Abu Abdissalam – Makkah 27th night of Ramadan

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The importance of worship for everyone is discussed, including individuals and their families. It is emphasized that individuals can take small acts of worship, such as reciting Quran or reciting a charity, to help others. forgiveness is also emphasized, including the importance of building a community and making tober for deeds. forgiveness is not just about money, it's also about heart and mind. embracing Islam's actions of worship is emphasized, and individuals are encouraged to be humble and give their best behavior to others.

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			I'm your brother Abu Adi Salam speaking to
		
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			you live from the blessed city of Mecca.
		
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			And
		
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			tonight is,
		
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			it's the night of 27th
		
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			of Ramadan
		
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			in Mecca.
		
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			And as we know,
		
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			Allah
		
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			tells us
		
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			that the night of Qadr
		
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			is better than 1,000
		
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			months.
		
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			Now the ulema of Islam,
		
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			they talk about when is Laylatul Qadr.
		
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			And what a number of scholars they say
		
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			is that Laylatul Qadr
		
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			is most likely to be on the 27th
		
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			night of Ramadan.
		
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			It can also, of course, be on
		
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			any of the other odd nights of,
		
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			the last 10
		
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			the the odd nights of the last 10
		
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			of Ramadan,
		
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			and it can also be in any of
		
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			the even the even nights. But it's most
		
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			likely to be
		
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			on the 27th,
		
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			and then it's most likely to be on
		
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			one of the odd nights of the last
		
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			10. And then after that, it's likely to
		
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			be one of the,
		
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			any of the nights of the last 10.
		
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			So this is what the ulama of Islam
		
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			have said. Now Allah
		
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			tells us, as you all know, that
		
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			that,
		
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			is better than 1,000
		
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			months. This means that the Ibadah that you
		
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			do, inshallah, one interpretation of this is that
		
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			the Ibadah, the acts of worship that you
		
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			do in these,
		
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			in the in these nights of Ramadan,
		
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			or and if it happens
		
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			to fall on Laylatul Qadr, it's like doing
		
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			an act of Ibadah
		
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			for over 1,000 months. And if you calculate
		
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			that, that's more than 80 years. 83 or
		
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			something,
		
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			yeah, more more than an entire lifetime. And
		
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			imagine,
		
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			why is this so important, brothers and sisters?
		
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			The reason that this is so important is
		
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			because we get one
		
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			life. Nuh
		
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			he was giving dawah for
		
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			a 1000 years minus 50, so about
		
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			950 years.
		
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			So the people of old, they used to
		
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			have long life, some of the other ummas.
		
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			But this ummer, no. We don't have you
		
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			know, we might have 50, 60, 70, 80,
		
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			90, a 100 years, maybe a 120 years
		
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			on this planet, on this earth. And then
		
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			we go back to,
		
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			and then we go back to our creator.
		
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			Now when it comes to,
		
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			when it comes to however, when it when
		
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			when it comes to our deen,
		
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			of you know, how how was Allah
		
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			given us only this short time, but then
		
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			the people of the past like the time
		
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			of Nuh, they had, you know, he had
		
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			950
		
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			odd years
		
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			of worship. So surely this would be much
		
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			greater. However, Allah
		
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			has given us certain barakas,
		
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			and one of those barakas is the night
		
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			of Qadr,
		
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			laylatul Qadr. And on this night, on just
		
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			one night,
		
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			one night
		
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			between Maghrib and Fajr, that the Ibadah that
		
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			you do is worth more than 80 years
		
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			of
		
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			Just think about that for a second. Imagine
		
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			that you went to work. Right? Imagine you
		
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			went to work
		
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			and your boss said to you that next
		
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			week
		
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			that for every
		
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			minute that you work,
		
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			you will get 1 year salary.
		
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			For every minute that you work, you will
		
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			get 1 year salary.
		
