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The speaker discusses the difficulty of pursuing knowledge and the need for knowledge to be a priority. They also mention a quote from the prophet that if a person is working, they will be able to get an increase in their provision. The speaker emphasizes the importance of understanding the importance of knowledge to avoid negative behavior.

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			You know, the prophet said,
		
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			verily this dunya
		
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			is cursed,
		
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			and everything in it is cursed as well.
		
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			Except for a few things.
		
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			Except the remembrance of Allah
		
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			scholar, the one that teaches the knowledge, and
		
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			the one who learns the knowledge.
		
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			And you know why the reason
		
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			the reason as to why this dunya is
		
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			merely discussed?
		
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			Because if you look now at
		
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			the situation of the majority of the older
		
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			societies,
		
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			you find it has busied them away from
		
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			what?
		
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			Their main objective which is an Ibada,
		
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			and the Ibada requires knowledge.
		
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			And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala exempted these people.
		
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			The prophet salallahu alayhi exempted the one who
		
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			teaches the religion, the one who learns the
		
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			religion,
		
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			and the remembrance of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			which today we find it is very difficult
		
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			of our customs to do.
		
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			It is very, very difficult.
		
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			Aliyah, radiAllahu Anhu,
		
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			he mentioned a very powerful statement.
		
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			He said,
		
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			It is sufficient
		
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			to show us or for us to know
		
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			that the is so honored
		
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			or is so honorable.
		
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			That even the person
		
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			who is not befitting
		
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			to be seen as a person of knowledge,
		
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			he will claim it.
		
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			Everybody likes to be called the knowledgeable person.
		
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			Right?
		
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			If I say to a person,
		
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			you're very, very knowledgeable, they're gonna get excited
		
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			even though he might be a jay.
		
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			Everyone gets excited, and they start rejoicing about
		
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			it. And then he said,
		
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			and he gets excited when it is ascribed
		
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			to him.
		
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			And it is sufficient for ignorance
		
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			to be something that is defamed,
		
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			something that is depraved.
		
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			That even the person who has ignorance with
		
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			him, he will try to free himself with
		
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			it.
		
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			An ignorant person, we just mentioned, if you
		
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			call him knowledgeable, he gets excited.
		
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			And even though he knows he is ignorant,
		
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			when you say you are ignorant, no, he
		
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			goes, oh, no, ignorant.
		
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			He tries to free himself from it.
		
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			It is sufficient for us to see the
		
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			knowledge to be such an horrible thing through
		
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			this matter.
		
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			And in
		
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			also mentioned a very powerful statement. In regards
		
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			to the statement of Allah
		
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			when Allah told the messenger of Allah saying,
		
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			Oh Allah, increase my knowledge. He
		
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			of the virtuous
		
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			of knowledge
		
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			or the virtue of knowledge.
		
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			Because Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala never commanded his
		
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			Nabi,
		
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			his prophet,
		
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			to ask for an increase in anything except
		
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			knowledge.
		
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			Allah
		
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			commanded the messenger
		
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			to ask an increase in anything except what
		
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			knowledge?
		
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			To show you the virtue,
		
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			superiority,
		
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			the greatness,
		
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			the honor of this
		
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			knowledge that Allah
		
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			has mentioned
		
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			to us. Okay.
		
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			You know, brothers and sisters,
		
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			a lot of time we find
		
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			a person who wants to seek knowledge,
		
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			but he finds it difficult maybe due to
		
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			the commitments that he has.
		
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			Whether it is he needs to go to
		
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			university, whether it is he has work, for
		
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			whatever reasons,
		
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			The matters pertaining to dunya.
		
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			And he struggles to maybe combine between the
		
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			2. He struggles really hard.
		
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			And then as time goes on, you find
		
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			that
		
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			he
		
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			ends up maybe
		
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			pushing the anger of
		
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			chasing the dunya more than knowledge and slowly
		
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			dies out altogether.
		
