Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Surat alTakathur Explained (Tafsir)

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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The Surah is a way to avoid distraction and avoid distraction, and is linked to various topics such as the concept of the heart, the concept of the body, and the god. It is important to invest in one's wealth and not just recite birthday celebrations. The importance of focusing on the heart and not just focusing on "weft" or "weaving" is emphasized, as distractions can be a possibility. The segment also emphasizes the importance of reading the Quran and surrounding the realities of the day to benefit from meditation.
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi wa Salatu was Salam

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ala so you did mursaleen while he was so happy about Rocco a seldom

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at the Sleeman Kathira on laomi deen and buried

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all the below him in a shape on your rajim Bismillah AR Rahman AR

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The moon so Michael sofa tartelette Moon

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gala low 30 The moon are equally appealing lateral one Alger Haim

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thumb, one are you nearly upping some mulatos Arun Nayar will may

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even earn in three.

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So, the cola will I'll leave

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this surah

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is

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particularly the themes of the surah famous Surah as we all know

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it by heart, the famous theme of this surah number of things, it is

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there to warn, it is there to promise

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it's there to exhort, and possibly frighten, wake up.

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And if a person just understands and comprehend the message of the

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Surah, it's probably sufficient for them.

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The nature of the human being is that

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those moments of realization and open heartedness when something

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just go when a particular Naseeha or a council or an

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a mo either find its place in the hearts, our hearts unfortunately,

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is just not open enough. This is the

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Allah subhanaw taala obviously knows this. So that's why there

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are so many different forms of Mo either in the Quran

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so that if when we read a particular type of counsel or a

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particular theme in the Quran, a particular story or particular

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promise

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and our heart is not open then then maybe it's going to be open

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in the second one. If it's not open there, then maybe in the

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third one,

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but this one is such that GAFA behemoth or either Lehman aka it

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is sufficient for the ones who understand it. Who will understand

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it is obviously by way of

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having the heart open. So for example, let's just look at the

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first word here. And her COMM And her comm attacker for Al her comm

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attacker.

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Al HERC al her comes from Allah you'll heal her.

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There's two concepts in the Quran. One is law and this law law is

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when you use the bodily parts, in mundane activities in waste of

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time. So Larry is a physical action

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and law who is and that the same kind of action but of the heart.

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So Allahu Allah is when the heart is engrossed in the mundane,

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whereas law is when the external part of the body is engrossed in

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the light. So that's why it says law who will alert him when the

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heart and life but Allah is worse. Lucha is worse because sometimes,

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externally, you could seem like you're involved in some kind of

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mundane activity, but your heart is connected to Allah subhanaw

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taala difficult, but that's a possibility. Whereas when the

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heart is disengaged, then there's no point of the body than doing

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anything because it's the heart that really matters. In that case,

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Allah is worse. And that's where you get her come meaning and how

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come is more transitive, meaning he means to make you heedless. So

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at MacArthur has made you heedless, has disengaged you from

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Allah has engaged you in other than Allah, these are all the

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meanings of L her comm so l her COMM

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And the other thing is that

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you could be disengaged from Allah subhanho wa Taala or from any

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purpose and that would still be ill her right that would still be

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ill her but Ilha is for two reasons.

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One is a valid reason. You have an excuse for why you are disengaged

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from Allah subhanaw taala. The other one is when there is no

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excuse. And that's the important one. That's the critical one. So

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it's shahada come Allah wedge him lead to Arun. This is this the

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catheter which means abundance, the catheter means to want

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abundance to just want lots of obviously the dunya

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in a way that you're not excused for it, because it will hurt just

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means to be disengaged, have something heedless of something.

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Now, if it's

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if a person is disengaged from Allah subhanaw taala

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Build cost, which means purposely

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is taking on something purposely,

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then that is where the problematic, that's the

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problematic one, if it's below the custom, if it's without that, for

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example as Allah subhana wa as the prophets, Allah Larson once said,

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you know, he had a really nice sheet, HMI so he had a really nice

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garment or some some clothing. And he said, in NA l honey, Ernie for

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nine and Salah T. It just distracted me from my prayer. It

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distracted me from my prayer. His job is not to look at sheets. His

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job is not to inspect clothing. This was a distraction. For a

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moment to understand. This was a distraction.

