Abu Bakr Zoud – Arrogance & Its Danger

Abu Bakr Zoud
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The importance of pride and seeking guidance and forgiveness in Islam is emphasized, as it is linked to the concept of "arrogance." The use of the symbol "arrogance" means it is not just a physical appearance, but also a reflection of one's image. The importance of humility and avoiding accusations of arrogance is also emphasized, as it is the only way to achieve forgiveness. The segment ends with a statement from the host to encourage listeners to turn to Islam for forgiveness and cleanse from mistakes.
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All praise is due to Allah.

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We praise Him, we seek His help, we

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seek His guidance, and we seek His forgiveness.

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And we seek refuge in Allah from the

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evils of our souls and the evils of

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our deeds.

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Whomsoever Allah guides, none can misguide him, and

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whosoever He misguides, none can guide him.

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And I bear witness that there is none

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worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad

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is His servant and Messenger.

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يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ اتَّقُوا رَبَّكُمُ الَّذِي خَلَقَكُم مِّن

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نَفْسٍ وَاحِدَةٍ وَخَلَقَ مِنْهَا زَوْجَهَا وَبَثَّ مِنْهُمَا لِجَالًا

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كَثِيرًا وَنِسَاءً وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ الَّذِي تَسَاءَلُونَ بِهِ وَالْأَرْحَامِ

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إِنَّ اللَّهَ كَانَ عَلَيْكُمْ رَقِيبًا يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ

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آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ حَقَّ تُقَاتِهِ وَلَا تَمُوتُنَّ إِلَّا

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وَأَنْتُمْ مُسْلِمُونَ يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ

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وَقُولُوا قَوْلًا سَدِيدًا يُصْلِحْ لَكُمْ أَعْمَالَكُمْ وَيَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ

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ذُنُوبَكُمْ وَمَنْ يُطْعِ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ فَقَدْ فَازَ فَوْزًا

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عَظِيمًا ثُمَّ أَمَّا بَعْدُ فَإِنَّ أَصْدَقَ الْحَدِيثِ كِتَابُ

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اللَّهِ جَلَّ وَعَلَى وَخَيْرَ الْهَدْيَ هَدْيُ مُحَمَّدٍ صَلَّى

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اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمْ وَإِنَّ شَرَّ الْأُمُورِ مُحْدَثَاتُهَا وَكُلَّ

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مُحْدَثَةٍ بِدْعَةٍ وَكُلَّ بِدْعَةٍ ضَلَالَةٍ وَكُلَّ ضَلَالَةٍ فِي

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النَّارِ أَجَارَ لِل لَهُ وَإِيَاكُمْ مِّنَ الْنَّارِ ثُمَّ

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أَمَّا بَعْدُ All praise and thanks belongs to

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Allah may the peace and blessing of Allah

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be upon His servant and final messenger Muhammad

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ﷺ.

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Respected brothers and sisters in Islam, Allah says

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in the Qur'an تِلْكَ الدَّارُ الْآخِرَةُ نَجْعَلُهَا

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لِلَّذِينَ لَا يُرِيدُونَ عُلُوًّا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَلَا فَسَادًا

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وَالْعَاقِبَةُ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ In this ayah, Allah عز و

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جل does something unusual.

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He discusses in this ayah who the paradise

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will not include, who the paradise has not

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been made for.

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So usually the discussion in the Qur'an

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is the quality of the people of the

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paradise, who enters the paradise.

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But in this ayah, Allah عز و جل

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tells us of a category of people that

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do not enter the paradise.

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He began by saying تِلْكَ الدَّارُ الْآخِرَةُ That

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is the abode of the afterlife, referring to

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the paradise.

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Allah عز و جل referred to the paradise

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with the word that, تِلْكَ.

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In the Arabic language تِلْكَ implies honour and

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loftiness.

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So Allah عز و جل is saying that

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is the abode of the afterlife.

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It's a high station, it's an elevated station.

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It is of honour and prestige and dignity.

