Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – What is Sufism A Formal Explanation Part 20 The stages of consciousness of Allah

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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The speakers discuss the importance of seeing Islam's signs and its impact on one's behavior. They emphasize the need to focus on seeing signs and not just focus on the fact that Islam is watching them. The importance of raising one's hands during eating, boosting energy, and learning to be a full-fledged individual is emphasized. The speakers also discuss the importance of respect for older people and compassionate behavior in praying. The negative ideology of the prophets and their negative actions are also discussed.
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hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen

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wa salatu salam ala UD Mursaleen. While he also be a Baraka was

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seldom at the Sleeman kefir on Ilario me Dean, Amma Bharath

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Hamdulillah. We've completed the 10 principles of the path and

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these are just some competing factors that he's mentioning. So

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he was talking about the various different types of God. Last time

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we spoke about the

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vicar to be done loudly and now he's speaking about more silence

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So he's saying that Moeraki been the law he feel

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worthy little taki Murali Malcolm early

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Moeraki Bonilla, he feels outwardly a Jimmy Horlick.

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Be conscious of Allah Moeraki be conscious of Allah, be focused on

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Allah, in all of your states, wherever you are, however you are

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whatever you're doing for in Kabul, Morocco, liberty, Turkey,

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il mu Shahada. Because if you're conscious, if you force yourself

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to be conscious and paying attention, that Allah is

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everywhere, then by this you will elevate yourself, you will climb

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up and ascend to Moshe the well, you will start witnessing Allah.

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Initially, you have to force yourself to focus that Allah is

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everywhere, not in terms of place or position. But in terms of his

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actions are everywhere. He is manifest everywhere in terms of

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what he's doing. Right now we may be seeing human beings around us,

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books, shelves, carpet, various different things happening. What

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we need to start seeing is that Allah is behind these things. So

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that when we see something that's beautiful, we don't necessarily

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appreciate just its beauty, when we actually appreciate the beauty

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of Allah who is the maker of it. So that's the idea. It doesn't

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mean that you actually see Allah physically because that's

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impossible. That doesn't happen. That's inconceivable. So that's

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why he's saying that when you start focusing on this and making

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yourself feel aware of Allah, then you'll actually start observing

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his signs everywhere. Then he says, We will move shahada, Turkey

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ill myanna These are various different stages from actually he

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says from baraka from the focus, you will actually get to more

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shahada witnessing, and from witnessing, eventually you will

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ascend to more Ayana, which means seeing where you will actually

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start seeing Allah signs everywhere, not just witnessing, I

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mean, there's a subtle difference between those two. He explains

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this as well. maraca Mala Hava to hotkey to Allah in the coalition.

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So the concept of maraca

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which could mean

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a, we'll just keep in Morocco for now because he's explaining in any

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way, Willa Hava will help. It's to be observant

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and conscious of Allah.

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Most high

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whenever doing anything, basically every juncture in your life

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Mursalin he gives an example he says, either Allah has the

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Holocaust enough see a loco or Phil Mazziotti widget, the hooter

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or the Moto oleanolic. So he's showing us how to do this in

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practice. He says that, for example, if you observe yourself

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you see yourself

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during the State of intending to put yourself into a disobedience,

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if you're about to embark on a disobedience about to do something

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wrong, then maraca would be that you find Allah subhanaw taala

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watching you so you basically develop this consciousness that

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Allah is watching me.

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Now if that happens, that we're about to do a wrong deal and we

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say oh not Allah is watching me we won't do it because like, oh, no,

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he's watching me. Let's not do it right now. You know, that person's

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watching No, don't do it right now. Let him go away. But with

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Allah subhanaw taala he's always there. But the point is that we're

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not always focused on the fact that he's watching. So this is

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about developing the this idea and that would Allah hookah and

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Nicola, the idea that whenever I'm doing something, Allah is watching

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me for 30 or under higher Minho. So then you would retreat from

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that disobedience, out of embarrassment for Allah. Right?

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Because you'd be embarrassed that Allah is watching you so you won't

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do it. Now of course that has to be developed. This isn't come

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overnight that has to be developed one once you need to do it once no

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one needs reminders that this is what I want. This is the state I

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want. Whatever Allah hafta, who had a click now something more

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mundane.

