Abu Taymiyyah – 7 Ways To Overcome Trials & Tribulations

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The importance of hardships, challenges, and friendships is discussed in a series of segments on Islam. The speakers emphasize the need to be in a state where one is small and not everyone is doing anything for them, and the importance of learning about Allah's characteristics and traits through practical moments and online debates. The speakers also discuss the history of Islam, including the use of phone screens and hidden individuals in houses, and the importance of self-coupling and holding oneself to account when things go wrong. They mention a legal program and a book on Deen versus Deens, as well as a program in West London to provide legal advice and a book on Deen versus Deens.

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			We have approximately
		
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			30 minutes
		
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			to compress this lecture.
		
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			So please insha Allahu Ta'ala sit down and
		
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			lend me your ear for the next 25
		
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			to 30 minutes.
		
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			It might well be insha Allahu Ta'ala
		
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			the most important thing that you've ever heard.
		
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			And no one knows best.
		
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			Not because I'm saying it,
		
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			because of all of these scholars
		
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			and these great
		
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			statements
		
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			that they uttered, and some of the statements
		
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			of Allah azza wa Jal and the practices
		
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			of the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
		
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			I want every single one of you guys
		
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			to walk away with
		
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			practical
		
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			coping mechanisms
		
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			when we are dealing with hardships
		
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			and difficulties.
		
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			We all go through hardships and difficulties, my
		
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			brothers and my sisters.
		
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			Even Ikrimah
		
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			He says,
		
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			Does not a believer accept?
		
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			There are times
		
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			he's going to go through
		
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			sadness.
		
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			And there's times
		
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			where he's going to rejoice.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Times like this and times like that.
		
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			The advice that he gave was, when you're
		
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			feeling sad, be patient.
		
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			And when things are going well for you,
		
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			be thankful.
		
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			Ibn al Qaym has a whole kitab,
		
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			explanation,
		
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			Right? Where he talks about 2 halves.
		
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			The half of patience
		
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			and the half of
		
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			being thankful to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			Let me start off this lecture my brothers
		
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			and my sisters with this statement,
		
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			I know and you know my brothers and
		
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			my sisters
		
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			that at times we go through difficulties and
		
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			hardships which we really struggle to deal with.
		
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			I go through hardships.
		
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			Ustadziya goes through hardships. All of the other
		
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			masha'if that deliver lectures,
		
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			they go through hardships,
		
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			difficulties and challenges of life,
		
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			right? I haven't even asked him what he
		
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			is going through or what he may have
		
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			gone through in the past but I know
		
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			he goes through stuff. What did I say?
		
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			My brothers and my sisters,
		
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			this is something that is bound to happen.
		
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			Ibn Uthaymi rahmatullahi
		
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			alayhi says,
		
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			I'll say that again.
		
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			Trials and tribulations and hardships
		
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			are indeed a blessing.
		
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			I'll say that again.
		
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			Al Masaibuni
		
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			Amah.
		
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			The trials and tribulations,
		
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			the hardships
		
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			that one goes through, it is indeed a
		
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			blessing.
		
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			You know what he then says?
		
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			He begins to list
		
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			a number of reasons as to why is
		
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			an i'mah,
		
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			why trials and tribulations
		
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			are
		
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			indeed a blessing, and I'm really hoping you
		
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			guys write this stuff down. Don't just come
		
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			to the lectures my brothers and my sisters,
		
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			hoping to hear a reminder, putting it through
		
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			one ear and then taking out the other.
		
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			Up until recently, I was making du'a for
		
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			Steve Jobs,
		
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			Who died when?
		
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			2007 I believe or 11.
		
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			Are you allowed to make du'a for this
		
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			believer?
		
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			No, you can't. But was making dua for
		
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			him up until recently.
		
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			Someone popped their hand and said, Ustad,
		
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			Steve Jobs is dead,
		
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			and I didn't know that. Why was I
		
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			making dua for him? Because of these iPhones.
		
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			You have Galaxy?
		
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			But because of these iPhones that has the
		
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			notes page,
		
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			I still have notes from maybe back in
		
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			2012.
		
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			Icloud saved us.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Every time we lost the phone or it
		
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			drowned,
		
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			Icloud was there.
		
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			Even now some of the points that I'm
		
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			mentioning or statements are from maybe made many
		
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			years ago.
		
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			So he says,
		
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			because
		
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			it expiates your sins.
		
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			And you are invited now to be patient.
		
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			The messenger of Islam said, you haven't been
		
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			granted
		
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			or gifted with anything more greater and more
		
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			better for you than patience.
		
