Abu Bakr Zoud – When All The Doors Are Closed

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The speakers stress the importance of establishing connections with Allah and reestablishing a relationship to see if the world can survive. They stress the negative impact of actions of some people, such as the actions of a man in the cave and his wife. Personal growth and seeking Allah's help through his brothers and sisters is emphasized. A course on Islam is recommended, and further guidance is given on seeking Allah's help through his brothers and sisters. Leaving a trail of negative behavior is emphasized, and resolving issues with Allah's mercy is emphasized.

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			All
		
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			praise and thanks belongs to Allah
		
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			And may the peace and blessing of Allah
		
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			be upon his servant and final messenger, Muhammad
		
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			As to our followers,
		
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			dear respected brothers and sisters in Islam, Assalamu
		
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			alaikum Warahmatullahi
		
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			wa barakatuh.
		
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			Assalamu alaykum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh Wa Alhamdulillah,
		
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			Allah has given us another opportunity to meet,
		
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			we ask Allah
		
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			that He never deprive us of each other
		
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			in this worldly life and most importantly we
		
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			ask Allah
		
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			to gather us in a better place than
		
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			this world
		
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			and that is in the paradise. We ask
		
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			him
		
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			to accept for us and to forgive our
		
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			sins and our shortcomings.
		
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			Brothers and sisters in Islam, we're all aware
		
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			that tonight's
		
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			lecture is titled When all the doors have
		
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			closed.
		
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			And what we want to discuss tonight is
		
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			a powerful
		
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			du'a that Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam teaches
		
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			his Ummah,
		
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			and this is a du'a that is an
		
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			alternate solution to every single problem that you
		
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			and I will ever experience in life.
		
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			But before we start with this Dua, we
		
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			need
		
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			to readjust
		
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			and restart
		
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			our minds
		
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			on the importance of having a connection and
		
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			a relationship with Allah, Azza Wa Jal.
		
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			Brothers and sisters in Islam,
		
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			when all the doors have closed
		
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			and that could be in any aspect of
		
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			your life,
		
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			In terms of relationships,
		
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			let's say your relationships with people are not
		
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			working,
		
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			and every time you establish a relationship it
		
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			closes.
		
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			Maybe the doors that are closing in your
		
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			face are doors related to your financial affairs,
		
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			your businesses, your wealth, your job, your health,
		
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			whatever the case may be. The doors are
		
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			closing and they are shutting closed in your
		
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			face.
		
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			When all the doors have closed,
		
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			This is a sign and a message from
		
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			Allah
		
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			If you do not read what Allah Aso'ajal
		
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			wants from you, you will fail miserably.
		
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			And if you read the message of Allah
		
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			Aso'ajal
		
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			correctly,
		
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			then this door was only closed that Allah
		
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			Azzawajal
		
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			will open another door for you.
		
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			The message
		
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			when every single door on earth is closed,
		
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			the message to you and I is that
		
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			Allah Azzawajal
		
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			wants you to rush towards him and to
		
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			re establish that relationship with him.
		
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			Because if all the doors on earth have
		
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			closed,
		
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			then the doors of the heavens remain open.
		
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			They don't close.
		
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			Imagine there was a tunnel
		
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			and there were doors on the left and
		
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			on the right of it
		
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			and you began to run to the closest
		
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			door you want to exit out of it
		
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			And the door would close in your face,
		
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			and the doors on the left of the
		
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			tunnel and the right of the tunnel begin
		
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			to close. What happens? You are forced in
		
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			one direction,
		
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			and that is the direction to the light
		
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			at the end of the tunnel. Think of
		
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			it like that, when every worldly door has
		
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			closed,
		
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			you are forced
		
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			to keep moving
		
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			until you re establish that relationship with Allah
		
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			and you enter through the doors of the
		
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			mercy of Allah
		
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			Brothers and sisters in Islam,
		
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			this is the message that you and I
		
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			are supposed to read and this is what
		
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			many Muslims suffer today.
		
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			You know one of the problems that Muslims
		
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			suffer today
		
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			is that they open the news and they
		
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			see a bit of news
		
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			of events that are happening globally.
		
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			Then they flick to social media and they
		
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			flick through their reels and they see
		
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			the filthy state of some of the Muslims.
		
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			They see the sins, they see the corruption,
		
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			they see the oppression,
		
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			they see the injustice and what happens to
		
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			the average Muslim?
		
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			He loses hope. He loses hope in Allah
		
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			and he sees that the doors have closed
		
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			and he gives up. He says there is
		
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			no solution for the world. Have you seen
		
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			already comments people putting putting and saying just
		
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			nuke the world already? People are talking like
		
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			this. They're saying what's the point? Everything is
		
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			closed. We've lost
		
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			hope in humanity.
		
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			There is no need to exist anymore.
		
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			People are talking and they're saying at this
		
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			point I just want to not exist anymore.
		
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			What kind of hopelessness is this? This is
		
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			not allowed for the believer to settle with
		
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			such hopelessness in his heart.
		
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			So this is what Muslims suffer across the
		
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			world.
		
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			They look on their social media
		
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			and that's the kind of emotion and feeling
		
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			that they will have in their heart after
		
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			they consume all this content that is out
		
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			there. Brothers and sisters in Islam, yes,
		
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			there may be no hope on earth.
		
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			There may be no hope with anyone on
		
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			earth.
		
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			People are just like you and I, we're
		
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			always in desperate need of each other and
		
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			services of each other. So there may be
		
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			no hope on earth. Maybe the doors are
		
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			closed and shut on earth.
		
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			But did you once
		
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			tell yourself to look up to the heavens
		
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			and remind yourself
		
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			that the doors of Allah Azza Wa Jal
		
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			remain open and they never close?
		
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			Brothers and sisters in Islam, our soul
		
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			needs Allah Azza Wa Jal 24
		
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			hours of the day,
		
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			7 days of the week.
		
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			It cannot survive without Allah
		
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			The soul is ultimately from Allah.
		
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			The soul was given to you by Allah
		
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			So it desperately needs Allah
		
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			because it came from Him.
		
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			Whereas if you were to observe the body,
		
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			the body it came from the earth. It
		
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			was made from organic matter on the earth.
		
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			So
		
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			the the body is always in need
		
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			of what the earth produces of water and
		
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			crops and vegetables and food and so on
		
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			for its survival.
		
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			But the soul cannot survive without Allah
		
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			Hence the desperate need for the sleeve
		
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			to turn to Allah
		
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			And I tell you something brothers and sisters
		
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			in Islam,
		
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			if you distance yourself from people,
		
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			those that you love, you see each and
		
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			every single one of us, you have people
		
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			that you love in your life, whether family
		
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			or friends and so on. If you choose
		
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			to distance yourself from them,
		
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			you become you become to feel isolated
		
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			and lonely and sad and worried and depressed.
		
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			These are the feelings that will be instilled
		
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			within you if you distance yourself from loved
		
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			ones.
		
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			Imagine then the state of a person
		
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			who distances himself from Allah, from his Lord,
		
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			from his maker, from his creator.
		
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			What kind of misery would he be feeling
		
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			in life? Sometimes the misery that you're feeling,
		
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			the answer is very simple. It is a
		
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			relationship that you're supposed to establish with Allah
		
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			and turn back to
		
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			Him. Brothers and sisters in Islam,
		
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			every single prophet and every single messenger
		
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			had doors closed in his face.
		
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			Every single prophet and every single messenger,
		
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			doors closed. Look at the situation of Ayub
		
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			He lost his family,
		
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			he lost his health, he lost his wealth,
		
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			he lost his health to the point where
		
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			he couldn't even get out of his bed
		
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			to relieve himself, his wife had to carry
		
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			him.
		
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			He lost his reputation
		
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			among his community, they all ran away from
		
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			him because they feed he might have a
		
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			disease that we may contract.
		
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			This was Ahib
		
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			imagine the doors are closing in his face.
		
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			What did he do in this situation? We'll
		
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			get to it.
		
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			Ibrahim
		
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			the doors closed in his face as well.
		
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			When the people got a hold of him
		
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			and they were ready now to throw him
		
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			in the fire and he could not run
		
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			away. Halas, he is going to face torment
		
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			for punishment in this life and that is
		
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			the fire.
		
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			So the doors of this world life closed
		
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			in his face.
		
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			If you look at the situation of the
		
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			people of the cave that Allah
		
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			mentions their story in the Quran.
		
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			The doors closed in their face literally.
		
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			The society was out to get them and
		
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			they wanted to stone them to death because
		
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			they avoided
		
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			the worship of idols of the king at
		
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			the time.
		
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			So literally they end up in a cave
		
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			and they were fugitives of the law.
		
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			And where are they going to go? Where
		
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			are they gonna get their food from? Where
		
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			are they going to get their water? Where
		
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			are they going to get their supply? Where
		
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			are they going to go?
		
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			So the worldly doors have closed in their
		
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			face and they're stuck in a cave.
		
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			Allah
		
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			tells us also about Nuh
		
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			and how the doors closed in his face
		
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			as well. When Allah
		
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			would command him to build a ship, an
		
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			ark in the middle of the desert
		
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			and he's been giving dua to his people
		
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			950
		
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			years and no one is answering, no one
		
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			is responding.
		
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			What's the solution? The door has closed.
		
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			If you were to observe the case of
		
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			Maryam
		
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			also. The doors had shut completely in her
		
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			face.
		
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			She's now carrying this newborn.
		
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			She's going back to her people and obviously
		
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			they are
		
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			all going to accuse her of a Sinawal
		
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			Arayadu Billahi.
		
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			Imagine that. Imagine you being innocent
		
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			from a sin and then you're accused of
		
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			it
		
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			and you're not able to prove your innocence.
		
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			That is the worst type of oppression you'll
		
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			ever face. Accused of something you never did
		
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			and at the same time you don't have
		
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			anything in where you can prove your innocence
		
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			from this matter.
		
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			So there you go, doors are shut in
		
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			her face. Look at the situation of Assia.
		
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			The wife of Firaun,
		
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			literally the doors are closed in her face
		
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			and she ends up being beaten on the
		
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			ground by the army and the soldiers of
		
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			Firaun.
		
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			And you observe the situation of Musa
		
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			and he's a fugitive of the law. He's
		
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			on the run as well and they want
		
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			him killed.
		
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			Where is he going to go? What's he
		
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			going to eat? Where is he going to
		
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			sleep? What kind of cloth is he wearing
		
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			at the time?
		