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And when you now consider yourself during the time of your eating

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widget, the hooter so how would you conceive of Allah while you're

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eating? What's the relevance there? How would you think of

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Allah when you're eating? So widget? The

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With Allahu Allah de cerca de lica 30 Katara is quite comprehensive,

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that you will in this case you will actually find that Allah

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subhanaw taala is the one who brought the food to you. That's

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how you think about Allah and the same okay? This food was provided

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to me by Allah subhanaw taala mean lady, holy Minko winner who worked

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in liquor, without any strength or energy on your part, the way the

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food is produced and so on from right from the begin, we're not

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talking about just how it was cooked, right? Oh, I cooked it.

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No, it's about how all the ingredients came together from

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various different parts of the world, how they were produced, how

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Allah showered the rains upon them, allowed them to grow, they

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were harvested, and so on, packaged and thrashed and packaged

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and supplied and distributed and eventually acquired. So all of

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that, that eventually the beginning of all of that comes

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Allah subhanaw taala

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sama Vegeta, who hora que yadda Illa tena Willie, now it doesn't

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stop there. Then you will find you will start focusing and become

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conscious of the fact that Allah subhanaw taala is the one who has

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given you motion in your hands to be able to eat that food.

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The strength in your hands by which you can take the food and

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put it place it in the mouth. That is from Allah. What's your other

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fecal Qudra Tala Rafi Healy Formic not just that Allah allowed you to

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move your hands but Allah allowed you to you raise your hands. See,

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movement is one thing and raising adds extra energy. At least from a

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physical physics perspective. Allah gave you the ability to

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raise it to your mouth. So Maha raka Fennec then he allowed your

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mouth to move what a giraffe he Reek so that you can chew it and

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Allah subhanaw taala also cause now the saliva to flow.

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So now we've got saliva flowing when you're eating because it

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needs that for those enzymes to break the food down, help it down.

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So Mahalo, aka fika Quwata leather, then Allah subhanaw taala

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didn't make that food just something you shovel in your mouth

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just for the sake of energy. It's like filling up a car with with

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petrol. Right, there's no taste for the car in the petrol it just

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needs it to go. Likewise, we need actually food to just go really,

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but Allah has given us various different taste buds a very

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comprehensive palette of tastebuds. Right. And along with

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that the olfactory senses to be able to feel the presence of the

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food. So he has then given you the power of taste for circa who ill

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Merida and thus, you take the food down to your stomach, so Murata,

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Allah Veronica. So now once the food goes down into the stomach,

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then Allah subhana wa Taala produces and induces thereafter an

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energy in your body, what are back and then nurtures you based on

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that food. So that food is then used as the fuel. But the

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difference between us and the car, or between us and the phone that

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has a battery that just needs fuel, it doesn't taste it, we

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actually enjoy the food that we generally eat. But then after

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that, it does the same thing, which is that it gives you

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strength and it nourishes you, it makes you grow. For John I mean

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who lamina seven. So now with that food that's gone down into the

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stomach, it sorts it out. It gives a portion for the flesh to grow

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when allow the meanness even and then some part of it is

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contributing to the bones will also be nice even and then the

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muscles and so on and so forth. So that allocation is taking place

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automatically in the stomach because of Allah subhanaw taala is

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designed

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well my father, we take all of this for granted, obviously. But

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this is an exercise where my father lomi Mala McPhatter fee. Uh

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huh. Roger would that's why physics if somebody does it,

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right, you could actually take you to Allah. If somebody does it

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right, if they don't stop at just the experiment itself, when you

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start considering how it's all coming together.

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What am I father in law manufacturer fee, Raja who now

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there's obviously a pot which there's going to be residue, that

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pot which was a carrier of the food which is not going to be of

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any benefit that has to then be excreted. So Allah subhanaw taala

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will cause you to excrete that does it? It's not left in your

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stomach.

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For that LM visa, Nick, and the hula for our lsua. And if you

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focus on it at that level, at that minute level, in that with that

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kind of elaboration and sophistication, then you will soon

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know that there is nobody there is no agent besides Him. There is no

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Doer asides besides Allah subhanaw taala he's the one who has caused

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you to do all of this.

