Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – You Dont Accept Advice – Hikam 230

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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The speakers discuss the concept of "partily going to" and how it can lead to feelings of isolation from the world. They also emphasize the importance of avoiding promises and balancing negatives and positives. The speakers stress the importance of finding a better position for oneself and making good decisions, as well as providing services and helping people with their needs. They also mention a Rayyan Courses program for students to learn and become more aware of Islam's subjects.

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			The wise one is who thinks for 10
		
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			years later.
		
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			Those university students, for example, who go into
		
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			university and they just take it a day
		
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			at a time, just enjoying the now newfound
		
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			freedom away from home and so on.
		
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			Because universities have their own little society, their
		
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			own culture, right, where everything goes and everything
		
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			goes.
		
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			Some guys in Muslim society are telling you
		
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			don't do this.
		
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			Maybe some Tablighi brothers are telling you not
		
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			to.
		
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			Otherwise, it's all cool.
		
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			That's where people go to escape.
		
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			Or they go to a world, Christmas parties
		
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			are happening.
		
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			That's a world.
		
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			That's where they're going.
		
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			But the person who knows that I want
		
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			to get something out of this, in 10
		
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			years I want to be somewhere else, they're
		
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			not going to be partying.
		
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			They're going to be focusing on something else.
		
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			Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim.
		
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			Alhamdulillah wa salatu wa salamu ala Sayyidina Muhammad
		
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			wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'ina amma
		
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			ba'd.
		
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			Continuing with our series on Ibn Ata'illah
		
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			Rahimahullah's Khitab al-Hikm, the Book of Wisdom,
		
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			with a commentary by Sheikh Abdullah Gengoy, we
		
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			are on page 140, which is wisdom number
		
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			230.
		
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			Wisdom number 230, this is where he says,
		
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			it's a bit similar to the last one.
		
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			He just said in the last one it
		
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			was just as a reminder that this world
		
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			has been made with lots of issues and
		
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			corruptions and problems, just so that you don't
		
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			get too excited about it.
		
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			So that you don't find too much comfort
		
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			in it.
		
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			So you don't relax too much and forget
		
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			Allah.
		
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			So this one is similar, he says, علم
		
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			أنك لا تقبل النصح المجرد فذوقك من ذواقها
		
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			ما يسهل عليك وجود فراقها.
		
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			علم أنك لا تقبل النصح المجرد فذوقك من
		
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			ذواقها ما يسهل عليك وجود فراقها.
		
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			Very interesting.
		
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			He knew you would not accept mere counsel.
		
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			Just advice and admonition wouldn't have been sufficient
		
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			for you.
		
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			Just verbally being told that you shouldn't do
		
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			this and that's better for you, and that's
		
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			worse for you, and this is what's in
		
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			store for you, and this is not good
		
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			for you.
		
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			That wouldn't have been enough.
		
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			Allah knows us, that's how He created us.
		
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			So He made you sample the world's taste
		
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			to a degree that a separation from it
		
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			would be easy for you.
		
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			Allah has made us sample the taste of
		
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			the world, meaning given us an experience of
		
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			the taste of the world, of how bad
		
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			it can be.
		
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			When it's bad, how it can be for
		
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			us.
		
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			So that the separation from it would be
		
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			easy for you.
		
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			And the separation here is that when we're
		
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			going from this world, we're prepared because usually
		
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			when you're going from one place to the
		
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			other, it's either because you're forced to do
		
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			so, you have to come back, or you
		
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			have to go.
		
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			The other reason is that the place you're
		
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			going to is much better than the place
		
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			you're leaving, so you're excited to go.
		
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			So there could be multiple reasons.
		
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			Now if the place that you are at
		
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			is much more enjoyable, but there's another place
		
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			where inevitably you're going to have to go,
		
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			and it's not enjoyable.
		
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			For example, you have to move from a
		
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			place that's really nice to a place that's
		
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			not so nice.
		
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			From a job that was wonderful, now they've
		
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			got some layoffs, so now you have to
		
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			go to a job that's not so good.
		
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			You had to downsize the car for some
		
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			reason.
		
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			You had to downsize other things.
		
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			You're not going to enjoy that.
		
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			Now what happens if the place that we're
		
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			leaving or the object that we have to
		
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			depart from is problematic?
		
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			Then it becomes easier to go to the
		
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			other place, especially when we know the other
		
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			place is even better.
		
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			That's clearly.
		
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			So Allah has said the next place is
		
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			going to be much better, far superior, multiple
		
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			times, multiple times better.
		
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			And also this place is, I'm going to
		
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			let you taste some of the difficulties of
		
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			this world, so you know that it's not
		
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			a place that you want to be forever.
		
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			I wonder what we would do, subhanAllah.
		
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			I don't know.
		
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			I've never had an experience of being in
		
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			the mind of somebody who doesn't believe in
		
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			the hereafter.
		
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			But the whole perspective changes.
		
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			Between a person that believes there's a hereafter,
		
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			like genuinely believes in it, and there's a
		
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			paradise and hellfire, and the difference between that
		
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			person, the way they deal in this world,
		
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			to a person who doesn't believe in the
		
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			hereafter, there has to be literally a difference
		
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			of heaven and earth.
		
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			Because what a big difference that is.
		
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			That's not a small difference.
		
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			You think that's a small difference?
		
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			That you operate in this world with the
		
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			idea that you only live once, you only
		
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			enjoy once, it's only one life, do the
		
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			best that you can to enjoy yourself, indulge
		
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			yourself.
		
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			That's where you get all of these different
		
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			ideologies from.
		
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			That it's all about you.
		
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			It's about me.
		
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			It's just about me because you only live
		
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			once.
		
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			With no focus on anything else.
		
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			As soon as you have the hereafter in
		
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			the picture, it changes the paradigm completely.
		
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			There's actually something...
		
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			You suddenly have more bandwidth.
		
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			You suddenly have more purpose, rather than just
		
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			indulge yourself.
		
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			There's a purpose.
		
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			Let's do something.
		
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			Then when there's lots of promises, and of
		
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			course there's lots of warnings, then there's boundaries
		
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			to work under.
		
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			Otherwise, it's just we do whatever we want.
		
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			We have to make our own laws.
		
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			Clearly, this world, just like anything else, is
		
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			all organized.
		
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			Even the cycles of a washing machine are
		
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			organized.
		
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			If that goes out of sync, it doesn't
		
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			do the job properly.
		
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			How can the world itself operate without any
		
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			kind of organization, and for it to fulfill
		
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			a purpose of something else, which is just
		
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			the place of the hereafter?
		
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			I've never had that experience.
		
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			I don't know if anybody's had that experience
		
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			here, of not believing in a hereafter, and
		
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			now believing in them, and the difference that
		
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			that would create to somebody, but it must
		
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			be a massive difference.
		
