Adnan Rajeh – Quranic Reflections – Surat Al-Shoura 24 – End of Surat Al-Ahqaf

Adnan Rajeh
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The Surah Al Haqaf cycle is the cycle where the cycle is the end of the cycle, and the speaker emphasizes the importance of working on behavior and character, avoiding materialistic thinking, and following advice from Allah Subhan Ali Waasala. The importance of responding positively to teachings and prioritizing others' actions is also emphasized. The speaker provides personal examples of advice and guidance on responding to difficult situations, avoiding del prep, and responding positively to difficult situations. The importance of love and relationships is also emphasized, and caution is given against being too lightly drawn into political conversations and not letting fear and control influence one's actions.
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Today,

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we,

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will recite

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until the end of Surah Al Haqaf, which

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is the end of the,

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the costar of surahs that we were talking

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about yesterday,

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the haamim. So we actually will will complete

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the haamim. Won't do anything more. And tomorrow

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I get to talk about a new group

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of Suraj. It's always nice if I can,

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limit my,

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my talks on on a small group of

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Suraj. So I'll try and do next year

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in terms of the breakdown. I didn't do

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a very we didn't do a very good

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job in in watching out for that piece

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when we broke it down this year. Next

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year we'll try to try to, stick to

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end of clusters if possible.

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So the I mean, from, ghafir to the

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end of akhab, which is basically ghafir, fosurat,

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shura, zukhufadukhan, jafir, lakha, to the 7 surahs.

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And they are

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all advice and warnings on the way of

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dawah, like, on the way of of of

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spreading the message to people

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different than the cluster earlier from israelat to

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a number that talked about taking the message

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on a societal level. Like, actually taking it

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as in establishing a civilization for it and

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and stabilizing it and what that requires, which

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is a different, discussion of when those sort

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of talked about things are a bit more

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operational, a little bit more higher,

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higher higher level,

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thought processes. Here is

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And al Hawamim, that's all that's really what

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they do. They just offer you some pieces

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some important pieces of advice, to follow. And

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so the prophet talks about, the first piece,

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which is taking it taking it to those

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who who, to argue against it. Like, don't

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don't take it only to those who are

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asking for it or looking for it, but

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also take it to those who don't want

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it. Yeah, you take it

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and and and have the arguments with them

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or the discussions or the conversations and do

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that while you're connected to Allah. I mean,

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you have to do do that parallel with

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your own dua.

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And that's why this surah emphasizes ladinu shaddiloon

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and dua. Like, these two concepts of

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you doing your job but keeping that connection

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alive with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And Surah

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al Fulsilah talks about the fact that dawah

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is best done with behavior. It's just best

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better done in behave with behaviors,

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because people who are who refuse to listen,

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they bring upon themselves punishment. If they won't

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even listen to what you have to say,

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then you actually put them out you jeopardize

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them and you put yourself but if you

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don't necessarily push that that agenda and you

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and you focus on achievements and

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accomplishments and character and ethics, you actually do

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a better job and it and it affects

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people more. And not to say that you

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shouldn't do it verbally, but that's what that's

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what's going to make an argument

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for it, for behaviour. And then the final

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one is what the shura talks about having

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reference points,

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having

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originality

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in terms of your values,

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and one of those being shura. One of

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the central ones being working as a group,

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working as a as a as a community,

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consultation

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and not really moving in a direction without

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making sure the community is actually, in agreement

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with that movement. That's very important. If you

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want to perform dawah, this is going to

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be needed. And those are the 3 pieces

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of advice that these surahs offer. So the

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other 3 that we're going to recite today,

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they offer some warnings. Zukhref warns you from

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the mentality of materialism. And I talked about

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this maybe 2 years ago after Fajr,

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during weekends. We did tafsir through to Zukruf

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and I went through the whole surah. It

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talks about the pitfall of materialistic thinking and

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how that causes a lot like, if you're

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if you're materialistic in the way that you

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look at things zukruv. Zukruv is adornments or,

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you know, how things are

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made flashy or they look good.

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They look pretty, even though they may not

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have substance to them. If you go materialistic

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in how you judge things, you run masajid

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like businesses. If you run, you know, daw

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like businesses, you look at communities as if

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you're running a

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it it it doesn't work out. Like, it

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doesn't that's not gonna that's not that's not

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gonna work. In your in your path of

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dua, you have to be able to see

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beyond beyond the the materialistic

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aspect of it all.

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And and the surah talks about that in

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many ways, and it gives a lot of

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examples. And if we do a few verses,

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though, it'll become clear to you, inshallah.

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Surat,

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Duqan talks about the illusion.

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The illusion. Thinking having delusional thinking. Thinking in

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a way where you're not you're not realistic,

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you're not logical.

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You're not preparing yourself for what is to

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come, like you're not you're not reading the

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signs

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of what's happening around you, and you're and

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you're, you know, engaging in delusional thinking, which

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is a big problem.

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Again,

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all these things that these sort of talk

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about, I mean,

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it's exactly what we have to take time

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and really contemplate.

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This is exactly what our problems are. We're

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not reading the science. When you're not reading

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the science of what's what's actually occurring within

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your society or or coming towards your community

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or what what you're at jeopardy

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for,

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then you can't protect yourself. And if you

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engage in delusional thinking, where you just tell

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yourself lies, so that you feel better about

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where you are, then you're dooming yourself. And

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that's why I complain a lot about things,

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And so I keep on, you know, pushing

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and pointing out problems because I find it

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to be

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problematic or scary if we, you know, if

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we're going to ignore what's occurring around us,

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ignoring all the signs, and we ignore the

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fact that we're seeing problems and we're seeing

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deficits and we're seeing gaps and we're not

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trying to fix them, and that we are

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engaging in a lot of this, kind of,

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you know, cloud optimism, where you just yeah,

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everything is good. Everything is doing great. We're

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all it's not. And it doesn't mean that

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it can't be. It just means that it's

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not right now. And

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and being able to see the signs of

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that and think logically about it, I think,

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is

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I think is important. And then Surat Al

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Jati talks about it it, warns so Surat

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Zukh warns from materialistic

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mentality. Surat Al Dukhaim warns from delusional thinking

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and lack of reading signs and seeing things

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for what they are.

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So the Zazakih warns

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from arrogance when you have knowledge,

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because as Muslims, you'll see yourself to be

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a little bit more knowledgeable, because when you

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learn the Quran, you learn the the the

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values and the principles the Quran teaches.