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			Right? Don't you think you would rush to
		
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			go to work on time
		
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			to make use of every single minute of
		
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			that day and make sure that you're working
		
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			so that you get every single minutes worth
		
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			of each minute.
		
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			For each minute, you get 1 year's worth
		
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			of reward. Right? Don't you think you would
		
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			be rushing
		
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			to do that?
		
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			And now, Allah
		
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			has told us and, you know, that
		
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			that
		
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			is better than
		
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			a 1000 months. So that means
		
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			what are the different things that we can
		
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			do?
		
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			What should we be doing? Well, the ulama
		
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			have given lots of different pieces of advice.
		
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			Some of them have said, okay. You know,
		
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			what you can do is you can do
		
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			lots of little acts of worship. Of course
		
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			you'll do your taraweeh,
		
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			your tahajjud prayers, you'll recite some Quran,
		
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			you can give some charity on that night.
		
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			It's like the charity that you give it's
		
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			like giving it every single day for a
		
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			1000 months.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			You can give charity. You can do different
		
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			types of charity. Maybe give for an orphan
		
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			fund. Give for the funds for, you know,
		
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			people who are suffering like in Gaza. May
		
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			Allah help the Muslims of Gaza,
		
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			to defeat
		
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			the,
		
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			the enemies Israel
		
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			and the occupiers. May
		
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			help the Muslims on this blessed night, and
		
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			don't forget them in dua.
		
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			Likewise,
		
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			you can, you know, help an orphan. Maybe
		
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			you can help to build a masjid. Even
		
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			if it's like $5,
		
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			£5, 5 riyals, whatever you can give, you
		
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			know, try and help to build a masjid
		
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			or to, you know, what else can you
		
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			do? You can maybe help. Look for different
		
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			charities and split out your charities on different
		
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			olema, many olema have said the 27th night
		
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			is the most likely
		
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			night for Laylatul Qadr.
		
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			But we should still seek it out for
		
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			every single night of the last 10.
		
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			And the stronger opinion among the ulama is
		
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			that Laylatul Qadr changes.
		
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			So 1 year it might be the 27th.
		
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			1 year it might be the 25th. 1
		
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			year it might be the 29th. 1 year
		
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			it might even be the 22nd or 24th.
		
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			Right? We don't know. And that's the beauty
		
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			of it that we try and seek out
		
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			this night. So for all these remaining nights,
		
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			you might have missed the last few nights,
		
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			but for the remaining nights, if you have
		
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			missed them or even if you haven't, just
		
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			make sure that you're giving charity, you're smiling
		
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			at someone, you recite in Quran, you're
		
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			and you know, do lots of dua. It's
		
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			like doing dua
		
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			in your on your, you know, on
		
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			even your dua is like doing it every
		
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			day for over a 1000 months, over 83
		
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			years. SubhanAllah.
		
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			So this is something that we really shouldn't
		
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			miss out
		
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			on. It's like imagine I remember 1 chef,
		
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			he gave a really beautiful example. He said
		
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			imagine there was an ATM. You know the
		
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			bank,
		
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			the ATM where you take out money from
		
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			the bank?
		
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			Imagine that
		
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			they said that during these few hours,
		
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			every time you put your card in,
		
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			you can take out a $100 for free,
		
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			and it's not coming it's not gonna be
		
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			deducted from your balance, it's for free. And
		
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			you put it in, you take it out.
		
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			You put it in, you take it out.
		
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			You put you're gonna be there the entire
		
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			night for those hours
		
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			trying to get out these this money. Right?
		
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			Yes or no? Of course. You're gonna be
		
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			trying to get out the money, if if
		
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			like you're just gonna stay there that entire
		
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			period. So
		
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			brothers
		
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			and sisters
		
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			also take use of this opportunity, you know,
		
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			recite Quran,
		
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			give charity,
		
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			do a good deed, could do as many
		
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			good deeds as possible,
		
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			give dawah to people.
		
