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The speakers discuss the importance of pursuing the afterlife and avoiding distractions during the process. Prayer and praying at night are crucial for success, as it is a disaster and reward. The speakers also emphasize the importance of praying and staying up late, as it is a disaster and reward. The speakers stress the importance of not rushing to achieve success and finding one's way through life.

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			Assalamu alaykum.
		
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			Alhamdulillah.
		
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			It is good to be back after 6
		
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			months and to see these beautiful faces.
		
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			I ask Allah
		
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			not to deprive us of each other's
		
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			brotherhood in this life and in the afterlife.
		
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			Brothers and sisters in Islam,
		
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			tonight's topic is titled, Uaman araadal akhira.
		
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			Whoever Desires the Afterlife.
		
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			And I want to begin tonight
		
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			with a story
		
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			that happened
		
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			among the greatest of men to walk this
		
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			earth after the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
		
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			And this is an authentic story narrated by
		
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			Imam Ahmed,
		
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			A story that happened between Abu Bakr, radiAllahu
		
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			anhu,
		
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			Omar radiAllahu anhu,
		
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			and Uthman
		
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			radiAllahu
		
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			anhu.
		
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			And this story happened during the Khilafah of
		
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			Abu Bakr as Sadiq
		
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			radiAllahu
		
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			anhu.
		
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			Uthman radiAllahu
		
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			anhu says
		
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			that I was sitting
		
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			in a place where the people gather and
		
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			sit,
		
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			And he says, Umar
		
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			passed by me
		
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			and gave me salaam.
		
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			And I did not notice his salaam, so
		
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			he did not respond to him.
		
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			So
		
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			Umar
		
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			was bothered by this,
		
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			and he continued until he reached Abu Bakr
		
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			And he complained in the office of Abu
		
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			Bakr
		
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			Imagine this, Abu Bakr is the Khalifa at
		
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			the time.
		
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			He complains.
		
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			He says, you Abu Bakr,
		
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			I just passed by our brother Uthman,
		
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			and I gave him salaam, and he did
		
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			not respond to me.
		
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			So Abu Bakr radiAllahu anhu
		
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			took this matter very seriously, and I want
		
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			you to pay attention
		
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			to the brotherhood that was established among the
		
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			Sahaba.
		
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			It was a serious matter, no joke.
		
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			So imagine how busy Abu Bakr radiAllahu anhu
		
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			would be,
		
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			but he picked himself up and he said
		
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			to Umar radiAllahu anhu, let's go and visit
		
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			our brother, Uthman, and see what the problem
		
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			is.
		
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			The busiest man in Al Madinah, he said
		
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			let's drop everything and go and deal with
		
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			this manna right now before it grows.
		
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			Brotherhood was valued among them.
		
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			What has happened to us? We ask Allah
		
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			to rectify brotherhood among us.
		
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			So they both went towards where Uthman
		
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			was sitting.
		
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			Abu Bakr approached
		
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			Uthman. He said, You Uthman,
		
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			this is your brother, Omar. He came to
		
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			me complaining
		
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			that moments ago he passed by you. He
		
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			gave you salaam and you did not respond.
		
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			So Uthmar
		
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			said, Wallahi,
		
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			he did not pass by me and he
		
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			did not give me salaam.
		
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			He didn't realize at
		
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			all. So Umar was
		
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			frustrated.
		
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			He said,
		
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			I passed by him, and I gave him
		
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			salaam.
		
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			However,
		
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			that is the arrogance
		
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			of you people, the family of Umayyah, which
		
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			is the family of Uthman radiAllahu anhu. It's
		
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			getting heated and intense.
		
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			So Abu Bakr radiAllahu anhu,
		
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			he said to
		
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			Omar, by Allah, Uthman has spoken the truth.
		
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			And he did not notice that you walked
		
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			in front of him and gave him salaam
		
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			because there is something that is bothering him
		
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			and occupying his mind.
		
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			Haven't you realized that sometimes in your life,
		
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			you might be so busy and occupied with
		
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			something
		
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			that I may walk in front of you
		
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			or give you salaam or say something to
		
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			you or your wife may say something or
		
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			your husband may say something to you or
		
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			your children may say something.
		
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			You say, wallahi wallahi, he I I wasn't
		
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			I didn't even notice.
		
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			That's what happened here.
		
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			So, Arul Waqir
		
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			he said, the aufman.
		
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			What is it?
		
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			What is it that has occupied your mind
		
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			and bothered you? That you didn't even notice
		
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			your brother passing by you and giving you
		
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			salaam? Indeed, it has to be a huge
		
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			thing.
		
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			So Ufmar he
		
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			said,
		
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			and Nabi
		
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			passed away
		
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			and I forgot to ask him about
		
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			Manajat
		
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			Uthak Al Amr.
		
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			I forgot to ask him
		
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			what are the deeds I should do
		
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			that will earn me safety on the day
		
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			of judgment?
		
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			Shifty's
		
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			concern? His concern was the afterlife. He was
		
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			bothered so much
		
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			that he's stressing out. I didn't ask him
		
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			Nabi
		
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			what will save me on that day when
		
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			people are being destroyed and ruined and punished?
		
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			So Abu Bakr
		
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			said, by Allah,
		
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			I asked the messenger
		
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			this question during his life.
		
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			So Ufner
		
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			out of happiness and joy and excitement got
		
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			up and
		
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			he said to him,
		
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			He says, may my mother and father be
		
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			sacrificed for you.
		
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			You are the most rightful person to ask
		
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			this question to the messenger
		
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			Please share the answer with us.
		
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			So then Abu Bakr
		
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			said,
		
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			I said to the messenger
		
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			What would save us
		
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			from the horrors and the terror of the
		
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			day of judgment?
		
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			When Nabi said,
		
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			He said to him, Nabi salallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam said,
		
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			the one who accepts
		
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			the word
		
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			that I delivered to my uncle
		
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			and he rejected,
		
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			it would be a severe for him on
		
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			the day of judgment.
		
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			And the word that Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			delivered to his uncle and preached to him
		
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			and to entire humanity
		
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			is la ilaha illallah, the word of a
		
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			Tawhid.
		
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			Indeed, a Tawhid is the major matter that
		
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			will save you and I from the horrors
		
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			and the terror of the day of judgment.
		
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			But brothers and sisters in Islam, if we
		
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			observe and look into this story once again,
		
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			we realize
		
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			Uthmer
		
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			is from the 10 that were granted the
		
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			paradise and guaranteed the paradise.
		
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			Yet he is still so bothered
		
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			by the preparation for the day of judgment
		
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			that he does not realize.
		
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			Umar passing by him and giving him salaam.
		
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			What are you bothered by, You Uthman? But
		
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			you're already guaranteed the paradise.
		
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			Why are you stressing so much?
		
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			Why does it seem that the main concern
		
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			for you is the afterlife?
		
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			Indeed, this is a quality and a treat
		
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			of a believer.
		
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			He's not deceived by his actions and by
		
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			his deeds and by his goodness.
		
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			And deceived by the words of the people
		
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			and the priests of him. He continues to
		
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			work
		
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			pleasing Allah
		
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			until the day he meets Allah Az Zawajal.
		
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			Today,
		
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			you might pass by someone,
		
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			and he might
		
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			respond in the same manner of man responded.
		
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			And he might say to you, brother, I
		
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			did not realize you walked past me and
		
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			gave me salaam.
		
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			But the difference is in nowadays,
		
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			you might say, brother,
		
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			what occupied your mind? Perhaps 90% of the
		
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			time, it's something worldly related.
		
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			Some debt that he has, some work that
		
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			he has, something related to the worldly life,
		
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			not to the afterlife.
		
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			We ask
		
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			Allah to rectify our state and our affairs.
		
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			Brothers and sisters in Islam,
		
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			the believer should not make the mean and
		
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			the greatest concern of his in this life,
		
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			the worldly life, and its provision.
		
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			That should not be the mean and the
		
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			greatest concern of the of the believer.
		
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			Because the end of the day, we are
		
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			all leaving
		
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			what we accumulated
		
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			and acquired in this worldly life. And we're
		
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			moving on to a life that is permanent
		
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			that doesn't end and that is a life
		
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			with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in the paradise.
		
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			So what Allah
		
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			gave you in this worldly life, you must
		
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			use it to build your afterlife.
		
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			So your main concern
		
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			should be the afterlife in preparation for that.
		
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			And there are many ahadith
		
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			and many ayaat in the Quran
		
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			that repeat this matter over and over and
		
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			over again.
		
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			Allah
		
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			He
		
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			said,
		
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			Allah
		
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			speaks about believers
		
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			and he says whoever
		
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			desires the afterlife,
		
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			meaning the afterlife should be a desire for
		
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			the believer.
		
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			You should have passion,
		
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			engulfing, flaming passion and love for the afterlife
		
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			because that's where you will see and you
		
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			will meet your maker and creator.
		
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			How can you not have this as your
		
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			main and greatest concern?
		
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			Allah says,
		
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			Then he said,
		
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			And he exerted the effort Jew taught,
		
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			meaning there is a path that you're supposed
		
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			to take
		
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			and follow
		
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			in order for the afterlife to be your
		
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			mean and greatest concern.
		
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			This
		
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			topic is repeated a lot in the Quran,
		
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			a lot in the Sunnah. And I tell
		
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			you something.
		
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			When a topic is made mention of
		
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			many times in the Quran with sunnah,
		
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			it is an evidence of something.
		
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			It is an evidence of the fact that
		
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			the disease
		
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			of the love and the concern of this
		
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			worldly life
		
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			and neglecting the afterlife in preparation for the
		
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			afterlife
		
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			has become
		
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			rampant and widespread among the people.
		
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			The disease of the love of this worldly
		
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			life and the attachment to this worldly life
		
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			is a great disease and a sickness
		
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			that has become a pandemic
		
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			of this day and age.
		
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			That's why Allah will
		
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			mention
		
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			more than
		
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			many times
		
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			in the Quran
		
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			about making sure that your main purpose and
		
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			your main concern in this world, the life
		
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			is the afterlife.
		