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			So He invites you not to be patient
		
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			to hold yourself together and you will be
		
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			rewarded for it.
		
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			And then look what he says
		
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			It causes one now to return back to
		
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			Allah.
		
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			A test that brings you closer to Allah
		
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			my brothers and my sisters is better than
		
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			a blessing that causes you to go far
		
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			far away. How many people do I know
		
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			that became rich, but then, they're gone brothers
		
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			and sisters
		
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			while maybe we're sitting around wishing that we
		
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			could have what they have.
		
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			So he says, it causes one now to
		
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			turn back to Allah and to be humble.
		
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			Once upon a time I ran into this
		
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			brother, wallahi brothers
		
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			and sisters,
		
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			sitting with him made me feel so small.
		
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			Right? And I was thinking, no, what's wrong
		
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			with him?
		
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			Just because he's got a bit of money,
		
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			he's making people feel like that.
		
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			Fast forward a couple of years,
		
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			he sends me a GoFundMe page. He goes,
		
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			please, Akhi, help me.
		
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			Right? I'm going through troubles. I'm stuck.
		
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			Where he was? Where he now is?
		
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			So he's saying, it causes a person now
		
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			to be what? Humble.
		
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			Where you find yourself in a state, where
		
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			you're so small in front of Allah.
		
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			This is because of the Masa'ib,
		
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			and we're not done yet. He then says,
		
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			It causes one to turn away from the
		
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			creation.
		
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			And this is so crucial.
		
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			The way we are as human beings, we
		
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			tend to what?
		
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			We tend to always run to the creation.
		
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			Allah
		
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			wants you to be in a state where
		
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			you don't turn to anyone except Him.
		
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			Because only Allah can help you in this
		
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			matter that you're in.
		
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			No one can do anything for you.
		
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			Up until you're just left with Allah, just
		
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			you and Him. This is what Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala wants.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And the statements are many, my brothers and
		
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			my sisters,
		
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			I've already taken 10 minutes.
		
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			O Usay ibn Uqayim He
		
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			says,
		
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			When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala at times,
		
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			right? Test you and you feel broken,
		
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			He doesn't do that except
		
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			that he wants to bring you back up
		
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			stronger.
		
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			And he doesn't hold back something from you
		
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			that you really want
		
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			except because Allah wants to give you that
		
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			which is better.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And sometimes people treat you badly.
		
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			Right?
		
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			People are mistreating you,
		
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			only for you to return back to Allah
		
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			That's what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			wishes for you when he goes through
		
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			these trials and tribulations that Allah has decreed
		
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			for you.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And SubhanAllah,
		
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			you know, Zimani even Ibn Taymah Rasoolallahu Alaihi
		
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			says
		
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			Well urge
		
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			If it wasn't for all of these trials
		
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			and tribulations,
		
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			you know what would happen my brothers and
		
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			my sisters?
		
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			One would be walking on the face of
		
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			this earth with arrogance,
		
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			thinking he's something.
		
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			He will stop picking up all of these
		
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			traits.
		
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			When
		
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			he even says
		
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			characteristics that you will end up picking up.
		
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			I've seen so many who thought they were
		
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			gangsters. Right?
		
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			They needed their legs to be broken in
		
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			order for them now to be humble, and
		
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			now he's sitting at home.
		
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			But before,
		
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			he was walking around thinking that he's on
		
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			cloud 9.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So he says, if it wasn't for these
		
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			trials and tribulations,
		
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			one would be afflicted
		
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			with the diseases of arrogance,
		
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			self amazement. He would pick up traits of
		
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			firaoun
		
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			and also what? Hardness
		
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			of the heart.
		
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			We are humble brothers and sisters and then
		
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			he says,
		
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			From the mercy of the one that is
		
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			most merciful.
		
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			That at times,
		
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			He makes him go through these hardships
		
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			in order to keep his feet on the
		
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			ground.
		
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			Right? We all need that brothers and sisters.
		
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			I need
		
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			that, Saziahiya needs that, everyone else here needs
		
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			that.
		
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			To keep our feet on the ground, guys.
		
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			I don't think any of us wants to
		
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			meet Allah, You have a mustard grain of
		
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			kibit in your heart.
		
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			So, five
		
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			things my brothers and my sisters,
		
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			and I hope insha Allahu Ta'ala we can
		
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			take this away.
		
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			These are practical matters,
		
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			right? That will help insha Allahu Ta'ala
		
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			every single one of us cope
		
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			with these difficulties and hardships that we experience.
		
