Ali Albarghouthi – Being Honest with Allah – delivered at another masjid

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The importance of honesty and being honest in Islam is emphasized, especially in the context of war. The need for everyone to commit to their beliefs and to be honest with oneself is emphasized. The importance of honesty and being representative is emphasized, especially in the context of achieving goals. The need for everyone to stay away from past views and commit to their true intentions is emphasized, as well as the importance of helping others and bringing light to one's past experiences to build a path of father's love and values.

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			Inna alhamdulillahi nahmaduhu wa nastaeenuhu wa nastaghfiruhu wa
		
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			na'udhu billahi min shururi anfusina wa sayyi
		
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			'ati a'malina man yahdihi allahu fa la mudhilla
		
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			lah wa man yudhlil fa la hadiya lah
		
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			wa ashhadu an la ilaha illa allahu wahdahu
		
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			la sharika lah wa anna muhammadan abduhu wa
		
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			rasuluh sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi
		
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			wa salam amma ba'du fa inna khayral hadithi
		
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			kitabullahi ta'ala wa khayral hadi hadi muhammadin
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wa salam wa sharral umuri muhdathatuha
		
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			wa kulla muhdathatin bid'ah wa kulla bid
		
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			'atin dhalalah wa kulla dhalalatin finnaar amma ba'd
		
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			the world that we are living in today
		
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			can be safely labeled as a dishonest world
		
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			dishonesty is widespread, rampant in fact it could
		
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			even be called the norm when you look
		
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			at politics and politicians when you look at
		
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			business and corporations how they sell and the
		
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			tactics that they use when you look at
		
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			entertainment and what it's trying to convey when
		
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			you look at people on social media how
		
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			they present themselves all this tells us that
		
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			most of the world today is involved in
		
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			lying and deception and Muslims must understand the
		
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			importance of honesty to fight that trend because
		
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			we are in a position where we are
		
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			influenced by others we are not the influencers
		
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			so rather than being swept away by that
		
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			tide of dishonesty because everybody else is dishonest
		
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			we must understand the value of honesty and
		
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			that it is a mother virtue it is
		
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			a virtue that leads to every other virtue
		
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			and dishonesty and lying is a mother sin
		
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			that leads to every other sin and Rasulullah
		
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			A.S. confirmed this when he said honesty
		
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			leads to righteousness and righteousness leads to heaven
		
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			and a person will continue to be honest
		
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			until he is an honest person with Allah
		
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			written, confirmed as honest with Allah Azzawajal that
		
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			is his reputation that is his title with
		
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			Allah Azzawajal and he said and a person
		
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			lying will lead to fujur, sin and sin
		
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			will lead to * fire and a person
		
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			will continue to lie until he is written
		
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			and confirmed with Allah as a liar so
		
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			if you are honest that honesty will take
		
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			you to Jannah because if you decide to
		
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			be honest in your stayings, in your life
		
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			in your actions then every other possible righteousness
		
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			is a possibility for you is more likely
		
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			for you and if you lie then every
		
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			other sin is a possibility and a likelihood
		
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			for you honesty is integral in Islam Allah
		
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			Azzawajal described himself as being honest ومن أصدق
		
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			من الله قيل ومن أصدق من الله حديث
		
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			who is more honest than Allah in speech
		
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			and he described his revelation as honesty, as
		
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			the truth فمن أظلم ممن كذب على الله
		
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			وكذب بالصدق إذ جاءه أليس في جهنم مثوى
		
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			للكافرين والذي جاء بالصدق وصدق به أولئك هم
		
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			المتقون he said عليه الصلاة والسلام he said
		
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			سبحانه وتعالى who is more unjust than the
		
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			one who invents a lie about Allah Azzawajal
		
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			and rejects the truth reject what he called
		
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			صدق honesty when it comes to him and
		
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			that is Allah's revelation then he said والذي
		
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			جاء بالصدق وصدق به but the one who
		
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			brings or brought honesty and believes it they
		
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			are the people of taqwa and the people
		
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			who bring honesty of صدق the truth are
		
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			the prophets of Allah عليه الصلاة والسلام and
		
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			anyone else who conveys it so if he
		
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			brings honesty and they believe in that honesty
		
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			which is Allah's revelation then Allah will be
		
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			pleased with them so Allah's revelation is called
		
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			صدق because it is the truth and it
		
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			guides to the truth and it will generate
		
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			and produce truthful people Allah Azzawajal has explained
		
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			to us that this life will have tests
		
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			that will differentiate between the honest and the
		
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			dishonest and you will only survive these tests
		
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			if you are honest he said سبحانه وتعالى
		