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			When Nabi
		
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			repeats this to his companions over a 100
		
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			times,
		
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			because the disease of the attachment to this
		
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			worldly life is going to become widespread.
		
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			And what do we mean by this? Brothers
		
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			and sisters in Islam, it's not haram to
		
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			love this worldly life.
		
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			It's not haram
		
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			to acquire its wealth and to love the
		
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			wealth and to spend it. It's not haram.
		
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			When does the attachment to this worldly life
		
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			become haram? When?
		
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			It becomes haram
		
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			when you don't care how you acquire it.
		
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			When you are acquiring this world worldly life
		
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			through al halaalalal Haram, you don't care. Through
		
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			arribah, through al haraam,
		
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			selling drugs, stealing others, taking loans from people,
		
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			not paying it back.
		
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			That's when the attachment to the worldly life
		
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			becomes haram and dangerous in your case.
		
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			And the other thing that makes it haram
		
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			to love this worldly life and attach to
		
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			it,
		
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			when you have become so attached
		
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			that now you don't have time for your
		
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			obligations and for your responsibilities.
		
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			You've neglected us salawat.
		
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			You've neglected al Masjid. You've neglected salatuljumah.
		
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			Because,
		
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			oh, I have work. I'm making money. Sorry,
		
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			I can't come to
		
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			And when you abandon your responsibilities,
		
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			the wife complains about her husband, we don't
		
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			see him.
		
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			Maybe maybe
		
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			once a week we see him for a
		
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			couple of hours and then after that,
		
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			he's with the boys the whole day, the
		
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			whole night, and he's at his work the
		
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			entire day and the entire night. We don't
		
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			know where he is.
		
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			When this worldly life becomes a reason for
		
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			you,
		
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			in where you're acquiring it from Al Haram,
		
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			and it becomes a reason for why you've
		
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			neglected the obligations,
		
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			and you've neglected responsibility
		
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			to family members and your children and your
		
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			parents.
		
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			Now the worldly life and your attachment to
		
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			it is haram. It's dangerous. It's going to
		
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			destroy you.
		
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			But if you're earning from this worldly life
		
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			through the halal means that Allah has made
		
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			And by the way, there will be a
		
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			lot of barakah in this and it'll be
		
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			satisfying
		
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			more than the one who acquired Al Haram.
		
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			He'll never be satisfied.
		
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			And if the worldly life did not distract
		
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			you from a salat,
		
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			1 salat, 2 salat in al masjid,
		
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			from your Quran.
		
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			It didn't distract you from your family, and
		
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			your wife, and your husband, and your children.
		
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			Alhamdulillah.
		
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			Your relationship with this worldly life is healthy,
		
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			it's good, and there's nothing to be condemned
		
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			about that.
		
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			Then Allah
		
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			when he condemned the love of this life,
		
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			he said,
		
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			He said, you people love.
		
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			And meaning the worldly life.
		
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			From for something to rush because everything in
		
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			this worldly life is rushed. Haven't you seen
		
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			the attitude of people today? Rush, rush, rush
		
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			everything Allah quick, quick, quick. How we can
		
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			finish this quick? And how can this service
		
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			be delivered quick? And who's faster? And who's
		
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			delivering quicker.
		
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			Even this is marketing strategies now among the
		
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			com companies.
		
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			Who'll deliver it in half an hour? Who'll
		
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			deliver your order in 15 minutes?
		
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			That's a dunya. That's it's it is.
		
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			You'd rather pay a lot more for something
		
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			to come quicker than pay less for something
		
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			to come longer and later.
		
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			That's it's called an ajila. Allah condemned those
		
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			who love this worldly life.
		
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			Then he said immediately after,
		
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			and you neglect and you abandon the preparation
		
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			for the war afterlife.
		
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			So if your attachment for this life
		
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			was at the expense of abandoning preparation for
		
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			the afterlife,
		
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			that love is condemned.
		
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			That love is going to destroy you without
		
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			you even knowing.
		
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			So you be careful with me and understand
		
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			what we mean
		
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			by loving and attaching yourself to this worldly
		
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			life. No problems.
		
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			Enjoy what Allah gave you on earth.
		
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			But
		
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			let it not be an obstacle and a
		
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			barrier between you and preparation for the afterlife.
		
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			And once again, two signs
		
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			will tell you that you're on a dangerous
		
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			path. If you're acquiring its wealth through Al
		
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			Hawa
		
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			and if it's distracting from the obligations and
		
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			your responsibilities.
		
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			Brothers and sisters in Islam,
		
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			in Nabi
		
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			he said in the hadith,
		
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			He said, whoever among mankind
		
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			made the afterlife his greatest concern.
		
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			Allah
		
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			promised him three things. And I'm going to
		
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			tell you step by step how can the
		
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			person make the afterlife his greatest concern.
		
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			But for this person, he's promised 3 things.
		
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			Nabi salallahu alayhi wa sallam says, Jama Allahu
		
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			lahu amrahu
		
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			Allah will organize his affairs. Allahu Akbar.
		
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			How beautiful is this reward, especially in a
		
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			day and age where people's affairs are all
		
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			disorganized and over the place.
		
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			Today if you see a brother or you
		
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			see a sister and his eyes are rolling
		
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			and going around, Yeah. What's wrong with you?
		
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			I have debts. I have bills. I have
		
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			wife. I have situations. I have my children.
		
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			I'm trying to get this. He's
		
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			disorganized.
		
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			He's got no clue how to be productive
		
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			during the day and what to complete and
		
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			what to accomplish of all the life projects.
		
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			He's all over the place.
		
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			And Nabi said,
		
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			the one who made the afterlife his greatest
		
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			concern.
		
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			Allah will organize his affairs.
		
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			Perhaps he'll have a lot of on his
		
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			plate, but he seems to be calm and
		
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			he's able to complete what he needs to
		
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			do during the day and during the night.
		
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			Not only this reward, but in Nabi says
		
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			Allah
		
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			will place richness in his heart.
		
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			His heart will be wealthy.
		
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			Rich in his heart. Forget the pocket. Rich
		
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			in the heart. What does it mean to
		
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			be rich and wealthy in the heart?
		
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			It means Allah will give you contentment
		
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			with whatever you gain on this wealthy life.
		
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			Haven't you seen brothers and sisters in Islam?
		
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			People that have tens and 1,000,000 of dollars.
		
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			They live like a poor person.
		
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			His heart is not content. He's still running
		
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			after more.
		
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			Whereas there are some
		
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			that don't have a fraction of what he
		
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			has,
		
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			perhaps sleeping and living in tents.
		
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			And he is peaceful
		
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			and tranquil and content with what Allah gave
		
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			him.
		
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			Indeed, the Nabi
		
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			once asked Abu Dharr. He said, Abu Dharr,
		
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			who do you consider the rich and the
		
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			poor man?
		
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			Abu Dharr
		
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			perhaps just like us, he answered the way
		
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			we would have answered. He said, you Rasool
		
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			Allah, the poor man is the one who
		
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			doesn't have the dollar and the cent in
		
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			his pocket. He doesn't have money.
		
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			And the rich man among us is the
		
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			one who is loaded.
		
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			He has the cash.
		
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			Nabi said to him,
		
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			He corrected his understanding.
		
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			He said to him, the rich among you
		
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			are those who are rich in their heart,
		
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			content with whatever Allah gave them from Al
		
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			Halal.
		
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			And the poor among you
		
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			are those who despite having
		
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			treasures,
		
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			they're still not content in their heart. SubhanAllah.
		
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			And they rush to acquire the worldly life,
		
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			even if it meant to disobey Allah's commands
		
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			and take it from Al Haram.
		
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			Allahu Akbar.
		
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			So there we go. That's the second benefit,
		
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			That the heart will be content with what
		
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			Allah
		
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			gives you.
		
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			And the 3rd matter,
		
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			And the worldly life will come to you
		
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			on its nose.
		
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			Allah
		
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			will open doors and opportunities
		
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			that you never requested and you never ran
		
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			after.
		
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			The worldly life on its nose, it will
		
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			come to you.
		
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			Humiliated
		
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			on its nose, it will come despite you
		
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			not wanting it. These
		
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			are the rewards
		
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			of the one who made the main concern,
		
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			his afterlife.
		
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			The world will come running after him even
		
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			if he doesn't want it. It'll come to
		
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			him.
		
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			Look at the case of Suleyman, alayhis salaam.
		
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			One of the lines comes running after him.
		
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			He doesn't even want anything of it. Allahu
		
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			Akbar.
		
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			So brothers and sisters in Islam,
		
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			I share with you a hadith that's also
		
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			important on this matter. Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			said,
		
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			manjaalalhuma
		
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			hammanwahhidah.
		
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			Nabi
		
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			says,
		
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			whoever focuses on only one concern,
		
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			and that is the concern of the afterlife.
		
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			You see, we have many concerns,
		
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			financial concerns,
		
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			relationship
		
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			concerns,
		
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			health concerns,
		
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			whatever it is of concerns.
		
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			And then there is the afterlife concern.
		
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			Nabi
		
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			said, Whoever
		
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			focuses on just one concern,
		
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			which is the afterlife.
		
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			And you see, every single concern you have,
		
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			it's poisonous.
		
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			It doesn't contribute to the betterment of your
		
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			health.
		
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			Every worldly concern will take away from your
		
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			health slowly and surely.
		
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			It'll take away from your health. There's no
		
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			doubt. Every stress and every concern over any
		
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			worldly life problem will take away from you.
		
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			And Nabi
		
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			he said
		
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			Whoever focuses his concerns to only one concern,
		
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			the only healthiest concern
		
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			that will make you glow and grow is
		
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			the concern of the afterlife.
		
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			Every other concern is going to destroy your
		
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			health.
		
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			The only one concern
		
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			that is beautiful and good for you to
		
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			have is the concern of the afterlife.
		
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			The concern of the first night in your
		
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			grief.
		
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			Have you ever thought of this?
		
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			How are you going to spend the 1st
		
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			night in the grieve?
		
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			When the people have put you there,
		
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			put the dirt onto you and have walked
		
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			away.
		
