Ahmad Kutty – Welcome Ramadan

Ahmad Kutty
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The importance of Islam's use of fasting and pursuing spiritual health is highlighted, along with the potential for change in one's behavior. The segment also emphasizes the need for praise and recognition for Allah's success in praising individuals and promoting spiritual health. Visits are encouraged for spiritual work, and people are encouraged to practice it in a certain way. The importance of learning the Quran and not being reassured in the face of a pandemic is also emphasized.
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Aloha Monica hamdu kabayan Bobby Lee Jalali what he covers the

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a shadow Lila Hill Allahu la sharika Why should wanna say

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you're gonna Mohammad Abdu rasool

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Allah Saleh Allah Ya know the Sahaba Shirin one of the euro, but

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are you need Allah He began he was Suraj Munira Allahumma salli wa

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salam ala he was only Allah Allah He was Sahaba T woman voila

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homeboy Tada Bihari Yun Westerner we should not be him. With our

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with our with the Himalayan within a lot majority lamb in

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the corner Suhana wa Taala vikita Veal Majeed

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Chroma kuchibhotla Latina mean publikum La La Quinta taco

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My dear brothers and sisters our praises to Allah one over Tyler,

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The Creator and Sustainer and cherish are the words for is

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limitless blessings and bounties. We recognize that we cannot praise

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Allah enough. We cannot thank him enough. So let Allah be praised,

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as he has chosen to praise himself, as he has been praised by

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the messengers and prophets from Adam to Muhammad Ali in salatu

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salam.

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I testify there is none worthy of worship but Allah subhanho wa

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taala. I also testify that Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa

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salam in the final messenger, there is no other prophet to come.

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And Allah send down the final revelations, through the Quran

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that was sent down upon him.

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So let us look to the message and the messenger

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and emulate the beautiful examples of the messenger

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in applying the message the lessons of the Quran in our daily

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lives, so that we can attain salvation, so that we can realize

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the fullness of the Divine endowments that he has bestowed on

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us, as he created each one of us.

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Today,

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everywhere the Muslim in the Muslim world, the kotoba, the

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Hakim's preparing the community to welcome the guest of honor the

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greatest guest of honor that could ever visit us every month. It is

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the month of Ramadan.

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shahada Ramadan radio's Zilla feel Quran, the month of Ramadan is the

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month

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in which the Quran was first revealed,

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as guidance for mankind with clear signs of guidance and distinction

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between truth and falsehood.

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And therefore, Allah says in order to commemorate this event, and for

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other purposes, you already nominal quotevalet Consume while

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you believe fasting has been ordained or prescribed upon you,

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as it was prescribed or nations before you. So that you attain you

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nurture you develop consciousness of Allah subhanho wa taala. So,

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here in this ayah, Allah Akbar otter is telling us, even as

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prayer charity pilgrimage is any in every one of the great

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religious traditions like was fasting is also integral to the

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perennial religion that Allah has revealed from the first man and to

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the last messenger mama cell allows.

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So fasting has been for day and before on other nations before and

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now it is already in on us. But it doesn't mean the form of fasting

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is the same.

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Just like the form of prayer is different

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from the one that has been given to us.

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Charity the form has varied, the same pilgrimage also vary, but

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essentially, the core message is there. And Allah says the purpose

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of fasting is the Allah comfortable so that you nurture

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consciousness of Allah Spano.

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Me we are told by celban and Farsi one of the great companions of the

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Prophet salallahu Salam, that Rasulullah Salallahu Salam used to

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address his companions on the eve of Ramadan to prepare them to

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welcome the guest of honor from Allah.

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He said, Yeah, are you a nurse or people Kedah? Hola Hola, como

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Shaolin Alima Mobarak a great and most blessed Monday's approaching

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It is a Monday in which Allah has, Allah will reward the good deeds

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in many faults. So someone who is doing an ordinary Wallander react

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to virtuous act, they will be rewarded as if he has done an

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obligate three duty military institution ritual. The same way,

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an obligatory duty that is performed in the month of Ramadan

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equal to 70 such duties performed in other months. And that is why

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the Muslim community down through the centuries has

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chosen Ramadan for the car and charities the same way they set

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aside this month

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to see the opportunities the Prophet sallallahu sallam said,

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so, you're not an alpha. So you you have to weigh with one another

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in doing in seizing your opportunities. You know, we have

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behavioral psychologists teach us that if a human being wants to

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break a bad habit

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and take a new habit,

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learn a new habit. It takes 21 days

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to gain success. And here is the wisdom of Allah subhanho wa taala.

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Allah in His Divine Wisdom has chosen for us one full month

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to break out bad habits and start the new habits and to renew our

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feet. This is the time we are told the month of Ramadan, the prophets

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of our sermons reported to have said you know, there are three

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terms in Ramadan first 10 days, he said, base of mercy, the middle

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term or days of forgiveness, and the last 10 days or days of

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freedom from hellfire. Because, you know as as we enter this

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blessed month, and we see the opportunities to renew our faith

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to change our habits and to come closer to Allah subhanho wa Taala

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breaking the bad habits and acquiring new habits coming closer

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to Allah subhanho wa Taala what happens finally, we are we are

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freed from hellfire. So, let us never miss the opportunities

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of seizing this month let us seize the excellence of this month, this

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season this is a this there are many ways scholars have described

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the month of Ramadan, they said it is a training course

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is a deep training course a most blessed training course. And it

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can be used for changing our habits and acquiring new habits.