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			You know, brother and sister of all, I'm
		
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			not saying if you don't study or work
		
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			or anything like that, but what I'm trying
		
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			to point out is
		
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			how this is one of the tricks of
		
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			the shaytron.
		
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			And it requires a bit of knowledge to
		
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			understand
		
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			where our master harai, where our masteraha is.
		
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			If we look at the Sharia, we find
		
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			that the way people think today, our Sharia
		
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			tells us Bilaks.
		
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			The shaitan whispers in our mind that if
		
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			we carry on chasing that money, them dollars
		
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			and them pounds, and we work maybe not
		
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			only 36 hours, we work 48 hours, we're
		
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			going to have a certain amount every month.
		
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			And rightfully so we might have that money
		
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			coming into our bank accounts.
		
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			But then what?
		
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			A lot of people never ever tend to
		
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			reach that stage above.
		
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			Few you find maybe they have 5,000 stacked
		
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			up in their banks. Few.
		
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			The majority don't.
		
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			Everybody is basically going through in a circle.
		
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			They work
		
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			and. After the end of the month, they
		
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			pick up their pay, and we're back to
		
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			square 1. It's like the box life. Throughout
		
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			the whole year, we basically go through the
		
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			same thing.
		
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			And we don't seem to be getting anywhere.
		
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			If only, brothers and sisters,
		
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			and this is a guarantee
		
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			that the prophet
		
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			gave you
		
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			makes a promise, and he doesn't fit in
		
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			his promise.
		
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			If you just act upon this,
		
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			you will find
		
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			that
		
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			the dunya,
		
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			that you're not making your main priority is
		
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			going to be a direct to you.
		
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			It will come to you even though you're
		
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			not chasing it.
		
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			The prophet
		
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			told us in Hadith,
		
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			Allah
		
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			will tear his affairs apart,
		
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			and he will place poverty
		
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			in between his eyes. For what? For chasing
		
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			a dunya.
		
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			And, brother and sisters, the majority
		
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			that I've seen, a
		
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			lot of people, they don't tend to be
		
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			getting anywhere.
		
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			Then the prophet
		
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			told us,
		
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			Whoever makes the akhira,
		
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			his main objective,
		
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			his main
		
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			priority.
		
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			He'll bring in the fast together. He will
		
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			sort it out for him.
		
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			He will place richness in his heart, in
		
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			his heart.
		
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			The dunya will be dragged to him.
		
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			The dunya
		
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			will be dragged to him.
		
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			Bill acts of how we think. We think
		
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			that if we go chase, he's going to
		
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			come to us.
		
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			Roberts running away from
		
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			us. But the prophet saying to you,
		
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			you make the
		
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			your main objective.
		
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			The duniya is going to come around you.
		
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			It's gonna revolve around you. It's going to
		
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			come to you and say to you, come
		
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			take me.
		
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			And you know inshallah, brothers and sisters, if
		
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			Allah gives me a tofir, I'm doing a
		
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			series
		
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			of means of getting an increase in provision.
		
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			And it should be available on my YouTube
		
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			channel very, very soon
		
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			as the brothers are working on it. There's
		
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			maybe 15, 16 reasons that I have written
		
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			down at the moment of of maybe getting
		
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			an increase in provision.
		
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			Someone that acts to do it because of
		
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			it, a person's wealth will increase. And the
		
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			reason why I've done that is because
		
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			a lot of time, when a brother, he
		
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			wants to pursue
		
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			a career knowledge,
		
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			automatically,
		
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			he thinks or people
		
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			saying to him or the shaytan whispers to
		
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			him, you're going to be a poor person.
		
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			You're not going to be able to get
		
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			any far or anywhere,
		
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			which the reality of the matter is khanam
		
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			Farik.
		
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			It is not a statement that is true,
		
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			rather it's an empty statement, empty claim.
		
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			This means the
		
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			prophet told us about that if you do
		
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			this, Allah will increase your provision.
		
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			And this is one of them.