Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The Blessing of the Divine Veil [Hikam 131 & 134]

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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The importance of acceptance and acceptance is crucial for success in prayer, but also for personal growth. The speaker discusses the negative consequences of not accepting acceptance and being present for events, and the importance of acceptance and acceptance in shaping one's actions and praising others. The segment also touches on the confusion surrounding Islam and its impact on people, and the importance of honesty in worship. The importance of praise and honesty in worship is emphasized, and everyone should praise the person who is kind and shows respect.
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa

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salatu salam ala UD mursaleen while he

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also be Oba raka was seldom at the Sleeman Cathy Iran. Li Yomi Deen

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Amma bad

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we move on with our series on the HECM of a pinata Allah al

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Eskandari Rahim Allah Allah, may Allah have great mercy on him. So

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in his next wisdom, which is number 131, he says, very

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interesting he says Lola Jimmy last Saturday he lent me a canal

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Milan Island lil Kubo COBOL

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Lola Jamie last Saturday he lemmya Kannamma Loon, a Helen lil Kabuli.

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What that means is, were it not for the kindness of his veiling?

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Were it not for the kindness of his veiling? No deed would be

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worthy of acceptance.

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If there was no veiling from him and covering of our defects, our

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wrongdoings, our shortcomings,

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then none of the deeds that we do would be worthy of acceptance.

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This is extremely powerful, this idea is extremely powerful,

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especially if we have issues with getting a bit arrogant and bloated

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by a few good things that we do the few good things that we get

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the divine enablement to do sometimes Allah gives us the feet

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to do a few good things here and there. And we get so excited about

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it. We think that we've done a lot, we think that we've

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accomplished a lot. So that's the benefit of reading, ignore

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tireless work, if you go through the entire book, it will, and

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focus on it and try to implement it, it will really refine our

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worship, like you will get inshallah we'll get the balance,

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that's why people have just loved it. So, the reason is that

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what why is this the case, any action, which is worthy of being

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accepted, right, that should be accepted that's entitled to be

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accepted by Allah subhanaw taala is the one in which all the

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conditions for acceptance are found. So if all the conditions

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for acceptance are found in something, then it can be

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accepted?

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And what are the conditions of acceptance? The conditions of

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acceptance, number one is the secret of a class sincerity purely

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focused on Allah, nothing else will hire to do two things. Cyril

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class, and vital Hodor, which means absolute presence, what is

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you're doing it for Allah, only for Allah, and no one else? No

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adulteration in that at all. And the other one is, you're

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absolutely present when you're doing it as an offering.

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So if I come to give you something, and I kind of like

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to say, hey, just take this, just take this, and I'm looking

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somewhere else, I'm on my phone, you're going to be like, Okay, I

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gave you something. But

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it's going to feel like you kind of gave it half heartedly you got

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something else that's more important for you to focus on.

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Right? There's something more important for you to focus on.

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That's why you kind of just gave it to me quickly. Whereas if I

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have presence and like,

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you know, this is especially for you make a specific focus. And

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that's why we have all the conditions in our prayer and

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everything else, of facing a certain direction, not just

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randomly praying in any direction, seeing it in a particular way.

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It's to force us to do the other and the etiquette required for

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Allah subhanaw taala. So those are the two main things, you have a

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class in something, and you have an extreme level of presence, when

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you're offering that ubaidah to Allah, those are the conditions.

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Yes. So if those conditions are met, Allah will accept them.

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Whatever reefy hymnal holy will cool.

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And

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also, at the same time to feel that you have absolutely no power

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or strength to do this act, except with Allah, or to stay away from

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not doing it except by Allah. This is basically what

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will give something cool and acceptance.

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So what he's then saying is that this is extremely difficult to get

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all of these conditions fully, we might have all of the conditions

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in some way or the other, but not fully.

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So that's why if it was then not for Allah subhanho wa Taala His

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grace and His Generosity upon us by veiling us by veiling us and

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say okay, I'll overlook that. He will overlook our evil deeds, due

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to his huge amount of generosity that he gives us, then there would

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absolutely be no action that would be acceptable.

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There will

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be no action acceptable,

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because we're going to have some shortcoming or the other. We're

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just so distracted. We're just not as pure, maybe very few times were

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able to, if ever,

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however, Allah subhanho wa Taala does this amazing thing. Firstly,

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Minobu the llama. Firstly, he gives us the ability to do the

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action.