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			But here he said, we've given you a
		
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			sample of the world's taste, and here the
		
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			world's taste is not the indulgence of it,
		
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			not the exciting parts of it, but it's
		
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			the difficulties of it, so that you know
		
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			that this is, whereas you promised no difficulty
		
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			whatsoever in the hereafter, there is no difficulty
		
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			in the hereafter.
		
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			So that's essentially what this is.
		
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			He knew you would not just accept mere
		
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			counsel.
		
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			That wouldn't have been enough for you.
		
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			As he made you, so he made you
		
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			sample the world's taste to a degree that
		
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			separation from it would be easy for you.
		
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			That's why, when I asked a friend of
		
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			mine, when I asked a friend of mine,
		
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			who is an expert on love, 30 or
		
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			more years of research on the concept of
		
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			love, researched everything about it, read every book
		
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			on it, and now produced at least two
		
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			or three books on that subject.
		
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			How do you get rid of your attachment
		
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			to something?
		
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			Very simple, just focus on its negatives.
		
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			Because what keeps us with something and obsessed
		
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			by something are the perceived good qualities of
		
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			it, of what we see as good in
		
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			it.
		
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			And that blinds us of what is bad,
		
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			or it doesn't let us focus on the
		
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			negatives.
		
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			If we can focus on the negatives as
		
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			well, then it's easier to detach oneself.
		
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			I've tried it quite a few times, and
		
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			it actually works very well.
		
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			When you focus on the negatives, what that
		
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			does is it actually balances out.
		
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			When you focus on the positives and negatives
		
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			of something, actually it balances out your opinion.
		
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			So never let that emotion overcome us.
		
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			So this is the commentary of it then.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the true one,
		
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			he completely knew, because he created his slaves
		
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			and his servants, that they're not going to...
		
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			I've made them such that they have this
		
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			hastiness to them, this indulgence, this weakness about
		
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			them.
		
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			So I'm going to give them a few
		
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			other things.
		
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			It's all part of the design.
		
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			It's not a fraud design, that hey, you
		
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			should have just accepted the nasiha, and you
		
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			should just accept the counsel, that would have
		
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			been sufficient.
		
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			It's all part of the plan of Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			This world could be no better than it
		
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			is.
		
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			Allah could have not created it any better
		
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			than the way it is.
		
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			What a blasphemous statement.
		
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			You're saying that Allah can't create anything better
		
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			than this?
		
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			Of course he can.
		
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			But he's already created it for a purpose,
		
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			and for the purpose that he's created it,
		
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			he has to have done the best.
		
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			He could have created another world.
		
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			This is getting to a bit of philosophy,
		
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			sorry.
		
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			But the idea is that the way he's
		
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			created this world with all of its systems,
		
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			you have to do this to get this,
		
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			and you can't do this, and you can't
		
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			do that, this is bad, and this is
		
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			good.
		
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			That system is completely perfect system for what
		
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			Allah wanted.
		
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			So he couldn't have done anything better because
		
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			he always does the best, so this is
		
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			the best.
		
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			You understand?
		
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			If Allah always does the best, he couldn't
		
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			have done any better in the design that
		
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			he wants, and the purpose that this world
		
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			needs to fulfill.
		
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			So now he said, when Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala knew from his servants that they're
		
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			not gonna accept just mere advice and counsel.
		
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			In fact, some of these things are told
		
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			to us to give us some incentive to
		
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			do things.
		
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			Otherwise, Allah knew all of these things.
		
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			He's completely 100% about everything because he
		
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			doesn't make mistakes in whatever he does, and
		
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			he designs it, and he sets up, and
		
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			what he knows, there's never a mistake made
		
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			anyway.
		
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			So there's a hadith which says that when
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala created the children
		
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			of Adam, which means when Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala created the human being, he looked
		
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			and he said, if I'm gonna deal with
		
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			these people with just pure justice, that okay,
		
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			if you do wrong, I'm gonna punish you,
		
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			and if you do good, then I'm going
		
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			to reward you.
		
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			Right?
		
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			If I'm gonna deal with them with that
		
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			just pure justice as such, and pedantically like
		
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			that, they're gonna get destroyed.
		
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			They're not gonna survive because I've created in
		
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			them weakness.
		
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			And we're told this, right?
		
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			This narrative is told to us.
		
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			So then he said, okay, fine.
		
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			What I'm gonna do is, inna rahmati sabakat
		
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			ghadhabi.
		
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			You've probably heard that statement before.
		
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			My mercy is gonna overcome my anger.
		
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			So I'm gonna dominantly deal with people with
		
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			mercy, but yet my anger will be there,
		
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			but my mercy will dominate because I've created
		
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			them in a way that they're so weak
		
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			that they could falter quite a bit.
		
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			So I don't want them, ya Allah, Allah's
		
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			mercy.
		
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			He doesn't want us to fail.
		
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			He doesn't want us.
		
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			He's not there waiting for us to fail
		
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			so that he can punish us.
		
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			That's what some cruel people do.
		
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			That's what some individuals do.
		
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			They're waiting for people to fail so that
		
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			they can really punish them.
		
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			That's not what Allah.
		
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			He lets us go so many times.
		
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			He overlooks, He's forbearing, He's forgiving, He's patient.
		
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			He says, what I'm gonna do is, I'm
		
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			going to let my mercy dominate.
		
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			So my primary interaction with them is gonna
		
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			be based on mercy.
		
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			But the anger's still there just so that
		
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			people don't become complacent.
		
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			So likewise, we're told this thing to understand
		
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			the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			We're told that though so that we can
		
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			balance ourselves.
		
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			These are all things to balance us.
		
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			So then he says, just verbal admonition and
		
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			counsel and advice, people are not gonna listen
		
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			to.
		
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			So if they don't listen, then it's gonna
		
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			be an issue because they're gonna become indulgent
		
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			in this world.
		
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			And that's gonna take them away from the
		
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			hereafter.
		
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			They're not gonna focus on preparing the other
		
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			abode they're supposed to go to.
		
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			That region is amazing, but they're not going
		
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			to focus on that because this world is
		
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			just, gets you too much into it.
		
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			I mean, forget everything else.
		
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			A person has enough money.
		
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			He's got enough income.
		
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			He's got his house.
		
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			He's got everything that he needs.
		
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			But some people don't know why they're pursuing
		
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			money.
		
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			I mean, it's just a weird experience.
		
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			You have enough, but you have opportunity to
		
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			make more.
		
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			And what that does is that's gonna take
		
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			more of your time.
		
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			And it's going to give you less time
		
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			to focus on maybe even your own family.
		
