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The speakers discuss the importance of following natural tendencies and avoiding cultural bias in achieving success in profits. They emphasize the need for everyone to share their experiences and learn from others to improve their practices. The importance of finding friendships and following prompts and instructions in religion to build strong relationships and avoid embarrassment and loss. The speakers also emphasize the importance of staying to a tank and finding one's true passion for one's life.

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			The long run one day he was walking in the streets of Medina.
		
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			And he was walking and he passed by another Kenyan by the name of Helga rhodiola.
		
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			And how
		
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			he saw him sitting in the streets of Medina, just in the alleyways of Medina, he noticed that he was
extremely upset. Something was playing on his mind, and he was extremely upset. So he went up to
him. And he said, showing some concern for his fellow brother, he said to him, what's wrong? What's
upsetting you so much on this day? and humble over the long run replied, he said, NAFTA,
		
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			has committed hypocrisy.
		
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			It's not an easy or light statement for anyone to make, let alone a Muslim or companion. Our profits
are low. And he said, he said, not
		
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			committed to
		
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			overthrow the alarm system. Why? What has made you committee policy? So how can we pay that he said,
when we're in the company of our profits, and we love it instantly. And when we hear him recycle,
and he reminds us of a lot, and it reminds us of death. And it reminds us of the day of judgment in
the hereafter. And it reminds us of how best and how bad the man is so strong, and we feel so
connected to a loss of animal data, we feel that there's nothing else in this life that matters. But
then we leave the profits on a lumbar leave. We go back to our families, we go back to our homes, we
go back to our jobs and our businesses. And we become engaged in the life of the slog. And when we
		
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			become engaged in that I love this Well, I would imagine begins to plant becomes weaker. We have
other things that preoccupied our minds. And so we find that that attachment and we just felt that
connection that we just had, we lost it, or it's become considerably weaker. And so because of this
flip flop state, these two states that I feel, I feel from myself in
		
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			the long run, I'm really hurt this explanation. And Abubakar, as you all know, is the greatest
companion of our profits level lower than he was. When he heard this explanation. He said to him,
I'm gonna buy a lot I feel the way that you feel. I experienced this just the way you experience it.
So why don't we go to the profits on Alibaba, and he will send them and ask him about this. So they
went to find the profits of
		
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			the processor and saw them approaching. He could see from humbler that he was extremely upset.
Something was upsetting. So even before we came, whilst he was still approaching him, he said Jimbo
Hamada, what's wrong with me? and Hong Kong, I said, O Messenger of Allah.
		
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			Allah has committed hypocrisy. So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said in white or humble,
and so humbled, I went through that same explanation, and then a messenger of love and then review
and he was like, What are you remind me of a lot on the Day of Judgment. and thereafter, I feel like
there's nothing in this life that matters more. And I feel so connected to a lot. My email is so
strong, but as soon as I leave you and I go back to my daily routine, all of that disappears
considerably weaker. And so I feel for myself epoxy. So the profits are a lot more
		
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			from his mercy and His gentleness and his kindness, understanding the needs of Islam, the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, byculla if you were to always be in that state of hiding the man
that you experience when you're with me, that allow would make the angels come down to the earth,
and they would shake your hands. They would reach you in your houses, and they would reach you in
your beds, and he would reach you on the streets for $1 or two masa. There is a time for this and
the time for that. This beautiful notion of our profits on Alomar legal send them
		
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			beautifully describes the dilemma that most of us face. And it's not a new dynamic. It's not a new
issue. It's not a sign that you're a bad mystic. If you feel this way, as we see even the weakest
companions of our profits on an
		
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			executive like this, and that is that sometimes we feel extremely strongly that perhaps in the month
of Ramadan, when everyone's excited we're honored to go to the mosque with with one of the Muslims.
Perhaps for those of us that have been fortunate enough to go to Morocco, Hajj, Mecca and Medina,
those beautiful places, and you've experienced a strong Emad connection. You feel like Eman boost
has taken
		
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			Have, you feel so connected to allow everything around you, and you feel like there's nothing more
important. But as soon as you come back or move on finishes, when you come out of that situation,
and you go back to your daily routine, come back to university, you go back to work, you go back to
your family, and all of these mundane, normal issues just take the normal pace as they do in our
lives. They're no longer to feel that way. And that's typical, but it's normal, that you won't feel
the way that you feel in your in your, whether your family whether you're in London, or any of those
places, because they are different. They're different experiences for us. And so our religion, from
		
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			the beauty of our religion is that religion, which is comprehensive, and balanced, the profits are a
lot higher. I mean, we'll send them and
		
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			so we didn't say to hombre Yes, you're right, you're
		