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It's it's very profound.

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It opens your mind and you end up,

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you know, understanding things that maybe a lot

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of people don't fully understand. And you appreciate

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things that maybe not everyone appreciates. So you

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have a bit more knowledge.

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But if that if that leaves somehow to

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arrogance, which is what Suttl Jaffee warns of,

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then it's

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downfall from there. Like, you don't you you

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can't recover from it.

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You cannot allow the elm that you have

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or the dawah that you're carrying to make

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you feel arrogant or to for for it

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to guide you or take you in a

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direction where you start looking down at those

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who don't have that which you have or

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those who refuse

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what you have. That's not that's not appropriate

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and it doesn't work that way. That's what

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the jatiya basically explains. And those are the

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3 warnings in these 3 surahs. And the

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last last surah on this cluster which is

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Rudl Haqaf,

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it tell you that the outcomes, it doesn't

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like, it it it states a fact. Like,

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3 Surah give peace, positive things to do.

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You do this, this, this.

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The other 3 surahs don't do this, don't

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do this, don't do this, and then the

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last one says, at the end, the outcome

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is in the hands of Allah Subhanahu Wa

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Ta'ala. You can't you can't control it. Even

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if you follow all of the recommendations, even

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if you take the recommendations of suhudraafirashurwazukh

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wwafussilat,

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and even if you avoid the warnings of

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his zukh of dukhan al jafiyah,

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still the outcome is not in your hands.

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You can't control who is going to respond,

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who's not going to respond, who's going to

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listen, who's not going to listen. That is

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purely in the hands of Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala. Sometimes you do the best job and

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no one will listen. And sometimes you do

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no job at all and others and people

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will listen. You can't control that piece. That

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piece is the hands of Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala. You do your best. You you follow

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these rulings. You follow these laws. You follow

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these recommendations and you avoid the warnings.

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But then

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you have to accept that Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala the outcome is purely in his hands

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subhanahu wa ta'ala. He he completely took control

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of the outcome. That's what Surah Al Akhav

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teaches and it's and it's obvious in the

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stories that it tells the story of of,

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Andhra

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It

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talks a story it's a story of the

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people of Hud,

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when they were in a place called Balakaf.

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And Hud did everything right, and they didn't

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listen. And then the prophet

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had the had the jinn within the story

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after it, except to me and every talk

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to them.

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You can't control that piece. So take the

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recommendation, the warnings, seriously follow them, and Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala will will decree whatever he

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wants to decree. I love that fact that

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the surahs at the end of this clause

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are just to kinda tell you. By the

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way, these recommendations and warnings, they're not bulletproof.

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They don't always work but you have to

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do them. You have to actually follow that.

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You have to take your dua

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to those who do not want to argue

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against it and you have to have those

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discussions with them so that the the idea

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is crystallized and it's clear that the argument

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is superior. You have to do that while

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your heart is connected to it. You have

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to do with dua. You have to do

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it with dua. You can't be disconnected from

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God when you're doing it because then it

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becomes an issue of I'm right and you're

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wrong, which is not. It's Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala bestowed a blessing upon me. I want

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to see if I can get it to

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you, if I if possible. So it was

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to remind us that character is the best

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form of dawah and it sure reminds us

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that you have to have a reference and

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that you

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need to have consultation within your community for

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it to work. So those are the recommendations.

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Those are the 3 things you have to

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make sure you do. You have to make

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sure that you take it to those who

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don't want it, You'll do it with connection

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with Allah. You do it with your character,

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and you have a proper setup within your

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community so that the consultation occurs and you

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actually have a proper reference point. And you

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have to avoid a materialistic approach to things.

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You have to avoid delusional thinking and lacking

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the the ability to read science. You have

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to avoid arrogance with the knowledge that you're

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given.

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And they and they all have, like, aspects

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of the story of Musa alaihis salaam because

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he ran through all of it, alaihis salaam.

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Musa alaihis salaam followed all did all the

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right things, ran into all the wrong things,

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like, he he he ran it with he

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avoided all the wrong things with and still

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he didn't get what he wanted. Like, he

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still they still didn't all, you know, respond

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the way they they they should have. And

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that's that's just how things are. That's just

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the reality of, of life. So what we're

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gonna do is we're gonna

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start with some of the verses. I don't

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think anyone's has voted at all. Oh, we

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do? Oh, what you do? Oh, we have

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a lot. Oh, nice. Okay.

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I stand corrected. So let's do, number 47

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of Surah Yeshua.

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So towards the end of Surah Al Shura,

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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

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after he gave the characteristics of the believers

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and how they work together and how they

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perform their Dawah and what references they have

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as they do it. The end of it,

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Allah subhanahu wa'ala gives us these beautiful verses.

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End of Surah Surah is really, really nice.

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It's really, really nice.

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Respond to your lord.

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Is respond. Respond to your lord. Respond to

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the teachings. Respond to the commands, respond to

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the rulings, respond to the laws, respond

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to the recommendations that he's offering you.

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Respond to your Lord. Miqabli before

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yet and yet. Before the day comes where

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there is no way back from Allah I

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mean, you have no way you have no

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way to to to leave his presence and

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go and do it right again and then

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come back.

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There's no there's no second chance. There's no

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return. You're standing in prayer time subhanahu wa

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ta'ala and your mind is like, just send

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me back for a moment. Oh, oh, you

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know, it was a test. I get it

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now. Let me go back and I'll do

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it better. I'll respond the way I was

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doing and I'll come back.

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And I'll come back. There is no there

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is no going back. There's no way for

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you to to retreat from the position that

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you're in to go back and do things

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correctly anymore. It's a one time deal.

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You

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have to respond now. You have to respond

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to what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is telling

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you now before you come to a position

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where there's no there's no way back. You

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can't go back and try things again.

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Allah subhanahu will not give you that that

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that that chance.

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You don't have a place to hide that

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day and you don't have anyone who will

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just chastise you and move along.

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You won't have you don't that's not an

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option where you can just be, you know,

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slapped on the wrist and then it's gone.

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No. At that moment, it's it's it's terminal.

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The judgment that is given that day is

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that it's it's the bottom line. There's nothing,

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there's no appeal after after this happens.