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			And definitely Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			But we would actually still go even though
		
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			we don't need it.
		
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			We've got enough to get by comfortably, even
		
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			take holidays, go for an Umrah every year,
		
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			but you still want to make more.
		
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			Now, it's completely fine to make more for
		
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			a purpose, but for no purpose while sacrificing
		
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			responsibilities and what is gonna be to our
		
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			benefit for the hereafter.
		
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			That's silly.
		
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			But many people have not made, have not
		
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			thought about.
		
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			They've not made that calculation until it's too
		
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			late.
		
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			They don't make that calculation until it's too
		
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			late.
		
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			So think about it.
		
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			If Allah has given us sufficient to live
		
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			by, our bills are getting paid and we
		
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			also have enough on top of it to,
		
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			you know, to enjoy our life as such.
		
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			And we're still trying to do more for
		
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			no purpose that it's an issue.
		
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			And if we're trying to do more, to
		
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			acquire more, to assist and to do something
		
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			with it, we've got a grand plan.
		
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			And that's a positive plan.
		
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			Then bismillah, then Allah give us barakah.
		
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			Then Allah give barakah.
		
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			So that's why He say, if a person
		
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			is not gonna listen to the admonition, then
		
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			what's gonna happen is that he will not
		
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			desist from the dunya.
		
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			Meaning he won't renounce the love of the
		
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			world.
		
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			He won't renounce the pursuit of the world
		
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			just by listening to these lectures.
		
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			سِمَعِ الْوَعَى Listening to these advices, it's not
		
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			gonna happen.
		
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			اِذْ كَثِيرٌ In fact, He talks about the
		
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			people of knowledge.
		
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			And that means anybody who knows this.
		
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			It doesn't mean scholars only.
		
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			He says, اِذْ كَثِيرٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ وَالْفَهْمِ
		
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			يَسْمَعُونَ الْقُرْآنِ يُقَرِّعُهُمْ عَلَيْهَا وَيَحْذُرُهُمْ مِنْ غُرُولِهَا
		
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			وَهُمْ غَائِبُونَ عَنْ ذَلِكَ التَّذْكِيرِ مَشْغُولُونَ بِمَا يُجِبُ
		
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			لِقَبُولِهِمْ لِقُلُوبِهِمَ التَّذْكِيرِ He says, there are so
		
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			many people who have the knowledge, who have
		
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			the comprehension, who get it, who understand it.
		
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			They listen to the Quran.
		
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			They listen to the Quran admonishing them, you
		
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			know, admonishing them regarding the deception of the
		
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			world and how sweet it appears and ultimately
		
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			what it's gonna be and where you're supposed
		
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			to go.
		
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			It's also warning them from the delusions of
		
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			this world.
		
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			But they're completely still heedless from this advice.
		
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			The advices are coming at them.
		
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			They're reading them.
		
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			They're seeing them, but they're still heedless.
		
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			It's like we've learned to ignore them.
		
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			It happens so often, we've learned to ignore.
		
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			Maybe out of thinking of the mercy of
		
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			Allah or thinking that it's alright, it's all
		
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			gonna happen, it's all gonna go well or
		
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			that it's gonna become better.
		
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			Even though and they're occupied with that which
		
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			is not allowing them to take this advice.
		
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			So what they're doing is that their problem
		
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			is what they're involved in.
		
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			That's their problem.
		
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			The love of what they're doing is what's
		
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			not letting them take the advice.
		
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			They get calls from people who have broken
		
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			up with somebody that they can't marry, that
		
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			they can't have because of multiple reasons, family
		
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			reasons or incompatibility, but there's a love there.
		
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			There's an emotional attachment there.
		
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			Now what they're trying to do, it's a
		
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			haram relationship now, right?
		
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			Completely haram today is probably haram from before
		
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			maybe as well in some cases.
		
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			So what's the advice of how to cut
		
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			away from somebody?
		
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			I said you need to cut it completely.
		
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			If that means changing your phone number so
		
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			that you have no communication.
		
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			Just tell them this is what it's gonna
		
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			be.
		
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			Tell each other this is gonna be an
		
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			end.
		
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			Oh, but then she feels so upset.
		
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			It's like you are her counselor now.
		
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			That's what you think.
		
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			So I have to just make her feel
		
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			good.
		
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			You are her problem.
		
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			How can you be the counselor?
		
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			She's your problem.
		
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			How can she be your counselor?
		
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			The dunya can't be our counselor.
		
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			The dunya is what's making us Hitler.
		
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			So we're occupied in the dunya, which is
		
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			the reason for our blindness from the akhirah.
		
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			Yeah, I've lied so many times, but I
		
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			feel bad.
		
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			You feel a sense of responsibility.
		
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			I said, no, you're not responsible.
		
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			That was haram.
		
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			Oh, but I broke her heart.
		
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			You shouldn't have.
		
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			Should have got married to her then.
		
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			From a man's perspective.
		
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			It's the other way around sometimes.
		
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			You're her problem.
		
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			She's not gonna witness everything.
		
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			It's cut completely and she replaces you.
		
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			Or you replace her with somebody else.
		
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			You have to cut.
		
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			Otherwise, it just goes on and on and
		
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			on.
		
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			This is just a relationship.
		
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			This is just the emotions that we have
		
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			like that.
		
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			So that's what he's saying.
		
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			فَلَمَّا أَرَادَ سُبْحَانَهُ Now what happens is that
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala chooses certain pieces
		
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			of you.
		
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			I'm gonna...
		
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			Because of something you've done, or your mom
		
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			made dua for you, or your grandmother, or
		
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			your grandfather, or your teacher made dua for
		
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			you.
		
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			Or you know what?
		
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			You gave that sadaqa last week to Palestine.
		
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			I wanna do something for you.
		
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			Everything good that we do for ourselves that
		
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			somebody does for us is gonna benefit us.
		
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			So what Allah, He decides, أَرَادَ سُبْحَانَهُ أَن
		
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			يَسْتَفِيَ لِحَضَرَتِهِ مَنْ شَاءَ مِنْ عِبَادِهِ When Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala wants to bring somebody
		
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			back, wants to choose somebody for being in
		
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			His presence and away from the dunya, what
		
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			He does is, نَغَّصَهَا عَلَيْهِ He intensifies the
		
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			trials.
		
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			There's an easier way to get to Allah,
		
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			right?
		
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			Without being forced to get into trials.
		
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			He's just doing it voluntarily.
		
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			This is where, that's if He even chooses
		
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			us and says, okay, I need to get
		
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			this guy out of here.
		
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			نَغَّصَهَا عَلَيْهِ Right?
		
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			I'm gonna intensify the trials on this one.
		