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Not a voluntary one, but an involuntary one. And the prophets

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of Allah Islam confessed that he said that it just distracted me

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from my salad that's involuntary, that is not necessarily Mahalik

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the cliff, that's not necessarily which we will be seized upon. Not

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necessarily I say, right. Whereas when you start inspecting garments

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and clothing or anything else for that matter, and that distracts

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you from our prayer,

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then in that case, that is definitely a problematic one.

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Because the one way it just distracts you quickly, and you

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know, you're not intending that that's called Lucien. You just

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forget that you should have been in your prayer, but that's

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distracted me or I am in my prayer, but I should be focused on

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Allah instead of that. There's another Hadith and he says, Fela

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and his sabe

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narration of Buhari that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa

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sallam became a bit absent minded about a distracted again, from the

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child, he forgot that he was with the child, you know, when somebody

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is supposed to look after the chanson, you get so engrossed in

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something that you forget.

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So that means once you understand all of these definitions, alert

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them with the curtain

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is in the negative sense, it's something bad. It is that it is

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trying to criticize those who have been distracted because this

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distraction is purposeful. It is not just an purposeful. The word

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the catheter that's used here also is very particular, because the

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catheter is from the viral in Arabic, which means to kind of

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compete with each other, it shows a kind of a competition and

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interaction with another person or something else. So Gazzara just

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means abundance. The Cathal means to try to be abundant over the

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other. So it's talking about trying to compete, it's the human

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nature to do this. Sometimes we would never know that we should do

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this or that unless we see somebody else doing it. Somebody

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mentioned the pleasure of something, somebody mentions the

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benefits of something, somebody mentioned the good qualities of

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something and then we want that thing as well. Otherwise, we were

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satisfied with what we had, suddenly they've taken you a notch

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higher. So then we need to get more for that. So we tried to get

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that then that's where you get hooked on with the cursor. So the

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catheter this state has corrupted us, it has distracted us. Now the

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other thing that it tells us here, the prophets Allah Allah, Allah

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subhanho wa Taala keeps Dhaka for general, that abundance or seeking

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abundance has made you heedless, seeking abundance in what

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and heedless from what of course heedless from ALLAH SubhanA wa

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Tada. But seeking abundance in what leaves that general this is

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the way of the Quran, this is you know, when you say

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it has distracted you, it leave it to your imagination, what is

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distracting you, because if it specified it, it has to have a

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whole list. And in that list, that list may not be exhaustive, you

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know, when we speak. And then you might say, Well, my point doesn't

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my distraction doesn't feature here. So this way, it leaves it

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up, up, leaves it open for more effects. So this is way more

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effective. This is when you call her the phone, where this is what

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you call eliminating something to create more impact, because

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mentioning it will be more restricting. Whereas if you left

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it general, it's actually more universal, and it can apply to way

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more situate a lot more situations.

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Essentially, it's referring to anything that is going to distract

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a servant from Allah subhanho wa Taala that is what it's going to

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be so anything, anything, anything

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except the obedience of Allah and His Messenger, and anything that

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will be of benefit for your hereafter. If you're not engrossed

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in that then and you're engrossed and engaged and distracted by

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anything else. Now one is that you know, we have to do certain other

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things away from the Dhikr of Allah subhanaw taala. The other

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one is that

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You become engrossed. Catherine, Allah subhanaw taala is making a

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statement here. He is describing something he said, This is what

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happens to you, you get involved so much in these other things that

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it takes you away from Allah subhanho wa taala.

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So what is the Catherine what, for example, seeking an abundance in

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anything to do with either wealth, gaining honor, respect position,

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right?

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Or gaining just going after marriages, for example, going

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after Subhanallah going just liking to talk or just seeking

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knowledge, seeking even knowledge? Right doing lots and lots of

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research.