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			حسب الناس أن يتركوا أن يقولوا آمنا وهم
		
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			لا يفتنون ولقد فتنا الذين من قبلهم فلا
		
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			يعلمنا الله الذين صدقوا ولا يعلمنا الكاذبين it
		
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			says do people think that we will just
		
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			let them say that we believe and they
		
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			will not be tested indeed we tested those
		
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			who came before them so that Allah will
		
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			know and differentiate between those who are honest
		
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			and the liars honesty by the way is
		
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			not just simply something that you say honesty
		
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			is a greater attitude honesty is honesty in
		
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			intention فنية so that what you do is
		
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			for Allah's sake so if your actions portray
		
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			something that your intention nullifies, that's not honesty
		
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			so you ask yourself whenever you are supposed
		
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			to worship Allah am I honest in this
		
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			worship meaning externally I look like a person
		
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			who is worshipping Allah but internally am I
		
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			being honest is this for Allah's sake or
		
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			not and if it's not, it's dishonest and
		
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			if it's dishonest it is highly unlikely for
		
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			that action to be righteous highly unlikely for
		
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			that action to save you that is why
		
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			Allah said when this test will come it
		
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			will differentiate between those who when they believe
		
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			and say they believe they're honest about it
		
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			they will triumph when the test arrives but
		
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			if you are dishonest you will break you
		
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			and I will break because we're not strong
		
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			enough we're not committed enough we're not devoted
		
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			enough so when the test comes, we quit
		
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			and that is a mark of dishonesty so
		
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			dishonesty is dishonesty in intention but also dishonesty
		
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			in commitment to Islam meaning when you say
		
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			I believe in this you actually believe it
		
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			you're not half-hearted about it and then
		
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			you commit yourself to it fully because you
		
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			actually believe it and it's honesty في استيواء
		
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			السر والعلن where externally and internally you're also
		
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			honest you do not simply betray something on
		
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			the outside righteousness, Iman but on the inside
		
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			the heart is corrupt the least level of
		
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			honesty is for your inside to be as
		
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			good as your outside and if you're among
		
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			the fortunate your inside would be much better
		
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			than what people see Allah عز و جل
		
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			had praised people in the Quran for their
		
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			honesty مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ رِجَالٌ صَدَقُوا مَا عَاهَدُوا اللَّهَ
		
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			عَلَيْهِ فَمِنْهُم مَنْ قَضَى نَحْبَهُ وَمِنْهُم مَنْ يَنْتَظِرُ
		
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			وَمَا بَدَّلُوا تَبْدِيلًا it says among the believers
		
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			are those who are honest in the promise
		
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			that they made to Allah some of them
		
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			died, they were killed and others not but
		
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			they have not changed a single thing awaiting
		
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			the fulfillment of their promise the sahaba said
		
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			this was probably revealed about Anas ibn Nadr
		
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			رضي الله عنه Anas ibn Nadr missed the
		
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			battle of Badr with Rasulullah عليه الصلاة والسلام
		
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			so he said regretfully he said I missed
		
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			the first battle with the Prophet indeed if
		
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			I were to witness another Allah would see
		
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			what I will do that was his promise
		
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			so in the battle of Ahud he was
		
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			present and when the Muslims retreated he said
		
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			Ya Allah I am innocent of those people
		
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			meaning the disbelievers and I seek pardon for
		
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			what those people have done meaning the believers
		
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			who have fled, the Muslims who have fled
		
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			then he head right on to the disbelievers
		
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			and Sa'd ibn Mu'adh met him on
		
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			his way he said where are you going
		
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			he said oh Sa'd I can smell Jannah
		
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			closer to me than the mount of Ahud
		
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			I can smell meaning physically Jannah closer to
		
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			me than the mount of Ahud so Sa'd
		
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			said to the Prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام later
		
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			he said oh Prophet of Allah I could
		
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			not match what he did when they brought
		
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			his body they found 80 something stabs and
		
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			wounds in it swords and spears and arrows
		
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			and his body was so mutilated that only
		
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			his sister could identify him with his fingers
		
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			so they said this was probably revealed about
		
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			people like him he was honest من المؤمنين
		
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			رجال and among believers are men who when
		
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			they promise Allah they were honest and then
		
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			Allah said لِيَجْزِيَ اللَّهُ الصَّادِقِينَ بِصِدْقِهِمْ so that
		
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			Allah will reward the honest because of their
		
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			honesty he said something and he did it
		
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			another example of an Arabi a nomad, a
		
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			Bedouin he migrated or he accepted Islam first
		
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			then he said to Rasulullah عليه الصلاة والسلام
		
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			I want to migrate to you he said
		
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			yes so in one of those battles Muslims
		
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			were fighting and he was in the back
		
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			they stopped, there was some reprieve in the
		
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			battle so the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم
		
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			distributed some of the booty of the battle
		
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			and he gave a portion to that man
		
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			to someone that's his portion, give it to
		
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			him so when that Bedouin, that Arabi he
		
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			received it he said what is this?
		
