Our Hearts in Ramadan 04

Ali Albarghouthi

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While early or CIBJO Salam Alhamdulillah in Hamid we want to stay you know in his stuff you know when oh that we love him in Cerulean fusina hacia Dr. Medina, Mayor de la Philomel de la mama Euclid Villa de la for shadow Allah Allah. Allahu La Cherie kala. Why should I know Mohammed Abu Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa salam

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a MOBA.

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Shall I just wanted to share with you a few reflections in sha Allah, this is you know, lecture number four

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about one Ramadan, our hearts and the relationship between them

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and maybe really general reflections that we can learn from that this whole experience and inshallah I mean, my plan challenge is to go till 840 and Charlaine I'll leave you for 20 minutes or so for your DUA and whatever in sha Allah before Mecca to be Nila.

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So

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reflection reflections insha Allah for tonight will be centered on the last 10 specifically later to cut the conclusion of Ramadan and then what follows eight.

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And to begin with, then we know that Allah azza wa jal had blessed this OMA

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with the month of Ramadan and in particular with Laila to Qatar.

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So it is said and I say it I am preface that it is said because it's not a hadith on at least it's not on really authentic hadith but it is said that the prophets of Allahu Allahu alayhi wa sallam looked at the length of time that his own man lives between 6070

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for stock saraha and he found that the deal was was short compared to how previous nations how long they lived.

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You know, we'd like for instance, you know, how do you need we don't know exactly but how long did know how they said I'm live

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you know, he stayed in dour close to 1000 years that's that's it, you know, beyond what can make me come before come after. So we don't even know exactly how long you live. But that's length. So he saw that this was short. So Allah azza wa jal then gave the OMA les little cutter, and a little cutter as Allah azza wa jal says, is better than 1000 months and 1000 months, is how many years

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8383 with fraction. So little clutter is not equivalent to 83 and fraction years, it's better. It's better, how much better Allah azza wa jal knows, it could be a little bit better, it could be a lot better. So that means that if a person is worshiping Allah Zota during that night, it'd be counted as if he had worshipped Allah for more than 83 years. How many more years Allah has the gingers because it depends then on that person's devotion, concentration, sincerity, how much Allah as God has accepted from that a Betta, it can go on and on and on and on. So this is a Rama from Allah azza wa jal incredible Rama from Allah that you can do just a little bit and Allah could give you so much

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Allegan Salama, now, you think about it, what was what made Laylatul Qadr so special. I'm going to ask you what made les little colored so special? Of course Allah selected.

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Allah selected advice. He selected it for what

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the Quran in the no fee that we have revealed that we brought it down in Laila to Qatar. So the virtue of Laila to cuddle comes from the fact that Allah azza wa jal brought in it to His Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam who is the best of prophets and the best of humanity, carried by or transmitted by the best angel of Allah azza wa jal, who is Gibreel Alayhis Salam, the best of Allah's revelation, and the last of Allah's revelation. So a little further acquires its importance and distinction from the fact that the Quran was revealed in it.

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So when you think about yes, we're worshipping Allah azza wa jal throughout Laylatul, Qadr and all of that, but we are thinking about what what lies behind Leila to cuddle. What makes it special. And what makes us if we wish special is the book of Allah azza wa jal. So it rose in distinction from among all the other nights if someone were to ask you what is the best night? What is the best night of the entire year?

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Lay little hut, and who are the best of humanity?