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			All of this,
		
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			the doors are closed in prophets' faces, worldly
		
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			doors.
		
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			Like in Yitzfin you see the situation of
		
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			Lut alaihis salam as well. He's living living
		
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			among a community
		
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			that is becoming filthy every single day.
		
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			People in his society,
		
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			a corrupt, a filthy men are sleeping with
		
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			each other, and he's among all of this
		
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			filth and this corruption.
		
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			What is he going to do? The situation
		
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			seems to be very impossible. I cannot do
		
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			this anymore.
		
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			So brothers and sisters, why am I giving
		
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			you these examples to tell you that you're
		
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			not a bad person if doors are closed
		
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			and shut in your face. You're not. Some
		
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			people read the message of Allah wrong. They
		
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			say the doors are closed in my face.
		
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			Every time I try to do a halal
		
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			business, dear Allah shuts it. Every time I
		
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			want to pursue a halal marriage, Allah shuts
		
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			it. Every time I want to do this
		
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			and I want to do that it's closed.
		
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			Well people much before us better than you
		
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			and I doors were closed also in their
		
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			face. The only difference here is that they
		
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			read the message of Allah right and they
		
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			acted exactly how Allah wanted them.
		
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			And that's what you and I are supposed
		
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			to follow. So let's revisit these examples and
		
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			see what happened.
		
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			Very quickly, are you
		
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			We told you, the doors are closed in
		
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			his face.
		
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			He turns to Allah
		
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			through a dua, through the remembrance of Allah.
		
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			My Lord.
		
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			He says my Lord I feel the pain
		
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			I'm feeling it.
		
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			And you're the most merciful Allahu Akbar. And
		
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			soon later Allah
		
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			opens up the doors for him. He gives
		
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			him his health again, his wealth again, his
		
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			children again. People come back to him Allahu
		
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			Akbar. It's like nothing had closed in his
		
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			life before this.
		
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			He read the message right, the relief came
		
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			from Allah as Sohajal. You notice the situation
		
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			of Ibrahim as
		
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			he is being thrown in the fire. Hasmoo
		
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			Allah
		
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			wa dehamaluakeem.
		
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			He remembered Allah as Sohajal. He called to
		
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			Allah, he understood
		
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			that the doors were only closed.
		
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			So that Allah
		
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			forces him in the direction of his Lord
		
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			And that's exactly what he uttered,
		
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			An instant relief will come, the fire becomes
		
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			cool and peace upon him, and he exits
		
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			the fire. And
		
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			he migrates to Allah
		
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			What an amazing story of Ibrahim alaihis salam
		
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			afterwards. The people of the cave,
		
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			the doors are sealed, they're shut, they're in
		
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			the cave. What are they going to do?
		
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			They look at each other and they say,
		
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			O Bara,
		
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			Tila Miladunkar Rahma Wahee Lanaamin Amrinah Rashada,
		
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			O Allah
		
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			grant us a special mercy from you.
		
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			Because here on earth, we've given up hope
		
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			in everyone. But from you, we haven't given
		
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			up the hope.
		
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			And make our situation flexible,
		
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			make it easy for us. Allah
		
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			instant relief at that moment causes them to
		
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			sleep for the next 300 plus years, looking
		
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			after them all that time. Allahu Akbar. Adore
		
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			will cause so that it forces you to
		
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			renew that relationship
		
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			and to utter that relationship you have with
		
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			Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Nuh alaihis salam
		
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			Once the situation became difficult and corruption and
		
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			filth all around him, he turns to Allah
		
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			with a dua.
		
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			My Lord, save me and my family from
		
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			the filth that these people are doing.
		
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			Instant relief and Allah
		
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			opens a door and he exits this situation
		
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			altogether. Unu
		
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			the same thing. When all the doors have
		
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			closed and he lost hope in his people,
		
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			he turns to Allah.
		
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			My Lord,
		
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			I've been overtaken
		
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			by my people.
		
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			I've become defeated among my people.
		
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			Give me victory.
		
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			Instant relief comes and Allah
		
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			grants him victory. You look at the situation
		
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			of Maryam
		
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			and she comes and she approaches the people
		
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			and she says to them, when the doors
		
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			have closed, who's gonna save you from that
		
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			situation
		
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			when your chastity and your dignity has been
		
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			accused?
		
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			How are you gonna save yourself from this
		
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			situation? The doors have closed.
		
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			She would say at that time,
		
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			She said to her people, I've made a
		
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			commitment to Allah that I will remain silent.
		
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			I will not speak to a single human
		
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			being from today. What does that mean? Meaning
		
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			the only one I will speak to is
		
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			Allah Rasool Hashem.
		
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			Therefore once again when the doors were closed
		
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			the only one she's interested in keeping communication
		
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			and talk was with Allah
		
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			You look at the situation of Assia
		
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			under the torment for beating and punishment of
		
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			Firaun and his army.
		
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			And at that moment when the doors were
		
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			closed what did she say?
		
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			My Lord
		
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			build for me a house.
		
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			Hindak.
		
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			I want to be neighbors with you. Build
		
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			a house right beside you.
		
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			Save me from Firaoun and his people.
		
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			And save me from the wrongdoers and the
		
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			evildoers.
		
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			And that's the same situation with Musa alaihis
		
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			salam. Musa alaihis salam I told you the
		
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			doors are closed. He ran away from Egypt
		
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			because the army was coming to come after
		
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			him. They want him dead.
		
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			So he comes out. He has no clue
		
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			where he's going. He's got no compass, no
		
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			GPS to guide him through this desert.
		
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			But then he turns and he says, Allah
		
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			says about him,
		
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			He left Egypt
		
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			scared and worried.
		
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			And now, Musa alaihis salam is a human
		
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			being, he experiences these emotions.
		
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			The doors were that shut and sealed
		
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			that he felt lonely, he felt worried and
		
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			scared.
		
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			Yet the
		
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			and he was anticipating,
		
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			awaiting something.
		
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			And then he said,
		
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			Once again, he turned to Allah with a
		
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			dua. He said, my Lord, save me from
		
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			the wrongdoers, from the evildoers.
		
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			Instant relief will come. After 8 days of
		
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			travel in the desert, he will find his
		
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			work opportunity with Madyan,
		
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			and he will do service in that community,
		
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			and he'll eventually marry the daughter of Shu'aib
		
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			in that community, and his life continues from
		
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			there.
		
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			So brothers and sisters in Islam,
		
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			I intended to give you a lot of
		
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			examples at the beginning,
		
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			so I can show you
		
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			that these prophets, and not all of them
		
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			were prophets, some were noble righteous people,
		
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			but one thing,
		
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			one common thing among them all
		
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			is that when the doors shut in their
		
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			face,
		
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			they all were quick to recognize and realize
		
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			that the doors of the heavens remain, and
		
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			they would turn to Allah
		
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			calling on to Allah
		
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			for his mercy and for his relief.
		
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			And this is exactly what the believers should
		
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			be doing when the doors have closed.
		
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			Because Allah says,
		
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			Allah
		
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			says, These are the people that Allah
		
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			has guided,
		
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			so follow in their guidance.
		
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			Follow their guidance.
		
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			For what an incredible and an amazing journey
		
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			to begin tonight with and that is to
		
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			remind each other and to encourage and inspire
		
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			one another that when the doors have shut
		
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			in your life, in any aspect of life,
		
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			the believer is supposed to read the message
		
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			of Allah correctly
		
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			and that Allah wants
		
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			you to turn to him and further that
		
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			relationship
		
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			and implore him and beg him
		
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			for what you want in your
		
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			life and worldly affairs. Brothers and sisters in
		
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			Islam,
		
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			especially
		
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			in the last 3rd of the night,
		
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			in when Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he
		
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			says,
		
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			When the last
		
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			3rd of the night remains
		
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			which approximately is about 2 a. M.
		
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			When that time enters
		
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			Allah Azzawajal
		
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			descends to the lowest heavens Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And then he opens the doors of the
		
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			heavens.
		
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			He opens the doors of the heavens.
		
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			Then he stretches his hand out.
		
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			All of this we believe in. How it
		
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			happens?
		
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			The knowledge of this is with Allah
		
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			Then Allah
		
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			will say
		
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			Is there anyone
		
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			that is asking?
		
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			Is there anyone that wants anything
		
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			so that I may give him?
		
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			And it's one thing for Allah to say,
		
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			is there anyone asking?
		
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			And it's a completely another thing for Allah
		
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			to say, is there anyone asking for something
		
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			so that I may give him?
		
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			You see this, so that I may give
		
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			him, we learn from this that at that
		
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			time a dua is a guaranteed accepted dua.
		
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			That's what we learn from it. Allahu Akbar.
		
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			Imagine a king in this world of life
		
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			came too and said brother, sister,
		
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			is there something you want and I can
		
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			give you at this very moment?
		
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			What does that mean? Yari, it means ask
		
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			and you will get what you want right
		
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			now. You will get it.
		
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			You are part Surah
		
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			Allah
		
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			remains
		
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			repeating this until
		
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			Azan Al Fajr.
		
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			Imagine this your Lord
		
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			seeing
		
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			and repeating throughout the entire thought of the
		
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			night.
		
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			Do you want anything so I may give
		
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			you? Do you want anything so I may
		
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			give you? The one who is serious
		
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			and really troubled and bothered in this multi
		
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			life
		
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			would be up at that time praying and
		
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			asking Allah
		
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			And the one who is not bothered and
		
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			troubled by anything
		
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			would most likely be asleep at this time.
		
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			So don't complain
		
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			and don't be confused
		
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			when you sleep through this time
		
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			and you're still in shock. How come my
		
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			worldly affairs haven't changed yet?
		
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			Maybe you make the change first. And I
		
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			tell you something,
		
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			you don't have to be up
		
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			from your bed in a state of wohoo
		
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			in your salat.
		
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			And I often say to my brothers and
		
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			sisters in Islam
		
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			a dua doesn't require a dua
		
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			doesn't require you facing Al Qibla. A dua
		
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			doesn't require for you to be in a
		
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			salat.
		
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			A dua requires a present heart and that's
		
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			it.
		
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			So at 2 AM, if you feel like
		
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			it's too cold for you to get up,
		
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			raise your hand from your bed and ask
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for that which you
		
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			need.
		
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			If you feel like your sins
		
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			are bothering you and this is the case
		
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			for all of us
		
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			And that they are what is sealing and
		
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			shutting the doors? Because most likely that's the
		
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			case.
		