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And you're not focused on Allah subhanaw taala. This is the this

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is where it's very important to understand this. Just because a

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person is involved in a Dini work, right, whether he is writing

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books, giving lectures, Imam of the masjid Schakel Hadith, or

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whatever the case is a big jurists sitting in a double Iftar all day

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looking for fatawa. Right, an academic, you know, in his office

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just researching on a particular issue going to great depths, they

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are not even excused from this. Because what are they doing? Why

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are they doing it? What is the intention? And is that taking them

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away from the, from the real worship? Or is this worship for

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them?

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Now, the good thing is that this can be worship for them if they

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have the right intention. But this can also not be a worship for them

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if they don't have the right intention. So if such people are

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not excused, then what about the rest of us who are not even

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involved in the network, and our whole purpose is to get something

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else.

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It's all about the objective. But if such people even the so called

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Allah ma are not

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excused from this possibility, then what about other people, this

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shows you the gravity of this. That's why it says attacker

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through will go to be worth the money for cathro tool, Messiah

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ill, what the attack, the free our Tolia

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all of these things, you know, somebody's sitting there writing

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lots of books, reading lots of books, mosyle, etc. Same thing.

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At MacArthur is a global module in your corner accelerometer at the

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catheter. That means it just means that a person wants it that he be

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more than another. He has more than another. He said he surpasses

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another.

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This is always going to be negative and looked down upon

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unless a person wants to do this for the sake of Allah. If he wants

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abundance so that he can get closer to Allah. That's the only

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only healthy competition

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in a positive sense.

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So the real McArthur should be manava certain Phil Hyatts vying

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with each other in goodness who can do better. That's why there's

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a hadith in Sahih Muslim from Abdullah Hema Shakira the Allahu

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Anhu says that

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he wants reach the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam while

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he was reciting Hola, como taka

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and then the Prophet sallallahu sallam was saying in his

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in his Tafseer of this, he's saying, You're Kulu Adam, Marley,

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Marley, the son of Adam is saying, This is my wealth, this is my

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wealth, looking at his wealth, what else I can get? This is what

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I have. Well, halacha me Malik Illa Mata so doctor for under

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eight o'clock at night,

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I will have Mr. ablate. He says, whereas the truth is that your

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wealth is only that which You gave sadaqa and you sent it forward,

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you preserved it, you've looked after it, or you consumed and

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thus, you've

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disposed of it, it's gone. Right? Or you wore it and thus worn wore

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it out. You bought garments with it, and you're worried about

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that's essentially what it is. Wealth is to be used.

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Don't and this is economics as well, except that the the advice

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is different. But in terms of economics, lying, having money

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lying around in a bank doesn't get you anything, invest it.

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So here it's also about investment. Don't just do the

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clear, but invest in the right way. That's basically what it is.

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May Allah subhanaw taala protect us from

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the throw in anything else? Because this is extremely

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insightful

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of what is heedless and how it makes us heedless. The next point

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I want to bring today is about

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a slightly different thing, which is

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placing everything in the right eye

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position.

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This is something which is important in the world for us to

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place everything in the right place

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to have a specific place for everything that we do. Now, this

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is very general not just placing objects in places, but just in

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general, in every aspect, this refers to both intangible and

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tangible opposite objects. This refers to believe this refers to

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doctrine, this refers to Aqeedah, and so on, so forth, as well. So

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what I'm trying to say now is, if the heart is filled with the vein,

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in terms of belief, and love, so we believe that there's other

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things that can benefit us. And we love those things, we just love to

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enjoy and party, just love to enjoy going here and there. Just

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love to enjoy going out to eat, or our cars, or our clothing, or our

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whatever it may be our jobs or money or investing or whatever the

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case may be, then there will be no place left in it

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for the hack,

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in terms of belief in the hack, and love for the hack. Because

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everything in this world

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has a locus, a place where it's subsist in, and

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only one thing can subsist in any one place.

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For example, if you take the most simple and simplest excuse,

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example of a bowl,

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a bowl, you can put tea in there, you can put milk in there, or you

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can put some dirty water in there.

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Now once it has milk inside,

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and if you want to add anything else, then you can add it, but

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there's already milk in there. But that milk will get polluted,

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polluted.

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If you have something else in there already, and then you want

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to put pure milk inside, you wouldn't want to do that anyway.

