Abu Taymiyyah – Ali Banat Muhammad Ali & Death in & Before Ramadhan

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The importance of the messenger sallahu alaihi wa sallam's words during the month as a token of strength and pride, and the people of the past are considered the best of creation. The speaker also touches on treating people of the past with sincerity and praying for a farewell prayer. The importance of safe treatment of people of the past and visiting burial burial places is also discussed.

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			Okay.
		
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			That's a very good question because it's always
		
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			like at the middle of the month
		
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			where,
		
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			you know, a person after he's been striving
		
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			so much, he begins to feel very very
		
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			tired.
		
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			You know the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			He used
		
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			to strive in the last 10 days,
		
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			a type of striving, and he would put
		
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			so much effort that we which he wouldn't
		
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			do in the
		
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			previous days of Ramadan.
		
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			Also he came to Hadid of Aisha
		
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			Khanan Nabi sallallahu alaihi was telling me
		
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			that
		
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			The Messenger sallallahu alaihi was saying, when the
		
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			last 10 days entered,
		
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			he would tie his trousers. It's like a
		
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			figurative speech. His lungi, I think they call
		
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			in a in Urdu. Right?
		
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			In Samani, they call him And
		
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			in Arabic, they call it Izzar.
		
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			He would tie it, meaning he would like
		
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			up his game. Okay?
		
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			And
		
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			he would wake up his family and he
		
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			would bring his
		
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			night to life.
		
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			But of course, this is the messenger sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wasalam. Somebody thinks himself always the messenger.
		
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			He was the best of creation.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			One thing that I've realized my brothers and
		
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			sisters
		
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			to
		
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			And insha Allahu ta'ala, maybe we'll take this
		
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			as a lesson.
		
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			There's a number of things that really really
		
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			soften a person's heart.
		
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			And maybe because of us now feeling
		
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			so empty inside,
		
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			it has something to do with why our
		
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			Ibadat are really, you know, going downhill.
		
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			There's a number of points that a person
		
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			can actually do. One of them is
		
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			looking up the
		
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			biographies
		
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			of the people of the past, the righteous
		
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			of the past,
		
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			of how they used to do Ibadah, how
		
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			they used to
		
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			conduct themselves in the month of Ramadan.
		
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			My brothers and sisters,
		
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			when we hear that Uthman ibn Affair
		
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			used to read the Quran,
		
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			used to read the Quran, the whole Quran
		
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			in 1 raka.
		
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			He used to read the whole Quran in
		
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			1 raka. I've seen
		
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			When I was in Yemen,
		
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			the sheikh, he would read maybe sometimes
		
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			8 Jews in 1 rakah.
		
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			8 Jews in 1 rakah.
		
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			These are people who are currently living with
		
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			us.
		
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			They are still alive.
		
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			And I'm gonna send you our lectures of
		
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			a brother that he recently done. He's a
		
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			good friend of mine. He's studying in Saudi
		
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			Arabia as well. Where he was talking about
		
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			the people of the past in the month
		
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			of Ramadan and how much Quran they would
		
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			read.
		
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			But like I said, my brothers and sisters,
		
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			again, it goes back to a person's heart.
		
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			As Uthman ibn Affan himself, he said,
		
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			Had our hearts become so
		
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			pure, we wouldn't have become bored of trying
		
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			to read the Quran of Allah
		
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			So again, it goes back to the issue
		
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			of the heart. I was trying to really
		
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			really rectify it. These people in our time,
		
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			he was saying that he would read the
		
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			Quran from Badal Isha all the way to
		
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			Fajr.
		
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			And he only passed away in 1970.
		
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			It was the Sheikh of Sheikh Salah ibn
		
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			Abdul Abilah bin Hamid al Usaymi,
		
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			who's a teacher in the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam's masjid.
		
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			So us now reading
		
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			the
		
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			stories and the real life experiences of the
		
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			people of the past
		
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			and you know standing over it, it's really
		
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			really encourages a person and he ups his
		
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			iman.
		
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			There's this lecture that I really done. You
		
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			might want to find it on my YouTube
		
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			channel. It talks about sincerity
		
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			and
		
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			also,
		
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			how the the people of the past, the
		
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			righteous from the 3 golden generations,
		
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			those the Messenger and prayed, they used to
		
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			hide the good deeds. It's one of them,
		
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			quotes when you read, it really ups a
		
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			person's iman.
		
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			Another thing, my brothers and sisters, that we
		
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			can actually,
		
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			you know, take into consideration is
		
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			to treat these days that is coming up
		
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			as if it's maybe the last days of
		
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			our lives.
		
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			You know, when Messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he
		
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			told us,
		
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			When you now stand up for prayer,
		
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			then make sure you pray the farewell prayer.
		
