Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – What is Sufism A Formal Explanation Part 1

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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The speakers discuss the concept of Sufism, a belief in protecting one's soul and the importance of following Sharia laws. They emphasize the need for consistency and finding the best person to guide them, as well as the importance of practicing Sharia laws for achieving success in life. They also discuss issues related to Islam, such as problems with crops and clothing, and the need for forgiveness and control over one's bodies. The conversation is difficult to follow and the potential for chaos and chaos to take the greatest benefit from vicar is discussed.
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa

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Salatu was Salam ala so you didn't know Salim. While he was sabiki or

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Baraka was unlimited Sleeman Kathira en el Iommi been Ummah

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buried.

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For the next several sessions, what I'm going to be covering is

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a description and detail of what

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the soul Wolf is all about what Sufism is supposed to be all

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about.

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There's obviously a lot of misunderstanding and confusion

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about the soul of Sufism, spirituality Teskey, or however

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you want to call it, despite the fact that it's such an important

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part, meaning the essence of it is such an important part of any

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Muslims life. Without it, you can't really reach Allah because

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it's all about two things. One is connecting yourself to Allah

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purifying the heart, purifying the heart, also to inter interact with

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others. So to develop our clock with others and develop, develop

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our clock with ourselves and Allah subhanaw taala. And nobody can

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deny that that's essentially the core of it. But unfortunately,

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there's a lot of misrepresentation.

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You see, if you've got a teacher who teaches Hadith, or who teaches

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Tafseer, or to teach his jurisprudence,

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then

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there's not as much room for abuse within that teaching or within

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that environment of students teacher relationship.

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But when you've got a

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teacher of somebody who's seen as a teacher of the soul of

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spirituality, in which you have to have a very close relationship,

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and a lot of the time you actually

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end up in order to correct ourselves, we end up revealing

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things about ourselves to teach, there has to be a very strong

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relationship, it's a proper interaction.

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To get to get something out of it, there has to be an interaction.

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To have a shake, you need to be able to interact with them, just

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to go and take bait, or with somebody great that you never see

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again, or that you just see from afar. Well, you get a bit of

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Baraka with that. But

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you don't have that same connection, you need to be with

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somebody that you can speak to, and then somebody that can respond

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to you, because of that close relationship. And because there's

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going to be a lot of love engendered within that.

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There's a lot of room for abuse.

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And the abuse is that

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people who are in that position, they may take advantage of those

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people who have come to them,

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the position of being respected and revered, and people

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coming to you confiding in you being at your service and helping

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you

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can sometimes get to you.

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Motives can change intentions can change.

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And because of the abuse that has taken place,

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within that

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sometimes the soul ends up getting a bad name.

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Because of the problems that have become part of it, unfortunately,

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in places,

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not just that, in order to keep people coming.

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People then innovate

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popular practices, things that work. Okay, let's add a bit of

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this so that people will come in, I mean, look at the Christians,

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right. I remember reading an article once that they're having

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these kinds of pop concerts, you know, in churches and so on to

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attract the youth.

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So, you then try to justify the means by the end, and thinking

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that okay, if this brings in more people, then let us say that this

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is permissible as well. So there's a lot of room for abuse in this as

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has happened. And over the centuries as well. Things have

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gone wrong, people are being criticized and Sufis are being

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criticized. And so he's been defended. But otherwise, it's

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actually essentially just goes down to the purity of religion.

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That's really what it is. So what I want to do today, a lot of the

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time, I mean, if I'm to ask you today, right, how many of you have

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heard of the soul for Sufism?

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Right. I mean, I would say, at least, most of you, majority of

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you have heard of this over Sufism.

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How many of you have actually studied it in any kind of formal

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sense?

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Where you've actually covered a textbook written by a great

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scholar, or one of the great scholars of the past that detail

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what it's all about? What are the prerequisites of it? What are the

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conditions for it, what are the benefits of it? What is the

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subject matter of it, you know, as a proper science, hardly anybody

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I mean, I didn't study it for a very long time.

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So that's why anybody can tell you whatever it is, especially if

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you're kind of a bit broken bit soft, are you a bit depressed, you

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need some help with something, maybe you've just lost your job,

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maybe you've just lost a loved one. And then you're looking for

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that, you know, you're looking at somebody's taking your income to

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the shake, this is great shake this lot. This happens that

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happens.

