Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The Reason Allah Prevents Things from Us [Hikam 93]

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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The speakers discuss the importance of increasing the love of Islam, which can increase the sense of love and promise of life. They also discuss the benefits of Islam's consistent messages and promoting their own brand, as well as the importance of avoiding fear and anxiety. The speakers emphasize the importance of knowing and embracing Islam, as it can only be developed through the declared moral aspect. They also touch on the importance of graduating from difficult situations and embracing opportunities.
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa

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salatu salam ala say you did more serene. While early he will be he

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will be Alika was seldom at the Sleeman kefir on Ilario Mateen

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Amar beret call Allahu Allah Tala Al Quran emoji they will find it

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Hamid Allahu fondling. I didn't mean

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to continue with our series on the Book of Wisdom the HECM we are on

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wisdom number 93 which is on page 196 of the Book of Wisdom.

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No I thought Allah Eskandari Rahim Allah he says, Mata or taka,

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shahada, Kibera. Mamata Monique shahada kohara. The who have

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equally Urlacher muda are referred Ilike. Womack below we will do the

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look v r Lake.

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This is quite a profound wisdom, it essentially takes it a notch

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higher into our understanding of Allah subhanaw taala. Remember, as

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I mentioned that while this is about spirituality, it's actually

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about theology, it's about recognizing Allah subhanaw taala

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in a totally different way. And it's actually through

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spirituality. So what he says here is a really, really interesting

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idea that we are constantly going to be dealing with on a day to day

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basis, this is something we experienced, but if we don't have

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this perspective, then we really suffer, we really suffer and we

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struggle. So I believe that when I read this,

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it really helps to kind of put things in perspective of why

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things happen in this world. So essentially, what's happening is

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that a human being is either going to be in a state of bestowal,

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meaning they're going to be in a state where they're being gifted

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something, well, we're constantly being gifted by Allah subhanaw

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taala, every breath we take, you know, is a gift from Allah

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subhanaw taala. And the food that we get and everything else. But

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normally, when this is talking about human

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human feeling, there's times when we feel like we're getting things.

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And there's times when you feel like we're being deprived. Why

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didn't I get that thing? Why couldn't I get that?

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Why did I miss out on that? He or she look how much money they've

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made? You know, look how accomplished they've become. Why

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isn't it that I've not been able to do this? Why am I with this

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suffering? So we forget all the all the gifts that are still

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coming in, by focusing on the few things that we may have wanted,

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but did not get for some reason. I mean, that's the nature of the

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world. So he's telling us that there's a reason why Allah

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subhanaw taala does this, and it is completely, absolutely in line

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with the way Allah wants to do things. It's normal, that is the

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norm. And there's a reason and a wisdom behind it. And if you don't

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know that wisdom, that's when we struggle. So I think everybody

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understands that there's going to be some kind of suffering and

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setbacks in the world, I don't think anybody who doesn't get that

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yet is going to really, really suffer. So once we understand that

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there's going to be suffering. Now the question is, why is there

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suffering? Why do we miss out on certain things? And why are we

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deprived sometimes of certain things and feel deprived? Maybe.

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So that's what Allah is. That's what if nada, Allah is saying

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here, that when Allah gives, He shows you His kindness.

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That's just an expression of His kindness. The same time though,

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when he deprives, he's showing you his power.

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Now you can't deny Allah is powerful. You can't deny him that

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fact. That's what he is. He's powerful as well. He's showing you

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His might and His power.

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And in all of this, what further Why is he doing this? And in all

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of this, he is making himself known to you.

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You need to know me better. lysing you need to know every everything

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about me. You need to know a lot more about me, not just one

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aspect. People go on as a slogan, God is merciful. God is love. God

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is love. God is merciful. So then when actually something else

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happens when he shows his power instead, then they're like, Oh, is

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that really god? I mean, is that God, our faith get shaken, not our

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faith, but I mean, people who have that belief, generally the

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Christians, they suffer with this quite a bit when calamities

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happen. So in all of this, he is just making himself known to you

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and still coming to you with His gentleness, there is still

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gentleness in this, even when he deprives you there is gentleness.