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			Have you had a concern when you come
		
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			out from your grieve and you're naked, barefooted,
		
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			circumcised
		
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			and poor having nothing of this worldly life
		
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			with you over there?
		
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			These are the great concerns you're supposed to
		
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			have. Have you ever had a concern
		
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			that on the very same scale Abu Bakr,
		
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			radiAllahu anhu's deeds were placed on? That's the
		
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			very same scale your deeds are going to
		
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			be placed on.
		
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			You prepared for that day? You have a
		
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			concern?
		
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			Nabi
		
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			says whoever focuses his concerns on one concern,
		
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			and that is the afterlife.
		
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			He said
		
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			Allah
		
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			will be enough for his concerns in this
		
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			worldly life.
		
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			Meaning every concern you'll have in this dunya
		
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			Allah will look after and will take care
		
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			of it for you.
		
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			Then he
		
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			says: and whoever scatters his concerns
		
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			among the matters of this world, you
		
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			have a concern financially related or here related
		
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			or somewhere here, or you're concerned about your
		
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			car and its service and when it sells
		
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			and when it buys or this one. Yeah,
		
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			your
		
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			concerns are scattered and dispersed everywhere.
		
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			Nabi sallallahu alaihi wasallam said
		
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			Allah
		
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			will
		
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			Allah
		
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			does not matter
		
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			to him. He does not care
		
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			which of these concerns
		
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			causes your death and your destruction.
		
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			Inevitably, one of these will cause you that
		
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			much stress that you will die from it,
		
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			and Allah does not care which one will
		
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			take you out of this worldly life.
		
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			So brothers and sisters in Islam, making the
		
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			concern of the afterlife
		
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			should be the greatest concern
		
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			of the believers.
		
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			How do we do this?
		
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			Brothers and sisters in Islam,
		
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			making the afterlife your greatest concern
		
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			is not with words you say at the
		
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			beginning of the day.
		
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			It's not like you get up in the
		
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			morning and you say Allah Bismillah
		
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			InshaAllah today the afterlife is my main concern.
		
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			That it doesn't look like that.
		
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			Making the afterlife your greatest concern
		
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			is a moment and a stance of action
		
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			that is required from you from the early
		
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			hours of the morning.
		
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			The one who made the afterlife his greatest
		
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			concern
		
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			will be up before Salatul Fazir.
		
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			Will be definitely up before solat al fajr.
		
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			Find for yourself
		
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			half an hour,
		
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			1 hour,
		
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			maybe as a start 15 minutes before Adar
		
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			al fajr.
		
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			This is the last third of the night.
		
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			This is only for people who are serious
		
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			in their relationship with Allah.
		
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			The doors are open.
		
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			Allah
		
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			has descended to the lowest heaven.
		
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			And he is asking
		
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			throughout the last third of the night,
		
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			is there anyone that will request anything from
		
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			me so that I may give him?
		
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			Is there anyone that is seeking my forgiveness
		
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			so that I can forgive him? And he
		
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			continues to repeat this
		
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			all throughout
		
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			that last 3rd of the night until Adhan
		
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			al Fajr.
		
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			The one who's made the afterlife, his greatest
		
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			concern will be up at that time.
		
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			When you get up my brothers and my
		
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			sisters in Islam half an hour before Salat
		
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			Al Fajr,
		
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			Bismillah,
		
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			you wake up and you begin with Al
		
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			Wudu.
		
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			Watch this.
		
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			As you head towards Al Udu in this
		
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			cold freezing weather,
		
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			you turn on the tap. Perhaps it'll take
		
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			some time before it warms up, and there
		
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			is no problem for it to run until
		
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			it warms up.
		
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			It's not considered wasting water,
		
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			as Al Ulamah Rahim
		
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			have answered concerning this matter.
		
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			So it's fine to turn the taps on,
		
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			to wait until
		
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			it warms up.
		
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			Then you begin your wudu.
		
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			And
		
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			then
		
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			Nabi
		
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			he
		
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			said,
		
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			Listen to this virtue. Allah
		
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			says a person from among this Ummah
		
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			gets up at night,
		
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			and he strives and struggles and fights against
		
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			himself to make alwubu,
		
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			meaning it's not something easy, it's something difficult.
		
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			Informed us of this unseen matter.
		
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			There are knots.
		
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			So when this person wakes up and washes
		
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			his hands,
		
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			one knot is undone.
		
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			When he washes his face, another knot is
		
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			undone.
		
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			Until he wipes his he washes his foot
		
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			and a third
		
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			knot is undone.
		
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			Now he'll be productive for that day and
		
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			he's energetic.
		
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			Allah azza wa jal from above observes what
		
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			you do
		
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			even if your family members around you have
		
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			no clue what you're doing.
		
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			Then Allah
		
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			he says to the angels,
		
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			Allah tells the angels that are behind the
		
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			veil of
		
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			Allah Take a look at my slave.
		
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			Look at him.
		
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			Allah
		
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			is taking pride of this slave and this
		
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			servant. He's showing him off to the angels.
		
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			Look at this slave of mine.
		
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			Look what he's doing for my sake.
		
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			This is how you make the afterlife your
		
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			greatest concern. It's not words. It's a moment
		
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			of action you're going to establish for yourself
		
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			throughout your life.
		
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			He says, look at this sleeve of mine.
		
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			Go ahead my slave. Ask me.
		
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			Ask me.
		
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			Allah
		
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			says whatever he asks me, I'm going to
		
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			grant him whatever he asks me. I'm going
		
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			to grant him. Allah says it twice.
		
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			They said the first time Allah says it
		
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			is for your worldly needs.
		
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			Whatever you ask him of worldly needs, he's
		
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			going to grant you.
		
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			And the second time Allah says it is
		
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			for your afterlife needs. Whatever you ask for
		
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			your afterlife,
		
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			Allah
		
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			will grant you.
		
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			He hasn't even started praying.
		
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			Look at the position he's in. He's in
		
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			a perfect position of an accepted dua.
		
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			Allah is taking pride of this slave and
		
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			showing him off to the angels.
		
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			As I haven't even started.
		
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			Brothers and sisters in Islam also focus and
		
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			be aware of the fact that when you
		
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			make war,
		
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			it is washing away your sins.
		
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			The sins that are going to destroy you
		
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			and I if we die and they're still
		
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			not removed from our account.
		
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			Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says as in
		
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			the hadith of
		
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			that when a person washes his face, all
		
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			the sins of the face they drop. The
		
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			sins of the eye, and how many sins
		
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			are we exposed to on a day to
		
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			day basis, especially with this hair.
		
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			The eye is exposed to,
		
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			and all the sins of the tongue, and
		
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			the sins of the ee all of this
		
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			is washed away as you are washing the
		
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			face.
		
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			And you wash your hands, and the sins
		
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			of the hands are going, and you wash
		
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			your feet, and the sins of the feet
		
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			are being washed away.
		
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			When you're making Wubu, I want you to
		
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			change your perspective.
		
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			Many of us when we make Wubu,
		
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			we attach the concept of Wubu to a
		
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			fakli batter.
		
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			What does that mean? Meaning we ask ourselves,
		
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			did I lose my wobo?
		
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			If I engaged in a deep sleep, I
		
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			lost my wobo. I'm gonna make wobo.
		
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			If I relieve myself, I lost my wobo.
		
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			I'm gonna make wobo.
		
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			Don't have this perspective anymore. Change it.
		
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			Ask yourself,
		
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			did I sin from last obu until now?
		
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			If you did sin, go and make obu.
		
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			Don't ask yourself, did I eat camel meat
		
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			or not?
		
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			Did I go to the toilet or not?
		
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			Forget this. We all know this. Have a
		
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			higher relationship with al Ubu. Ask yourself,
		
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			did I sin from last time?
		
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			If you did go and make Ubu. This
		
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			is why Nabi
		
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			would make Ubu for every salat,
		
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			every single salat he'll make Ubu.
		
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			And I want you to internalize this meaning
		
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			as you're making an Abu'l in the morning.
		
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			This is someone who actually makes the afterlife
		
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			his greatest concern. Look how it started.
		
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			Fajr hasn't even taken place yet. And look
		
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			at his beginning.
		
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			That's someone serious about his afterlife.
		
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			Afterwards
		
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			and after if you meet this Uru,
		
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			head towards a prayer area in your house
		
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			and there is no problem to designate a
		
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			special area in your house for a salat
		
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			and it is also permissible to move from
		
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			place to place in your house and pray
		
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			there's no issue concerning this or that.
		
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			Head towards your prayer area
		
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			and intend
		
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			if you're starting this and you're new to
		
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			this start with Tulaqa'at.
		
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			If you've already began this journey, it's time
		
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			to upgrade.
		
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			Come up to 4 rakaat now.
		
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			If you've already been doing 4 for many
		
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			years, it's time to upgrade. Come up to
		
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			6 rakaat.
		
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			See where you are. Increase it. Push it
		
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			up a little bit. No problems. You're preparing
		
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			for your afterlife.
		
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			You'll appreciate
		
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			doing this later on when you're standing before
		
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			Allah
		
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			And moments before you leave this worldly life,
		
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			you'll appreciate that you did this.
		
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			Increase it. Let's say we're starting here. We're
		
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			beginners.
		
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			Start off with 2 rakat.
		
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			You stand. You face alqiblah, and
		
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			you begin to pray. Brothers and sisters in
		
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			Islam, this is called
		
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			the night prayer. Allah night prayer is not
		
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			complicated,
		
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			it's not difficult.
		
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			2 alaka'at is the minimum
		
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			and Allah in the Quran He prays the
		
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			Ibadur Rahman One of the qualities he says,
		
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			Those who spend some of the night
		
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			for their Lord,
		
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			in sujood and in standing.
		
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			For, their lord, implies sincerity.
		
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			The most sincere prayer of the day and
		
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			the night will be your night prayer,
		
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			because no one can see you. No one
		
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			can hear you. Only Allah
		
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			sees you.
		
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			Abin
		
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			Abbas, sir, radiallahu anhu, he said the minimum
		
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			to qualify
		
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			to be from those people that Allah praised
		
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			is to pray 2 rakat at night.
		