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			Then Allah Azzawajal is also asking is there
		
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			anyone out there seeking forgiveness so that I
		
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			may forgive him?
		
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			So these are
		
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			this is the real relationship
		
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			that the sleeve has with his Lord, especially
		
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			at this time. Cannot go twice brothers and
		
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			sisters in Islam. You know, when Jibril comes
		
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			down, it's lay little Qadr. What do you
		
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			say about the night in where Allah himself
		
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			comes down?
		
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			You might think you might think that, Wallah,
		
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			if Allah comes down there has to be
		
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			a special event
		
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			and it should be happening once every 10
		
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			years.
		
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			Like it's happening every single night.
		
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			Why? This is Allah teaching us that you
		
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			are in need of Allah
		
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			every single night
		
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			and every single day. This is why He
		
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			would come down every single night
		
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			so that I'm available for my sleeves, for
		
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			my servants.
		
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			And this is an intimate type of relationship.
		
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			Otherwise, Allah
		
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			always answers a dua of a servant any
		
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			time of the day and the night. But
		
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			when you're serious about your problems,
		
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			you will make sure that you are before
		
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			Allah
		
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			in the times he loves for you today,
		
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			standing before him
		
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			Of course, there are times more virtuous than
		
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			others
		
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			and that last part of the night is
		
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			the most virtuous part of the night.
		
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			So brothers and sisters in Islam, we pay
		
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			attention to this matter.
		
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			And I tell you something.
		
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			We said at the beginning of the talk,
		
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			when all the doors have closed,
		
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			we talk to Allah
		
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			through a dua. And I'm gonna tell you
		
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			something here that I find quite dangerous.
		
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			Among
		
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			the many words that the youth and others
		
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			speak,
		
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			sometimes I get this. Sometimes I get this.
		
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			And this thing is growing now.
		
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			And perhaps you've heard it.
		
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			Sometimes people say,
		
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			brother,
		
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			this and this and this is happening.
		
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			And I've tried this and this. Please tell
		
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			me something other than Dua, Salat and Quran.
		
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			Have you heard this or not? Tell me
		
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			something other
		
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			than a Dua. And I say brother, I
		
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			don't I don't give in to these things.
		
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			The moment I hear this, I say brother
		
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			repeat what you said.
		
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			I will give you something other than a
		
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			Dua.
		
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			Yani, what guidance do you want me to
		
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			give you something from the Bible? Yeah. Now
		
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			I tell you what solution is there. And
		
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			to Muslim Allah, you're not a Muslim.
		
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			I'm telling you these are prophets
		
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			and these are noble people.
		
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			And in the most pressing
		
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			situations,
		
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			when the doors are shut close,
		
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			they would
		
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			All of them.
		
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			So what are you Yaniyah, what are you
		
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			looking for? A magic pill? Doesn't exist. Doesn't
		
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			exist on the market.
		
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			Your medicine is to turn to Allah.
		
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			You've turned turned again. You turned again. Turn
		
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			a 3rd time.
		
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			Keep turning every time you turn. Allah loves
		
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			this.
		
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			Imagine
		
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			this is a problem that exists in your
		
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			life
		
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			that is forcing you to turn to Allah
		
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			and re establish this
		
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			this relationship with him. That's the beauty of
		
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			the entire situation.
		
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			Imagine the problem didn't exist and the door
		
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			never closed. How heedless would you be? How
		
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			far away from Allah
		
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			would you be? Often we ask why did
		
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			Allah create problems in this worldly life?
		
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			Why couldn't have you created us like how
		
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			he created Adam in the paradise
		
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			with the extra free life,
		
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			calamity free life. Of course Allah could have
		
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			created this on earth for us. Definitely he
		
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			could have, but how heedless would have made
		
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			us? How tough would have the heart become?
		
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			You would have seen no purpose to talk
		
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			to Allah
		
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			You would have found no desperation to talk
		
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			to Allah
		
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			And as a result, you would have seen
		
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			that all of us would have been doomed
		
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			and destroyed on the day of judgment.
		
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			So no, we'd rather a life that Allah
		
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			created with its pains and calamities,
		
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			but it leads us to Allah
		
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			and to the paradise, then a life stress
		
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			free keeping us away from Allah and eventually
		
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			ending up in a position that is no
		
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			good. So we ask Allah
		
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			to allow us to appreciate and understand this
		
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			meaning.
		
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			Brothers and sisters in Islam,
		
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			I tell you something.
		
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			Your relationship with a dua
		
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			would say a lot about your relationship with
		
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			Allah.
		
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			The more dua in your life, the stronger
		
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			a dua in your life,
		
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			we can already tell and that's a good
		
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			sign for you to know that your relationship
		
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			with Allah is strong.
		
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			And if your relationship with the dua is
		
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			weak, heck, once a while,
		
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			then that means that your relationship
		
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			Allah understand and take this as I'm saying
		
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			to you as I'm saying it to you.
		
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			Understand it like this. When you make a
		
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			dua that you're talking to Allah,
		
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			When you have very little Dua in your
		
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			life, I don't know. Is it can you
		
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			say about this person you said, I don't
		
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			enjoy talking to Allah, so
		
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			I don't really find any need to talk
		
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			to him now. Whenever I got something, I'll
		
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			talk to him. Is that what he's saying?
		
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			The one that abandons a and has very
		
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			little dua in his life?
		
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			I'll tell you an example. Give you an
		
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			example so you can understand.
		
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			If you were to ask me
		
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			about someone I know
		
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			and I and you said to me how
		
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			is brother so and so? I said to
		
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			you all, Alhamdulillah is very good, but I
		
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			spoke to him every day.
		
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			What are you gonna think? You're gonna think
		
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			that my relationship with with him is very
		
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			strong. Right?
		
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			Imagine you asked me about the same brother,
		
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			and I sat there and he told me
		
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			how is he. I said, well, my brother
		
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			man, last time I spoke to him was
		
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			I think just before Ramadan,
		
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			was good there.
		
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			Automatically, what does that tell you about my
		
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			relationship with him?
		
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			It's not as strong. Yeah. It's there, but
		
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			it's not strong.
		
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			If I said to you, I'm Allah speak
		
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			to your brother every day, mashaAllah. I see
		
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			him at the cafe. I'll talk to you,
		
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			mate.
		
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			There's a well established relationship.
		
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			Brothers and sisters in Islam, to Allah belongs
		
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			the highest of examples.
		
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			Your dua says a lot about your relationship
		
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			with Allah, and
		
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			this is why,
		
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			a dua is in a salat.
		
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			A dua is in the mornings, a dua
		
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			is in the evenings, a dua is in
		
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			the evenings, a dua is after the prayers,
		
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			a dua is before the salat.
		
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			A dua exists
		
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			many times during the day and many times
		
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			during the night
		
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			so that Allah
		
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			helps us and enables us to strengthen our
		
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			relationship with him
		
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			brothers and sisters in Islam.
		
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			A dua that I want to share with
		
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			you, InshaAllah Ta'ala we're going to Yaani,
		
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			we have about half an hour left with
		
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			each other, we're going to go through it
		
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			We're going to come out with amazing results
		
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			InshaAllah Ta'ala.
		
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			Brothers and sisters in Islam,
		
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			this is a dua
		
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			that Nabi
		
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			taught his daughter Fatima
		
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			And
		
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			this dua
		
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			is supposed to be said once in the
		
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			morning and once in the evening.
		
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			That's how important it is.
		
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			Some people, they're on medication,
		
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			and they have to take the pill twice
		
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			a day.
		
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			The morning and the evening Afghan work like
		
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			that,
		
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			2 doses a day.
		
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			If you miss them,
		
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			you're going to feel pain and the day
		
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			and the night is not going to be
		
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			right.
		
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			A dua
		
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			was mentioned in the hadith of Anas ibn
		
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			Malik
		
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			He said
		
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			that Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said to
		
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			his daughter Fatima
		
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			He said, Fatima,
		
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			what prevents you
		
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			from doing and listening to that which I
		
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			want to advise you of?
		
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			Well, nothing is stopping
		
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			her, but this is a means in how
		
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			to capture the attention of the listener.
		
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			It's like if I was to say to
		
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			you, I got advice for you for you.
		
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			Why don't you listen to my advice?
		
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			You say, what do you want? What's your
		
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			advice? Tell me. I'll be a lot more
		
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			excited. So Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam does this
		
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			with his daughter Fatima radiAllahu anha he
		
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			says to her,
		
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			whenever you enter the morning which is after
		
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			Salat and Fajr,
		
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			whenever you enter the evening, which is a
		
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			asr time,
		
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			then sing.
		
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			He says to her, say,
		
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			O the ever living,
		
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			O the Sustainer of all things,
		
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			I seek help and assistance
		
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			through your mercy.
		
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			Rectify
		
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			and perfect all my affairs.
		
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			And do not entrust me. Don't leave me
		
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			to myself
		
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			even for the blink of an eye. Allahu
		
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			Akbar, once in the morning, once in the
		
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			evening. Not only that,
		
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			but Anas
		
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			also mentioned
		
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			that whenever Sunabbi
		
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			experienced a calamity of any sort,
		
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			he would say
		
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			So this is not only said in the
		
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			morning and in the evening, but it's also
		
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			said when the doors have been closed in
		
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			your face.
		
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			Brothers and sisters in Islam,
		
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			this is advice
		
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			from the greatest of mankind,
		
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			which is Nabi
		
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			And who did he give this advice to?
		
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			Who?
		
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			Fatima Radiallahu Anha, who is also known as
		
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			what?
		
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			She is also known
		
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			as Sayyidatuh
		
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			Nisayi
		
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			Al Aalameen
		
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			Sayyidatuh
		
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			Ahlil Jannah.
		
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			She's the master and the chief of woman
		
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			and she is the master and the chief
		
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			of the woman of the paradise.
		
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			So the greatest man on earth
		
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			giving advice to the greatest woman on earth,
		
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			Allahu Akbar.
		
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			How much more important is this Dua for
		
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			you and I
		
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			From the greatest to the greatest,
		
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			even we are in desperate need
		
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			of this Dua,
		
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			more importantly,
		
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			understanding
		
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			this Dua
		
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			and even of greater importance
		
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			saying it in its right times and asking
		
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			Allah
		
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			through this dua. Brothers and sisters in Islam,
		
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			The name of Allah,
		
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			the all
		
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			living,
		
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			the sustainer of all things.
		
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			This is known
		
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			as.
		
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			The dua begins by 2 great names of
		
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			Allah.
		