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What are you trying to convince me about? You know, you're wondering,

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what is it not I lie saying that somebody is deprived? Allah is

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depriving anything, that's his gentleness in depriving you.

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Yes, it is. So

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what's going on here is that

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if you really want to understand Allah, you have to know His divine

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names, the 99 and more names. That is the only way I think to really

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understand

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Allah subhanho wa Taala is directly and he's given us. He's

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told us what his names are. So part of his name, you know, some

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of his names are Latif and Rahim,

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or Latif could refer to the subtle one. It can also refer to the kind

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one can look means kindness and subtlety as well. What Rahim the

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Merciful One. So Allah subhanho wa Taala is obviously Latif and Eva.

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He, that's his name, so he must be kind to his servants.

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Right, he has to be kind to his servants. Allah is kind, even to

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the those who blaspheme those who reject Him. Allah is kind to them

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as well. He still lets them breathe, he still give them food,

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he still lets them live in this world. Right? So his kindness is

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always going to be there. And his Rama and his mercy that's why the

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word here used is Rahim. Not ramen. Right? Even though ramen is

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got a certain nuance, Rahim. Everybody gets his that Rama of

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his that mercy of his in every state in every state that we're

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in. Now, this is regardless of now whether he's giving you something

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and you feel like you're getting something or you, you feel like

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you're being deprived of something. Right. This is whether

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you're contracted or whether you're excited. You know, when

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you're elated about something or when you feel miserable about

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something.

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Now, the thing is that when he gives you

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he is showing you his kindness, he's showing you his generosity,

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he's showing you his

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his goodness with you. So then you get to understand Allah subhanho

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wa taala. And people recognize this. And they thank Allah when

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good things happen. So you get to understand that Allah subhanaw

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taala is kind with his servants. Allah has been kind with me. And

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he's compassionate. He is Rahim on karimunjawa. Right? He is merciful

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and benevolent. And he is Giovanna and Marcin. Right? So he is

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generous, and he is also the doer of all good. So now, when that

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happens, the purpose of that is that our love needs to increase.

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So when it's a human, it's innate human fitrah and nature, that when

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somebody does good to you, you feel inclined to them, you feel a

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sense of love for them, and the promise of life some summarize

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this, encapsulated it by saying to her, though, to her boo, you

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mutually give gifts to one another, and your love will

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mutually increase. And it just happens unless somebody is really

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hard hearted and so doubtful, and pessimistic about everything, and

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thinks, no, no, this must be an ulterior motive has given me this

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gift. And there's people like that you know, and there are a minority

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Allah relief, such thoughts because then person doesn't have

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any excitement in this world.

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Now, when the Mahabharata and the love of Allah increases because of

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Allah's gifts to a person, then obviously there is this is talking

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about the person with iman, good Iman in the hearts, that means

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then the eagerness towards Allah will increase and they should

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thank Allah more so their sugar, the state of sugar and gratitude

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will also increase. Now when the gratitude increases, Allah has

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promised something for when gratitude increases, he promises

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you more, so then the gifts will also increase.

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I've done a talk before where we discussed that the way of

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some mache is to make you do a lot of sugar. And thank Allah

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and that's how you get more so they say mashallah the, the

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bounties increase, and, and then it carries on like that it carries

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on like that.

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However, if Allah subhanaw taala sometimes this happens to

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everybody once in a while here, they have a setback, Allah deprive

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somebody prevents something, puts an obstacle, right puts a

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hinderance and hinders something that they wanted. For in that

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case, Allah is saying, look at the same time, I'm not just I don't

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have just the title of mercy. I don't have just the title of being

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generous. I also have some other part my generosity is still upon

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you. My look and everything is still applicable to you right now,

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with every breath you take. But you're forgetting there's another

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part, that there's another name that I have many other names. And

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now he is making you witness to his might, his greatness, his

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grandeur, his His Majesty. So now, when a person recognizes that and

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they should recognize it, they it's obviously more difficult to

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recognize this than the other one because feel like why is he doing

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this? Well, then what happens is that then the person begins to

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become aware that Allah subhanaw taala is the kahar kabhi are the

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jelly. He is the Mighty One, the dominant one, the great one, the