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			وَشَدَّدَ عَلَيْهِ الْبَلَاءَ وَالْمِعَابِ I'm going to really
		
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			make it very difficult for this person.
		
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			Lots of difficulties come their way.
		
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			There's gonna be a leak here, there's gonna
		
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			be a loss here, there's gonna be a
		
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			setback here, there's gonna be this issue, there's
		
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			gonna be that issue.
		
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			Guy's gonna feel miserable in the beginning, but
		
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			this is to take him away.
		
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			Let's take him away.
		
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			You get a call from somebody, how do
		
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			I avoid all the Christmas stuff that's gonna
		
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			happen?
		
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			What do you mean?
		
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			What do you mean?
		
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			I mean, I don't have that issue.
		
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			How do I avoid doing wrong things with
		
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			people?
		
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			So then I realized that they're just in
		
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			very bad company.
		
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			Their whole social circle is all about just
		
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			various different non-Muslim enjoyments and so on,
		
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			and Islamic enjoyments.
		
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			You're just gonna have to literally cut it.
		
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			But it's so miserable.
		
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			I said, yes, you just find new friends.
		
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			You're gonna have to literally make new friends,
		
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			new acquaintances.
		
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			Otherwise, it's not gonna work.
		
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			And there's so much trouble in that path
		
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			to do that.
		
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			You're changing your whole social structure.
		
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			It's not easy to do.
		
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			But once you do it, once that initial
		
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			in the ma'al usri, yusra.
		
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			Once that difficulty is overcome, then inshallah, it
		
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			becomes even easier.
		
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			And the pleasure is a lot more because
		
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			there's no guilt at the end of it.
		
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			So when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants
		
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			to bring somebody close to him and extract
		
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			them out of all of this filth, then
		
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			what he does is he intensifies the difficulty.
		
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			وَأَجْرَىٰ عَلَىٰ ظَاهِرِهِمْ مَوَاقِعَ الْفِتَنِ And in front
		
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			of them, they have to deal with many,
		
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			many challenges.
		
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			كُلُّ ذَلِكَ عِنَايَةً بِهِمْ But all of this
		
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			is a special care.
		
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			All of this is out of special concern
		
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			for them.
		
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			It's divine care that is.
		
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			Can you believe it?
		
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			The difficulties that are coming on you are
		
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			divine care.
		
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			But you will only know it afterwards.
		
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			At that time, you'll just think, man, what's
		
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			going on?
		
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			What's going on?
		
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			But if Allah is giving you the ability
		
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			to deal with those and not freaking out,
		
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			you learn how to control it.
		
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			That's divine care.
		
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			Because ultimately then you'll look back and say,
		
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			you know, that was so amazing.
		
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			الحمد لله, I went through that because he
		
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			taught me so much.
		
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			And remember everything in this world teaches you
		
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			something.
		
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			At least it should.
		
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			So all of these difficulties will teach us
		
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			something.
		
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			And then he says, كُلُّ ذَلِكَ عِنَايَةً بِهِمْ
		
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			All of this out of his divine kindness,
		
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			divine care for them.
		
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			لِيَذُوكُوا مَرَارَةَ بَاطِنِهَا So that they can get
		
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			the real taste of the internal aspect of
		
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			this dunya.
		
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			It's full of miseries and grief.
		
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			فَلَا يَغْطَرُوا بِحَلَوَةِ الزُّخْرُ فِي بَاهِنِهَا So that
		
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			they're not deceived by the apparent sweetness of
		
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			the outer embellishments.
		
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			One of the most prominent and obvious examples
		
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			today is are these poor, I feel sorry
		
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			for them, are these poor stars, the stars
		
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			in the heavens.
		
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			But who people make into stars, at young
		
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			ages, they have millions of people following them,
		
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			more than any other person.
		
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			And they are miserable inside, they're on drugs,
		
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			abuse of substances, and finally they kill themselves.
		
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			Many of them, not everybody, but many of
		
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			them kill themselves and then everybody cries over
		
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			them.
		
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			Well, you are very helpful.
		
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			You actually brought them to where they were.
		
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			That's why fans are deadly.
		
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			You're the ones who brought them up to
		
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			where they are right now.
		
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			It's weird, Allah ta'ala help us, Allah
		
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			help us not getting into that.
		
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			Because it's a difficult world to be in,
		
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			and the examples are there, it's very clear.
		
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			That's exactly is that a lot of people
		
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			think that must be such a wonderful life.
		
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			They can go where they want, they can
		
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			fly around, everybody's after them, it must feel
		
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			so good, the nafs is so amazing.
		
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			But no, you can't, the nafs is, you
		
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			can't sustain that.
		
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			The Prophet shallallahu alaihi wa sallam was able
		
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			to sustain his popularity.
		
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			The Prophet shallallahu alaihi wa sallam does not
		
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			mean anybody has a greater influence than the
		
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			Prophet shallallahu alaihi wa sallam whose influence still
		
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			lives on.
		
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			And he could deal with it.
		
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			The Sahaba Umar, who doesn't like Umar r
		
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			.a today, he could deal with it even
		
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			in his time.
		
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			Imagine how many people wanted to see him,
		
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			the heads of the states wanted to come
		
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			and see him, and he's there lying on
		
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			a rock, sleeping under a tree.
		
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			Like, is that your leader?
		
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			Because for them this was different.
		
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			And it's a difficult thing to understand, but
		
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			without the focus on the hereafter, you can't,
		
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			if it's all about the world, obviously then
		
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			I want more of it, I want more
		
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			of it, I want more of it.
		
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			I know, you know, we're not influencers here,
		
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			we're not like big stars here, but it's
		
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			on a minor level, it's the same kind
		
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			of thing.
		
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			It's the same kind of thing, it's just
		
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			those are the obvious stories that we hear
		
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			about.
		
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			That's why once a pious person was asked,
		
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			مَنْ أَوْلِيَاءَ اللَّهِ مَنْ أَوْلِيَاءُ اللَّهِ الَّذِينَ لَا
		
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			خَوْفًا عَلِيهِمْ وَلَا هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ Who are these
		
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			awliya Allah, the friends of Allah, the saintly
		
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			people of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that
		
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			Allah always says that they're gonna have no
		
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			fear, they're never gonna grieve.
		
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			Who are these people?
		
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			What do you mean they have no fear,
		
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			they have no grief?
		
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			Because everybody has troubles in this world, especially
		
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			when we're being told that those people who
		
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			are closest to the prophets get more trouble.
		
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			So how come they have no fear and
		
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			how don't they have any grief?
		
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			So then the response was الَّذِينَ نَظَرُوا إِلَىٰ
		
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			بَعْضِنِ الدُّنْيَا حِينَ نَظَرَ النَّاسِ إِلَىٰ بَعْضِنِ الدُّنْيَا
		
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			The awliya essentially are those people who look
		
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			into the inner core of this world.
		