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He allows us to be one of those who established the prayer to give

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that charity. Then after that,

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he favors us on top of that, with accepting it from us by ignoring

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the problems and the shortcomings.

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Some of the scholars said,

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if you look at it in truth, if you look behind everything, ma Hoonah

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aka Illa fabuleux. There's actually nothing out there except

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his grace.

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Because even us doing the action in the first place is from his

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grace, He allowed us to do it, as opposed to everybody else that's

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not doing it.

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So there's nothing really except his grace anyway. And we don't

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live. We don't spend our life except in his veil.

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If his veil was to be lifted, we couldn't live this life. That's

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why well, Kashia fella they thought Lakeisha and amber in

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Aleem had he was he to where he to remove that veil, then we don't

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know what would be revealed of us. Thank you, Allah. You're here if

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no one else says Radi Allahu Anhu says miskeen Hypno. Adam, if not

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Adam is a destitute, the son of Adam is a destitute, extremely

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needy individual. Why Giesemann Marieb were called been married.

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He's got a body that's defective. And he's got a heart which is

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defective. And you're either a younger age I mean, are you buying

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here I'm gonna be live.

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And he is got a heart that's defective. He's got a body that's

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defective from these two defective parts. He wants to produce an

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action which is without defect.

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How is that even possible? That's obviously his remark. That's why

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Allah subhanaw taala says

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hula equals Medina networkable 1x anima Amuro. These are the people

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whom we accept the best of what they do. We accept the best of

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what they do. So it's up to Allah subhanaw taala to accept and how

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do you not feel less than we will no got anywhere.

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So the way he said it as well Hola. Hola, the Netta Caballo. And

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home as opposed to min home in Arabic, there's the difference

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between the and home is saying we'll just let them go. We'll just

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accept it from them. As opposed to minimum which is more closer. Like

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from them, we'll accept it from them like that. It's like we'll

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accept it on their behalf.

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Let it go. It's good enough, you didn't fill it in properly, but

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we'll just accept it.

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If you want it to be strict, remember, sometimes you go to some

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offices, they want you to fill in the form, especially some of these

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visa places third world countries, they you don't even know what the

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those forms say. Right. And then they're so strict about

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everything.

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Subhanallah something else which has been transmitted is that L

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Bella. Bella will have our Warszawa to match junortoun

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between them.

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That tests desire, lust was all mixed up in

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our clay that we made from so we're going to deal with that it's

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just part of our life. And Allah says in a HELOC bundle insert, I

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mean not fit in I'm charging nepta Lee that we created. We created

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the inside from a notebook from a clot and from from a from a fluid

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drop. And we're going to test him

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a lot mixed and mixed with test desires. Last that's that's that's

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what it is. It's gonna have to come from us these things that's

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why we're going to have a challenge in our life to produce

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anything purely.

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So when it mounts becomes clearly established that that's our

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nature. And that's our offering that's our weakness that we're

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going to have issues regardless then we're just not going to be

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entitled for acceptance none of our actions are entitled for

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acceptance. That's why

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if it is not for Allah subhanaw taala has beautiful veil on us. We

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we need his clemency we need his forbearance we need his generosity

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that's why there's another HECM in which he says under ILA Hilmi he

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either authority who or what do you mean K he either I'll say the

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who,

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which basically means that you are more in need of his clemency his

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forbearance.

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So, when you worship Him, when you obey Him, then when you actually

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disobey Him, we've covered this before, so I won't go into it

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again, but that links to this. So this is what Sheikh Abdullah can

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go, he says about this, he says,

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Only a deed entirely devoid of any ego artistic contamination

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deserves to be accepted. Like if you look at it, strictly speaking,

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you fulfill the conditions, then we'll accept it, if you've got

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even a slight less, we're not going to accept it, that Allah can

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do that with absolute justice in that regard.

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Regardless of the degree of adornment and purification of the

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ego, there will always remain to some extent the ego in the self,

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even though this may not be discernible. The ego by nature is

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an embodiment of evil.

