Ahmed Suleman Khatani – Meraj P1
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Lot of noise, also from the back, is reaching us to respected
brothers.
Let us try and keep
the etiquette and the adab of the masjid,
the Hades of Rasulullah sallallahu sallam.
Then in the last section of time, the last section of the Ummat,
there will be people that will talk in the masjid and raise their
voices in the masjid,
Allah sallam said, for lay salillahim Haja, Allah Tala has no
need of such people.
So our coming to the masjid, my respected brothers,
is to acquire the Mercy of Allah talala and the forgiveness of
Allah Tala. Let it not be that it becomes a means of us distancing
ourselves Allah subhanho wa taala.
So please, once again, we are making a humble appeal
the children that are the back some type of control should be
exercised that is ensured that there is no noise.
Lot of brothers are still
standing at the back. We request you
to please settle down. Inshallah, Come and respect others.
Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah.
Shafi a
Rahi,
bismillahir, rahmanir, Rahim
Subhanallah Ji Asmaa vyawadihi, laylam in Al Masjid Al Harami in
Al Masjid Al apa saladhi, bhavatna Khao laho
linua, Salaf Allahu, alaihim o Callan NaVi yo
Salallahu,
alayhi wa sallam, lay Salil abdimin, salathi, ilama akala
minha o kama kala sallallahu alaihi wasallam a sallam,
respected Ola Maika RAM,
elders and
beloved brothers in Islam,
once again
through the grace and the Mercy
and the favor of Allah subhanho wa taala,
we have been blessed with the opportunity of experiencing this
month of Rajab.
The blessing of this month
can quite easily be gaged from the dua of Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi wasallam, which he would recite at the onset of this month,
wherein he would say Allahumma, bariana fi Raja Bava, shahaban,
wabali na Ramadan,
that Ola
grant us Barkat grant us blessing in these months of Rajab and
Shaban
and cause us to remain alive so that we can experience the
auspicious and Mubarak month of Ramadan,
we are reaching
that period of the year
wherein there are very many opportunities
which Allah, subhana wa Taala has granted us,
to make Sula with Allah, to repair our relationship with Allah, to
gain the sukkah and the Mercy and the forgiveness of Allah subhana
wa taala,
unfortunately,
if we have to analyze and look at the mindset of the ummats,
to a very large extent,
we have reduced such occasions of clemency and Mercy,
and to a very large extent, we have denigrated the value and the
distinction of our deen and have reduced it to a selection
of rituals.
On one occasion, Vishal Hafi, Rahima, Allah a.
Some people told him
about a group of people that exerted themselves very greatly in
the worship of Allah, subhanho wa Taala in the month of Ramadan,
Vishal Hapi,
pious Friend of Allah dala.
When he heard about those people, the expectation of the one who had
mentioned them expected, the expectation of the one who had
mentioned them was that he would praise those people
completely contrary to his expectations. Vishahafi said, Ko
mu, komun
la, Yari fun, Allah, Ramadan
in
the saleha.
He said, How unfortunate
and how terrible the people are, those
who will only recognize Allah in Ramadan.
The true slave of Allah, the true Ashik of Allah, the true servant
of Allah, is that person who does not need occasions. He doesn't
need it to be Maharaj. He doesn't need it to be shabarath. He does
not need it to be Ramadan. He does not needed to be the day of our
father.
These occasions of Allah's mercy are in its place.
They are a wake up call for us.
But the true slave of Allah, the One who truly seeks Allah, he says
he is that person who exerts himself in the obedience of Allah
for the entire 365 days of the year.
What is
this ritual mentality of the ummats that on certain occasions,
our masjids are bursting at the Reems.
On certain occasions, we come in large numbers,
as yet Allah has commanded us with Salah only on these occasions,
this, my respected brothers,
is where we are making now Qadri we are not appreciating Allah
Dalai favors upon us
in many, many masajid on this very night,
the Maharaja Rasulullah sallallahu, alayhi wasallam,
a miracle,
the like of which We cannot even possibly imagine.