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The Prophet salallahu Salam then above the other, after the prophets of Allah, who are the best of humanity, I'm not going to answer it. They are the people who will hold on to the Quran, the book of Allah azza wa jal, and they will apply it and you're right, the Sahaba were the best who have done that. And then those who follow in their footsteps, the closer that they are to the Quran, the greater they are in the sight of Allah as origin. As Allah azza wa jal says locket and Xena la come

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Get up and feed the crew come in see indeed, we have revealed a book to you that in it in you can read it as are translated as in it, you will remember and be reminded or your honor lies in it. So a person's honor really is in following what Allah Who wants Allah racism and their debasement or humiliation and leaving what Allah has lived unwanted. So this is the first thing you know that as a as an idea or as an affliction as you're thinking about later to God, and everything that is good in it and all everything that Allah will give in it is that Allah is that reason behind it is that the Quran was revealed in it. And that tells you about the Quran. And its magnificence and its

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significance and how much it can give. Because if it can honor a night like a night like that, it can honor you like this as well. And they say that whoever adopts or takes the Quran is ahead is always ahead.

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Ahead in the sight of Allah azza wa jal and also when it comes to people and whoever turns away from the Quran, gets the opposite. He gets slaughtered in the sight of Allah and also when it comes to humanity He is Lord as well. So that is an idea in sha Allah to keep in mind that is if you want honor when you meet Allah azza wa jal so what is his set to the Hadith and Quran the one who reads and applies the Quran when he meets Allah azza wa jal ikura arctech When he meets Allah he says, Read and rice. So every time you know with Allah azza wa jal read this ayah as you used to read in the dunya, and climb on level in Jannah. And then read the next day and climb another level and

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Jana, and read the next day and climb another level and gender so the Quran when you take it, but you have to take it, and you have to apply it for it actually to mean something to us. For you to be a person of the Quran, you have to treat the Quran and apply it memorize the Quran and apply it. That's what Allah wants from it. So Allah honors us both in this dunya and the in the akhira through this Quran.

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The other reflection, perhaps related to Laylat al Qadr. And there's more than one

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is that

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you should surely and maybe try to as you look for it, and by the way, you know, Laylatul Qadr is in the last 10

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and it's more likely to be in the odd nights, but it's not exclusive to the odd nights. So I want you inshallah to remember this because it's just a common habit that people have is that we are not going to pray on the 21st 23rd 25th 2729 and we're not going to do anything in between. That's not right. That's not right, because there's also the likelihood that a little color could be on the 22nd 2426 or 28 or the 38th it could be and there's a hadith to support this. If you want to know what that hadith is asked me in sha Allah Allah You know what, there's a hadith to support this. So you want to seek it throughout and if you seek it in every night inshallah you haven't missed it. So

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one thing also that happens during leg a little further is that the angels of Allah has sent

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my angels of Allah as the retina is rolled melodica to the roof of here. Then Allah say in a little in Surah tell that the angels stanozolol Mala, Mala aka xs L, they descend and they descend abundantly,

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a lot. And not only the angels, he says and Mala eco a row.

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And a row has a rough is in reference to whom who is that Gibreel la Santa. So not only the angel Jibreel Alayhis Salam on that night comes down to this earth and the angels. The Prophet sallallaahu Selim says in the Hadith, it says La HOMAG Thoreau Minahasa Allah, they are more than the pebbles in the small stones on the face of this earth, the angels. So you can imagine that hadith is authentic, CMC like how many angels are coming down? Majan Ah,

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you can't count those pebbles, small stones on the face of this earth. So this is this, how many how much of them fill this earth? That's one of the reasons why there is it will be peace. In that night there will be Baraka. There is no harm the bringing down Allah's destiny, they bring Allah's commands with them, but also whenever you have angels, you have peace, you have harmony, you have Baraka, you have acceptance of dua, so this is something that we ask Allah has noted that we would feel it I mean there are signs for the little cutter.

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You may see it you may not

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even know like little color is not a hot night it's not a cold night. It's a bright night.

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It's it's a smooth night, and the conclusion of night night the prophets Allah Allah wa salam says when the sun rises, it rises weak, or white, has no race to it. So it doesn't dry, strong, but weak. So you may see the some of the signs you may not see them, you may not notice them. Some people may get a feeling

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and that feeling is not definitive, certain or if I felt that it must be but it could be an indication so this is something to afford to look forward to that to keep worshipping Allah xojo and hope

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that Allah who will give you the inclination, the appetite, when that night comes, that he would open your heart so that you would make dua, you will pray you would concentrate, you would read the Quran, you would have that energy. But don't worry if you don't have it, it's not necessary. If I don't see a physical sign, or if I don't feel something that means that my bad is not accepted. No, it's not.