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			he said this is something that the Prophet
		
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			صلى الله عليه وسلم gave to you because
		
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			of your participation in the battle so he
		
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			takes this and he goes to Muhammad صلى
		
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			الله عليه وسلم and he said O Rasulullah
		
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			or messenger of Allah I did not follow
		
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			you to get something like this I followed
		
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			you so that an arrow would fly and
		
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			hit me in the neck right here and
		
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			I would die this is why I followed
		
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			you فقال له رسول الله صلى الله عليه
		
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			وسلم ان تصدق الله يصدق if you are
		
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			honest with Allah Allah will fulfill that for
		
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			you if you are honest with Allah Allah
		
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			will give that to you then the battle
		
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			resumed and an arrow came and hit him
		
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			and killed him and they brought him to
		
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			the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم فقال اهو
		
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			اهو he asked, he said is this the
		
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			same person that just talked to me about
		
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			this they said yes O Prophet of Allah
		
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			so they found that an arrow hit him
		
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			in the exact same spot that he pointed
		
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			to قال اما هذا فقد صدق الله فصدق
		
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			he said as for this person he was
		
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			honest with Allah and Allah was honest with
		
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			him he fulfilled that for him then the
		
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			Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم took his jubba,
		
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			his clothes and that was the shroud, the
		
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			kafan for that person then he prayed janazah
		
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			for him and they said among the things
		
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			that we heard the Prophet صلى الله عليه
		
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			وسلم say the dua that he made for
		
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			that person اللهم هذا عبدك خرج مهاجرا في
		
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			سبيلك وقتل شهيدا في سبيلك وانا شهيد عليه
		
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			he said O Allah this is a servant
		
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			of yours who migrated for you and he
		
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			was martyred and I am a witness for
		
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			him if you are honest with Allah عز
		
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			وجل then Allah will be honest with you
		
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			and fulfill what you want from him سبحانه
		
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			وتعالى then you say to yourself and you
		
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			ask yourself why is it that we are
		
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			not so honest with Allah عز وجل if
		
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			you know and this is really important and
		
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			I want you to think about it if
		
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			you know that this is from Allah if
		
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			you know that what Allah chooses is better
		
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			for you than your own choice if you
		
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			know that what Allah decrees is better for
		
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			you than your own choice why would you
		
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			not commit yourself to what Allah loves why
		
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			do you put yourself and your own desire
		
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			ahead of what Allah عز وجل wants if
		
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			you are honest and if I'm honest with
		
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			Allah عز وجل then we will say I'm
		
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			gonna commit myself to it because I know
		
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			it is best and if I know it
		
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			is best it's absolutely ridiculous for me to
		
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			choose anything else and if you commit yourself
		
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			to it fully wholeheartedly and what does that
		
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			mean you may say you say first I
		
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			believe that this is from Allah then you
		
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			fully commit yourself to it then you do
		
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			everything in your power to follow it and
		
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			finally you ask Allah عز وجل for his
		
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			help if you fully commit yourself to it
		
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			then nothing is impossible بإذن الله عز وجل
		
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			whatever you want Allah عز وجل will grant
		
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			you but the setbacks that we suffer and
		
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			the cracks that we have in our iman
		
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			and our patience they come because of some
		
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			element of dishonesty you're not fully convinced you're
		
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			not fully committed you didn't really fully try
		
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			and because of that you did not get
		
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			the results that you want so here is
		
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			a reminder for all of us that if
		
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			you want something from Allah عز وجل be
		
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			honest with Allah in pursuit of that thing
		
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			truly believe it truly give it your all
		
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			and then witness wonders from Allah سبحانه وتعالى
		
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			as he fulfills what you have sacrificed for
		
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			what you have committed yourself to أقول قولي
		
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			هذا وأستغفر الله لي ولكم فاستغفروه الحمد
		
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			لله رب العالمين حمدا كثيرا طيبا مباركا فيه
		
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			من السماوات ومن الأرض ومن أما شاء من
		
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			شيء بعد وأصلي وأسلم على رسوله محمد وعلى
		
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			آله وصحبه وسلم عائشة رضي الله عنها said
		
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			about the prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام ما كان
		