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Right. So they can only be one place for anything. That's that's

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the point here. So for example, let's take the examples. If you

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take the Tunc

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if you engage that, in speaking about non beneficial matters, it

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will then not be able to speak about beneficial matters.

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Because clearly you are wasting your time. So then how you're

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going to engage, you can't do two things with your tongue at the

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same time. You can't be speaking about good and bad at the same

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time.

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Likewise,

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every part of the body, if it's engaged in other than obedience,

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then it will not be able to be engaged in obedience. For example,

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you're wasting your entire day, many hours of your day playing

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computer games, for example, or just watching things that are just

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of no benefit whatsoever. That how can you use your body than doing

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something else?

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I mean, these are just very clear facts they just been mentioned and

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just to bring to our consciousness, but otherwise,

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they're very clear points.

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So for us to be able to do anything for Allah subhanaw taala

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with the same limbs, then they have to be freed from other

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things. Likewise, if that's the case of the body, which is a clear

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example, likewise is the heart which is a bit more difficult

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example. Because we feel that we can think about so many different

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things, we can harbor so many different thoughts in our mind.

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Yes, we can. But those are just traces, what is the main focus of

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our hearts, and our mind, with the body is clear can really just do

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doing one thing properly once.

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So likewise, is the heart that is distracted from the Mahabharata of

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Allah subhanho wa Taala by anything else,

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it is not possible to then engage it with the Mahabharat of Allah,

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and what Allah wills from us, and His love and to desire to meet him

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and everything else is just a false claim them that even if you

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do claim while we're engaged in other things,

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likewise the Halacha to listen basically he you can't do that you

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can't move your mouth in the remembrance of Allah. If you're

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it's doing something else. Likewise, you can't put your limbs

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our limbs to the service of Allah subhanho wa Taala unless we

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disengage them from other things.

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For either I'm taller Attila Kulu be surely Bill Mark looky if the

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hearts become filled with becoming occupied with the created matters

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when the Illuminati law 10 facts and knowledge sciences

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that do not benefit lamium Coffee ha mold their own Leisha

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Willoughby Allah he will defer to asthma he was he 30 years ago me

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then there will be no time in the heart there will be no place in

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the heart left to occupied with Allah subhanaw taala knowing

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really getting to know His names when he's I know them who Allah

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Allah de la ilaha illa who Rahman Rahim al medic, but that's not

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that's just a window to it.

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to know His names, his attributes, His aka His commands, there'll be

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no time for that.

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The secret of all of this, the crux of all of this is that

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we understand it by the ear, we understand it with the example of

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the ear, but we don't understand it from the heart. But he says an

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SR, lb is raw, il Odin.

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You know, when you give your ear to something, we understand that

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when you give your ear to something, you can hear it. Now

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imagine this five different conversations taking place of

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different people speaking, or even two different conversations taking

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place, we cannot get both properly, you might get a bit here

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and a bit there. But you can't get both properly. That's the human

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being. So you have to do is love is a means to give ear properly.

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So you will then say, Let me listen carefully, or let's imagine

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you're on the phone and there's people talking around you, and

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you're getting distracted, then eventually, you'll put the phone

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closer to your ears, you may block your other ear, and then you will

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try to give ear with one ear. But the heart is the same way you

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saying we don't think the heart is like that. But the heart is the

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same way it works that same way.

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Because if the heart is occupied with other than the words of Allah

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subhanho, wa taala, then there will be no attention left in the

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heart for anything else. So if we are attentive to listening to

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something else, like you got headphones on, and you're

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listening away at something, then you will have no ear left to

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listen to anything that's going on around you. There's somebody's

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telling you something or whatever the case is, you're not giving

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here.

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Likewise is with the huts. It will not have any

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concentration Allah for anything else, and you won't understand

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anything else.

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Just like the heart, if it turns to loving something else,

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occupying the hearts, then it will have no inclination to Allah

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subhanaw taala Yes, as a belief, we have it as a desire, we have

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it, but not a real, the heart is really occupied somewhere else.

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It's like somebody calls himself a Muslim, but he's going out and

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physically doing something that's different to that. Now, isn't that

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a possibility? You see so many people doing that, we do that, you

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know. So if that's the same thing with the heart, so if the heart is

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then calling out something else, then it will have no place to call

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out the name of Allah. Now you understand why we have problems in

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our meditation.

