Abu Taymiyyah – 5 Ways to Be Productive in Times of Lethargy & Laziness aadh

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The speakers discuss ways to overcome procrastination and memorize the benefits of knowledge, including practicing Jannah, learning from hadiths, and revisiting high aspirations. They also touch on the importance of learning from individuals of high aspirations and share their own experiences with the topic. The segment ends with advice on taking things slowly and slowly.

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			And a common question that people tend to
		
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			ask is, how can I
		
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			get rid of
		
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			procrastination?
		
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			How can I up my morale?
		
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			How can I memorize more? And so on
		
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			and so forth.
		
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			You see?
		
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			You hanging around with
		
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			these kind of individuals only affects you.
		
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			So one benefit that I wanted to mention
		
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			is,
		
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			what are some of the ways to kind
		
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			of overcome this?
		
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			The poet he says,
		
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			Ohhamsatun Uhlaj Uthaifil Himma. Five things. It is
		
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			the Eilaj, the cure,
		
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			the treatment for Taifil Himma.
		
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			When your Himma, your aspirations go down.
		
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			Keraa'atun Fisiyarilla Imma. Number 1 is
		
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			reading the lives of the great scholars of
		
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			the past.
		
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			Allahu that really really helps.
		
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			So when seeking knowledge, you'd always have
		
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			some raka'ikh, heart softness by your side, books
		
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			of
		
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			I
		
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			know is a big book. There is some
		
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			Muqtasarat, summarizations for it.
		
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			And just books like that that can just
		
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			really, you know, soften up your heart.
		
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			Next one my brothers and my sisters is,
		
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			just revising some of the benefits of
		
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			knowledge and studying.
		
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			You know what keeps me really going my
		
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			brothers and my sisters?
		
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			If I was to ask everybody here, what
		
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			is it that we're trying to achieve from
		
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			this world?
		
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			Where are we trying to get to?
		
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			Everyone said jannah sah.
		
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			Jannah to fill out. That's where we wanna
		
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			go, right?
		
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			What did the messenger say about seeking knowledge?
		
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			Jameel Jazakalakher. What's your name Akhi?
		
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			Hissap
		
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			Jazakalakher.
		
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			Whoever takes the path and seek knowledge, Allah
		
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			will make his path to
		
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			Jannah easier.
		
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			Your path has been made easier.
		
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			Someone might try to pay sadaqah, fast, do
		
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			this, do that. Great.
		
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			But your path here is being made easier.
		
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			And if you die in that path, even
		
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			if you're doing a little a day,
		
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			the hadith doesn't mean that you have to
		
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			pack your bags and go to the other
		
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			side of the world. Yes, that's the best
		
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			thing to do, but
		
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			you still fall on the seeking knowledge if
		
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			you are doing a little bit every day.
		
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			Accompanying,
		
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			accompanying
		
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			individuals of high aspirations,
		
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			Wallahi.
		
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			That would really up your morale and make
		
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			you feel better, encourage you. I'm gonna memorize
		
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			this. I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna do
		
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			that.
		
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			Would you guys agree with that?
		
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			Majalasila'al,
		
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			the gatherings of knowledge is something that really
		
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			does give you high aspirations, right?
		
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			Before I move on to the next
		
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			two points, InshaAllahu Ta'ala, because I mentioned 3
		
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			now, right?
		
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			The first benefit that I took away from,
		
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			I think the
		
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			Haram.
		
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			When I went there, and this was from
		
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			Sheikh Ibrahim Al Rahili.
		
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			I walked in, I saw a class and
		
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			I sat down.
		
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			And the Sheikh was mentioning a benefit and
		
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			it really stuck with me. It was the
		
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			first benefit that I took from
		
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			the Haram, I believe at the time.
		
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			This is when I went officially as a
		
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			student.
		
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			He was talking about high aspirations.
		
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			My brothers and my sisters,
		
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			Abu Bakr
		
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			didn't reach
		
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			that level of piety
		
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			and righteousness
		
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			except
		
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			that he was trying to imitate who?
		
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			The Prophet
		
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			Who is the best in the time of
		
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			the Prophet
		
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			The best in the time of the Prophet
		
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			Prophet
		
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			He was trying to imitate the Messenger
		
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			in as much as he could. This is
		
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			why you find so many hadith,
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam came and with
		
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			him was Abu Bakr and Umar.
		
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			Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam left and with him
		
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			was Abu Bakr and Umar.
		
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			So many hadith are like that.
		
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			And he was always trying to be like
		
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			them.
		
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			You guys with me?
		
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			Ram Al Khattab Radiallahu Ta'ala Anhu always in
		
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			competition with Abu Bakr in doing more Khayer,
		
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			more good,
		
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			righteousness,
		
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			best in your time.
		
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			That was the first example that he gave
		
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			and he gave another 2. And he also
		
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			said Alima Muslim.
		
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			Kasun Alima Muslim, we always hear the hadith
		
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			narrated by Muslim.
		
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			Imam Muslim Rahmatullahi a'lay didn't reach the level
		
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			that he reached except by imitating who?
		