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			Meaning, this prayer should be a prayer that
		
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			you pray and perfect it and may put
		
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			your utmost effort inside it,
		
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			thinking that you might not be able to
		
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			get another opportunity to pray another prayer.
		
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			And we know between isha and fajar, between
		
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			duhr and asr, it's only a few hours.
		
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			If we've been told to pray the farewell
		
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			prayer with regards
		
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			to
		
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			and every time we stand up in front
		
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			of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
		
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			and the period between the two salawat are
		
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			very very little.
		
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			How about the next Ramadan? That's like 12
		
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			months away. How many people around us, my
		
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			brothers and sisters, have passed away?
		
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			I was just mentioning the other day in
		
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			Masjid Al Khani, let's start.
		
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			Yani, like people that I personally know.
		
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			SubhanAllah, my brothers and sisters, just before I
		
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			left in Madinah,
		
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			Sheikh Abdul Azak Al Badr was telling us
		
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			his story.
		
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			Because the lessons that we was having was,
		
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			you know, directly revolving around
		
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			death
		
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			and that we really need to kind of
		
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			like take our lives a bit more seriously
		
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			and softening the heart and so on and
		
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			so forth.
		
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			He said, a couple of days before the
		
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			month of Ramadan,
		
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			there was this African brother who came to
		
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			the Sheikh.
		
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			An African brother who came to the Sheikh.
		
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			And he was showing him the schedule and
		
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			the timetable
		
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			of another African Dae'i, who's given Dae'u in
		
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			Africa,
		
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			everything that he had planned out.
		
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			Everything that he had planned out to give
		
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			the lectures, the khatab,
		
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			the reminders, everything was already planned out.
		
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			All the posters were already sent out.
		
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			So this brother now in Medina is showing
		
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			the Sheikh that this individual died
		
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			before the month of Ramadan,
		
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			even though he had all of this ready.
		
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			You know, it doesn't you know, most most
		
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			of us, it might not necessarily
		
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			cross our minds just a couple of days
		
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			before the month of Ramadan and also before
		
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			the last 10 days in laylatulqadr,
		
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			that our lives might be taken.
		
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			It's something that we tend to really like
		
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			it just crosses our minds.
		
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			It doesn't pass our minds that we could
		
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			die.
		
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			Everybody is already excited of Eid, you know,
		
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			we're already preparing. We're preparing for the month
		
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			of Ramadan before it and an Eid in
		
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			the last 10 days.
		
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			Just like maybe conducting ourselves in these, that
		
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			it might be the last days of our
		
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			lives. I'm sure we all know the brother
		
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			called Ali Banat.
		
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			I never knew him personally, but people are
		
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			very close to me. They had
		
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			a very close-up personal relationship with the brother.
		
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			He passed away a couple of days ago.
		
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			Somebody who was really trying to look after
		
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			his akhirah.
		
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			I've seen another Some of the brothers who
		
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			I am very close to,
		
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			I think the sister was studying with them.
		
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			Just before Ramadan she was posting of how
		
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			we should really,
		
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			you know,
		
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			take our health
		
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			and you know be thankful about our health.
		
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			They were posting, you know, Twitter images, screenshots.
		
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			She just passed away a couple of days
		
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			ago. Just recently my teacher he says to
		
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			me, that used to teach me Quran when
		
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			I was really young,
		
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			He says to me, Muhammad, you you travel
		
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			quite a bit.
		
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			Make dua for my dad. He passed away
		
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			just before the month of Ramadan.
		
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			You know, it really softens up a person's
		
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			heart to go visit the graveyard.
		
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			The messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam told us
		
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			in a
		
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			hadith, I previously
		
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			prohibited you from going to the graves, but
		
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			now go and visit it.
		
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			It came in another piece of narration that
		
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			was added on by Imam Atirmid
		
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			What is the reason why? Why did the
		
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			messiah tell us to go and visit the
		
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			graves? For inna to Zakirul Akhirah.
		
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			It reminds a person of the akhirah.
		
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			And there's another piece of narration as well
		
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			narrated by Ibn Majah,
		
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			It makes a person
		
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			look
		
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			down and overlook the dunya.
		
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			When you realize that you're going to be,
		
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			you know, 8 feet down
		
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			at any point of your life
		
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			that we're currently breathing,
		
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			it really really makes a person
		
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			overlook the pleasures of this dunya
		
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			and think more about the akhirah.
		
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			So us, you know, really treating these days
		
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			as if it's the last ten days of
		
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			our lives.
		
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			And us not
		
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			being able to maybe reach another Ramadan
		
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			and having this on the back of our
		
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			minds.
		
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			You don't
		
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			know Muhammad Ali,
		
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			the great boxer. Undoubtedly the best boxer to
		
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			maybe ever fight
		
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			in this dunya as they say. When did
		
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			he die last year? Couple of days before
		
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			the month of