Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Understanding Conflicts in Marriage

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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The importance of marriage is discussed, where one partner expects the other to know their perspective and make a change if they don't. Proactive behavior is crucial, as it is crucial to manage one's behavior and adjust oneself to handle differences and mistakes in relationships. The speaker emphasizes the importance of avoiding conflict of interest and dealing with difficult situations, as well as finding one another in a dating process. The challenges of marriage include pressure on one partner to be the same as other people, pressure on a step dad to take care of her family, and the need for support and comfort in relationships.

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			Since the majority of people here are married,
		
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			I just wanna say one thing before I
		
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			carry on,
		
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			which should have been done before marriage, but
		
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			it's not too late.
		
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			And that is that the concept of preparation
		
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			for marriage.
		
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			When people get fixed,
		
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			then preparation means that we need to get
		
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			the wedding dress, we need to find the
		
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			hall, we need to find a good location,
		
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			a good venue,
		
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			we need to have the right suit for
		
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			the wedding,
		
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			guest lists, what the food items are going
		
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			to be, and so on and so forth.
		
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			Everything
		
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			gets put into that.
		
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			Every all the energy gets focused on that.
		
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			And I think what's really, really important
		
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			is that the preparation for marriage
		
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			is a lot more than that.
		
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			Essentially, you don't wanna put everything for the
		
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			sake of one day,
		
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			and then after that, not be concerned about
		
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			how you're gonna live in this marriage beyond
		
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			that one day.
		
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			So some some people may suffer from that
		
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			later on because they didn't really prepare.
		
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			A lot of the issues in marriage, and
		
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			I don't wanna focus on issues today, although
		
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			that is generally what the biggest task,
		
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			biggest issue is with regards to marriage. A
		
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			lot of the focus,
		
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			is on dealing with differences, dealing with, incompatibilities,
		
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			dealing with perceived incompatibilities
		
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			and so called conflicts and things like that.
		
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			So
		
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			you see,
		
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			I wanna talk about the positives.
		
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			That, alhamdulillah,
		
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			with help,
		
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			when it comes to marriage,
		
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			there's a lot of assistance that is out
		
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			there that people generally don't focus on and
		
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			take on.
		
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			One of the
		
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			main sources of
		
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			knowledge about marriage that a person has is
		
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			basically from seeing their own parents.
		
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			From seeing their own parents, from seeing maybe
		
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			older siblings who have been married, or maybe
		
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			uncles and aunts, people in their family, generally.
		
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			And then beyond that, it may be friends
		
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			who have recently been married or have been
		
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			married before you,
		
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			and you've learned
		
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			some experience. You've you've you've been able to
		
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			get some experience from them about their marriages.
		
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			And you know what the strangest thing about
		
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			marriage is is that it's like marriage is
		
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			very unique to the couple.
		
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			Yes. There are a lot of experiences that
		
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			you can share with one another and you
		
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			can benefit from. There's no doubt about that
		
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			because we're all human beings at the end
		
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			of the day, and there are certain
		
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			core behavioral aspects which are very important for
		
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			marriage that we can learn from one another.
		
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			The prophet
		
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			said something, he says that,
		
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			I am
		
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			the best of you is the one with
		
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			the best character.
		
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			And then he also said that, I am
		
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			the one who is best to his wives.
		
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			The Prophet was dealing with
		
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			more than one wife at a time for
		
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			the majority of the rest of his, for
		
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			the later part of his life until his
		
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			death when he passed away, he had 9
		
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			wives.
		
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			And he basically said, I'm the best
		
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			to my I'm the best of you to
		
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			my wives.
		
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			And he could claim that. A
		
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			lot of,
		
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			I mean, obviously he's speaking to men. And
		
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			here we have
		
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			primarily women and we have men.
		
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			So this works both ways. Good character worth
		
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			works both ways.
		
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			Good character is required for any if you
		
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			read a book on business and partnership,
		
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			even
		
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			managerial
		
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			positions,
		
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			CEOs,
		
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			leaders.
		
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			One of the biggest lessons that you can
		
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			learn from these is just basically decent interaction,
		
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			interaction skills,
		
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			skills of discourse.
		
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			You're you're always whenever you're with somebody else,
		
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			you're going to hear something
		
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			that you may not like
		
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			Because not everybody is going to always speak
		
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			at your level
		
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			or interact at your level
		
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			or do things that will be always pleasing
		
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			to you. Because we're human beings. Every human
		
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			being has
		
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			an
		
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			individual identity,
		
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			behavioral pattern,
		
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			customs,
		
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			conduct, and so on and so forth.
		