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So because of the fact that unfortunately, some people have

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abused this position, it's been given a bad name. We want to set

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the record straight, we want to, I want to cover the soul from one of

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a great scholar that I respect. He was a Maliki scholar from Egypt's

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I've actually been visited. He's he's actually buried behind the

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the jungle as far right as the university is actually buried

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behind buried. Actually, no, he's not very, yes, he is. He's very

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good. That's right. And his name is Sheikh Ahmed, even know

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Muhammad Allah either way, but more well known as Imam that,

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indeed, that was what he was well known as. And this is from his al

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Qaeda, Al Bahia, which is essentially a book on this book on

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Aqeedah. So he's written this great text anarchy data. It's a

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poem with a commentary. And at the end of it, he's got a section that

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talks about Sufism, so what exactly it is, and now I want you

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to listen carefully to this and see if any of this is

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questionable. You'll find that there's nothing in this is

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supposed to be here to solve anything beyond that is not the

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safe.

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So he starts off and he says that

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well, how they shouldn't I mean, who somehow hula hoops or if you

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find it the soul of a lady who are hired to collude,

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this is the beginning. This is his beginning May Allah pardon him May

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Allah Most like Pong and he was talking about himself actually,

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because he writes the poem at the top in which is unclear on mindig

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Rehabil Adobe thermocol beha Turca we have a victory at the router be

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such a wonderful poem, for Karen min Vickery, Habil, Adobe

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thermocol, behind the decree or Allah Ruby, which means you need

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to abundantly remember him but with etickets abundantly remember

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Allah but with the with etickets. And by this, you will ascend by

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this remembrance, you will ascend to the highest of stations and

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positions. So he's now commenting on that. And he says that the poet

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which is himself essentially as he's writing his commentary, as

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the third person to this poem is very interesting. Right? So he

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says that may Allah have mercy on him, he starts to discuss the

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subject of the soul, which is the life of the hearts so right off he

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explains the soul as being the life of the heart. It's a it's a

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it's a spiritual nourishment, basically.

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rotable who are Allah MADI fatty, aka aidil Iman,

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he says that he brought in after discussing all of the articles of

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faith because remember, this is a book on Aqeedah primarily Liana

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hula you I'm gonna say it ilaha illa bear the Mardi Fatiha. He's

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talking about the reason why he's, he's mentioned this at the end of

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an Akita section Aqeedah book, because after the beliefs creed is

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all about trying to recognize Allah and know Him.

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Now basically adding this on at the end, he's trying to say that

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this is the now the practical way to actually now get to Allah

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subhanaw taala now that you've learned about Allah, what you

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should believe about Allah and His messenger and what you what you

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shouldn't believe about Allah and His messenger, what is correct to

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believe what is necessary to be now I want to show you the way to

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get to Allah, which is through the practice of the soul.

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Right, the practice of Sufism, so this is, for the first time for

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most of us, right? We're going to do a formal study of what the soul

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is all about. So he says, 30 with the soul, the definition of the

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soul, had the soul fear element

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is who or ailment we are sold in Europe will be his Salah who will

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be was it will help us. He is going to define the soul in two

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ways he is going to define the soul as a science, then he's going

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to define the soul as a practice. Right? This is very interesting.

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The soul for the science is the knowledge of those principles by

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which

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by which the soundness of the heart can be recognized, and the

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soundness of all other parts of your body, the soundness of all of

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your other senses. By this knowledge, you will be able to

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figure out how to make sound the heart and how to make sound all of

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our senses, our eyes, our hearing, our

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touching, etcetera. That's what the CIO seeks to tell us what to

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do what is right and what is wrong in gaining soundness of the heart

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to get a call wound study.

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In. In practice, though, he says why men who will loop will

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outwards, meaning more out wished enablement he yards in terms of

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practice, it is to adopt the most precocious way in everything that

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has been ordered.

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So everything that has been ordered, and sometimes you may say

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that, Oh, there's this and there's that I'm confused which one to

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take this one is more, he says take the most precocious one.