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			right, how can you not have strong email all the time? Why don't you always worship Allah? Why don't
you always have a connection to Allah and the Quran. And this is a misconception that unfortunately,
many of many of us, as Muslims also have, that in order to be able to Muslim, you always have to
have the strongest of email. But that's not possible more as a human, nor is even something
achievable. And that's like, the alarm feels low EMA and low enough of what is probably very high
demand for everyone else. But even so, if he feels low enough, it shows that he can he can
experience those types of feelings. And if you go through those types of emotions. So the real
		
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			question isn't the fact that you're loving the man, that sometimes you find it difficult to play,
maybe make a professional, maybe give us a copy of that, that is maybe
		
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			burdensome for you, maybe reciting the parameter, a daily basis is a challenge for you. That's not
the real issue. Because those are things that everyone faces. And if someone comes to you and says
that they don't face that, then either they are extremely special person. And you need to really
connect to that individual, or they just money just by telling you the truth that is trying to
sugarcoat the way they are because they don't want you to think that they're a bad person. But it's
normal, because all of us go through that. So that's not the real property or the real question. But
what the real question is, is how do we strengthen our imagine those times of weakness when we no
		
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			longer feel that connection? When the local Ramadan has finished, when you have to be you have to
leave a place like Mato Medina and come back home. How do you split that up man?
		
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			The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam gave us many ways and I don't have the time unfortunately to
go through one of them. But I want to mention to you another beautiful neurulation Another handy in
which the profits are lower and he will send them summarized three very practical ways that we can
always put in our email and imagine as you go throughout life, you could give yourself that email
boost as and when you need it as and when you need to make that connection to alarms that will
generally connect to the lower arm you know how to administer a doctor but you know sub medicated
right you know what's wrong with you, you know how to self medicate. That is what the profits on
		
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			the profits on lower incidence in the Howdy.
		
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			Muslim anointed but honestly demanding of your loved one. He said some Alomar lady will send them so
often men couldn't if he he wanted to be in the hallowed email, three things. If you find that you
achieve them, you master them, you will attain the sweetness of the right you will taste the
sweetness of the map. And let's just pause and ponder over the statement you will taste the
sweetness of the man that by deep or by necessity means that he might sweetness to it. And if I was
to ask you a question, we've answered yourselves, in your mind, how many of us have actually tasted
the sweetness of female. In fact, 100 years even knew that there was such a thing as the sweetness
		
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			of a man. A lot of people dial in number and he describes this religion and he describes the heat
and he describes schema and he describes the law. He describes it to a tree and authority. A lot of
a lot of restaurant. Kenny went on when he met in
		
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			a lawsuit supposedly the Paragon and the example of the good. What is the good word? It is
		
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			the example of that one is like the example of a good tree. And what's one of the greatest benefits
of a good tree. The good sweet fruit that it produces the tastes that you have when you crunch into
the apple or you pick the orange when you take that banana that is what a good tree gives you My
sweet fruit. And so likewise Eman also has a lot. A lot should allow you to taste that sweetness and
that is one of the biggest problems we face
		
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			But the fact that we can't teach that students in fact, forget the sweetness, we don't even know
where the trees, we can't even rotate that you don't even know, we'll forget the tree, we don't even
know where the garden or the tree is, or where's the orchard, where we can go and find that tree and
		
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			share with them in detail
		
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			of the past. He said, number one is the magician has agenda in the hereafter. As we all know there's
a lot of power lies in the hereafter. But in order for you to enter into the garden, you must first
enter into the garden of this world.
		
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			That was a very trance state before you enter into the garden of a law, on the day of judgment in
general, you must enter into the garden of this world. What is the garden of this world? What is the
agenda of this world, that gentleman is tasting the sweetness of the man, that is what the agenda
is, if you can achieve that in this world, then you will get Charlemagne the blessings of Allah is
messy achieve, gentlemen, the next slide, because a lot is quite general in many ways in the world.
And he says, for example, that it is a recipe, for example, that the person that enters into it will
never want anything else in exchange allows us, for example, the gentleman expressing the soul
		
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			perpetual, and they keep renewing themselves, that he will never become bored, you will never be
anything other than satisfied by gender. So likewise, if that is the gender of the athlete, or
likewise, by inquiring into the heart of this loan, by tasting the sweetness of the man, you'll
never want to be, you'll never want to leave that. Once you taste that sweetness of the man, you
will never want it to go. And you will try everything you can in order to get it back. That is the
beauty of this how evil the prophet SAW the love, it will send three things which if you do, you
will taste the sweetness of the map. And if you want to see the truth and reality of the statement,
		
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			you don't need to look any further than ourselves and compare us to the companions of the Prophet
sallallahu sallam. For example, if I was to say to you that this is obviously a an absurd statement,
because I will never actually say this. But if I was for the sake of argument to say that you will
enter into gender, parity doesn't matter what you do, you will enter into gender fibers to give you
that guarantee right here on that. And it was a solid guarantee. None of those, like, you know,
dodgy things that you get people calling you up, this is a solid guarantee that you will get
intergender that is the guarantee that I give you right now. Ask yourself this question. How would
		
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			you worship a lot change after the penalty?
		