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majestic one

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So that helps to increase their fear because man needs a healthy

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dose of fear. Otherwise, if everything's happening to well,

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the the problem and the fitna there is that you feel too secure

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and confident, self assured self subsisting right and you feel like

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you don't need God anymore. So then Allah subhana wa Tada shows

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his power, and his mate sometimes, so that the person begins to

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understand that not Allah is still in charge. So then they, they,

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they melt in his fear, they melt out of reverent fear for him. And

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they submit, and they act humbly. And they have to submit themselves

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to the mate of Allah subhanaw taala. So now based on this, now,

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they're a bother and their worship increases and becomes better and

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becomes enhanced. Their sins decrease, generally in this state

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sins will decrease is generally in a state of bounty that seems to

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increase because you have a false sense of security and confidence

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and self reliance. So now in this case of where there's hindrance,

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and as a prevention than Allah, then a person's fear increases,

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the sins decrease. And when sins decrease, you make Toba and

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repentance. And thus, our sins are washed away, and it leads to a

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state of purification. That's how it should be. Now remember, have

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you noticed that this is not what happens to a lot of people, they

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rather freak out? They're confused. Allah hates me, that's

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what they say.

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When they don't get something, you know, I've been having calls from

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a certain individual who's suffering from something and the

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constant. And I'm trying to explain the constant issue is that

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what have I done so bad? Why is this happening to me said, look,

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there could have been, you could have died. Right? Just thank

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Allah, that there's a lot of other people who are worse state, you

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just have a small, physical ailments, and people are freaking

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out. So it's just not knowing the understanding of who Allah is, and

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why he does things. So now what's going to happen is that this

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person, he gets purified, and

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the whole concept of sin and the whole

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focus on sin goes down. Now, these people, obviously, when they're

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going through both of these states, in the world, whichever of

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these two states, it's to complete the human being, it's to make them

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who they are. So then when they appear on the Day of Judgment,

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they will come light, no burden, right? Purified, excited, eager to

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meet the Lord, because they've had their purification and all done in

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the world.

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Otherwise, if a person has tyranny in this world, if a person is

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sinful in this world, then they'll have to be purified in the

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hereafter.

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Why can't we be purified in this world so that when we go to the

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hereafter, we go running into paradise Inshallah, we don't have

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to go to hellfire. We don't have to go to the washing machine.

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Because essentially, the top part of Hellfire is the washing

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machine, the dry cleaning process for the human beings for the

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Muslims for the moment, sending Muslims that section, right?

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Rather than washing machine probably call it a dry cleaner.

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Right because this heat, or extreme cold, Allah protect us.

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Why is this the case that this is how the person who's feared who's

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gone through fear in the world, why they will not fear on the Day

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of Judgment. Remember, this principle is law, age, marital

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law, who are allowed the whole feign, Walla, Amin, Allah subhanho

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wa Taala will never bring together and combine two fears upon

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anybody.

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Two states of fear or two states of security, assurance. What that

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means is that whoever Allah makes fearful in this world, gives them

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the Tofik and enablement to fear Allah will give him security in

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the Hereafter.

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And whoever Allah subhanaw taala

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allow us to feel secure in this world.

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And thus, that person gets diluted, then that person will

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have great fear on the Day of Judgment. So based on that, you

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either fear in this world and not in the Hereafter. Or you feel

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sense of security and assurance and confidence and self reliance

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in this world and have fear in the hereafter.

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Allah will never combine together two fears, or two cent states of

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security in the two worlds.

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So don't now be suspicious of your Lord, that God hates me now. Why

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is he doing this to me? Why is he forsaken me?

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Oh servant of Allah, our servant of Allah Our job is servitude

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anyway. Whenever

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Whenever you're prevented from something whenever something is

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prevented from you, or whenever

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Something is given. So, when Allah subhanaw taala gives you something

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he's just manifesting, he's just making clear to you and showing to

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you that Allah subhanaw taala This is His mercy, this is benevolence.