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Because our hearts are so strongly used to doing something else. It's

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like this, you know, once I went to a, a factory, weaving factory,

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they,

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they produced textiles, this was in Delhi.

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And they did it kind of the old style is not fully automated. Yes,

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they've got the looms, they've got the weaving machines, and much of

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it is, you know, movement. But there's a guy there, what you have

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to do is you have the weft. So you have the the threads running this

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way, then you have to have the other threads going this way. It's

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woven. So I forget what it's called is weft and something

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right? Anyway.

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So

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in order to get all of those threads together, connect them

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because you've got a reel of threads. And then they finished

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before they finished have to quickly put new threads on. And in

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order to do that you have to join them up, how are you going to join

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them up, so they don't have any, they don't have a automated method

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for that. So literally what they've got is they've got a guy

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there. He's got about 100 200 300, you know, 300 threads coming in a

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belt that he's wearing there. Like he's literally just standing

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there. And he's going

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right, and he does it so fast. Like in a second he's probably

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tying two threads, you know, to two of those threads together. And

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then another one another one another one another one. Now his

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he's fully occupied in that

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his full occupation is that how is he going to be doing anything

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else? He's so used to doing that.

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There's another guy I remember when I was studying in Syria, in

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the market outside the souk himedia, which was outside of the

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Omo e mosque, I had to go through there every day to go to the

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sheikh. Right because it was on the other side. And that was the

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only way to go. So you just had to rush through this market is this

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you know, kind of covered market. And there's always this one guy on

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the right towards the end was saying some kind of clothing or

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garments or something. And I can't remember there's one word that

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he's just constantly say, I don't know for how many hours in the day

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you would say this at least 10 hours because he's you know, those

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markets are they they work all day and then they probably go home to

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just sleep. Right? Probably 810 12 hours. That's the same word he

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would be saying. And I used to always wonder man, what is he

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going to say in his grave? Allah, Allah bless him, but what is he

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going to say? This is just the hair. This is just the right

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thing. If somebody is occupied like that, what else are you going

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to do? That's why once you're occupied with something of that

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nature, even with the huts, you become so used to it that becomes

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second nature to

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It is very difficult to do something else. That's why the

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distraction that we have in our meditation is because we occupied

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with so many things about content. That's why in our salah, those

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occupations come first. And the only reason we realize it then is

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because that's the only time we're conscious of what our heart is

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doing. At any other time, we don't even realize what our heart is

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conscious of. Because we're not focusing on our heart, we're

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focusing on the deed that our heart is taking us to. But it's

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when we then start inspecting the heart in Salah, where is my heart,

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then you realize that I can't help thinking about other things.

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That's because I do it 24 hours. Now in that five minutes of my

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salah when I wanted to focus on something else is difficult,

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because 24 hours 23 And so many hours, we've been focused on

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certain things. So how can you change it for five minutes.

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So the whole point of the meditation is to get us to start

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focusing minute by minute, until it becomes hour by hour to hour.

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Eventually you end up with kalbi. That's the whole point of it. You

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can't get work of Colby without doing this first because it's

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difficult, generally speaking,

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and then we sit for five minutes or maraca, we get distracted in

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that we think, forget it, it's not worth it, because there's no

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concentration. So I'm wasting my time. How else are you going to

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gain concentration?

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If it's not through this when else because there's no other time of

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the day when we're conscious of what's going on in our hearts. So

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our heart is occupied with whatever it's conscious about, but

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we only feel it when we start focusing of where we are

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concentrating on. So most of us don't even know that we

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concentrate on other things, because we just doing it all the

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time. That's why there's a sahih Hadith from the Sunnah allah

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Buhari, et cetera, Muslim, it says

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that I am telling you, Joe, who had at hand had diarrhea, how you

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don't know who mean I am telling you I share on the interior,

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Sharon, which means that for the insight, and the reason why some

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didn't say hot here, he didn't say the chest here, he said Joseph.