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Now he's telling us that this has to be developed. So he says for

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either Kobe had an marinovic

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Soumya whadda Ferrell

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is getting into some terminology here. He's saying that when this

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particular type of focus and meaning

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It becomes strengthened in you, where you can actually start

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thinking at this level, right. And I think in the beginning you have

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to push yourself and force yourself but I think eventually,

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these things will become quite second nature to think at this

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level. So me a radical a file, this is called what the till a

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file, which basically means unity in actions. So basically all

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actions that you see happening around you, even though there are

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human beings involved in that or other beings involved in that it's

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actually Allah subhanaw taala. So, your Tauheed is of the actions of

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Allah subhanaw taala you're declaring Allah subhanaw taala to

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be one in terms of all of his actions, you've actually seen that

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no inaction will save them OSHA hidden the law, if equally shy,

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now, you will become a witness to Allah subhanho wa Taala and

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everything. So even when I'm reading this book, my The point is

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that I must be thinking, how Allah subhanaw taala allowed this

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knowledge to come down over the generation after having inspired

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the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam with this knowledge first,

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him conveying it down, allowing him to come down to us, then to

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come down to London here for us to study for this book to be

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published for it to be have been edited for Allah subhanaw taala

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had given tofi to the author and the editor to be able to produce

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it in this way so that it's easy for us to understand, for this all

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to come together. At the end of the day, all of this that's

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happening us sitting here together is not random.

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It's not a coincidence. It's planned by Allah subhanaw taala in

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sha Allah for a good cause and we hope that Allah subhanaw taala

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reward us for this despite the fact that we haven't done much to

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be honest. But Allah subhanaw taala reward us so it's just about

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thinking about Allah subhanaw taala in every one of these

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aspects, for either now he says that now you will become a witness

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to align everything for either COVID Hodel Masha now in this

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witnessing now become stronger, this Moshe that is witnessing

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Grosh Sangha had ripped I'm see what Allah when you become so

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immersed in this, you will see nothing else, eventually,

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you will see everything else, but you won't believe that they have

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much action to themselves. Because you know that the hand behind all

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of this is Allah. The power behind all of this is Allah. When you

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know that, then you see if you've got somebody who has is producing

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something, right, and that's the front face of the company. So you

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you really respect that individual that well, you know, you because

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you think that they're the face of the company, they must be

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producing everything. So you have a lot of respect for them. But as

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soon as you go deep, and you find that that no, they're just the

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spokesperson, the real masterminds behind it, X, Y and Zed people,

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that when you see this person, you'll immediately what happens,

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do you still hold the same respect for that person, as before? Now,

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because your attention has now moved to the people behind that,

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the real cause behind it, that becomes now insignificant.

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It's not it's needed, right? It's needed because the manufacturers,

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the real designers, or whatever cannot be at the fore because they

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do what they do best. So they need a spokesperson, right? So there's

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a need for that. But at the end of the day, the focus of ours goes

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deeper. And that's considered more sophisticated thought, right?

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Rather than focused on the severe superficial. So by this, this is

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how the people are Allah subhanaw taala. For them, the world becomes

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nothing, because they're just seeing Allah everywhere.

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So the world becomes nothing. So it says when this kind of

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witnessing becomes stronger, such that you now become absent of

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everything besides Allah. Though you're sitting among people,

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you're eating the best of dishes, you weren't in the best of

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clothes, you may be traveling in the best vehicles.

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You know, who's behind it all?

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You just don't know you're conscious of it. One is I know,

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any Muslim, a good Muslim who understand this stuff. Okay, who's

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been with Allah? But the whole point of this is that you actually

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aware of it all the time. That's why he thinks submit more i

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enitan.

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Now, this level is called more Ayana, a seeing

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well, what the to that. Now you know that there is no real entity

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that can do anything except Allah.

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All of the other entities are superficial, they exist. We don't

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want to deny realities of things. These are not just illusions.

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Although if you start looking at it from another perspective,

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everything does become an illusion. At the end of the day,

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because what you're looking at what you're seeing, it's just all

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brainwaves To be honest, at the end of the day, if you want to

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really take it down to that level, but let's not do that, because we

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want to feel and see and feel that a substance. But at the end of the

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day, since everything, Allah is behind everything, that means

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nothing is a real existence besides Allah subhanaw taala

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that's why he's saying why the two that now you have declared the

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Oneness of Allah in His essence.