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			خلق أبغض إليه من الكذب وإن كان الرجل
		
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			ليحدث عنده الكذب فما يزال يجد عليه بها
		
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			حتى يعلم أنه قد أحدث توبة she said
		
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			about the prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام he hated
		
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			nothing more than lying and a person would
		
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			lie in front of him and the prophet
		
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			صلى الله عليه وسلم would still continue to
		
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			experience discomfort and be disturbed by that person
		
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			until he knows that he had repented from
		
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			that particular lie that is the tongue needs
		
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			to be clean and if the tongue is
		
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			clean with honesty and the heart is clean
		
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			with honesty then the rest of the body
		
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			the rest of your life will be righteous
		
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			because of that commitment honesty is what saves
		
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			in the dunya and in the akhirah despite
		
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			appearances to the contrary despite the fact that
		
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			everybody is lying and they think that they're
		
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			getting away with things because they are lying
		
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			they think because they're getting richer because they
		
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			are lying they think that they're getting ahead
		
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			and fooling someone because they are lying but
		
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			they are not fooling Allah عز و جل
		
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			and they can never fool themselves and the
		
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			outcome is never good ultimately and Ka'ab
		
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			ibn Malik رضي الله عنه in the battle
		
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			of Tabuk when he stayed behind the prophet
		
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			صلى الله عليه وسلم and he had no
		
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			excuse and the prophet came back and people
		
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			who stayed behind were offering excuses and the
		
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			hypocrites were lying to Muhammad صلى الله عليه
		
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			وسلم and he would accept from them what
		
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			they say and he leaves what is inside
		
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			their hearts to Allah عز و جل and
		
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			Ka'ab ibn Malik رضي الله عنه had
		
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			said he said I know that I'm an
		
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			eloquent person and I know if I wanted
		
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			to lie to the prophet صلى الله عليه
		
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			وسلم I could lie but I know that
		
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			I cannot escape Allah عز و جل if
		
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			I lie so he went and said to
		
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			the prophet I had no excuse and the
		
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			prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said أما
		
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			هذا فقد صدق he had spoken honestly he's
		
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			honest this one is honest go and he
		
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			suffered the consequences of that honesty but it
		
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			purified him to the extent that Allah عز
		
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			و جل revealed ayahs in the Quran about
		
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			him and his other two companions يَا أَيُّهَا
		
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			الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَكُونُوا مَعَ الصَّالِقِينَ O
		
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			you who have iman have taqwa of Allah
		
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			and be with the truthful and Ka'ab
		
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			ibn Malik رضي الله عنه he said O
		
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			prophet of Allah the thing that saved me
		
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			is honesty the thing that saved me is
		
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			honesty there was that allure to lie it's
		
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			an attraction to lie all the time and
		
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			then I'll just escape but he said what
		
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			saved me is honesty and part of my
		
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			tawbah is that I will never lie from
		
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			now onward and I've never intended to lie
		
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			from now onward and I do not know
		
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			of someone who was blessed because of his
		
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			honesty as much as I am from that
		
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			time till this time so Allah عز و
		
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			جل revealed يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ
		
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			وَكُونُوا مَعَ الصَّالِقِينَ O you who have iman
		
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			have taqwa of Allah and be among the
		
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			honest and here being among the honest doesn't
		
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			mean simply and only be around the honest
		
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			but to be like them be like them
		
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			in their speech in their attitudes in their
		
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			intentions in their commitment in what they wanna
		
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			do in what they avoid in how they
		
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			stay away from the haram despite how attractive
		
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			it is how stay away from being rich
		
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			and famous because it does involve a lot
		
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			of lying because they believe that Allah عز
		
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			و جل and what it has is a
		
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			lot better than what everybody else has so
		
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			if you commit yourself to that truth you
		
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			commit yourself to the Qur'an you commit
		
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			yourself to the sunnah then you committed yourself
		
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			to that truth so you have to be
		
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			truthful despite the pressure around you and the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ said كَفَى بِالْمَرْءِ كَذِبًا أَن يُحَدِّثَ
		
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			بِكُلِّ مَا سَمِعُ it is enough lying for
		
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			someone that he would narrate and convey everything
		
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			that he had heard and he said ﷺ
		
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			about a person who lies and he spreads
		
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			his lie he said that in the barzakh
		
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			he saw them being punished with hooks being
		
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			put into their mouths and into their nose
		
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			and that rips their face back to their
		
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			ears and that continues to be done frequently
		
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			one after the other until the day of
		
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			judgment and when he asked the angel why?
		
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			who are they?
		