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			And when a dua begins with the name
		
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			of Allah
		
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			this is known
		
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			as
		
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			means seeking a way to Allah
		
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			and the best way to seek a way
		
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			to Allah is to call onto him through
		
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			his names.
		
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			And this is the etiquette of a du'a,
		
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			this is the best type of a du'a
		
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			that begins
		
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			with you asking Allah through his names first,
		
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			then your request comes later.
		
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			Don't you find this to be the very
		
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			same pattern in the first Surah of the
		
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			Quran?
		
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			Surah Al Fatiha?
		
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			Surat Al Fatiha has a dua, you know.
		
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			But Surat Al Fatiha did not begin Allahu
		
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			Akbar.
		
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			That's not manners.
		
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			Al Fatiha began with a praise of Allah
		
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			All Priests Belongs TO the Lord of the
		
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			Walls.
		
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			Can you see how many names of Allah
		
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			we've mentioned so far?
		
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			5 names of Allah We began by praising
		
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			Him.
		
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			Afterwards came
		
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			So this dua follows the same pattern and
		
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			this is the best type of a dua.
		
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			But I tell you something, in addition to
		
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			this, what makes this dua unique
		
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			is that
		
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			are actually
		
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			the greatest names of Allah,
		
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			and this is proven in a hadith.
		
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			Abu Umam Al Bayhili who said,
		
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			the greatest name of
		
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			Allah. That if you were to ask Allah
		
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			through this name, he will definitely give.
		
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			He said that the greatest name of Allah
		
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			is found in 3 of the Quran.
		
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			Surat Al Baqarah, in Surat Al Imran, and
		
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			Surat Al Ba'al.
		
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			If we were to look at these 3,
		
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			we're going to find 2 of Allah's names
		
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			that are common and repeated in these 3
		
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			Therefore the greatest name of Allah
		
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			is Al Hayyul Qayyum as mentioned by an
		
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			imam ibn al Qayyum
		
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			So we're off to a powerful start in
		
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			this dua.
		
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			And why are they the greatest names of
		
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			Allah
		
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			They said because the name of Allah Al
		
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			Hay and Al Qayyum,
		
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			they combine and they gather within them
		
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			all the attributes and the actions of Allah
		
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			Al Hayyum.
		
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			So when you say Al Hayyum, you're actually
		
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			also
		
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			calling out to Allah through his name Al
		
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			Aleem, Al Hakim, Al Khabeer,
		
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			Al Wadud, Al Kareem
		
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			because he's Al Hay.
		
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			So Al Hay
		
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			necessitates
		
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			that he's also Al Aleem, Al Qadeer, Al
		
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			Hakib, Al Khabeer, and all these names and
		
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			attributes.
		
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			That's why they were the greatest names of
		
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			his
		
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			Brothers and sisters in Islam, Al Hay.
		
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			They're all living.
		
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			The one who knows Allah through his name,
		
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			Al Hay, will find an immense
		
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			and an abundant amount of peace and comfort
		
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			and serenity in his life.
		
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			I wanna give you an example.
		
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			And imagine with me, a child,
		
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			a young child
		
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			comes up to his father,
		
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			and he says, dad,
		
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			if you want to die,
		
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			who's going to look after us?
		
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			Who's going to pay our bills?
		
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			Who's going to feed us?
		
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			Who's going to drive us around and look
		
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			after us and take care of us?
		
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			The child is scared. He's worried, and he's
		
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			speaking to his father like that.
		
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			And I pause here for a moment
		
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			to say to you that, wallahi, this is
		
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			not a situation to be imagined.
		
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			This is actually something that is actually happening.
		
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			We ask Allah
		
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			to bring immense relief and aid to our
		
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			brothers and in Gaza and around the world.
		
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			But now imagine with me this father
		
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			looks back at his child and he says,
		
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			son,
		
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			I'm alive.
		
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			I'm living.
		
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			Don't worry about this.
		
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			How much comfort is put in this child's
		
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			heart the moment he hears from his father
		
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			that he's alive and living? Son, don't worry
		
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			about these things. Move on.
		
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			To Allah
		
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			belongs the highest of example.
		
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			You might be sitting alone in your house
		
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			in the corner of your room
		
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			thinking and worrying with Shaytan is exaggerating
		
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			the matters for you.
		
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			How am I gonna live? Where am I
		
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			gonna live? What am I going to buy?
		
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			My work, my job, my relationships,
		
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			who hold this and that, my health
		
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			and Allah Azarajal from above is telling you
		
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			I'm Al Hayd.
		
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			So long as I'm alive, you don't have
		
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			to overburden with these stresses and these matters
		
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			in your head and in your mind.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			And you know
		
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			when the Prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wasallam died,
		
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			Al Madinah was in all sorts of chaos.
		
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			Umar
		
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			threatened to kill anyone who sent the messenger
		
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			is
		
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			dead.
		
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			Uthman
		
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			fell to the ground and he was crying.
		
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			Ali couldn't control himself. These are the best
		
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			of the companions.
		
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			And the rest of the companions were all
		
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			over the place.
		
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			Some rushing to Al Madina, Al Nas radiAllahu
		
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			anhu is saying Al Madina has become gloomy
		
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			and dark and black.
		
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			And if runs in chaos,
		
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			Abu Bakr
		
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			took the Imbar and he addressed the people.
		
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			You know what he said?
		
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			He read an Ayah and afterwards he said
		
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			to them
		
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			He said to them whoever was worshipping Muhammad
		
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			then Muhammad has died
		
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			And whoever was worshipping Allah,
		
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			then Allah is the all living.
		
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			Doesn't
		
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			die.
		
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			He reminded the people of the name of
		
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			Allah, al Hayy, and he restored peace and
		
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			tranquility in the entire society.
		
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			Shift the name of Allah
		
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			what it's supposed to do.
		
00:41:04 --> 00:41:07
			It's supposed to bring a tremendous amount of
		
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			comfort and peace and tranquility in the heart.
		
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			Imagine
		
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			companions
		
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			that didn't know how to respond
		
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			the moment they heard the name of Allah,
		
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			they settled down.
		
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			Allahu Akbar,
		
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			when you say You Hayth, you're reminding yourself
		
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			before the day begins
		
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			that you're supposed to rely on him
		
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			to fulfill your affairs and your matters,
		
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			and that you're supposed to accept whatever comes
		
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			from him of decree. He's
		
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			You know, when I asked you the question
		
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			brothers and sisters, why do you rely upon
		
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			Allah?
		
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			Do you know why do you rely upon
		
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			Allah? Why?
		
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			In this Ayah, Allah told us the reason
		
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			for why we should rely upon him.
		
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			He
		
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			said
		
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			He said rely on the All Living, the
		
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			one who doesn't die.
		
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			So anyone that ever asks you ever again,
		
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			why do you as a Muslim rely upon
		
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			Allah? Your answer should be
		
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			because he's all living and he never dies,
		
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			that's why I rely upon him.
		
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			And I give you an understanding for this,
		
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			If you rely on other than Allah
		
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			then you're relying on something that perishes and
		
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			is destroyed
		
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			because nothing
		
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			lives,
		
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			outlives Allah
		
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			there's no such thing.
		
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			So if I relied on someone or something
		
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			to fulfill a certain matter
		
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			and this person dies or this thing perishes
		
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			and it's destroyed,
		
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			I'm left with unfinished business.
		
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			Or I can't, I got to move to
		
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			someone else.
		
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			If you relied upon Allah and you put
		
00:43:09 --> 00:43:10
			your trust in him,
		
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			then Allah never dies.
		
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			So you have relied upon a strong source,
		
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			Your matters will get fulfilled.
		
00:43:18 --> 00:43:19
			They will be completed.
		
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			If you rely on other than him, then
		
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			the moment that thing is destroyed or dead,
		
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			do you have unfinished business? How are you
		
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			gonna finish your your duties? How are you
		
00:43:28 --> 00:43:29
			gonna finish your businesses?
		
00:43:29 --> 00:43:31
			Who's gonna be out there to hear you
		
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			again?
		
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			That's why we rely upon him because he's
		
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			the all living.
		
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			So
		
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			teaches us that we rely upon him.
		
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			Al Hay
		
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			is opposite to Al Mayyid.
		
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			Hayyid is opposite to the dead.
		
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			Hayyid is the ever living that possesses complete
		
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			life, unlike human beings. Look at us, humans
		
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			and jinnkind and animals.
		
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			We all are high as well. We're living,
		
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			but our life is very very very incomplete.
		
00:44:04 --> 00:44:06
			There was a stage where we didn't even
		
00:44:06 --> 00:44:06
			exist.
		
00:44:08 --> 00:44:09
			Look how deficient your
		
00:44:10 --> 00:44:11
			your life is.
		
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			Then there comes a time where we will
		
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			not
		
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			exist, we will die as well.
		
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			When you sleep that's considered death. When you
		
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			get sick the life is not complete.
		
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			When you're heedless of Allah azza wa Jal
		
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			your life is missing at that moment. So
		
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			our life is up and down, up and
		
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			down when we say about Allah Al Hayy,
		
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			meaning Allah
		
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			is Al Awwalwal Akhir.
		
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			He's the first.
		
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			1st
		
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			meaning he does not have a beginning.
		
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			He doesn't have a beginning.
		
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			No one came before Allah and no one
		
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			existed with Allah,
		
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			because if something came before Allah or existed
		
00:44:50 --> 00:44:51
			with him, it would have been a Lord
		
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			with Allah or it would have been a
		
00:44:53 --> 00:44:54
			Lord before Allah.
		
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			So Allah is Al Awwone,
		
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			he does not have a beginning
		
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			and Allah is Al Aghir Farayshba Adakashay.
		
00:45:03 --> 00:45:04
			He's the last.
		
00:45:04 --> 00:45:06
			What does the last mean? What does it
		
00:45:06 --> 00:45:08
			mean? It means
		
00:45:08 --> 00:45:12
			when everything is perished and destroyed, he remains.
		
00:45:13 --> 00:45:14
			He remains.
		
00:45:15 --> 00:45:17
			When everything has been destroyed and perished, he
		
00:45:17 --> 00:45:18
			remains.
		
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			This is the name of Allah Asoahu
		
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			Al Hai. So So he has no beginning
		
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			and he has no name,
		
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			that's why from his names is Al Hayd
		
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			This is the name of your lord. How
		
00:45:33 --> 00:45:34
			much strength
		
00:45:34 --> 00:45:35
			does this give the believer
		
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			to know that the one of the names
		
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			of your Lord is Al Hayd. Look at
		
00:45:40 --> 00:45:42
			every other Lord that is worshipped on earth.
		