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Only those who are huge in their iman

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in the sight of Allah عز و جل

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will be worthy of entering this paradise to

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ask Allah عز و جل to make us

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of them.

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He ﷻ said that paradise نَجْعَلُهَا لِلَّذِينَ لَا

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يُرِيدُونَ عُلُوًّا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَلَا فَسَادًا He said

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we have made this paradise تِلْكَ الدَّارُ الْآخِرَةُ

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نَجْعَلُهَا لِلَّذِينَ لَا يُرِيدُونَ عُلُوًّا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَلَا

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فَسَادًا We have made it and assigned it

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for those that do not seek arrogance and

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corruption on earth.

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So the paradise is not for the corrupt

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that want to corrupt and cause corruption on

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earth.

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And it is also not for the one

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who seeks arrogance on earth.

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Allah عز و جل said وَالْعَاقِبَةُ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ And

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the outcome, the great outcome will be for

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the متقين.

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The متقين, the pious, the righteous.

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These are people who their heart was freed

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of arrogance and any seeking of corruption.

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Brothers and sisters in Islam, we've learned so

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far that the paradise will not include those

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who seek arrogance on earth.

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What is arrogance?

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A man came to the Messenger صلى الله

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عليه وسلم and he said to him إِنَّ

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الرَّجُلَ يُحِبُّ أَن يَكُونَ ثَوْبُهُ حَسَنًا وَنَعْلُهُ حَسَنًا

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A man said يا رسول الله, any person

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among us would love to wear beautiful, elegant

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clothing.

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A nice $200 shirt وَنَعْلًا حَسَنًا And anyone

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of us likes to also wear beautiful, elegant

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footwear.

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Something nice and expensive.

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So the man is asking يا رسول الله,

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is that arrogance?

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People like to wear a good brand watch,

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good clothing, spend money on how they look.

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The man is confused, is this arrogance or

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not?

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So النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم responded and

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said to him إِنَّ اللَّهَ جَمِيلٌ يُحِبُّ الْجَمَالِ

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Allah عز و جل from His names is

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that He is beautiful, the most beautiful.

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And He loves beauty.

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In other words, no.

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Looking after your outward appearance, spending money on

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how you look, that's not arrogance.

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If you seek from that to please Allah

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عز و جل, you know Allah loves beauty.

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So I'm wearing in a beautiful manner because

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this is pleasing to Allah, no problems.

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This is a means in how you come

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close to Allah عز و جل.

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However, if you wore clothing to establish your

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delusional degree above others, then $5 shirt would

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be haram, right?

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Some people will have this attitude.

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But if you're wearing to please Allah since

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He is beautiful, there's no problem in this.

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Then النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم will now

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define what arrogance is.

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And he will teach him and teaches us

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as a result.

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He صلى الله عليه وسلم says, الكبر بطر

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الحق و غمط الناس Arrogance is of two

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things, belittling people and rejecting the truth.

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So arrogance is of two things, belittling people

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and rejecting the truth when it comes to

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you that is found in the Qur'an

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and authentic sunnah of the Messenger صلى الله

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عليه وسلم.

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Let's focus on the first one.

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غمط الناس, belittling, degrading people.

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And this type of arrogance was first practiced

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by Iblis when Allah عز و جل created

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Adam in the paradise and then He commanded

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all the angels to make a sajdah of

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respect to Adam.

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They all did so except for Iblis.

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He refused and his justification was أنا خير

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منه I am better than him.

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He belittled him.

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He saw for himself more value and worth

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than Adam.

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I'm better than him.

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He should make a sajdah for me, not

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the other way around.

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That's how he's calculated and assumed in his

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mind and now he's speaking it on his

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tongue.

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That's arrogance, belittling others.

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Brothers and sisters in Islam, how many of

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us, our minds and our ego consistently whispers

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within us that we are different and we

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are better than others.

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This is a continuous battle you always have

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with yourself.

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I want us my brothers and sisters in

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Islam to reflect and to ponder and to

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observe next time.