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And this area just, you know, in my

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opinion the way I see it,

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it it summarizes really this what this whole

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story is going to be about. You have

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to respond now. Respond does not necessarily mean

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that you're gonna do everything right. Right? He

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didn't say

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obey or no. He said it's tajibu, didn't

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respond.

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Meaning when he asks you to do something,

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try your best. Do what you can to

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respond positively to what it is that he

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asked you to do because subhanahu ta'ala knows

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that we don't have the capacity to do

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the to to do anything perfectly. We just

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don't.

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And we're very, you know, very fortunate that

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Allah

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acknowledges that all throughout the Quran and in

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the sunnah and the prophet that we we

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are not flaw we can't do things in

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a flawless manner.

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There's there's always going to be deficits and

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mistakes and problems.

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And since that's the case, what he asked

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for as a in in a in a

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summarizing verse, in a verse that is concise

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and very very,

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short and and simple, he said

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He responds to you when you make dua.

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He will respond to you. What you're required

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to do is You're

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required

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to respond to him

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Respond as in you hear what he it

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is that he's asking you to do, that

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you prioritize and you try your absolute best

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to do that to whatever to whatever extent

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that that's how to whatever extent you're capable

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or however that's going to end up looking

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like at the end. Because every one of

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us is going to be a little bit

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different and the to to which degree we're

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going to be able to follow Allah Subhanahu

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Wa Ta'ala's, commands and teachings in the Quran.

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Because why it's important for us as per

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as people to

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lessen the amount of time you spend maybe

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looking at how others are doing things and

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focus a little bit more on our own

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responses

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and whether what I'm doing right now is

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the best response I have to what Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala is explaining and teaching and

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commanding in terms of my relationship with him

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And I have to do and and there's

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a sense of urgency in this ayah.

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Do it before

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the day comes where you have no way

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back,

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where you cannot return right now. See this

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is the this is the advantage of the

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moment that you and I are living.

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You can you can repent right now and

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you can change things immediately. And you have

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you can go back. Like, you can go

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back and fix things. You can you can

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I

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this opportunity is is priceless, really? It's priceless.

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It's priceless when you know that very soon

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in the future, you're not going to have

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it anymore. You don't have the the capacity

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or the ability to go back and fix

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things And the and the one that asks

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you to respond to him will decline will

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deprive you your your your ability to go

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back and try again. You have no way

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to hide for him.

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You have no way to hide from.

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And there's no one who's going to

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chastise you and kinda move along. It's going

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to be it's going to be a terminal

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choice.

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That's something that for all of us, yeah,

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I need to, to reflect upon and contemplate.

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Let's do,

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a shura 52.

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Yeah. We got a time today. Let's see

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if we can get them all.

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The end of the story is just

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like that.

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We reveal to you

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Yeah.

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That's how he describes it subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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Is a spirit.

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We reveal to you a spirit from our

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matter.

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When Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala talks about the

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Quran in this ayah, He describes the Quran

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as a ruh, as a spirit, as something

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that is that it that grants life. Something

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that is alive that grants life.

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We gave you We gave you a spirit.

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We gave you life.

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You do nothing about books, revelation,

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and iman. You didn't know about any of

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this stuff.

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No?

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But indeed we made it a source of

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light.

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That we use to guide whomever we choose

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from our servants.

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And because you have this spirit with you

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and because you have this light with you.

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Indeed, you guide towards a straight and righteous

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path.

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The path of

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Allah.

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Of the one who

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to him belongs everything in the cosmos and

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the earth.

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To Allah

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all matters

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end up.

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All matters end. All matters destinations are with

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him

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And that's how he describes the Quran.

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It's a beautiful description.

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The Quran is is a spirit. It's life.

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It's like it's like

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the peep people were were dead on the

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inside and Allah

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granted and and revealed to the prophet alaihis

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salatu wa sallam a ruh from his matter

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a ruh something that will grant you life.

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You didn't know. He's telling him he's telling

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him, you don't know. You didn't know anything

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about the kitab or the iman. This was

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not something you understood,

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but we granted it to you and we

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made it for you as a beacon of

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light that you would use to

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to guide yourself and that we use to

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guide others. And indeed,

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the path that you guide people to is

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that of righteousness that is straight because you

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carry that beacon with you, because you carry

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that spirit.

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And it's a beautiful description of the of

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the book of Allah. Alright.

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So do,

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Zukhruf,

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67.

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You may have to come back later, but

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67 for now.

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So when when you talk about

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companionship, and this is not the first time

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throughout this month that I I you know,

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we've talked about an ayah that that points

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out,

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some some aspect of companionship,

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for sure. It won't be the last probably

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either.

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But this aya is quite scary.

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And lakhila is a plural of of of

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khalil,

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of of a close friend, a best friend,

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someone that you you spend the majority of

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your time with, someone that you consider to

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be, within your very close and inner circle.

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These best friends,

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on the day of judgment,

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will be enemies of one another.

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Except those who shared piety with one another,

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except those who shared mindfulness of Allah together.

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Aside from that,

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friends on the day of judgment will be

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enemies,

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meaning they will hate one another. They will

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not want to be in each other's vicinity.

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They don't wanna see each other. They wanna

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talk to each other. They wanna be as

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far away from one another as possible, except

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those who were sharing mindfulness of Allah or

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taqwa during their lives.

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Because what people who are close to you

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remind you of Yom Al Qiyamah

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is where you spent what you spent your

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time doing. That's what they want to remind

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you of. You're gonna see someone and what

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they're going to remind you of is the

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time, is the things you did with them

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because that's the focus. The focus changes.

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And the focus of your what you're what

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you're thinking about is a little bit different

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than what you think about in dunya. Unless,

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of course, you

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you mature

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spiritually, and then you start thinking in dunya

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about the same things, you're gonna be thinking

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about Yomukiyam, and that's the way to make

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sure you make it.

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Because Yomul Qiyam, you're not interested about any,

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any

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interpersonal interests that you have with them, like,

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in terms of what benefits you can have

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from them or the benefit they can have

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with you. You're not focused on good times

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you spent with them or good times you're

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going to you're going to spend with them.

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You're not you're not looking at that. You're

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just wondering

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what were the interactions I had with this

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person and

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which side of the scale are those interactions

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going to be? Like Like the time I

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spent with this person and which side of

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the scale?

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And

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if the time you spent with this person

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was not

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invested in taqwa, in doing kayr, in doing

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good deeds together, in helping each other being

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closer to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, then that

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person is going to in your heart turn

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to someone that you you despise.