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			What is it? An idol?
		
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			People worship a cow, some worship monkeys,
		
00:45:47 --> 00:45:49
			some worship other human beings,
		
00:45:49 --> 00:45:51
			some worship the dead,
		
00:45:51 --> 00:45:53
			some worship a man made law,
		
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			people are different in their worships, like all
		
00:45:57 --> 00:46:00
			these things that are worship besides Allah,
		
00:46:00 --> 00:46:01
			they are not Hay,
		
00:46:02 --> 00:46:03
			they are not Hay.
		
00:46:03 --> 00:46:06
			Something is dead, something is living, something is
		
00:46:06 --> 00:46:08
			imperfect, something has no control over himself like
		
00:46:08 --> 00:46:10
			a statue or an idol,
		
00:46:11 --> 00:46:13
			like in how much strength does it give
		
00:46:13 --> 00:46:14
			for you and I to know that we
		
00:46:14 --> 00:46:15
			worship Al Hayy,
		
00:46:16 --> 00:46:17
			Al Hayd,
		
00:46:17 --> 00:46:20
			the all living doesn't have a beginning, doesn't
		
00:46:20 --> 00:46:21
			have an end.
		
00:46:22 --> 00:46:24
			And brothers and sisters in Islam,
		
00:46:24 --> 00:46:27
			even prophets, they would use the name of
		
00:46:27 --> 00:46:30
			Allah Al Hayd when calling their people to
		
00:46:30 --> 00:46:31
			Allah and to Al Islam.
		
00:46:32 --> 00:46:34
			Look at the case of Ibrahim alaihis salam.
		
00:46:34 --> 00:46:36
			He comes to his people, and he says
		
00:46:36 --> 00:46:37
			to them
		
00:46:37 --> 00:46:39
			you know what he says to his people?
		
00:46:39 --> 00:46:40
			He says,
		
00:46:44 --> 00:46:47
			When the people were worshiping idols, he said
		
00:46:47 --> 00:46:47
			to them,
		
00:46:48 --> 00:46:49
			Do these idols
		
00:46:50 --> 00:46:51
			listen to you?
		
00:46:52 --> 00:46:54
			What's he telling you? He's telling him your
		
00:46:54 --> 00:46:55
			idols are dead,
		
00:46:55 --> 00:46:57
			they don't listen, they don't respond.
		
00:46:57 --> 00:46:59
			As for my Lord, He's Al Hayd,
		
00:47:00 --> 00:47:02
			He hears every call I call out to
		
00:47:04 --> 00:47:06
			him You see, this is an effective way
		
00:47:06 --> 00:47:08
			to call others to Al Islam through the
		
00:47:08 --> 00:47:09
			name of Allah
		
00:47:10 --> 00:47:12
			Al Hayd. How can you worship something that
		
00:47:12 --> 00:47:14
			is dead? How can you worship something that
		
00:47:14 --> 00:47:16
			doesn't listen to you?
		
00:47:21 --> 00:47:23
			Also means the one who gives life.
		
00:47:24 --> 00:47:25
			Who gave you and I life other than
		
00:47:25 --> 00:47:26
			Allah
		
00:47:27 --> 00:47:28
			Allah
		
00:47:29 --> 00:47:31
			gives life in whichever way He wants.
		
00:47:32 --> 00:47:34
			There was a man that was killed
		
00:47:34 --> 00:47:35
			intentionally
		
00:47:35 --> 00:47:36
			among Bani Israel
		
00:47:37 --> 00:47:39
			and Bani Israel didn't know how to solve
		
00:47:39 --> 00:47:40
			the murder case.
		
00:47:40 --> 00:47:41
			So Allah
		
00:47:42 --> 00:47:45
			said to them, commanded them, take a cow,
		
00:47:45 --> 00:47:46
			slaughter it,
		
00:47:46 --> 00:47:49
			take a piece of it, a limb of
		
00:47:49 --> 00:47:51
			it and throw it on the dead person
		
00:47:52 --> 00:47:53
			and they did that
		
00:47:53 --> 00:47:55
			and this dead man
		
00:47:55 --> 00:47:56
			was resurrected
		
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			by Allah's permission, Al Hayy.
		
00:47:59 --> 00:48:00
			He said to them this man
		
00:48:01 --> 00:48:03
			killed me and then
		
00:48:03 --> 00:48:05
			he went back to being dead. This is
		
00:48:05 --> 00:48:07
			a story Allah mentions in the Quran.
		
00:48:09 --> 00:48:10
			Al Hay can
		
00:48:10 --> 00:48:13
			give life the way he wants, however he
		
00:48:13 --> 00:48:13
			wants.
		
00:48:16 --> 00:48:17
			And the greatest
		
00:48:18 --> 00:48:20
			life that Allah would ever give mankind,
		
00:48:22 --> 00:48:24
			and ready to listen to this?
		
00:48:24 --> 00:48:27
			Life upon Iman and Islam.
		
00:48:28 --> 00:48:30
			That's the greatest life Allah will ever give
		
00:48:30 --> 00:48:33
			you. Allah in the Quran, he says
		
00:48:38 --> 00:48:38
			Allah
		
00:48:39 --> 00:48:41
			speaks in the Quran about a person who
		
00:48:41 --> 00:48:42
			is dead.
		
00:48:44 --> 00:48:45
			They say
		
00:48:48 --> 00:48:49
			He's dead
		
00:48:49 --> 00:48:50
			with disbelief.
		
00:48:53 --> 00:48:54
			And We gave him life.
		
00:48:55 --> 00:48:57
			Here in this Eil, life means life upon
		
00:48:57 --> 00:48:59
			Islam and
		
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			And then We made for him light,
		
00:49:03 --> 00:49:06
			light meaning the guidance of the Quran.
		
00:49:08 --> 00:49:11
			He carries this light among mankind and he
		
00:49:11 --> 00:49:13
			spreads the guidance and the light to people.
		
00:49:14 --> 00:49:17
			This is the type that Allah praised. But
		
00:49:17 --> 00:49:19
			notice when Allah referred to the Iman of
		
00:49:19 --> 00:49:21
			this person, he said,
		
00:49:22 --> 00:49:24
			we gave him life. So when you say,
		
00:49:26 --> 00:49:28
			what you're calling onto is saying, oh Allah,
		
00:49:28 --> 00:49:30
			give me life.
		
00:49:30 --> 00:49:32
			Give me the greatest life of all and
		
00:49:32 --> 00:49:35
			that's life upon Iman and Islam maintain that
		
00:49:35 --> 00:49:37
			state of Iman within my heart.
		
00:49:39 --> 00:49:40
			Al
		
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			Qayyum
		
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			Al
		
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			Qayyum
		
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			always
		
00:49:44 --> 00:49:44
			comes
		
00:49:45 --> 00:49:45
			with
		
00:49:46 --> 00:49:46
			the
		
00:49:47 --> 00:49:47
			name
		
00:49:48 --> 00:49:48
			of
		
00:49:48 --> 00:49:49
			Allah
		
00:49:49 --> 00:49:50
			Al
		
00:49:50 --> 00:49:51
			Qayyum
		
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			is
		
00:49:52 --> 00:49:53
			Al
		
00:49:53 --> 00:49:54
			Qayyum
		
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			is the one who sustains himself and sustains
		
00:49:57 --> 00:49:58
			others.
		
00:49:58 --> 00:49:59
			Al Qayyum
		
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			is the one who doesn't rely and depend
		
00:50:02 --> 00:50:05
			on anyone rather all his creation depend on
		
00:50:05 --> 00:50:06
			him
		
00:50:07 --> 00:50:10
			That's Al Qayyum. He's independent of everyone.
		
00:50:11 --> 00:50:13
			He creates them. He takes their life. He
		
00:50:13 --> 00:50:16
			sustains them. He provides them. He guides them.
		
00:50:17 --> 00:50:19
			He helps. He assists them. He does everything
		
00:50:19 --> 00:50:20
			for them. That's Al Qayyum
		
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			Allah is the maintainer of every soul.
		
00:50:26 --> 00:50:29
			Each and every single one of us here
		
00:50:29 --> 00:50:31
			depends on others in one way or another.
		
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			A baby depends on the mother for survival.
		
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			A child depends on his parents for survival.
		
00:50:40 --> 00:50:43
			Children depend on their teacher for education.
		
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			A wife
		
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			depends on her husband for him to fulfill
		
00:50:49 --> 00:50:50
			his financial responsibility
		
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			for her to live.
		
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			The man
		
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			depends on his work,
		
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			that they provide work for him and they
		
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			pay him in order for him to live
		
00:50:59 --> 00:51:00
			on earth.
		
00:51:01 --> 00:51:02
			But Allah
		
00:51:02 --> 00:51:05
			is Al Qayyum, he doesn't depend on anyone
		
00:51:05 --> 00:51:06
			at all.
		
00:51:07 --> 00:51:09
			Imagine I told you brother, sister, I want
		
00:51:09 --> 00:51:10
			you to be 'aqayyum'
		
00:51:11 --> 00:51:12
			for your street today.
		
00:51:13 --> 00:51:14
			Just, what is for your street? Say from
		
00:51:14 --> 00:51:16
			the beginning of your street to the end
		
00:51:16 --> 00:51:18
			of your street, 'Be 'aqayyum' for your street
		
00:51:18 --> 00:51:21
			tonight. What does that mean? It means provide
		
00:51:21 --> 00:51:23
			for everyone tonight in your street,
		
00:51:23 --> 00:51:24
			solve all their problems,
		
00:51:25 --> 00:51:26
			listen to all their requests, you have to
		
00:51:26 --> 00:51:29
			understand everything in every language they're speaking about.
		
00:51:30 --> 00:51:32
			Also you need to regulate everyone's blood pressure,
		
00:51:33 --> 00:51:34
			their temperature,
		
00:51:35 --> 00:51:37
			the function of their organs,
		
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			look after every bird, after every insect in
		
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			that street of yours, just that one street,
		
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			after every cat, after every dog, the ants,
		
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			the insects, everything.
		
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			Can you do that?
		
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			Imagine that we told you 2 streets.
		
00:51:51 --> 00:51:53
			Oh, we said to Yaqi Half a street.
		
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			Your own house only. I mean just look
		
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			after yourself.
		
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			You cannot.
		
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			Al Qayyum
		
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			maintains everything at one moment.
		