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			2 of them are before the calamity strikes.
		
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			And 1, 2 of them are before the
		
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			calamity strikes and the rest is once it
		
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			strikes.
		
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			So are these 2? I'm really hoping you
		
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			guys are gonna memorize it, right? Please guys
		
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			don't come to my lectures just wanting to
		
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			listen.
		
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			Come with a pen and paper. I'm sick
		
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			and tired of giving lectures. You know why?
		
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			Because what it does is, it boosts your
		
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			iman, and it's just gonna come crashing back
		
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			down again.
		
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			If we don't continue to seek knowledge, these
		
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			notes help us
		
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			to enhance ourselves,
		
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			right?
		
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			Number 1,
		
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			a tohid a tohid, brothers and sisters.
		
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			What does a tuhid mean?
		
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			In a nutshell,
		
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			to learn the rights of Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala
		
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			over you.
		
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			Ifra'adullah bi mayakhtasubihi.
		
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			To single out Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in
		
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			that which is exclusive to him. And when
		
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			I say this my brothers and my sisters,
		
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			I'm not referring to having these online debates.
		
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			I'm talking about
		
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			learning about
		
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			the names and attributes of Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala.
		
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			Which we then internalize,
		
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			which become part of our lives
		
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			If we learnt, and by the way, this
		
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			is the only source of information
		
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			that we have of Allah If
		
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			we really learnt
		
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			who Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is, a lot
		
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			of how
		
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			we react,
		
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			a lot of sins that we do,
		
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			right?
		
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			A lot of the fear that we experience
		
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			wouldn't take place.
		
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			My brothers and my sisters, may I ask
		
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			you guys a question? Is there anyone here
		
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			who's maybe
		
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			found the sister to get married to? So
		
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			he says, I'm gonna ask the brothers.
		
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			Anyone here?
		
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			Wait, 2 more? We've got some.
		
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			Who's engaged?
		
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			By the way, if the brother puts his
		
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			hand up, put you say, Alhamdulbarik, don't give
		
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			him your evil eye.
		
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			Who here
		
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			is engaged guys quickly?
		
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			Masha'Allah Subaraka Allahum Barik.
		
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			Let me ask you, why did you pick
		
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			her?
		
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			Sorry?
		
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			She's got religion? Close to religion. She's close
		
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			to religion. Excellent. What else?
		
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			Of course, she's good looking as all, aren't
		
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			very good.
		
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			And maybe she's good to her parents. So
		
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			many of the different characteristics and traits
		
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			that stood out for you, which caused you
		
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			to love her princess charming.
		
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			Sahay.
		
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			He chose her. He chose her. He chose
		
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			her over everyone else. That's what he done.
		
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			Because of all these characteristics and traits. I'd
		
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			love them.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Not that I'm trying to compare princess charming
		
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			to Allah my brothers and my sisters, in
		
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			any way shape or form.
		
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			But how do we expect to love Allah
		
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			when we know absolutely
		
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			nothing about Him?
		
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			From the common questions that reaches me is,
		
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			Brother,
		
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			right?
		
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			Why is
		
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			it that I don't feel that connection with
		
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			Allah?
		
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			I don't feel the sweetness of my Ibad,
		
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			why? Why do I feel like that?
		
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			My brothers and my sisters,
		
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			do we even know who we're worshiping or
		
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			what we're worshiping?
		
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			Right? He chose her because of all the
		
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			things that he knew about her.
		
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			We don't know nothing about Allah azza wa
		
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			jal my brothers and sisters. How will there
		
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			even be love for Allah
		
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			To give you guys an example, my brothers
		
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			and my sisters, how
		
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			Just knowing who Allah is,
		
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			and fulfilling His right because the moment you
		
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			know Allah, you will refrain from certain things,
		
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			and you'll start doing certain things. Let me
		
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			give you guys an example of
		
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			Umr ibn Khattab
		
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			How long do I have?
		
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			Umar ibn Khattab radhiyahu ta'ala Anhu once upon
		
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			a time my brothers and my sisters, he
		
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			was patrolling
		
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			the streets of
		
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			Medina.
		
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			And then he got tied, him and his
		
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			servants. So they began to lean on the
		
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			wall.
		
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			You know a wall, we just lean on,
		
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			he got very tired so they began to
		
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			lean on the wall.
		
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			As he's leaning on the wall, my sisters
		
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			especially, please listen up.
		
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			Please listen up, and likewise you brothers.
		
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			He began to hear a conversation between
		
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			a mother and her daughter.
		
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			You know what the mother was saying to
		
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			her?
		