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			Whoever praised 2 rakat, he's included in this
		
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			ayah that Allah praised the Ibaal al Rahman
		
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			for spending some of the night praying.
		
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			What a virtue. What an honor. Lawhu Akbar.
		
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			And then when you pre these 2 rakaat,
		
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			what are you going to read? I want
		
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			to share with you a hadith.
		
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			Nabi he said
		
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			listen to this.
		
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			He said,
		
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			And Nabi
		
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			said, whoever stood up
		
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			and prayed,
		
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			showed gratitude to
		
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			Allah, praised Allah,
		
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			glorified
		
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			Allah,
		
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			and emptied his heart out for Allah,
		
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			then he will leave that salat
		
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			just like a newborn.
		
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			Has come out from all his sins.
		
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			Brothers and sisters in Islam,
		
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			isn't that the hadith and the reward of
		
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			al Hajj?
		
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			You can be a newborn with every 2
		
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			raka'at you pray.
		
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			Look at the opportunity Allah gives us.
		
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			This is someone that actually wants the afterlife.
		
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			But I want to go back.
		
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			The Hadith said,
		
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			glorify praised Allah,
		
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			showed gratitude to Allah, glorified Allah. How do
		
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			you achieve this? How do you do that
		
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			in?
		
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			You know how?
		
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			Taught us something.
		
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			It is by reading Surat al Fatiha in.
		
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			Because when you say,
		
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			Allah says,
		
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			My slave has shown me gratitude.
		
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			When you say Arrahmanir Rahim, Allah says Athna
		
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			alayya Abdi, My slave has praised me.
		
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			When you say Malik yawmid deen, Allah says
		
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			Majadani
		
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			Abdi, My slave has glorified me. Even that's
		
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			the first three things in the hadith, you're
		
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			achieving with the first three ayaat of surat
		
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			al fatihah.
		
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			Then wafarraqalbahu
		
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			emptied your
		
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			heart for Allah,
		
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			meaning
		
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			you had no distraction in your heart.
		
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			And the time of the day
		
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			in where your heart is completely
		
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			free
		
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			with no distraction is this time of the
		
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			day.
		
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			So my advice is when you get up
		
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			for those 2 o rakat,
		
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			listen to me very carefully.
		
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			Don't touch your phone.
		
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			And more importantly,
		
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			don't take it to the bathroom with you.
		
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			Don't touch your phone.
		
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			When you wake up half an hour before
		
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			Adan al Fajr,
		
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			wake up fresh
		
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			and go to the bathroom.
		
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			Do what you have to do and make
		
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			your and go straight to.
		
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			Don't touch this poison
		
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			here, because the moment you touch it, you're
		
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			going to pollute your heart.
		
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			It'd be the pollution starts.
		
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			You open a message, oh, reminds you of
		
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			something. You open it, allostaffairullah,
		
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			I didn't want to see this in the
		
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			first thing of the morning. Heck, this is
		
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			how the phone has become.
		
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			So you begin to pollute your heart. You
		
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			disrupt it now when you're standing insulate your
		
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			thinking of what you saw. You haven't emptied
		
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			your heart for Allah. That opportunity for a
		
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			newborn has gone.
		
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			This is a very important tip. Don't touch
		
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			this.
		
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			Allahu Akbar.
		
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			When Nabi says,
		
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			whoever preys 2 raka'at
		
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			and prays and reads 10 ayaat,
		
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			he will not be counted among the heedless
		
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			for that night.
		
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			If you're not considered from the heedless, meaning
		
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			you are recorded from among those who remembered
		
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			Allah
		
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			How beautiful is that? If you're recorded among
		
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			those who have remembered Allah that night, that
		
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			means you're preparing for the afterlife.
		
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			That means your main concern is the afterlife.
		
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			Congratulations.
		
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			Keep doing this every single night.
		
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			10 aat.
		
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			That's
		
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			alongside
		
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			right? 7+3,
		
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			that's 10.
		
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			When Nabi
		
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			said, and whoever stood the night and read
		
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			a 100 ayaat.
		
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			Brothers and sisters, if you have been reading
		
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			10 ayaat for a long time,
		
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			it's time to upgrade.
		
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			Come up to a 100 ayaat. Whoever reads
		
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			a 100 ayaat
		
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			He will be registered and recorded among
		
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			those who are obedient
		
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			and devout to Allah as soon as an
		
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			Qanitin, like Mariam
		
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			Like Ibrahim
		
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			You want to be ridden in that same
		
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			record where Ibrahim's name is?
		
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			A 100 ayaat every night. The name will
		
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			go down in the same record with Ibrahim
		
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			Allahu
		
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			Akbar. Whoever's been reading a 100 ayaat,
		
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			time to go up. When Nabi
		
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			says, and whoever preys
		
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			reading 1 1,000 ayaat.
		
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			He's recorded from among those who have been
		
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			given great huge
		
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			reward, cannot be amassed and calculated
		
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			except by Allah
		
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			What's a 1000 ayaat about Hajar?
		
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			He
		
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			said
		
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			Juzat Tabarak
		
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			and Juzat
		
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			Amma together makes a 1000 ayaat.
		
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			2 ajzat
		
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			That's at a later stage. Start working towards
		
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			that. Have a goal. Have a plan so
		
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			that you're always motivated
		
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			to get up at night.
		
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			Perhaps on a Sunday when the day is
		
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			free, on a Saturday when the day is
		
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			free,
		
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			grab you almost half
		
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			and read Tabarach Jazaamma
		
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			for this huge reward.
		
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			Having the intention of I'm preparing for my
		
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			afterlife,
		
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			making my greatest concern the afterlife. And I
		
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			tell you something,
		
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			Don't rush the prayer.
		
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			Don't rush a salat. You know, Allah he
		
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			wants.
		
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			I walked in a masjid. I'll never forget
		
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			this. I'll share it with you. I walked
		
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			in a masjid e o salat al jumah.
		
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			I walked in early,
		
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			and I happened to end up praying next
		
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			to an old man, an old man in
		
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			the community center.
		
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			I prayed a salat, Subhanallah.
		
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			Prayed 2 raka'ah just before I sat, very
		
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			quick and I sat.
		
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			So the old man,
		
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			he looked at me and he was smiling.
		
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			And he said to me,
		
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			I said,
		
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			he says, can I give you advice? Look
		
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			how beautiful this is. See, when you wanna
		
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			give someone advice, tell him that. 100% of
		
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			the times it works. He says, can I
		
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			give you advice?
		
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			Who's gonna say no? A believer that is
		
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			honest and really wants the good. I said
		
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			to him, yes, please give me advice.
		
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			He said, it seemed to be that you
		
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			rushed your salat.
		
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			I said,
		
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			I think I did rush my salat.
		
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			He didn't say anything. You know what he
		
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			said? He said,
		
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			He read to me
		
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			too, this is what he did.
		
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			Indeed
		
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			successful are the believers,
		
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			those who have Khosur in their salat.
		
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			Brothers and sisters and staff, Allah tied success
		
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			to Khosur in salat.
		
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			You're looking for success. You know the entire
		
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			world is looking for success.
		
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			Everyone you see you say, what do you
		
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			want in life? I wanna be successful.
		
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			And what do you want in life? This
		
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			is the same purpose and the goal of
		
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			the Muslim of the kafir of anyone.
		
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			Everyone wants success.
		
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			Yeah, but Allah told you success is in
		
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			this.
		
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			Success is in that 2 rakaat. You are
		
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			going to pray at the end of the
		
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			night, and in every salat you are going
		
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			to pray.
		
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			So why are you rushing your success for?
		
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			These are moments in which you're charging your
		
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			success.
		
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			You're building your success.
		
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			You know how they say you got to
		
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			come to work early every day and exert
		
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			so many hours to build success upon success
		
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			upon success?
		
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			Your salat does that. Every salat is building
		
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			your success and another and another until it
		
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			reaches levels
		
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			with Allah
		
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			So don't rush the prayer.
		
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			Don't rush a salat. This is your greatest
		
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			relationship with Allah
		
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			Some rush the prayer to the point where
		
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			Assalat
		
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			itself is no longer accepted.
		
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			To ask Allah to save us. Nabi
		
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			once he was in the Masjid,
		
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			A man prayed and then he came to
		
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			sit in the presence of the messenger sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wasalam.
		
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			You know what Nabi salallahu alayhi wasalam said
		
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			to him? And that's a man that existed
		
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			at that time. He said,
		
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			He said to him, brother, go back and
		
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			pray because you did not pray.
		
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			You know what we learned from this?
		
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			Sometimes
		
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			you may do the actions of a salat,
		
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			but you're considered from among those who did
		
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			not pray. That's exactly what this man did.
		
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			He did the actions of salah.
		
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			And the judgment of Rasulullah
		
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			was to say to him, you did not
		
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			pray.
		
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			Then in that hadith, Nabi highlighted
		
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			on an issue that he was missing in
		
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			his salat that rendered his salat cancelled and
		
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			void.
		
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			And that was
		
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			And that means that in every position of
		
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			a salat,
		
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			relax
		
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			until all the bones have settled in their
		
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			joints.
		
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			That is
		
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			a ruken. That is a pillar of a
		
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			salat.
		
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			So when you go into rukuwa,
		
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			and hold it for a few seconds
		
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			until you've got the position correct.
		
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			And you've made sure that all the bones
		
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			have settled in their joints.
		
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			Once they've taken their position,
		
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			now you've done what is satisfactory for us.
		
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			When you come up from Arrukuh,
		
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			stand there. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait until everything
		
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			settles in its place.
		
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			Then go into sujood.
		
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			As for the one who,
		
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			like a rooster, as was mentioned in Hadith,
		
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			then this salat is missing.
		
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			You're not giving time for your bones to
		
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			settle back into their joint.
		
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			So that is what is wejab when it
		
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			comes to our salat.
		
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			So we make sure that we don't rush
		
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			it so our salat could be counted and
		
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			accepted for us.
		
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			And I want to also share with you
		
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			something.
		
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			These 2 rakat
		
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			are also a great opportunity
		
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			for a great worship.
		