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You start understanding that he is the Barone Kareem and rufen Rahim

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on so many names Barun karimun, benevolence rufen Rahim

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compassionate, Merciful. So you then will hold on to his mercy,

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you will then associate yourself with his compassion. Now the

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benefit of that in the right way is that you that should if you do

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hold on to his compassion and everything you understand, it's

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all coming from his compassion, then your greed will diminish your

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selfish greed will diminish in that's the benefit of that as

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well. The Selfish greed will diminish. And likewise, any grief

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and anguish and

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a feeling of

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deprivation insha Allah will go away. The other thing is that the

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other benefits that Allah subhanaw taala provides by the stolen

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gifting is that when you see it is coming from Allah subhanho wa

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Taala the good people, the people of Allah, right, they actually

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start to inculcate that themselves. So they want to be

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benevolent on others. Just like Allah has been benevolent upon

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them, it's taught them to be benevolent to others, is taught

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them to be kind to others, and to do good to others. So Allah

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subhanho wa Taala loves that servants, his slaves, they take on

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his characteristics.

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Right? Because the Hadith says the Hidalgo be lucky Rockman imbibe

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yourself with the character of the Most Merciful One. Allah wants us

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to do this. And that's why each other the Allah wa gives us an

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example of the one who did this thoroughly and in the most perfect

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way. So when she was asked about the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa

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sallam, she could only describe him by saying that the

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characteristic, the character, the behavior, the conduct of the

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Prophet, salallahu Alaihe Salam was the Quran.

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What she actually meant was ALLAH, he had the character of Allah. But

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she didn't want to say that because how do you have the

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character of Allah that's a that's a big idea. So other been out of

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etiquette.

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She was, you know, she was very conscious of Allah subhanaw taala.

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She doesn't want to say it in that way. But that's really what she

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meant. Because what is the lack of the Quran Quran doesn't have a

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flock, it provides a flock, it embodies character, it propagates

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character, which is the character of Allah subhanaw taala is exactly

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what Allah does with us. On the other hand, likewise, the other

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half of it, which is that when Allah subhanaw taala,

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withhold from us contracts, the bounty is upon us where the

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bandwidth gets less, you're struggling with your bandwidth,

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you're struggling with downloads on that day, right? So

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essentially, something like that, instead of just free for all, you

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know, eat as much as you want your there's a, there's a restriction

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is not coming, it's not happening. I've got a business and mashallah,

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I had so many customers. And now in this period, it's trickle it's

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become a trickle. What's going on, and I've not done anything wrong.

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It's the same, I'm still got the promotions and advertisements, but

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from 50 customers, it is gone down to 10 customers or 20 customers.

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And it happens in businesses, it goes down and it goes up and it

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goes down and goes up. Allah is showing us what's going on.

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Sometimes you can tell the reason. It's a certain season issue. And

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sometimes you can't even tell the reason amazing how the pandemic

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has for certain businesses we never thought that they would do

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so well like the bike business suddenly shut out of the roof. And

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yet there's others who are doing very well and suddenly just went

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down like restaurants and other places Sachi but Allah subhanaw

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taala turns this thing around, and we just have to be, we just have

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to be submitting, what else can we do?

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So what's happening is that you then realize some other names of

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Allah subhanaw taala when he withholds that is the kahar and

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the Jabbar so we Names of Allah, the Mighty One, the the all

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powerful one, the Vanquisher.

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So, your faith, your faith and your fear will increase your all

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of Allah subhanaw taala will increase your embarrassment, your

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modesty, right of doing something wrong in front of front of Allah

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because Allah you you realize, look, he's not going to just you

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know, he can withhold from me. So all of that happens. Now, in all

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of this, then if somebody does this right, Allah subhanaw taala

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will then

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give you

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respect, Allah will make you respectable. Allah will honor you.