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			And until you live with someone
		
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			for a very long time,
		
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			that they understand you, what you like and
		
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			what you don't like,
		
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			and you understand them as to what they
		
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			like
		
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			and what they don't like, and you've
		
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			adjusted yourself to that,
		
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			then until then, you're gonna have to learn
		
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			to just deal with it. And even after
		
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			that, sometimes something may happen from your partner
		
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			that you may feel a bit strange because
		
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			you may think I've lived with somebody for
		
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			5 years or 70 years. I know everything
		
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			about them, but sometimes you could even be
		
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			surprised after that. Generally not. I mean, the
		
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			more you live with somebody so closely, so
		
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			intimately,
		
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			you you get to know them.
		
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			So marriage is all about adjustment,
		
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			massive adjustment. If you're going to stick to
		
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			your,
		
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			you know, if you're going to stick to
		
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			your position and you don't want to make
		
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			a change even when you think you're absolutely
		
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			right, you may be right. You may be
		
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			right.
		
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			But they may also be right from the
		
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			perspective in which they're looking at it. So
		
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			then if everybody is going to not try
		
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			to understand the other's perspective
		
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			because they think they're right. And again, you
		
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			can have cases where 2 people who are
		
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			arguing with one another could both be right
		
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			but in their own ways.
		
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			But
		
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			until they don't listen to the other way
		
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			they will never understand
		
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			how
		
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			you can be right and also not be
		
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			flexible enough to try to adjust.
		
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			That's
		
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			something that you will eventually only learn from
		
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			experience if nobody tells you that. Because always
		
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			we think we're right.
		
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			And in a marriage you've got so much
		
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			invested.
		
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			You've got so much invested that you can't
		
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			just basically
		
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			spoil it through a basic excuse
		
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			So one of the really core ingredients of
		
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			marriage
		
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			is adjustment,
		
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			and willing to
		
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			make a difference
		
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			and willing to sacrifice
		
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			your opinion
		
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			to listen to the other person.
		
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			So husband and wife have to learn to
		
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			understand one another.
		
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			One of the biggest problems in in marriage
		
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			is where one partner
		
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			expects the other person to know better.
		
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			She should know. He should just know that.
		
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			Why doesn't he get it? Everybody knows that.
		
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			My family, you know, because your your reference
		
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			point is probably your own family and friends.
		
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			Your partner may be from a totally different
		
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			family where their customs are totally different.
		
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			Behavioral patterns are totally different.
		
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			So you may think well I know it,
		
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			I get it, it's as clear as daylight,
		
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			why don't why doesn't he or she get
		
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			it?
		
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			So you can see there's a lot for
		
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			turmoil, that's why a marriage is an investment,
		
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			it's a religious investment in a couple, that's
		
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			why we don't believe in loose
		
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			dating,
		
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			because in dating, it's a very loose relationship.
		
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			And soon soon,
		
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			you're going to find out about a defect.
		
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			Because everybody has weaknesses, everybody has shortcomings and
		
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			defects. You can only
		
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			act
		
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			up to a certain point and behave in
		
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			a certain way.
		
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			Eventually, after you've become a bit informal,
		
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			our weaknesses will show.
		
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			So when you've got no investment, as in
		
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			you've not taken any vows, there's not been
		
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			any marriage ceremony,
		
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			and you're just basically trying to get to
		
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			know one another such in a dating process,
		
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			then it's easy to say okay I'm not
		
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			interested in this.
		
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			And
		
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			sometimes people who have been from divorced families
		
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			need to be even more careful
		
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			Because they've seen divorce, they've lived in a
		
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			divorced situation.
		
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			So sometimes it may they may think that
		
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			I can take it lightly because I'm used
		
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			to that situation.
		
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			So sometimes there are statistics which show that
		
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			people from divorced families could end up repeating
		
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			that.
		
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			And it doesn't have to be the case,
		
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			I know so many people from divorced families
		
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			whose parents were divorced and mashAllah they are
		
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			very happy marriages.
		
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			So you mustn't think that you're doomed just
		
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			because your parents were divorced. That should not
		
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			be the case.
		
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			So the main thing is to try to
		
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			understand one another.
		
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			And Masha'Allah, once people can be made to
		
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			understand one another, either by themselves if they're
		
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			being proactive,
		
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			or with the help of
		
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			a friend or a Maulana, a sheikh, a
		
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			counselor, whatever the case is, you'd be surprised
		
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			that where you thought that your marriage was
		
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			literally on the rocks and it was gonna
		
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			end, how it can be brought back. And
		
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			I know alhamdulillah many many happy stories about
		
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			that.
		