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Next time we speak and we talk to

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others.

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I want us to observe the language and

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how we speak to others that we see

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and perceive ourselves to be better than them.

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Observe our language.

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Observe our language in the way we speak

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of those who you think you're better than.

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Just monitor the words.

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See how you're talking.

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I want us brothers and sisters in Islam

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to also watch ourselves as we look at

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them with worthlessness and we refuse to shake

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their hands or we extend our hand not

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interested in shaking their hands.

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Just observe.

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We want to observe these kind of attitudes

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that we have with others and reflect why.

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Why did you speak with him with such

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worthlessness?

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And why did we immediately want to move

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our hands from his hand?

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Just observe and ponder and focus.

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Could that be a sign of your arrogance?

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Could it be a sign of arrogance that

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is within our hearts that we need to

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work on and cleanse?

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I want us brothers and sisters in Islam

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to observe and to reflect when we feel

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insulted because the one who's addressing me did

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not address me in a way I saw

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befitting and I saw deserving of myself.

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I want us to observe our character.

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Sometimes we feel insulted.

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How come this man didn't address me the

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way I should be addressed?

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Who are you, Aslam?

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Who is us?

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Who's the human being?

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How do you think we will be addressed

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by the angel when we are put in

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our graves?

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You think the angel is going to pick

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you up and say, Assalamu alaikum, brother or

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sister.

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Mashallah, we heard of your great record and

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achievement in this worldly life.

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We would like to ask you, what is

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your Lord?

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Would you be kind enough to give us

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an answer?

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Who does the human being think he is?

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How would you think the angel would address

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you?

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At that moment, you'll know exactly what we

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are worth in the sight of Allah.

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Human being is weak.

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Human being is nothing.

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Don't ever believe that you have a kind

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of degree above others.

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And don't we ever fall into this mistake

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of thinking that we are superior than others.

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I want us brothers and sisters in Islam

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to observe and reflect.

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Observe and reflect when that man walked into

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our house, seeking the marriage of our daughter.

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And we said, no, we reject it.

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Why did we reject?

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Was it because of his skin color?

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Was it because of his race, his ethnicity,

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his language?

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What was it?

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Just observe.

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Just observe and reflect.

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And ask this question to yourself.

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Because if that's the case, then we're in

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severe danger.

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تلك الدار الآخرة نجعلها للذين لا يريدون علوا

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في الأرض Allah says, ولا فسادة That paradise

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is not made for the arrogant.

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Allah made it for those who do not

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seek arrogance one bit.

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You need to observe these matters, my brothers

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and sisters in Islam.

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And this disgusting racism and arrogance.

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Many years ago, it used to be found

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between one country and another.

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One country is racist to another country that

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is different in its race and ethnicity.

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Today, the matter has become a lot different,

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a lot more developed.

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You will find arrogance and racism among people

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from the same country.

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Not only that, from the same city.

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From the same city, the people of the

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East and the people of the West.

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People in the West and the people in

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the East each.

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They are insulting one another and accusing one

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another of being stingy, miserly, greedy, no manners.

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Subhanallah, when they live in the same city,

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they are supposed to be equal citizens and

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share the same rights.

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Yet, this arrogance is established among people from

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the same suburb.

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Forget about the countries.

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They will talk about the own city that

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we live in.

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And how people perceive each other and accuse

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each other.

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This is no doubt arrogance that is deep

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within the heart.

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Requires a huge amount of tawbah and istighfar

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to clean that up.

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But the first step is, we need to

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acknowledge it among one another.

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And bring it up in our discussion and

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in our khutbah.

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Haven't we heard the message of Allah when

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he said, إِنَّ أَكْرَمَكُمْ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ أَتْقَوَكُمْ Or

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did we miss that?

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Allah azza wa jal, he said, Verily, the

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most noble of you in the sight of

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Allah are the most pious.

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Are those that have the most taqwa.

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Taqwa resides in the heart.

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You don't even know the level of your

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own taqwa.

