Ali Albarghouthi – This is Love #38 Spend From What You Love To Attain Love

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The importance of spending and not wanting to achieve one's love for Allah is crucial in achieving their desire for love. embracing non-benefit and distractions, realizing one's worth, and following Sharia are crucial. The struggle for individuals to achieve their love for Allah is a struggle for them to see if they can achieve their love for the d union. The speakers stress the importance of avoiding Zuhud and focusing on the reality of life, avoiding small steps towards achieving Allah's love, and not wasting one's time on things that don't make sense.

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			We have reached hadith number 38 in the
		
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			series,
		
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			And the title of this chapter is spend
		
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			from what you love to attain love.
		
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			So spend
		
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			from the very thing that you love in
		
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			order to get the love of Allah
		
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			And the hadith of this chapter
		
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			is the story of Abu Talha radiAllahu anhu
		
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			and his famous
		
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			donation.
		
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			So
		
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			it's reported here
		
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			When the ayah
		
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			was revealed,
		
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			you will not attain bir
		
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			righteousness, piety,
		
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			until you spend from what you love.
		
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			Abu Talha
		
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			came to the prophet alaihi salatu wa salam
		
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			and he said, Oh, You RasulAllah,
		
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			Oh Messenger of Allah. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			said in his book,
		
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			You're not going to attain
		
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			righteousness until you spend from what you love.
		
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			And the most beloved of my wealth to
		
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			me
		
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			is Bayruha.
		
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			There was a garden
		
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			that belonged to Abu Talha.
		
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			He said,
		
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			among all the things that I own, this
		
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			is the thing that I love.
		
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			It was actually interrupting. It's gonna I'm
		
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			okay.
		
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			I hope it stays.
		
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			So
		
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			it was a garden that belonged to him,
		
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			that the Prophet would
		
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			love to enter,
		
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			seek shade in,
		
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			and drink from its water.
		
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			It was a garden and it had a
		
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			well in it.
		
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			So Abu
		
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			Talha
		
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			loved this the most.
		
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			So he said,
		
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			So he says, so this garden
		
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			I will give to Allah Azzawajal and to
		
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			the Messenger
		
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			I am seeking
		
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			its reward
		
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			and its investment
		
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			in the next life.
		
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			So place it, O Messenger of Allah, wherever
		
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			Allah wants
		
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			you to place it.
		
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			To the prophet
		
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			he said, He
		
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			says, Wonderful
		
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			or How amazing.
		
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			This is.
		
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			This is money
		
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			that is worth well spent.
		
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			That is money that is well spent.
		
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			That is profitable
		
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			wealth.
		
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			And then he
		
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			said
		
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			So he said, We accept it from you
		
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			and we return it to you, so give
		
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			it to
		
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			the relatives,
		
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			your relatives. So Abu Talha
		
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			donated it to his relatives.
		
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			So
		
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			Abu
		
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			Talha
		
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			when he
		
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			heard this ayah,
		
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			you're not gonna attain righteousness until you spend
		
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			from what you love,
		
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			he rushed to the prophet, alaihis salatu wassalam,
		
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			and he said among all the things that
		
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			I love, I love this the most, my
		
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			garden, which is a garden that the prophet
		
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			would frequent.
		
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			And so he said because I love this
		
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			the most,
		
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			I wanna give this to Allah Azzawajal. Take
		
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			it and do whatever you want with it.
		
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			Whatever Allah tells you to do with it.
		
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			And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam praised that
		
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			donation, that sacrifice. It says, this is a
		
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			profitable
		
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			transaction, a winning transaction, what you have done.
		
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			We take it, and we give it back
		
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			to you in the form of what? Distribute
		
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			this to your needy relatives.
		
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			Now
		
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			to begin with, right,
		
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			Abu Talha
		
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			did not have to give this thing.
		
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			Right? If you think about it.
		
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			And it was not
		
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			a must.
		
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			It's not an obligation.
		
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			And if he even felt that he wanted
		
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			to give something, he did not have to
		
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			give
		
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			the thing that he loved the most. Right?
		
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			He could have given anything,
		
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			Like, he could say, list all the property
		
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			that he owned.
		
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			You say, I can give this, but I'll
		
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			keep the things that I love the most
		
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			with me.
		
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			But he sacrificed
		
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			what he loved
		
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			for a specific reason.
		
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			And that is he understood
		
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			that you will not be able to actually
		
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			achieve
		
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			Bir, as Allah said in the aya,
		
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			until you give
		
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			from what you love. And since he wanted
		
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			the most of it, he had to give
		
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			the best of it.
		
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			And that will, by the way,
		
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			today, Wallahu 'alayam, it is within the
		
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			parameters, the borders of the expansion
		
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			of the Prophet's mosque in Medina.
		
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			If I am not mistaken,
		
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			if you remove some of the carpets in
		
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			the expansion,
		
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			in
		
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			the Masjid, you will find a circle
		
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			to denote and mark where that
		
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			garden and that well was.
		
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			So it's no longer there.
		
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			But it was close to the Masjid of
		
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			the Prophet alaihis salatu wasalam.
		
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			So Abu Tal Haniw, I love this the
		
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			most and this is something that the prophet
		
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			loves the most. So he comes into my
		
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			garden to drink from its water and then
		
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			rest.
		
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			He would love it more because of that
		
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			But then he said, I'm gonna give this
		
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			up for Allah Azzawajal.
		