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			Would it increase and become better? odd, the opposite? Would you completely stop.
		
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			And if you think about
		
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			ourselves, myself included, it would be that we just go for a
		
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			normal version, no fasting Ramadan, no need to give money to people in the charity, learn that
stuff, right? Nothing wrong retirement, like we're just going on holiday, right? That's it,
everything. And the guarantee is you can do whatever you want. And you will get into gym. That
basically means anything you want, anything that was normally around
		
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			whatever you want, and anything that was obligatory of you is gonna love bigotry, do what you want.
And I think most of us will take that approach. And that is a sign of our demand. But what we fail
to realize is that this guarantee was given to a number of the companions of the Prophet son alone
where it was said, they were given such a guarantee that they will enter into gentlemen,
irrespective of what they do, they would have gems of armor,
		
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			and many others. They were promised Paradise by the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and
innumerable statements he actually said to them, doesn't matter what you do after today, you will
get into gender, like the process of circumcenter as a member of your loved one, when he gave 1000
camels in the way of love, he said, doesn't matter what was the man does not have to do into gender.
That's like the open ended statements. Except there's no but so whatever he does, he will continue
to change. Even after that point, he becomes the West
		
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			Region. But then look at the lives of those people.
		
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			After the death of the profits on the love army instead of did they go and retire? Did they go on
holiday? And it was well done? The other day, they've spent 20 years of their lives sacrificing
Buddhist religion. Don't they deserve a break? Don't they deserve to own retirement? Should they be
allowed to like pass this on to someone else? But instead, even after the death of the law, barely
even send them the increasing email? They would do even more they would strike even more. They would
worship a lot even more. And you will think it was impossible. How can you do that? After the death
of the prophet SAW the love it
		
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			Senator did so, and he never stopped. Why? Because it wasn't the case of it's a burden. For me it's
an issue of our own. What is an issue of an obligation or a provision? It was, what they found was
that they tasted the sweetness of the man. And once they tasted that sweetness of the love, didn't
matter what everyone else wanted a want, whether they actually didn't have to, they wanted that
piece. And they wanted to preserve the taste. And he wanted to keep tasting it because it was so
delicious. And that's why they continued to worship Allah the way that they did. And it's amazing
when you read their minds, like you think, with these people, even human, right, you think, well,
		
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			maybe the angels have something because of the way they were, after the death of the Prophet, some
of
		
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			them will go a long way, would recycle or others. And he got hundreds of people behind him, pray
behind him. And he will say that he was quite so much, he would cry so much from his recitation of
the Quran, that the people behind him couldn't understand what he was saying, weren't able to
decipher the virtual diversity. Because of how much he would quite remember of your love, it would
lead the complainants in prayer, he would cry so much that the people behind him would cry because
of his
		
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			age just because they moved in that same way. But because of the way that he cried the emotions that
they had listening to the plank, it would make them cry. That that the beauty of the way that the
last panel, apparently, these are people that will come to you, gentlemen. And that's why this
tasting the sweetness of the man is not just an understatement. It's not just something which I want
you to just listen to, it was in one ear comes up, I want you to try and experience this, I want you
to try to go back to the best of your ability. Ask him a lot for some reason blacula, that He gives
you the tofield and the ability and the business to be able to do this. And I want you to try just
		
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			once, and see if you can find that peace of mind. And if you sincerely try, Allah will help you. And
once you find that sweetness of the man and you taste it, honestly, I promise that he will never
want to go back. You will never look back. Because that's how beautiful it is, is like someone
saying that once you go into Germany, you can leave, they will never want to eat. So not like a no
brainer smoking with a question that's worth asking, once they enter, they will never want to leave
hard enough.
		
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			They will live there forever, neither will they want anything else in exchange. So profits on the
long
		
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			game was three very practical ways. The first it said that Allah and His Messenger are more beloved
to you than everything else. Allah and His Messenger, are more beloved to you than everything else.
That is a simple statement yet again. But its meaning is so comprehensive and so profound, that you
implemented in your lives is a very difficult stroke, that Allah and His Messenger are more beloved
to you with everything else. We know for example, that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
that he was having none of you truly believed until IMO beloved him that his parents and his
children, and a lot of the people
		
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			on the love line when he came to the Prophet, he will send them and he said, Listen, Jamila, you
won't be loving to me, you won't be loving to everyone else, with the exception of myself. What did
he say? Not yet.
		