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			Even I've come online after how long life.
		
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			Alright? So it's too good an opportunity.
		
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			Give dawah to people,
		
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			encourage other people. You know, maybe phone someone
		
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			who's sick. Whatever you can do, do. Okay?
		
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			Whatever you can do, do. Give charity, etcetera,
		
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			etcetera, etcetera.
		
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			So let me know in the chat also
		
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			about what kind of good deeds that you
		
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			you guys can encourage others to do, Insha'Allah.
		
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			You know, teach someone some Quran if they
		
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			don't know Quran. Even if you teach your
		
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			children one ayah of the Quran. Imagine this.
		
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			You teach them one ayah. Ayah. Let's say
		
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			ayatulqursi
		
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			or Suratul Fatiha or something like this, you're
		
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			teaching them just 1 ayah or a few
		
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			eyes of the Quran or one small surah,
		
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			then it's like you're teaching them for 84
		
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			plus years every single day. Right? That you
		
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			can think out of the box.
		
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			Excuse me. Think out of the box. Think
		
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			of the ways the different ways that you
		
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			can worship Allah on this night. Don't waste
		
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			this opportunity.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			And also,
		
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			we don't know. SubhanAllah, one of our colleagues
		
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			at work,
		
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			she was working with us, and she was
		
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			very jolly, Allahuhamabarik,
		
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			and she was helping us with some of
		
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			the scripts that we were writing, the Islamic
		
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			content and dawah stuff, and she was heading
		
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			one of the the content
		
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			groups. And,
		
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			like, just a few weeks before Ramadan,
		
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			just a few weeks before Ramadan,
		
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			she,
		
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			her and her 3 children and her husband
		
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			all passed away
		
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			just a few weeks before Ramapa in a
		
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			car accident.
		
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			And the entire family was wiped out.
		
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			And,
		
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			you know, we can put myself, the entire
		
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			staff, we were very upset, very shocked. It's
		
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			something that the entire family is wiped out.
		
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			The the night before, the day before, a
		
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			couple of days before she was saying salaam,
		
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			she was jolly in the group, you know,
		
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			and she was working etcetera.
		
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			And Alhamdulillah,
		
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			amazing woman, amazing woman. But subhanAllah her entire
		
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			family passed away
		
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			just like this, just a few days before
		
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			Ramadan. So it really makes you think
		
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			that this woman was writing scripts. She was
		
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			helping me with my scripts actually. And, there's
		
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			a whole team that do this work. And
		
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			she was heading that team. And she was
		
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			writing some of the scripts of some of
		
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			the videos that you might have seen that
		
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			we recorded that we put out on,
		
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			on the various social media platforms on YouTube
		
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			and all that. She was writing those scripts
		
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			and some of those scripts are about Ramadan
		
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			and yet Allah
		
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			had decreed that she's not gonna be here
		
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			in Ramadan herself, but she's still getting the
		
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			the reward.
		
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			You know, so
		
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			it just goes to show that you could
		
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			get so close to Ramadan. We don't know
		
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			if we are gonna make next Ramadan. We
		
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			just don't know. How many people do you
		
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			know from last year that were unable to
		
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			make it this year? Right?
		
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			How many people
		
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			do you know
		
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			that were around last Ramadan and they are
		
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			not here this Ramadan. I can say at
		
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			least this woman Aya, may Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala, give her Jannah al Firdaus without any
		
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			reckoning, without any punishment and her entire family
		
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			and give sabr to her father and her
		
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			brother.
		
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			May Allah
		
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			give them the highest levels of Jannah. Ameen
		
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			You Rabbala A'lamine.
		
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			But this woman, subhanAllah, like,
		
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			she was this close
		
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			coming to Ramadan.
		
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			Right? It's a lesson, but Allah decreed that
		
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			InshaAllah, she'll still get that reward Insha'Allah Insha'Allah
		
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			You Rabb. Because she she was doing so
		
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			much work for Ramadan.
		