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It is because of Allah's grace and kindness, though, that the evil

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and the sins of the servants are overlooked, and concealed by

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Allah. He shows great forbearance by withholding his punishment from

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the sinful servants. Above all, he accepts the servants defective

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deeds. And in reality, nobody's deeds deserve acceptance in his

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lofty court, because the threshold is very high. How can how can we

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produce something as defective human beings that would be worthy

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of Allah. So the system is just like that. We can't do it. So

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Allah subhanho wa taala, uses his grace to fill up the rest. But the

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benefit of that is, once we know that we can never be arrogant, we

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can never be self conceited. We can never take the credit

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essentially, once we know that, now anybody who doesn't know that

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they're going to be

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basically stumbling around in arrogance thinking, Oh, I did

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something great. I did something great. I deserve the praise for

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it.

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So Oh, traveller, oh seeker. Do not be overwhelmed by excessive

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grief, on account of the deficiencies in your acts of

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virtue because when you learn this, you think like, what am I

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doing then I'm so defective. But that's the point. Our relationship

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with Allah subhanaw taala is a special one, we have become

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believers. And Allah subhanaw taala gives us certain assurances

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that we will treat you with grace and may Allah make us of those

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people. In fact, when Allah mostly accepts, he accepts our defective

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deeds and awards, awards, the rewards for the very defective act

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offered by his servants for today is 134. Now, we jump from 131 234

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which is on page 201 of the book of wisdoms. So in this one, he is

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saying something similar, it's related.

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He says,

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Man A Crummock for in nama a chroma fika Jamila sattari, he,

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man, a chromatica. For in a chroma fika Jamila, Saturday, he fell

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hamdu Lehmann SATA ruck

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lay laisse Alhamdulillah in a Crummock wa Shachar. Rock.

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This one tells us something very similar but slightly in a

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different from a different angle. Whoever honors you, have you been

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on it? Do people on the

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right to be people praise you for something, you know, do you get

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praised for something and mashallah, you're like this. So

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you've done this very well, or you look very good, or you're very

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generous, or you pray a lot too much, or you study very well, or

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something like that means people praise you or not, I mean, have

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you received some praise? Right? So whoever honors you, why do they

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honor you? What are they honoring in you? This is where we get

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deceived, that if somebody honors me, I think like, It's me now.

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Wonderful. It's me. Right? This is another angle from which Satan

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comes. So whoever honors you, honors, only the beauty of his

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veiling you

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that's what they're honoring,

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is because they can't see the defects.

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Unless someone can claim to have absolutely no defects, then

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they're probably very, very, very, very self deluded.

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Therefore, praise is to him who veiled you

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know, just a really,

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really, really weird example. Right? You got somebody who is

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very influential, very suited, and really looks very dignified.

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But at the end of the day, you know, they may be very frank

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people as well. But there will be certain things about them that

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they will never open to the public. Right? Just maybe one

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person relieving themselves, that state, you would never want

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anybody to see you in that state's state of relieving yourself.

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Right?

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That's, how can we then say we're perfect? Yes, we can put up a

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perfect aura about ourselves. We can

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When we're in public, we can suit ourselves up and, you know, put on

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nice clothing and walk, the walk and so on. But clearly, that's not

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our nature, our, you know, there's parts of our nature which we must

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do, which we cannot escape from, that we would never want people to

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see. Even though we know people do the same thing, but it's still

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something we won't want to show to anybody. It's like, okay, what's

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the big deal? You do it, I do it.

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So what's the problem? It's still seen as something embarrassing,

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even to let off when, for example, is seen as embarrassing in front

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of others, even though it's something that anybody should

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anybody would do, and does do.

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So whoever honors you honors only the beauty of his veiling you.

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Therefore, praise is to him who veiled you, not to the one who

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honored and thanked you.

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So don't get so excited about those people who praise you. Thank

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Allah subhanho wa Taala for the praise your gifts, and Subhanallah

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that is the way to deal with praise when you get praise. Thank

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Allah

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accept the praise, graciously. Some people don't know how to deal

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with praise. I mean, I don't think I knew how to deal with praise.