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			Right? So it's not just all bad stories,
		
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			there are huge amount of stories about divorce,
		
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			There's no doubt about that. But there are
		
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			also a lot of stories about people just
		
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			carrying on.
		
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			So I dealt with a case
		
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			several years back.
		
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			And masha'Allah, that couple is
		
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			a wonderful couple now.
		
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			But they were on the rocks essentially.
		
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			And the conflict was not necessarily between husband
		
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			and wife fundamentally.
		
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			They were fine with one another. The husband
		
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			is an easygoing man.
		
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			The wife may have been a bit stubborn
		
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			because of the condition in which she was,
		
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			in that she was living with her in
		
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			laws.
		
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			And
		
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			essentially, the father-in-law, she must have said something
		
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			or she once took off when it became
		
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			a bit unbearable for her.
		
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			And sometimes, you know, women do go through
		
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			hormonal
		
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			challenges,
		
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			right? And basically she left. Eventually she left.
		
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			The father-in-law took this as a massive insult,
		
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			unforgiving.
		
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			And you have that, sometimes the parents are
		
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			unforgiving. It's not something you can you have
		
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			to try extra hard to get get out
		
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			of this situation because the parents are unrelenting.
		
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			So he just wouldn't wanna forgive her. And
		
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			he basically told his son that you can't
		
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			basically bring her back here.
		
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			So now, generally speaking, even if you're okay
		
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			with your wife or husband,
		
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			a lot of the time
		
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			the parents' influence is huge.
		
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			Where there's no problem, the parents could actually
		
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			because
		
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			they
		
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			see a bit of
		
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			a difference in terms of the daughter that
		
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			she's brought into the house,
		
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			the daughter-in-law as such. She doesn't conform to
		
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			their ways fully. They're not willing to give
		
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			her time yet. They want her to be
		
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			just the same as
		
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			them, right, in the way they cook, in
		
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			the way they get up in the morning,
		
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			in the way they, go to sleep at
		
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			night, or in the way she uses the
		
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			bathroom, or whatever the case is, if she
		
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			cleans up after her, doesn't clean up, or
		
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			is not there or not there, she goes
		
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			home too much,
		
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			all of these things they want her to
		
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			be sometimes they just want her to be
		
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			the same as them right from the first
		
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			they don't understand that people have to be
		
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			trained
		
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			They think like this is a homogeneous world
		
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			we live in. It's just sad. I mean,
		
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			you can't change that. You're going to have
		
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			to help them to understand that. So the
		
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			father put a lot of pressure on her.
		
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			I mean, you you understand what I'm saying
		
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			is that sometimes you may be completely fine,
		
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			but then
		
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			you you could be basically convinced otherwise.
		
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			If not fully convinced, you could be influenced
		
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			otherwise, and then you get torn between 2
		
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			situations.
		
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			That's why the husband's job, especially if he's
		
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			living with his parents
		
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			and his wife, even if he's not, it's
		
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			always gonna be a difficult situation.
		
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			It's always gonna be a difficult situation,
		
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			especially for our communities where the wife comes
		
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			to the husband's family.
		
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			You know,
		
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			before
		
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			before I carry on with this, there
		
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			are at least 2 societies in the world
		
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			where the husband actually moves into the women's
		
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			side of the family.
		
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			And initially when I heard about that, I
		
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			thought that was really strange. I thought that
		
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			was unmanly,
		
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			not chivalrous, because at the end of the
		
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			day, it's the man who has to provide,
		
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			right?
		
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			But in the it's in their culture. It's
		
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			in their culture that the husband goes to
		
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			the wife's house,
		
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			the parents, and that's where they stay until
		
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			they can buy their own place. So you've
		
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			got the among the Tamil community in Sri
		
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			Lanka,
		
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			right? Because I was invited by one of
		
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			my students or friends there and he said,
		
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			this is actually my father in law's house.
		
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			So what are you doing in your father
		
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			in law's house? That's so unmanly.
		
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			Like, what would you be doing in your
		
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			wife's, your in law's house? He says, that's
		
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			a tradition. That's among tradition. I was just
		
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			like, why? Like, what do you you know,
		
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			what what is this tradition? I tried to
		
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			understand the wisdom because, you know, we can
		
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			be very judgmental.
		
