Ahmad Kutty – The Character of a Believer May 28 Khutba

Ahmad Kutty
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The sermon from Islam's Hadith discusses the importance of learning from both the natural and spiritual world, emphasizing the need for everyone to practice learning to become aware of the natural and spiritual world. The segment also touches on the benefits of working hard and finding one's own success in life, including the importance of efficiency and learning from the honeybees. The segment emphasizes the need for continuous reflection and learning from experiences to enhance one's life and create a "we" that inspires others to work hard and earn living life.
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hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen

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Allahu Akbar hamdu cama Rukhsana whereas, Dr.

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Fahad Atena alumna

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well Rachael hamdulillah Islam. Well Rachael hamdulillah Quran

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Wanaka hamdulillah Hollywood Molly Wilmore offered. What a shadow

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Hola Hola. Hola. Hola. Hola. Sharika when should one NURSE Are

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you then are Muhammad and Abu rasuluh

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Allahumma salli wa sallam Marie was only Allah Allah He was Sahaba

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T or Manuela whom waka Dhabi hottie him was turning away sooner

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to Him with our Bedava 80 million within my brother. By the law

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we'll see can one of see over a better cola

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while I'm on Nakamura Hola, Yeoman, Tasha Sophie Hill

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Levassor.

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Brother soon and sisters first of all praises to Allah subhanho wa

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taala, the creator and sustainer and cherish of the words Our

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Praises be to Him for creating us providing us the sustenance and

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guiding us to the straight path and teaching us

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I turn the last one over Tala for all of his wonderful gifts,

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the gift of Harold rather than the family and security and peace we

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enjoy in this country. And I pray to Allah subhanaw taala to

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continue to shower us with His mercies and continue to protect

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us, our families and children and grandchildren and our communities

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and our country and all of humankind.

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Today I want to

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explain a beautiful Hadith from Rasulullah Salallahu Salam.

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It is a Hadees that

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is worthy of continued reflection.

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And for us to learn the lessons that the Prophet sallahu wa Salam

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is important to through this hadith, Salva SallAllahu sallam

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said

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Masteral uomini Massaro nallah

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lotta kulula Even when I follow the letter EBA

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the example the perfect way to explain

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and the character of a believer

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is

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to

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compare him to a bee honey bee lotto Kuruvilla EBA it only feeds

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that on that which is pure and wholesome

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will not allow a lotta yerba a produces only that which is pure

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and wholesome.

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In another a variant reporting of the same tradition, the prophet is

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reported to have said, what are the enough so Mohammed nbde by

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him, in whose hand is my soul, the soul of Muhammad Sallallahu Islam

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in my saddle moment in Verily the example of the believer is like

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that of a honey bee aka tayyiba.

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It is only that which is pure and wholesome, while artha yerba and

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produces only that which is pure Barbra cat from Teixeira Welcome

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to sit.

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It fires on twigs and branches, but it never breaks it or spoils

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it. And fries away leaving it intact and secure and safe.

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You know, if you read the Quran carefully,

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Allah subhanho wa Taala terraces

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human being is part of the creation the nature all around us.

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And the Quran teaches us that we human beings must learn. And this

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is what

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distinguishes human being from the rest of the creation is that we

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have a moral conscience we have a soul we have a mind. We can

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discriminate between good and bad, and we have the ability to learn.

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And the Quran mandates the believers to continue to reflect

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or learn

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not only from the book of revelation given to us, which we

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read and recite and chant, but also from the Vironment the nature

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around us from each and every creature

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To our creation of Allah subhanaw taala the nature phenomena.

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Allah says, There are signs for you for reflection with your own

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source, and outside, in the horizons in the creation.

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And the Quran points to many, many species of creature, creatures, to

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the and to the bee, to the cow to the Carter, sun and moon and stars

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and the camel, the spider the insect.

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So many cow, son of Adam was taught

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through a cow. So, and Allah says everywhere pointing to all these

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different, you know, aspects of nature phenomena,

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there are signs for you in them to ponder, reflect and learn.