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And when somebody praise you, like, you know, you're like, Yeah,

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okay, and then you carry on. So accept the praise. Maybe put your

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hand on your heart, say Hamdulillah. Right, that's a way

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to react to a praise. So immediately, you're thinking of

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Allah. If there's any aid that could take place in there, you've

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dissolved it by the redecker Allah. Because remember, whenever

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it is, dhikr of Allah the aim, if there's a possibility of

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enrichment, somebody praise you, he may the evil Amen evil I

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unintentionally may come through in that. So as soon as somebody

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praises you, for whatever it is hamdulillah

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Al Hamdulillah like minutes,

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that will be of huge benefits. So

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monochromic for in nama a chroma fika, Jamila sattari, Al hamdu,

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Lehmann cetera MK, laser Al Hamdulillah, and a chromic, were

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shacklock. The praise is not for the one who's praised you and

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who's been grateful to you, but really for the one who veiled you.

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So, you see, Allah subhanaw taala has taken the responsibility of

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protecting us through his special protection. And he protects us by

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protecting our private deeds, our private actions, our disobedience

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is so

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his veil veiled us, then he caused people to praise us, he expressed

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to them the good that we do, and made it made it worthy of their

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praise to You.

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So he's the one who's allowed people to see the good parts of

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you by veiling the bad parts. So he turns people turns people's

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attention towards you, lets them glorify you lets them say good

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things about you. So recognizing all that, who's doing everything?

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Where is it all coming from? Who's behind all of this? If you don't

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recognize that that's where we that's where we fail. So far, if

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minute Allah He Alec, get to recognize Allah's favor upon you.

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And he does that to you. When as Ill unsure who the enough sick and

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just completely desist from thinking it's me.

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It is you. But if you praise Allah, people are still going to

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praise you. Just because you don't just because you don't you stop

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thinking it's from me, doesn't mean people are going to stop

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praising you. This is a really weird, selfish idea, right? Like

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I'm trying to justify in a very weird, selfish way. It's like, I'm

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trying to convince us that just because we think it's coming from

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Allah, and we don't think it's coming from ourselves. It's not

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going to stop people praising us. But at least the harmful effect of

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somebody praising us will be lost, though we think that's beautiful.

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So when somebody praise us, it makes us feel good. You think no,

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don't let it make you feel good for the wrong reason, say

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Alhamdulillah Allah has given me this.

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And he hasn't given it to you. No, you don't. You don't do that.

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Because that's again becoming selfish. hamdulillah Allah has

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given me that I'm just happy that he's given it to me.

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So he will only going to praise us because Allah has revealed the bad

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parts in us. That's where Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran

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in surah Nisa, well hola further Allah Hiya, Alikum warahmatu who

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let who shaitana Illa kalila

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had it not been for Allah's grace upon you and His mercy, then you

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would have followed the shaytaan Illa kalila except a bit except a

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few. Otherwise it would be so easy to follow the shaytaan because our

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interest is just so inclined. Then Allah says in surah to know when

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Allah for Allah here

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Are you come warahmatu mazurka I mean, come in, I hadn't

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had it not been for Allah's grace upon you and His mercy, you would

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not have purified any of you,

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you would not have created purified any one of you. So he,

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you can see now how everything is in the hands of Allah, He covers

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us, then he accepts from us.

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Why us? Why does he cover us and veil us and the next step from us?

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Well, there must be something that we are offering, but then the

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offering came from him.

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That means it's all from him.

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So the praise in reality is for the one who veils you who protects

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you, not for the one who honors you don't, don't get too excited

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about that. Because if Allah subhanaw taala was just to reveal

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just one small amount of our deficiencies that people are

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bothered about, then they would hate you.

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Right, they would detest you. So thank Allah subhanaw taala for the

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generosity that he has bestowed upon you.

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And has basically protected us from so many other issues. That's

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why shakers the rook,

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he says

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is Lola Satoru who annual Massey makan Thermotoga. Had it not been

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for his protection of you from other sins, then you would never

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have been obedient.

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So protection is not just from our,

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you know, particular defects that we may have in mind. It's much

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more than that. A defect would be disobedience. Had Allah not

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protected us from disobedience by veiling us from disobedience, you

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would not have been obedient. While hola see through houfy

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Harlequin dumb Mahan and endl Halki. And if there were other

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things that he didn't value from, then you will be despicable in the

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sight of people.

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Just look at certain people whose

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issues become revealed that nobody you know, they may have been in

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Hollywood for all their life, enjoying the best of everything,

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money and women and everything else. And then suddenly they go

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down in shame because Allah has revealed this. Just imagine if

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Allah did that to us, Allah protect us. That's why well hola

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Naima, to rub Walla Walla Nigma to rob de la quinta Minal Madhuri.