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And Joseph means the inner cavity. So that's beyond just the chest

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and the whole inner cavity is better for your inner cavity for

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anybody's inner cavity to be filled with pus until it fully

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takes over everything. It is better for that to happen than

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that it be filled with poetry.

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Now, this isn't condemnation for poetry that distracts not natural

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good poetry. But because poetry has the ability to distract. Today

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that might be confusing for most of us, because we're not into

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poetry. But the same thing like anything else that distracts just

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watching YouTube all day.

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Very, very addictive. So for the heart to be filled with pus is

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better than for it to be filled with that kind of distraction.

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For the whole insight, this is what the Prophet sallallahu sallam

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said, But he tells us through this hadith, that there's a possibility

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for the whole insight to be filled with something.

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It's a real concept, it's a real idea, it will overtakes you,

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that's why we find it so difficult to spend five minutes focusing on

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something else, which is Allah, so the real purpose.

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So that's why

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if the heart can be filled, or if the inner, inner, inner faculties,

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inner cavity can be filled with poetry, right? If that's what the

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prophets, Allah, some said, then it can our hearts can be filled

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with distractions, with doubts with

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just other imaginations and fancies that have no real

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existence, or, or even knowledge that is of no benefit to people.

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There are so many people who think that they need to be wise, so they

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just need to read a lot. Yes, reading a lot is good as long as

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done for the right purpose. They've reading a lot is just to

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know more, and it doesn't take you closer to Allah subhanaw taala and

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you're sitting in a library all day long.

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Illuminati Latin for it's a possibility that overcome you. Any

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of this is a possibility. El MUFA Hertl mood Heckert while Hikayat

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just watching soap operas all day, just we're just reading novels all

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day. It's another one just reading large, large novels, you know,

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whole sagas, you know, whole series are just watching serial,

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you know, dramas, or documentaries or anything of that nature. And

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all of these things have that ability to, to engross a person

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and captivate a person. You read one novel, you want to do it

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again, because you've just had that ending. You've just had the

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climax. Now it needs to happen again. So you're looking for that

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next novel, is has the ability to do that to us.

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So when the Hardy says what you then tell her to calm

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Be 32 haka equal Quran Allah Allah Milla de como la who was added to

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firm digit fee for offered and what are Qubool. And so when the

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heart becomes occupied with all of these things, and then the person

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does read the Quran, sometimes the reality of the Quran will not open

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up to him because the heart is engaged somewhere else, it's not

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interacting with the Quran, the Quran requires full interaction,

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then it will open up to you.

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And you can dive into the Quran as much as your ability is as much

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air and ability that you have. So when the heart is filled with

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everything else other than the Quran, the realities of the Quran

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will not open up the you won't get the fortune of the Quran, you

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won't have time to really understand it and really benefit

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from it. For example, if you're trying to advise somebody who is

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so occupied in something else,

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if you're trying to advise somebody who is just totally

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knocked out with something else, where is it going, it's going to

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rebound.

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It's going to rebound of that person, it's going to go beyond

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that person is going to bounce off his head and go somewhere else.

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Likewise is what's happening to us. The Quran is sending out all

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of these, you know, vibes, all of these great things, but our heart

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is to fill that even when we're reading the Quran. We can't take

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it in because we're focused on something else. That's why a poet

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says

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nursing the Quran Seiwa Anna Nazir for the ncwa Anna

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Telangana

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for Jana buena, held on Nikolay Manasa he was sobro the last month

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leekens In Licon leekens He was Lena

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for subroutine for subroutine lessman. Lick lick Kenzi we saw

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Alina, Man Hello, Man Hello that no man Hello that the less me is

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quite a complicated man Hala that the less me further because he he

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it says

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free your heart, free your inner heart from other than us. And you

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will find us

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in a heart for ad for ad is the depth of the heart, the kernel of

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the heart for ad, it's called and then you have AD read the inner

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heart. So clear your inner heart from other than us. And you will

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find us because for Jana Guna, our presence is permitted for anybody

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who wants to come. Anybody who wants to take part in it sober and

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patience is the secret alchemy is your secret tool, you can say

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to gain the treasure of acquiring us of reaching us or soil. And

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whoever becomes a person, whoever becomes a possessor of that secret

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tool, then he will

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he will be successful with the treasure.