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			I tell you what that is, but I
		
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			want you first to think.
		
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			Follow with me along,
		
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			or follow along with me on this matter.
		
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			I'm asking you a question.
		
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			What is the greatest and most beloved deed
		
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			in the sight of Allah, Asoashil? Who can
		
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			tell me?
		
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			Praying on time, give me something more specific
		
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			in a salat. What is the most beloved
		
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			deed to Allah
		
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			and the closest you'll ever be to Allah?
		
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			A sujood.
		
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			A sujood. We all know that, right? And
		
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			Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says the closest
		
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			slave will ever be to Allah is in
		
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			a sujood.
		
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			If a person is praying only the fort,
		
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			how many raka'at is that a day? 17.
		
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			In 17 raka'at a day, how many sujood
		
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			is there?
		
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			17 times 2?
		
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			34.
		
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			Right? That's the math. 34.
		
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			Let's say
		
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			in every sujud of the fault, you are
		
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			making a sujud
		
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			of 10 seconds.
		
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			That that doesn't even happen.
		
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			People, their sujood, count it. How long is
		
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			it?
		
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			3 to 4 seconds. Yeah. Let's be generous
		
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			and say our sujood is 10 seconds.
		
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			Well, imam can't even do 10 seconds because
		
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			people are sick and people are old and
		
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			An obligation,
		
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			the imam has to look after those that
		
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			are praying behind him. So he can't pray
		
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			as though he's praying alone in his house
		
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			and take his time.
		
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			So let's just be generous and say every
		
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			sujood of the 34 is 10 seconds.
		
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			That means 34 sujood during the day means
		
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			at the end of the day from 24
		
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			hours, you made sujood 6 minutes.
		
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			6 minutes.
		
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			Now
		
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			in 1 year,
		
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			if you calculate your sujood of 4th in
		
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			1 year,
		
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			you would have made a total of 1.5
		
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			days of sujood.
		
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			1.5 days.
		
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			In 60 years, let's say someone lived 60
		
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			years, minus these, is not praying and so
		
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			on. You would have made sujood
		
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			75
		
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			days of sixties.
		
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			If you were to convert that to a
		
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			percentage,
		
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			0.3%
		
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			of your life is spent in a sujood.
		
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			Now let me tell you the question. Are
		
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			you prepared
		
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			to stand before Allah
		
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			and meet him
		
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			with 0.3%
		
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			of your life
		
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			spent in the most beloved deed to him,
		
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			and the closest you'll ever be to him?
		
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			I don't think anyone's ready.
		
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			0.3%
		
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			of your life? That's
		
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			that's this much?
		
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			And it's and this is supposed to be
		
00:47:03 --> 00:47:03
			the greatest
		
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			deed that Allah loves to see his sleeve
		
00:47:06 --> 00:47:07
			in.
		
00:47:08 --> 00:47:09
			We got a problem.
		
00:47:09 --> 00:47:10
			What's the solution?
		
00:47:11 --> 00:47:12
			How do we solve this?
		
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			Says.
		
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			Said, and during the night, prostrate to him
		
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			and praise him
		
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			a long part of the night.
		
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			So I said to you that the night
		
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			prayer is an opportunity
		
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			to catch up
		
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			on a sujood that is the most beloved
		
00:47:35 --> 00:47:36
			to Allah, a sujal.
		
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			So in your 2 rakaat,
		
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			focus,
		
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			relax,
		
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			don't rush.
		
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			A lot of the catch up needs to
		
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			be made during this time.
		
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			And make your sujood
		
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			sit in your sujood for a minute at
		
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			least if you're new to this. 1 minute,
		
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			1 minute. You're gonna feel like it's a
		
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			mountain on your shoulder, but that's because we're
		
00:48:00 --> 00:48:01
			not used to it.
		
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			But what? We can't be sit down and
		
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			be sad and depressed about, we're gonna do
		
00:48:06 --> 00:48:07
			something about it,
		
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			Are you still alive?
		
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			Do something. Start.
		
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			30 seconds.
		
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			One minute for every sujood.
		
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			So at the end of your tour, that's
		
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			4 minutes spent in a sujood.
		
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			Feel it,
		
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			and let that 0.3%
		
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			start increasing in your life
		
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			and have this intention and perhaps you meet
		
00:48:27 --> 00:48:28
			Allah
		
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			and he grants you a great reward. We
		
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			don't know. But let's do our best and
		
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			what we can.
		
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			And as you're in your
		
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			sujood, you're praising Allah
		
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			the most high. Shuf, how beautiful is this?
		
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			Reflect.
		
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			In Ruqur, we say
		
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			Are we?
		
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			In sujood,
		
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			we say Why wasn't it flipped around?
		
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			Why couldn't we say
		
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			Listen very carefully.
		
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			Al Ala means the most high.
		
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			And the Most High opposite to that is
		
00:49:03 --> 00:49:04
			the Most Low.
		
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			When you are in the lowest position ever
		
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			and that is the most noble of you
		
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			goes to the lowest part, which is the
		
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			ground.
		
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			From there, Allah wants you to declare that
		
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			he's the most high.
		
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			See the meaning?
		
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			You will not
		
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			appreciate the meaning of Allah being the most
		
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			high until you are the lowest.
		
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			So go down. Not require it. Go down
		
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			even more.
		
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			Put that face of yours
		
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			that you will not put down for anyone
		
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			else but Allah
		
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			into the ground.
		
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			Smother it into the Earth.
		
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			And from there,
		
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			say,
		
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			it will have any completely
		
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			different taste to it.
		
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			When you know what you're doing, the worship
		
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			is going to wallahi will sit there longer
		
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			than a minute. Trust me.
		
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			You got to build on these things slowly
		
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			slowly. SubhanAllah.
		
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			Keep repeating. Keep going.
		
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			10 times, 20 times. Take your time. Subhan.
		
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			My lord. It wasn't SubhanAllah.
		
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			The words in a sujud are personal.
		
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			I praise
		
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			my Lord,
		
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			the most high. Subhan means perfect.
		
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			Perfection belongs to him.
		
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			He's perfect in every way
		
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			because all his names and attributes and actions
		
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			are perfect. There's no flaw. There's no imperfection
		
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			in them whatsoever.
		
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			Taste the meaning. Understand what they're saying. You'll
		
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			sit there more than a minute.
		
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			SubhanAllah,
		
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			Fasjud is going to give us the opportunity
		
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			to make the most and catch up.
		
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			Wallahi, there was a shaykh
		
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			that told us a story.
		
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			He said
		
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			I entered Al Masjid Al Haram
		
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			and I performed my Umrah
		
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			and after al Umrah he said I wanted
		
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			to rest and relax a little bit.
		
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			So I sat on the carpeted area in
		
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			al Masjid Al Haram.
		
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			He said as soon as I sat I
		
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			observed someone coming in standing and beginning his
		
00:51:06 --> 00:51:08
			prayer. And it was about 2 to 3
		
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			hours before Al Fajr.
		
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			He said, I just saw him because he
		
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			was the only one in my vision that
		
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			was praying.
		
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			And I saw him until he entered into
		
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			a sujood.
		
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			And he sat.
		
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			He was in a sujood
		
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			for a while.
		
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			He said, Wallahi, I counted for him 40
		
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			minutes in a sujood.
		
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			And I said to myself,
		
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			if he wasn't enjoying it he wouldn't have
		
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			lasted 40 minutes.
		
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			You can't do 40 minutes if you don't
		
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			enjoy it, and you cannot enjoy it if
		
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			you don't know what you're doing.
		
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			These are 2 things you have in your
		
00:51:44 --> 00:51:46
			mind. This is a lot of catch up
		
00:51:46 --> 00:51:47
			I'm making.
		
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			Number 2, Rabbi Al Aleh.
		
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			I'm the lowest, he's the highest.
		
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			And that hopefully will enhance
		
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			the time you will put in that. Allahi
		
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			brothers and sisters in Islam.
		
00:52:00 --> 00:52:03
			A sheikh Avawz also told us a story
		
00:52:03 --> 00:52:05
			about an old woman that came and asked
		
00:52:05 --> 00:52:06
			him a question.
		
00:52:07 --> 00:52:08
			She said to him, Yes Sheikh,
		
00:52:10 --> 00:52:13
			I'm old now, and I'm very weak, and
		
00:52:13 --> 00:52:15
			I cannot stand very long on my feet.
		
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			And
		
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			we used to pray, and we used to
		
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			recite 1 juzah per rakah in a salat.
		
00:52:23 --> 00:52:25
			Is it allowed for me
		
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			to now reduce it to half a Juzet
		
00:52:28 --> 00:52:28
			per rakah?
		
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			An old woman.
		
00:52:31 --> 00:52:34
			She's asking, is it allowed to reduce from
		
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			1 Juzet to half a Juzet per rakah?
		
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			What are we gonna say about ourselves?
		
00:52:40 --> 00:52:41
			Well,
		
00:52:41 --> 00:52:42
			even 1
		
00:52:42 --> 00:52:43
			or 2
		
00:52:44 --> 00:52:45
			ask Allah
		
00:52:45 --> 00:52:47
			to bestow his mercy upon us.
		
00:52:47 --> 00:52:49
			And to honor us with
		
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			For indeed the prayer of the night is
		
00:52:52 --> 00:52:54
			an honor for the believer.
		
00:52:54 --> 00:52:55
			Jibril alayhi salam
		
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			said to Nabi salallahu alayhi wasalam
		
00:52:59 --> 00:53:02
			and nasharafal mumim kia mumu bill layl. He
		
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			said to Nabi
		
00:53:03 --> 00:53:05
			you better know and inform your ummah as
		
00:53:05 --> 00:53:08
			well that the honor of the believer
		
00:53:08 --> 00:53:10
			is his prayer at night.
		
00:53:11 --> 00:53:12
			You don't have prayer
		
00:53:12 --> 00:53:13
			at the night.
		
00:53:14 --> 00:53:15
			I don't know. Do you have honor or
		
00:53:15 --> 00:53:15
			not?
		