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How can you be passing judgment over others

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and believing you're superior than them?

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Have you seen your own level?

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And have you measured it with the others?

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No.

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So what gives us the right to think

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that we are superior than others?

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That's a very clear message from Allah azza

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wa jal.

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Teaching us how to eliminate arrogance and racism

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from the society.

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How do we eliminate it?

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How do we get rid of it?

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How do I dispel it from my heart

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and from my life?

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Keep reminding yourself, إِنَّ أَكْرَمَكُمْ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ أَتْقَوَكُمْ

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Very clear message from Allah to humanity.

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Have we forgotten that our different colors, our

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different language, our different ethnicities and race and

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cultures is actually a miraculous sign from Allah?

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Allah azza wa jal, he says, وَمِنْ آيَاتِهِ

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أَنْ خَلَقُ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضُ وَاخْتِلَافُ أَلْسِنَتِكُمْ

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وَأَلْوَانِكُمْ Allah said from among his miraculous signs

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is the diversion, diversity in our color and

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in our language, in our race, the black

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and the white and the red and the

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many different languages that we speak on our

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tongue.

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This is a miraculous sign from Allah.

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You know, a miraculous sign from Allah, like

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the sun.

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When we look at the sun, we appreciate,

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we say, سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ مَاشَاءَ اللَّهِ So when

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we look at each other and we see

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the different colors among us and the different

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languages among us, this should be a reason

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for why we are appreciative of Allah.

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And iman should increase.

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It's a sign from the signs of Allah

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and the sign of Allah increases our iman.

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How have we made this sign of Allah

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increase arrogance and racism within us?

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Doesn't make sense.

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The signs of Allah are to guide us,

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should increase our iman.

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And this is again an ayah that dispels

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and cleans the heart from arrogance and racism.

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If you're struggling, if we are struggling with

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racism and arrogance, we remind ourselves, this is

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a sign from the sign of Allah.

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If I did not like it, or I

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spoke something against it or something ill against

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it, I'm speaking out against a sign of

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the signs of Allah.

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Very dangerous, brothers and sisters in Islam.

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Nabi ﷺ, he said, that Allah Azza wa

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Jal said, الكبر يا أولدائي Pride is my

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cloak.

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It's the upper garment of Allah.

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والعظمة إزاري and greatness and supreme is the

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lower garment of Allah.

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من نازعني في شيء منهما قذفته في النار

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Allah Azza wa Jal said, anyone who challenges

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me with one of them, I throw him

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in the hellfire.

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الكبر يا Pride, this is a name of

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Allah.

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It belongs to Allah.

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Whoever challenges Allah with this, in other words,

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shows arrogance on earth and on the creation

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of Allah, Allah threatens such a person, He'll

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throw him in the hellfire because that's where

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arrogance is.

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That's where arrogance is put on the day

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of judgment.

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Subhanallah.

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The nations before us, my brothers and sisters

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in Islam also, this is a point I

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want to mention that helps get rid of

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arrogance from the heart.

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The nations before us were a lot stronger

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than us.

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And they were given a lot more power

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and wealth than what we have today.

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Allah Azza wa Jal says about the previous

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nations, وَلَقَدْ مَكَّنَّاهُمْ فِي مَا إِمَّكَنَّاكُمْ فِيهِ Allah

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Azza wa Jal says, we certainly established for

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them in such a way we never established

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for you.

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They had a lot more.

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Aad, Thamud, Qarun, Haman, Fir'aun.

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These are the big names in history.

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Big money, huge fame, huge popularity, power.

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They even would say, مَنْ أَشَدُّ مِنَّا قُوَى

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They reached such a point of establishment on

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earth that the arrogance got so much to

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their heads and to their hearts.

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They would say, who's more powerful than us?

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I'm saying to you, we don't have a

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fraction of that.

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So how does it make sense that we

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believe we are better than others?

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We have greater power than others and seek

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arrogance on the earth of Allah.

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Those people, where are they now?

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Where's Aad?