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			Right? For that or for Ramadan.
		
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			So we don't know
		
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			brothers and sisters. My cousin passed away,
		
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			in December.
		
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			So many people we lost in this 1
		
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			year since last Ramadan.
		
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			May Allah
		
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			grant them all the highest levels of Jannah
		
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			without any reckoning, without any punishment. Ameen You
		
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			Rabbil 'Aalami. So you don't know if you're
		
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			gonna be around next Ramadan
		
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			even maybe one of us
		
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			we don't know we don't know are we
		
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			gonna be around next Ramadan. So let us
		
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			use this time
		
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			let us use this time to make sure
		
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			that we are,
		
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			trying to get as close as possible to
		
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			Allah The
		
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			prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he used
		
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			to recite the Quran, the entire Quran in
		
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			Ramadan
		
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			Ramadan with Jibril every single year.
		
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			And yet,
		
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			in the final Ramadan of his life, he
		
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			recited it twice.
		
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			He recited it twice to Jibril and he
		
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			reviewed it with Jibril alaihis salam.
		
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			And,
		
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			this goes to show and the prophet was
		
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			the most generous
		
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			in Ramadan. He was already the most generous
		
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			person ever. But in Ramadan, he was
		
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			and he was
		
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			like he was the most generous during the
		
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			month of Ramadan.
		
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			So let us try and be extra generous.
		
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			And generosity is not just with money. Generosity
		
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			is also with the heart. It's also with,
		
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			you know, the ability to give,
		
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			to forgive others. SubhanAllah. One of the amazing
		
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			acts of deeds, acts of worship that you
		
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			can do right now is to forgive every
		
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			Muslim. Forgive everyone that has ever harmed you.
		
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			Right? You all know the hadith of the
		
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			person
		
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			where Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As radiAllahu anhu
		
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			Ajma'in.
		
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			They he went to, he he he was
		
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			with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was chilling
		
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			with his companions,
		
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			And the prophet
		
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			he said to them
		
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			he said the man who's gonna come in
		
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			the masjid next, he is from the people
		
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			of paradise.
		
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			And then this particular man, he walks in.
		
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			The 2nd day, the same thing happened. The
		
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			man who comes next, he is from among
		
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			the people of paradise. The 3rd day, the
		
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			same thing happened. The same man comes in
		
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			on the 1st day, 2nd day, 3rd day.
		
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			So Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al Asr radiAllahu
		
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			anhu, he went to this man's house
		
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			and he made some excuse, you know, oh,
		
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			I had a fight with my family and
		
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			whatever. Can I stay with you? And so
		
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			he allowed him to stay with
		
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			him, and he stayed with him for 3
		
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			nights.
		
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			Why did he do this? He wanted to
		
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			see
		
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			what is this man doing that's different to
		
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			everyone else? What is this man doing that
		
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			is different to everybody days and
		
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			3
		
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			nights,
		
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			he
		
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			said
		
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			he
		
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			left.
		
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			He
		
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			said,
		
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			look, so and
		
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			days and 3 nights, he said he left.
		
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			He said, look, so and so, actually, I
		
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			didn't really have a fight with my family.
		
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			The truth is that I heard the prophet
		
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			say that you're from among the people of
		
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			paradise, and I wanted to see what do
		
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			you do that's different.
		
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			So he said,
		
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			I I saw your prayers, it's the same,
		
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			your charity is the same, your night prayer,
		
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			you know, your fasting, all the you don't
		
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			do anything special. What is it that you
		
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			do?
		