00:53:16 --> 00:53:18
			The believer charges up his honor
		
00:53:20 --> 00:53:21
			in the night prayer
		
00:53:23 --> 00:53:25
			because you are engaged in a conversation with
		
00:53:25 --> 00:53:26
			Allah and
		
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			that's the most honorable position to ever be
		
00:53:29 --> 00:53:32
			in. Because the day is gonna come, and
		
00:53:32 --> 00:53:33
			the day is gonna be be a long
		
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			and difficult day, because you're going to be
		
00:53:35 --> 00:53:37
			speaking to human beings, and this human, and
		
00:53:37 --> 00:53:39
			moving from this person, and phone call, and
		
00:53:39 --> 00:53:41
			someone upsets you, and someone angers you.
		
00:53:42 --> 00:53:44
			Dealing with human beings is very difficult.
		
00:53:46 --> 00:53:47
			So if you don't have a part of
		
00:53:47 --> 00:53:49
			the night in where you're talking to Allah,
		
00:53:49 --> 00:53:50
			how do you recharge?
		
00:53:50 --> 00:53:52
			Where are you gonna get your honor from?
		
00:53:58 --> 00:53:59
			After you finish your tour,
		
00:54:00 --> 00:54:01
			sit down
		
00:54:01 --> 00:54:03
			and engage in Alistair Afar.
		
00:54:04 --> 00:54:06
			One of the qualities of the righteous is
		
00:54:06 --> 00:54:09
			that they use that time of a sahar,
		
00:54:10 --> 00:54:11
			which is sukur time,
		
00:54:11 --> 00:54:14
			which is about 15 minutes before Adhan al
		
00:54:14 --> 00:54:14
			Fajr
		
00:54:15 --> 00:54:16
			in seeking Allah's forgiveness.
		
00:54:17 --> 00:54:19
			That's the best thing you can do at
		
00:54:19 --> 00:54:20
			that time.
		
00:54:21 --> 00:54:24
			If you're serious about the afterlife being your
		
00:54:24 --> 00:54:25
			greatest and main concern,
		
00:54:26 --> 00:54:28
			at that time you will be sitting making
		
00:54:28 --> 00:54:28
			istighfar,
		
00:54:29 --> 00:54:30
			and the best istighfar
		
00:54:31 --> 00:54:31
			is to say.
		
00:54:36 --> 00:54:38
			O Allah grant me forgiveness, and my parents
		
00:54:38 --> 00:54:41
			grant them forgiveness, and the general Muslims and
		
00:54:41 --> 00:54:44
			female and male Muslims grant them forgiveness as
		
00:54:44 --> 00:54:45
			well.
		
00:54:45 --> 00:54:48
			And for every single Muslim
		
00:54:48 --> 00:54:51
			male and female you will earn a reward
		
00:54:52 --> 00:54:54
			if you seek forgiveness for them.
		
00:54:55 --> 00:54:56
			The day hasn't even started.
		
00:54:57 --> 00:55:00
			Look at the type of reward this person
		
00:55:00 --> 00:55:02
			has collected in his bags and in his
		
00:55:02 --> 00:55:03
			record.
		
00:55:04 --> 00:55:06
			Hey. This is a person that is serious
		
00:55:06 --> 00:55:09
			about the afterlife being his main and greatest
		
00:55:09 --> 00:55:09
			concern.
		
00:55:10 --> 00:55:12
			Then afterwards brothers and sisters in Islam
		
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			Adhan al Fajr enters
		
00:55:17 --> 00:55:18
			and you pray 2 raka'at
		
00:55:19 --> 00:55:20
			sunnat al fajr
		
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			and you never ever missed that And even
		
00:55:24 --> 00:55:26
			if you did not have time to pray
		
00:55:26 --> 00:55:29
			it before salatul fajr, pray it after salatul
		
00:55:29 --> 00:55:29
			fajr.
		
00:55:30 --> 00:55:31
			Because Nabi
		
00:55:32 --> 00:55:34
			never left out the 2 raka'at of al
		
00:55:34 --> 00:55:36
			fajr, whether he was a resident or a
		
00:55:36 --> 00:55:37
			traveler.
		
00:55:37 --> 00:55:38
			When Nabi
		
00:55:40 --> 00:55:42
			says the 2 raka'at of Fajr, meaning the
		
00:55:42 --> 00:55:43
			sunnah 2 raka'at
		
00:55:44 --> 00:55:46
			are much better than this worldly life and
		
00:55:46 --> 00:55:48
			everything that is in this worldly life.
		
00:55:49 --> 00:55:52
			How does that make sense? Like how?
		
00:55:52 --> 00:55:54
			Imagine someone offered you
		
00:55:54 --> 00:55:55
			$10,000,000
		
00:55:55 --> 00:55:56
			Said to your brother,
		
00:55:57 --> 00:55:59
			come to my office. I'm going to hand
		
00:55:59 --> 00:56:00
			you a briefcase of $10,000,000
		
00:56:02 --> 00:56:03
			When Nabi
		
00:56:04 --> 00:56:06
			from this end is telling you the 2
		
00:56:06 --> 00:56:08
			rakaat you'll pray is a lot better than
		
00:56:08 --> 00:56:10
			that suitcase and what's in it.
		
00:56:10 --> 00:56:12
			How does that make sense?
		
00:56:12 --> 00:56:14
			How how does it make sense? I'll tell
		
00:56:14 --> 00:56:16
			you how. This is how it makes sense.
		
00:56:18 --> 00:56:19
			They said,
		
00:56:19 --> 00:56:20
			because
		
00:56:20 --> 00:56:23
			the reward of these 2 raka'at is going
		
00:56:23 --> 00:56:24
			to be permanent.
		
00:56:25 --> 00:56:26
			You're gonna die in the 2 raka'at, and
		
00:56:26 --> 00:56:28
			its reward is going to enter your grave
		
00:56:28 --> 00:56:30
			and keep going until you're resurrected from your
		
00:56:30 --> 00:56:32
			grave until it's put on the scale.
		
00:56:33 --> 00:56:36
			Whereas this worldly life, even if you had
		
00:56:36 --> 00:56:38
			it all in your pocket, the day you
		
00:56:38 --> 00:56:39
			die, it's all gone away from you.
		
00:56:40 --> 00:56:41
			It's temporary.
		
00:56:41 --> 00:56:43
			And what is permanent is a lot better
		
00:56:43 --> 00:56:44
			than what is temporary.
		
00:56:45 --> 00:56:47
			Wallah, literally everything will go away.
		
00:56:47 --> 00:56:49
			They say that even
		
00:56:49 --> 00:56:50
			yeah. Imagine
		
00:56:51 --> 00:56:52
			a person lost a tooth and put a
		
00:56:52 --> 00:56:54
			golden tooth instead of it.
		
00:56:55 --> 00:56:58
			If the family forgot that golden tooth, they'll
		
00:56:58 --> 00:57:00
			dig him up and take the golden tooth
		
00:57:00 --> 00:57:01
			and put it back.
		
00:57:02 --> 00:57:03
			You're going with nothing.
		
00:57:04 --> 00:57:04
			Allah.
		
00:57:05 --> 00:57:07
			Your parent the the family will say, well,
		
00:57:07 --> 00:57:09
			we buried our dad and we forgot this
		
00:57:09 --> 00:57:11
			tooth. Don't dig him up. We're crying. They'll
		
00:57:11 --> 00:57:13
			take it out and they'll bury him back.
		
00:57:14 --> 00:57:15
			Tooth.
		
00:57:16 --> 00:57:17
			Stop. You're gonna take it. You will not
		
00:57:17 --> 00:57:19
			benefit from it. Even that's gonna go out.
		
00:57:21 --> 00:57:22
			I feel there's no mercy.
		
00:57:22 --> 00:57:24
			You're gonna leave only with your deeds.
		
00:57:25 --> 00:57:28
			That's what's permanent. That's why the 2 akhahat
		
00:57:28 --> 00:57:30
			is a lot better than this worldly life.
		
00:57:30 --> 00:57:33
			And then add to this, every deed of
		
00:57:33 --> 00:57:35
			goodness you do is much better than this
		
00:57:35 --> 00:57:36
			worldly life and everything else.
		
00:57:37 --> 00:57:39
			Based on this logic, because all of it
		
00:57:39 --> 00:57:41
			will be going with you until you meet
		
00:57:41 --> 00:57:42
			Allah
		
00:57:42 --> 00:57:43
			with it.
		
00:57:43 --> 00:57:44
			So don't miss them out.
		
00:57:46 --> 00:57:47
			You pray them.
		
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			Afterwards,
		
00:57:49 --> 00:57:50
			head to Al Masjid.
		
00:57:51 --> 00:57:52
			Head to Al Masjid
		
00:57:52 --> 00:57:54
			to pray Salat al Fajid.
		
00:57:54 --> 00:57:56
			Don't sit at home and pray it at
		
00:57:56 --> 00:57:56
			home.
		
00:57:57 --> 00:57:58
			Unless you're sick
		
00:57:59 --> 00:58:00
			or you're a traveler
		
00:58:00 --> 00:58:01
			or you're extremely
		
00:58:02 --> 00:58:03
			far away from Al Masjid, then you have
		
00:58:03 --> 00:58:06
			an excuse not to get there. That's a
		
00:58:06 --> 00:58:07
			different story. That's something
		
00:58:08 --> 00:58:08
			that is temporary.
		
00:58:09 --> 00:58:10
			But your permanent
		
00:58:10 --> 00:58:14
			permanent permanent situation with salat and fajr
		
00:58:14 --> 00:58:16
			should be in Al Masjid. When you're healthy,
		
00:58:17 --> 00:58:19
			you're a resident in your house,
		
00:58:19 --> 00:58:21
			pray it in Al Masjid.
		
00:58:22 --> 00:58:24
			That's what the Masjid was built for.
		