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You keep worshipping Allah azza wa jal, Allah will accept your abided by the will of Allah zoodle you just concentrate but I'm saying if you see, that will be good. Now, that piece that I've talked about with the angels will be contrasted with an incident that happened at the time of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam where he wants came out.

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And Allah had told him when Laylatul Qadr was for that particular year. So he says for de la hora, dulann Okay, and I had to con so two men were arguing and they were in disputing each flip person claiming that his right this is his, this is his call her phone see to her. So he said that that knowledge of when it was was taken away from me, Carla felt me Suha Qaeda aka Callisto but then seek it during this period, but that particular night, knowledge of it was taken from him sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and he said in that hadith well Allah Hi Rhonda, perhaps it is best for you. Now of course, we believe that it is best why was it best? Because for those people at that night,

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instead of them also only worshiping Allah during one night? They would worship Allah during several nights. And if you are to ask yourself, Why did Allah azza wa jal hide Leila to cut from us? is from the same for the same reason. So if he said, it's on the 27th, what happens? Everybody comes only on the 27th. You see nobody the rest of Ramadan? Because we know that that's on the 27th. Okay, what's the problem with that? What do you think is a problem with that? Tell me

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there would be a problem with it. But what's the problem with it?

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Yeah, Ramadan, you lose Ramadan, all of it. You're just counting on one night. So you just come back one night. So that's one problem. So you know, so first of all, you're not worshiping Allah every night. So you're a bad that is not constant. And it's not consistent. It's just one. So that's, that's one problem. What could be potentially another problem with it?

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Yeah.

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You don't have time to reflect. You don't realize it. Now. Why is it that later to Qatar comes at the end of Ramadan at the beginning of Ramadan? Is what you are, what do you what are you doing throughout the 20 days of Ramadan? What are you doing? You're praying, you're fasting, you're concentrating, you're getting ready. If you tell one person, don't worship Allah throughout the entire month, just come on the 27th can be concentrate. They don't they don't they don't want to worship they don't want to be here. They don't want to read they don't have patience to do all of this. And they can't really be close to Allah azza wa jal on that night in the way that they need

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to. So what you're doing in the beginning of the month of Ramadan is that you're getting ready, ready, ready, ready. So when it comes, and Insha Allah, masha Allah those of you who are doing at decaf, you really trying to concentrate and be present, body, spirit and your mind trying to be all of you here. And you can only do that if you practice. So it's good, that Allah azza wa jal did not tell us you get to worship Allah more. So but whatever, what what going back to that story is that the reason why that knowledge was taken away is because of dispute, because of an argument, and that tells us something also tells us that these types of arguments, especially when there is no merit to

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them, or sin in general, deprives us of baraka and deprives us of knowledge. So the more that a person will sin

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in a personally the more that they will commit something that upsets Allah as Dogen and angers Allah, the more that they will lose of knowledge, the more that they will lose a practice the more that they will be distant from Allah azza wa jal and if we also don't notice, if we come to the masjid and if you go or go into a masjid and you quarreling and arguing with this person or with that person, you will notice the more that this happens in the masjid, the more than the ROM of Allah will be taken away, you will not feel peace in it.

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You may not even know you will just come to the mystery of the first time you haven't even seen it but you will not feel at peace in that one Masjid. You see why is this says people there are not happy with each other. They're not kind, they're not forgiving. So you need more of this. So especially when you come to the mysteries of Allah, during a time when it is packed.