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			And then later, I actually found that in
		
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			Malaysia, it's similar.
		
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			So in at least in many of the
		
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			Malaysian communities, at least what the one Pakistani
		
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			brother, Pakistani sheikh I met there who's actually
		
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			married to a Malaysian, this is their this
		
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			is the way they do things as well.
		
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			So you know what the benefit of it
		
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			is?
		
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			There's actually a benefit in there. When the
		
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			wife has to come to the husband's house,
		
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			which means his mother,
		
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			then it's not her mother, so
		
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			there could be that conflict.
		
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			But if she's at her own house, she's
		
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			going to be the dweller in the house.
		
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			The husband is coming in and out.
		
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			It's easier for the husband to adjust
		
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			because a lot of it is to do
		
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			around with the kitchen and food and stuff
		
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			like that. A lot of the conflict between
		
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			mother-in-law and son daughter-in-law is to do with
		
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			kitchen and food and stuff, right? Well, that's
		
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			where it manifests itself. So here, she's working
		
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			under her own mother.
		
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			She's learning to cook there if she doesn't
		
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			know how to cook. She's just come out
		
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			of education or whatever the case is, or
		
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			she's marrying young and she her mother can
		
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			can help her cook and guide her and
		
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			so on and so forth. As long as
		
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			the mother as long as now they're fine
		
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			with the son-in-law,
		
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			Generally, in many traditions, except one tradition that
		
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			I've heard of, and I don't necessarily need
		
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			to take their name, but there's only one
		
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			tradition where I know where the husband where
		
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			the son-in-law has to actually work
		
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			as, you know, he has to basically serve
		
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			when he comes. Otherwise, in most of the
		
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			traditions that I know about, the son-in-law is
		
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			respected, is honored,
		
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			is there's real hospitality.
		
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			And that's why in some traditions they actually
		
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			call going for the man to go to
		
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			his in law's house, jannatkagar.
		
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			Right? Basically, because you're going to get really
		
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			good. Right? And I'm sure that's in your
		
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			traditions as well, everybody sitting here, right? When
		
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			you go to your in laws, you get
		
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			usually well, you should be treated well.
		
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			But,
		
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			so there's less of a conflict like that.
		
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			I'm not saying we need to change our
		
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			tradition,
		
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			because this would be, at least in some
		
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			Indian community this would be completely unmanly to
		
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			do. But I see the wisdom in it.
		
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			I see that it probably works even better.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Although if that was an obligation, it would
		
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			be very hard on the parents because already
		
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			in many communities we have problems
		
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			of
		
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			paying jahrs. Alhamdulillah, I don't have that in
		
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			the Gujati community, but in, I think it's
		
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			a Bangladeshi community, UP community, maybe Hyderabadi community
		
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			and others, where the women has to basically
		
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			kit out the house, put furniture in the
		
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			house and everything and the fathers are, they've
		
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			got a few daughters they're complaining about it.
		
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			So going back to what we were saying,
		
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			this couple, the father didn't want her back
		
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			in the house, and she knew that it
		
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			was very difficult for her to stay in
		
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			the house anyway. So what what else do
		
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			you do now? The son didn't have enough
		
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			money to move out. He's the only son
		
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			in fact.
		
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			He's the father's only son.
		
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			So
		
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			practically speaking he's his only son he he
		
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			doesn't want to leave his father as well
		
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			he's a very he's a he's a very
		
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			masha'Allah serving person like he he's he's very
		
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			generous very serving
		
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			very soft hearted person, he doesn't want to
		
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			leave his father as well. So what do
		
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			you do then?
		
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			The next thing is divorce. Okay, let's find
		
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			somebody else who can work with my father.
		
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			Alhamdulillah,
		
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			they came
		
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			and
		
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			managed to speak sense into both of them.
		
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			And I said, look, you've got no problem
		
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			with that. I believe that I already had
		
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			a child by
		
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			then. I said,
		
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			you can basically not just give her up.
		
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			Because I realized at the bottom of it
		
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			they had their small minor issues but the
		
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			bigger issue was with the in laws not
		
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			with the husband and wife and they had
		
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			a child together at least one child
		
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			I said you're gonna you're gonna have to
		
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			go out of your way to preserve this
		
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			marriage
		
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			even if that means that you have to
		
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			move out of your house somehow
		
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			And the possibility was that
		
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			he could actually go
		
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			and stay.
		
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			And I think the way they initially did
		
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			it was that he would stay with his
		
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			parents for 5 days of the week or
		
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			something like that, and then for 2 days
		
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			the weekend, he would spend with her.
		