00:58:24 --> 00:58:27
			Otherwise, why was it made? You see, I'll
		
00:58:27 --> 00:58:28
			tell you something. I'll tell you something. Look
		
00:58:28 --> 00:58:30
			how encouraging. This is perhaps the first time
		
00:58:30 --> 00:58:33
			you ever hear it. Brothers and sisters in
		
00:58:33 --> 00:58:33
			Islam,
		
00:58:36 --> 00:58:38
			initially initially fundamentally,
		
00:58:39 --> 00:58:41
			we are supposed to be praying every salat
		
00:58:41 --> 00:58:43
			in Al Masjid Al Haram,
		
00:58:44 --> 00:58:45
			right in front of Al Kaaba.
		
00:58:46 --> 00:58:47
			But Allah
		
00:58:47 --> 00:58:48
			knows
		
00:58:49 --> 00:58:51
			that not everyone can do this
		
00:58:51 --> 00:58:54
			because people are gonna live around the globe
		
00:58:54 --> 00:58:55
			and wherever they may be. That's impossible. How
		
00:58:55 --> 00:58:57
			are we gonna pray 5 prayers and a
		
00:58:57 --> 00:58:58
			Muslim Al Haram?
		
00:58:59 --> 00:59:01
			It takes 14 hour 15 hours to get
		
00:59:01 --> 00:59:02
			there. You can't.
		
00:59:02 --> 00:59:04
			So Allah gave permission
		
00:59:05 --> 00:59:08
			for houses of his to be built on
		
00:59:08 --> 00:59:08
			earth.
		
00:59:09 --> 00:59:11
			So like the mother is Al Masjid Al
		
00:59:11 --> 00:59:11
			Haram
		
00:59:12 --> 00:59:14
			and its children around the world will be
		
00:59:14 --> 00:59:15
			Al Masjid.
		
00:59:16 --> 00:59:17
			Then Allah
		
00:59:17 --> 00:59:18
			decreed,
		
00:59:18 --> 00:59:20
			when the time of salat enters,
		
00:59:21 --> 00:59:22
			if you cannot get to Al Masjid Al
		
00:59:22 --> 00:59:23
			Haram,
		
00:59:23 --> 00:59:26
			enter any one of these closed masjid and
		
00:59:26 --> 00:59:28
			face Al Masjid Al Haram.
		
00:59:29 --> 00:59:32
			And that's why the one who prays salat
		
00:59:32 --> 00:59:32
			alfarb
		
00:59:33 --> 00:59:34
			in Jame'ah,
		
00:59:35 --> 00:59:38
			his reward is the reward of a Hajj.
		
00:59:39 --> 00:59:39
			And Nabi
		
00:59:40 --> 00:59:40
			he
		
00:59:41 --> 00:59:43
			says in the authentic hadith,
		
00:59:50 --> 00:59:51
			the one who walks
		
00:59:52 --> 00:59:54
			to an obligatory prayer in Al Masjid,
		
00:59:54 --> 00:59:57
			it would be recorded for him as though
		
00:59:57 --> 00:59:59
			he had performed
		
00:59:59 --> 01:00:00
			a Hajj.
		
01:00:00 --> 01:00:03
			And the similarity here is in reward,
		
01:00:04 --> 01:00:05
			not insufficiency.
		
01:00:06 --> 01:00:07
			So if you've never done Al Hajj,
		
01:00:08 --> 01:00:09
			you can't say, brother,
		
01:00:09 --> 01:00:10
			I completed
		
01:00:10 --> 01:00:12
			my Hajj, I prayed the masjid.
		
01:00:13 --> 01:00:15
			Now you're gonna go pay your money and
		
01:00:15 --> 01:00:17
			go to al Hajj and do your Hajj.
		
01:00:17 --> 01:00:20
			The similarity in al Hadith is reward, not
		
01:00:20 --> 01:00:21
			sufficiency.
		
01:00:22 --> 01:00:26
			Imagine every single salat for the Upray and
		
01:00:26 --> 01:00:28
			al Masjid reward Hajj. So you can possibly
		
01:00:29 --> 01:00:31
			earn the reward of 5 Hajj
		
01:00:31 --> 01:00:33
			every single day if you are to pray
		
01:00:33 --> 01:00:34
			the prayers in Al Masjid.
		
01:00:35 --> 01:00:37
			And anyone who prayed a voluntary prayer in
		
01:00:37 --> 01:00:40
			Al Masjid earns the reward of a Umrah.
		
01:00:40 --> 01:00:41
			Like, if you are to pray
		
01:00:42 --> 01:00:44
			or salat al buha
		
01:00:44 --> 01:00:46
			or the eclipse prayer or whatever is prayed
		
01:00:46 --> 01:00:49
			of the nawafil prayer in al Masjid.
		
01:00:49 --> 01:00:51
			See how al Masjid,
		
01:00:51 --> 01:00:54
			it's tied to the house of Allah. You
		
01:00:54 --> 01:00:57
			face al Kaaba, it's reward Hajj, Umrah.
		
01:00:57 --> 01:00:59
			It's as though a person has reached the
		
01:00:59 --> 01:01:00
			house of Allah, Asooshil.
		
01:01:01 --> 01:01:03
			And this is why the masajid were built.
		
01:01:03 --> 01:01:04
			Allah
		
01:01:08 --> 01:01:10
			gave permission for these houses
		
01:01:10 --> 01:01:11
			that they
		
01:01:12 --> 01:01:15
			the name of Allah is raised in them.
		
01:01:15 --> 01:01:17
			As salah is raised in them.
		
01:01:17 --> 01:01:18
			So use them for what they were made
		
01:01:18 --> 01:01:19
			for.
		
01:01:20 --> 01:01:21
			And there's
		
01:01:21 --> 01:01:24
			a woman that preys at home,
		
01:01:24 --> 01:01:27
			and the sick person that preys at home,
		
01:01:27 --> 01:01:30
			and the traveler that preys at home that
		
01:01:30 --> 01:01:31
			used to pray in the Masjid,
		
01:01:32 --> 01:01:33
			will all
		
01:01:33 --> 01:01:36
			earn the same reward as the man that
		
01:01:36 --> 01:01:37
			preys in the Masjid.
		
01:01:38 --> 01:01:40
			So nothing is missing out for the sisters.
		
01:01:40 --> 01:01:42
			Often the sisters worry,
		
01:01:42 --> 01:01:44
			and they say what about me? Should I
		
01:01:44 --> 01:01:47
			attend the Masjid to earn this reward?
		
01:01:47 --> 01:01:49
			We say no. We say definitely you can
		
01:01:49 --> 01:01:51
			attend the Masjid and pray no problems,
		
01:01:52 --> 01:01:54
			but if you prayed in the house, you
		
01:01:54 --> 01:01:56
			will earn the exact same reward
		
01:01:57 --> 01:01:58
			as the man that prays in Al Masjid.
		
01:01:58 --> 01:01:59
			This
		
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			is the virtue of Allah
		
01:02:03 --> 01:02:05
			Well, there is a big big pandemic
		
01:02:05 --> 01:02:06
			in this Ummah.
		
01:02:08 --> 01:02:09
			Many many Muslims
		
01:02:10 --> 01:02:11
			don't pray.
		
01:02:12 --> 01:02:14
			They don't pray it on time,
		
01:02:14 --> 01:02:16
			and that is a disaster.
		
01:02:17 --> 01:02:20
			How can you claim that the afterlife is
		
01:02:20 --> 01:02:21
			your greatest concern
		
01:02:21 --> 01:02:23
			if you're not even praying
		
01:02:23 --> 01:02:24
			on time?
		
01:02:24 --> 01:02:27
			What in Taiwan? How's the afterlife your greatest
		
01:02:27 --> 01:02:28
			concern? How?
		
01:02:29 --> 01:02:32
			How? Explain to yourself, not to me. Explain
		
01:02:32 --> 01:02:32
			to yourself.
		
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			How are you going to prove on the
		
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			day of judgement
		
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			that the afterlife was your greatest concern
		
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			when you're sleeping straight through salat al fajr
		
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			not caring to get up and only caring
		
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			to get up for work an hour or
		
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			2 or whatever it is later?
		
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			If you miss
		
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			once every while, once every 6, 7 months,
		
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			yeah, I mean, no problem. Still
		
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			still give condolences to yourself on that day
		
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			and be upset on that day.
		
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			But if you're praying
		
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			once every 6 months,
		
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			then enter
		
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			the heart is is somewhere in your body,
		
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			somewhere else. The heart has died.
		
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			The heart has died indeed.
		
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			Indeed, we say to you.
		
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			You need to wake up from this heedlessness
		
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			and from this slumber,
		
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			and you still have time. You're still alive.
		
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			Correct it in order for the afterlife to
		
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			be your greatest concern.
		
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			Salatul Fajr. Nabi
		
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			he said,
		
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			he saw in his dream
		
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			a man laying down
		
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			and an angel grabbing a boulder
		
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			and smashing it on his head and the
		
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			head smashed into many pieces
		
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			and the boulder will roll
		
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			then the head will come back to form
		
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			and shape then the angel will get that
		
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			boulder and slam it on his head once
		
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			again.
		
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			And the head will be scattered,
		
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			and pieces of it will fly all over
		
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			the place, then it's brought again, and that
		
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			continues as a punishment until the day of
		
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			judgment.
		
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			So then,
		
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			Nabi
		
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			was told by the angels,
		
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			As for the one who you saw whose
		
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			head was being
		
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			crushed in that manner,
		
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			then that is someone who
		
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			He knows the importance of the Quran, but
		
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			he abandoned and neglected the Quran.
		
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			And he sleeps straight through the obligated prayer.
		
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			He ignores, he neglects
		
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			the obligated salat,
		
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			but the punishment came on his head. Why?
		
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			I know when you pray, when you're sleeping,
		
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			you're taking comfort with your head on the
		
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			pillow.
		
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			Brothers and sisters in Islam,
		
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			that pillow is temporary comfort.
		
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			That pillow will turn against you, and it'll
		
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			become a greater source of punishment against you,
		
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			when now
		
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			the boulder is being thrown on such a
		
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			person's head. We ask Allah Azzawajal to save
		
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			us from such a punishment.
		
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			So don't think the pillow is offering comfort.
		
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			That's deception.
		
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			The pillow is deceiving you.
		
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			Wallahi, it's deceiving you. That's not comfort.
		