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			whatsoever? Not yet, what what is the waiting for? Not yet, meaning that you haven't yet completed
email, you haven't reached the perfection of email. So that the alarm rang, he reflected on himself.
And he realized that he sacrificed so much for the
		
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			sacrifice to sacrifice his life, and he sacrificed as well. And he would put himself in harm's way
to ensure that not a single drop of blood would leave the body of the party.
		
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			So after reflecting on that, he said, No,
		
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			I have realized that you are more beloved to me than everyone including myself. So what did the most
of them say?
		
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			Now, you have reached that status of email. So what does that mean to not a lot is messenger more
than anything else? It means that you learn about the religion, you study the Quran, you study the
life of a rocket, so the longer it will send them, you read it, you learn about it, you study it,
and then implement it in your life and you submit to it and you fight off those desires that go
against that is basically in a nutshell, but it's very, very difficult to do because often what we
find in the Quran and Sunnah of the law tells us to do on the southern border is to do is something
which can be fixed in many of our designs. Many of our natural inclination is that
		
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			natural inclination is to sleep in the morning or not wake up.
		
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			Naturally pronation is to keep the money we have in our pockets in our pockets, not to give it to
other people. Our natural inclination is not to starve ourselves for 18 hours a day, it is to eat
and drink, but to put a lot and His Messenger before everything else shows that submission shows
that faith shows that, that hope that you have been allowed the trust that you have in Allah, the
certainty that you have in the promise of Allah. And that's why the prophets on a low bar and he
will send them was once visiting a river and it was with a number of his companions. And after he
visited the great red reduce alarms to the, to the deceased Muslims there, he said out loud, he
		
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			said, I want to meet my brothers, I want to meet my brothers and sisters. So the companions were
amazed, perplexed by the state, they sent a message of love, we love your brothers. stunningly Have
you logged into it as well already. So he said, No. He said, You are my companions. You're not my
brothers, you are my companions. My brothers are those people who will come after me. They never saw
me. And they will still have faith in me, and they will follow. So
		
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			that is what it means to be a part of the process. And
		
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			we went there, we never lived with the processor, never sat with him, never spoke to him. Don't
worry, don't slide don't know anything about in terms of like firsthand information. All we have we
have from books. And
		
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			that's it. It's still we believe in, we have faith in individuals, the messenger model, the Law
Center, and so on and so forth. And that evolves and dictates that belief in him dictates that we
follow him. And we placed him above everything else, even if it means going against our designs,
even if it means that other people around us will look down on us, even if it means that the
criticizes, even if it means that when you walk down the street, people give you funny looks over a
shop abusively. That's what it means. Because the profits are a lot more unequal than continued in a
hurry. And he said, my brothers are those people who have never met me, never saw me, they would
		
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			have beaten me, and they will follow me. He said for one of them to hold on to this religion will be
like holding on to red hot coals. That's how difficult it will be to worship Allah to come close to
Allah to follow the example that
		
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			imagine taking a red popsicle and holding in your hand. And despite all of your natural
inclinations, to let it go, throw it away, work away, you keep it in the palm of your hand. Because
you know, that's what it takes the profits of a lot of r&d facilities. And he said, for one of those
people, meaning those people who hold on to this religion, like what hot coals for one of them is
the reward of 70. They said original love, do you mean 74 months them for 74 months
		
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			is that no rather simple, almost
		
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			imagined to reward 70 components of the profits on the lower end incentive. And it's a gentleman
happy to didn't stipulate that and say, you know, a buck or more or it could be any one of them.
Imagine 70 times the reward of one.
		
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			And that's because the faith that you need to follow the prompts are certain after his death, it is
much more difficult. Because during his life, you'd see his miracles, you know that the blood was
being revealed to him, you'd speak to him and he would give you that sprint that you need in your
Eman, you will have it as a real life role model. Imagine that if you had a question about any issue
of your religion, don't need to go to Google don't need to go listen to a book you don't need to ask
someone. The prophets Allah
		
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			is the person you ask if you want to want to pray.
		
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			In the heart of as nice as he is, I'm sure a lot of these reciters it is the process of leading the
path, you want to go and listen to the final output. And the wondering like is going to be notable
initial Samadhi is the province of a lot more legal center given.
		
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			That's what those companions have. So in a way, alaric gave him a great message. That's why they
have such a special status in our religion, because they did and saw him and they saw that time. But
for us, it is more typical. Because we don't have anyone to hold us and say I'm getting liberation
from a lot concerning this issue. We have to go and plant a lot of effort to go to the Oregon and
the sun and write those rulings that are the standard and then apply and implement them. So the
reward is great. A lot of soldier alarm soldier knows this. And that's why the Prophet sallallahu
wasallam said they're gonna love this created paradise in the hellfire. He created them. He told me
		
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			to set up to go and look at the two. I went up came back when summarizing the origin came back. He
said to Allah that I don't think anyone
		
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			We'll hear about Jenna except that they will completely. And I don't think anyone will hear about
the Hellfire, except that they will feed on the word of it. So then Alexa will just paste hardships
around gentleman. And he picks ease and comfort and luxury around the halfpipe. And then he said,
should we not go back.
		