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Where's Thamud?

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Where's Qarun?

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Haman, Fir'aun, all these people, where are

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they now?

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Their flesh and their skin has been eaten

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by a worm.

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They don't exist anymore.

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They're gone, they're finished, they're history.

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They are mentioned in the books as an

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example for us.

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There's no good mention of them.

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What did they enjoy on earth?

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There's no good mention.

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The only mention in the Quran is, see

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these people?

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This is what I've done with them because

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they tried to challenge Allah in his kibriya.

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So Allah destroyed them and made them a

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bad mention in the books.

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Subhanallah.

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When Nabi ﷺ he said, لا يدخل الجنة

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من كان في قلبه نفقار ذرة من كبر

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The one who has this ant weight of

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arrogance in his heart does not enter the

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paradise.

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You know, الذرة they translate it as atoms

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weight.

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That's not the right definition.

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الذرة is a type of ant.

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The ants are of many types.

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But there is a type of ant that

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is that so small you cannot see it

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without a microscope.

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You need to see it with a microscope.

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That's الذرة.

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Whoever has that much of arrogance in his

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heart cannot enter the paradise.

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Imagine bigger than that.

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What is such a person's punishment?

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If just a tiny bit was enough to

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say, sorry, you don't enter the paradise.

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You don't have residence in here.

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Imagine that a little bit more than that.

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Imagine the size of a sand grain that

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is complete destruction upon a person.

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That's why Iblis As soon as he said

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what he said انا خير من Allah described

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that as استكبار, arrogance and he removed him

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from the paradise immediately.

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Why did Allah Azawajal remove Iblis from the

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paradise immediately?

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Because arrogance does not belong in the paradise.

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So he took him out straight away.

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Subhanallah.

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And people ask why did Allah call himself

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المتكبر?

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That's from the names of Allah.

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المتكبر The Great, the Supreme, the Mighty.

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Why?

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So he can teach you and I who

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we are.

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We are the human being.

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We come from dirt.

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Dirt.

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Dirt that's in the backyard.

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Dirt that's on the street.

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That if you're to pick up with your

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hand, you will wash your hand with soap

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afterwards.

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How did the human being allow Shaytan to

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fool him to think he's better than others?

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We began with dirt and our ending is

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dirt as well.

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And in between these two stages, we carry

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dirt and filth in our bodies.

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These are all matters we're supposed to reflect

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on in order to crush and destroy this

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arrogance.

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Because you and I have to meet Allah

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with zero arrogance in the heart.

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1% arrogance, no good.

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Half a percent, no good.

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We have to meet Allah with 0%

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arrogance.

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None of it exists in our heart.

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And we're supposed to remind ourselves of how

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can we achieve this.

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That's how we can achieve it.

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Reflect over your beginning.

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Today, we're going to go to our backyard.

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We're going to grab some dirt with our

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hands.

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We're going to look at it.

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Does it have any value?

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Does the dirt have any worth?

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Does it look like gold to you?

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Would someone buy it?

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That's your beginning.

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That's our beginning.

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Not only that, that's our end as well.

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Where did the arrogance develop?

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I ask Allah Azza wa Jal to cleanse

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our heart from arrogance.

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Brothers and sisters in Islam, today, wallah, there

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are issues in the community.

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I hear of them.

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And you know what I say to myself?

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I say if only the two of them

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or one of the two had a little

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bit of humility, it would have solved the

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matter.

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The matter would have been solved.

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But it's not being solved because one of

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the two or both have arrogance.

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When Nabi ﷺ mentioned this, he came out

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one day to the companions, gathered them all,

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he said to them, إِنَّ اللَّهَ أَوْحَى إِلَيْهِ

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He said to them, brothers, Allah just revealed

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to me right now أنْ تَوَوَّعُ Humble yourself

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to one another حَتَّى لَيَبْغِيَ بَعْظُكُمْ عَلَىٰ بَعْضُ

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So that you don't transgress against one another.

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You see what Nabi ﷺ is saying?