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			Oh daughter, stand up. Go and mix the
		
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			water
		
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			with milk.
		
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			She said to her mother, don't you know
		
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			the law that Umrah Bil Khattab
		
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			passed away? Haven't you heard of it?
		
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			Then you hear about it, she goes what
		
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			did he pass as a law
		
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			that milk should not be mixed with water?
		
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			The reason why she wants to mix it
		
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			with water, so it becomes more and they
		
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			can make more money.
		
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			You know what Bin
		
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			Al
		
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			Tayl
		
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			says
		
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			guys?
		
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			Having tawheed,
		
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			knowing Allah, it opens the door of what?
		
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			It opens the door of goodness and happiness.
		
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			Look what's gonna happen right now.
		
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			She said, oh mother,
		
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			it's not possible for me to obey Umar
		
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			Al Khattab in public and then behind closed
		
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			doors I disobey him.
		
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			She said, you are in a place where
		
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			Umar can't see you.
		
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			She said, if Umar can't see me, then
		
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			the Lord of Umar
		
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			can see everything that I'm
		
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			doing. Under that blanket,
		
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			where you have these phones,
		
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			haram is a fingertip away,
		
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			both old and young. My brothers and my
		
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			sisters.
		
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			My brothers and my sisters.
		
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			If the people can't see me, Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala can see me. A woman who
		
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			internalized
		
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			Allah being
		
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			Right?
		
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			So what happens?
		
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			Umrah Khatab radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu goes home, next
		
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			morning, he lines up all of his children,
		
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			and he says, Who from amongst you is
		
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			ready to get married?
		
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			Assam puts his handak.
		
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			Me, dad
		
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			Islam then got married to this woman.
		
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			This woman who was hidden inside of a
		
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			house, she was a hidden gem.
		
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			Sometimes I hear a sister saying, Oh brother,
		
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			how are people going to find out about
		
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			me?
		
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			Right? So I need to go outside and
		
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			show myself.
		
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			Sorry, sisters. Please don't take it the wrong
		
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			way. Right?
		
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			Let's be honest here.
		
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			Or I have to display myself,
		
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			plaster my pictures
		
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			all over fitnagram,
		
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			right? Or that satanic app of TikTok.
		
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			Everyone's inshaAllah is gonna delete it before you
		
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			leave this room.
		
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			A'ud Abillah I'm in TikTok, don't tell me
		
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			that's where I got to know you, right?
		
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			I don't even have a TikTok account brothers
		
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			and sisters.
		
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			I seek refuge in Allah 'Azza wa Jal
		
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			from that.
		
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			Alakuli hal, she was hidden in a home.
		
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			She had tawheed.
		
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			She knew who Allah azza wa jal was.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And he opened doors of goodness,
		
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			and she became happy as Wawiz and Nawib
		
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			Nur Taym said, because of 2:8, he opened
		
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			the door of happiness.
		
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			And he didn't stop there guys, a son
		
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			got married to her,
		
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			they gave birth
		
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			to a young woman
		
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			This woman eventually got married
		
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			and guess who they gave birth to?
		
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			Umar ibn Abdul Aziz
		
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			Who was the 8th caliphate by the way
		
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			after the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam. But when
		
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			the scholars talk about following the rightly guided
		
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			caliphites,
		
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			alongside the 4, Abu Bakr, Umar, Azman Ali,
		
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			they mention also Umar ibn Abdul Aziz.
		
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			It came out from where? Tawhid.
		
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			Are you brothers and sisters with me?
		
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			Them understanding who Allah is.
		
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			Well, I have other incidents as well. The
		
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			incident that Ibn Raja mentions, where you have
		
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			the female bedwun and the male bedwun, they
		
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			were alone together in the desert.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And then he tried to flirt with her.
		
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			He tried to seduce her.
		
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			And then he saw that she was getting
		
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			scared. He goes, Mi matakafi, what are you
		
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			scared for?
		
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			The only thing that can see us are
		
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			the stars.
		
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			She says to him,
		
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			Where is the one who created these stars?
		
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			Where is the Khalik, the creator of these
		
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			stars?
		
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			And he got shocked, he got really scared.
		
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			Right?
		
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			She instilled within him my brothers and my
		
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			sisters.
		
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			Any examples are many? Because she understood Allah
		
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			These are 2 ladies that I mentioned, my
		
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			brothers and my sisters.
		
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			2 ladies.
		
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			Number 2.
		
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			Number 2, my brothers and my sisters, number
		
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			2.
		