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So, you've truly declared it now, not just as a belief, but now as a

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witnessing of that for either that Temkin, now all of this is always

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intensifying and growing. So he says that when this becomes more

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what, when the strength of this increases, when this becomes more

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firmly established, Shah had the bad Urtica know how the economy

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Abdi Omar, I mean,

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after that, you will become a full witness to the fact that Allah is

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the only creator of his servants, and what they do as well.

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So, you know, initially at least we had some kind of

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idea that we are doing something so we were at least attributing

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our own actions to ourselves.

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But we get to such a level, that we start understanding that know

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nothing, of what people do is actually their action. Yes, it's

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attributed to them, they feel like they're doing it. But when you

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look at the grand scheme of things, then it's Allah behind

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everything. So then why are people punished or rewarded for the

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actions they do if Allah is behind everything, because when you look

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at it on a micro level, then it is people who are doing it.

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So that's why and that's how they feel it. That's how they

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experience it, every one of us experiences. That's why we will be

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rewarded or punished for what we do. But when somebody looks at the

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grand picture, then it's actually Allah behind everything. But we're

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not judged according to that.

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The judgment is according to the micro understanding, just a way to

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kind of reconcile between free will and the codon and the

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creation of Allah subhanaw taala. That's in brief.

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What are the man according to him? And this is what is meant by this

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statement, that will shahada Moshe had a Tula he cobbler coalition.

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Whenever you experience something, see something, whatever you first

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see Allah

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basically, you will see things but you see Allah first because

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immediately your mind goes to who made this?

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Who is behind this? Allah subhana wa Tada. Oh, Allah. Oh, yeah, that

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one I know that Allah You know, that's so for example, you know,

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somebody who really knows artwork? Oh, that's a really? Yeah, that

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was done by Van Gogh and that one? Yeah, that's his, that's his as

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well. Like, you know it so well, that immediately as soon as you

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see it, your mind goes to who did it.

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Right. Sorry about these examples. But, you know, you look at a

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forest like, Okay, now that's a knife of it. I mean, everybody

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knows that. I'm saying something more intricate. Right? Yeah, no,

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that's, that's that publisher. That's that editor that's that,

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you know, manufacturer or whatever. Yep, definitely. I know

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that. You have to become so professional at this. That you

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just know, Allah's trademark everywhere. And it's everywhere.

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It's nothing to you know, there's nothing you can do.

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You get in trouble. There's nothing you can do.

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Somebody's driving, right, and they get a flat tire. So they

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carry on, they get to a destination to operate, for

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example.

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They've got a bit of petrol lift. So they go and they get their tire

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changed. And they've got a bit of petrol. So they go on to the next

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petrol station, and they stop there.

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And now the petrol, would you call that the flap of the where you put

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the petrol in, that's not opening, trying, everything just doesn't

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open. And they've got about maybe 15 miles left. And they've they've

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got what it says 15 miles on the clock, and they've got about 15

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miles to travel. So they think well, I can't stand the 15 minutes

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banging this open trying to open it, break it or whatever. So now,

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let me try to get home. And there's somebody may help me. So

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now they're going on their way. And they're looking at the petrol

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gauge, right? And it's clicking down and they're looking at the

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the booty quick navigation to see how many miles left. Imagine

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detention. And they've just had a flat tire. And they've also now

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the petrol door doesn't open.

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What are you going to do about it? Will cursing help? Will

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complaining help? No, the only thing you can do is pass when

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Allahu an airman Joaquin, and hopefully I'll get home and

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hopefully this will be sorted. So they get close to home, they go to

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another petrol station and saying I don't want to take this home

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because if the petrol stops, there, ends their finishes there,

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then I'm going to have to get a cannon in order. So let me stop at

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a petrol station. And there's a mechanic there. And he checks it

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out. And he finds out that the certain engine or whatever they

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call it, the motor of the thing which locks that petrol,

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petrol door, whatever it's called, that's faulty. So he pulls it off.

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Another thing he can open and he puts petrol in now it's all fine.

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What else were you going to do?

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So at the end of the day, there's a reason why all of these things

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happen.

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So

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If somebody can think about Allah in that, they get some reward out

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of that.

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Right?

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Maybe that was just one way of Allah telling them to remember

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him.