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			When other people are just looking at the
		
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			outer facade and the outer excitement.
		
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			They're the people who really understand what...
		
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			And looking at the inner means how eventually
		
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			it's gonna affect you.
		
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			That's what it means by looking at the
		
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			inner because that's what eventually will come out.
		
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			That's what eventually will manifest and that in
		
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			the long run, that's the inner part of
		
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			it is what's gonna manifest itself.
		
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			وَاهْتَمُوا بِآجِلِهَا حِينَهِ إِهْتَمَّ النَّاسُ بِآجِلِهَا And they're
		
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			the people who are focused on the later
		
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			world, while others are focused just on the
		
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			immediate world.
		
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			The wise one is who thinks for 10
		
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			years later.
		
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			Those university students, for example, who go into
		
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			university and they're just taking a day at
		
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			a time just enjoying the now newfound freedom
		
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			away from home and so on because universities
		
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			have their own little society, their own culture,
		
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			right?
		
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			Where anything goes and everything goes.
		
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			Some guys in the Muslim society are telling
		
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			you don't do this.
		
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			Maybe some tablighi brothers are telling you not.
		
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			Otherwise, it's all cool.
		
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			That's where people go to escape.
		
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			Or they go to a world.
		
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			Christmas parties are happening.
		
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			That's a world.
		
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			That's where they're going.
		
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			But the person who knows that I wanna
		
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			get something out of this.
		
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			In 10 years, I wanna be somewhere else.
		
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			They're not gonna be partying.
		
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			They're gonna be focusing on something else.
		
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			They're gonna be working out of their garage
		
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			to build the next supercomputer.
		
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			They're not partying.
		
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			So, that's what you have to understand from
		
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			this.
		
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			That's why another one of his aphorisms was,
		
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			All, everything but Allah, everything besides Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala, it's apparent.
		
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			Status is always a delusion.
		
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			And in its core, you will find the
		
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			lesson.
		
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			So, if we don't focus on the lesson,
		
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			we're gonna get burnt by it because we're
		
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			looking at the outside.
		
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			فَكُلُّ مَا يَنزِلُ بِالْوَلِيِّ مِنْ هَذِهِ التَّعَرُفَاتِ الْجَدَالِيَّةِ
		
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			أَلَّتِي تُغَيِّرُ النَّفْسَ وَتَقْهُرُهَا فَهُوَ خَيْرٌ كَثِيرٌ فِي
		
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			حَقِّهِ So, every time with one of these
		
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			chosen people of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			whenever any of these majestic recognitions come to
		
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			them, which helps them to change their perspective
		
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			and their nafs, and purify them, then obviously,
		
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			in the long run, after when that difficulty
		
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			is surmounted, that becomes very good for them.
		
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			It's hugely beneficial for them in the long
		
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			run.
		
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			That's why the scholars have said الإمتحان بقدر
		
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			الإمكان Remember, your test will always be according
		
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			to the possibility you have of bearing it.
		
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			Your test will always be according to the
		
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			possibility of the way, of how much you
		
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			can bear it.
		
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			وَكُلُّ مِحْنَةٍ تَزِيدُ مُكْنًا And every difficulty that
		
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			comes to you, every challenge that comes to
		
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			you, is gonna increase your endurance.
		
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			If you've been able to undergo a difficulty,
		
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			then obviously the next time that difficulty will
		
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			be easier.
		
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			If you've taken a trip somewhere, you already
		
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			know the hardships of it, the next time
		
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			you already know what to expect, there's no
		
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			surprises, it becomes easier for you, not for
		
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			the person who's coming in you.
		
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			Not for the person who's coming with you
		
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			the next time.
		
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			The person who's been to the dentist and
		
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			knows all of that drilling and all of
		
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			that stuff that's gonna happen, he knows what
		
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			it is, he's not gonna have some issue,
		
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			but it's gonna be much more easier than
		
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			somebody who goes for the first time and
		
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			is dreading it.
		
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			Don't worry about it, don't worry about it.
		
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			It's just human culture.
		
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			And the same thing happens with difficulties that
		
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			come up, they strengthen us, they give us
		
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			more endurance, they help us do better next
		
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			time and deal with it and not freak
		
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			out next time.
		
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			There's always gonna be something, you know, we
		
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			try our best, but there's always gonna be
		
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			something of love for this world that's gonna
		
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			stay in and linger in our hearts.
		
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			We're still gonna be inclined a certain amount,
		
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			it's difficult to get away completely.
		
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			So what Allah does, Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala sets upon us something that disrupts that
		
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			confidence.
		
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			I thought this was a good job.
		
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			I thought this was a good area.
		
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			I thought these were good friends.
		
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			I thought this was a good car.
		
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			I thought this was a good way to
		
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			go about it.
		
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			I thought this was a good choice.
		
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			I thought this was a good investment.
		
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			Bitcoin's a good investment?
		
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			It seems like right now, in a month,
		
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			it's gone up by 35-40%.
		
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			I mean, I'm not saying you shouldn't invest,
		
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			but just remember, I mean, you never know
		
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			what's going on.
		
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			And one theory out there is that all
		
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			of this cryptocurrency is all engineered, not to
		
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			say it's haram necessarily, there's some aspects of
		
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			it out, but overall it doesn't have to
		
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			be.
		
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			But it was engineered to take people's focus
		
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			away from gold.
		
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			It's an interesting idea.
		
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			Because when people have seen the major currencies
		
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			becoming weaker, like the dollar and the other
		
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			Western currencies, because of all of the bad
		
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			decisions they're taking, very bad decisions they're taking,
		
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			people got money, they've got liquidity, they've got
		
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			investment power, so where are they going to
		
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			put that money?
		
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			The most stable thing you can put your
		
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			money in, literally, always, has been gold.
		
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			And there's a simple reason for that.
		
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			It's not because it sparkles, right?
		
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			There's other things that sparkle, but it's because
		
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			anything that can be a store of value
		
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			has to be limited in supply.
		
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			Because if you have too much of it,
		
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			then everybody gets it, then you don't get
		
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			a value.
		
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			And they can't produce more than 2%
		
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			on average gold a year.
		
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			No more than 2%.
		
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			With anything else, they can produce more.
		
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			And it's always been like that.
		
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			The other thing is that gold does not
		
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			rot or doesn't deteriorate.
		
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			As other metals, even silver deteriorates to some
		
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			level.
		
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			Gold doesn't.
		
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			So a lot of the gold that we
		
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			have in the world is thousands of years
		
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			old.
		
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			So you can't produce enough of it.
		
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			There's a limited supply which gives it its
		
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			value.
		