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			Be someone
		
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			who has
		
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			a relationship with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala when
		
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			things are going smoothly.
		
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			When things are going great in your life.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And perhaps,
		
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			when you're in a very very dark place,
		
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			when you're in a very very dark place,
		
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			my brothers and my sisters,
		
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			right? The relief will come quickly.
		
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			What's also my evidence?
		
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			Yunus alaihis salawasalaam
		
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			who was stuck in that way. Allah
		
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			says,
		
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			Shaha, 10 minutes. It's wrong. Yes. Are you
		
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			guys with me? If it wasn't for him,
		
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			when things were going smoothly in his life,
		
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			he used to be someone that used to
		
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			do an of tasbih
		
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			SubhanAllah SubhanAllah
		
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			SubhanAllah SubhanAllah He used to do the right
		
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			thing. So when things got difficult, even though
		
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			he was in the darkness of the night,
		
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			the darkness of the sea and the darkness
		
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			of the stomach of that whale, 3 darknesses
		
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			Right?
		
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			It will work in your favor
		
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			when things start going wrong, my brothers and
		
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			my sisters.
		
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			These are 2 things that we hold on
		
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			to before the calamity
		
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			strikes.
		
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			Then my brothers and my sisters, when the
		
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			calamity strikes,
		
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			while some of the coping mechanisms
		
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			in dealing with our hardships,
		
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			and trials, and tribulations?
		
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			This is now number 3.
		
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			My brothers and my sisters,
		
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			Whenever
		
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			he was struck with some difficulty,
		
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			he would go and run to the prayer.
		
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			Are your brothers and sisters with me?
		
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			He would go and run to the prayer.
		
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			It will help him cope with these difficulties.
		
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			Our brothers today, the masha'yah,
		
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			they spoke about these stories in the Quran.
		
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			Assalaasalaam,
		
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			my brothers and my sisters.
		
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			I can't stress this enough.
		
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			When the calamity strikes,
		
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			right,
		
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			and then you run into the prayer,
		
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			See how you feel after that, it will
		
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			really ease the pain
		
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			that you were experiencing
		
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			at a time.
		
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			This is exactly what the messenger salallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam would do.
		
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			He had human characteristics,
		
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			where he would get affected by what the
		
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			people were saying.
		
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			Allah tells us, We
		
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			know, O Muhammad,
		
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			that which you are
		
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			experiencing, is causing you a lot of pain.
		
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			What did Allah tell him, Fasabihabihamdi
		
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			rabbik
		
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			Glorify
		
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			your Lord and be from the sajideen, those
		
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			who
		
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			Alright.
		
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			Number.
		
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			What number are we on? Take us a
		
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			little story about.
		
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			Tell you guys a little story about Allah
		
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			tells us
		
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			What did they say?
		
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			Their response would be,
		
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			upon being struck with a calamity,
		
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			What does that even mean?
		
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			We might say, but we internalize it.
		
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			We belong to Allah.
		
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			And to Him, are we going to return,
		
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			my brothers and my sisters.
		
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			Deep that for a moment.
		
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			We are here on borrowed time.
		
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			Don't get upset
		
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			at so and so passing away, his time
		
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			came to an end. It's as simple as
		
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			that.
		
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			If I borrowed you something and then I
		
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			said give it back to me, would you
		
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			get upset?
		
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			Allah
		
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			has us walking on the face of this
		
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			earth on borrowed time.
		
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			Uma Salima, the wife of the Prophet Sallalahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam,
		
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			she said, I heard the Messenger
		
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			say,
		
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			Umu Salamah, she had a husband called Abu
		
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			Salamah.
		
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			Never are you struck with a calamity.
		
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			And then one says,
		
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			Guys, we should all memorize du'a.
		
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			Everyone try to memorize du'a, Allah
		
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			Umna. Or Jornifee Musseybati
		
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			reward me for my calamity and replace it
		
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			with that which is better,
		
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			Right?
		
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			Replace it with that which is better.
		
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			That's true. Say
		
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			When my husband passed away, Abu Salama,
		
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			I said to myself,
		
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			Who is better than Abu Salama?
		
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			Is there anyone that is better than Abu
		
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			Salama?
		
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			Who was the companion of the Messenger
		
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			Right?
		
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			So then I said this dua that the
		
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			Messenger
		
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			taught us.
		
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			So what happened? What does the dua say?
		
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			If you say it, Allah will give you
		
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			that which is better. And she's saying it
		
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			to herself, who is better than Abu Salima?
		
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			Guess what happened?
		