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			And alhamdulillah, now they've got their own house,
		
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			and they're separate, and they're living peacefully,
		
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			both of them. And it's been several years
		
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			since then.
		
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			So sometimes what happens is that you have
		
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			to make a big change and adjustment to
		
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			get it right.
		
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			A lot of people are waiting for a
		
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			miracle,
		
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			especially the in laws, they're waiting for miracles.
		
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			Another case that I dealt with,
		
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			where
		
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			the son, the only son who is living
		
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			with the father,
		
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			got married, and, masha Allah, the daughter-in-law
		
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			got along very well with the father, and
		
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			there was no problems at all.
		
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			Then the mother-in-law had passed away. So the
		
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			father decided to get married again, which is,
		
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			again, not a problem that he got married.
		
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			He got married again. And now a conflict
		
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			arose between
		
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			the stepmother as such of the son right
		
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			so the father's new wife and the daughter-in-law
		
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			and again if you look at both of
		
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			these individuals they're completely fine on their own
		
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			The step the mother and the daughter-in-law, they're
		
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			both fine on their own. But when you
		
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			put them together, they just can't function. Again,
		
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			most of it to do with cleaning and
		
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			kitchen issues,
		
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			Right? Just different,
		
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			different styles. Someone wants to cook early. Someone
		
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			doesn't want to cook early. Which day do
		
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			you cook? What type of food do you
		
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			cook? Because the the stepmother is from another
		
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			country,
		
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			right? So she is focused on Indian food,
		
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			whereas the
		
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			the daughter-in-law is cooking more non Indian food
		
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			more western food.
		
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			SubhanAllah, you know everything can be a conflict
		
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			essentially.
		
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			So they tried 1, 2 years saying all
		
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			sorts, blaming this person, blaming that person, all
		
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			the rest of it.
		
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			Right. Massive issue.
		
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			Alhamdulillah,
		
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			finally what they did was they separated,
		
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			they made a separate flat upstairs
		
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			for the son to move in with his
		
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			family.
		
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			Right? There's no door in between, but it's
		
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			just that their kitchens are separate,
		
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			their cooking quarters are separate, their main rooms
		
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			are
		
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			separate and everything, but they share other aspects.
		
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			And now, alhamdulillah, they both get along. Both
		
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			these women, they get along perfectly.
		
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			So you have to of course it cost
		
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			them it may have cost them a £100,000
		
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			to basically make that change in the house
		
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			to you know make a loft so you
		
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			get a few extra rooms
		
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			to basically make another kitchen
		
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			and all the rest of it, alhamdulillah they
		
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			get along now.
		
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			There are so many stories like that And
		
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			if they don't do that, and if they
		
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			don't think proactively and practically, then what just
		
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			happens is that they
		
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			it ends up in divorce.
		
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			And okay, if it's just husband and wife,
		
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			they've got no children, understandable, move along, it's
		
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			okay. But where that's not the case,
		
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			right, where that's not the case,
		
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			then you need to try to do your
		
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			especially when husband and wife don't have the
		
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			conflict.
		
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			I'm talking about cases where husband wife were
		
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			fine between them
		
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			but all of this was putting pressure on
		
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			that marriage
		
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			So these are alhamdulillah good stories. There is
		
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			yet another story
		
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			of a couple
		
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			who got married, and the woman who got
		
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			married
		
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			was told that she's going to be moving
		
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			in with the in laws.
		
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			And not just that, it was just the
		
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			mother-in-law, the father-in-law passed away.
		
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			And her husband to be has actually a
		
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			disabled brother and 2 disabled sisters, if I've
		
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			got that right. Right? So there's 3 disabled
		
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			people in the house. She's going to be
		
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			moving into that, and she realizes
		
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			very clearly that she's going to have to
		
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			be of great service there. She's going to
		
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			have to work hard. And she's fine, she
		
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			said, that's fine.
		
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			I'm willing to do the khidmah, mashaAllah.
		
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			You know, you got people who want to
		
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			do that khidmah, they don't mind going into
		
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			that scene. So she goes in, she gets
		
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			married and everything.
		
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			Now imagine it, the husband, it's the husband
		
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			who has a massive role,
		
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			right? And of course, the wife has a
		
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			role, but the husband has a bigger role
		
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			because it's his in laws that we're talking,
		
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			it's his parents that we're talking about.
		
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			Now what happens is, she's working, no problem.
		
