Ali Albarghouthi – Life Beyond – What Awaits After Death

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The importance of understanding death and the need to focus on the importance of life is emphasized in a series of conversations. The speakers discuss the importance of having a strong faith in God, avoiding suicide, and not dying for death. They also emphasize the importance of taking life and not giving up on what the Prophet alayhi wa sallam said, as it is the ultimate goal. The discussion remains academic and the reality is that most people will wish for death due to worldly pressure, and advice is given on what to do when seeing a book or watching a video.

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			And they die, and they come back.
		
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			And Allah عز و جل frequently shows you,
		
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			see with your own eyes that I'm bringing
		
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			something alive, that was, that its life ended
		
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			or seemingly ended, back to life, and then
		
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			back to life, and then back to life,
		
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			and see it in yourself.
		
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			That is also evidence of resurrection.
		
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			Now, related to death.
		
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			Because we talked about sleep, and how it's
		
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			related to it.
		
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			The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said, لا
		
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			يتمني أحدكم الموت لضر نزل به.
		
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			فإن كان لابد فاعلا فليقل اللهم حينما كانت
		
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			الحياة خيرا لي وتوفني إذا كانت الوفاة خيرا
		
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			لي.
		
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			He said, let not one of you wish
		
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			for death because of a harm that had
		
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			come his way.
		
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			But if you must, then say, Ya Allah,
		
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			let me live as long as life is
		
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			good for me.
		
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			And take my soul if death is best
		
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			for me.
		
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			And he also said, عليه الصلاة والسلام, لا
		
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			يتمني أحدكم الموت إما محسنا فلعله يزداد وإما
		
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			مسيئا فلعله يستعتب.
		
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			He says, let not one of you wish
		
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			for death because he either is righteous and
		
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			his life will give him more of that
		
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			or either he is sinful and his life
		
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			will give him an opportunity to repent.
		
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			And he also said, عليه الصلاة والسلام, let
		
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			not one of you wish for death and
		
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			don't pray for it before it comes because
		
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			if one of you dies, his deeds will
		
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			cease and they will end.
		
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			And your prolonged life, if you are righteous,
		
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			will only increase you in goodness.
		
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			If you are righteous and Allah gives you
		
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			an extra day, an extra week, that only
		
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			increases you in khair.
		
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			Now this of course is not just simply
		
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			about death, but it's about something that maybe
		
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			a lot of us have felt or may
		
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			feel at one point in their life.
		
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			I'm so done with this, I don't wanna
		
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			live anymore.
		
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			Can I ask for death?
		
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			Can I ask Allah عز و جل to
		
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			take my soul away?
		
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			And you could be under so much pressure
		
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			that you don't really know what to do
		
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			with this.
		
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			And maybe some in that moment of weakness,
		
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			they'll say, Allah take my soul, I don't
		
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			wanna live anymore.
		
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			Because of this and because of this and
		
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			because of that, I just can't handle anymore.
		
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			The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم gave you
		
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			a way out of this.
		
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			But rather than assuming responsibility for when your
		
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			life should end, he said, give it back
		
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			to Allah عز و جل.
		
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			By asking Allah the following, Ya Allah, give
		
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			me life as long life is good for
		
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			me.
		
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			And take it away what that is best
		
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			for me.
		
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			You don't know in a sense he's saying,
		
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			right?
		
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			Who knows?
		
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			Allah عز و جل.
		
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			So rather assume that I can't go on
		
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			anymore, say, Ya Allah, I'm gonna give this
		
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			to you.
		
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			If you know that it's better that I
		
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			live for tomorrow, and next week, let me
		
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			live.
		
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			And if you know, because I don't, but
		
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			if you know that it's not good, then
		
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			you take my soul away.
		
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			And in that way, you've relied on Allah
		
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			عز و جل.
		
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			And if you happen to live an extra
		
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			day, what does that tell you?
		
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			That it was good for you to live
		
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			it, right?
		
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			And if you happen to live an extra
		
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			week or an extra month or an extra
		
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			year, that it was good for you to
		
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			live it, to stay alive.
		
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			Because Allah عز و جل kept you alive.
		
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			So rather than be fixated on dying to
		
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			get rid of your troubles, focus on why
		
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			Allah عز و جل had kept you alive.
		