The extent to which Allah subhanahu wa favored His Beloved
Habib iba SallAllahu Alam,
and this miracle,
with regards to Rasulullah himself,
constituted a form of solace for him. It came at a time when he was
passing through a very difficult and a very trying phase in his in
his Naboth,
on the one hand, one pillar of support, Abu Talib,
his beloved uncle, who
was always there to protect him, who
was always there to see to it that Rasulullah sallallahu Islam was
not harmed.
Just one incident very briefly
will illustrate to us the extent to which Abu Talib supported,
rasulallah, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam.
They came the leaders of Quraysh.
They came to Abu Talib,
and they said, We are no longer going to tolerate what your nephew
is doing.
He is causing families to be split up.
He is causing our idols to be disgraced and to be sworn at
and all sorts of things they mentioned.
They said, either you stop him,
either you stop him
from what he is doing, or else we are no longer going to accept your
protection of him. Now, uzula, we are going to
kill him. Abu Talib became extremely worried.
He sent for Rasulullah, sallAllahu, alayhi wasallam,
and he besieged and begged him, as a loving uncle will address his
nephew not just an ordinary nephew, a nephew that he had
brought up from the age of eight years
he said to him, oh, my beloved nephew, stop what you are doing.
What was the response of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam? I.
Mana, vi akdar maana, vi akdar Min and ADA Mabo is to be he Min
anushela, ahadu Kum inhabit anar
that uma today,
which has denigrated and ridiculed and reduced the work of Davao and
Tamil
and regarded it to be the work of one Jamaat and group
that ummat today, which has not identified with the day and the
night of Muhammadu, Rasulullah, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam,
that ummat today, which has absolutely no recognition or no
realization
of what the 13 years of Makar Rama was for a sulaypa Salaam Alaihi
Wasallam, that ummat today, which has Time to read novels
and has time to spend hours in front of the shaitan box,
has time to spend hours and spend several 1000s of rands to see 22
people chasing behind a piece of pigskin
that Ummah today that When Ajaan is called out, he's involved in
the glamours and the attractions of this world
that umm, but today, when the Allah is made, then listen to the
seer rasulallah. Listen to the life of Sahaba ikiram. Bring alive
in your homes the talks of Allah Ali Rasool, sallallah, sallam.
Learn what the day of your Nabi was. Learn what the night of your
Nabi was,
that ummat
should, at least on this occasion,
listen with the ears of iman to the response that Rasulullah
sallallahu Sallam gives to his uncle.
He says, Oh my beloved uncle,
rather than leaving
this work of 1000s of leaves,
rather than forsaking this mission, this concern, this cry,
this pain for the Hidayat of humanity,
rather than giving up going from door to door, galley to Gully, Ali
to Ali in makamu, karama and tent to tent in Mina
in the day, beseeching one one person in the night, crying full
of Allah for the he died of that person.
Oh, my uncle, it is easier for me to take a flaming, burning coal of
fire and hold it in my hand than giving up this mission,
that which the Ummah today has not even recognized or realized, is a
responsibility, is a cry, is a pain. The
when Abu Talib
sees the determination of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam,
the tears are flowing down the cheeks of Nabi ABA sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, Abu Talib witnesses him and says, First dark
be America lamb to say, because of Doctor wakuntaka, blue Amina,
Wanaka, Alim to beyond Nadina Muhammad, mean to had Our Musa,
but masa, but in Lower jettani, Sami, hambi, zaka mubina.
He says, Oh, my nephew, carry on with what you are doing.
Carry on with what you are doing. No harm will come to you.
You are speaking the truth,
and you have always been trustworthy. It is impossible that
you would have come forth with a fabrication or a lie,
and then Abu Talib. Abu Talib says, wala qadalim to I know that
the deen of Muhammad, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam is the best of
every religion,
if it were not that I feared that the women of quresh would laugh
and taunt at me,
that I had given that in old age, I had given up the religion of my
forefathers, I would have openly and in public called out your
kalima and become your follower.
Allah deprived him of iman. We are not going to the details,
he died with the words Aladdin Abdul Muttalib on his lips. This
was the source of great hurt to Rasulullah, sallAllahu, alayhi wa
sallam, so many years of qurbani and support Abu Talib had given
him then for Abu Talib.