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			But anytime there's a slight issue,
		
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			the mother-in-law stops talking to her for days
		
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			on end.
		
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			That's her way of dealing with it.
		
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			That's just her way. She's just very sensitive.
		
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			If you're sensitive like that, then see yourself
		
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			in this position that you may do this.
		
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			Or are you already doing it? We just
		
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			give the silent treatment, is there no other
		
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			way you can deal with it?
		
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			I know husbands and wives and other people
		
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			who have conflicts
		
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			but they never break up. Breaking up and
		
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			not speaking to one another is not in
		
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			their vocabulary.
		
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			It is such a babyish thing to do.
		
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			I tell my children the same thing
		
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			right
		
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			that you cannot
		
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			break up with anybody
		
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			because they come back and they say he
		
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			is not speaking to such and such a
		
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			person I said that's just so silly
		
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			have your little argument whatever sort it out
		
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			and go carry on
		
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			this attitude that I'm going to yes there
		
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			are serious cases, serious cases where you may
		
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			have to shun somebody for a while
		
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			But if you're going to do this for
		
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			every small thing, then what kind of a
		
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			punishment is that even to somebody?
		
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			Punishments have to be proportionate,
		
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			if you even think it's a punishment.
		
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			So she used to get the cold shoulder,
		
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			the cold treatment for 2, 3, you know,
		
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			2, 3 days. How can you live like
		
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			that in a house where your husband's mostly
		
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			out doing work and it's you and your
		
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			mother-in-law? I mean, you're living like a stranger,
		
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			right, but you can't speak to the other
		
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			person.
		
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			So the husband looks at this issue. Now
		
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			remember that
		
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			most husbands won't have
		
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			3 siblings
		
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			who are disabled,
		
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			who need help,
		
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			right?
		
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			And those kind of people even find it
		
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			hard to move out or to take the
		
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			step to move out.
		
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			Allah blessed this guy,
		
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			he found a house close by and he
		
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			moved out with his wife.
		
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			Initially, that's tough because it's like you're forsaking
		
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			us, you're abandoning us, but that wasn't, this
		
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			was a strategic move.
		
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			A lot of the time the solution is
		
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			in this.
		
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			So he did that
		
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			and today, alhamdulillah, there's no problem again. And
		
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			they've been it's been over 10 years
		
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			since that move
		
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			so initially these kind of things feel difficult
		
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			because parents
		
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			have a certain
		
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			future vision that I'm going to have I
		
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			chose you out of all my children, I
		
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			chose you to stay with me.
		
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			You are my most beloved son,
		
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			you are the one who I thought is
		
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			going to do my khidma,
		
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			right? And now you want to move out
		
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			because of this foreign woman that's coming in
		
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			the house,
		
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			right? But little do they know that that's
		
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			the only way to deal with it sometimes.
		
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			Otherwise,
		
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			you may get rid of this wife,
		
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			what's gonna happen if he brings if you
		
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			get married to somebody else? And you know,
		
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			a lot of the time, it's actually
		
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			nieces, and it's actually their own niece sometimes.
		
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			It's not even
		
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			somebody from another family, it's actually the mother's
		
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			own niece that they're having this problem with
		
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			sometimes.
		
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			So the solution to all of this is
		
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			to think proactively,
		
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			practically,
		
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			and be willing to
		
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			make a big adjustment.
		
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			But the husband's responsibility is the biggest responsibility
		
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			because
		
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			this is what the challenge is really. You
		
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			know what the challenge is? When the mother-in-law
		
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			who's been bringing up her son, doting on
		
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			him and everything, he gets married, there's another
		
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			woman who's a competition now, she may not
		
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			think of it as a competition but subconsciously
		
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			it's a competition.
		
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			I bought this guy up, I bought my
		
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			son up
		
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			and now this other
		
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			woman has an influence on him,
		
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			See what I'm saying? And from the wife's
		
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			perspective, it's like, he's my husband, he needs
		
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			to focus on me.
		
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			Right? So they all,
		
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			whether, you know, it's just about adjusting that
		
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			focus and adjusting that attention.
		
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			That's why the solution is huge amount of
		
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			dua,
		
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			right? Because your dua should start before your
		
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			marriage, and if you're already married and you're
		
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			having issues, it's not too late.
		
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			So
		
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			one of the most potent
		
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			and effective duas that I found is
		
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			It's at the end of Surat Al Furqan,
		
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			a few verses from the end.
		