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He's saying if you are to be humble

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with one another, you will not transgress against

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one another.

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What does that mean?

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Meaning if you are arrogant with one another,

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you will begin to trespass and transgress and

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rebel against one another.

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So when I see brothers in the community

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having a problem, I say this can't be

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right.

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Brothers, Allah said, تَوَوَّعُ Be humble to one

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another, humble to the word of Allah and

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to the advice of those who understand the

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word of Allah.

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If you're told you're in the wrong, you're

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in the wrong.

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Humble yourself, accept your mistake and reconcile with

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your brother.

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Finished.

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A little bit of humility will solve the

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big issue.

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But problems are still stuck where they are

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because of arrogance that is found either in

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both of them or in one of the

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two.

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SubhanAllah.

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This is why even the word arrogance, تَكَبَّر,

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in the Arabic language, it comes on the

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pattern of تَفَعَل which implies تَصَنُّع.

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تَصَنُّع تَكَبَّر means acting arrogant because you really

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cannot, you can never ever practice the quality

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of pride.

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That's a name of Allah, it's an attribute

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of Allah.

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The most we can do is act it

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out.

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تَكَبَّر تَصَنَّع الكِبْر Right?

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He acted.

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He's acting all tough and big.

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That's what it is, you're acting because in

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reality you're not.

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He's acting it out.

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SubhanAllah.

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And that's why the one who did that

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on earth, you know what his result is

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on the Day of Judgment?

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Allah will deal with him opposite than what

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he wanted.

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He wanted big and power and respect, demanded

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it.

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On the Day of Judgment, Nabi ﷺ says,

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يُحْشَرُ الْمُتَكَبِّرُونَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ أَمْثَانَ الْذَرِّ يَقَعُهُمُ

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النَّاسُ بِأَقْدَابِهِمْ On the Day of Judgment, those

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who are arrogant and sought arrogance on earth,

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they will be gathered on the Day of

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Judgment the size of a tiny ant and

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people will step on them.

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He wanted to be big.

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He became really small.

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People are stepping on him on the Day

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of Judgment.

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SubhanAllah.

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Meanwhile, opposite to that was humility.

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And humility is to lower yourself.

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Lower yourself.

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And those who are humble on earth, Allah

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will deal with them on the Day of

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Judgment opposite to what they were.

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So on the Day of Judgment, Nabi ﷺ

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says, مَنْ تَوَضَعَ لِنَّ أَرَافَعَهُ اللَّهِ Whoever was

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humble before Allah, Allah raises him on the

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Day of Judgment.

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You lower yourself, Allah will raise you.

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You seek arrogance on earth, Allah will bring

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that person down.

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See, Allah Azawajal is fair.

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SubhanAllah.

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So these are the meanings that we have

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to understand and we have to deliver to

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one another, brothers and sisters in Islam.

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And finally, I share with you the second

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part of arrogance.

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And that is, بَطَرُ الْحَقِّ To reject the

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truth.

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When you reject the truth, you reject Allah's

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command.

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That is arrogance.

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In fact, that is a worse type of

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arrogance than the first arrogance we're talking about

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which is belittling people.

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When Allah Azawajal says, Pray five times a

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day for me.

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Do sujood for me.

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And a person rejects, I don't have time.

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Why?

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That's arrogance.

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That's arrogance before your maker and your creator.

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He said to you, See this honorable part

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of your body, your head, put it down

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on the earth for me.

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You said, No, I don't want.

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I don't have time.

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This is arrogance, brothers and sisters in Islam.

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And the first one to practice this type

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of arrogance again was Iblis himself.

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When Allah said to him, Make a sajdah

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to Adam.

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He refused one.

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And he was cursed for a lifetime until

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he ends up in Jahannam.

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وَالْعِيَاذُ بِاللَّهِ As-salat is humility.

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Allah Azawajal says, وَبَشِّرِ الْمُخْبِتِينَ Congratulate the humble

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ones.

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Then he counted their qualities.