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People are tired people are fasting people are you know, short tempered. You need more of this not less. You need more of Rama you need more of guidance. You need more of more of a smile on your face, because this brings the Wrath of Allah azza wa jal otherwise if you are harsh

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You're in harsh there and afterwards you sit and you think, oh then I'm going to be able to concentrate and read the Quran and the angels. You're chasing away the angels of Allah. Because what is Allah What is this prophets Allah Allah wa salam say, in Al Mala, Mala Ekata them in Maya add them in with them. The angels are harmed by which is that children of Children of Adam are harmed.

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The angels are harmed by which the children of Adam are harmed. So if you come to them as did let's take another example, you come to the masjid and you've just a note we haven't eaten but regular days you've just eating garlic and onions. And you come to the masjid you're not supposed to.

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You see, but okay, there's nobody here.

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But who's here? The angels. And if you disturb another brother or another sister with that smell, you're not only disturbing them, the angels of Allah azza wa jal are also disturbed by it. That's why by the way, you had Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam

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typically within like, Eat garlic, like if it's cooked, and if it's there presented to him, he would like he wouldn't touch it. So so he asked him a prophet of Allah, what is this haram? He says, No eat from it, but I communicate with whom you do not communicate. And he's talking to the angels of Allah azza wa jal is I communicate with those that you do not communicate so that for me doesn't work. But for you eat it. So you can eat out garlic eat onion, but then you know, you make sure that long enough before coming to the masjid, so you're not disturbing anybody when you're in the masjid. So, anyway, these quarrels and these arguments and these disputations that we have, especially if

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they have no merit, no basis and any sin in general deprives us of Rama deprives us of mercy and that is from the lessons of Laylatul Qadr. So Leila tocado. Only not only will you want to be good to with Allah, you want to be good also with people around you.

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So both fulfill the rights that belong to Allah and fulfill the rights that belong to the people around you don't disturb people don't hurt anybody. And that will make you closer to Allah as a

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couple of reflections also, shall I move on Yanni from Lila to nila, and still, we've got chances tonight and so on till till till they say we've seen the moon or we've concluded the month. Till then, you know, Okay, it's done. But before that every single night that we're going to come in sha Allah is potentially later 200 And by the way, you know, that's also some benefit I've just ruined recently. If somebody somehow learns that somehow yesterday later took harder. It was I saw a sign I saw the sun I saw this, you know, what are the best thing for you to do? What is the best thing to do with that information? What's the best way to deal with it? Who knows?

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Keep it to yourself. The best thing for you to do with that information is not text everybody, you know, like Yes, last night it was what's it going to be? What is that going to do to me when I hear that?

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I'm gonna leave the most different I think I've hellos I'm done. What am I doing here? That's done. I've either missed it. Either. I got it. I'm done, or I missed it. Now I'm gonna be filled with regrets and go home. Let me believe because you could be wrong. But yet, let me believe that is still a possibility. Maybe after the end, we can talk about signs that I've seen in signs that you have seen, but know also at the same time these signs are not definitive. Yeah, and we have reports of some scholars recently, or some scholars says I've seen it on this particular night.

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The other scholars say I haven't, but I was observing the sun he was observing the sun the observe the sun the same night, the same day the same morning. He says I've seen that he says I haven't seen it.

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So I want you to understand that it's subjective. It doesn't mean that if you heard somebody's overseas or here saying I've seen it, that it means that it actually was last night. So disregard if you hear that and if you have no any knowledge of it, keep it to yourself. And then after Ramadan you may talk about it if you wish to talk about it if there's benefit in it.

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Let's go in sha Allah to talk about

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the conclusion of the month of Ramadan as a whole and then just a couple of reflections on eight inshallah so the conclusion of the month of Ramadan I mean as as as the month approaches its end.