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			So when you make that dua, it frees
		
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			you from the pressure of whatever had befallen
		
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			you.
		
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			And in the other hadith that we have
		
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			mentioned, he said, why are you looking forward
		
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			to death?
		
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			He said, if you are righteous and Allah
		
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			extends your life, that's a great gift from
		
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			Him سبحانه وتعالى because you could do more.
		
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			And if you are sinful and Allah extends
		
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			your life, that's an opportunity for you to
		
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			remember and repent.
		
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			Why do you want to die?
		
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			And in this hadith, he said صلى الله
		
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			عليه وسلم, لَا يَزِيدُ الْمُؤْمِنَ عَمُرُهُ إِلَّا خَيْرًا
		
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			He says, your life will only increase you
		
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			in goodness if you are a believer.
		
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			So that's healing.
		
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			That's a treatment.
		
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			That's assurance from the Prophet صلى الله عليه
		
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			وسلم that no matter what you're going through,
		
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			if you just know these hadith and if
		
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			you say this dua, Allah will rescue you
		
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			from that oppressive state that you are in
		
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			by refocusing your attention on what Allah has
		
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			for you rather than what you are missing.
		
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			And connected to this is the issue of
		
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			suicide.
		
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			Because wishing for death is right next to
		
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			committing suicide.
		
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			The difference between them is that somebody is
		
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			gonna take the initiative and end their life
		
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			and the other does what?
		
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			Just simply ask Allah for it.
		
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			He said صلى الله عليه وسلم, كَانَ فِي
		
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			مَن قَبْلَكُمْ رَجُلٌ جَزِعٌ He says, there was
		
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			a person, a man who lived before.
		
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			قَالَ فَجَزِعٌ He was wounded.
		
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			He panicked.
		
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			He cut himself.
		
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			He continued to bleed until he died.
		
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			So Allah عز و جل said, بَادَرَنِي عَبْدِي
		
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			بِنَفْسِهِ حَرَّمْتُ عَلَيْهِ الْجَنَّةِ He says, my servant
		
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			has rushed to end his life before me.
		
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			Meaning this is my prerogative.
		
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			This is my right, not his.
		
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			He rushed to take his soul before me.
		
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			Jannah is forbidden for him.
		
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			And another hadith, the Prophet صلى الله عليه
		
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			وسلم tells us that whoever commits suicide will
		
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			continue to commit the same suicide in hellfire.
		
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			So if they throw themselves from a mountain,
		
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			they will continue to do that in hellfire
		
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			as their punishment.
		
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			So anyone who's thinking about or has a
		
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			hint of ending their life because of whatever
		
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			they're going through, just remember this hadith of
		
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			the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم.
		
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			You're running away from hardship and trouble, right?
		
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			That's why you want to end your life.
		
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			But what awaits you is greater hardship and
		
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			trouble if you do this.
		
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			And that should terrify you.
		
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			Because you will continue to kill yourself and
		
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			being brought back to life and experience that
		
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			pain over and over and over.
		
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			Because you've done something that is not yours
		
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			to do, which is you took your own
		
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			life.
		
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			Now this does not mean that that person
		
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			is a disbeliever.
		
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			If a person is Muslim, mu'min, and they
		
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			commit suicide, are they disbelievers because of it?
		
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			No.
		
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			Does it mean that they will be in
		
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			hellfire for eternity?
		
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			He says, no, it's a major sin.
		
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			It's a major sin.
		
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			But what does it mean when he said
		
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			صلى الله عليه وسلم that Jannah is forbidden
		
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			for him?
		
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			Meaning he does not have the right to
		
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			enter it immediately.
		
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			There's an obstacle.
		
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			There's a block.
		
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			It has to be removed.
		
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			Allah could forgive it.
		
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			Allah could forgive it.
		
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			Or maybe he has to be punished for
		
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			it first.
		
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			But that immediate entry into Jannah, that he
		
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			will be denied.
		
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			So that's another thing about death and about
		
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			the desire to end someone's life.
		
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			Now, issue related to it.
		
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			The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said, قَالَ
		
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			وَالَّذِي نَفْسِ بِيَدِهِ لَا تَذْهَبُ الدُّنْيَا This is
		
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			of the signs of the Day of Judgment.
		