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Allah will protect

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Chu

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Allah subhanho wa Taala

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in Allah yinzhou Abdullah who Allah Countryman Zilla at him in

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whom Allah places somebody in the same way that you place Allah, in

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the same that Allah deals with you in a reciprocal in with

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reciprocation. That if you think Allah is great, Allah will be

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great to you. And if you think oh Allah doesn't do any good, okay if

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that's what you want me to be, Allah treats people the way they

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treat him in that sense with some perspective however, this is the

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second point I pointed out the other thing about the two fears

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not coming together and the two states of security not coming

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together. This is the second point I want to highlight as a

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principle. We're in the My UT will Abdullah, who Allah Kadima refer

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to he will hopefully he mean who this is a very important

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principle. That servant as a slave is only going to worship His Lord

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according to his knowledge of his Lord, his awareness of his Lord

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and his fear of his Lord. How true is that statement? With our if you

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think about our worship to Allah subhanho wa taala, the way we

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stand in prayer, whatever, it's only according to how much we know

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Allah. Because if you compare that to the way we deal with people,

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depending on how we know them, there's people on strangers on the

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street that we go past. We don't even say hi, in England, there's

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no traditional saying hi to anybody, so you just go past,

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right? You just who cares? It's just another person on the street.

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Right?

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There's somebody who you've seen in the mosque and now you've seen

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him, you know, you've seen this person, you're gonna say somebody,

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now there's somebody who you know more, you're going to stop and

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say, Man, how are you and you know, there's going to be the

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extra. Now there's somebody who you really respect because they're

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a person to respect, then you're going to stand and there's going

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to be a certain body language, and everything else, human in a human

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behavior. So if somebody can't do that with Allah, that last

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position of respect and all that means they don't know Allah. Allah

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is deserving of it, but they don't know Allah, they just treat him

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like whether they treat him like the first person. No, that's just

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the person you just kind of go past No, you don't mean sometimes

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I'll do biller maybe we treat him like that I will be live in a

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shade minority,

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in our prayers and so on.

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And still he's giving us even though people are treating him in

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that first, according to that first level, that first example I

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provided, Allah subhanaw taala is still giving. So a person only

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worships his only worships and obeys his Lord according to his

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knowledge of his Lord. That's why this book Allah blessed the

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author, Allah bless the author a refines for us, I mean, for so

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many things in life is just made it easy for to put in perspective

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for me at least, right? When certain things happen. He just

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makes it easy to tolerate, bear it, manage it, deal with it,

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because he provides that insight.

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Now remember,

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after all of this, whatever state right, whether he's withholding

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whether he's giving, all he's trying to do is trying to get his

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servants to recognize him, recognize me and you will be

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better off, recognize me you will know what to do recognize me,

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you'll have a better hereafter. He's just muda our refund Lake is

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just attempting to get you to recognize him.

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Volleyball mink, and daddy for who BC 30 He was a smart he all he

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wants from you is recognize Allah know Allah get to know Allah with

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his names and his attributes. Now every name of Allah is manifested

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some time or the other in this world, in our lives, we recognize

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that we see Allah, we don't recognize that we're absent from

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Allah. That's why a study of the 99 names is SubhanAllah.

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Maybe next Ramadan, our theme will be the names of Allah through the

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Quran.

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And 30 days, because I think that is just so important. You just,

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it's so it's so beautiful, you know, to understand Allah, because

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it's almost like a child getting to understand their parents, you

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know?

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So Allah subhanaw taala has named Kareem, right? The benevolent one,

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the Generous One, right, the one who bestows that demands that

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Allah gives, and that he does what you think is good for you. Right?

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Where you see is good for you. And that is quite apparent. You see

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that all the time. Right? A new building goes up. A new

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dish is put in front of you. If thought comes to you. You you see

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it, right. You see, you know, in a handbag in a car in a pen in a

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phone, you see that right? That's now on the other hand, he's got a

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nother name, man, the preventer.

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When are you going to see that he's got that name, right. It's

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not like a lowly name or something that he doesn't have to show it.

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No, it's he's proud of all of His Names. He's proud of his

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characteristics. That obviously demands that there's proof

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Tension also happening in this world.

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That obviously you see in the creation that you see in the world

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as well, that is a lot of prevention for some people. Then

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after that you've got another name, which is boondocking, which

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is the Avenger, the one who takes revenge, that obviously demands

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that there's punishment for certain people, right, that have

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opposed him somehow and done wrong and being oppressive. Then after

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that, there's an evil kahar, which means the Vanquisher, the Mighty

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One,

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that, again, has to become manifest somewhere,

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to those who have been oppressive to others, they are then taken

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over and they overcome.