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So, even though we are distinguished, we are dignified a

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Children of Adam, and we have the divine Brasi now,

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still, we ought to learn from even the humblest of God's creations

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creatures.

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And there is an entire Surah called a nun Surah from natural

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honeybee.

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And the reason is, allows one out Allah warned us to learn

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wonderful lessons from this insect.

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And the believer should be like a honeybee.

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We should live in this world

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eating only that which is pure and wholesome,

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ethical,

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earn through hard labor,

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working hard

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and then we can produce produce only that which is pure and

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wholesome. When we do so,

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when you lead a life

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read the lessons from the honeybee and live live a life

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of hard work team spirit, all those things that we can learn

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from this honey bee

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that is called and when we die.

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Living a life of eating that which is pure producing that which is

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pure interacting with the environment nature without

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spoiling it, but enhancing it. What happens

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Rasulullah sallallahu Allah subhanho wa Taala says under the

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motto of our Malayaka to Te Bina Hakuna Salam aleikum, wa doko Jana

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TobyMac, condom Damaru those who die

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whose souls are taken by the angels

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in a state of purity.

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Angels will greet them, Peace be to you and you are eligible to

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enter the paradise that has been prepared for you because of your

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good works.

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The ayah in the Quran about the bees let us reflect briefly on

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that. It is worth your prolonged reflection because this wonderful

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creature of Allah subhanho wa Taala Allah cite this as an

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example for us to learn lessons from the wild Harab book I read.

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Your lore inspires the bees, the honey V

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to build its nest, and he took the immunology barley buta to Bill's

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hives on his side's Amina szegedi ob my ID schoon. And on the trees

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and infrastructures that people build erect, so McAleenan Calista

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Mara and then eat of all the fruits are the flowers for Salukis

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tubular Bakula and Trowers the part that God have facilitated for

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you for your journey? Yeah, hello Domingo Tony ha. And there comes

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from their bodies a drink of varying shades of color, shirt

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Robin mortality for null one who fish for all in us in which there

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is healing for humanity. In Nephi Valley kala Ayatollah Khomeini a

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tougher corrode in this is a sign for those who reflect.

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Honey Bee is a wonderful creature of Allah subhanho wa taala. And

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there are many lessons that we can learn from this creature. And that

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is why the Prophet salallahu Salam, compare the belief

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Word to honeybee

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because the honeybee the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam is the

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interpreter productions of the Quran

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he is taught by Allah, he's reflecting on these verses, and

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he's trying to transfer teach us the lessons illustrate the lesson

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from them for us.

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The number one thing that allows one or the other points out about

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the honeybee is that Allah created this insect

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to work hard

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and it has been inspired. It has a built in mechanism to see the

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direction and communicate the direction for the fellow bees. And

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he Trowers It is said that the honeybee

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55,000 miles it travels. Collectively they travel about

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55,000 miles and collect nectar from 2 million plants.

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And it is said

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that honey bee collects only from the purest first class

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plans, it award the second class and that's why the profits are

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allowed. It's only that which is pure and wholesome. It leaves

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alone it doesn't touch the second class. So it has to be freshest.

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It has to be pure.

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And it leaves alone. Even it fires on that branch or Craig. It

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doesn't bend it, it doesn't break it, it doesn't foil it.

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And you know it does this work

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without expecting any return.

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This is how the believer should be allowed one or the terraces work

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Coulier muddle work hard.

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Let Allah see your actions and work without expecting any reward

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except the reward from allows borotra which will automatically

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you will receive it

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but your goal should be to work. That's what honey bee does. It

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does that pollination and it is actually not expecting anything

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but actually benefits the environmental benefit itself. So

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that is the lesson the profits are Lola swim is teaching us

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whatever good we do

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we it will, we will gain the benefit from it.

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Even the example of the hour is approaching and you are holding a

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ceiling in your hand to planned

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one the hour is approaching. If you're holding a seedling to plan,

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don't leave the place until you finish planting it.