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Allah says in surah to sofort had it not been for the bounties of my

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Lord, then I would have been also among those who would be present

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who would be made present brought into present presence.

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So essentially, the our nature is that the entire creation we work

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between us we deal with one another, with the veil of Allah is

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always with us is always with us.

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In fact, sometimes if our worst parts were revealed, and even

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the most beloved people to us would start to hate us.

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A poet says you're the new inner be higher on warmer beam in higher

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Yahoo noon be higher on one beam in higher

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weather Akkineni Abdon lumen commodity. He's talking to Allah

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Siddhartha or you will be Kula on Oh, you are uni him, Siddhartha or

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you will be Kula and Uyuni him, while Busteni Thoburn Jamila Mina

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city. First, Saru, you, hey Boonie Obama and Bill Levy, you had boo,

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whether Kinshasa Hooni Bill Haley, Fela tough the honey filthy Yama

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de Boehner home, what Coonley Mala fee multifuel hashey.

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So this person who's recognized this idea, he then calls out to

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Allah subhanaw taala. And he says, they have really good ideas about

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me. They think of me as an excellent individual. Even though

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there's no goodness in Me, in Me, there's no virtue in me at all. I

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am in fact, an oppressive servant. As you know, he says to Allah, as

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you know, I'm an oppressive servant.

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But you have settled or you will be equal, you veiled all of my

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sins, you've veiled all of my defects from the eyes from their

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sites, and you've actually made me wear this beautiful garment of

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protection. This beautiful garment of protection, you've made me

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wear. So now they've begun to love me. Whereas actually, I'm not I'm

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actually of those people who cannot be loved, because I know my

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defects. But they've actually made they've actually thought of me as

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someone else. They've resembled me with somebody else. They've

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compared me with somebody else and that's what they think. So hence,

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now this is the main part. So do not ever do not

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Ever disgraced me on the day of judgment among them now and be for

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me be there for me in the place of gathering Oh my master Oh my

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master be there for me also in the plane of my gathering yeah Allah

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be there for us you've given us so much in this world you've given us

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so much veiling you've given us so few to do so much. You've given us

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an interest in loving you in coming closer to you. So yeah, on

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the real day when it's most difficult then Allah help us

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that's why it with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam, if you

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look at his state, he recognized these things perfectly. So

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remember after thought if, for example, when he was persecuted,

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when the the harshness when there are difficulties or push them to

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such a great degree. Look what he says at the end of it, because he

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knows he's got nothing to do with this. He's plays no part in this

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by himself because it's all coming from Allah. He finally says, Love

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Hina Lee and athletic

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fear took her Oh, Saturday, this is what he says he says that I can

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never be free from your giving me well being from your security of

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your giving me security and wellbeing, I can never be free of

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that I can never not want it, I can never have enough of it.

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And it is your security. And your well being that you give me your

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safety, which is the broadest path for me. That is the only path I

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can walk in. That is part of his da.

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See, people are three types. People are three types. In terms

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of being able to see the bounties of Allah, there are three types.

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One is

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that the regular, the regular people, they're not the elect,

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they're not the special ones. Liahona ill Hulk, they don't see

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Allah at all. They don't recognize him, they don't feel his presence,

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they just see creation. Everything is just very mundane, they don't

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see what's going on in the background at all.

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They don't know how it works, they just use the product, they don't

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know how it works.

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Number two are people who are special now. But they're not the

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special of the special they just special. Who only see Allah

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and as a special ones, among the electrons among the special ones.

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They see both Allah and His creatures.

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And they see the dynamic there. And they see through through his

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creatures, they see Allah subhanaw taala. So they're able to give

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everybody the true right.

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So when you get a bit pious and you just start seeing Allah

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everywhere, meaning you notice Allah everywhere, you may thank

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Allah and you may dismiss somebody else. Because you know when you

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get that, oh, it's all coming from Allah so I mustn't, if you give me

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something, I'm going to say to you, oh, that came from Allah. So

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I'm not going to think you're going to thank Allah.

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If you don't think people you don't think Allah?