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			And so he went, and he looked at the tube, and he came back. And he said, I fear that hardly anyone
will enter into gender. And I'm a lot I fear that everyone will fall into the fight. That is the
hardship. When you wake up. In the morning, when you make water with cold water, and the heat is not
on yet, or the pipes, I started working in your house, and I'm really looking at
		
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			those problems that you face on a daily basis. That is a struggle that you face. But that is one of
those things that will be closer to the gym. And that's what it means to love a law and the prophets
of the law. Marlene said that more than anything else that was also special about the companions,
that they will sacrifice everything for the profits of the love it will send them they will never
question it. They wouldn't stand up and say But why? But if but only but maybe they wish to accept
what he said. Because they knew that that was a part of the fate that they had. And that's why when
the profits are low value, we'll send them went on that miraculous journey from Mecca to Jerusalem
		
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			into the heavens and back. What did the non Muslims do? What did the Orisha take an hour to do? The
first person that they went to was doubled up? Because they thought I was crazy, is taking too long
with a single made from Russia to Jerusalem, which in that time would take a month. Not only that,
but then he went to the heavens, came back, went all the way home to America, and was asleep in his
bed. So they went to Walmart and they said, Have you learned what your companion is see in the
profits over
		
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			and above at the store was only the one we had to get meant the profits on the Lamar legal center
will have this incident from his lips. So they went and told him what he was saying. And they said
how can you believe such a man? What
		
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			did you say? Let me go and check the facts. Anyone verify? Maybe you missed? A spoke, maybe he woke
up? He was feeling a bit tired? didn't know what he was saying? He said no. He said by a lot if he
said that, that I believe. He said how can you believe such a thing? He said, I believe that every
day revelation comes in directly from the heavens. So why wouldn't I believe him about a single trip
in his life.
		
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			That is the man that his companions had. That is how they sacrificed everything for a lot. And for
the profits of a lot of money. And exact sacrifices in the first place to taste the sweetness of
that sacrifice that is within putting a lot of a lot more ideas than before everything else. The
second thing that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam mentioned that will allow you to taste the
sweetness of the man. He said that you have someone that you love for the sake of a lot that you
have someone that you love, only for the sake of a lot. And really, honestly, we already have this
relationship. What relationship is the loss of someone speaking about you speaking about friendship,
		
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			that's what he's speaking about. And everyone has spread. I hope everyone has spread publicity
within rundown, geocaching you let people know that you will call your friends. Everyone has this
relationship. It's one of the first relationships that we develop, we will know we have children, we
have a family member brothers and sisters, and so on one of the first external relationships that
our child can make his friends, and go out before their business acquaintances and business
partners. All of those are the things they would have friends, maybe it's their cousins, maybe it's
for example, the children, their neighbors, maybe the messaging and make some friends. One of the
		
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			first relationships that we have, once the profits are low, or instead of saying, one of the ways
that you taste the sweetness of the man is that you make sure that that friendship is for the sake
of Allah. It's not because you need money. It's not because you want to like, for example, marry
someone in the family. It's not because of any of those reasons. It is for a lot of
		
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			others the mistake that we made, most of the friends that we have just became a friend, or that
relationship was because they happen to be in our class, or on our course, or maybe they grew up in
our neighborhood. Or maybe my parents know their parents. That's the way we make friendships. That's
how these relationships are formed. For the vast majority of us. It's a very organic way. But the
bumps are missing that you need. That's okay. You can have those types of friends. But you also need
that special group of people around you that you only have that friendship for the sake of love.
Because when you have that friendship for the sake of Allah, then those people will ensure by the
		
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			permission of the law that you will be strong. Then the types of friends when you go out and you
have a nice day.
		
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			time, when the time comes that we make the same mistake that 10 minutes, I'm going to play that the
kind of people who are in the month of Ramadan, where you might be visiting ABC and D, they'll say,
gee, why don't we just take that 30 minutes today just to recite some extra? When they have some
very good cause, they will say, why don't we give up the extra child 55 times, why don't we give 10
and they will always encourage you always look out for you, and they won't be ashamed. They won't be
scared, they won't be afraid of reminding you of a lot when you need to be reminded. So if
		
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			you're not doing something that you shouldn't be doing as a Muslim, then they won't be shy, they
won't feel that their friendship will be ruined if they bring this up to you. So they will mention
it to you not why. Because what's more important to them is that a lot of and that's why the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam mentioned to us the hadith of a man was leaving the village and was
going to another village to visit a friend. So it was a gem, an angel in the form of a man. And the
angel came and he said to the man from the village, where are you going? And he said, I'm going to
such and such a village, is that you? Why are you going? Is it because you have some money issues?
		