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			He says, I swear by the one who
		
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			has my soul in his hand, this world
		
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			will not end until a man would pass
		
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			by a grave and he will throw himself
		
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			on it, rolling in the sand on top
		
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			of the grave.
		
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			فَيَتَمَرَّغُ عَلَيْهِ وَيَقُولُ And he said, يَلَيْتَنِي كُنتُ
		
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			مَكَانَ صَاحِبِ هَذَا الْقَبْرِ وَلَيْسَ بِهِ الدِّينُ إِلَّا
		
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			الْبَلَاءِ He says, I wish I was in
		
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			the space or in the spot of that
		
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			dead person.
		
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			And he's not doing this religiously or because
		
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			of a religious motivation.
		
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			It's the hardship that he's going through.
		
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			And in another hadith similar to it, he
		
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			will say, يَلَيْتَنِي مَكَانَهُ مَا بِهِ حُبُّ لِقَاءِ
		
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			اللَّهِ He says, I wish I was in
		
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			his space.
		
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			He's not saying this because he loves meeting
		
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			Allah Azza wa Jalla but because of his
		
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			hardship.
		
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			So, think about this image and ponder it
		
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			a bit with me.
		
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			He says, the day of judgment will not
		
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			come until a man will do this.
		
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			He'll pass by somebody who's dead.
		
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			And this person is experiencing so much worldly
		
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			hardship, so many fitan, that he'll throw himself
		
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			on the grave and said, you're the lucky
		
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			one.
		
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			I wish I was there instead of you.
		
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			And he said, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, his
		
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			motivation is not religious.
		
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			His motivation is worldly, meaning there's so much
		
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			worldly pressure on him, worldly afflictions, trouble that
		
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			he wishes to die.
		
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			And that indicates the severity of hardship as
		
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			the day of judgment approaches.
		
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			So, the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, if
		
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			you were to ever read this hadith, the
		
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			Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam is not approving
		
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			of this behavior.
		
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			He's just simply noting it.
		
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			He's noting that this is going to happen.
		
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			Now, some scholars reflected on this.
		
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			And they said, can we based on this
		
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			hadith ask for our life to end out
		
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			of fear of religious temptation?
		
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			Not worldly pressure, but religious temptation.
		
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			We're afraid of religious fitness.
		
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			We're afraid of losing our faith.
		
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			So, we ask Allah to take our life
		
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			before that happens.
		
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			And they say, well, Yusuf alayhi wa sallam
		
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			said, tawaffani muslima, take my life as a
		
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			Muslim.
		
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			They said, this could be evidence.
		
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			He said, no, that's not evidence.
		
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			Yusuf alayhi wa sallam was asking Allah azza
		
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			wa jal to take his soul as a
		
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			Muslim, not to take it immediately.
		
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			But Maryam, the mother of Isa alayhi wa
		
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			sallam, she said, ya laytani mittu qabla hadha
		
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			wa kuntu nasyan mansiyya.
		
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			I wish I have died before all of
		
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			this, and I was forgotten.
		
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			They say she was afraid, terrified of the
		
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			fitan, of what people would say.
		
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			Based on that, some scholars have said, the
		
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			only exception for wishing for death is if
		
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			a person is afraid of religious temptations, religious
		
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			fitan.
		
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			He cannot hold on to his or her
		
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			faith anymore.
		
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			And he is afraid that if he continues
		
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			to live, he will lose his faith.
		
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			Then they can ask Allah azza wa jal
		
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			to take my soul before that happens.
		
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			And they cite some of the salaf who
		
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			have done this.
		
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			But we go back and we say, the
		
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			best is to say what the Prophet alayhi
		
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			wa sallam said.
		
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			Which is what, ya Allah, give me life
		
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			as long as life is good for me,
		
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			and take my life when that is best
		
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			for me.
		
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			And to say also the dua of the
		
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			Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, wa idha aratta
		
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			fitnatan bi'ibadika faqbidni ilayka ghayra maftoon.
		
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			And if you Allah, if you want to
		
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			tempt your creation or your slaves, ya Allah,
		
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			take my soul untempted.
		
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			So that dua is sufficient, right?
		
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			For you to supplicate, so Allah azza wa
		
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			jal will protect you from fitna.
		