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Some people die, right? Allah show shows his power through taking

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people I mean, look at the power that Allah subhanaw taala has had

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on display, with a small virus that fits in a bottle, the whole

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world enough to the whole world, so many people have died.

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And Inshallah, if a person can really get an understanding of the

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state of bestowal and prevention, then you will know that at the end

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of the day, Allah subhanaw, Taala

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is constantly and it doesn't mean that now you have to remember

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these are not mutually exclusive names, that if he's giving them

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his, he can't be preventing. And if he's preventing, then he can't

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be giving, said right at the beginning that Allah is constantly

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giving, as long as we're in this world he's giving us

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we're a place of his giving, we're a locus of his gifts, but at the

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same time, it's not fully giving, he's preventing as well. So both

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of those names are coming to us. So our job is to get to understand

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Allah subhanho wa Taala better

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and to recognize the bounties of Allah, however subtle they are,

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even in states of difficulty, and goodness. And that will help us

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that that's really, really psychologically very helpful, that

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if you're suffering something, but you still think mashallah, I'm

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still breathing, I'm still eating, I can still walk, that person can

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not even walk, I can still breathe, there's people in

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hospitals, no space in hospitals to two people on a single bed. In

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some countries, they can't even breathe.

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So at least I can do this. So you will then understand Allah both

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through his Jamal and Jalil, both through his beautiful

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characteristic beauty, characteristics of beauty and

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elegance and his of majesty.

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At the end of the day, that's what we have to do we have to submit to

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Allah subhanho wa taala, with our spirit, with our body, with every

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aspect.

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Because Allah is the only is is the only one who is our Lord.

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Allah is the only Lord

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in truth, and Allah subhanho wa Taala knows best.

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See, the crux of all of this is that this knowledge and awareness

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can only increase according to our Rouhani our spiritual aspect,

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which can only be developed through the Dhikr of Allah

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and abstaining from sin,

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and making Toba. So that internal aspect has to be there and they

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could helps usually because you're taking the name of Allah that

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develops the Rouhani.

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That's what helps us understand the Jellal and the Jamal of Allah.

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This is not based on what they call couvercle by Sharia, you

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know, the outer bodily

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faculty that the humans have that that's just subordinate to our

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Rouhani. In fact, it dominates our Rouhani. If we give too much to

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the body. If we indulge the body too much, essentially the knifes

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we're talking about here, we focus on the body too much. So Allah

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give us a Tofik let us see what we will read. What Sheikh Abdullah

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Ganga, he now has to say about this in his short explanation, he

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says the purpose of man's creation is that is that he acquires the

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Gnosis and the knowledge of his Creator and his lofty attributes.

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That's the purpose. Hence, he says that he did not hence he Allah

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says that Allah did not create jinn and man except that they

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worship him. That's our job. The Hadith literature clarifies that

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the acquisition of Allah's awareness is not possible without

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Allah's bestowal. So even knowing Allah cannot happen unless he

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gives it to us even that is a gift of Allah. Now it assume that if

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we're listening to this or reading this, then there's some promise

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there. Then there's something in the air there's something going on

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that Allah wants to give us. Otherwise, why would he want us to

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know this? Out of everything that you could have learnt out of

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everything we could have been read and talking about today? We're

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talking about this today. That sounds like a great sign that

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Insha Allah, Allah wants to gift us the

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is a very big gift. The way of gaining Gnosis is to reflect on

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the predestined circumstances. This is one way to gain awareness

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of Allah, he says is to think about everything which is

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predestined by Allah, and conditions that might overtake

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one. In this way. Does the servant gain insight into the workings of

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his master? Just think of your life sometimes I've had so much

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good sometimes I've had difficulties I've gone through all

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sorts, that's nature, that's Allah, that's the way he wants it.

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But Allah still gives me what he wants, Allah still gives me and

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I'm still happy. Gnosis reaches the seven according to his

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circumstances. He who possesses proper intelligence, will

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therefore gain Gnosis from Allah in every condition. expounding

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upon this concept the sheikh ignore artha Allah is saying, Oh

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traveler, oh seeker, when Allah Most I bestow some bounty on you,

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he is in reality displaying the generosity and kindness to you.