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			Maybe you need some money? Or you need to get some loan repaid? You said no, not because of money.
Is that Is it because of marriage? Maybe you want to marry some of them? He was talking to someone
from your village? He said no. He said that for some other reason from the dunya. The man said no.
So they asked him that Why? He said only for the sake of Allah, only because I love that person for
the sake of Allah. So the angel said, I am an angel, the new road has been down to you. I know that
just as you love your friend for the sake of Allah, that Allah also loves you.
		
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			How amazing is that we already have these friendships, or we have to do is treating the profits on
themselves. In the
		
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			long run. The losses and I have eaten footsie four types of people, a lot of them.
		
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			A lot of one of them is obligatory a lot that he loves what types of people the profits on the lower
end, we'll send them set those who love one another for the sake of Allah, and those who sit with
one another for the sake of Allah, and those who visit one another for the sake of a lot. And those
who strive for one another for the sake of Allah. It's exactly what friends do. They love one
another, they support one another, they trust one another. They visit one another, they sit with one
another, and they strike one another. But what's the common denominator? What makes it
		
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			go from a normal friendship, to the friendship that a lot of speaking about it is for the sake of
Allah? It is for lossy. And that's what
		
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			he says.
		
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			Yo, man even better than I do. In
		
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			the best of firms on the day of judgment will be enemies work to another except for the price on the
right. How can a best friend become your enemy on the day of judging that person that you trust the
most, you probably speak to them more than you probably speak to some of your family members.
Normally we confide in these people, before we even confide in our parents. Normally the first
people that we speak to in the day, and the last people that we speak to about this is how close we
are to these people are unknown, that they will be our enemies. And we will be there. How? Because
on normal Deanna, we will say it was our friend that delayed us from going to the prep, it was our
		
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			friend, that didn't remind us that we need to reset them overnight. It was our friend when instead
of making me give the money to charity, he told me to go and spend it on something else. Or she did.
And so we will blame one another except for the except for the people of piety and righteousness
whose friendship was already based on lopsided platform on human piano, they will reap the benefits
of their friendship. This is an extremely important point. Look at the friends that you have around
you. Not only the way that they are friends to you, but the way that you are friends to them as
well. Ask yourself this question. How have you benefited your friends in front of a lot. Look at the
		
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			example.
		
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			They will choose extremely close friends, the best of friends. And you find by studying their lives,
that whatever else they face in their life, they will always support one another. They're always
constantly with one another. They're always striving to one another. And they're always competing
with one another for the mercy of the last panel in town. They're always in competition. And that's
where everyone knows the famous story in the book, when remember the loved one was wealthy at the
time. So he came to give some charity to the process of selling. And he gave half of this month
thinking that normal animals today were better than half of my mother who's going to give half of
		
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			everything they own. But then a loved one came with everything that he had. And the profits on the
long run equals send them said Jim, who have you left behind for yourself and your family. What have
you left behind? What did he say? He said about
		
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			For them, Allah and His messenger. Look at the way he combined between the first two points on
demand. Number one, for everything online is messenger before everything else, everything for the
sake of Allah, I like for them a lot in his messenger. And the second point look at a friendship.
And it wasn't more of jealousy. And I didn't go and stop for the rest of the day and say, Look, I'm
never going to speak to you again, even like this was my only chance. And he took it from me. No, it
was a friendship based upon love for loss.
		
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			And so he was happy that his brother did better. And that's why the alumni
		
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			disappeared, beautiful story, whenever one of your loved ones into the midst of vision. And he led
the Muslims in prayer. And after the first prayer, he went in a different direction as the way that
he normally takes to go to different parts of Medina. And one of the LA Rams saw him doing soul
searching and taking a different role. And so he was curious, where is abubaker going at such an
early hour in the morning. And so we followed. And he followed him to the outskirts of Medina. And I
woke up
		
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			at about, and you get into that heart. And he stayed there for some time. And then he left and went
home. And remember, the loved one was just sitting there watching and read. And he wants to know
what's the lubricant, so that I can go and do the same thing. I could compete with a robot I could
be like, so he goes on, he knocks on the door. And he enters and he finds an old woman or brain
woman. So he says, Who are you? And what are you doing here? And who is that man? And what did he
want from me. And so the old woman said, I'm an old white woman, and I'm no father or brother or
son.
		
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			And I become so old that I must become blind. As for this man who comes every single day, I don't
know who he is no idea. But every day he comes to my house in the morning, and he cleans my house.
And he looks my goals. And he makes my bread. And he fixes all of the first of my house. And then he
leaves. And until this day, I
		
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			left that house in tears, quiet. And he said attacked.
		