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			She ended up getting married to the Prophet
		
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			That's a love story, guys. How romantic.
		
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			The
		
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			calamity that she was struck with, all of
		
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			a sudden my sisters and my brothers,
		
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			it became what? A blessing.
		
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			You just don't know
		
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			what is waiting for you my brothers and
		
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			my sisters. Sometimes we look at these calamities
		
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			and think, why is Allah making me go
		
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			through this?
		
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			Why
		
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			out of all people has He picked me
		
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			to go through these troubles? Again, we go
		
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			back to tawhid.
		
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			From the names of Allah is what? Al
		
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			Hakim,
		
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			alayhi salaahu biakamil Hakimin, we all memorize that,
		
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			shorteen.
		
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			Isn't Allah the most wise?
		
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			How many a time guys have we been
		
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			in a position where we thought this was
		
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			the best thing for me?
		
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			Agreed?
		
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			And you're thinking I'm missing out.
		
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			And in years down the line, you think
		
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			to yourself, SubhanAllah,
		
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			if that didn't happen, I wouldn't have this
		
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			today. It happens a lot, uh-huh, when you're
		
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			looking to get married.
		
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			Sahih,
		
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			you want bushra so badly,
		
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			right?
		
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			You desperately want
		
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			her. Just doesn't seem to be happening for
		
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			you and to make things worse. And I've
		
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			come across scenarios like this. Your best friend,
		
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			your best friend, he snatches her from under
		
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			your
		
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			nose.
		
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			What kind of best friend is he? You're
		
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			probably wondering.
		
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			But he was a blessing in disguise.
		
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			Years went by Allah blessed you,
		
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			right, with a bushra,
		
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			right,
		
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			with characteristics
		
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			and traits that the mind can't imagine.
		
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			And then you say, if that didn't happen,
		
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			I wouldn't have this tree.
		
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			You should say, Inna lillahi waina ilaha illa
		
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			rajaron Allahummajunifimusibati
		
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			waklifliqayim
		
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			minha.
		
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			Right?
		
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			How many is that, my brothers and my
		
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			sisters?
		
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			5? Yes.
		
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			Or is that 4? We're on 5 now.
		
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			Number 5, my brothers and my sisters,
		
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			this one is really powerful. You may see
		
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			us something very, very light.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Having good thoughts of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			You know what my favorite surah in the
		
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			Quran is? Does anyone know?
		
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			Come on, guys. Half of you guys went?
		
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			Sir Yusuf.
		
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			Sir, it's Yusuf.
		
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			Queen Mary,
		
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			Westminster,
		
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			Bath.
		
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			Is that what they call it?
		
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			What's that university called that collaborates with Queen
		
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			Mary?
		
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			Bath. Sorry. Not Bath.
		
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			Bath.
		
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			Doc. Right?
		
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			And then the other one in, in West
		
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			London, what's it called? The one that I
		
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			went to? It's It's It's imperial.
		
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			Not imperial.
		
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			It's going now.
		
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			Bruno. That's the
		
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			one.
		
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			Yes.
		
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			Guys, calm down.
		
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			Surat Yusuf is my favorite surah. What's my
		
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			favorite benefit on Surat? Do you know what
		
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			it is, guys?
		
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			My favorite benefit is when
		
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			Allah quoted Yaqub to have said, Fasabrun janil.
		
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			What does that mean? Beautiful patience. When did
		
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			he say rah? The first time he said
		
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			it was when he lost his most beloved
		
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			son,
		
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			Yousaf alaihis salatu sam. He said, fasabhul janeel
		
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			wallahu sasanalalamaqasifar.
		
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			The a, double I, is certain that would
		
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			you describe.
		
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			He went
		
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			decades, brothers and sisters,
		
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			And he was
		
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			what? Yearning for his beloved son,
		
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			paining this loss.
		
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			Another couple of decades go past, my brothers
		
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			and my sisters,
		
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			and then he loses
		
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			the second most beloved son to him, which
		
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			is
		
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			Ben Yameel
		
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			or Benjamin.
		
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			He says it again, fasabrul jameel.
		
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			What does he say this time around? This
		
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			is my favorite benefit guys.
		
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			Perhaps now,
		
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			Allah will bring them all back to me.
		
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			The
		
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			optimism, guys. Is it a first time or
		
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			a second time?
		
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			And you're thinking to yourself, most people when
		
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			they go through difficulty, and that difficulty happens
		
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			again, I say, deja vu.
		
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			It's getting more harder.
		
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			Right?
		
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			He's got more hope now.
		