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			So
		
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			this man says, I I don't know. I
		
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			don't know what I did. So he starts
		
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			walking away. Abdullah starts walking away. Then he
		
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			the man calls him back. He said, there
		
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			is one thing that I do. He said,
		
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			what's that? He said,
		
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			I don't hold grudges. When before I go
		
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			to sleep I make sure I forgive everyone
		
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			there's no grudges. Roughly paraphrasing what he said
		
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			I don't have any grudges. I don't hold
		
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			anything in my heart.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			Abdullah,
		
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			he said
		
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			that is the thing that is different. That
		
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			is the difference between you and us. SubhanAllah,
		
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			yeah brothers and sisters, we might be weak
		
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			in night prayer. We might be stingy and
		
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			we don't give enough charity as much as
		
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			we'd like to. We might not be able
		
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			to fast every other day or Mondays Thursdays
		
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			and voluntary fast and, you know, we might
		
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			we might not have the ability or we
		
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			might not be strong enough to do all
		
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			these good deeds that we could do.
		
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			But can't we forgive everyone?
		
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			That's just something from the heart and from
		
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			the tongue that we just raise our hands
		
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			and we say, oh Allah, forgive everyone that's
		
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			ever harmed us. Have you not
		
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			have you not been somebody that has harmed
		
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			someone
		
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			without knowing sometimes? Maybe you've back bitten someone,
		
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			maybe you've spoken about someone in a way
		
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			that is not befitting
		
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			or you have, you know, harmed someone,
		
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			hurt someone's feelings, whatever it may be.
		
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			And even more than that, have we not
		
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			sinned against
		
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			Of course, we we sin against
		
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			Allah day and night, and we want forgiveness.
		
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			Right? We want forgiveness.
		
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			There was a man who slandered Abu Bakr
		
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			whose
		
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			daughter Aisha radiallahu anhu,
		
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			and he was of the hypocrites, Abdul Lai
		
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			bin Hubay bin Saloon.
		
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			But some of the Sahaba carried this slander.
		
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			And
		
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			when Abu Bakr
		
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			found out, one of them, his name was
		
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			mister.
		
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			He was from the Muhajireen actually. And
		
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			he
		
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			he also carried this slander. He didn't actually
		
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			make it up, but he carried this
		
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			slander. So Abu Bakr
		
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			used to give charity to this person.
		
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			Right? Allah Abu Bakr
		
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			used to give charity because he was,
		
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			he was related to him and he was
		
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			poor.
		
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			After this, he promised that I will never
		
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			give charity again
		
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			to this person for as long as I
		
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			live because of what he did to his
		
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			daughter. And yet Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala from
		
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			above the 7 heavens,
		
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			he corrected Abu Bakr.
		
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			And he tells Abu
		
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			Bakr the people of Fadl, the people of
		
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			virtue, the people of goodness among you should
		
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			never vow to not give charity
		
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			to,
		
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			to these people, these Muhajaleen and these poor
		
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			people.
		
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			Allah
		
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			do you Allah then goes on to say,
		
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			do you not love that Allah forgives you?
		
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			Forgive them.
		
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			Forgive
		
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			and forgive them and pardon them. Do you
		
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			do you not want Allah to forgive you?
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			And then Abu Bakr radiAllahu anhu. He says,
		
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			yes indeed I want Allah to forgive me.
		
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			So what does he do?
		
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			He forgives this person and then he says,
		
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			I will never stop giving charity to this
		
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			person for as long as I live. And
		
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			this is a person who slandered his daughter.
		
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			So if you want Jannah, this is a
		
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			very simple way before you go to sleep.
		
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			In fact, every day, every night just cleans
		
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			your cleanse your heart, remove any grudges from
		
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			anyone and say, oh, Allah,
		
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			forgive
		
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			everyone that has harmed harmed me. Every Muslim
		
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			that has hardened me, every person that's harmed
		
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			me and forgive them and guide them
		
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			and that's it.
		
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			Of course, sometimes you might feel the pain.
		
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			You might some people they say, you know
		
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			what? I'll be able to forgive everyone but
		
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			I can't forgive that person.
		
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			What he did, what she did was so
		
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			great that I can't forgive them. Guess what?
		