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			he said هَذَا الرَّجُّلُ يَكْذِبُ الْكَذِبَةُ فَتَبْلُغُ الْآفَاءُ
		
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			this is a person who lies and his
		
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			lies reaches the horizon it spreads so before
		
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			you speak, before you write make sure that
		
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			you are not lying but most importantly you
		
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			ask yourself am I honest with Allah عز
		
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			و جل if this is the book of
		
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			Allah عز و جل you ask yourself is
		
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			it the best book?
		
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			you say yes you say what in your
		
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			life reflects this?
		
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			what in your life testifies to this?
		
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			you look at the sunnah of Muhammad عليه
		
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			الصلاة والسلام you ask yourself is this his
		
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			sunnah?
		
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			is it the best way?
		
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			is it better than any other path including
		
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			my own path?
		
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			if you say yes what in your life
		
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			testifies to this?
		
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			if you say Islam is the best if
		
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			you say the hereafter is better than the
		
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			dunya what in your life testifies to this?
		
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			and if you find a lag bridge it
		
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			and believe the best about Allah عز و
		
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			جل and expect the best from him and
		
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			finally I remind you as the brother did
		
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			before the khutbah about the project the wudu
		
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			project few dollars are left and if simply
		
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			each one of us donates 200 dollars or
		
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			so today will be done بإذن الله عز
		
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			و جل so first this is a صدق
		
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			جارية if you do this we hope and
		
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			ask from Allah عز و جل to continue
		
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			to reward you as long as people are
		
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			benefiting and using that facility second even if
		
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			you cannot do 200 whatever you can donate
		
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			and most importantly make dua for it if
		
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			you cannot be physically part of that effort
		
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			at least religiously be part of that effort
		
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			who knows one of your dua would be
		
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			accepted and Allah عز و جل could fulfill
		
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			the rest of that amount so ask Allah
		
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			أرحم الراحمين رب العالمين to make us among
		
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			the honest in the dunya and in the
		
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			akhirah to resurrect us with the honest in
		
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			the akhirah we ask him رب العالمين to
		
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			make us honest in tongue honest in intention
		
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			honest in effort to make us honest in
		
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			our business to make us honest with our
		
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			families to make us honest internally and externally
		
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			we ask him رب العالمين to prevent us
		
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			from lies and dishonesty we ask him رب
		
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			العالمين to help us fully commit ourselves to
		
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			his religion to his book and to the
		
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			sunnah of his prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام we
		
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			ask him رب العالمين to cleanse and purify
		
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			our hearts to extract from them the love
		
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			of the dunya and replace it with the
		
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			love of the akhirah to take out from
		
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			it the love of sin and put instead
		
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			his love and the love of his prophet
		
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			عليه الصلاة والسلام and the love of the
		
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			righteous and the love of righteousness we ask
		
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			him رب العالمين to forgive us all of
		
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			our sins the major ones and the minor
		
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			ones the ones that we still know and
		
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			struggle with and the ones that we have
		
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			forgotten about we ask him رب العالمين to
		
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			grant us a sincere repentance from all sin
		
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			we ask him رب العالمين to make the
		
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			path of righteousness easy for us and the
		
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			path of unrighteousness very difficult for us we
		
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			ask him رب العالمين to make us of
		
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			those who help others or help Muslims to
		
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			bless us bless our families bless our parents
		
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			and spouses and children and guide them to
		
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			the truth that Allah عز و جل loves
		
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			we ask him رب العالمين to give us
		
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			a good ending and a good resurrection and
		
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			to make الفردوس الأعلى our home بابن الله
		
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			برحمة الله رب العالمين اللهم آتنا في الدنيا
		
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			حسنة وفي الآخرة حسنة وقنا عذاب النار اللهم
		
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			يا مقلب القلوب ثبت قلوبنا على دينك اللهم
		
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			يا مصرف القلوب صرف قلوبنا على طاعتك اللهم
		
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			أعنا على ذكرك وشكرك وحسن عبادتك اللهم أعنا
		
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			على ذكرك وشكرك وحسن عبادتك اللهم أعنا على
		
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			ذكرك وشكرك وحسن عبادتك اللهم فرج عن المسلمين
		
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			والمسلمات في كل مكان رب العالمين اللهم انصرهم
		
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			وأيدهم اللهم أطعمهم وأسقهم اللهم أحمي أبوالهم وأعراضهم
		
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			ودمائهم وذاريهم رب العالمين وانصر المسلمين يارب العالمين
		
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			نصرا مؤزرا وردنا إلى دينك ردا جميلا رفيقا
		
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			رب العالمين