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So the best of friends,

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they ain't best of friends yomul qiyab.

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Unless they made the choice of making sure

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that they supported one another in terms of

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their, yeah, their their their journey towards Allah

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If they supported one another on that journey,

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that's a different story. The prophet

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tells us in the Hadith,

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The people who love one another in dunya,

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for the sake of Allah

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for the sake of yanib,

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of service of Allah

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They find themselves on the day of judgment

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on. They're on

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a

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pedestal.

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That are made of of light.

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Everyone can see them. The prophets are envious

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of them.

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Prophets,

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who did for

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will see them and and and are be

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envious of them until they're granted that which

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is similar to it or better. When they

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see them, they're envious

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because of how dignified they are to how,

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you know, what high esteem Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala holds them at.

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It's a very valuable thing to love someone

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in dunya. It's probably the one of the

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most valuable things you'll ever do. 1 of

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the most precious things you have is a

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is a good friend, someone that you truly

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love, forsake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. You

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don't want anything else. You're not looking for,

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you know, any form of, of of worldly

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benefit.

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You're not, you know, you're not

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banking on anything working out later on in

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the future where you can cash in and

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the on that friendship that working out. No.

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You just want, you just love them because

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they help you be closer to Allah and

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you help them to them to be closer

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to Allah and this this relationship where you

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guys are making each other better human beings

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is is beneficial for the both of you

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and you love them because of that. That's

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what love for the sake of Allah means

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that it's a it's a mutual it's a

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mutual relationship where we're both helping each other

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be closer to God and to be better

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people and to make sure yomukriam are in

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better status. That is a very valuable thing

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because not only does it is it is

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it extremely precious in dunya, but it's it's

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also extremely beautiful

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It's extremely beautiful. You're on you're on a

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you're on a mimba

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made of light that people look at and

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they envy because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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you had you had someone who you truly

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loved for the sake of Allah. And again,

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I've talked about this before. Love is not

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just an emotion. In Islam, it never is.

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Right? There has to be there has to

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be a haqqiqah for it. There has to

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be evidence, proof of it. So you love

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someone for the sake of Allah, but then

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you don't participate in doing khair with them

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or they don't participate in doing khair with

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you. You don't encourage them to do better

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and they don't encourage you to do better

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and there's no discouragement of bad things and

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the the process is not based on that.

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So the love itself is meaningless, really. It's

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just a feeling. It doesn't do anything for

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you, you know, Mirkasyama. The the actual love

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is going to be something that has that

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has actual proof to it. There's some evidence

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to support it.

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So this ayah, as scary as it is,

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it also gives a glimmer of real hope.

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There is light at the end of the

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tunnel here.

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And If you're building a relationship with people

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around you on taqwa, then you're gonna be

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fine. And that person, not only will you

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enjoy their company here in Duniya. It's very

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valuable, by the way. It doesn't happen very

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often.

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If you are, as for fortunate enough to

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have people in your life who draw you

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closer to Allah and whom you do the

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same for and you have that ability to

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help you guys help each other on your

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way to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and you

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hold on to them because they don't come

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very often in life and then they're not

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easy to there's not an easy, catch.

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If you're able to hold because that not

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only will they help you in this life,

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but you guys will also be looking for

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one another because you know what you're going

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to get out of this. This relationship is

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going to take you even farther than you

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ever thought. But without

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that,

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Aside from that, friends on the day of

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judgment, best friends are enemies of one another.

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I do. They're enemies of one another. It's

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a scary, so so so an intimate relationship

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can go either way. This is what the

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is saying. An intimate relationship, a strong relationship

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can mean 1 of 2 things, yom al

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qiyama. Either a mimbar of noor that people

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are envious of or animosity.

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So you have to choose.

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Choose your relationships. Who are who are the

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people that are around you? What do you

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do with them?

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How do you guys what what what is

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the basis of the relationship?

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What is it based on? And be picky

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a little bit. It's okay. This is where

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you'd be picky. This is where you can

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be a little bit, you know,

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meticulous.

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Yeah. Maybe when it comes to your time,

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when it comes to your and when it

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comes to where you're gonna be, yeah, yeah,

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choose your friends wisely,

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very wisely. That's the most that that this

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is the most important decision, in my opinion,

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in your life. The most important one is

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is who you spend your time with. Forget

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about all the other stuff.

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Well, I mean, we spend a lot of

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time thinking about, like, where we're gonna live

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in the house and the what type of

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car and well, I see people spend, like,

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months trying to figure out what type of

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car to buy. Actually, I just I mean,

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buy whatever.

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It's all the same. Who cares? Like, buy

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an old car. So it doesn't matter if

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it gets bumped up and so. Don't buy

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something you're gonna you're gonna be preoccupied before

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you buy and then be even more preoccupied

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after you buy and

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think about the people that you're gonna That's

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what you should really think about. Who am

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I spending my time with? Who who am

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I surrounding myself with? That's what you that's

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where you have to be be very careful

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because that's going to dictate what happens to

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you on the day of judgment

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as this ayah explains.

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Alright. Let's do number 52 actually in Surat

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Zukhuf.

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52. Let's go back 1. Yeah. Go back

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1. We have enough time. Yeah.

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I don't know why they're not putting these

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things in. Go

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So it's a different Zukul that talks about

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this mentality of materialism, right, and that's why

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this ayah that I talked about a moment

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ago is in Surat Zukhru because friendships that

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are based literally

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merely

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on materialistic benefit of dunya, it doesn't it

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doesn't pan out very nicely, Yom al Qiyam.

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Within the so the zohif you have a

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story of a Firaun and

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Firaoun and Musa and the story of Firaoun

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and Musa ends with the zukhara is a

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little bit different than the way it's told

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in other

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parts of the Quran because we have a

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piece of it where Firaoun makes an argument

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of why people should not listen to Musa

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and listen to him. We don't have that

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elsewhere in the Quran. It's only there. So

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he stands up.

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So he stood up and said, oh, my

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people,

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do I not have the sovereignty of Egypt?

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And do the rivers of Egypt not run

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under my feet? Do you not see? Am

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I not better than the one?

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This person who has no status? Mahin means

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someone who cannot protect themselves, someone who's not

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from Ihana, from humility. From this person

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who is humble, who is weak, who has

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no protection, does not have an army, does

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not.