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To adopt the most precocious position in everything, watch the

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enablement here and to abandon that those things which are

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forbidden. And then he says, Well episode, we're gonna do reality

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middle mobile hat. So we know that one of those things that we are

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obligated to do, so we must do those. And we must do the most

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precocious one in those things, even if there's a difference of

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opinion. And then he says, those things which have been prohibited

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completely abandon them. And then all of those things which are

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permitted, MOBA, the neutral permitted, only do those as much

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as is necessary. Only do of that whatever is essential.

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So for example,

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you can eat as long as it's halal, you can eat, but only eat as much

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as is essential.

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Don't eat too much.

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speaking to somebody is permissible, but only speak to

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somebody as much as is essential. So in everything that is generally

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seen as permitted, while Deuce do it if it's necessary. Now, I know

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this is a very high standard, right? Don't get put off by this.

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It is just to get us away from the distractions that we already have

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to at least get us somewhere closer. May Allah give us Sophia.

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So that is the definition both from a scientific perspective, but

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from a technical perspective, and from a practical perspective,

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where you call and he says, Look, it's also said some people have

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also defined it as follows. Who will do his Saluki Illa, medical

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MOOC.

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This is to exercise absolute seriousness, this is to be

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serious, firmly resolute.

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In trying to

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follow the path to the King of all kings. That's another way of

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putting it to be serious and to say bus. That's it. I just want to

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follow the path to my Lord, the King of all kings. Yet there's

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another you see, because for everybody who's gotten into this,

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and who's experienced the benefits of it, everybody's going to

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describe it in different way.

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Because this is how they see it. And they all correct, right, none

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of these contradict each other. They're just different ways of

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looking at it.

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Where you kind of have don't have a see one more or two unforeseen.

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Right. So this fourth definition says that this is protecting your

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senses, guarding your senses, and guarding your every breath.

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What am I doing with? How do you guard your breath? Breath in

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breathing is spontaneous. The only time you actually become conscious

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of your breath is when you've got a breathing problem. Otherwise,

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who thinks of their breath? Pray the only time that you actually

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think you're breathing is when you've got a breathing problem.

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You can't breathe properly or when you're trying not to breathe

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because you're hiding somewhere you don't want anybody who

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otherwise when would you think about your bread? So the ideas

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it'd be so conscious of yourself that Allahu Akbar that we never

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set a foot wrong Allah help us, Allah help us, Allah help us. I

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pray to Allah does on empty words, that he make these a reality for

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all of us.

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Well, Marina motorcar says that all of these have a similar

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meaning all of these definitions have a similar meaning. Okay, well

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higher to

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what what is, what is the objective? Because, you know, when

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you study a science, they generally are being what is

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objective? What are your

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What did they say that outcomes? What did he use in this modern

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education, language? These are the outcomes. These are your key

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stages, I get really troubled by all of these school terms that

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they use because they seem so foreign. Right? They weren't they

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my time when I was studying at school, this is all new now.

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You know, it's, you're in year six, you're in year nine, just

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tell him what age you are man.

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I get confused with these things. So, I have a problem with them.

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Anyway, he says the subject matter is a logical Muhammadiyah mean

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hated the whole leukemia.

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What is what what will you achieve if you do this?

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What is the final goal right one of those goals sorry, one of his

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higher the higher is sallahu. wasa it will help us with Dounia while

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photos will be parallel Marathi bifilar Aqua what the objective

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that you will gain the the result that you will have from this is

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sound

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wholeness of the heart, and all of your senses in the dunya because

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that's what we need in the dunya the heart to be sound, and the

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senses to be sound, but in the hereafter to win to be a champion

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of the highest levels of the Hereafter

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to basically attain the highest levels of the Hereafter that is

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what we will be promised, we are promised if you do this, okay,

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what is it subject matter then what do you have to work on? What

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is the subject matter of medicine?

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The human body I guess, right biology,

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what is the subject matter matter of grammar?

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Language. So, what is the subject matter of the soul of Sufism?

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He says Allah called Mohamed El Amin hated the Leukemia, the

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Muhammad and characteristics Muhammad and character the sublime

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character, Rasulullah sallallahu sallam.