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We are reminded constantly whenever anything ends, it reminds us of our own ending,

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Ramadan starts and it starts small and weak and then you go into the beginning of the month and then it goes to decrease gradually until it ends and this is a pattern for everything in our lives and for our life as well. So you always in your life you start something and that's something has to end you start a meal the meal ends, you start a job the job ends you start to study your studies and and so everything in life ends like this you start friendship, you start any relationship, that friendship, that relationship sooner or later will end. And so all of our life will end like

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that. So when you're thinking about it Subhan Allah, you reflect on the fact that as we are spending these nights and days of Ramadan, we're also are spending nights and days of our life. And as they will say Ramadan is about to end, someone will come and tell you and we'll announce to you, somehow your life is about to end. And that will, you know, will bring to you or should bring to you

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a realization of what is really is important in your life and what is not

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the thing that is really valuable. If you think about it, the thing that is really valuable to you, or should be valuable to all of us, is the thing that lasts.

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Anything that does not last doesn't have real value to it, because it simply doesn't last.

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So the more that it stays with you, the more that you value it. Suppose I come and give you a car and you say, here's a car, you get to spend one hour with it.

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How attached? Will you be to that car for an hour? Okay, fine, I'll use it. But then I know that I have to give it up and you know, return it to you. If I say here, here's a car for a year.

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Okay, you feel more of possession, you feel more of attachment, here's a car, let's say you're gonna stay in good condition. 10 years, oh, that's mine. You'll take good care of it, you'll wash it, you'll clean it, you'll take it to the mechanic because you will be using it so more value to the things that will stay with you. When you look at this life, everything that is around you is going to depart and leave. Even if it stays for a long time, but it still is gonna deport you and leave you. So you can do this exercise if you wish for anything that you love in this life. Go and look at it. A piece of clothing a bag, a shoe, a car, a house, even a person, look at them and say how long

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will I stay with you? And how long will you stay with me?

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Eventually we're going to part ways I will leave or you will leave.

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Okay. So what then what is the thing that is really valuable?

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Okay, what is it? I want this thing to stay with me I want that stay. I want this person to be with me forever. But how that cannot happen on dystonia? Why will it happen?

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They occur

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what is the only thing that if I move into the era really will stay with me and they will never leave me deeds, your actions and it is your actions that you will bring your family to you.

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And he Subhanallah somebody said which is you know really, really meaningful. He said on the Day of Judgment, the criminals and their families will be running away from each other.

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So hey,

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you will the criminal will go after his son they will run away father runaway runaway. He says But the person who has memorized the Quran will be looking for his parents so that he can put that crown of honor on their heads.

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The people of piety and Taqwa will be looking for their friends, for their relatives to rescue them from hellfire if they are in hellfire. So your deeds are the thing that are going to last.

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So no food that you're going to eat, no drink, no house that you're going to buy. No friendship, if it's not for the sake of Allah is gonna last. Nothing that you possess is really yours. Nothing. The only thing that you really possess right now

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is your actions. That's the bank account that belongs in the hereafter. That's the only thing that you possess, nothing else is really yours. So if you want if you think about it, the more that you have of that, the richer you are, the more that you have that the more secure when you meet Allah as though that the more that you have that the happier you are in this life, and then the next. So as Ramadan is, you know, subhanAllah passing. Think about what is the thing that I'm keeping for my next life

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and spend on that, invest in that. Whether it is spending for the sake of Allah azza wa jal in terms of sadaqa whether it's time you spend in the masjid time you spent in the Quran, time spending good things that Allah loves helping others, but it is thing that you are investing for you hereafter. That's the thing that really stays. But everything else remember Madonna remember everything? This is this thing is going to end and become a memory.

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The first day of Ramadan is a memory, isn't it? Was it difficult? Maybe it was difficult. If it was difficult or was happy day, it's happiness, it's gone. And it's difficulty is gone. It's just a memory right now. All your life is going to be a memory. So when you are going to be that day before your death and you will be thinking about it all the money you collected all your degrees, all your friendship, everything is going to be a memory, nothing is with you. What is with you, you're going to be thinking to yourself, the thing there's only going to be moving with me now to Allah is your deeds. So do more of that so you can take more of it.