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			He's got better fiznu zhun of Allah with
		
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			thoughts of Allah
		
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			So what did the scholar say?
		
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			When you go through hardships and difficulties
		
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			and then it intensifies,
		
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			it gets harder to deal with, it's dense,
		
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			when being relieved is.
		
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			It's then when it is what?
		
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			That's exactly how Yaqoob took it, my brothers
		
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			and sisters.
		
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			There is light at the end of the
		
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			tunnel. Don't think. Right? Allah just wants to
		
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			abandon me. He doesn't like me.
		
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			Why always me?
		
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			Like, remember we mentioned that there are what?
		
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			Hikm wisdoms behind it.
		
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			Complaining again.
		
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			Number 6 now. Right? What number 6?
		
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			Number 6.
		
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			My brothers and my sisters,
		
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			there's nothing better
		
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			than easing that pain. We talked about salah.
		
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			Right?
		
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			I put this as an independent point
		
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			so that insha Allahu Ta'ala
		
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			we can pay attention to it and to
		
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			alert you.
		
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			Standing up in the last day of the
		
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			night when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala comes down
		
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			in a manner that sues His Majesty, as
		
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			the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said.
		
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			Where Allah
		
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			says, Who's going to call on to me
		
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			so I don't respond
		
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			to him? You're alone in the dark.
		
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			Right? Everyone's asleep.
		
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			No friends,
		
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			No one else besides you other than yourself
		
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			and Allah.
		
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			And you begin to call out. Imam al
		
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			Shafi'i says
		
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			the du'a that you make in that time
		
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			of the night is like the arrow that
		
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			doesn't miss his target.
		
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			The arrow that does not miss his target,
		
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			my brothers and my sisters.
		
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			Dua, it is from the greatest cause for
		
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			your problems.
		
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			Right? If Bill Gates you guys know Bill
		
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			Gates. Right?
		
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			Or let me actually, forget him.
		
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			Elon Musk,
		
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			the man who freed the bird,
		
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			Twitter.
		
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			Right? You freed Twitter, right? Masih. Elon Musk
		
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			said to every single one of us, come
		
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			to me at 3 AM.
		
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			Wallahi, there's going to be a line at
		
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			his door.
		
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			And if you come I'll give you x
		
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			amount of money, we are going to believe
		
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			him.
		
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			We're going to believe him. Oh, oh, oh,
		
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			oh, naturally.
		
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			Because we see what he possesses.
		
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			Allah
		
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			calls out to you
		
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			while the people are asleep. How can we
		
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			be asleep?
		
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			And he comes down, my brothers and my
		
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			sisters.
		
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			And he's saying whatever you need let me
		
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			give it to you.
		
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			Can you see
		
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			And last but not least, my brothers and
		
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			my sisters, last but not least, I would
		
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			love to elaborate on each point
		
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			by keeping told to hurry up.
		
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			Last but not least, and this one is
		
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			very crucial.
		
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			It is called being self critical.
		
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			Holding yourself to account when things start going
		
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			wrong in your life, the way we are
		
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			as human beings.
		
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			When things go wrong, we are ready to
		
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			point the finger at everyone except ourselves. Sayed?
		
00:37:07 --> 00:37:09
			Everyone's wrong except me.
		
00:37:10 --> 00:37:12
			Perhaps maybe tweak that a little bit
		
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			and say I may be going through this
		
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			because of
		
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			something that I've done. Let me ask you
		
00:37:17 --> 00:37:18
			guys a question.
		
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			You heard the hadith, right?
		
00:37:30 --> 00:37:32
			If Allah loves an individual, He tested it.
		
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			But also Allah says
		
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			I'm done guys. Yeah? Give me 2 more
		
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			minutes.
		
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			Please lend me your ear and don't distract
		
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			the people around you.
		
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			Never are you struck with a difficulty except
		
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			it is due
		
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			to what you have earned with your own
		
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			hands.
		
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			How do I know if it's this or
		
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			if it's that?
		
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			Be my mommy.
		
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			How do I know if it's the first?
		
00:38:04 --> 00:38:05
			Hi, Jamal.
		
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			Tell me. Is it a first or a
		
00:38:09 --> 00:38:10
			second? Reaction.
		
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			He said your reaction. So if he brings
		
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			you closer to Allah, it means?
		
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			If it doesn't?
		
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			Guys, anything else? Yeah.
		
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			Not you.
		
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			Not you. Anyone else?
		
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			You don't
		
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			know. She said you don't know. Good.
		