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			And if there is fitna, that's gonna happen,
		
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			that Allah will take your soul before it
		
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			actually affects you.
		
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			But realistically and practically, right?
		
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			Because this discussion, and I wanted to note
		
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			that discussion, so that if you ever face
		
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			it or read it in a book, you'll
		
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			be aware of what the scholars are saying.
		
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			But this discussion remains academic.
		
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			And the reality is that most people, if
		
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			they're gonna wish for death, they're not gonna
		
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			wish for death because of religious reasons.
		
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			Most people who wish for death, they wish
		
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			for death because of worldly pressure.
		
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			And that is why we say never wish
		
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			for it.
		
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			And never ask Allah azza wa jal for
		
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			it, right?
		
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			And adhere to the statement of the Prophet
		
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			salallahu alayhi wa sallam when he said, if
		
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			it's good for me, bring it.
		
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			If it's not good for me, then not.
		
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			So I wanna stop here, inshallah, because I
		
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			wanna see if you have questions.
		
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			Next week, we're gonna talk about the good
		
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			signs of a good death and the bad
		
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			signs of a good death.
		
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			So what are the things that happen to
		
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			a person?
		
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			When you see them, you say, this is
		
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			an indication or a sign of husnul khatima,
		
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			a good ending.
		
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			And the things that if you were to
		
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			see, you will say these are signs of
		
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			a bad ending.
		
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			And then how do you or what do
		
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			you do and how can you live in
		
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			ways to at least guarantee or increase your
		
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			chances of having a good ending and avoiding
		
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			a bad ending.
		
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			And maybe inshallah if we have time, we'll
		
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			also discuss the moment of death itself.
		
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			So let me know inshallah if you have
		
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			questions about what we said.
		
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			And what I want from you inshallah rabbil
		
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			alameen, because I wanna try to be as
		
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			exhaustive as possible or at least to answer
		
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			all of your questions or anticipate all of
		
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			your questions as possible.
		
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			But because of that, I would need your
		
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			feedback.
		
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			So if there's something that I've missed or
		
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			something that you wanna know, let me know
		
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			about it.
		
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			If you're watching online after this is published
		
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			inshallah, include it in the comments.
		
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			If you're here, let me know about it.
		
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			So I say okay maybe I've missed this,
		
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			let me answer that.
		
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			So most of you inshallah can benefit from
		
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			that answer.
		
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			So let me know inshallah.
		
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			So your question, I'm gonna delay answering your
		
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			question inshallah till we reach that stage.
		
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			But your question is about somebody in a
		
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			coma stage.
		
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			Is he in the barzakh already or is
		
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			he not?
		
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			So I'll let that inshallah or delay it
		
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			until we reach that stage when the soul
		
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			is taken and then we can answer that.
		
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			But I appreciate your question inshallah.
		
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			So the brother is asking, so as a
		
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			young man who has plans and who has
		
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			obligations in life, taking care of this and
		
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			this and that, and things that I wanna
		
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			achieve, at the same time I also wanna
		
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			remember death and be ready for it.
		
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			How do I find the balance between the
		
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			two?
		
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			And I understand you saying that the fear
		
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			is that maybe if you lean too much
		
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			on one side, so if you remember death
		
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			too much, you'll start to giving up on
		
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			those responsibilities because they're not important.
		
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			And whereas if you focus on this world
		
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			and your obligations and the achievements that you
		
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			wanna get, you're gonna forget about death.
		
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			We say you'll not be able to achieve
		
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			good balance and in fact be a good
		
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			achiever and someone who truly can take care
		
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			of his parents and have a happy family
		
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			and have good children if death is absent.
		
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			So death is that kind of balancing factor
		
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			that will bring you always back to the
		
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			middle.
		
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			If you say, I wanna take care of
		
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			my parents but remembering about death or reminding
		
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			myself of death will take away from it.
		
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			We'll say no, not at all.
		
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			It's just simply how you think about it.
		
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			If you think about, I'm gonna die and
		
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			I may die soon.
		
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			Let me do whatever I can to take
		
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			care of my parents while I'm alive.
		
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			To be kind to them while I'm alive.
		
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			Let me take every opportunity to do good
		
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			while I'm alive because I don't know when
		
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			I'm gonna die.
		
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			That will perfect and improve your good deeds.