Have died in that condition, what hurt it must have caused that Nabi
one is, Such was his love, Such was his taloq, Such was his link
with humanity,
that on one occasion, the Janaza of a Yahudi, the Janaza of a Jew,
is carried past Rasulullah, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam. He
stands up and he starts crying. Sahaba address him, and they say,
Ya rasulallah, that is a yahoodi, that is a Jew. Why are you crying?
He looks at them and he says, alay sat, navsul, tafal, latat Minni,
is it not another poor soul?
Is it not another human being of my ummah, taful, let that mini
that I was unable to guide in the right direction
when that was his reaction to a stranger, Yahudi, who he didn't
even know what must have been the extent of the pain and the hurt to
have experienced the demise of Abu Talib on Kufa.
You and I hear and speak with him. He saw
on one occasion,
he said in Ali azabala news out he
said there will
be one person in jahannam. Coals of fire will be put underneath his
feet. Such will be, such will be the extent of the heat that his
brains will start boiling.
This person will feel that no one is suffering more than me. Allah.
Some said this is the lightest, lightest azab of Jahannam, and
this azab will be given to Abu Talib.
On the one hand was the demise of Abu Talib.
On the other hand,
another great pillar of support,
umwal,
Sayyidina, Khadija Radi Allahu, Taala and ha
a woman who, prior to Islam. Had great wealth,
Allah Ali wa sallam, when revelation comes upon him, Allah
prior to Islam, a woman of great wealth
when she accepted the message of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi, he
was telling them.
When the first revelation comes in one way wife, it comes.
He comes to Khadija, Ravi Allahu, Taala and Ha
he laments before her. He places his pain, the burden of his
responsibility, in front of his wife,
360
idols in Beit Allah, in the merkels of Hidayat,
in the home of Allah,
where the effort of Hilaire started. In that place, 360
idols, and Allah has commanded him to spread the message that there
is only one and only one Allah when in beitula, that is the
condition. What is the extent of the burden of responsibility on
the shoulders of Rasulullah wa alayhi wa sallam
ya Khadija, Manado Khadija, who am I going to call?
Who is going to listen to me? Isharani was giving her dawat
without any hesitation. She said, Ya rasulallah,
you be the first to give the dawat. I will be the first to say,
lavek on your dawat.
This entire matil Ahmad is shown the role of the wife
that she is of support and the partner of her husband,
not in spending his wealth
and not in assisting him in acquiring the things of this
world.
But first and foremost, wife is the partner of her husband in the
effort and the concern and the cry for His Ayat of Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
Khadija makes the ultimate sacrifice.
She gives everything.
Richest woman in Makkah. Yet the day comes the rasulallah Jibril,
Muhammad, Muhammad sufa to minati, wala kafa to min Shahid ojibriel.
The day has come upon the home of Muhammad Sallallahu, Sallam that
there is in one grain or one strand of Baal.
Me in my home.
Everything was given. The home was empty.
One occasion,
Jibreel comes bucharedi, shalivia comes to him. He says, ya
rasulallah, Khadija is coming to you.
Khadijah is coming to you.
She has prepared some food for you.
She has suffered greatly. She has suffered greatly
because of the sake of your deen,
when she comes to you, console her.
Console her. Allah has sent me to you to give you a message to her
that tell her that this hardship and this Qurani and this pain and
the suffering which she is going through
is not in vain. It will not be wasted. It is only for a short
time Allah has already prepared her home in Jannat, last in which
she will experience no pain or no difficulty or no hardship. And oh,
my beloved NaVi, I have come to tell you that Allah conveys his
Salaams to Khadija.
That is the Maqam and status that Allah gave a wife
who handed herself over completely and totally to the effort of
Hilaire, the Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam that long before, long
before Abubakar Siddiqui, Allahu taala, who gets salam from Allah.
That is in Tabuk in Madina. The first ummati of rasulallah to get
salam from Allah was a woman in this ummat, Sayyidina, khadila,
the Allahu taala.
Her demise also takes place
three years of boycott
in the valley of Abu Talib
the entire family of nabislam suffers to such an extent that
they have to eat the leaves from the trees. Mordekin Write that the
screams of the pangle of hunger were such that it could be a herd
over one miles distance. In Mecca, she was elderly.
This period of starvation and hunger was too much for her.