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			Now, gold would have been some crazy amount
		
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			of price right now, but all of that
		
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			investment has been pushed into cryptocurrency.
		
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			God knows whether it's a conspiracy or not.
		
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			That doesn't make it haram, right?
		
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			That doesn't mean that you don't invest in
		
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			something that is useful for you.
		
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			But ultimately, you have to remember, this is
		
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			just all the dunya.
		
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			Salt dunya, ultimately.
		
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			So anyway, somebody invests, and then there's a
		
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			bad choice, and he thinks, what's this?
		
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			He loses a lot of money, right?
		
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			He loses a lot of money.
		
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			Ya Allah.
		
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			So all of this is just to disrupt
		
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			our situation and unsettle us.
		
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			We're not looking for, ya Allah, give me
		
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			something to disrupt.
		
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			No, ya Allah, let me just be close
		
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			to you without disruption.
		
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			There's that way to go about it.
		
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			That's what we want.
		
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			We don't want.
		
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			We want the way of Aafia.
		
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			We don't want this disruptive way.
		
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			But either way, Allah make us close to
		
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			you, right?
		
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			Because that is the ultimate purpose, remember.
		
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			So he says that he disrupts and unsettles
		
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			all of this.
		
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			All of this again from his divine care.
		
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			لِيَرْحَلَ مِنْ هَذَا الْعَالَمِ إِلَىٰ عَالَمِ الْمَلَكُوتِ Just
		
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			so that he could be prepared to go
		
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			from the focus on this world to the
		
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			focus on the real kingdom, on the realm
		
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			of the real kingdom.
		
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			That is the realm of the hereafter.
		
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			And then once that journey of his begin,
		
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			فَإِذَا تَحَقَّقَ رَحِيلُهُ When that journey of his
		
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			begins, while he's still in this world, that
		
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			journey is beginning because all of that journey
		
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			we're talking about is a journey of the
		
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			mind and the heart.
		
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			The focus becomes different.
		
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			We're still gonna use the world.
		
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			The same amount of dunya will be with
		
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			us.
		
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			But now, we're just gonna use it to
		
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			our benefits rather than to our detriment.
		
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			You can still enjoy, right?
		
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			But the enjoyment there is different from what
		
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			the enjoyment before was.
		
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			That was for the nafs, that was for
		
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			the heart.
		
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			Now it's just that Allah has given it
		
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			to you, you're using it.
		
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			It comes your way, alhamdulillah.
		
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			Why say no?
		
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			Unless you wanna focus particularly on a way
		
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			to lead your life.
		
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			So then he says, finally then for this
		
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			person, once he's aligned in this direction, going
		
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			to the hereafter, you won't see a difference,
		
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			just some behavioral differences, attitude difference, that's all.
		
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			But otherwise, he'll simply be living in the
		
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			same house.
		
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			It doesn't force you to go and live
		
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			in a small house or live on the
		
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			street or live in a cave.
		
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			It doesn't do that.
		
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			It's just the whole mind.
		
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			You avoid haram, you avoid any haram dealings,
		
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			and you just focus on right, then eventually
		
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			what happens to this person is, Then
		
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			eventually for this person, sweet and bitter becomes
		
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			alike.
		
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			What that means is that, if there's something
		
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			bitter, but it's the right thing for the
		
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			sake of Allah, he'll do it.
		
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			He won't choose things just because they're sweet.
		
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			But if there's something for his purpose, then
		
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			he's willing to choose whatever it is.
		
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			And then for him, it doesn't matter if
		
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			people praise him or not, or if people
		
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			don't see his value.
		
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			His focus is with Allah.
		
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			There's a guy who told me that he
		
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			worked at a masjid as a volunteer.
		
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			They saw his qualities and how efficient he
		
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			is in doing things.
		
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			So they promoted him as a volunteer to
		
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			a secretary or something.
		
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			Say this while the masjid was being extended.
		
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			And mashallah, he did a good job.
		
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			Now that it's done, maybe he's made a
		
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			few mistakes in the past of maybe being
		
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			a bit abrupt, or maybe a bit vocal
		
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			or something.
		
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			So there's a few people who have gotten
		
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			him voted out of that position.
		
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			Now he's like, what should I do?
		
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			They still, overall, they still want me to
		
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			be a volunteer, but I'm just not in
		
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			that position anymore.
		
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			That was just, according to him, something that
		
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			one or two individuals did, the politics that
		
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			happened to be with, for whatever reason, good
		
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			or bad.
		
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			So what should I do now?
		
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			So what advice do you give a person?
		
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			Do you just leave it out of not
		
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			being happy with the one or two individuals,
		
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			whereas overall you're still able to benefit?
		
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			I said to him, I said, look, you
		
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			carry on.
		
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			You're doing it for Allah.
		
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			Allah has recognized you.
		
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			And your efforts and everything that you've done,
		
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			he will reward you if you continue with
		
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			that.
		
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			However, if you feel you can't, then don't
		
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			leave this unless you find a better position
		
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			where you can still assist the cause of
		
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			Allah.
		
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			Never leave any khidmah you're doing, never leave
		
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			any service that you're doing for Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala, for things that happen unless
		
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			you can find a better service.
		
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			Otherwise, it's shaitan.
		
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			Shaitan's gonna use that opportunity that because of
		
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			a few foolish people what they did to
		
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			you, shaitan's gonna now make you make the
		
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			wrong decision.
		
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			Our job is to think of what Allah
		
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			wants from us and what I'm doing.
		
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			I was given an opportunity to assist this
		
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			masjid.
		
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			I'm gonna give it up because a few
		
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			individuals, it's not their masjid.
		
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			Everybody else is benefiting.
		
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			The people who pray there, they're benefiting from
		
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			what I'm serving, how I'm serving this community.
		
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			So don't ever give up anything unless you
		
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			can find something better.
		
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			Always, right?
		
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			Because if we're not even doing anything, we
		
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			should find something to do.
		
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			And you're already doing something, why leave that
		
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			for nothing?
		
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			Subhanallah, Allah put us into a position.
		
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			May Allah make it easy for him and
		
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			for all of us.
		
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			Now because eventually what will happen is he'll
		
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			be willing to take you in the difficult
		
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			way because he knows even difficult ways from
		
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			Allah and he knows that he's rewarded by
		
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			Allah.
		
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			He knows that's what Allah wants him to
		
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			do.
		
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			It just becomes easy.
		
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			It's a mind over matter.
		
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			The heart becomes focused on the right thing.
		
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			Once the heart becomes attached to Allah, that's
		
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			the true connection anyway.
		
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			And then everything becomes easy.
		
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			So because there is nothing besides Allah anyway.
		
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			There's nobody who can do anything for us
		
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			besides Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			So that is the true knowledge.
		