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And from their qualities was وَالْمُقِيمِ الصَّلَاةِ Those

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who establish the prayer.

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Salat is humility.

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And rejecting any commandment of Allah is arrogance.

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Allah really, whether we like to hear this

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or not, that's the reality.

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The one who transgresses the laws of Allah

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knows al-riba is haram.

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But yet walks in the bank, signs the

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contract, no problems.

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And he begins to argue, I don't think

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it's haram.

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What am I going to do?

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This is arrogance, brother.

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Brothers and sisters, this is arrogance.

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Allah Azawajal, he says in the Qur'an,

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فَإِن لَّمْ تَفْعَلُوا فَأَذَنُوا بِحَرْبٍ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ

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The one who doesn't stop consuming al-riba

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and involving himself in riba contracts, Allah says,

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then get ready to declare war against Allah

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and His Messenger.

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Ibn Abbas said, the one who consumed al

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-riba will be given a weapon on the

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day of judgment and set him go and

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fight Allah.

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Arrogance, we ask Allah Azawajal to save us.

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If we've fallen into a sin and the

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human being is weak, he falls into sin,

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cover it, keep it private, feel regret, feel

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shame in yourself.

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Don't ever feel happy about the sin you're

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doing.

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Don't ever publicize it, no matter what it

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is.

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Because when you keep it private and you

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cry about it all night and you have

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a strong addiction to it, you're not able

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to free yourself from it.

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Begging Allah, crying the night and crying the

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day that Allah forgive and wipe your sin.

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That's humility.

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You can achieve humility even though you're committing

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some sins.

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But the matter is to keep him covered

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and to run to Allah, seeking, begging that

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forgiveness.

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But as for the one who commits the

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sin and then he's happy about it, doesn't

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care, no shame, no regret, publicizes it on

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social media, shares it with others, tries to

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normalize it in society.

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Oh, big deal.

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Everyone's doing it.

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Why do we have to always keep saying

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it's haram?

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The times have changed.

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That's the arrogance.

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That's the arrogance.

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Not the sin itself.

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Keep that private.

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Perhaps you keep it private.

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You have a big chance on the Day

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of Judgment Allah will forgive you.

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As the Nabi ﷺ says, all my nation

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is forgiven except for those who publicize the

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sin.

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The one who publicizes the sin, that is

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arrogance against Allah.

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That's like, yeah, I know Allah made this

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haram, but yeah, I'm alright to come out

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to people and say I'm doing what Allah

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made haram.

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So, arrogance.

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We ask Allah to save us.

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Finally, brothers and sisters in Islam, I leave

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you with this hadith of the Messenger ﷺ.

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Nabi ﷺ came out one day, he stretched

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his hand, his palm out to the people,

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and he spat in his palm.

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بَزَقَ النَبِي ﷺ في كَفِّه In front of

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the people.

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Then he got his index finger, and he

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rubbed it in his saliva.

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And then he raised it to the people.

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And he said, يَقُولُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ Allah

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says, أَنَّا تُعْجِزُنِ بْنَ آدَم وَقَدْ خَلَقْتُكَ مِنْ

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مِثْلِ هَٰذِهِ Allah says, How did you, O

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son of Adam, assume and think that you

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will be able to escape Allah عَزَّ وَجَلَّ

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when I have created you from something similar

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to this?

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I created you from this.

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How did you assume that you will escape

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Allah عَزَّ وَجَلَّ on the Day of Judgment?

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Then he ﷺ said, فَإِذَا بَلَغَتْ نَفْسُكَ هَذِهِ

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وَأَشَارَ إِلَى حَلْقِهِ قُلْتَ أَتَصَدَّقْ وَأَنَّ أَوَانُ الصَّدَقَةَ

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Allah عَزَّ وَجَلَّ then said, Until your soul

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reaches here, just about to die, then you

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will say, I will give now.

00:32:15 --> 00:32:16

I will pray now.

00:32:16 --> 00:32:18

I will commit to the laws now.