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			Not just your street or your suburb,
		
00:52:06 --> 00:52:07
			not just the city,
		
00:52:08 --> 00:52:10
			or the country, or the continent, the entire
		
00:52:10 --> 00:52:13
			globe and everything in existence in the heavens
		
00:52:13 --> 00:52:14
			and in the earth and everywhere
		
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			the eyes of man have never observed and
		
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			seen yet.
		
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			That's the name of Allah, Azzawajal, Al Qayyum.
		
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			Al Qayyum, you cannot do a single thing
		
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			without Al Qayyum. You cannot wake up in
		
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			the morning without Al Qayyum.
		
00:52:26 --> 00:52:30
			You cannot eat and digest your food without
		
00:52:30 --> 00:52:30
			Al Qayyum.
		
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			You need
		
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			for your heart to be rectified and purified
		
00:52:35 --> 00:52:36
			from sins.
		
00:52:36 --> 00:52:38
			Well, you need
		
00:52:38 --> 00:52:39
			health. You need
		
00:52:39 --> 00:52:41
			and you need him every aspect of your
		
00:52:41 --> 00:52:42
			life.
		
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			And after you call on to Allah with
		
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			these two great names of his
		
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			and remember we said whoever calls onto Allah
		
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			through these two names, his dua is accepted.
		
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			And that we need to sometimes change our
		
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			attitude we have for a dua.
		
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			And I love probably the best attitude out
		
00:53:03 --> 00:53:05
			there was the way your Umar Abu Al
		
00:53:05 --> 00:53:05
			Khattab
		
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			worded it.
		
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			He said,
		
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			He said, I don't carry a concern for
		
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			whether Allah accepts my dua or not.
		
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			I don't care about this because Allah
		
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			has already guaranteed that he answers and he
		
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			responds, the way he sees befitting.
		
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			I carry the worry and the concern of
		
00:53:28 --> 00:53:29
			making the dua,
		
00:53:29 --> 00:53:31
			that's the concern and the worry that you
		
00:53:31 --> 00:53:33
			and I should have is making the dua,
		
00:53:33 --> 00:53:36
			the worry about its response, Allah heard you
		
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			and Allah gives you according to how he
		
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			sees befitting for you, Shufa Dua is not
		
00:53:41 --> 00:53:42
			like Uber Eats.
		
00:53:42 --> 00:53:44
			Uber Eats, you get your app, you make
		
00:53:44 --> 00:53:46
			your order, you send them through,
		
00:53:47 --> 00:53:49
			and you expect what you ordered to come
		
00:53:49 --> 00:53:51
			on the door. If it doesn't,
		
00:53:51 --> 00:53:53
			you get angry, you get upset, I didn't
		
00:53:53 --> 00:53:54
			order this.
		
00:53:55 --> 00:53:56
			Why now? I want the refund. Well, you
		
00:53:56 --> 00:53:59
			called, and you make your complaints. No problem.
		
00:53:59 --> 00:54:01
			A dua is not like that. A dua
		
00:54:01 --> 00:54:02
			is not
		
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			I didn't ask for this, Your Lord. Where
		
00:54:04 --> 00:54:05
			is what I asked for? It doesn't work
		
00:54:05 --> 00:54:06
			like that.
		
00:54:07 --> 00:54:09
			As I said to you, relationship with Allah.
		
00:54:09 --> 00:54:11
			It's a worship a worship.
		
00:54:12 --> 00:54:14
			Every time you call onto Allah until you
		
00:54:14 --> 00:54:16
			earned a lot of reward, you earned the
		
00:54:16 --> 00:54:17
			pleasure of Allah. Allah wants to hear from
		
00:54:17 --> 00:54:20
			you. Keep going more and more.
		
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			What What are you what are you expecting?
		
00:54:22 --> 00:54:23
			Expect all good from Allah.
		
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			Expect good.
		
00:54:25 --> 00:54:27
			Don't expect what you asked.
		
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			Do you know what's good for you? If
		
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			you know one of the dua is
		
00:54:34 --> 00:54:36
			Oh Allah I ask you from all forms
		
00:54:36 --> 00:54:38
			of goodness. And why you're asking Allah back
		
00:54:38 --> 00:54:40
			if you knew what was good for yourself?
		
00:54:43 --> 00:54:45
			Used to make this dua. Why is he
		
00:54:45 --> 00:54:47
			asking Allah for all goodness if he knows
		
00:54:47 --> 00:54:49
			what's good for himself?
		
00:54:50 --> 00:54:52
			The word, the dua itself is teaching you
		
00:54:52 --> 00:54:54
			that you don't know what's good for you.
		
00:54:54 --> 00:54:56
			So ask it from Allah
		
00:54:56 --> 00:54:58
			and then put your trust in Allah and
		
00:54:58 --> 00:54:59
			whatever comes is good.
		
00:55:06 --> 00:55:08
			Now Nabi teaches us to practice the worship
		
00:55:10 --> 00:55:10
			of
		
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			through your mercy alone, I seek help and
		
00:55:14 --> 00:55:16
			assistance and aid.
		
00:55:16 --> 00:55:17
			What is
		
00:55:17 --> 00:55:19
			Have you ever heard of the worship
		
00:55:20 --> 00:55:21
			Istiqaata in your life?
		
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			Al Istiqaata
		
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			is one of the highest types of Dua
		
00:55:26 --> 00:55:29
			when asking and begging Allah's Surajal, Al Istiqaata
		
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			it's called.
		
00:55:32 --> 00:55:32
			Al Istighafa
		
00:55:33 --> 00:55:34
			is
		
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			means to seek relief
		
00:55:37 --> 00:55:39
			and help and aid and assistance and support
		
00:55:39 --> 00:55:41
			from Allah azza wa Jal that he save
		
00:55:41 --> 00:55:44
			you from evil and calamity and fitan and
		
00:55:44 --> 00:55:46
			sin and facade and corruption that is around
		
00:55:46 --> 00:55:48
			you. That's what Al Istiratha
		
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			is.
		
00:55:50 --> 00:55:52
			It comes from the word hoth and rayf.
		
00:55:52 --> 00:55:53
			Rayf means rain.
		
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			But I want you to imagine a group
		
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			of people
		
00:55:57 --> 00:55:59
			stuck in the desert, all their livestock and
		
00:55:59 --> 00:56:01
			their crop is in the desert,
		
00:56:01 --> 00:56:03
			and there is absolutely
		
00:56:03 --> 00:56:05
			not a drop of rain that has come
		
00:56:05 --> 00:56:07
			down for the last month or 2, and
		
00:56:07 --> 00:56:10
			they are literally about to dye them and
		
00:56:10 --> 00:56:12
			their crops and their livestock if no water
		
00:56:12 --> 00:56:13
			comes down.
		
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			So they begin to ask Allah for rain.
		
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			What is the state of people
		
00:56:20 --> 00:56:22
			that know they are living their final hours
		
00:56:22 --> 00:56:23
			on life
		
00:56:23 --> 00:56:25
			if water doesn't come down from the sky
		
00:56:25 --> 00:56:27
			right now? What is their state when they're
		
00:56:27 --> 00:56:28
			making Dua?
		
00:56:29 --> 00:56:31
			This this is the most sincere of Dua
		
00:56:31 --> 00:56:33
			that comes from the heart,
		
00:56:34 --> 00:56:36
			the most sincere type of Dua.
		
00:56:37 --> 00:56:39
			When the rain comes down, that rain is
		
00:56:39 --> 00:56:40
			called Raif.
		
00:56:41 --> 00:56:43
			So Al Istighatah is like that. When you
		
00:56:43 --> 00:56:45
			are in an absolute
		
00:56:45 --> 00:56:49
			desperate situation, you are covered and immersed in
		
00:56:49 --> 00:56:50
			danger.
		
00:56:50 --> 00:56:54
			That if Allah's mercy is not bestowed and
		
00:56:54 --> 00:56:55
			showered upon you at that very moment, you
		
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			are doomed and destroyed forever. This is the
		
00:56:55 --> 00:56:55
			worship of Al Istighatah.
		
00:56:57 --> 00:56:57
			And
		
00:57:02 --> 00:57:07
			how important is this du'a, especially in this
		
00:57:07 --> 00:57:08
			day and age,
		
00:57:09 --> 00:57:12
			And how important is this dua, especially in
		
00:57:12 --> 00:57:14
			this day and age that we are living
		
00:57:14 --> 00:57:16
			in, brothers and sisters in Islam. And I
		
00:57:16 --> 00:57:18
			want to take you to a moment in
		
00:57:18 --> 00:57:20
			the life of a Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa
		
00:57:20 --> 00:57:22
			sallam in how he practiced the istighafa
		
00:57:22 --> 00:57:23
			so he can understand.
		
00:57:25 --> 00:57:28
			Brothers and sisters in Islam, there are things
		
00:57:28 --> 00:57:29
			that just don't have a solution.
		
00:57:30 --> 00:57:31
			There are things
		
00:57:31 --> 00:57:35
			that just don't have any solution on earth
		
00:57:35 --> 00:57:35
			whatsoever.
		
00:57:37 --> 00:57:38
			Nothing at all.
		
00:57:39 --> 00:57:41
			0. No one can do anything for you.
		
00:57:41 --> 00:57:43
			Nothing can do anything for you.
		
00:57:43 --> 00:57:45
			The only solution is above
		
00:57:46 --> 00:57:46
			and
		
00:57:47 --> 00:57:48
			no one else.
		
00:57:48 --> 00:57:49
			And I tell you something.
		
00:57:50 --> 00:57:53
			Today, of course, we observe the situation globally,
		
00:57:53 --> 00:57:56
			and we see hundreds and hundreds of videos
		
00:57:56 --> 00:57:58
			from our brothers and sisters in Rasulullah
		
00:57:58 --> 00:58:00
			bless them and give them aid and victory
		
00:58:00 --> 00:58:01
			and support.
		
00:58:01 --> 00:58:03
			But literally, you come to a point where
		
00:58:03 --> 00:58:04
			you say, Allah,
		
00:58:04 --> 00:58:05
			what is the solution?
		
00:58:06 --> 00:58:08
			What is the solution for these oppressed
		
00:58:09 --> 00:58:09
			people?
		
00:58:10 --> 00:58:12
			There is no solution.
		
00:58:12 --> 00:58:14
			There's nothing on earth that is of solution.
		