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But not just as a study of how great the Prophet salallahu Salam

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was, look how great his characters, that's not the subject

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matter. The subject matter is how do we become imbibed with that

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character. So it's essentially the human being the human body, the

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human characteristic, the human psyche, the human behavior, that's

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the subject matter of how we can implement that a flock of Muhammad

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.

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Now, there's a few terms in terms that he clarifies because you

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know, once you get into the solf, and you start reading the books of

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to solve and you start listening to the scholars after so they're

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going to be talking about tariqa. Right? Which study guide you in

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fact, if you go to Turkey today, they don't just ask you what month

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have you or they say a DECA like Western ego you have which order

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to solve Sufi odo. Right? So what a study come in, then of course,

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we know the word Sharia. So what's the difference between Polycom and

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Sharia? And then there's another word Hachiko. Right? These are the

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US How will he is he the saw, he will Hachiko? He's a he's a

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purpose of reality. So Haqiqa means reality. Sharia generally

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means sacred law. And tariqa means a path. But he's going to describe

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how these terms are related from a Sufi context. Right? So those who

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are listening and who've who've been basically until now, we've

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always thought the self is a bad thing. And Sufism is like an evil

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and it's a bitter and it's a shipwreck and you know, all the

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all the rest of it that generally you find online that people say

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right, people who are to me don't understand it, they say, Oh, they

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see the bad to solve, and they say that, I want you to open your mind

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and just bear with me until we finish this off, then make your

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judgment. Right, because a lot of the time, this is the exact thing

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that we're saying to non Muslims in this country. We're saying that

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you are judging Muslims by the few people who do crazy acts. Have you

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ever read the Quran? Have you ever read the hadith of rasool Allah,

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the Prophet, messenger of allah sallallahu sallam? Have you ever

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interacted with a good Muslim? They'll say no. So how can you

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make that judgment? We all make that same mistake. When it comes

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to other things, we probably make the same mistakes when it comes to

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other religions. Other means we find like the worst case scenario,

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I remember, I read an article about something that some Jews or

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Christians do, right, and I had that in my mind. So that the last

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time I was actually with this group in an interfaith program,

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and I had, you know, I had to make a discussion, I had to discuss

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something. So I managed to cry. They say, No, that's just like

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some extreme extreme people who do this. Nobody in the mainstream

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believe that, or do that practice. It happens all over the place. And

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we humans, we don't like somebody or somebody is different than as

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soon as we hear something bad about them, we form an opinion

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about them. This is what the majority of people do.

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Unfortunately, not everybody is very scientific and reserves their

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view, right, I only learnt it because I have to do counseling,

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and somebody comes to you, and they tell you, the wife comes in,

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she tells you about the husband, right. And if you've formulated an

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opinion already, you're in trouble. Because when you take it

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to the husband, you're already going to be biased. And then when

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you actually listen to the husband, and you overcome your

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bias, and you start getting biased on the other side them. Right. And

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then you have to realize that the only time you actually get the

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truth out is when you sit both of them together. Otherwise, when you

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sit separately, listen to both parties, right? Whether in an

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argument a mother and son, you know, mother and sister brother

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and whatever, business partners, everybody pulls their side. They

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don't tell you that. They don't they they exaggerate the truth of

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it. If they don't outright lie. When you put them together, then

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they can't do that. Then you can actually challenge each one then

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it okay. Yeah. All right. I know what you mean. Right? It wasn't

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that bad. So you have to you just can't don't take things out that

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people tell you because

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especially if it's about somebody else, it's unfair for us to

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actually do that. But unfortunately, most people do

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that.

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So the difference he says under the soul free man and I'm a Puerto

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Rico. He says the soul of inaction in a practical action that is the

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Tariqa that's essentially the 30 Commons the path to Allah. So

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Everything that you need to do specifically to be on that path,

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and to progress on that path that is called Talica. It's the

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practice of the self.

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But practicing on this path can't be arbitrary. Can't be as you

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wish, even if your so called shave tells you to do something.

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That doesn't mean that it's that that doesn't mean it's correct.