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Can you see how you could get diluted in this sometimes. So

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that's why the people of Allah they give the do thanks to

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everyone to Allah and the creatures they don't have. They

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don't hurt anybody's hearts. May Allah make us have that kind of

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level may Allah make us have that kind of level. So when it becomes

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completely established, now that Allah subhanho wa Taala is the one

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that honors you by veiling our our wrongdoings our sins and from

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doing further sins.

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Even though he knows all of these things,

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that's why he's the best companion.

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Because generally the best companion is the one that's not

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going to, that's going to be at your side all the time. The one

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that's going to take you for who you are, whether you are going

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through difficulty or whether you're going through prosperity,

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whether you're fallen, whether you're successful, therefore you

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they're there for you, they've got sincere love for you. That proves

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that it's only Allah subhanaw taala who has that kind of sincere

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love for sure. So make him your Sahib make him your companion, be

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with him and leave the people aside. only deal with the people

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for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala that's why he says masa,

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masa, Buka Illa and Sahiba Hawaii well who are they a Becca Aleem?

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What is a daddy que la Mola Cal Kareem that your true companion is

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only the one who stays with you who still your companion even

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though he knows of your defects

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and that is only your

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omniscient master.

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There's people who become very famous and they have fans.

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Millions of them. They

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Then something happens, and then the majority will just leave them

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immediately because they, they don't like you. If they like what

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you're doing, they like your position. That's what they're

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honoring. They don't, it's not you personally, you're nothing

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actually, if you didn't do these, well, if you didn't do these weird

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things, or if you're good than if you didn't do these good things,

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you'd be nothing really. So what they're really praising is the

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good things which come from Allah. And if it's the bad things, you

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know, the movie stars, and so on. That's all they're satisfied

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about. Otherwise, tomorrow, nobody is going to be looking at you

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anymore. Once you've lost your charisma, nobody's going to be

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looking at you anymore. But if you look at the people with the team,

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right, as long as they stay on the team, as they as long as they

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practice, they get old, they're on they're literally lying down in

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bed, they can't do anything. But Allah subhanaw taala still gives

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them there are still people hovering around them. Tell me if

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that's ever gonna happen to a movie star when they lost their

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charisma. They've gone there's no retirement, you know, for for

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people that are great earlier, right? Even though they can't even

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speak anymore. Some of them I remember was going to visit Mufti

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Willie Hasson who was in Karachi after he'd become sick. Right

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where he was he something that happened to him. He was one of the

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biggest scholars of Pakistan at the time. This was in the 80s and

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the beginning of the 90s. I went to specially to visit him, even

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though he's just sitting on a bit, probably didn't even recognize me.

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Right? at a younger age, he was afflicted by something but he was

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one of the biggest scholars there him Mufti Sheffy and what's the

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ratio deanery? Right Rahim Allah, these, these three were the big

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scholars of the day. So as before, mostly this is mostly like his

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father's time. Right? So I remember I'm going to see him just

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because of who he is. Now he I can't benefit from any more like

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that. But you still people would go and show him respect. Now tell

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me if somebody is going to do that to somebody else. Because the love

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there is for the person because of Allah.

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Not because of some weird thing that they did.

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It's May Allah subhanaw taala allow us to get an understanding

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of his veil and to

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turn all of our attention to him. So Sheikh Abdullah gonna go he

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says here then is old traveler when someone respects and honors

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you with praise or gifts. Do not become proud, and I'm receiving so

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many gifts and so on and so forth. Do not gain the impression that

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you have in you some excellence.

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In reality, the person has not praised you. He has praised

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Allah's

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attribute of veiling the sins and defects of people, he is actually

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praising the attribute of Allah, the spirit of Allah by which he

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veils people.

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If Allah Most I had not concealed your egotistical evils, people

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would not even spit on you.

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You spit on people, I mean, they wouldn't even spit on your own

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everything worthy of spitting on an expression.

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Allah, all would have detested you because your ego is an embodiment

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of mischief and evil. Therefore do not praise and flattered the one

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who praises you, or one who treats you with respect, honor and

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kindness. The being who has conceal your faults is truly

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deserving of praise. The one who praises and honors you is not

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deserved, deserving of respect and praise in essence, this is of

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course you should praise them, not praise them for praising you, but

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you can thank them for a gift they give you or whatever. However,

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there is nothing wrong in expressing gratitude to the one

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who is kind and shows respect you has nothing wrong with that. Don't

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get mistaken by Miss just praise Allah. So actually, I had one

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person say that to me. On one occasion, he just sounded so

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weird, like, I'm not gonna praise you want to praise Allah.