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So, this is don't expect any material reward in this world

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because you are not going to benefit from it. So you have to we

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have to do like this we have to continue working and also the team

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spirit which is another quality wrestlers allows for size muscle

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Remo Marina, feet award the Moto Rahami muscle just muscle mobile

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album in a woman a carbon yarn, a believer

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you know stand beside another believer like structure. So this

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community, you know the bees

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each individual bee lives for the collective community of beasts and

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the community is also for the individual. So there is this each

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one for all and are for each one. And this is the kind of community

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that Allah wants us to be to form benefiting each other cooperating

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with each other working hard

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the honey be busy like be of course this doesn't mean that they

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don't rest the rest. But they focus

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efficiency, which also lists allow some also emphasize

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a little kind of Rama Lala Hassan whatever work we do, we need to do

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it with efficiency.

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And efficiency can only happen when each one try to excel in one

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area and do it as best as you can. This is what we learn from the

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bees. The female has a job male as a job and among them various

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categories. Nurse may do

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Those who keep the high hives and those who clean it those who you

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know the if once you know group a bunch of bees cannot perform the

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other state

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compliment, take on the work. So, the work shall continue and they

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are doing it without expecting any individual return for themselves

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or for each other for the benefit of the community. So this is how

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Islam want us

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to cooperate with one another to work and also another beautiful

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thing to learn from the honeybees, they evolve,

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they are flexible, they are adapt, and Islam has this great quality

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of integration able to integrate with different races and and

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nations and ethnicities. But today Muslims are losing it somehow. We

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this is another thing we learn from the honeybee, you locate them

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to another environment, of course, they go out and explore it and

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within an hour, they say less than an hour they start working, they

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are completely familiarized with the environment. So, this is

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another quality we need to learn from, because Rasulullah

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sallallahu wasallam said A believer is jovial, it is

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flexible, he is social, he adapts himself, you know to everyone he

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come in jovial with everybody. So Sharia

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law, higher female liability for law you will have. So wherever we

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are, whichever community we are, we need to introduce each other we

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need to get to know each other we need to and when we act like this,

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what happens we enhance the community we enhance the nature,

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we will become instruments, higher on nurses and far who believe

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the best of mankind are those who are most helpful most beneficial

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to to the creation of Allah subhanaw taala and NASA Kulu homea

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Allah and a BA AR Allah, the author of human beings, our family

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of Allah dependent or Allah subhanaw taala and the rest of

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them are those who are most helpful to the creation of allowes

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Baraka Allah. The Prophet sallallahu wasallam said, a

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believer interacting with the nature

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while enhancing the nature enhancing the creation, enhancing

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the environment.

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Wherever he go pa, one epoch passes goes through that forest,

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or by the side of the river, or on the mountain, every level of the

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creation of Allah subhanaw taala will greet him or her

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and praying for that person.

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Because this is a man, this is a woman, this is a person who don't

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know destroy your environment, like that honey bee, they fall on

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that branch without breaking it, or spoiling it and leaves it

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intact and enhance enhances the quality of life. The that flower

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is enhance regeneration process

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enhanced. So, this is the kind of life we need to leave for

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ourselves, we cannot leave for ourselves. And another important

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thing the prophets want us speak that which is pure and good. Eat

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that which is good and pure, not just eating halal meat ethically

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earned, just work hard and earn this is what I have, we are as

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believers to do work hard and earn living life you know the prophets

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are allowed some use kiss the hand of working person saying this

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these are the hands that Allah and His Messenger louse. So, that is

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why eating that which is pure drinking that which is all pure

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and crossing with the money using the money buying the cross by the

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money that has been earned through halaal. Ethical means when we do

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so, we become you know eligible to enter paradise dangerous will

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greet us all of the creation will pray for us. May Allah subhanaw

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taala help us to reflect on the beautiful lessons of the Quran and

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the traditional Rasulullah sallallaahu Salam and practice

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them in our life. According to Cody ha That was tougher Lalibela

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