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Who is better? Am I not better than

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this person who is

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who can barely who can barely even articulate

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or speak properly? Musa alaihis salam had a,

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speech impediment.

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Musa alayhis salam had a speech impediment.

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He he he had a lisp of some

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sort. He couldn't he couldn't speak properly. He

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wasn't good at public speaking at all, and

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when he was told by Allah Subhanahu to

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do it, he said,

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haroun.

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Can you can you add him to the

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package?

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Was much more articulate. Send him with me

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as a prophet so he can help me

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along because I'm not good at this piece.

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He knew what he was good at. Well,

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he wasn't good

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at

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one of the most highly revered and respected

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prophets of all time

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He's beloved to us. He must be. He

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should. You should love Musa He's all in

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the Quran. So if you love the Quran,

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you love Musa a 100%. But he had

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that speech impediment. He didn't speak properly. There's

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something always there's a lisp when he when

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he spoke. So

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Farall mocks him for it.

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Am I not better than this person who

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lacks, protection, does not have a strong

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army to protect him, and he had a

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speech impediment. So so what what is what

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is what is a speech impediment have to

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do with the message that Musa alaihis salam?

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But that's the that's the logic of materialism.

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Yeah. He's judging he's judging based on, well,

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I'm stronger. I have more wealth, I don't

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have a lisp.

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Well, let us let him show us let

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him show us the wealth that he has,

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the aswira, the bracelets of gold. Let him

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show us the Malayika that come and support

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him.

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So he treated his people stupidly.

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That's what staghfah means.

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He treated them idiotically

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in a stupid manner,

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and they followed him.

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Indeed, there are people who were deviant

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because his argument is is is

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is hollow. It's empty. It's actually very offensive.

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And for you to judge someone's idea based

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on well, you know, to mock speech impediments.

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Right?

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Be be careful. Be careful in your life

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what you make fun of.

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Be careful. I mean, mockery and satire is

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a very dangerous thing to use. It's very

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dangerous. Even amongst friends, be careful. Be careful

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what you're, you know, what you joke about,

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especially when something is is, you can't control

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it. You know, someone with something that has

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nothing to do with him. Musa is not

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nothing to Musa is not accountable for being

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Mahin, for not having a lot of people

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to support him and having an army and

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having wealth. He's not accountable for being

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He has issues with

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the with with with articulation. It's not his

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fault. Just how he is.

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Why? To mock people for that or to

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make fun of them. It's very low.

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It's under the belt, Wallahi.

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Be careful.

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People will do it to you in your

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life. Don't stoop to that,

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don't go into Don't fall into

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Don't get down into the mud with them.

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People who are empty, they'll make they'll they'll

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stop talking about the idea and they'll mock

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the person. Right? It's a known political, political,

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taxing.

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When they when they have a strong argument,

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you stop going out because the arc you're

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gonna lose the argument. So you're talking about

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you you you pick something out of their

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past. You look for maybe some picture that

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they Where they weren't at their best behavior

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or something. And then you focus on that.

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You try to try to steer the attention,

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the public opinion towards like a character flaw

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or something that

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And even when it's character, it's at least

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it's at least something that you can choose,

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but when you when you steer it towards

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something they can't influence at all, it's just

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very it's very, it's it's it's wobbly. Slow.

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It's very low,

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and and and and Faram was so scared

00:31:02 --> 00:31:04

of Musa alayhis salam. Think about this. This

00:31:04 --> 00:31:05

is this is this is the value of

00:31:05 --> 00:31:06

a strong idea

00:31:07 --> 00:31:10

that someone who literally runs he rules Egypt.

00:31:10 --> 00:31:12

He's scared of Musa, so he has to

00:31:12 --> 00:31:13

make this argument. Am I not better? Do

00:31:13 --> 00:31:15

I not have more? Am I not stronger?

00:31:15 --> 00:31:16

He can't even speak properly.

00:31:17 --> 00:31:18

He's trying to get people to he

00:31:19 --> 00:31:21

spoke to them stupidly and they listened to

00:31:21 --> 00:31:22

him and they followed him because that's what

00:31:22 --> 00:31:24

they wanted to do. That's what Arif Faran

00:31:24 --> 00:31:25

wanted to do.

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When they did that, we we we punish

00:31:29 --> 00:31:30

them for it. Because, you know, what what

00:31:30 --> 00:31:31

is this argument?

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How is this acceptable? Be careful of what

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you make fun of and and what you

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how you look at people for things.

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So let's do, 38 and 39 from Duqan.

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38, 39.

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So the Dukhan

00:32:02 --> 00:32:04

is warning us from being

00:32:04 --> 00:32:05

delusional in the way that we think and

00:32:05 --> 00:32:07

missing the signs. In the midst of the

00:32:07 --> 00:32:09

surah, he had this beautiful ayat.

00:32:17 --> 00:32:19

We did not create the cosmos of the

00:32:19 --> 00:32:21

earth with the intention of play.

00:32:21 --> 00:32:23

He says this subhanahu wa ta'ala,

00:32:24 --> 00:32:26

We didn't do this. We're playing around. We're

00:32:26 --> 00:32:28

just wasting time. We're just doing something for

00:32:28 --> 00:32:29

the sake of doing something. No.

00:32:31 --> 00:32:33

We only created them This is the royal

00:32:33 --> 00:32:35

We of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. I only

00:32:35 --> 00:32:37

created them with

00:32:37 --> 00:32:40

the purpose of pursuing and achieving righteousness, that's

00:32:40 --> 00:32:42

why I created them. It was not a

00:32:42 --> 00:32:43

game. It was not a joke. We were

00:32:43 --> 00:32:46

not playing around. This was hap. So do

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not miss that.

00:32:47 --> 00:32:50

Do not look around and assume that this

00:32:51 --> 00:32:53

the story of existence is humorous somehow,

00:32:54 --> 00:32:56

that it that's

00:32:56 --> 00:32:58

something to be taken lightly because it's not,

00:32:58 --> 00:32:59

it's very serious.

00:33:01 --> 00:33:01

Created

00:33:03 --> 00:33:04

Most people don't know this but that's what

00:33:04 --> 00:33:06

it is, it's through Haqq, and only through

00:33:06 --> 00:33:07

Haqq

00:33:07 --> 00:33:09

things will prevail. And when you go against

00:33:09 --> 00:33:11

Haqq, things will crumble and and fail. On

00:33:11 --> 00:33:13

the day of judgment, we'll be held to

00:33:13 --> 00:33:16

the to the criteria that is that's what

00:33:16 --> 00:33:17

we're gonna be held to. We're gonna be

00:33:17 --> 00:33:20

asked about that. And if you live your

00:33:20 --> 00:33:21

life in a way where you thought it

00:33:21 --> 00:33:23

was fun and games, then is going to

00:33:23 --> 00:33:24

be very painful.