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You need to do with it. Sharia is part of the league as possible

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because Sharia is the guiding light. So Sharia is what a machete

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Alpha He'll calm will let you water that Annie Cherie Elmore

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Akbar and Hubby, Dane, a bit been the sherry, then are those rulings

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and commands that sacred law by which

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which has basically come from the legislator from Allah and His

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messenger, the law that has come from Allah and His Messenger,

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which is generally referred to as the dean. That's the Sharia.

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So essentially, it's telling us that tariqa is just following the

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Sharia that essentially was telling us in it, that's what its

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results in 30 Commons just to follow the Sharia Sharia laws,

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then what is hockey? Reality? What is that? For here? A Serato?

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Sharia? Those are the secrets of the Sharia. When a teacher to

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tariqa, and the result of being on the path.

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Now remember, when you make an effort in anything, don't you get

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something? If you play football very well? Aren't you going to get

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something out of it?

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Right? You may even become so famous that people in the pubs of

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Liverpool will start calling your name. Right? Because you're so

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good at football.

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And then they'll actually start invoking God,

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whether they say

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he came from Allah subhanaw taala. What is that Subhanallah in

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anything that you make an effort, there's going to be a result that

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comes from it, something's going to open up to you, when you stop

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playing football very well, I'm assuming that you will actually

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start understanding how it works. And you'll be able to become a lot

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more controlled and better. Right? It's a complete ignorant person

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that's speaking about football, by the way, right? You guys, I'm sure

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many of you know much better know what I'm talking about. And that's

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in anything. When you start studying a language, you start

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understanding the nuances of each word in anything, it's like that.

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So if you start diligently following the Sharia, you will

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start seeing the fruits of it, you will start seeing the warmth of it

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in your heart, the blessings of it will beautify you, and you will

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start feeling it. That is when you really read when that's when a

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person reaches the hot vehicle of faith, the reality of the faith.

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Otherwise, we just we're just trying and following. But when you

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actually follow properly with full sincerity, according to the other

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that he has mentioned with abundant Viken, then you will

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actually start feeling the reality of it. And that's why he says that

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the Haqiqa is essentially the secrets that will come along the

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way of your shady Sharia, that you will get from the Sharia, and this

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will be the fruits of your tariqa. For here, Reuben one mirdif taslim

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Kuru besides taking back the sofa II mean carotid taba il Berseria.

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Now, this really tells us how you will achieve it. He says these are

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this is the knowledge and the Gnosis, the awareness, the

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cognizance that will

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be realized by the heart of the Saudi theme that will be realized

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by the hearts of those who are traversing this way, those who

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have taken up this path after

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those hearts have been cleansed and purified of all human, all

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human nature or normal human weakness in nature. So this path

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is essentially the way to cleanse ourselves of the normal human

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failings.

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Don't be quick to judge somebody. Right? Don't think evil of someone

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don't have hatred in the heart. This is all the

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dirt of the human nature that normally we become adulterated

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with. Once that's cleanse, there's room for more positive things that

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will come into mind. See negative people constantly think of

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negative things. Once the heart is cleansed of negativity. Then in

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sha Allah, a lot of positivity, a lot of spirituality, a lot of love

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and warmth for Allah subhanho wa Taala will come about and then

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this is where he basically hits the nail on the head. Now that

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he's told us that Okay, so now we have an idea that we want to

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follow this path. We want to get a Hachiko. We want to follow the

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Sharia. But what is the fastest way to do this? What are shader

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and Quran

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This offer will kalbi, there is nothing more effective in

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cleansing the hearts mean Kathy Vickery La ilaha illa, Allah,

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there is nothing that is more effective in cleansing the hearts

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than the abundant remembrance of la ilaha illa Allah but with the

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other being, you can't just say la la, la la la la, but with the

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other with the etiquette. ality of the Cara, Lulu here are the Allahu

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Taala and home, which have been mentioned by the people of Allah,

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those who have actually experienced that they can tell you

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the best way to do this. Why do you have mentors?

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You want you know, you want to go into a particular vocation, right?

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You want to go into sciences, you want to go into medicine or

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whatever, generally, you find a mentor somebody who's done it been

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there, done that, right? They'll tell you Look, no, don't do it

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that way, do this way. I know that it says that in the books. But

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this is this is actually more effective. You know, for you, I

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think you should do this one. So you basically go to somebody

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experienced. That's the whole point of this. But unfortunately,

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there's just so much abuse out there, right? That you just don't

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know who to trust sometimes.