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			And
		
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			Our Lord
		
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			grant us
		
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			from our spouses, so he works for both
		
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			husband and wife,
		
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			and from our progeny, so that children and
		
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			grandchildren, and it basically is effective for up
		
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			to the day of judgment whoever
		
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			will be born from your, you know, from
		
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			you,
		
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			Grant us from them source of joy
		
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			and delight for our eyes.
		
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			And make us
		
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			imams,
		
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			leaders
		
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			of
		
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			the righteous ones.
		
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			So you will be a force for good
		
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			if that dua gets accepted.
		
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			Ulema have written about this dua, that this
		
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			is such a powerful
		
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			dua of the Quran,
		
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			that
		
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			if you keep reading this and you basically
		
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			act practically and reasonably,
		
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			you will find that anything in your spouse
		
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			that is upsetting you, because
		
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			there is always going to be good points
		
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			and there is going to be bad points
		
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			and the problem arises when you make the
		
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			bad points magnified in your sight so that
		
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			you don't even see the good side anymore.
		
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			Oh yeah yeah she does she have any
		
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			good points brother?
		
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			Let me think. Yeah she does have a
		
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			few good points.
		
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			You know when I ask, oh she does
		
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			have a few good points. It's just totally
		
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			off the radar.
		
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			It's all about the bad points because they
		
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			become magnified. Humans have this ability to magnify
		
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			one point over the other.
		
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			What is racism?
		
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			That you magnified
		
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			your difference
		
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			based on your ethnicity or whatever. And for
		
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			other people where there are still different ethnicities,
		
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			they have no problem with that.
		
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			See what I'm saying? They have no problem
		
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			with that. It's just you've magnified a certain
		
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			idea in your mind. You just have to
		
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			demote it.
		
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			So what this dua does, it helps you
		
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			to manage that
		
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			fanaticism,
		
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			or manage that sensitivity,
		
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			or manage that focus.
		
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			So what the udama write is that either
		
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			Allah will actually remove their bad points that
		
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			bother you like eradicate them and it will
		
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			leave them or
		
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			Allah will cover them up
		
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			so that you will ignore them and they
		
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			won't be a big deal anymore. Which basically
		
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			means that they will be demoted in your
		
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			mind and the good points will become bigger.
		
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			And believe me, that's the only way to
		
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			deal with the marriage. Focus on the good.
		
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			And that's what the prophet said. No man
		
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			should hate a woman.
		
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			No husband should hate his wife. Because if
		
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			there's something that he's displeased with, there's going
		
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			to be radiya bihaukhra. There's going to be
		
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			other characteristics that he's pleased with. He's basically
		
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			saying
		
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			what the psychologist would tell you is focus
		
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			on the good, be positive,
		
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			magnify the positive,
		
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			let that make you happy.
		
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			Right? Of course, if somebody that doesn't mean
		
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			that the other person has no job and
		
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			no task at all. They have to obviously
		
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			try to subdue their bad qualities.
		
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			So for example,
		
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			if a if a man or woman has
		
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			no ability to seek forgiveness,
		
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			to apologize, because they never think they're wrong
		
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			and even if they know they're wrong they
		
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			just have this psychological
		
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			dilemma where they can't say sorry
		
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			then that's a massive issue
		
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			because it all comes from arrogance,
		
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			narcissism,
		
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			conceitedness,
		
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			pride
		
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			and that's why that is all
		
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			against good character. Good character is where you
		
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			moderated your behavior,
		
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			and you don't and you need you need
		
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			behavior,
		
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			moderated behavior, more
		
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			in marriage than probably in any other situation.
		
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			So
		
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			I hope that gives us a bit of
		
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			food for thought.
		
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			So that's one challenge about the in laws
		
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			and so on. The other challenge when you
		
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			get married since everybody's married here is when
		
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			the children arrives, when children arrive.
		
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			Generally, in this case, it's the women, because
		
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			now they've got to, they've had, they've been
		
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			through a lot of 9 months
		
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			of carrying the baby, it's not easy. There's
		
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			been massive hormonal changes.
		
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			There's a certain, you know,
		
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			intense connection and bonding with the child, sometimes
		
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			more than the husband has,
		
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			because he just did his job and she
		
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			had to carry the baby.
		
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			And she and then, of course, it may
		
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			be the first baby, may even be the
		
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			same one, and it's difficult. Some women just
		
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			don't know how to deal with it in
		
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			the beginning. You need a lot of help.
		
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			Right? Staying up at night, breastfeeding,
		
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			and all the rest of it. It's not
		
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			easy. So the husband needs to be careful
		
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			about that time. He needs to be supportive.
		
