
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			have. May Allah
		
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			help us. May Allah help us. That's why
		
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			these are the
		
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			keep these points in mind. Why do you
		
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			wanna study knowledge? Right? I've got 6 points
		
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			for you.
		
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			6 is kind of like this magic number
		
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			you have a lot of 6 points right?
		
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			So this is a very important 6 points
		
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			as well.
		
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			Number 1, why would you study? Because it's
		
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			a worship.
		
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			Alright? It's worship. You will be rewarded for
		
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			every moment of your study if you have
		
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			the correct intention.
		
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			That's why Ulama said to study one new
		
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			Masala, one new
		
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			ruling is superior to a 100 Nawafid, 1000
		
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			Nawafid
		
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			because you can get that much closer to
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with that and avoid
		
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			harams and wrongs. So number 1 is worship.
		
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			Number 2 because I'll be rewarded for it.
		
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			So you're getting reward from Allah. Number 3,
		
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			because it will give me Ma'rifah. That has
		
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			to be one of the main pillars of
		
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			Ma'rifah of Allah. It'll give me recognition of
		
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			Allah, I'll begin to know Allah the more
		
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			I know.
		
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			Number 4,
		
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			I want to then convey it to others.
		
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			That's a huge benefit.
		
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			Others, it doesn't mean becoming a big shake
		
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			necessarily
		
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			to your children,
		
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			to your family,
		
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			you know, to other people, your friends, colleagues
		
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			or whatever.
		
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			Keep your broad mind, keep a broad mind
		
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			in this. Don't be restricted.
		
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			Number 5,
		
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			so that all of these creatures will do
		
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			is step far for me.
		
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			I get the reward of the angels, the
		
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			the the birds, and the and the fish
		
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			in the ocean. I don't mind that, SubhanAllah.
		
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			Right? And number 6,
		
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			have a intention of practicing upon the knowledge.
		
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			And if you have these 6 intentions,
		
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			it'll become easier for you.
		
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			Sit here,
		
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			whenever you hear this, make this knowledge, make
		
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			this intention, make these intentions.
		
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			And you will see that Allah inshaAllah makes
		
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			the path easy for you. Get the whole
		
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			family involved.
		
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			Allah make it easy. Allah accept us. Allah
		
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			accept us because on the day of judgement,
		
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			as many of the ulama have mentioned their
		
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			experiences,
		
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			one person, one great,
		
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			scholar was seen after his death
		
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			and somebody asked him what happened.
		
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			I think it was Imam Muhammad al Shaybaan
		
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			He said, Allah told me
		
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			that
		
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			if I wanted to deprive you and punish
		
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			you, I would never have given you the
		
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			knowledge that I gave you. Go into Jannah.
		
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			If I gave you knowledge in this world,
		
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			if I gave you that opportunity and that
		
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			ability,
		
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			and I gave you the opportunity to do
		
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			it, Obviously, I gave it to you for
		
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			a reason because Allah gives
		
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			this opportunity to people he loves. So ask
		
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			Allah for tawfiq
		
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			because this means inshallah guarantee
		
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			of Jannah inshallah.
		
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			Allah accept all of us.
		
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			The the question is that there's a balance.
		
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			Allah has placed a scale, a balance.
		
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			Essentially, this is the equilibrium of this world
		
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			where everything needs to stay in the way
		
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			that Allah has wants it to to stay.
		
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			Anybody who's tyrannical,
		
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			anybody who's excessive,
		
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			anybody who's oppressive
		
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			upsets that balance. Killing somebody unjustly is upsetting
		
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			that balance. Domestic abuse is upsetting that balance.
		
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			For a person to do Haram is upsetting
		
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			that balance. If a person is even sitting
		
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			in the confines of his home privately, it's
		
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			still upsetting the balance.
		
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			Right? Because the balance
		
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			is
		
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			pain free.
		
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			Well, when I say pain I mean,
		
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			perpetrated pain, it means
		
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			a sin free,
		
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			a virtue filled
		
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			dunya. That's the balance.
		
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			Did you understand? Anybody who goes against that
		
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			balance
		
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			will be upsetting that balance.
		
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			So the people who know what's right and
		
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			wrong and what Allah wants,
		
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			then they are obviously
		
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			helping to maintain that balance. That's where the
		
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			ulama come in. They have a better understanding
		
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			what's halal and haram,
		
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			Right? Sometimes a whole community may be doing
		
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			something Haram or maybe wrong or maybe blameworthy
		
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			and they don't know because
		
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			it's just become tolerated. It's the island who
		
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			will go and try to look at these
		
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			things and figure these things out.
		
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			Do you see what I'm saying? Just one
		
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			question from my sister. How do we, as
		
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			students know we are sincere or if we
		
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			are not?
		
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			Sincerity has to be learned. I mean this
		
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			is
		
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			sincerity
		
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			is a very difficult thing, right? But it's
		
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			not an impossible thing, but it has to
		
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			be learnt.
		
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			So it's just like sincerity, Shaitan is always
		
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			on our case.
		
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			We have to learn to defend ourselves from
		
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			Shaitan
		
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			corrupting our intention.
		
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			So when you start studying and you learn
		
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			something new, one thing that's going to happen
		
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			is knowledge. Al always
		
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			ascends,
		
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			rises.
		
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			So what it does to a human being
		
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			is
		
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			when you start you know,
		
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			I felt this myself. Right? You study something,
		
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			you've got your head around it, you go
		
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			outside, you think you're on top of the
		
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			world.
		
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			You think you're like, man, these guys are
		
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			all ignorant.
		
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			Right?
		
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			I'm
		
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			exaggerating it a bit. I'm exaggerating it a
		
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			bit. But
		
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			you actually feel super.
		
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			Like this is what knowledge does to you.
		
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			But it's supposed to do that in the
		
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			right way. It's supposed to make you closer
		
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			to Allah not make you arrogant.
		
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			That is one of the pitfalls, it's a
		
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			very very important question, right?
		
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			So
		
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			you never what the ulama mentioned is you
		
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			never abandon something because you think you don't
		
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			have Ikhlas.
		
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			That is what Shaytan wants.
		
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			Don't abandon it.
		
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			You start studying,
		
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			you may start thinking all of these things
		
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			or whatever, that's fine. Fight that thought
		
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			and try to correct that thought.
		
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			The way to correct that thought is look,
		
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			Allah is the one who gives me this
		
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			tawfiq to do this study and get this
		
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			exhilaration and all these benefits.
		
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			If it wasn't for Allah I wouldn't have
		
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			done it. So is it me doing it
		
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			or is it Allah?
		
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			As soon as you start understanding that Allah
		
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			is in the picture here, he's the one
		
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			behind all of this, what's the point of
		
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			being arrogant? Allah could give this to somebody
		
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			else?
		
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			So thank Allah, shukar
		
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			shukar
		
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			shukar. Thank Allah for he's doing this. Now
		
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			still, Shaytan will keep coming and encroaching, you
		
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			just keep doing that, you just keep orienting
		
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			yourself. It keeps going wrong, you keep getting
		
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			right. And eventually you will notice that one
		
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			day you will be more right than wrong,
		
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			you'll be more clear and less polluted.
		
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			And that is when you know that you're
		
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			getting somewhere but don't ever leave it because
		
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			you're never going to learn Ikhlas without
		
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			the trial,
		
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			without training yourself. You can't say I'm gonna
		
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			pull this many weights and never train for
		
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			it. Do you understand? You have to get
		
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			into the field and start training for it.
		
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			Otherwise, you'll never learn your Ikhlas and ask
		
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			Allah for Ikhlas.