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And to be honest, I It's probably you know, when you when you hear

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the you know, you when you hear what the characteristics of a

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mentor is supposed to be, you're gonna think that there's nobody

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like that available. I mean, it's like prophets that you need

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somebody. So then he says, Well, look, you just take the best

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person you can find even if he's not perfect, because we need this.

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That's what he's saying. But what he says basically is that, if you

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do the Dhikr of Allah ilaha illallah, with the adab with the

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etiquette that the people of Allah have mentioned, may Allah have

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mercy on them, may Allah be pleased with them, then that will

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be the most the most effective means for you to, to, to to

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cleanse your heart, while metta Tara Kasady colada, oh ACARA bar

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with ID Hill Rasulillah, Missouri.

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Whenever he says, The seeker the aspirant the moods, right, the one

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who's on the path, right? Whenever he abandons the adverb, the

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etiquette or even a majority of the adverb, if he abandons him,

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then attaining this objective is going to become very distant from

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him, is going to become far fetched from him.

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So the most important thing is to have the ad and the etiquettes to

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get to Allah subhanaw taala.

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Now, the next section basically discusses

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the adverb of the

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right. And what's interesting is that it tells you the other that

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are the preliminary other, the prerequisites, these are the other

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than the etiquette that you have to follow before you even sit to

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do vicar.

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And he mentioned several of them, that Coppelia, then he talks about

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the adab that you need to have when you're doing vicar, and then

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the third level.

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Or the other idea that even after you finish the vicar, how do you

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actually make sure you take the greatest benefit from it? How do

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you essentially rinse out every part of it and not lose any of it?

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Because when when you do take care of Allah, there's a lot of

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movement that's taken place, which you can't see, how can you

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actually benefit from that entire environment and take the most

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benefit from it?

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So he's got other for that as well.

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So we stop here. And we'll, we'll do a maraca. But can you see so

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far? Can you see anything questionable in any of this? I

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mean, it seems to be quite straightforward. But as I told

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you, in the beginning, that the position is such a position,

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unlike teaching Hadith, or Quran or tafsir, or whatever, right,

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that

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it can be abused.

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It can, in fact, it can become cultish because of very strong

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links that you will build and then sometimes it can almost seem

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cultish.

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And then if if the sheikh says if the Sheikh is imbalanced to the

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movie, it is unbalanced, what they may reveal or they may tell others

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about it, or they may convey maybe actually misunderstanding,

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misrepresent, there's just so much room here problems. That's why,

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unfortunately, many people, a lot of people have actually just

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written it off as something which is alien to Islam, and it's not.

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And that's why we've got so much. I believe that that is one of the

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reasons that we've got so much chaos out there in terms of

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people, devoid of faith, people losing their faith. Because when

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everybody's looking for delille for everything, right, and delille

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and proof isn't easy to come by for every combine for everybody.

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Not everybody is a scholar that they can go and check things up.

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And you know, look into the large tomes and books. So then people

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just

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they're like, hey, you know, and then people just give up doing

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things. Otherwise the people of the past pretty much I mean, they

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say until the beginning of the 19th century, majority of the

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countries in the world had had to solve the majority. I mean, that's

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a survey that's done, that everybody has some level of the

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Silverdome and of course you had the crops rounds, and then the

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exotic ones, the majority ones in there as well. But pretty much

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everybody was into it.

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It's from the beginning of 19th century, right that we've had so

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many problems we just living in a bad time. For some reason Allah

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has brought us here so we ask Allah for helping this time in sha

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Allah.

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Allah Sinha woman because Sudan develop the jewelry will econ

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Subhan Allah in our legal are a little herb Allahumma salli wa

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salim is a UV now Muhammad Ali so you don't know how many 134 Salam,

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O Allah we ask You for Your Mercy of Allah we ask You for Your

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forgiveness of Allah forgive us our sins, those we have committed.