00:32:19 --> 00:32:21

I will stop Al-Haram with sins and

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everything prohibited now.

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Please, one more chance.

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I'll make righteousness now.

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Allah عَزَّ وَجَلَّ would say, وَأَنَّ أَوَانُ الصَّدَقَةَ

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That's not the time to give charity.

00:32:33 --> 00:32:34

That's not the time now for righteousness.

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قلص, your time's over.

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Any person meets Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى in this

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manner, Allah عَزَّ وَجَلَّ He says, أَلَيْسَ فِي

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جَهَدْنَا مَن مَثْوَنٍ لِلْمُتَكَبِّرِينَ Allah عَزَّ وَجَلَّ He

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says, أَلَيْسَ فِي جَهَدْنَا مَثْوَنٍ لِلْمُتَكَبِّرِينَ Is there

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not in hellfire a residence for the arrogant?

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What will save us, my brothers and sisters

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in Islam?

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وَيُنَجِّ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ ابْتَقَوْا Allah عَزَّ وَجَلَّ will

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save those who upheld righteousness in their life

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to the best of their ability.

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Always turning to Allah عَزَّ وَجَلَّ pleasing Him

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and obeying Him.

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And if they fall short, they say, أَسْتَغْفِرُ

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اللَّهُ in the early hours of the morning,

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in the early hours of the night, just

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before Salatul Fajr, remorseful, humble before Him سُبْحَانَهُ

00:33:18 --> 00:33:22

وَتَعَالَى Brothers and sisters in Islam, we encourage

00:33:22 --> 00:33:24

ourselves to turn to Allah in tawbah and

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istighfar.

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We ask Allah عَزَّ وَجَلَّ to clear our

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hearts of arrogance and any wrongdoing and to

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clean us from all of our shortcomings.

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إِنَّهُ وَلِيُّ ذَٰلِكَ وَالْقَادِرُ عَلَيْهِ أَقُولِ قَوْلِ هَذَا

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وَاسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ لِي وَلَكُمْ فَاسْتَغْفِرُوهُ إِنَّهُ هُوَ الْغَفُورُ

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الرَّحِيمُ الحمد لله وحده الصلاة

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والسلام على من لا نبي بعده وبعد هذا

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وصلوا وسلموا رحمكم الله على خير البرية وأسكى

00:33:55 --> 00:33:58

البشرية محمد بن تعبد الله صاحب الحوض والشفاعة

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فقد أمركم الله تعالى بأمر بدأ فيه بنفسه

00:34:02 --> 00:34:06

ثم بملائكتي المسدحة بقدسة وَأَيَّهَا بِكُمْ أَيُّهَا الْمُؤْمِنُونَ

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فَقَالَ عَزَّ مِنْ قَائِلٍ إِنَّ اللَّهَ وَمَلَائِكَتَهُ يُصَلُّونَ

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عَلَى النَّبِيِّ يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا صَلُّوا عَلَيْهِ

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وَسَلِّمُوا تَسْلِيمًا اللهم صل على محمد وعلى آل

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محمد كما صليت على إبراهيم وعلى آل إبراهيم

00:34:20 --> 00:34:23

إنك حميد مجيد وبارك على محمد وعلى آل

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محمد كما باركت على إبراهيم وعلى آل إبراهيم

00:34:27 --> 00:34:30

إنك حميد مجيد اللهم أرنا الحق حقا وارزقنا

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اتباعه وأرنا الباطل باطلا وارزقنا اجتنابه ربنا تقبل

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منا إنك أنت السميع العليم وتب علينا إنك

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أنت التواب الرحيم عباد الله إن الله يأمر

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بالعدل والإحسان وإيتاء ذي القربى وينهى عن الفحشاء

00:34:45 --> 00:34:49

والمنكر والبغي يعبكم لعلكم تذكرون فاذكروا الله العظيم

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الجليل يذكركم واشكروه على نعمه يزدكم ونذكر الله

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أكبر والله يعلم ما تصنعون

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