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Because complaining is not going to help at all. Nobody's going to

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come to your service just because you complain. Right? For either

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that's why he's saying that whatever the man, according to him

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was shahada to Allah He called luckily che that you witness Allah

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before everything. What are the are more on though ki 20 Min whare

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Ito relax.

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Instead, this is a matter of taste and experience beyond being able

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to rationally explain it. So he's tried to explain it as rationally

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as possible. I've added some modern examples to this. But he

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says really, you won't really understand this because this is a

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matter of experience.

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And it goes beyond the limits of your rational faculties, Lady for

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her Illa Lulu

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and he says that it's only the people of special attention by

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Allah, who will understand these things as well.

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It's not something that you just get like that you have to try and

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you have to ask Allah And if Allah wants to give it to us, He will

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then open it up to us when Lulu Sal cozzia and people with pure

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hearts who have worked hard to purify their hearts

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are the Allahu Anhu and be him.

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May Allah subhanaw taala be pleased with them. And please with

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us, because of them.

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These 13 characteristics are of those people who have reached this

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level that he just described. People who reach this level will

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have the following 13 qualities

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should we do some of them.

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He says woman other behind the hit pause, let Yasu be held common.

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Some of the etiquette of this particular group of people who by

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which they've attained this perfection,

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right by which they've attained this kind of perfection. Number

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one molar Zima to taharah t when no mallia

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Seems like a mundane act constantly

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on wudu on purity,

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and even sleeping upon it, which means that you make wudu before

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sleeping.

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So as every time you break you will do that you have to use the

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toilet you have you break your window, you're gonna make water

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you're for a refresher we'll do

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and the thing is that a lot of people may think that's difficult,

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right? But it's actually not very difficult. Once you get into the

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habit, you'll actually start feeling very uncomfortable if

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you're not on Audible.

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Once you get into the habit, it becomes second nature the brain

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becomes hardwired to think that way and to do that. So what will

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happen then is that if you're not on Google you'll feel really bad.

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Say like you'll feel uncomfortable I need to make will do.

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That means every time you start your prayer every time you're

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about to pray you know your own will do. Right. The exception will

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be when you're not honoring like no I need to do well either Mukesh

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fill out or till mohale lava to fill Hello word. Higher Amin

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Allahu Aminul Malaika. Now this is not necessary, but this is another

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because I remember I had just had this discussion with somebody,

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just in the last few days, they will never unclothed there.

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They will never unclothed the intimate private parts when alone

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even.

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It doesn't mean you can't include it. But a person may think

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nobody's here why? Why does that matter? I remember somebody asked

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this question, because some irlam I've written that as mcru

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when others said is fine. But the thing is that there's the other

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issue is then that these are people who are observant of Allah

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subhanaw taala, even in that, that they won't remain unclothed.

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Now some people, you know, there's various ways of thinking, right?

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For example, once I was at a program and somebody came in us,

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somebody sent a question. I don't feel anything in my prayer. So

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that's why I've given up prayer.

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That's one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it is I

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don't feel anything in prayer, but I'm going to keep trying.

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Right? So narrative, isn't it? So in here, you've got the same kind

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of thing.

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Where he's saying that even somebody might think that well,

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Allah can see me anyway. Even if I've got clothes on, he can see

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whatever I am, you can see right through me. So what's the point of

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clothes then? That's another way of looking at it. But the thing is

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that a good Muslim, a good believer needs to have the thought

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of a honorable level.

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That's the difference. Unfortunately, the times that

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we're living in, it teaches us to think of things in the most

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negative and vulgar of ways

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but

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Being a believer, we are supposed to think of things in an honorable

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way.

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There's a difference between that

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right?

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Think of things in the most honorable way possible possible.

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So these people they do not read do not uncover their private,

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their intimate private parts, even when alone, out of embarrassment

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in front of Allah subhanaw taala and from the angels.

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And number three says Wamena, though key rule, Kevin, they

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respect and revere the older people than them.

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The elders, they respect them were Shafique or other sullied, and

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they're compassionate on the younger ones. Well, Erol mill

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Well, Messiah keen, and on widows and poor, and the needy Bell,

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Allah Jimmy in Hulk, in fact, in all of creation, because now

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they've started realizing that this creation is basically

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this creation is the creation of Allah subhanaw taala.