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			That is the true knowledge.
		
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			Every other knowledge that is not taking us
		
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			in this direction is not true knowledge.
		
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			So now Shaykh Abdullah Gunguhi, the way he
		
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			rounds this off, in English he says the
		
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			Qur'an, but he didn't say it in
		
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			English, it was a translation.
		
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			The Qur'an, hadith and counsel of the
		
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			learned are adequate for a man devoid of
		
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			the love of the world.
		
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			If he didn't have any love of the
		
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			world, then reading the Qur'an would just
		
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			spark, would just ignite, would just assist in
		
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			carrying on.
		
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			But it doesn't.
		
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			It doesn't.
		
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			That's the problem.
		
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			The bayan inspires us for a moment and
		
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			then it's gone.
		
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			We have to do it all over again.
		
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			And so adequate for a man devoid of
		
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			the love of the world and whose intelligence
		
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			is sound.
		
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			However, Allah knows that the love of worldly
		
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			pleasures and pollution is firmly entrenched in the
		
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			hearts of numerous people.
		
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			The intelligence of some people is deficient.
		
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			Hence, good counsel alone is not sufficient for
		
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			them.
		
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			This is literally answering a question that I've
		
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			been to so many lectures, so many bayans,
		
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			so many advices.
		
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			Why can't we change?
		
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			He's finally telling us.
		
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			Somebody's finally telling us that.
		
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			And then, he always hits the hammer on
		
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			the head, doesn't he?
		
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			The nail on the head, rather.
		
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			He's always, mashallah, just amazing when he comes
		
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			up here.
		
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			Subhanallah, Allah bless him abundantly.
		
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			So, he then gives them, so for these
		
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			people, counsel alone is not sufficient.
		
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			He gives them a taste of worldly hardships
		
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			and trials so that they become disillusioned with
		
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			this carrier.
		
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			Abandoning the world, therefore, becomes a matter of
		
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			peace for them.
		
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			Right?
		
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			There's a lot of people, I've seen them
		
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			afterwards, and they're like, man, that was just
		
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			filthy.
		
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			I only realized the filth afterwards.
		
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			Alhamdulillah.
		
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			Now, for a person, the simple test is
		
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			this, that if a person is just gaining
		
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			more enjoyment, the world is opening more, and
		
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			the expanse of it is right in front
		
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			of him, and he's not getting any closer
		
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			to Allah, then that's a problem.
		
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			Then he's like one of those who's deluded.
		
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			That's scary.
		
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			To be honest, that's very scary.
		
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			Always worry when something new comes your way,
		
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			some new prosperity comes your way.
		
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			Like, is this a fitna from Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala?
		
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			Is this a challenge?
		
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			And then suddenly, some difficulty comes in, like,
		
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			okay.
		
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			As long as you deal with the difficulty
		
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			correctly, alhamdulillah.
		
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			Allah's putting me back, putting me on a
		
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			guilt trip.
		
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			That was because I did that last week,
		
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			or I did this issue, or I said
		
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			this.
		
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			Ya Allah, ya Allah, there are also such
		
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			people who fail to gain any lesson from
		
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			difficulties and hardships.
		
00:39:26 --> 00:39:27
			Oh, there's also that one.
		
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			Nevertheless, may Allah never put us through that.
		
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			Imagine, you have to go through difficulty in
		
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			life, and you still don't get anything out
		
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			of it.
		
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			There's no enjoyment in this world, knowing the
		
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			hereafter then.
		
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			Nevertheless, numerous Muslims do turn towards Allah most
		
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			high in consequence of the calamities that befall
		
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			them.
		
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			The iman, if you've got a bit of
		
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			iman, eventually a person doesn't turn back.
		
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			And thus, in relation to their former state
		
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			of degeneration, they progress in the direction leading
		
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			to Allah most high.
		
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			Sometimes not fast enough, but alhamdulillah.
		
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			May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accept for
		
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			us, from us.
		
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			Today, one of our local brothers, meaning in
		
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			Walthamstow, I think the reason he passed away,
		
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			he was, his name was Shabir Ibiha, and
		
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			this guy, some of you may know him,
		
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			he has helped, I don't know, thousands, thousands,
		
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			not just Muslims, non-Muslims, Jews, Hindus, so
		
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			many different people used to come to him.
		
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			And he's there, bismillah.
		
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			So, he was one of those natural bonesetters.
		
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			He was one of those natural bonesetters.
		
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			If you have an issue somewhere, a pinched
		
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			nerve, some disc out of place, he just
		
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			gives you a little massage and then pushes
		
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			it in place.
		
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			Like, literally 10-15 minutes, it's done.
		
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			Usually.
		
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			Sometimes you have to go back, because if
		
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			it's been a chronic issue for a while,
		
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			then you have to go back.
		
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			But, amazing what he's done, and the respect
		
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			he had for ulama and other people.
		
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			So, he was suffering from cancer for the
		
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			last several months, and it's amazing, I went
		
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			to see, I called his son, I said,
		
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			look, I need to come to see you.
		
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			On, after Juma, I said, I need to
		
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			come to see you, just before, after Asr.
		
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			And I went, and ya Allah, there's ambulances
		
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			outside.
		
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			And I pulled in, and it just passed
		
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			away.
		
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			So, alhamdulillah, I got Friday, 20 minutes before
		
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			Maghrib, 15-20 minutes before Maghrib.
		
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			But he got Friday, and I was just
		
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			so happy that Allah chose me to be
		
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			there, because at least I was able to
		
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			help set up how the body should be,
		
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			and so on and so forth.
		
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			So, pray for him.
		
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			Inshallah, any reward we attain from this gathering,
		
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			I would like to dedicate it to him.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala granted him, and
		
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			he helped a lot of people, mashallah.
		
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			He was always really, just a very soft
		
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			-spoken, decent guy.
		
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			May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reward him,
		
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			may Allah protect his children.
		
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			They also do this work, may Allah allow
		
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			them to also assist people and help people
		
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			with this, because it's just a really good
		
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			service.
		
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			Anybody who provides all these different services, whether
		
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			you're a dentist, or a doctor, or a
		
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			bone setter, well, these are all services, you
		
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			just have to have the right intention for
		
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			them, right?
		
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			And then, mashallah, you get reward, and you
		
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			get your money with it.
		
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			If you're charging, you get your money with
		
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			it, you have to live your life, but
		
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			at least you get a reward.
		
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			You just have to change the intention, ya
		
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			Allah.
		
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			Allah, he was always like, Bismillah.
		
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			And he had shifa in his hands, mashallah.
		
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			He had shifa in his hands.
		
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			The way he would just do things, it
		
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			was just done very easily, it would just
		
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			happen.
		