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It can be used to renew our faith. It can This is the opportunity for

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us to look at our previous loud life and take stock examine it

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engage in introspection, you know any spiritual development.

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It cannot happen unless we practice introspection

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and examine the life is a fulfilled life. But Allah says

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most of the people they just flow go with the flow heedless their

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life. They don't examine. They don't think they don't consider

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whether this action they are performing today. If they were to

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die now,

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will it? How they will appear before last? And that is why a

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believer always do to examine

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every action he performs. He should ask himself, is this

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something that could bring me closer to Allah subhanaw taala? Or

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is it something takes me away from Allah? subhanaw taala? Is it

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something that will bring me closer to Heaven? Or is it

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something that would bring me closer to *? So in this way,

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when we think and we make that intention to change our habits,

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the way we think, the way we plan, the way we prioritize our life,

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the way organized we organize our goals and our purpose in life and

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how to go about achieving them. asking whether the goal I'm

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pursuing in my life is ultimately beneficial for me. Would it save

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me from hellfire? Would it help me

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To be in, such as in this world, and the next world, these are the

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kinds of questions we need to ask. Introspection is very internal to

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the spiritual discipline in Islam. And along with that, you know,

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Imam Ghazali Ramallah sir trochlea and Paralia trochlea is to purge

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these toxins, these diseases, you know, the Envy malice, ill feeling

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the disbelieve and agnosticism and all these, you know, toxins which,

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you know, create the restaurant or soul, you know, allows one author

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created each one of us with a mirror.

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If we maintain this mirror, spiritual mirror, spiritual heart,

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we can see to test truth. But once we start committing and straying

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away from the path, we accumulate a sense, this mirror it becomes

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Rusty, and then it reaches a state of ceiling of the heart, lie out

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of tomorrow for neuron Grohmann, Cara so that you lose that ability

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to see through past truths, right as right and bad as bad. So many

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of us will lose this purity of the mirror. And here comes from Alon

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to help us polish this mirror. The heart by purging from our heart

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are those toxins that spiritual diseases, attachment to world

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obsession with wealth, obsession with that profession that you

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have, you know, if that profession distracts you from remembrance of

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Allah subhanho wa Taala obsession with money word Children Family,

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distracting us from performing our duties obeying the last one or

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what Allah so that is why Rasulullah Salallahu Salam used to

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teach his combat Ian's always say hola hamari Nila Dickey Rekha

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Basu. Kritika hostellerie By the way, Allah

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helped me to remember you and to worship you.

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To thank you and to worship you in the best way. So we need to have

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open our heart and ask Allah subhanaw taala to help us so that

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our hearts are in grind. We series that intention to utilize this

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blessed month as Imam Chava user says Ramadan comes it is like a

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loss bond Rotella dropping many many rocks from the sky and you

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can cling to these ropes and fly to Allah subhanaw taala meaning to

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salvation to achieve that success that he has promised. So, let us

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seize the opportunity of the blessed month

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by seeking repentance, make it a habit consistently make so far and

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secondly, say that bad habit if you are addicted to social media

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to WhatsApp or all these channels, which will distract you occupy

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your you know, your partner, the time that you should be occupying

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in doing good works, and also devoting ourselves to charitable

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works good deeds as much as possible. And connecting ourselves

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with Allah subhanaw taala through the Quran, reading the Quran. But

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don't try to that you will be able to understand the whole of Quran

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because Quran has, as Muhammad has said in the last year of his life

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told that journalist Quran has really layers of meaning as Rumi

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said, you know, you need to go slow in understanding the Quran.

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When your heart is Polish. He can see the depth of the Quran, Allah

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will will not allow your heart which is rostered to understand

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probably the depth of the Quran. So try to come presents you or the

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mirror of your soul and try to appreciate the beauty and try as

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Dr. A cabal said. You know the best advice I anyone could give in

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this life was the advice from my mother or father I don't remember

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who my son when you read the Quran. Imagine God is speaking to

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you through this book.

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Said that has helped me to see the depth of the Quranic message. So

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let's use this month to get deeper connection with Allah subhanho wa

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Taala and connection with the Quran and also engage in vicar and

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do

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or make use of the opportunities for taraweeh with the massages are

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not open for Cerave that's not an excuse you can do it at home. You

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can pray that read Fatiha and pray that recorded Quran and then you

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know each raka you can listen to that recitation and go to recall

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and come back again after full finishing that Rica and open that

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and play that again after you have read fattier, you can do so

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inshallah me Allah subhanaw taala help us to see the blessings of

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this beautiful bond and as forgiveness of Allah subhanaw

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taala. And let us also never forget to pray for humanity, for

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our community, Muslim or non Muslim, so that Allah has one or

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the law protect all of us from this deadly pandemic. It should

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have taught us a lesson that we are always at the mercy of Allah

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subhanaw taala we can never be as human beings, we can never be

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independent of our Creator. So a symbol virus can bring us to our

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knees, as Allah said, is symbol fly your bacteria can bring you

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make you helpless, you won't be able to retrieve or recover what

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it has taken away from you. This is the verse of the Quran. So this

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should be a reminder for us to come to Allah subhanho wa Taala

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seeking is repentance and mercy. Surely, Islam is the view of hope.

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Islam teaches us there is no room for despair in the vocabulary of a

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Muslim, holy, holy ha That was stuck for a long time.

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