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			Anyone who becomes a honeypot who will never be able to live up to his standards.
		
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			Look how easy would have been.
		
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			There's an old blind woman in the outskirts of Medina, someone going out somewhere or making some
food somewhere going fixed, fixed, she was aware of she needed going out. But how many of the
competitors would have rushed to one hop that will go
		
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			even though he's the most important person in that society, there's so many issues to deal with. He
will go and he will do it himself. Because that's tasting the sweetness of the man. And the loved
one will go and do it himself. Because he has that friend. That's that's always this woman is always
looking up to him. He's always trying to strike with him for the sake of the loss of
		
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			the third point that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam mentioned that
		
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			he could taste the sweetness of the matter is that he disliked to leave this religion, just as you
dislike to be thrown in the fire, that you dislike to leave this religion, that just as you dislike,
to be thrown into the fire.
		
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			This is basically an issue of holding yourself to a tank.
		
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			You need to look at ourselves and assess our lives. If we were to die today, how confident are you
that allow showering you with is messy, but allow them into judgment today, based upon what you've
done so far? How confident are you that you have done enough to attain the pleasure of loss?
		
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			Or is it the opposite? Are you completely unconfident, you have no confidence in this. And the
likelihood is that a law would punish almost everything every day that you wake up every day that
you live, it gives you a chance gives you a chance to increase in worship gives you a chance to
strengthen your email gives you a chance to do some good to benefit those people around you. It
gives you a chance to make Toba to repent to seek forgiveness from him. So
		
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			it gives you a chance every single day that you wake up. How many chances Have you missed? How many
chances will be squandered? And how many more chances do you have left? And the reality is that we
don't know. There's a common division in exercise that people normally do. I don't know if you've
come across this before, but what they normally say is for example, assess your life, what you do at
home, what you do, I love everything your whole life. Now imagine someone wants to say to you that
Tonight you will die
		
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			last night, Tonight you will die. So they gave me the guarantee of gender. This is like one of those
other full strategies, which no one can prove. But for the sake of argument and it's a possibility
that tonight is the last month of your life.
		
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			What would you go and cheat? What would you do? What would be different on this night? Well, how
would you change your plans tonight? From when you already have time in your mind for the rest of
the evening? Once it? What What would you change, knowing the reality of your life is coming to an
end. This is what the loss of power dialer and the prophet SAW.
		
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			Want us to assess every single day of our lives up to the moment, the alarm company would say, every
day that passes by a part of your life passes with a bit of you leaves with it, because that time
will never come back to you. You'll never get the chance again. You can't be one of them. We all
know that. We all know for example, you just have to look at when you went to primary school. How
many of you remember when you were in primary school? Everyone remember, it was just an old people
always say that. It was like it was yesterday. But that means that the time was done by so quick.
And we haven't really used didn't really utilize it the way that we wanted. And often people say if
		
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			I could turn back the clock, then I would do this and this I would change this and this. But there
are things you can't so there's no point thinking about silly stuff later. If you waste only time,
think about how you'd be right about Professor crazy, because then you lose the rest of your life
worrying about reminding that pop. But you still have a chance to learn it's still giving you that
chance that you dislike to leave this religion just as you decide to be thrown into the fire of
		
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			the province on a number of equal settlements asked by his companions. Where can we meet? Where
would you be well, we can be conceived as the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, I will be at
my farm, I will be at my home and I will conclude the Shabbat with this story. I will be at my pond.
		
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			And we know from the son of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that the water of this part will
come from this river and coastal in general, that water will come from that river in general is
river cork and Kolkata. And the water will come out to this pump, which is outside of China. And the
profits are low it will send it will be standing there serving people himself with his own hand.
		
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			He mentioned that the process of them serving you, how much would you have given what you have
sacrificed? How much would you have spent just to serve him once a single cup of water just to see
him once just to shake his hand once, just
		
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			once. But on the on the honor that the processor will give to his followers is that he will serve
that he will stand and he will serve them and he will serve them with golden cups of the woods of
his farm. And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam described that what he said is whiter than
milk, sweeter than honey, more fragrant than must whosoever prints from it will never be zesty
again. That's how amazing
		
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			the profits on the long run He will send them said though, as he's standing there by his poem,
waiting and welcoming his followers in his home now, there will be a group of people find this
former Muslims a group of people from this room who will be coming close towards his party. But just
as they come close, the angels will come and they will drive them away. push them back and right
away. So the prophets of Allah equals send them out of his mercy, his kindness, his gentleness
placed on them. And he will say, I'm a teen monkey. These are people for my employer, they are
people for mine, let them come let them drink. But the angels will say, you don't know what they did
		
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			to religion after you die.
		
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			That's what they'll say. You don't know what happened to religion, what they did your religion after
you die, there may be misinterpreted, the way that they will choose what to follow and what not to
follow the way that they would just pick and choose elements that suited them. You don't know what
they chose religion.
		