Finally, in the 10th year, she succumbs and she also passes away.
TAFE also takes place. The
peace occasion is too limited to go into the detail of the incident
of tithes, all of us are aware of it.
So grief upon grief, upon pain, upon hardship,
almost at one time, had been heat upon the sulaweala salAllahu
alayhi wa sallam
in the aftermath of this
as a way of consolation, janavi Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam is given The gift of Maharaj.
Perhaps it was difficult 14 centuries ago for them to
comprehend the extent of this miracle, the
extent of which this Maharaj was a manifestation of the kudurat and
the kibiya and the power of Allah.
Now 14 censure is later. It is much easier for us
to truly appreciate and understand the extent of this miracle,
this journey through space.
I heard from one Alim that few years ago he attended one
gathering in Kuwait,
very, very wealthy people.
The Amir of Kuwait also was there
and proudly referring to one of his relatives for whom he had
arranged and paid the bill for him to go into outer space.
He said proudly that my cousin or nephew over it was, is the first
Arab that has put his foot in outer space. This alien stood up
and said, Sorry, that statement is incorrect. He is not the first
Arab.
The whole gathering got a shock that, what is this man talking
about?
He said, the first Arab that put his foot in outer space was my
beloved Nabi Muhammad, Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, not
with some space suit
and not with some protective God, but with his ordinary lungi and
and kurta.
He was carried on that journey. How vast, how vast in the kasi
Rahmatullahi mentions the rewired on one occasion,
Allah Ali Salam is sitting with Sahaba ikhram.
He asked them the question halted the ruin conveying a samaywa,
oh my Sahaba, do you know the distance between the Earth and the
first heaven,
what we call sama U dunya,
this entire universe, this entire universe with all its galaxies,
in Hadith terminology, is what we refer to as sama U dunya, the
first heaven.
So he asked them, Do you know this distance between the Earth and the
first heaven? They said, Allahu Rasulullah, best
he said, vaynermayati, Sana, from the earth to the first heaven is a
distance of 500 years, not our years? Why Naomi, Kaka one day by
your RAB is 1000 years of this life,
normally for us to comprehend and relate to Hadith terminology is
difficult because our munas, Quran and Hadith is not there.
Understand it in scientific terms. What of our space? This is
the Sun, which is 93 million miles away from the Earth.
The sun is just one star. It is approximately 325,000
times the size of the Earth
in this
galaxy, what is referred to as the milky way
in which we are living.
They are 100 million stars,
many of them a million times the size of the Sun.
This galaxy
is, in fact, a conjunction of 17 galaxies, what we call a Super
Galaxy,
which is so vast, so vast, that if you travel from one point to the
other point at the speed of light. What is the speed of light?
186,282
miles per second. If you travel at that speed, it will take you 2
million years just to finish this galaxy.
And scientists estimate that there are 500 million other such
galaxies in which there are so many stars that if one second, one
second, how long is one second? 1231
second is given to name each star. It will take 300 trillion years
just to name the stars.
Recently the light from one star reached the Earth.
When did it start traveling at the speed of light, 186,282
miles per second, not one week ago, or one month ago, one year
ago, the light from that star started traveling 14 billion years
ago, and it reached the earth. Now
such is the vastness
of what is sama U dunya. What is the first heaven? Only? Why it
comes that the first heaven, compared to the second heaven, is
like you take a ring and throw it into the desert the second
compared to the third, a ring in front of the desert, moving
upwards. We cannot comprehend or imagine the vastness of Allah's
creation, how insignificant this insan or this earth is in front of
the Kundra and the power of Allah
to complete the divide, he said, Amin kulisama in ilamasira to come
see me ATI Sana from the first to the second, second to the third,
third to the fourth, fifth to the fourth to the fifth, fifth to the
sixth, sixth to the seventh. Between each Heaven is a distance
of 500 years, 500 years, 500 years, 500 years of focus. Sama is
sabia bakarun vena aswalihi, wa Allahu, Masih, ratukhamshimi Ati
Sana above the seventh heaven is a sea from the top to the bottom of
the sea another 500 years,
physically, bodily. Janame Rasulullah, sallAllahu, sallam, on
the night of Maharaj, is taken from Majid al haram to Majid Al
Aqsa,
carried throughout this entire space
when he reaches the first heaven.