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			In nama, the one who gets up and
		
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			prays, he will enjoy the everlasting comfort in
		
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			his grave and in the afterlife.
		
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			Walking to Al Masjid at night
		
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			when it is dark and gloomy
		
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			is a source of light on the day
		
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			of judgment.
		
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			When the munafiqun
		
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			are struggling to look for some light to
		
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			walk on a salat,
		
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			And, alhamdulillah,
		
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			your Surat has charged up your battery really
		
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			well,
		
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			and your headlights are beaming.
		
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			And you're crossing a Surat
		
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			amidst this darkness that Allah
		
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			overwhelms mankind with
		
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			Allahu Akbar as the messenger said.
		
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			Brothers and sisters,
		
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			the one who prays salatul fajr
		
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			in jama'ah
		
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			earns
		
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			the reward as though he prayed the entire
		
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			night.
		
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			Allahu Akbar.
		
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			Now now I told you get up half
		
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			an hour before Adhan al Fushr
		
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			and pray 2 raka'at.
		
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			But would you like the reward of that
		
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			whole night, even those 5 hours that you
		
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			spent sleeping?
		
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			Come and pray your salat in al Masih.
		
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			It's salat take 10 minutes, and go back
		
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			home,
		
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			and continue your sleep, or do what you
		
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			like.
		
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			You would have put in your record the
		
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			reward of an entire night in salat as
		
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			though you never slept.
		
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			Show how Allah is generous?
		
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			If you are serious about making the afterlife
		
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			your greatest concern,
		
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			then Allah will meet that passion of yours
		
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			with an abundance of reward.
		
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			You just move. Put that little bit of
		
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			effort and you'll see great reward on the
		
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			other side.
		
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			That's the night prayer. It frees you from
		
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			hypocrisy. Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said the
		
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			heaviest salat upon the
		
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			is salat al fajr and salat al aisha.
		
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			So the one who's praying salat al fajr
		
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			in al Masjid,
		
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			he saved himself from hypocrisy, and it's good
		
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			evidence that he's not a hypocrite.
		
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			These are meanings we ask Allah that he
		
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			allows us to live up to and that
		
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			we can accomplish them.
		
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			After we're coming towards the end of our
		
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			talk,
		
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			sit down
		
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			and engage in after
		
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			the prayer.
		
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			Sit down still remembering
		
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			this is this is why or this is
		
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			how the afterlife is my greatest concern, so
		
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			sit down.
		
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			Astaghfirullahatubuileh
		
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			3 times
		
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			If you can't say it 33 times, the
		
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			minimum is 10 times each. Say it.
		
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			Sit down. Don't rush.
		
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			You see the people have you observed the
		
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			state of the people today after us salat
		
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			and how they rush?
		
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			Wallahi, you think like someone's following them with
		
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			a stick telling them get out of a
		
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			masjid.
		
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			Especially at salat al Jumayran is jammed on
		
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			the border, and they're stuck in trying to
		
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			come out the ark. What's wrong?
		
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			As though what's outside is better than in
		
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			what's inside.
		
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			As though who you're going to meet outside
		
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			is better than who you are in conversion
		
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			with with Allah
		
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			Relax.
		
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			Relax. Take your time.
		
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			Sit down and engage in your
		
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			After al afghar, begin to recite.
		
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			The supplication of the morning and the evening.
		
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			And if you've never heard of this before,
		
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			open the book, The Fortress of the Muslim.
		
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			There's many apps. Download it. Go to the
		
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			section,
		
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			morning dhikr, afternoon dhikr.
		
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			There are about 24.
		
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			Read them. If you can't do all 24
		
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			and you're new to this type of worship,
		
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			do one.
		
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			At least 1, at least 2, 3, something.
		
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			But to redirect it altogether, well, that's a
		
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			problem.
		
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			This is an issue. And they are a
		
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			Muslim.
		
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			And you want to have and you want
		
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			to build these habits in your life and
		
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			die upon them.
		
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			So that you can prove at least to
		
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			yourself and say Alhamdulillah.
		
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			I hope Allah accepts my efforts
		
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			of making the afterlife my greatest concern.
		
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			I
		
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			spent the last 2 years
		
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			explaining the morning and evening afghar. Alhamdulillah,
		
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			we completed that course and it's uploaded on
		
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			YouTube.
		
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			And I recommend for you that you listen
		
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			to an episode once a week. There are
		
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			30 episodes.
		
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			Listen
		
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			and learn and understand
		
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			how powerful Al Ghar Subhaah al Mas'a is.
		
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			By Allah I promise you if you only
		
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			hear 3 to 4 lectures not the all
		
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			30, 3 to 4.
		
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			You will you will ask yourself:
		
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			How have I been living all this time
		
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			and not seeing what Allah wanted me to
		
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			say?
		
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			It's not worship, but it is a very
		
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			stressed upon sunnah for you and I to
		
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			say.
		
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			It charges the heart with certainty, with iman.
		
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			It changes your vision, your focus in life,
		
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			your mindset. The reward is is unbelievable.
		
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			It's medicine. It's protection from evil, from envy,
		
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			from jealousy, from magic. It is abundance of
		
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			reward. It's whatever you want is all in
		
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			there. There is even a zikr in there
		
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			that if you say at once, then Allah
		
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			records for you as though you have fulfilled
		
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			the gratitude of that day.
		
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			You won't feel guilty about all, did I
		
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			thank Allah enough today? Of course, we will
		
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			never be able to thank Allah enough, but
		
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			from the mercy of Allah, one dhikr you
		
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			say, it will be written. You have
		
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			achieved a satisfactory level of being grateful to
		
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			Allah for today.
		
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			A lifesaver indeed and a life changer.
		
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			Listen to those and connect with that
		
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			after you read your afkar after us salat
		
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			and afkar sabah
		
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			read something of the Quran. One page. And
		
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			no one understand
		
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			that doing afghar after
		
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			and afghar of the morning is a lot
		
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			better than reading the Quran immediately after.
		
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			Pay attention to what I'm saying. Most definitely
		
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			is the best on earth,
		
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			but when something is legislated for its time
		
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			that would be better than.
		
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			So what is supposed to be said after.
		
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			So the one who says the after
		
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			the prayer
		
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			is better than the one who is reading
		
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			Quran straight after
		
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			because
		
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			after
		
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			comes at that time.
		
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			Otherwise, where where else are you going to
		
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			say them? So that's better. You understand?
		
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			And then you read some Quran,
		
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			and now
		
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			from finally coming.
		
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			To say it how many times? Who knows?
		
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			A 100 times. You can 10 times. One
		
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			time is narrated. 10 times is narrated. The
		
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			minimum is 1. 10 is better than 1.
		
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			A 100 is better than 10, but all
		
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			3 have been narrated in terms of numbers.
		
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			And the 100 could be split. 50 in
		
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			the morning, 50 in the evening, no problems.
		
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			But
		
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			as you sit there and you say,
		
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			you keep repeating it.
		
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			You will realize
		
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			that this entire universe was created for the
		
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			fulfillment of this word.
		
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			Then you begin to ask us, Anna, what
		
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			was I rushing to?
		
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			What am I rushing to? This whole world
		
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			was created for this world.
		
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			The hellfire was created
		
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			for The paradise was created
		
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			for What am I rushing to?
		
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			You'd rather sit and spend some time with
		
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			your maker and your creator,
		
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			and you'll realize the you'll realize the worthlessness
		
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			of this worldly life. That the worldly life
		
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			would not have existed without
		
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			So what were you rushing to?
		
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			You see, if your morning starts like this,
		
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			the sun hasn't even come up yet,
		
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			and you walk outside the Masjid having done
		
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			all this now.
		
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			Allahu Akbar, what is this?
		
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			Such a person now
		
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			has the correct frequency in life.
		
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			He's tuned into the right frequency.
		
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			He knows now how to tackle the
		
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			challenges and the calamities of the day. Allahi,
		
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			brothers and sisters, compare this person
		
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			to the one who slipped through the whole
		
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			night.
		
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			Gets up late,
		
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			the sun has come out.
		
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			Rushes, maybe he makes wudu and prays al
		
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			fajr.
		
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			Maybe maybe he says, you know what? It's
		
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			gone. I'll pray tomorrow.
		
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			What a horrible start. That's why Nabi sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam said, and whoever made this
		
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			worldly life his main concern,
		
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			Allahu will disorganize his affairs.
		
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			Such a person, you do find them waking
		
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			up, maybe he's late to work. He already
		
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			begins his, oh, allah boss, and now I'm
		
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			coming late. Subhanallah. He just got sick at
		
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			he starts his day with a lie.
		
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			He starts his late lazy
		
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			with a lie.
		
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			Probably hasn't even eaten breakfast yet. Doesn't know
		
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			how to manage his breath. It's stinky.
		
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			The the the the shaytan has urinated in
		
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			his ears, and Nabi says,
		
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			He's walking around with urine of his shaitan
		
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			in his ears.
		
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			Where's the productivity in that day?
		
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			How is the afterlife your greatest concern?
		
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			Ask Allah to forgive us,
		
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			and to allow us to turn teams. Subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala.
		
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			Then Nabi salallahu alayhi wa sallam
		
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			says,
		
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			and Allah will place poverty right in between
		
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			his eyes,
		
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			meaning right in between his eyes. Yeah. And
		
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			in the world, the life is here, but
		
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			he's still not content.
		
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			He feels very poor on the inside.
		
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			And then Nabi Salam says,
		
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			he will have no bonuses in this life.
		
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			Whatever is written for him will come.
		
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			No bonuses.
		
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			Just take what what there is and and
		
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			and get out of this worldly life.
		
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			We ask Allah
		
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			to grant us goodness and acceptance.
		
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			We ask Allah
		
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			to accept this gathering. We ask him
		
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			to forgive our sins and our shortcomings.
		
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			We ask him
		
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			to allow us to be productive in the
		
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			early hours of the morning.
		
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			We ask Allah
		
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			most importantly to grant us strength and ability
		
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			that we worship him and he will remain
		
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			consistent and steadfast upon the worship.
		
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			In