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			That's the person that you're supposed to forgive.
		
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			That's the person if you forgive that you'll
		
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			get the high levels of Jannah.
		
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			So why not take tonight and every single
		
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			night, not just these nights of Ramadan, but
		
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			every single night to forgive every single
		
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			you're able to do this because it's heavy.
		
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			When you're holding grudges, it's really heavy. So
		
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			this is another great deed that you can
		
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			do and maybe you get a massive reward
		
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			if you happen to do it on Daylatul
		
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			Qadr. Another good deed that a person can
		
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			do and this is so important is toba,
		
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			is to make istafar and you know to
		
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			ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala forgiveness. This is
		
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			a deed. This is a very important act
		
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			of worship that we should be doing for
		
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			all the deeds, the bad deeds that we
		
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			do. So let us also make tober for
		
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			our deeds.
		
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			So my brothers and sisters in Islam,
		
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			let's not waste these final moments of Ramadan.
		
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			Ramadan,
		
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			this lahda, this exact moment, it's never going
		
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			to come back ever. It's never ever ever
		
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			going to come back.
		
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			And whether we make the next Ramadan or
		
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			not, we don't know. So let's utilize these
		
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			last few nights. I ask Allah
		
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			to give us Iqlas,
		
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			to give us sincerity, to accept our acts
		
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			of worship, to give us a tawfeeef, to
		
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			do lots of acts of worship,
		
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			to give us the, you know, to give
		
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			us the ability to forgive others,
		
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			to give the to make us of those
		
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			who are charitable, to make us of those
		
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			who pray the night prayer, and all of
		
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			our prayers on time, the fard prayers and
		
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			the sunnah.
		
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			We ask Allah
		
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			to make us of those who are righteous
		
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			to our parents and kind and that we're
		
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			able to give lots of charity, that we
		
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			build lots of masajid, and that we build
		
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			hospitals and contribute and look after the orphans,
		
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			and we're able to fast,
		
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			as much as voluntary as possible. We're able
		
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			to do Hajj every year. We're able to
		
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			do Umrah every year, and we do it.
		
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			May Allah
		
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			give us the blessings,
		
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			you know, blessings to be able to do
		
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			that. Because my brothers and sisters, sisters even
		
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			when you do an act of worship, wallahi,
		
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			we're not worthy of doing acts of worship.
		
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			Like we're not even worthy of that. But
		
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			it's Allah Jallahu Alaihi out of his blessing,
		
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			out of his mercy that's given us the
		
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			ability to do these acts of worship. There
		
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			are people that might not be able to
		
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			do these acts of worship,
		
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			but Allah has given us this this ability.
		
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			So let's not even have this or this,
		
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			you know, self,
		
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			self what do you call it?
		
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			Self,
		
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			astonishment of our own good deeds.
		
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			Right? Let us be humble. Let us know
		
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			that this is only from Allah that we're
		
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			able to do acts of worship. Ask Allah
		
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			to forgive us of all of our sins
		
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			and to forgive us
		
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			remove us from the hellfire, to free us
		
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			from the hellfire. Ask Allah
		
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			to give every single Muslim the ability to
		
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			come here to Makkah and perform Hajj, to
		
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			perform Umrah many times in their life, and
		
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			to fast here as well.
		
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			Do Ramadan here, Tarawee here. And also, may
		
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			Allah
		
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			not take our souls without forgiving us. And
		
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			and, oh, Allah, forgive us. Make us companions
		
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			with the messenger of Allah. Oh, Allah, you
		
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			didn't make us companions
		
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			with him in this world, so make us
		
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			his companions
		
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			Aqir.
		
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			Siraj Fani says,
		
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			Ahmed Zubair says, assalamu
		
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			alaykum. And to all of you, my brothers
		
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			and sisters,
		
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			very much love for from your brother, Abu
		
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			Ad Salam, speaking to you from the blessed
		
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			city of Mecca.