Very briefly, it's not my intention to go into details of
the marriage we have heard it over and over again,
the point which we were making in the beginning, my respected
brothers.
Is that these occasions of the manifestations of Allah's mercy
and kudrat and rahmat,
we have ritualized them to the extent that we hear about it. We
speak about it for a short while. We listen to Bayan. About mehraj.
We listen to Bayan and Shabi Bharat.
We listen to one or two lectures on shabbi Kadal.
We'll come to the masjid on these occasions. But the lesson behind
the incident,
what is the message of mehraj?
What is the sabak of mehraj?
What is the gift of mehraj? What did Muhammad, sallAllahu, alayhi
wa sallam come backward from mehraj
that Illa mashaAllah, to a very large extent, goes over our heads,
to the extent that there is no change coming in our lives.
First heaven, he meets Sayyidina, adamani, salaam Abu Bak.
Second heaven, he meets Yusuf. He meets Yahya and Isa Abu Asmaa.
Third Heaven, each time
the door of heaven is not
the angel that is the future to look after that heaven calls out,
who is it?
The reply is given by Jibreel that it is Muhammad Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, the angel then asked the question, as
he been sent?
Has he been sent for? Jibreel says, yes.
Then the door is open, is made by the Malay of Allah.
And thereafter he meets these various ambiya Musala to Salam
on the third heaven, he meets Yusuf Ali Salam, regarding whom
Allah Rasna, when he returned back from Maharaj, he said, Qad ortiya,
Shakur Hasan, half of all the beauty of humanity was given to
Yusuf alaihi salam.
On the fourth heaven he meets is Risa Lee Salaam.
On the fifth heaven he meets, Musa Ali salaam,
sorry, Harun Ali Salam on the sixth heaven, Musa Ali Salam
in each of these first six Mullah cards, or meetings that take place
between Rasulullah sallali Salam and ADA Ali musalat was salam, we
find that the procedure of the mullah Kath or the meeting is very
similar.
Each one, when they see him, they rush forward. They greet him.
Marhaban bin NaVi is Saleh, well, akit Salih, Merhaba. Marhaba,
welcome to a pious Navi and a pious brother of mine.
However, when it comes to the seventh heaven,
what I am trying to illustrate, my respected brothers, is that we
have to take the sabak and the lessons of mirage.
When it comes to the seventh heaven, the procedure changes.
Permission is sought. The door of the heaven is open. He enters.
Thereafter he proceeds a little distance
till he comes to the beitul Maur.
The beitul mahr is the Kaaba of the Malaika.
If a line had to be drawn,
a vertical line from above Baitullah,
that line will strike the beitul Maul
every day, 70,000 Malaika, make tawaf of beitul Mahmood,
till kiyamat,
no angel will get a second opportunity.
That is the extent of the number of Malay Kadal lies created wamaya
la mujunudharabhika illahu.
On this occasion, no NaVi comes forth, rushing to greet him.
He observes an elderly person leaning against the way to mamoor,
handsome person with white hair and white beard.
On this occasion, the requirement is that he must go forth and greet
that person
whose maqam who.
Whose status, whose martabah, whose garage is greater
badasser
after Allah in greatness, in majesty, in glory, is Muhammad
Rasulullah sallallahu question.
One is Habib Allah, the other is Khalil Allah.
One is the Beloved of Allah, the other is the friend of Allah.
Just a slight comparison, if we do, if we look in Quran
when it comes
to khalilah, the friend of Allah,
Ibrahim, Ali Salam,
Allah, says wakazali, kanuni, Ibrahima, Malakut, Asmaa, Wati
Waku, namin al mukini,
we showed Ibrahim alaihi salam the signs of the heavens and the earth
in order for his conviction on Allah to become complete.
For Khalil, Allah, the signs were shown for Habib, Allah, Muhammad,
Rasulullah, sallAllahu, sallam, subhanAllah, the Astra abudihi
Layla mean al Masjid Al haram, el Masjid Al Assad, Masjid Haram to
Masjid ASA, physically and bodily through the seven heavens until he
goes beyond the sivaratul muntaha, till he reaches that point.