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When you love somebody a lot, and something associated with them

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coming, I mean, get these guys who are fascinated by Apple, right?

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They see an apple case, they see an Apple keyboard, they see an

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apple mouse, like everything is just exciting. Like why not, it's

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another apple product, why not?

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The same kind of thing here. Once you start seeing Allah, then you

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will actually become better with everybody. Because now you

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actually see them as Allah's creation, as opposed to an

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individual and by the use of Muhammad, who may have said

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something bad to you, at one time may have

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offended you sometime. No, he's Allah's creation. Now it doesn't

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make a difference. Can you see how Everything pales in significance,

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and only Allah is significant now, and how a person becomes so great

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with people afterwards as well.

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That's why the prophets Allah never bothered the people who had

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enmity with him.

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warm and hot and then we'll just do one more warming the boomer

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level to have respect for the people of knowledge, who Susan

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hada matricaria or Misha, Tarik. Especially those people who are in

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this who are serving the Sharia. So you're jurists, and Allah MA

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and others imams are Masha it could direct and also the sheiks

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of the path, find out what are the tilapia because they are obviously

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the inheritors of the prophets. They inherited because they

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continuing the mission of the prophets.

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They're doing the data of the day teaching, the leading the prayers

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and so on. That's why your Imam at the end of the day, there's a,

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some of us don't like how Imams, but then we're praying behind them

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within for the last 10 years. And we're not like them for the last

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10 years. Can you believe it? I've never got around that one. Because

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I've been an imam for many, many years. Nice thing, these guys who

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don't like me, for whatever reason, they still have to pray

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behind me what a bad relationship. That is.

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Right? What a sad fact that you don't like your Imam is that your

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punishment of the Imams punishment?

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The most significant act is prayer in the dean. Right? That's the

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most significant act.

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And if that most significant act you have to do behind somebody you

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have bad thoughts about even when you start praying man, they say

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mom is like that, but you got no choice is your local Imam, you'd

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have to drive 10 minutes away, right to go and pray behind

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somebody else. What a punishment that is.

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That's really sad.

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And yet shaytaan tries to create that problem, because he wants to

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spoil our prayer.

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He wants to go beyond the honorable.

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We ask Allah for tofi we see in this life, right?

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There's some people they have this attitude, they become so academic

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that the truth must be told, they say, but do we really tell the

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truth about everything? Do we tell people about ourselves about

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things that may be embarrassing? Isn't that the truth as well?

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When there's somebody who doesn't, if somebody spouse doesn't look

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too good, right? Are you going to call them ugly all the time and

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say that's the truth? I must say it.

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You're not going to do that?

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Because as there's a saying in Arabic Who says Lisa Kulu? How can

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you call.

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Not every truth must be proclaimed?

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Because there's a place for everything.

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There's a place and an instance for everything. So just because

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something is the truth. So you've had some Muslim authors of the

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past who even criticize prophets.

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They criticize the Prophet salallahu Salam, but they don't

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think they're criticizing. They think they're just telling the

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truth.

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For example, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said

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that boys to ANOVA was saqa. Her team,

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myself and the Day of Judgment

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has been have been sent just like these to. Some of them, I've said

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it means, you know, the distance between the tip of that finger and

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that finger. So very close. Or it's talking about the small gap

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in between, that we're very close. So this particular author, he

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says, 1400 years haven't demonstrated this yet. What does

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he mean? What did the process of mean by you know?

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When the prophets had those slipups, they made a mistake. You

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have to say it as it is. I mean, don't you have the concept of

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adverb and respect and just saying things in a nicer way? And not

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saying certain things because they're not necessarily to be

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said? What are you going to get by saying this? Why shine the

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spotlight on that? It's a negative kind of ideology, isn't it? And

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and what men should not have that kind of negative ideology. We have

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a dub in the world is not black and white human beings are very

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comprehensive, very sophisticated beings.

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Right? And it's not all black and white. We have to do certain

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things to make things work.

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Because life is about making things work. Not about just

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stating facts. It's not what life is.

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We ask Allah for Tofik We ask Allah to make his balanced

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individuals likely to die

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alone and say hello and go sit on the bottle

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Hello, may I hate you? Yeah, thank you.