00:33:25 --> 00:33:26

It's gonna be very very painful because those

00:33:26 --> 00:33:27

who take everything

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Those who look at everything in a light

00:33:30 --> 00:33:32

manner. It's okay to take yourself lightly. So

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Prophet alaihis salam will always smiley.

00:33:35 --> 00:33:37

He joked a lot alaihis salam, actually. If

00:33:37 --> 00:33:38

you study his life, he was he was

00:33:38 --> 00:33:41

constant. But he didn't take serious things lightly,

00:33:41 --> 00:33:43

and he knew where the line was drawn,

00:33:43 --> 00:33:44

and he knew where where he had to

00:33:44 --> 00:33:46

focus and he had to be

00:33:46 --> 00:33:48

he had to be someone who was capable

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of making

00:33:49 --> 00:33:51

actual decisions and and

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We did not create them playing. Just in

00:33:56 --> 00:33:58

case yeah. Any as I said, you guys

00:33:58 --> 00:33:59

seem to be playing a lot. By the

00:33:59 --> 00:34:01

way, we didn't create these, create all this,

00:34:02 --> 00:34:04

with the intention of play. We created them

00:34:04 --> 00:34:06

with the intention of haqq. So so so

00:34:06 --> 00:34:08

hold yourself to that standard. Hold yourself to

00:34:08 --> 00:34:09

the standard of haqqah and see where you

00:34:09 --> 00:34:10

are from it because

00:34:11 --> 00:34:12

that's what you're gonna be held to. So

00:34:12 --> 00:34:13

you come with a book that is filled

00:34:13 --> 00:34:14

with just play.

00:34:15 --> 00:34:16

When the book is just play, which is

00:34:16 --> 00:34:17

ongoing play,

00:34:18 --> 00:34:20

nothing was taken seriously. There were no decisions

00:34:20 --> 00:34:22

that had any substance to them. There was

00:34:22 --> 00:34:24

no commitment, no grit, there was no perseverance.

00:34:24 --> 00:34:26

It was just ongoing play every time you

00:34:26 --> 00:34:27

had the the opportunity.

00:34:28 --> 00:34:30

Yeah. I don't know how how well that

00:34:30 --> 00:34:31

will will pan out.

00:34:31 --> 00:34:33

I don't know how well the outcome would

00:34:33 --> 00:34:34

be because he did not create them playing,

00:34:34 --> 00:34:36

subhanahu wa ta'ala, and that's what it serves

00:34:36 --> 00:34:37

as a warning for all of us to

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to contemplate. Let's do ayah number 23 of

00:34:39 --> 00:34:40

Jafiah.

00:35:10 --> 00:35:12

Surat Al Jafiyyah, the warning in it is

00:35:12 --> 00:35:13

beware of arrogance

00:35:15 --> 00:35:16

when you have knowledge. Beware

00:35:17 --> 00:35:19

when you're knowledgeable, when you know you understand

00:35:19 --> 00:35:21

your deen, beware of allowing arrogance to to

00:35:21 --> 00:35:23

misguide you. So this ayah towards the end

00:35:23 --> 00:35:24

of it, it says

00:35:29 --> 00:35:31

Have you seen or have you observed? The

00:35:31 --> 00:35:34

one who takes their Lord, their deity, their

00:35:34 --> 00:35:36

their worshiped one. And Ilah is the worshiped

00:35:36 --> 00:35:39

one. That's kind of the bottom line of

00:35:39 --> 00:35:41

the translation. And Ilah is the worshiped one,

00:35:41 --> 00:35:42

the one worthy of worship. That's that's what

00:35:42 --> 00:35:44

Ilah means. So the one who's who chose

00:35:44 --> 00:35:45

the one that's worthy of worship, the person

00:35:45 --> 00:35:47

who chose the one worthy of worship in

00:35:47 --> 00:35:48

their lives to be Hawa. Person who chose

00:35:48 --> 00:35:50

the one worthy of worship in their lives

00:35:50 --> 00:35:51

to be Hawa,

00:35:52 --> 00:35:54

to be his desires or his whims. And

00:35:54 --> 00:35:57

whatever whatever he wants. Whatever his nafs wants,

00:35:57 --> 00:36:00

that's his worshiped one, which means, obviously, there's

00:36:00 --> 00:36:02

no there's really no religion, and I looked

00:36:02 --> 00:36:03

this up because I wanted to make sure.

00:36:03 --> 00:36:05

There's no religion in the world that where

00:36:05 --> 00:36:07

you worship your desires. Like, it's a there's

00:36:07 --> 00:36:08

no there's no creed that has that in

00:36:08 --> 00:36:09

it. So

00:36:10 --> 00:36:11

and the and the people of Quraysh did

00:36:11 --> 00:36:13

not believe that either. So this is a

00:36:13 --> 00:36:15

figure of speech. And the figure of speech

00:36:15 --> 00:36:17

is very revealing of what how Allah sees

00:36:17 --> 00:36:18

the concept

00:36:19 --> 00:36:20

of when he talks about an ilah, how

00:36:20 --> 00:36:23

he understands it He understands it as in

00:36:23 --> 00:36:25

the one whom you worship in in terms

00:36:25 --> 00:36:27

who you fully obey.

00:36:27 --> 00:36:28

The the thing that you obey all the

00:36:28 --> 00:36:30

time, the thing that you listen to immediately

00:36:30 --> 00:36:32

that you don't question, that's your ilah. That's

00:36:32 --> 00:36:34

the worship one for you. Yeah. Now you

00:36:34 --> 00:36:35

may state it, you may not state it,

00:36:35 --> 00:36:37

it doesn't make that much of a difference

00:36:37 --> 00:36:39

because at the end is is actions that

00:36:39 --> 00:36:42

will prove whether something was correct or true

00:36:42 --> 00:36:43

or versus not.