00:58:15 --> 00:58:18
			Every court has failed. Every justice system has
		
00:58:18 --> 00:58:21
			failed. Every human being has failed. Every power
		
00:58:21 --> 00:58:23
			and whatever any of these people can bring
		
00:58:23 --> 00:58:24
			together
		
00:58:24 --> 00:58:26
			has all failed.
		
00:58:26 --> 00:58:28
			Nothing has worked.
		
00:58:29 --> 00:58:30
			Did you and I
		
00:58:31 --> 00:58:32
			think of al istihafa
		
00:58:33 --> 00:58:34
			in this moment
		
00:58:34 --> 00:58:35
			or not?
		
00:58:36 --> 00:58:39
			The solution lies in Al Istighafa. I take
		
00:58:39 --> 00:58:40
			you to a moment in a seer of
		
00:58:40 --> 00:58:43
			Nabi salallahu alaihi wasallam is out on the
		
00:58:43 --> 00:58:44
			Battle of Badr
		
00:58:45 --> 00:58:47
			ready to face the disbelievers for the first
		
00:58:47 --> 00:58:49
			battle ever major battle in Islam.
		
00:58:51 --> 00:58:54
			Situation was desperate. It was difficult. Nabi salallahu
		
00:58:54 --> 00:58:56
			alaihi wasallam only has 314
		
00:58:57 --> 00:58:59
			companions with him and they're not even ready
		
00:58:59 --> 00:59:02
			for war. They don't have their proper weapons.
		
00:59:02 --> 00:59:03
			They don't have their proper swords.
		
00:59:04 --> 00:59:06
			Their arrows are not even sharpened because they
		
00:59:06 --> 00:59:08
			didn't expect this battle altogether.
		
00:59:09 --> 00:59:11
			They didn't have the finest of fighters with
		
00:59:11 --> 00:59:13
			them. They just all of a sudden Allah
		
00:59:13 --> 00:59:14
			wants to war to happen.
		
00:59:15 --> 00:59:17
			A thousand of the enemy of Allah is
		
00:59:17 --> 00:59:19
			coming towards them,
		
00:59:19 --> 00:59:20
			well
		
00:59:20 --> 00:59:21
			equipped, trained
		
00:59:21 --> 00:59:24
			with the best of their swords, backup, everything
		
00:59:24 --> 00:59:26
			you need for a war they have it.
		
00:59:27 --> 00:59:29
			Many horses and so on. As Sahaba they
		
00:59:29 --> 00:59:31
			have 1 horse with them, 1 horse.
		
00:59:33 --> 00:59:34
			What are you gonna do?
		
00:59:35 --> 00:59:36
			There's no backup?
		
00:59:36 --> 00:59:38
			Wait. Who are you gonna call that? Nothing
		
00:59:38 --> 00:59:40
			backup that's coming from Al Madina? No special
		
00:59:40 --> 00:59:42
			armies come nothing is coming.
		
00:59:43 --> 00:59:43
			Nabi
		
00:59:45 --> 00:59:46
			arrives the night before.
		
00:59:47 --> 00:59:48
			So then what does he do?
		
00:59:50 --> 00:59:51
			He says
		
00:59:51 --> 00:59:53
			he says, by Allah,
		
00:59:53 --> 00:59:57
			I did not hear anyone seeking anything more
		
00:59:57 --> 00:59:59
			intense than what the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa
		
00:59:59 --> 01:00:02
			sallam was seeking from his lord on the
		
01:00:02 --> 01:00:02
			day of Badr.
		
01:00:03 --> 01:00:04
			He faced the Qibla,
		
01:00:05 --> 01:00:06
			he raised his hand.
		
01:00:07 --> 01:00:10
			We're making dua. We have three ways. You
		
01:00:10 --> 01:00:11
			either do this
		
01:00:13 --> 01:00:14
			like this
		
01:00:15 --> 01:00:16
			or like this
		
01:00:16 --> 01:00:17
			and there's one more common
		
01:00:18 --> 01:00:20
			and that's like this, well that's right
		
01:00:21 --> 01:00:21
			up here
		
01:00:22 --> 01:00:22
			and Nabi
		
01:00:24 --> 01:00:26
			that night he would raise his hand facing
		
01:00:26 --> 01:00:29
			the Qibla the whole night
		
01:00:30 --> 01:00:32
			Fajah Alayhtif he would say, O Allah,
		
01:00:33 --> 01:00:35
			fulfill what you have promised me. O Allah
		
01:00:35 --> 01:00:37
			grant me what you have promised me. He
		
01:00:37 --> 01:00:38
			would say, O Allah,
		
01:00:39 --> 01:00:41
			we are a group of Muslims. If we
		
01:00:41 --> 01:00:43
			are destroyed today, you will never be worshipped
		
01:00:43 --> 01:00:45
			on earth ever again. These are the Muslims
		
01:00:45 --> 01:00:47
			here. If they're gone, then Islam is finished.
		
01:00:49 --> 01:00:52
			And he would continue the entire night to
		
01:00:52 --> 01:00:55
			the point where the cloak he was wearing
		
01:00:55 --> 01:00:56
			fell off his shoulder,
		
01:00:57 --> 01:00:58
			that's how high his hand was up in
		
01:00:58 --> 01:00:59
			the sky.
		
01:00:59 --> 01:01:03
			Abu Bakr radiAllahu anhu comes from behind, takes
		
01:01:03 --> 01:01:05
			the cloak down from the ground and he
		
01:01:05 --> 01:01:06
			puts it on the shoulder of the messenger
		
01:01:06 --> 01:01:09
			sallallahu alaihi wasallam and he said
		
01:01:13 --> 01:01:15
			He said Messenger of Allah this dua is
		
01:01:15 --> 01:01:15
			enough
		
01:01:16 --> 01:01:18
			and Allah will grant you what he has
		
01:01:18 --> 01:01:19
			promised you.
		
01:01:19 --> 01:01:21
			You see this situation?
		
01:01:21 --> 01:01:24
			Allah, when he spoke about it in the
		
01:01:24 --> 01:01:25
			Quran, he said what?
		
01:01:29 --> 01:01:31
			When you were seeking Istiraaath
		
01:01:32 --> 01:01:35
			from your Lord, when you were seeking Allah's
		
01:01:35 --> 01:01:37
			help and aid and support,
		
01:01:37 --> 01:01:38
			was the result.
		
01:01:40 --> 01:01:41
			He answered you.
		
01:01:45 --> 01:01:48
			I will send you a 1,000 angels in
		
01:01:48 --> 01:01:48
			support.
		
01:01:50 --> 01:01:53
			Allahu Akbar brothers and sisters in Islam, allahi,
		
01:01:53 --> 01:01:56
			sometimes mafi'ak, there is no worldly solution at
		
01:01:56 --> 01:01:59
			all. When Nabi salallahu alaihi wasallam was making
		
01:01:59 --> 01:02:01
			this du'a, he knew we don't have the
		
01:02:01 --> 01:02:03
			best weapons, we don't have horses,
		
01:02:03 --> 01:02:06
			no backup is coming, we absolutely have nothing,
		
01:02:06 --> 01:02:08
			0 0 0 on earth.
		
01:02:08 --> 01:02:11
			No solution from there, bus. That's it. The
		
01:02:11 --> 01:02:12
			only solution left.
		
01:02:13 --> 01:02:15
			And he engaged in the worship of alistikhaaf
		
01:02:15 --> 01:02:16
			of Allah a s s a a j,
		
01:02:16 --> 01:02:17
			did not fail him.
		
01:02:18 --> 01:02:18
			I think
		
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			and I am certain one of the greatest
		
01:02:22 --> 01:02:24
			things that we are in desperate need of
		
01:02:24 --> 01:02:26
			right now in this day and age is
		
01:02:26 --> 01:02:26
			al Istighafah.
		
01:02:27 --> 01:02:29
			We ask Allah Azza wa Jal through his
		
01:02:29 --> 01:02:31
			name Al Hayyul Qayyum
		
01:02:31 --> 01:02:34
			that he grant assistance and support to our
		
01:02:34 --> 01:02:37
			brothers and sisters in Gaza and wherever they
		
01:02:37 --> 01:02:37
			are oppressed.
		
01:02:38 --> 01:02:40
			But that doesn't lift the burden from you,
		
01:02:40 --> 01:02:43
			brothers and sisters. Everyone tonight in his dua
		
01:02:43 --> 01:02:45
			here, there is very important to raise your
		
01:02:45 --> 01:02:45
			hand.
		
01:02:50 --> 01:02:52
			And then ask Allah to
		
01:02:53 --> 01:02:55
			send his mercy upon your brothers and sisters
		
01:02:55 --> 01:02:56
			in Islam.
		
01:02:58 --> 01:02:59
			My brothers
		
01:02:59 --> 01:03:00
			and my sisters,
		
01:03:02 --> 01:03:03
			when Allah
		
01:03:03 --> 01:03:04
			spoke about
		
01:03:05 --> 01:03:06
			in the Quran and
		
01:03:07 --> 01:03:09
			something incredible as well.
		
01:03:11 --> 01:03:12
			He spoke about
		
01:03:13 --> 01:03:14
			the rebellious child
		
01:03:15 --> 01:03:17
			and the parents and how they dealt with
		
01:03:17 --> 01:03:17
			him.
		
01:03:18 --> 01:03:20
			And I tell you, Wallahi, this is something
		
01:03:20 --> 01:03:22
			that is on the rise in this day
		
01:03:22 --> 01:03:23
			and age as well.
		
01:03:23 --> 01:03:26
			How many parents have complained from their rebellious
		
01:03:26 --> 01:03:27
			children?
		
01:03:28 --> 01:03:30
			Hadah, my child doesn't listen to me. My
		
01:03:30 --> 01:03:33
			child raises his voice on me. I cannot
		
01:03:33 --> 01:03:35
			control him. He does what he likes. He
		
01:03:35 --> 01:03:37
			does what he wants. What's his solution? I
		
01:03:37 --> 01:03:38
			took him to the shirk. I took him
		
01:03:38 --> 01:03:41
			to Al Masjid Al Quran and Mahdi. Nothing's
		
01:03:41 --> 01:03:44
			working. Oh, nothing's working? Come. The same situation
		
01:03:44 --> 01:03:46
			in the Quran. Allah says,
		
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			Allah speaks about a rebellious child
		
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			that came to his parents and said to
		
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			them
		
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			That's a word of insult and abuse towards
		
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			his parents,
		
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			then he kept on going and said
		
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			He rebels against his parents and he says
		
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			why do you keep promising me that I'm
		
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			gonna come out from my grave? The kid's
		
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			an atheist,
		
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			he doesn't believe in Allah and resurrection anymore.
		