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			And I know he was praying surat al
		
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			-Fatiha, and du'as.
		
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			Allah bless him, raise his status, elevate him
		
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			to Jannat al-Firdaus, and allow his son
		
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			and all of his loved ones, give them
		
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			beautiful patience.
		
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			One thing that we can do is, during
		
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			the day, it's a good idea to repeat
		
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			Allahu ma'in, which means Allah is with
		
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			me.
		
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			So, with the meaning, what that does is
		
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			that helps us stay conscious of him, Allahu
		
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			ma'in.
		
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			So every time, just think about that, Allahu
		
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			ma'in.
		
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			And just say it with the tongue.
		
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			In fact, say it with the tongue, Allahu
		
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			ma'in.
		
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			That helps us to, inshallah, stay focused on
		
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			consciousness of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, because
		
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			we're constantly remembering that Allah is with me.
		
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			And inshallah, that should be a very anchoring,
		
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			balancing, inshallah, experience for us.
		
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			O Allah, keep us under your care.
		
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			O Allah, keep us under your attention.
		
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			O Allah, do not let us deviate, O
		
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			Allah.
		
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			O Allah, keep us with a'afiyah.
		
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			O Allah, keep us focused.
		
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			Voluntarily, O Allah.
		
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			O Allah, protect us.
		
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			O Allah, allow us to be among those
		
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			who do things that satisfy you.
		
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			O Allah, make all of our actions, those
		
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			that you are pleased with.
		
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			O Allah, make us like the way you
		
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			want us to be.
		
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			O Allah, make us like the way you
		
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			would love us to be.
		
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			O Allah, assist us and help us.
		
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			O Allah, allow us to see through the
		
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			dunya around us.
		
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			O Allah, allow us to see through the
		
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			fasad of the embellishments and the adornments and
		
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			the fancy things around us.
		
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			And allow us to only do things which
		
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			are productive and useful for us.
		
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			Only those things which will assist us in
		
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			the long run.
		
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			O Allah, make us prudent individuals.
		
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			O Allah, make us focused individuals.
		
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			Make us practical individuals.
		
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			O Allah, protect us from falling for delusions.
		
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			Falling for various different types of problems and
		
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			challenges.
		
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			O Allah, protect us from them.
		
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			And especially protect our children.
		
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			There are many, many people who are suffering
		
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			because their children are on the wrong track.
		
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			O Allah, we would like them to be
		
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			on their right track.
		
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			O Allah, accept our duas.
		
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			O Allah, accept the parents' duas for the
		
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			children.
		
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			O Allah, keep us all aright.
		
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			O Allah, guide us all aright.
		
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			Do not let our children make the mistakes
		
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			we made.
		
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			O Allah, allow them to do that which
		
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			is correct.
		
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			O Allah, make us all from the awliya.
		
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			Make us all from your friends.
		
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			Make us all from your close ones.
		
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			O Allah, assist us.
		
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			Protect us from the wrong type of fame
		
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			and the wrong type of attention and the
		
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			wrong type of riches.
		
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			Do not make what you have granted us
		
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			a burden for us.
		
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			O Allah, we thank you for what you
		
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			have given us.
		
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			Allow us to be constantly grateful and to
		
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			be perpetually grateful to you, O Allah.
		
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			O Allah, allow us to see the ni'mah
		
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			that you have given us and to value
		
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			it.
		
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			O Allah, O Allah, how misplaced it is
		
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			that the ni'mah you have given us, we
		
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			do not treat it as ni'mah.
		
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			We don't express gratitude to you.
		
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			O Allah, bless all of those who are
		
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			here and who are listening.
		
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			O Allah, bless the entire Muslim Ummah.
		
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			O Allah, relieve our Muslim Ummah from all
		
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			of the burdens that they have, all of
		
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			the difficulties they're facing, all of the challenges
		
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			that they are facing.
		
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			O Allah, these are all difficulties.
		
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			We know that difficulties all have a purpose.
		
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			O Allah, those who have departed, O Allah,
		
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			grant them shahada.
		
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			O Allah, grant them shahada.
		
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			And those, O Allah, who are left behind,
		
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			O Allah, grant them much better than what
		
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			they have lost.
		
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			O Allah, grant them their freedom and their
		
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			dignity and their honor and protect all of
		
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			us.
		
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			Allow us to make the right decisions in
		
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			our life.
		
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			And O Allah, bless all of those who
		
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			assist us.
		
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			The masjid project that we have, O Allah,
		
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			allow it to reach completion.
		
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			O Allah, remove the obstacles from our path
		
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			and make it beneficial.
		
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			O Allah, make this year's hajj well and
		
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			easy for people to go.
		
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			O Allah, allow us to go and take
		
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			us with us.
		
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			O Allah, allow us to go.
		
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			O Allah, facilitate the path for us.
		
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			O Allah, our brother who passed away, O
		
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			Allah, bless him.
		
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			O Allah, reward him for all that he
		
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			has done.
		
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			O Allah, elevate him.
		
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			O Allah, forgive him.
		
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			O Allah, protect him and in the hereafter,
		
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			protect his children in this world and allow
		
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			them to continue his legacy in the right
		
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			way, O Allah.
		
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			O Allah, O Allah, grant us all some
		
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			good acts to do before we go.
		
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			Keep us in the service of your deen,
		
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			O Allah.
		
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			Keep us in the service of your deen.
		
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			We don't know how we can serve you,
		
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			O Allah, but you know how you can
		
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			employ us.
		
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			It's all in your hands, O Allah.
		
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			O Allah, we're offering ourselves.
		
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			We're beseeching you to accept us.
		
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			O Allah, for the service of your deen.
		
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			Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Rabbil alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			As-salamu alaikum.
		
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			The point of a lecture is to encourage
		
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			people to act to get further, an inspiration,
		
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			an encouragement, persuasion.
		
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			The next step is to actually start learning
		
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			seriously, to read books, to take on a
		
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			subject of Islam and to understand all the
		
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			subjects of Islam at least at their basic
		
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			level so that we can become more aware
		
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			of what our deen wants from us.
		
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			And that's why we started Rayyan Courses so
		
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			that you can actually take organized lectures on
		
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			demand whenever you have free time, especially, for
		
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			example, the Islamic Essentials course that we have
		
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			on there, the Islamic Essentials Certificate, which you
		
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			take 20 short modules.
		
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			And at the end of that, inshallah, you
		
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			will have gotten the basics of most of
		
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			the most important topics in Islam and you'll
		
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			feel a lot more confident.
		
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			You don't have to leave lectures behind.
		
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			You can continue to listen to lectures, but
		
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			you need to have this more sustained study
		
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			as well.
		
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			Jazakallah Khair.
		
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			As-salamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.