00:36:43 --> 00:36:45

So the prophet, Alaihi Wasallam, is being told,

00:36:45 --> 00:36:47

you see the one who chose his worshiped

00:36:47 --> 00:36:49

one, you know, the person who chose his

00:36:49 --> 00:36:51

worshiped one to be his own whims and

00:36:51 --> 00:36:51

desires

00:36:52 --> 00:36:53

and that type of person is the one

00:36:53 --> 00:36:54

who

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anytime there is a dilemma in their mind

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or in their lives and the scales of

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reason kind of are set up in your

00:37:01 --> 00:37:03

brain it's like a part it comes with

00:37:03 --> 00:37:05

a toolkit of life you have these skills

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and you put things that have weight in

00:37:06 --> 00:37:08

them and you try to win. Every time

00:37:08 --> 00:37:10

the nefs want something, you always go with

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it. If the nefs want something, you go

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with it. It's always whatever the nefs wants.

00:37:13 --> 00:37:14

It's always whatever the desires of the nefs

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are

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and that's that's your, that's your that's your

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worship one.

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You can say that

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but then

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your actions are gonna disprove it and it's

00:37:25 --> 00:37:25

gonna prove

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that

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to make this a bit more scarier because

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there's an a similar to this

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with

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no with no extras, just just that concept.

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But in Surat Al Jafi insul Al Jafi

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adds something.

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And this person was misguided to do that

00:37:45 --> 00:37:46

with knowledge.

00:37:47 --> 00:37:47

They had knowledge.

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Like, they actually they knew stuff, like, they

00:37:49 --> 00:37:51

had studied the Quran, they studied the sun,

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they knew. But they were misguided even though

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they had knowledge. Because what's the value of

00:37:56 --> 00:37:58

knowledge if it does not teach you how

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to control your whims, and control your desires,

00:38:01 --> 00:38:02

and control your urges?

00:38:03 --> 00:38:04

What's the point of knowledge if it does

00:38:04 --> 00:38:06

not allow you to distinguish between that which

00:38:06 --> 00:38:08

is coming from Allah, and that which is

00:38:08 --> 00:38:10

from shaytan, and that which is originating from

00:38:10 --> 00:38:13

the selfishness of the nafs that is inside

00:38:13 --> 00:38:14

of you. If you don't If the knowledge

00:38:14 --> 00:38:16

that you have does not allow you to

00:38:16 --> 00:38:18

distinguish between these things, to make decisions based

00:38:18 --> 00:38:19

on it, then what was the point of

00:38:19 --> 00:38:21

that knowledge? This knowledge will only make you

00:38:21 --> 00:38:23

more arrogant, and more vain, and more envious,

00:38:24 --> 00:38:26

and more ostentatious, and it'll take you farther

00:38:26 --> 00:38:27

away from Allah. As

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the the code is,

00:38:30 --> 00:38:30

right?

00:38:33 --> 00:38:35

The person who increases in knowledge and does

00:38:35 --> 00:38:36

not increase in guidance

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only increases himself in distance away from Allah

00:38:40 --> 00:38:41

subhanahu wa ta'ala.

00:38:44 --> 00:38:47

The person who took his worshiped one as

00:38:47 --> 00:38:49

his own whims and his nafs, his whims

00:38:49 --> 00:38:51

and the the desires of his nafs and

00:38:51 --> 00:38:53

Allah misguided him even though he was a

00:38:53 --> 00:38:54

person of knowledge.

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And that person

00:39:02 --> 00:39:05

sealed their ears and sealed their heart and

00:39:05 --> 00:39:06

there is a seal in front of their

00:39:06 --> 00:39:08

eyes. There's a curtain down in front of

00:39:08 --> 00:39:08

them.

00:39:10 --> 00:39:11

Who is going to guide him if not

00:39:13 --> 00:39:15

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? Do you not do

00:39:15 --> 00:39:16

you not contemplate these things?

00:39:17 --> 00:39:19

It's very easy. It's very easy to go

00:39:19 --> 00:39:20

down a route where

00:39:21 --> 00:39:22

you lose you lose

00:39:24 --> 00:39:27

control and you lose lose contact with yourself,

00:39:27 --> 00:39:29

with who you are and what you're doing

00:39:29 --> 00:39:30

and why you're doing things. And you lead

00:39:30 --> 00:39:33

yourself to believe that you're doing really well

00:39:33 --> 00:39:35

when the the the actuality of it is

00:39:35 --> 00:39:37

that you're not. The reality is that you're

00:39:37 --> 00:39:38

not really doing that well.

00:39:39 --> 00:39:40

It doesn't mean that if you're not doing

00:39:40 --> 00:39:42

well that you should feel bad about yourself,

00:39:42 --> 00:39:45

but acknowledging that is important, like knowing that

00:39:45 --> 00:39:47

I'm not actually close. I'm far from where

00:39:47 --> 00:39:49

I need to be. I'm far. Because if

00:39:49 --> 00:39:50

you don't, then

00:39:51 --> 00:39:53

then there's nothing to There's no fight. There's

00:39:53 --> 00:39:55

no fight. If you're not acknowledging that the

00:39:55 --> 00:39:57

nafs has desires and it wants you to

00:39:57 --> 00:39:58

do things and you have to be fight,

00:39:58 --> 00:39:59

then you're not There's no fight. You're not

00:39:59 --> 00:40:00

putting up a fight. Even if you're losing

00:40:00 --> 00:40:01

the fight, but at least you put it

00:40:01 --> 00:40:03

up. If you stop putting up a fight

00:40:03 --> 00:40:05

and you actually think that what you want

00:40:05 --> 00:40:06

is the right thing and you and you

00:40:06 --> 00:40:08

and you shape it in that manner. You

00:40:08 --> 00:40:10

shape it so that it seems that what

00:40:10 --> 00:40:11

you want is right and you defend what

00:40:11 --> 00:40:13

you want at all times because you believe

00:40:13 --> 00:40:16

that you're right. And then your desires becomes

00:40:16 --> 00:40:18

your worshipped one and you'll be misguided even

00:40:18 --> 00:40:20

though you have knowledge. You'll actually make

00:40:21 --> 00:40:23

like knowledgeable arguments to defend what it is

00:40:23 --> 00:40:25

that you're doing. But there's a seal on

00:40:25 --> 00:40:27

your ears, on your heart, in your eye.

00:40:27 --> 00:40:28

You don't you can't see it. You have

00:40:28 --> 00:40:30

no insight anymore. You don't you don't know.

00:40:31 --> 00:40:33

It's very dangerous, oh Allah.