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			And these are the generations that have come
		
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			way before me where? They're still in their
		
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			grave, no one's come out.
		
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			Allah now speaks about the parents.
		
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			What do we do with him? We've advised
		
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			him. We've warned him. We took him to
		
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			a shirk, a school, Islam, took him.
		
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			Nothing's working.
		
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			Don't look for too far.
		
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			Up to the heavens is your solution.
		
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			Ask Allah,
		
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			Beg Allah, implore Allah,
		
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			speaking up your situation to Allah, enough. People
		
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			are not going to do anything for you.
		
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			Wushaiq doesn't have a magic spell that he
		
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			can say to your child and will instantly
		
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			change him and make him a righteous man
		
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			overnight.
		
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			Leqin into your situation and your solution and
		
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			Allah That's
		
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			how Al Istiratha
		
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			was mentioned in the Qur'an.
		
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			You seen these pressing situations where there is
		
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			just no worldly
		
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			solution at all?
		
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			Often we forget this.
		
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			That's why the need for us to remind
		
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			each other about this importance of of of
		
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			You're you're imploring, you're begging Allah's mercy
		
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			because if Allah descends his mercy upon you,
		
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			There's nothing for you to worry about what
		
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			your situation is. You're enveloped with the mercy
		
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			of Allah doesn't matter what you face now.
		
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			You've earned your success.
		
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			We're coming to the end.
		
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			Now the dua,
		
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			oh, Allah, rectify and perfect all my affairs.
		
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			You know what that means? You know how
		
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			comprehensive this dua is?
		
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			When you say, oh Allah, rectify,
		
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			fix,
		
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			correct
		
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			all my affairs,
		
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			it means, oh Allah, fix everything for me,
		
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			My faith, my heart, my limbs, my organs,
		
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			my cells, my sleep,
		
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			my eating, my house, my income, my friends,
		
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			my relatives, my work, my studies, my spouse,
		
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			my business,
		
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			my relationships,
		
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			my health, my afterlife,
		
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			the life in the grave, each and every
		
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			single aspect of life is included in this
		
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			dua.
		
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			Whether you can remember these things as making
		
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			the dua or not, they are all included
		
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			in your Dua. How beautiful of a Dua
		
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			is this?
		
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			You see the importance of it? Every morning
		
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			and every evening, and whenever you're faced by
		
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			a calamity,
		
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			very important brothers and sisters in Islam.
		
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			My lord, fix,
		
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			but then hang on. If you want Allah
		
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			to fix your situation,
		
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			to fix your affairs,
		
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			fix your relationships, your iman, your this, your
		
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			that, your wealth, your business, your partner,
		
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			you gotta do one thing in return,
		
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			and that is that you need to fix
		
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			your relationship with Allah. Right?
		
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			How do we fix our relationship with Allah?
		
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			One thing.
		
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			It's called
		
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			Have you ever heard this in the Quran?
		
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			In the the righteous deeds. Why were the
		
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			righteous deeds called?
		
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			It comes from the word
		
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			means to fix something.
		
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			Righteous deeds
		
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			are called salihad
		
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			because they fix your relationship with Allah.
		
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			Every salat fixes your relationship with Allah.
		
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			Every salakah
		
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			corrects
		
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			that broken relationship with Allah.
		
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			So if you want Allah to ask for
		
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			you, if you want Allah to fix
		
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			things that are going wrong in your life,
		
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			then fix between you and him.
		
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			How? By doing
		
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			above the list your obligations,
		
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			above the list of salat.
		
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			Then Allah
		
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			will respond and give you that which you
		
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			asked for.
		
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			Didn't he say
		
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			I answer the Dua of the caller whenever
		
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			he calls,
		
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			but then he said
		
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			answer
		
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			me. He said I'm answer you then he
		
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			said answer me.
		
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			This is why a dua between Adhan and
		
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			Iqamah is an accepted dua, right?
		
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			If you didn't know that, know this. A
		
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			dua between Adhan and Iqamah is accepted. You
		
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			know why?
		
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			Because when the Mu'adhim said,
		
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			He said,
		
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			you came,
		
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			you answered Allah.
		
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			So now you're in a position where Allah
		
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			will answer you. That's why dua was accepted
		
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			between them.
		
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			Then you've answered what you've come, you're ready
		
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			to
		
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			engage in the commandment of Allah and pray.
		
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			Finally, And my lord, don't entrust me. Don't
		
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			leave me to myself even for the blink
		
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			of an eye.
		
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			And this implies the desperate need that the
		
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			slave has for his lord.
		
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			In every single moment of your life, you
		
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			need him.
		
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			Means Allah, I surrender.
		
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			I will not rely on myself even for
		
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			the blink of an eye. There is nothing
		
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			there is nothing less in time than the
		
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			blink of an eye.
		
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			And you're asking Allah, don't allow me to
		
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			rely on myself
		
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			even for that much.
		
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			Because if I was to rely on myself
		
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			for a split second, I will be doomed
		
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			and destroyed.
		
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			If you rely upon yourself, you know what
		
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			you did? You've relied on a weak human
		
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			If you rely on yourself, you've relied upon
		
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			a weak source. You'll become doomed, gloomed, and
		
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			destroyed.
		
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			How important is this dua, especially in this
		
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			day and age this day and age of
		
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			of technology and advancements?
		
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			A person might be deceived to think that
		
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			he's in control of everything, and I rely
		
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			upon myself.
		
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			It's all under my control.
		
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			And
		
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			I got myself to where I am in
		
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			law because of my experience,
		
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			because of my contacts,
		
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			because of my years of study.
		
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			I've built my empire because of my experience
		
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			of knowledge.
		
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			Wrong. Don't do that.
		
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			And that this is opposing the meanings within
		
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			You're only where you are by the success
		
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			of Allah Azza Wa Jal and nothing else.
		
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			SubhanAllah, hack people Allah mention
		
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			until the people when the people start thinking
		
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			that they are in control of everything, that's
		
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			when Allah will destroy them. That's why it's
		
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			important never to rely upon yourself.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			Why that? Very important because how many people,
		
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			how many people
		
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			chose to rely on themselves
		
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			and fell into major doubts and sins.
		
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			Some people
		
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			they say,
		
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			no. No. Trust me. Trust me. It's just
		
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			a glance. I'll just look at this image.
		
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			It's on
		
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			social media. It's just a glance. I know
		
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			myself. I won't fall into anything Hawaam.
		
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			How many of these ended up falling into
		
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			And I trust myself. No. No. I'm just
		
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			gonna listen to this podcast
		
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			between someone and someone discussing some advanced matters
		
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			related to faith and ideology.
		
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			Then I'm not gonna be affected. I'm just
		
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			gonna listen. Trust me, I know myself. I
		
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			won't be affected.
		
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			Then he gives his e to poison.
		
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			Then afterwards,
		
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			I have doubts about Allah. I have doubts
		
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			of the afterlife. And who told you to
		
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			listen to that? Why did you poison yourself?
		
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			Why did you expose yourself to to these
		
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			things? Why did you trust yourself?
		
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			You see, brothers, had a this is this
		
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			is what it is. So that's why
		
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			you don't want to rely upon yourself at
		
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			all, and this is why Sheikh Muhammad Ibrahima
		
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			Rahim he
		
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			asked,
		
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			he was asked once can a person rely
		
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			upon himself? Are we allowed to say I
		
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			trust myself, I believe in myself?
		
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			It is a very famous thing that goes
		
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			around people and they say believe in yourself,
		
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			trust yourself.
		
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			He said it is haram for a believer
		
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			to say such a thing. Where's the evidence?
		
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			Here, this Dua
		
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			Don't entrust me to myself even for the
		
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			blink of an eye.
		
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			And that's your nafs.
		
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			Your nafs calls to sin and foolishness.
		
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			If you relied on yourself, that's where you're
		
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			going to end up in. So, Yaani, it
		
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			is very important that we seek Allah's
		
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			help through this Dua brothers and sisters in
		
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			Islam. We're coming to the end of our
		
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			lecture,
		
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			and we remind you all that this is
		
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			the Dua
		
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			taught, few words,
		
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			the greatest of mankind
		
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			to the greatest of women
		
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			as a solution
		
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			whenever the doors are shut in your life.
		
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			And don't just leave this Dua
		
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			for when you're faced with a pressing matter.
		
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			Say it every morning
		
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			and every evening
		
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			you train your tongue upon it so that
		
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			whenever you're faced with a difficulty you will
		
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			automatically
		
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			remember this is the dua to go to,
		
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			this is what I would turn to Allah
		
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			through these words and then I tell you
		
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			I share something with you personally. You know
		
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			the afgharos Sabahul Masa are about 24 afghar.
		
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			For those of you that don't know what
		
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			I'm even talking about,
		
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			then you're missing out on a lot and
		
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			I recommend for you to go online to
		
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			a course that I delivered over 2 years,
		
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			It's called an explanation of the morning and
		
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			evening of Gaut. In about 30 lectures, I
		
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			explained them all, but don't worry.
		
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			24 might seem too much for a lot
		
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			of us, especially if you're new to this
		
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			concept and worship.
		
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			So personally, when I'm pressed for time and
		
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			I'm not able to say all 24,
		
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			I have anchors. There are 3 that I
		
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			always have to say, and I cannot compromise
		
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			on them no matter what I'm in. Number
		
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			1,
		
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			Number 2,
		
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			3 times each.
		
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			Preferably first,
		
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			then then again
		
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			and then again.
		
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			And finally, this
		
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			one.
		
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			And if you read something of the morning
		
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			and something of the evening,
		
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			then you are considered that you have said.
		
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			And if you have times on the weekends,
		
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			then you sit down and you say them,
		
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			oh,
		
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			and they have immense benefit. All you have
		
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			to do is listen to the first lecture
		
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			I gave on that series
		
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			for you to be introduced to this powerful
		
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			worship
		
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			that you will realize afterwards,
		
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			how did I live all my life without
		
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			this? So brothers and sisters in Islam, we
		
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			ask Allah
		
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			to grant us goodness, to grant us mercy
		
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			and success.
		
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			We ask him,
		
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			to grant relief to our brothers and sisters
		
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			in Gaza, in occupying Palestine.
		
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			We ask him,
		
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			to bring his justice
		
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			upon them. We ask Allah
		
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			that he accept from us all. He forgive
		
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			our sins and our shortcomings.