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So essentially, that's what it is. It's about cutting through our

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occupations, and our abundance and everything else that we have. And

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now this also tells us why we find it so difficult to focus for 510

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minutes. And the only way out of this is to focus for 510 minutes,

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whether that takes you three months to get that focus, or it

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takes you six months, it takes you a year to get the focus, it takes

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you two years to get the focus, but we're on the right path.

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Because that five minutes of focus that you will get out of 15

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minutes of sitting or half an hour of sitting is more valuable than

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everything else you'll probably do in the day. It's more valuable

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because it is taking us back to who we're supposed to be focused

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on. And if this is the case with the dunya today of people being so

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dis focused from Allah subhanaw taala then why doesn't His mercy

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come? What does that a question anymore? It's May Allah subhanaw

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taala help us alone and to sit down and to sit and develop the

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heterogeneity when you've grown?

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Along suddenly we're ascending right so you didn't know him at

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early so you didn't know Mohammed alberic was salam. O Allah excepto

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adorers O Allah accept our hearts Oh ALLAH purify our hearts our

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love. We asked you forgiveness for our sins, forgiven forgiveness for

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our distractions, forgiveness for our occupations with everything

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besides you. of Allah for five minutes we can't sit and focus on

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you completely. Oh Allah we are distracted by so many thoughts of

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Allah give us a realization and the reality of these things so

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that we can focus on what is right for us. Allah allow us to focus in

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your always Allah allow us to focus on your always allow the Huq

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allow the reality to hit our hearts to take over our hearts

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over Allah O Allah make this an eye opener for us. Allah Allah

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Allah give us its significance and it's understanding Oh Allah

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forgive us our sins this life of sins and occupation distraction,

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disengagement which has

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has corrupted our heart which is made the way it is so that even

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when we sit down to focus on you, we can't do it. Or Allah even when

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we sit down to focus on you, we can't do it. Oh Allah so in our

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normal daily states, our condition is even worse than when we sit

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down. We can't do it. When we're in our prayer, we think of

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everything else. Oh Allah, we ask for your assistance, because it's

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only you that can assist us and help us only you that can help us

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and assist us of Allah. There's no other way to come out of this hole

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of Allah. There's no other way to come out of this state of

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heedlessness. Oh Allah we ask you for Wilaya we ask you for your

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closeness. We ask you for your care of Allah we ask You for Your

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protection. or Allah we ask you for your mercy and your compassion

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of Allah we ask You for Your mercy and compassion. We ask You for

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Tofik Allah we ask you for Tofik O Allah if our life goes like this,

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our life our life is finished like this. And this is the state in

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which we die then how can we even gain the Kalima? Oh Allah when we

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sit to focus for five minutes we don't can't even remember you in

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that time of Allah then imagine in a critical time when we need to

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remember you. Oh Allah, Oh Allah, forgive us. Oh Allah protect us

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from an evil seeming state. Allah grant us a blessing exceeding

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state of Allah make our surroundings such that they remind

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us of you Oh Allah grant us good company grant us good friends so

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Allah grant us good company or Allah grant us good company. Oh

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Allah make us all worthy of being your true servants

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of Allah blesses, oh Allah bless our family. So Allah bless the

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Muslim ummah, Allah bless the Muslim ummah, oh Allah bless the

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Muslim ummah or Allah turn us all to you turn us all to you. Oh

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Allah righteous all to be from genital fear dos Jannatul hold

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with Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa salam, O Allah send you

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abundant blessings on our messenger Muhammad sallallahu

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alayhi wa sallam, allow all the tasks that we have in front of us

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to be facilitated and easy and be guided to us for all of us. Or

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Allah blessed us in all of our in all in all of our permissible

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needs and fulfill our permissible needs on all of our projects that

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we have in our mind. Oh Allah bless us in that regard of Allah,

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O Allah, O Allah, we ask for your connection and your love and the

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love of those who love you whose loved benefits us in your court of

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Allah grant us such people around us Subhan Allah be kirribilli ICTR

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mio see foon Westerdam whenever the Motor City you know Al hamdu

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lillahi rabbil aalameen

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