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			Muhammad Bukhari Rahmatullahi
		
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			who compiled the most authentic book after
		
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			the book of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
		
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			And they say,
		
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			If you want the understanding of Ilham Abu
		
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			Khali, you find it in his chapterics.
		
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			3rd example, who who has an idea of
		
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			what I'm gonna mention?
		
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			Who said that?
		
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			I heard it from here.
		
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			Zakalakhair.
		
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			Brother mentioned it as all.
		
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			Ibn Uqayim
		
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			didn't reach the level that he reached except
		
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			by imitating the best in his time,
		
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			or being around the best in his time,
		
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			Imutaimia.
		
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			Allahu Akbar.
		
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			When you look at Imutaim's arguments at times,
		
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			think which world does he live in?
		
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			His books are something else.
		
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			Some of them have been translated as well,
		
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			Right? He has a lot of books on
		
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			heart softeners as well.
		
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			How long do we have till the salah?
		
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			Hamzdagai?
		
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			If you're studying something and then your heart
		
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			now becomes hard,
		
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			move on to the next one.
		
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			Or move on to something else,
		
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			which will make you miss
		
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			that which you left off reading.
		
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			Today, you're going through a sulfur. I'll tell
		
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			you guys something. Right? I love sulfur,
		
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			and I always go on about it in
		
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			my lessons.
		
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			And
		
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			my brother says one of those topics that
		
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			just walk out class, you see them, no,
		
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			I can't do this. Like, I'll walk out.
		
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			It can be very difficult at times to
		
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			understand. But InshaAllah Ta'ala,
		
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			I have a plan
		
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			to just really simplify
		
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			more intermediate classes.
		
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			Break it down insha Allahu Ta'ala because is
		
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			extremely important.
		
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			So one of the great scholars who passed
		
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			away said,
		
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			Rhymes,
		
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			is like the gates that protect
		
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			the texts, textual evidences
		
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			from the thieves.
		
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			These liberals, these feminists, and all these,
		
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			far right extremists,
		
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			and you got this guy.
		
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			Anyways, these enemies of Alissam,
		
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			they use our texts,
		
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			our texts against us.
		
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			The orientalists, they learn our religion to use
		
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			against us. Wallala.
		
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			Usul al Fikhq puts a lot of things
		
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			into perspective.
		
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			That's why these orientalists have a big problem
		
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			with Al Imam Shafi'i.
		
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			As
		
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			Sahib Al Marakhi mentions. 1st one I put
		
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			down,
		
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			Wallahi can't read that all day. Usul Al
		
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			Fikh, you can't, man. It's really difficult.
		
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			It makes your heart feel a certain way.
		
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			You're going to have to maybe turn to
		
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			other sciences.
		
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			Gonna maybe have to read a Kitab of
		
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			Ibn Altaeyim Rahmatullah
		
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			of Ibn Rajab, one of these heart softeners?
		
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			Is that clear my brothers and my sisters?
		
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			So you move on from one topic to
		
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			another,
		
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			perhaps hoping InshaAllahu Ta'ala you will miss. This
		
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			is why he says
		
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			So you come back to it craving it.
		
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			And it says,
		
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			Not burdening yourself with more than that which
		
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			you can bear.
		
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			Don't push yourself.
		
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			Don't push yourself.
		
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			Don't be harsh with yourself, my brothers and
		
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			my sisters.
		
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			A lot of time what happens, one brother
		
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			starts practising, her sister starts practising, she wants
		
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			to like,
		
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			maybe that's not,
		
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			right, istillah or anything like that. She wants
		
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			to do everything. He wants to do everything
		
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			all at once.
		
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			Extremely, extremely passionate,
		
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			right? That's why we tell the reverts calm
		
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			down, take it easy.
		
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			Take things slowly slowly.
		
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			Because as the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			said,
		
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			Never is one harsh with himself, he overburdens
		
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			himself except
		
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			he will just break himself.
		
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			I guess with me, my brothers and my
		
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			sisters,
		
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			you'll just end up breaking yourself.
		
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			That's why you take it easy.
		
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			Wallahi take it easy.
		
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			Because you might end up leaving
		
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			Tala bi Ulmah together
		
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			and
		
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			just totally exhausting yourself.
		
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			What do you call it?
		
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			Burn yourself out.
		
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			Take things slowly, slowly, slowly. If you feel
		
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			like your,
		
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			your Himma has dropped,
		
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			take it easy, InshaAllah Ta'ala, slow down on
		
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			it and then move back up again.
		
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			Don't try and do 20 things, you're not
		
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			Al Imam al Nawi. Sometimes one says to
		
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			me, especially when I try to advise him
		
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			to memorize the Quran and he's doing 10
		
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			things that
		
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			kanayadrusu,
		
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			he used to do
		
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			9 sciences every single day.
		
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			You're not an imam
		
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			Noey. Take it easy.
		
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			Don't break yourself.
		
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			Right? Start with the Quran,
		
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			Start
		
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			with that, take a book on the side
		
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			with it,
		
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			and gradually move on
		
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			like that.