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In the openness of day the darkness is of night those we have

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committed and we remember those that we have forgotten. Oh Allah,

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those we have committed accidentally those we did

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purposely. Oh Allah, whatever they are, whatever shortcomings we

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have, oh Allah whatever defects we have. Whatever weaknesses we have,

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Oh Allah, Oh Allah correct us. Oh Allah purify us. Oh Allah cleanse

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our hearts. Oh Allah connect us to you. Oh Allah. make us of those

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that can say on the Day of Judgment that you loved us and we

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loved you. Oh Allah make us of those who have great love in their

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heart for you. Oh Allah, fill our hearts with your love with your

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obedience and make disobedience hated in our hearts. Oh Allah

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allow us. Guide us in everything that we do our Allah allow this

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path to become a reality for us. of Allah grant us the Hachiko of

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Allah allow us to fully observe the Sharia, oh Allah we ask that

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you facilitate this path for us, oh Allah make us

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to be of those who are written as fortunate in the hereafter. Oh

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Allah facilitate that path for us. Oh Allah do not make us of those

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who will be considered wretched and unfortunate in the hereafter

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of Allah do not make us from the astea do not make us of those from

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the Ischia who you will not want to look at and who you will turn

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away from and who your messenger sallallahu alayhi wa salam will

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turn away from Oh Allah allow us to drink from the hands of our

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beloved messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa salam, O

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Allah allow us to be close to him. Allow us to gain his intercession

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of Allah allow us to be imbibed with the prophetic character of

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Allah allow us to be imbibed with the prophetic character. This

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month of Ramadan is coming upon us. Oh Allah, we ask that you

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facilitate for us the greatest benefits that we can gain from

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this month. Oh Allah allow us give us Baraka both before the month

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has begun an in the in the month itself and thereafter, so that we

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can finish up whatever we need to do, and allow this month to have a

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whole The greatest advantage for us to bring about the greatest

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bounties for us to blow it's winds of baraka and it's forgiveness and

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allow us to be able to bask in the outpour of its of its Mercy of

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Allah your mercy will begin to descend the doors of Paradise will

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be opened up the doors of hellfire will be closed and Shayateen will

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be locked up. Oh Allah make us of those who truly benefit from all

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of these changes that you are making. Oh Allah make us this

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Ramadan better than any Ramadan before it make us closer to you

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than we've ever been before. But our Allah above all, whatever we

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gain in this Ramadan keep us close to you even after it. Oh Allah,

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every Ramadan comes, we get a bit of a boost we become we think we

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get closer. But as soon as Ramadan finishes,

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then we go back to where we were before. Oh Allah do not make this

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the case this year of Allah we are all only getting older. of Allah

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we're only getting closer to our death minute by minute second by

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second. Allow us to be able to guard each one of our breaths.

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Each one of our moments of Allah do not make us of those who are

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distracted for we are the distracted ones of Allah make us

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of those who only focus on the beneficial knowledge and are lucky

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but away from harmful knowledge. keep us away from useless

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knowledge of Allah. There are so many past times and waste times

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nowadays. There are a lot of distractions. Oh Allah, we ask

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that You grant us insight to do only that which is of benefits. Oh

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Allah, we asked you to take control of us. We ask that you

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control us, take us by the forelocks and make us of those

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that will entertain that terrific dose of Allah bless our parents

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and our children, our families and the entire Muslim world of Allah

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bring back in

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stand here today inside as well. Oh Allah allow us grant is

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prosperity in the projects that we're doing. I will accept this

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place and all the other projects that any of us here that may be

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doing those who are listening those who are present our law

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grant them baraka and do not let them leave without being forgiven.

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Oh Allah let us be forgiven before Ramadan so that we can get even

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more during the month of this of Ramadan. Oh Allah, Oh Allah accept

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our doors of Allah, whatever difficulties that anyone may face

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in front of in front of them remove those difficulties,

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whatever sicknesses there are our lord remove those sicknesses of

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Allah grant us cure for both our spiritual physical ailments, Oh

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Allah, Oh Allah, those who have any other kind of difficulty.

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Those who have planned any journeys, any trips or ombre,

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whatever it may be, Oh Allah make those facilitated. Make those easy

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make those full of blessing and Baraka. Oh Allah accept from all

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of us, except from all of us, except from all of us. Subhan

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Allah bigger. Rob biller is at Yanmar Yossi foon wa salam ala

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moana Selena Al Hamdulillah

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