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			And imagined on that day, by coming after years of longing and waiting to see them once you find the
seam in the horizon. And it's not just any type of medium is going to serve you with this water that
will make you experience noticed ever again. And just as you come close, the angels come and they
push you away. And they say about you that you change his religion after he died. Well, what's the
opposite of love it you see them saying in response to the angels? He said, Sir,
		
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			take them away from remove them from a distance than probably those people will change my religion.
		
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			He will free himself from those people. Imagine how much grief and sadness and loss we feel on that
day. Being one of those people that instead of putting the profits on a lot of it will send them
first is that bring a lot of us is that a premium or add plus, we chose to pick and choose elements
of our religion. We chose to change the religion to suit us. We chose to not follow that example
Trump's sacrifice. So on that day, they will make no sacrifice for us as well. They will free
themselves from us just as in our lives.
		
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			Even though we don't do this explicitly, we don't say it. But our actions say, and they speak
volumes for us, that we are distancing ourselves from them, from their, from their way from the
teachings, through the way that we talk, the way that we act, the way that we deal with other
people. When we don't follow the guidelines of a lot of these prophets, Allah says, mic was, will
distance himself from those people, my dear brothers and sisters in the 70s are three very simple
things that are easily in the past for every single person sitting here today. And I put up coming
today and said, You don't like from the way that you strengthen your marriage, and you memorize the
		
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			Koran. And that is a way, it's very difficult for most people to do that. And that's sad, but it's
the reality, I could have come in and said, one of the ways that you stood the new humanities you
		
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			go every month.
		
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			But again, it's impractical for us. So instead, I chose to give you three things that are in the
trust our world, and some of you, in fact, everyone has started on all of these three things to a
certain way. It's just that we found obstacles in the way shape parents, companies, pieces,
different obstacles, in our path, in all of these three things, in sacrificing for love the process
of setting them in having friendship for the sake of Allah, in follow the religion of Allah, and not
wanting to do that religion. But chicken comes in whispers into pieces, these obstacles, and some of
us we fall back because of these obstacles, others are still stuck. They don't know which way to go.
		
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			They don't know how to get around the Boulder. They don't know how to get over the obstacle. And so
this and so it's not difficult. What it takes though, is self discipline, takes determination, takes
you really wanting to taste that sweetness of email. And that's why the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, when he looked throughout his life, when you look at how much he nurtured his companions,
who educated them, he will never, hardly ever, if ever find a single hobby that speaks about
military strategy, find your single heavy images, and said, this is the best battle formation. This
is the way that you might want to watch it. This is the type of weaponry that you should look into
		
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			inventing, finding a single hobby in which you have any of those things, the process of selling them
never focus on each of those issues. Maybe not have Ethernet in the bathroom in the midst of the
battle and say go and set up the troops there or something. But other than that in Medina, is the
role of the time in between those battles. There was no preparation. Yes, the companions will
archers, they would ride horses, they were just so many things in preparation, but you won't find a
concerted effort. There was no military school, there was no Santos right at that time where they
would learn this stuff. So instead, what did the officer focus on? What did he spend 23 years
		
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			teaching his companion expect teaching them how to teach the sweetness of the mind. Because if you
taste the sweetness of vanilla, everything else is easy. Everything else is easy. But if you can't
taste the sweetness of the man, doesn't matter how scientifically advanced you are, doesn't matter
how logically advanced you are, doesn't matter about any of those things. Because that heart and
heart is what matters. At heart, you're still very weak, you're still disconnected, you still have
no attachment to anything, you can easily be bought up by the by the luxuries of this dunya by money
by fame by power, all of those things are temptations to so the profits are low, Harvey was seven
		
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			level focused on these issues, he would focus on the heart, focus on what makes the person
struggling the man focused on the ways that people can teach the students of the mind focus on the
way people can attach themselves to a lot how to worship Allah, how to connect with the Quran.
That's what the life of a prophet SAW a lot of our teachers, as well as kind of Darla place was
Beautiful Names and attributes, that it gives us the ability to strengthen our human without a loss
of power dynamics us for amongst those people were normally mo resurrected without our profits on
the lower legal center. And it will be given the shape of a love and you will be allowed to meet the
		
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			profits of a lover it will send them and drink from his pump and it will be entered into the agenda
as the last panel data that strengthens our email enables us to sacrifice for large profits or lower
the standard that we put them before everything else that we have friends that we have for the sake
of a lot of love alone, and that we dislike to be treated this religion just as we dislike to be
entered into the rest of the Los Angeles world and degenerative for those that are that. I like to
thank the brothers and the Sisters of this place. I really wish they invited me here to York
University very distantly from Birmingham. Very happy to be here with you.