00:40:33 --> 00:40:35

May Allah preserve us, oh, Allah, and protect

00:40:35 --> 00:40:38

us. To have knowledge and use that knowledge

00:40:38 --> 00:40:39

to just to self serve.

00:40:40 --> 00:40:42

To have knowledge and use the knowledge you

00:40:42 --> 00:40:44

have to self serve just to get what

00:40:44 --> 00:40:45

you want,

00:40:45 --> 00:40:49

some hidden underlying struggle of power that you're

00:40:49 --> 00:40:50

engaging in, trying to get yourself into a

00:40:50 --> 00:40:53

position, and you're using knowledge and you're using

00:40:53 --> 00:40:54

you're acting like you're alpha.

00:40:56 --> 00:40:59

This ayah is there to to to scare

00:40:59 --> 00:41:01

you. You could be knowledgeable and still use

00:41:01 --> 00:41:03

that knowledge in a way where it just

00:41:03 --> 00:41:04

serves your self desires and end up far

00:41:04 --> 00:41:06

from where you need to be.

00:41:06 --> 00:41:08

Let's do one more. Let's do aya number,

00:41:09 --> 00:41:10

19.

00:41:24 --> 00:41:25

Like I said, Surat Al Akkaf tells you

00:41:25 --> 00:41:27

that, the outcomes are in the hands of

00:41:27 --> 00:41:29

Allah Subhanahu Wa'ala. You can do everything right

00:41:29 --> 00:41:30

and things don't work out. You can do

00:41:30 --> 00:41:32

it wrong at work you don't you don't

00:41:32 --> 00:41:34

know. You can't control it. It's just the

00:41:34 --> 00:41:35

outcomes are in his hands, Subhanahu wa ta'ala.

00:41:35 --> 00:41:37

And these verses, these very beautiful ayatul wasayil

00:41:37 --> 00:41:38

insanabhiwala

00:41:47 --> 00:41:49

These beautiful Ayat that talk about the importance

00:41:49 --> 00:41:51

of being, you know, pious to your parents

00:41:51 --> 00:41:52

and when you get older, that you take

00:41:52 --> 00:41:54

care of them, take care of your offspring.

00:41:54 --> 00:41:55

And then he talks about

00:41:56 --> 00:41:58

2 groups of people, those who are that

00:41:58 --> 00:42:00

that first be the person who is takes

00:42:00 --> 00:42:02

care of his parents, loves them, takes care

00:42:02 --> 00:42:03

of his his children, loves

00:42:06 --> 00:42:08

Allah Those are the ones who we accept

00:42:08 --> 00:42:09

their good deeds and we forgive their bad

00:42:09 --> 00:42:10

deeds. And then you have

00:42:13 --> 00:42:15

a person who tells his parents does not

00:42:15 --> 00:42:17

believe in Allah subhanahu altogether, someone who is

00:42:17 --> 00:42:18

just on the wrong path.

00:42:25 --> 00:42:25

Those are the people who are going to

00:42:25 --> 00:42:27

be punished as Allah subhanahu wa'anhu promised that

00:42:27 --> 00:42:29

they will be punished in jahannam with jinn

00:42:29 --> 00:42:29

and ins.

00:42:30 --> 00:42:32

The end of these verses. He says,

00:42:35 --> 00:42:36

And each group

00:42:37 --> 00:42:37

will

00:42:38 --> 00:42:38

be given

00:42:39 --> 00:42:42

certain degree of reward for that which they

00:42:42 --> 00:42:43

did in their lives.

00:42:43 --> 00:42:43

Walikullim.

00:42:44 --> 00:42:46

Walikullim is for both, meaning the person who

00:42:46 --> 00:42:47

was pious and

00:42:48 --> 00:42:49

good son or a good,

00:42:50 --> 00:42:51

a good child and a good And a

00:42:51 --> 00:42:53

good parent and a good Muslim

00:42:53 --> 00:42:55

versus the, not a good child, not a

00:42:55 --> 00:42:56

good parent, not a good Muslim.

00:42:57 --> 00:42:58

Yeah. For both of

00:43:00 --> 00:43:02

them, Certain degrees, they're in from what they

00:43:02 --> 00:43:03

did in their lives.

00:43:06 --> 00:43:08

And Allah will deliver to them

00:43:09 --> 00:43:10

the the full due diligence of what they

00:43:10 --> 00:43:12

deserved and they will not be oppressed. This

00:43:12 --> 00:43:13

ayah is saying that you'd not only do

00:43:13 --> 00:43:15

you not control the outcome of who is

00:43:15 --> 00:43:17

is going to believe and who's not, you

00:43:17 --> 00:43:19

don't even control the outcome of who's going

00:43:19 --> 00:43:20

to be rewarded or not. You don't know

00:43:20 --> 00:43:22

what they're going to get. Everyone's going to

00:43:22 --> 00:43:24

be treated fairly, oh, Mirkiyama.

00:43:24 --> 00:43:26

No one's going to be oppressed. You think

00:43:26 --> 00:43:27

that this person is going to Jahanam. You

00:43:27 --> 00:43:27

don't

00:43:28 --> 00:43:29

know where they're going. They don't know what

00:43:29 --> 00:43:30

they're going to get.

00:43:31 --> 00:43:33

Everyone's going to get a certain degree of

00:43:33 --> 00:43:34

reward for what they did in their lives.

00:43:34 --> 00:43:36

When and how is not my business. I

00:43:36 --> 00:43:37

don't know. So I don't get to say

00:43:37 --> 00:43:40

where they're going. I don't control the outcomes

00:43:40 --> 00:43:41

of who accepts Islam and who doesn't. I

00:43:41 --> 00:43:43

don't control the outcomes of where the people

00:43:43 --> 00:43:45

who accepted and didn't accept go Yom Kiyama

00:43:45 --> 00:43:47

either. And that just takes away a lot

00:43:47 --> 00:43:50

of burden or just focus on here's the

00:43:50 --> 00:43:52

recommendations, here are the warnings, do it well

00:43:52 --> 00:43:54

and then leave everything else. Leave leave Allah

00:43:54 --> 00:43:55

subhanahu take care of the rest of it.

00:43:55 --> 00:43:57

It's not it's not your thing. You don't

00:43:57 --> 00:43:58

have control over it. And I find that

00:43:59 --> 00:44:00

point to be extremely helpful.

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