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			Okay. It's very hard to tell
		
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			unless you know exactly what Allah
		
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			knows,
		
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			my brothers and my sisters. So what do
		
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			you do? You put yourself in a win
		
00:38:43 --> 00:38:44
			win situation.
		
00:38:45 --> 00:38:46
			What is the win win situation?
		
00:38:47 --> 00:38:49
			You raise the possibility that it was because
		
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			of a sin that you died,
		
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			and then you repent to
		
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			Allah.
		
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			Allah loves those who keep coming back to
		
00:39:00 --> 00:39:00
			him in repentance.
		
00:39:01 --> 00:39:03
			Right, and those who are pure.
		
00:39:04 --> 00:39:06
			If it was because that Allah
		
00:39:06 --> 00:39:07
			loves you, then you've only increased
		
00:39:09 --> 00:39:10
			in his love. Right? And if it was
		
00:39:10 --> 00:39:12
			because of your sin, you've come back to
		
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			Allah
		
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			But what do most people do? They sit
		
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			around blaming everyone, pointing the finger at others,
		
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			especially when it comes to marriages. Right?
		
00:39:21 --> 00:39:24
			There's issues. He's wrong. She's wrong. He's wrong.
		
00:39:24 --> 00:39:25
			She's wrong.
		
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			Maybe you guys are having these problems because
		
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			of the sins that are happening within your
		
00:39:30 --> 00:39:31
			marriage.
		
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			In Mutinya he says, look what he says,
		
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			right?
		
00:39:43 --> 00:39:45
			When you see someone after going through a
		
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			calamity, he begins to retaliate.
		
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			Guys guys. The
		
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			outside.
		
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			Those outside, please.
		
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			Derek.
		
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			If you see someone now retaliating
		
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			after he's going through some trouble or after
		
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			someone has harmed him
		
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			and he doesn't
		
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			hold himself to account, he is not self
		
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			critical,
		
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			then no, this guy has a big problem.
		
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			However,
		
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			if he now comes back to Allah, Allah
		
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			will turn that problem
		
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			into a blessing for him.
		
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			I have so many examples I would love
		
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			to go through of how the righteous of
		
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			the past are set up.
		
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			They would be self critical.
		
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			They would hold themselves to account when things
		
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			were going wrong.
		
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			Right?
		
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			How
		
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			many points is this? Probably because
		
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			How many is that 7? What was number
		
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			1? So 8. So 8. Number 2?
		
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			Right. So we're built upon it.
		
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			Virtues.
		
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			5. Good thoughts of Allah azza wa Jalam
		
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			in Abdeen.
		
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			Things go wrong, go and take a moment
		
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			out to repent. Maybe it's because of something
		
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			that I've done. It could be 10 years
		
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			ago
		
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			that you didn't repent from.
		
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			A lot of these points, my brothers and
		
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			my sisters, I spoke a little bit about
		
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			it,
		
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			right,
		
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			in a lecture. I still haven't given it
		
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			justice because they keep hurrying me up.
		
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			It's called do not be sad. It's on
		
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			my channel. They're one of the last videos
		
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			I was put out.
		
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			You get a chance, inshallah, ta'ala, watch that.
		
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			Tomorrow, like I said, there's a program in
		
00:41:57 --> 00:41:58
			West London, South Ward.
		
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			This is more for people who want to
		
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			seek knowledge,
		
00:42:02 --> 00:42:04
			5 principles, legal maxims
		
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			that your religion is based on and of
		
00:42:07 --> 00:42:08
			course,
		
00:42:08 --> 00:42:11
			boycotting one another and doing tabdeeah on one
		
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			another. This guy is an innovator, that guy
		
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			is an innovator,
		
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			that which we hear all the time,
		
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			right?
		
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			Tabeah ing people.
		
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			We're gonna talk about that InshaAllah Ta'ala
		
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			And also after Maghrib,
		
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			he reminded me White Man Road Masjid.
		
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			Right.
		
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			You know the road sounds good.
		
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			It's called White Man Road Masjid.
		
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			Right? White Man Road Masjid, inshaAllah ta'ala. That's
		
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			after Maghrib.
		
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			It's called Deen versus Dunya. I hope to
		
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			see you guys InshaAllah Ta'ala tomorrow.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Jazaakum Allahu khayran, allah. It's so nice to
		
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			see the place packed. As always,
		
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			I ask Allah to bless every single one
		
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			of you guys.
		
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			If we don't meet again, may Allah reunite
		
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			us in the hereafter in the highest part
		
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			of Jannah.
		
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			SubhanakAllahu
		
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			bihamdik.