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Hello, may I have known me I'm a Nana. You know, I learned this

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from Hannah Keaton. I couldn't have been alone he mean just Allah

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why no Mohammed Amma.

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Oh Allah we ask You for Your forgiveness of Allah grant us

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forgiveness forgive us all of those sins that we have committed

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in whatever way shape or form

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of Allah Our life is full of sin of Allah we become a full

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embodiment of sin and disobedience to Allah there are many things

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that we don't even recognize the sins anymore of Allah, they have

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become part and parcel of our lives. While we ask you for

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understanding discernment and consciousness. Oh Allah make us of

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those who witness you everywhere. Oh Allah make us of those who are

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focused on you everywhere. Online, whatever we are doing, Oh Allah,

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we ask that You grant us your Presence of Allah that You grant

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us the understanding of Allah, we are asking you for a very high

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status, despite the fact that our offerings are very meager. Oh

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Allah, we ask that you accept us for the service of your deen of

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Allah grant us your love and the love of those whose loved benefits

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as with your, in your court of Allah make our surroundings

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conducive for us. Oh Allah make your obedience Beloved to us.

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Allah make your disobedience hated in our hearts of Allah.

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Grant us

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the blessing in what you have given us. All that you have given

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us. We can not thank you enough. Do not make it a source of fitna

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for us. Don't do not make it a source of distraction from for us

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from you. Oh Allah allow us.

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To truly grant to to truly be grateful and to be the shack,

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Guardian and The Guardian. To be of those who constantly and

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abundantly remember you do not make us of those who are heedless,

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do not make us of those who have you've given so much to but they

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don't remember you. Oh Allah who become distracted by the very

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bounties you have given? Oh Allah, we ask you forgiveness. From all

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of those sins we've committed with the very wealth that you have

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given us of Allah you gave us wealth, you gave us health of

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Allah you gave us influence you gave us position. You know Allah,

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You gave us so many bounties and then we got you and Oh Allah, we

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use those same things to disobey you, of Allah. Whatever gifts you

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have given us and you have given us abundantly of Allah make those

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sorts of blessing and closeness to you. Oh Allah make the rest of our

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life better than the previous part of our life. Oh Allah make us

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closer to you than we've ever been before. And Oh Allah, we ask that

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You grant us the Kenema La Ilaha illa Allah on our deathbed. Oh

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Allah, all of the various different challenges that are

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surrounding us and that seems to be increasing. Oh Allah, we ask

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you strength. We ask You for strength. And Allah we ask you for

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fortitude. We ask you for understanding and discernment of

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Allah allow us to rise to these challenges and deal with them. Oh

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Allah help our Muslim brothers and sisters around the world. help

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humanity in general bring back humanity back to the human being

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of Allah whatever permissible needs we have we asked you to

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fulfill them and bless us in whatever you have given us.

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Whatever permissible projects that we have

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Have our Allah we ask that You grant us success in them and

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remove any obstacles in our path of Allah bless our families and

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especially our children and progeny until the day of judgment

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of Allah make our homes a place of great contentment satisfaction and

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tranquility of Allah remove the darkness is that our homes may

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have removed the absence of blessing of Allah bring back the

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blessing in our homes so Allah remove our physical and spiritual

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ailments so Allah grant us or shift our log on to solving well

00:35:33 --> 00:35:37

being of Allah Dara, us and our family members who may be going

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through various different therapies or operations or

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surgeries Oh Allah make that those successful. And oh Allah grant us

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all protection of Allah grant us all protection of Allah grant us

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beneficial knowledge. Our Allah grant has accepted deeds are what

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Allah grant us is that do cry in front of you. Oh Allah protect us

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from eyes that do not shed any tears in front of you. Hearts

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which do not tremble hearts which are not fearful of Allah, we ask

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You for hearts that are constantly calling out to you that are

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constantly looking for you. Oh Allah, we ask that you.

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You grant us your love in our hearts in a full way of Allah

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those who have helped us and assisted us in whatever we have

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done in whatever good achievements we have Allah bless them on. Oh

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Allah bless all of those who are here, those who are listening and

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do not allow us to turn away from this without being completely

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forgiven and bless our life except our doors. So why not decarbonize?

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And you'll see phone or seller when adding more selling, while

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hamdulillah

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