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Just fine.

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But I didn't mind that but I'm just thinking that you just got it

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wrong.

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Praise Allah. Thus you should be praising Allah yourself. Unless

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you're trying to teach me a lesson maybe he was. They should praise

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Allah.

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There is nothing wrong in expressing gratitude to the one

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who is kindness shows respect to you, for it is Allah Most i Who

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bestowed the goodness to you via the agency of that person who has

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honored you, so we can thank them. But the gays should only be an

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Allah because he gave it to these guys just praise you. But the one

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who gave you what they're praising you for his Allah so He deserves

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more praise than that person but you praise that person.

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We ask Allah for Tofik We ask Allah to make this beneficial for

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us and allow us to embody this in our lives and allow our worship

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and our relationship with Allah subhanho wa Taala to be improved

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and enhanced lawmen. So no more Minca Salam

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Quran, Allah homea Hi Yuya by whom you kind of study

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alone my unknown VM and in Subhanak in couldn't mean a lot he

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mean

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just Allah

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100 Madam Hello

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Yeah and you know Judy welcome. Yeah so you don't miss Odin where

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your role model team?

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Yeah or hamro Haman

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Allahu McPhee, Lana or have now, fina dinner was O'Connor Allah Who

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McSorley on Medusa, you Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa

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sallam. Allahumma filial Muslimeen our Muslim as well, many, you

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know, will

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remain humble and what Allahumma fildena? Well, he was the dean

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our, the Messiah, you know, where he asserted that, you know, well,

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as well as you know, we all learned in our little lab, you

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know, what do you one you know, what do you how do you know? What

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do you call a Divina? What do you call you know, when he called

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lemon law who helped Kannada and when he called him and also on a

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bit to

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Allah we asked you for your forgiveness. We asked you for your

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grace, we asked you for your benevolence. Allah we ask you for

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your generosity. Yeah Allah we ask You for Your veil. We thank you

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for your veil upon us of Allah we ask you forgiveness from all sins

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that have become part of our lives of Allah those that we have done

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and forgotten. Those that we no longer even consider sins. Ya

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Allah we ask you for purity and forgiveness, for absolute freedom

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from the sins from our defects from our problems of Allah we ask

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you for your sincerity of Allah We ask that we single mindedly do our

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worship for you. of Allah we seek protection from the pollution and

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adulteration in our hearts and our minds of Allah from inclining

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towards the evil and the wrong. Oh Allah make your obedience Beloved

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to us. Make your disobedience hated in our sight of Allah we ask

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that You grant us your love and the love of those whose love

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benefits us in your court of Allah have great mercy upon us. Oh Allah

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have mercy upon us who Allah have mercy on this gathering all those

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who are listening on the entire Muslim Ummah of Allah protect us

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from all the evil diseases and contagious illnesses which are out

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there. Oh Allah grant us health of Allah grants the entire on the

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health of Allah grant them baraka and removal of the difficulties

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and the persecution and the subjugation of Allah make us of

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those who are close to make us of those who understand how to

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worship You, who refine our worship for you, of Allah grant us

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the sincerity and all the other requisites for our worship of

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Allah. Protect us on the day of judgment of Allah just as you've

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entered us in this world on us in the hereafter do not disgrace us

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in this world or the hereafter. Oh Allah grant us Jen that will fit

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those grant us your satisfaction, your happiness, oh Allah we ask

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that You grant us your beatific vision of Allah that you are happy

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with us for the rest of our existence of Allah do not keep the

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shaytaan away from us, our Allah especially keep us away from the

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mischief keep the keep the mischief of the shaytaan away from

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us especially on our deathbeds Grandmaster, Karim Allah, Allah

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Allah, Allah Allah assist us in all of our permissible needs.

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Complete all of our permissible needs our permissible projects of

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Allah acceptance for the service of your deen make us of those who

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are keys of goodness and not keys of evil.

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Our Allah

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give us a higher than the Yuba in this world. And we finally ask

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that you send your abundant blessings in our messenger

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Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, you granted his company in

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the hereafter. So Hannah robic herbalist at their mercy for was

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Allah when Allah Allah said he will hamdulillah here a banana

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