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And when he withholds his gifts from you, involves you in

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difficulties and hardships. He displays to you his attribute of

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anger, and power. The Traveler the seeker who derives the lesson from

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every state is the most fortunate one in both of these states. He

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derives the awareness of his master in every moment, his heart

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brims with delight on account of the treasure of this mighty for

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Alhambra, I've understood you is something to be thankful about.

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The person who is in difficulty but recognize that is from Allah

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and the calmness that they feel, isn't that something to thank

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Allah about? When somebody else would be freaking out in that

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state and complaining and everyone shrieking and all sorts of things?

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It's something to thank Allah about because it's giving you that

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awareness. The servant who is shown of intelligence directs his

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attention to the gift bestowed upon him, but then he's forgetful

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of Allah, He regards himself deserving of this gift. He thus

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develops pride during conditions of adversity though he then

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suffers and complains, hence he complains and proves his

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ingratitude We seek refuge in Allah

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your mercy upon us. Drench us in your mercy and your forgiveness

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during this month of Allah accept whatever little that we offer

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during this month. Allow us to do much more allow us to enhance our

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worship of Allah grant us your awareness grant us

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the grand test the understanding and the love of you how Allah

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grant us the understanding of your names allow us to recognize you

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allow us to see you everywhere yeah Allah allow us to feel your

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presence. Allow us to feel your presence. Allow us to take on the

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good character. Allow us to be in good in conduct our Allah allow us

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Oh Allah protect us from misunderstanding you. Oh ALLAH

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from misconstruing what you're doing, Oh ALLAH from ignorance

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about you from unawareness of you. Oh Allah, keep us away from being

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of the negligent ones of Allah. We've had much negligence in our

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life we've had many shortcomings in our life. We've had many

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oversights transgressions, excesses, sins crimes of Allah

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forgive us for them. Our Allah grant has complete forgiveness,

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including for those sins that we have forgotten. Those we took

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lightly. Those we considered insignificant, those that we threw

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by the wayside, those that have become part of our life and we no

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longer consider them sins anymore of Allah, this is a month of your

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forgiveness and there is no other door which is open for us to for

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us to gain forgiveness except your Door of Allah we have recognized

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this Our Allah we have recognized this Oh Allah allow

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grant us from the store of yours grant as from store of Your mercy

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from the door of your forgiveness of Allah from your benevolence,

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while Allah from your generosity, Oh Allah, there's no one else we

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can go to All doors are shut of Allah protect us from the shaytaan

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even after the month of Ramadan, oh Allah make this Ramadan the

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best that we've ever experienced before. Oh Allah make this Ramadan

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the best that we the best that we've ever experienced before our

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Allah make us closer to you in this Ramadan more than we've ever

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been before. And Allah allow us to remain close to you even after the

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month of Ramadan of Allah allow us to prepare for our death before we

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die of Allah grant us the states of sugar grant as the states

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whatever state is required of us so Allah make us the way you want

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us to be who Allah make us the way you want us to be. Oh Allah bless

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this Ramadan bless. relieve the suffering of those who are

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suffering during this time as well. How Allah relieve their

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suffering, relieve their suffering of Allah relieve the suffering and

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oh Allah we ask that You grant us a great place in general for those

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Oh Allah Allah generosity which has been shown during this month

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Oh Allah make us also able to take part in that generosity and oh

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Allah accepted from all of those who are generous during this month

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as well. And Oh Allah, we ask that you fulfill our permissible needs,

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you give completion to our permissible our and our

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praiseworthy projects and you keep us away from the wrong and you

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accept us for the service of God. And whatever little that we may

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have been able to do our like accept it from us and grant us

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sincerity and if loss or like accept us, oh Allah accept us. Oh

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Allah accept us. Subhan Allah bigger, Rob Bella, is that the

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mIRC phone was salam al more serene will hamdu Lillahi Rabbil

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Alameen

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from abroad he mean Jazak Allah here for listening, may Allah

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subhanho wa Taala bless you. And if you're finding this useful, you

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know

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as they say to that like button and subscribe button and forwarded

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on to others, just like Allah had Salam Alaikum Warahmatullahi

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Wabarakatuh

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