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The last reflection insha Allah that I'm going to have beaten Allah about you know, eight

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In

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an ad, you know what comes to mind when it comes down to when I say eight

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celebration, happiness, celebration and happiness. And by the way, you should actually do your best to be happy and extend this happiness on the day of aid. How can how can we do this give us couple of hints, inshallah a couple of suggestions.

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Visit visiting, so visiting relatives and friends and all of that, so that when you're going there, you're making them happy, they make you happy. hamdulillah there are Silla Durham there is visiting your brothers and sisters. So this is good. That's one, how else

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gifts. So this is something that you I'm not saying it's an obligation on you. But especially for your children and young ones. But not only that, the Prophet sallahu wa salam says to how to have boo, gift, you know, gift gifts, and you will love each other. It's a cause for happiness can be something modest and simple. But you can do this on aid, you will make somebody happy. You will, they will love you because of it. So this is something else like we can do. What else can you do?

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And these are worrying we're going through these so that you guys do some of them, right? It's not just a rehearsal of okay, what do you know and what you don't know. So you can do some of them. What else can you do?

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That a prayer. So just getting ready. So how do you get ready for a prayer you wake up, make sure you pray your Fajr on time, and then you go you shower, the children shower, and then you put on your best clothes. Okay, the sisters need to dress modestly, sha Allah, nothing shiny, nothing flashy, covering up and everything. That's the proper way to come to the masjid. When we're talking about the brothers, and we're talking about our children. You choose your best clothes, not your casual clothes, not the sleep clothes, your pajamas and you come to the masjid know your best clothes you put on for the brothers perfume and you come to the masjid.

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You have to be like like a star shining when you come into the Masjid. Why? Because you're honoring what are you honoring?

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Heed this is the eighth don't complain you know if you don't honor it and you don't complain why eight is so dull and you know nothing happens. And I'm I like Christmas and I like New Year's and because they invest in their aid. You have to invest in this one to make it beautiful. So you have to make your aid really beautiful. And it starts with you. I'm not going to wait for somebody else to make my aid beautiful. I'm going to make my aid beautiful. I'm going to make my children's aid beautiful. I'm going to make it beautiful inside the home. We're going to make it beautiful in the masjid. So you're coming to the masjid you're dressed like that. And you get your children ready for

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it. What is going to happen? Why it is special? What are you going to do after get them excited? Get them excited about it. And when you're coming into the Masjid.

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What should you be what should be on your face?

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A smile a big smile. This is eight.

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This is eight. So smile. This is sadaqa I don't need you to give me dollars when you're coming. But you can give a dog better than $1 to every person that you see when you give them a smile and a salaam smile and a Salam a warm handshake. I that brother doesn't know me Why are you so excited because it's aid. Let him be excited when he sees you.

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Lift his spirit. You're doing something great if you do this

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because you're spreading happiness you're spreading joy among people. You listen to the hotbar you pray the Salah, you listen to the hotbar you say I mean to the DUA you stand up you hug people you know him you don't know and wish to hug and you wish him the best. And you start your eat celebration. And it is you send off he Tosia and it is recommended there that you spend money upon yourself and on your family. You go you eat you purchase you know you make them happy you go visit this you do visit make a big deal out of it. And some brothers sisters recommend decorate your home. Nothing wrong with that decorate your home make it really special. So that your kids and also for

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you.

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Because you also need to do I feel that it is a special event. And if you and then feel that it's a special event you will be less attracted to other eights to other celebrations. Other festivals why? I have my gifts I have my beautiful food I dress well on eight. I don't need something else to satisfy the need that I have. And all of us by the way have that need. If you're not going to fulfill it now here and now you're going to seek it somewhere else.

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But the reflection that I wanted to share with you in sha Allah and eight and I promised I will stop at 40 So inshallah just two minutes is this to think about the cause of happiness. Why are we happy all night?