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			I want my right from you.
		
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			That's my fundamental right, he's saying.
		
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			Okay. That's fine. It is a fundamental right.
		
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			But don't you see that there's another there's
		
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			a baby now in place?
		
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			Are you gonna hate your own son or
		
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			daughter,
		
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			because you want your right?
		
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			But at the same time, women should not
		
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			use it as an excuse of where they
		
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			can oblige that they don't oblige.
		
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			And I mentioned this very in detail in
		
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			my book because this is,
		
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			aside from the in laws, the second biggest
		
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			issue is when children arise.
		
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			Right? And women, sometimes, you know, the husband
		
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			has to understand women sometimes do go through
		
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			postpartum depression,
		
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			which is a massive hormonal
		
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			challenge that they go through, and then just
		
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			not thinking right at that time as well.
		
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			But if I speak to the wives, you
		
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			know, I I have to tell them that
		
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			you do have to do your best.
		
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			Right? Tired, fatigued, whatever,
		
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			communicate, try to do your best.
		
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			Right? And try to brave up and and
		
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			to be stronger as well.
		
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			Both sides need to be sensitive about these
		
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			things. So in laws
		
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			are the first challenge. The second challenge is
		
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			basically when children's come children come about. And
		
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			then there are serious several other challenges. There
		
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			is money problems is another one.
		
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			Right? The husband doesn't give enough to the
		
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			wife to spend.
		
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			Right? Or he gives a very limited amount
		
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			and asks her for an itemized billing every
		
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			month.
		
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			Right? I mean, maybe I'll suggest that they
		
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			should use QuickBooks or something like that.
		
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			SubhanAllah, I mean, if your wife if your
		
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			husband is actually asking you for itemized billing,
		
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			then how are you gonna remember that? Right?
		
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			So maybe just nowadays you get apps, I
		
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			mean, I'm just trying to be helpful, like,
		
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			if that's how your husband is. Right? Husband
		
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			shouldn't do that.
		
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			Of course, if if the if one of
		
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			the partners is a spendthrift,
		
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			then it is, you know, it is kind
		
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			of the responsibility,
		
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			moral responsibility
		
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			for each one to to try to help
		
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			moderate that because,
		
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			you know, money has to come from somewhere.
		
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			And the prophet said that,
		
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			Moderation in your spending is half of your
		
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			livelihood
		
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			because you don't have necessarily always control of
		
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			what comes in, but you do have control
		
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			of what should go out. So you just
		
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			have to kind of tame
		
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			your spending,
		
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			your standard, and things like that. So that's
		
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			another generally conflict that I've spoken about. And
		
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			another conflict is basically intimacy matters.
		
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			That sometimes can be one of the biggest
		
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			conflicts, intimacy matters. I've alluded to it earlier,
		
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			but intimacy issues.
		
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			One person is not fulfilled.
		
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			Right? 1 of the spouses are not fulfilled.
		
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			How do you deal with that?
		
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			Right? Because sometimes there's an embarrassment, you know,
		
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			there's a shyness aspect.
		
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			When it comes to husband and wife, there
		
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			should be no shyness, to be honest.
		
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			But you don't want to say it in
		
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			a vulgar way either.
		
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			So each
		
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			of the partners,
		
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			each of the spouses need to be open
		
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			with one another about their needs and their
		
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			desires.
		
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			Right? And the other one should be willing
		
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			to give
		
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			whatever is halal in a marital relationship, especially
		
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			today when we're living in an overly
		
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			hypersexualized
		
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			world,
		
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			where things are basically available at your fingertips.
		
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			And unfortunately some people may already
		
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			have ideas from from such venues,
		
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			so then it becomes even more complicated.
		
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			So that's why whatever's halal should, you know,
		
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			should be voiced to one another
		
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			in an appropriate way. And they should muster
		
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			up enough courage to be able to do
		
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			that, to to say, this is what I
		
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			would like, and this is what you would
		
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			like, or what would you like? I mean,
		
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			they should be proactive in that.
		
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			So that's another thing.
		
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			Constraint of space,
		
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			these are all different conflicts, but Alhamdulillah,
		
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			where people are willing to make a change
		
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			and want to make it survive,
		
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			then yes, it takes sacrifice,
		
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			it requires major adjustment, but it can be,
		
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			Insha'Allah.
		
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			So I think I'll
		
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			stop there,
		
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			Hopefully, that's beneficial in terms of the the
		
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			various things and