Till he reaches that point,
the Qazi shifa. Rahim Allah mentions the rivaya. Kazi Ayaz
Rahim Allah mentions the rivait in his shifa,
he says, narrating from Ibn Abbas Radi Allahu galah
rasulallah said, Farah Kani Jibreel
Jibril also got left behind
One kaka till Aswath,
the sounds receded
until I reached a point where there was absolute silence.
This was that point which no Nabi or no insan or no angel even had
ever reached.
I reached a point Allah knows where there was total and complete
silence, and then I heard a voice calling out from the unseen. Li
yada Rog, do
not fear. Do not fear. Be calm. Ya Habib, UDD numini Ya Habibi.
Uddnumini, yahabivi, udumini o, my beloved, come even closer. Come
even closer. Come even closer. Fakana, Kaaba Ko seini o Adana
tillI reach makame, Kaaba ko seni,
for khalilah, the times were shown for Khabib Allah. This was the
extent of his maqam and his status. Yet,
yes, when it comes to mulaqad and this meeting between Habibullah
and Khalil Allah, contrary to the other ambiya On this occasion,
Allah commands rasulallah, who is leaning against
the Baitul Mahmoud. When he goes, Ibrahim gets up, he embraces
rasulallah. Joy. Adam marhaban, Bin Nabi isfali, one akiya,
Ibrahim alaihi salam. Ibrahim alaihi salam says, marhaban bill
Ibn isfali, welcome to my beloved son. Welcome to my beloved son. He
was from the progeny of Ibrahim alaihi salam,
why on this occasion, Allah commanded him to go forward.
Khalid status was lower than him. Khleel Allah was lower than him.
Yet still he was commanded to go forward
because in this was
to the Ummah Rasulullah, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam. Till
then, unfortunately, when it comes to dealing with their parents,
when it comes to dealing with their parents and recognizing the
status and Maqam of their parents, this ummat will become very, very
negligent.
They came and asked in the araswala matatsa, when is kiamat?
When is kiamat?
He said, Allah knows well.
They said, afvil na and Amar Atiyah, tell us, what is the sign
of Qamar?
What is the sign of kya.
Ahmed.
Logically, we would have expected him to say, when kufr becomes
armed, when Shir becomes armed, when idol, idolatry and polygamy
and polytheism becomes arm, when Zina becomes arm, when Shala
becomes armed.
But contrary to all this. What did he say?
He said, when even the daughters, because generally the daughters
are more likely to be obedient, he said, when even the daughters of
my ummat begin to treat their mothers like slaves? Then you must
know that is, rafiel has already taken the sword into his mouth,
and kriyamud is about to come upon my ummats.
This is that ummat
whose master, salallahu alayhi wa sallam
in Madinah mudavara
laments before his Sahaba Allah was such that his father pre
deceased him, his mother's shadow was over him only for six years.
What need was there for him to make sidmath of his parents?
What Multivan status more than he need yet, Taliban for his ummat,
he laments and he cries before his Sahaba, he says, Lo azarat,
tuwali, Deya,
O akhadu, Huma, If only, if only Allah had kept my parents alive,
my father and my mother,
if not both of them, at least my mother, then I would have shown my
ummah.
It would have been Aisha Salah Masjid Nabawi, the Imam Muhammad
Sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam, the muktadi, Sahaba, wakad, Kara
tufati, hatal Kitab, he says, I would have already read Surah
Fatiha in that namaz.
And then my mother would come to the window of the Masjid.
She would stand there, and she would say, Ya Muhammad,
she would call me.
He says, I would have shown my ummat. I would have broken that
salah. I would have broken that salah. And I would have went to my
mother and said, Oh, my mother, what is it that you want from
in an ummah, in an ummah wherein he said
that that youngster, that obedient youngster who just looked looks,
doesn't make any
doesn't extend service, just looks with rahmat and mercy at his
parents on that one gaze, Allah will give him the reward of an
accepted Hajj. Sahabah said,
What happens if he looks 100 times in one day? He said, Allahu Akbar
wa Allah says, is a limitless if he looks 100 times in one day,
Allah will give him the reward of 100 Hajj.
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