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Of course Food plays a part. Nice clothes, gifts, all of these. But all of these are built upon something good

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later

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Exactly. It's the conclusion of Ramadan. When you think about it, you're worshiping Allah azza wa jal for 30 or 29 days and this is the conclusion, the outcome of the Buddha. So our happiness comes in if you really understand it, understand where happiness comes. It comes from obeying Allah azza wa jal.

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It really comes from obeying Allah. Because we understand that about the hereafter.

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You're happiest were in Jannah and most miserable in hellfire. So you understand that the worship of Allah brings you happiness in the hereafter that's clear, but also brings you happiness in this life. Because if you try to satisfy your happiness using other means, that upset Allah azza wa jal, they will make you happy for a short while. But they do not last, that happiness. This is I mean, I liken it always to like just taking a drug. A drug numbs you, but it wears off after some time. So what you need to do is take more drugs.

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That's the happiness that they provide. A person who wants to forget his trouble and he becomes drunk has to continuously be drunk to forget. That's not a solution. So this is not really happiness. Food is not really happiness. Gifts are not really happiness, because okay, you eat but then what am

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I? What am I going to keep eating throughout the day, then I need something else. I bought this new car. But then what after a couple of days, five days, 10 days, it's old now. That's not happiness. I keep looking and looking and looking and looking for it. Where is that satisfaction gonna come from? It only comes from one not didn't come from any human and only comes from Allah azza wa jal. When you pray and you prostrate and you ask ALLAH and you feel contentment in your heart, full satisfied, you know that Allah is going to take care of all of your needs, that you don't need to worry about anything else contented and satisfied. If you have a pain or a problem, and you make dua, and you

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know that Allah is gonna take care and solve it, contented inside, satisfied, you don't need anybody else. That is happiness. When Allah tells you gives you a promise, I have taken care of your future you don't need to worry anymore. That's it. I can stay in the masjid for the rest of the night. I don't care about anything else. Allah made me a promise I believe his promise. That's peace of mind. That is really peace of mind. Not when somebody comes to tell you your rent and your whatever and you know you have to pay this and pay that you feel that to us they want to exploit but Allah says no, no I gave guaranteed your risk for you don't worry about it. Pray to like us and then feel that

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I will provide for you and then go and work with full trust in me.

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That is a person who is don't panic is not in distress. So what is our happiness come from when you think about eight? Is comes from Allah azza wa jal as That's why Allah azza wa jal says Could Be Fugly Allah he will be Rama de familia Alika Lea Franco, let them be happy with the bounty of Allah zodion and his Rama. This is better than anything that they are collecting everything that you collect cause you anxiety, money, anxiety, fame, anxiety, anything else is anxiety. But when you get Allah's Rama and bounty, it already gives you happiness and satisfaction. So on the day of aid, when you're thinking, why am I happy? You've been worshipping Allah azza wa jal. And now what you're

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hoping is the Allah accept from us, fasting for 2930 days, praying, reading the Quran Do you can look back and you say Alhamdulillah that I was able to do all of that, or some of that even thank Allah for it. Hamdulillah I was able to do some of that. And I hope to continue to be able to do it later. This is why I'm happy. And now I'm going to celebrate this by eating and drinking and hamdulillah who allowed it being with my family that's a consequence of it.

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So our happiness comes from Allah azza wa jal, we ask Allah azza wa jal to you know bring happiness to our lives and to continuously make our hearts happy and then if we lose it to remind us that our happiness is always with him. So inshallah I'm going to stop here and just see if you have quick questions. Otherwise I'm gonna leave you in sha Allah to make dua and you know, read whatever you want to read in sha Allah before your Maghrib

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any questions or anything you would like to add?

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Good they deserve from Allah Subhana Allah VMDKs shadow Allah Allah Hey Linda Sakurako Duolingo hamdulillah

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