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			And it tells you that it is easier
		
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			to sacrifice
		
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			something
		
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			for another that you love.
		
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			It was possible for him to give this
		
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			up, though he loves it, because he loves
		
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			something else more or he wants something else
		
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			more. And that is really the premise of
		
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			a sacrifice. You will not be able to
		
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			sacrifice a thing or for a thing unless
		
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			you love it more or you want it
		
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			more.
		
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			So
		
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			why are the 2 connected?
		
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			Spending from what we love
		
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			and then iman or taqwa or bir? Why
		
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			are they connected?
		
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			Well,
		
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			we understand before, Kenneth, we answer this question
		
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			directly.
		
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			Let's answer it indirectly.
		
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			Now, we understand how much
		
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			we love the dunya, this world,
		
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			which is something that is
		
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			planted in us,
		
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			and is mixed with our genes.
		
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			And Allah, Azzawajal,
		
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			not only does he say that we love
		
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			the dunya, but we love it immensely.
		
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			So Allah,
		
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			for instance, said,
		
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			And
		
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			you love wealth and immense love.
		
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			So it's not just love
		
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			and it's not just,
		
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			you know, a lot of love but Allah
		
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			repeats
		
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			it. That in itself is emphatic.
		
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			Jannah is also to emphasize that it is
		
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			really
		
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			the
		
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			And this love, by the way, does not
		
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			go away
		
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			with age or time.
		
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			In fact, you could say the opposite.
		
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			So
		
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			Rasulullah
		
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			said,
		
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			He says, The heart of an elder
		
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			is still young
		
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			and it's love for 2 things:
		
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			long life
		
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			and love of wealth,
		
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			meaning
		
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			your body could age
		
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			and as it ages it weakens
		
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			so you physically become weaker, right?
		
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			The heart and its love for the dunya
		
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			does not age, it remains youthful,
		
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			meaning strong.
		
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			It continues to love to live long
		
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			and to have money.
		
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			So you don't think
		
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			that love of wealth or love of the
		
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			duniya
		
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			will fade with time. No. It actually either
		
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			stays or it intensifies.
		
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			And
		
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			if that's the case
		
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			and if that love is out of control
		
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			as it often is,
		
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			like, unless there is
		
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			control exerted,
		
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			applied
		
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			to restrain our love for the dunya,
		
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			it will run rampant
		
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			without restraint.
		
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			And the prophet told
		
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			us
		
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			to illustrate
		
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			the danger
		
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			of that
		
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			love when it is so intense.
		
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			He said,
		
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			So he said,
		
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			2 hungry wolves
		
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			set loose among sheep
		
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			will not do more harm
		
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			to it than the harm of one's desire
		
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			for wealth and recognition
		
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			does to their religion.
		
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			So here the prophet, salal alayhi wasalam, is
		
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			giving an image. 2 hungry wolves
		
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			set loose among sheep. What do they do
		
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			to them?
		
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			They slaughter
		
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			them. They soak
		
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			the earth with their blood. They don't leave
		
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			anything alive.
		
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			So that's it's like total carnage,
		
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			total
		
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			destruction. That's what they do, right? So he
		
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			said the same thing
		
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			your love for money and love for recognition
		
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			and fame will do to your religion. It's
		
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			the same thing.
		
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			If you don't restrain it like those wolves,
		
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			those wolves
		
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			are so ferocious
		
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			and so hungry
		
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			they'll destroy everything. So if you really love
		
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			money and it's unrestrained,
		
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			love recognition,
		
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			fame, praise, and it's unrestrained,
		
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			what will it do to your faith, to
		
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			your religion? It will destroy it completely
		
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			because if you have to do anything haram
		
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			to get it, you will do it. If
		
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			you have to ignore any commandment of Allah
		
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			Azzawajal, you'll ignore it. If you have to
		
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			disbelieve, you'll disbelieve in order to get money
		
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			or be famous,
		
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			in order to get power.
		
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			So he said, Alaihi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, it
		
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			will destroy you.
		
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			It will destroy you.
		
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			And wealth, therefore,
		
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			is a great test
		
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			is a great test, especially for the Ummah
		
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			of
		
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			Muhammad
		
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			He said,
		
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			He said
		
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			every Ummah
		
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			has a fitnah, every nation has a fitnah.
		
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			The fitnah of my Ummah is money.
		
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			Meaning other things are fitnas, yes.
		
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			But in particular money
		
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			is one of the most intense fitness the
		
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			Ummah Muhammad alaihis salatu wasallam will have to
		
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			go through.
		
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			And if you understand it to be one
		
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			of the greatest fitness that we will encounter,
		
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			in addition to the immense love that we
		
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			have for it, to the immense, in addition
		
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			to the fact that we tend to exaggerate
		
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			in the pursuit of wealth
		
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			and that could destroy our religion, you'll understand
		
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			that it could destroy your faith.
		
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			And in order to grow your faith, grow
		
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			your iman,
		
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			grow your love for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
		
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			you would have to detach yourself from it.
		
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			You have to restrain it. You have sometimes
		
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			even to run away from it in order
		
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			to run away from its destructive effects.
		
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			And the problem, of course, with wealth
		
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			is that a lot of people equate wealth
		
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			with God's blessings,
		
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			God's satisfaction and pleasure with them,
		
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			or they don't really care about that.
		
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			And as long as they are being blessed
		
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			with wealth, they feel that
		
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			their life is going well.
		
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			They don't question what they're doing.
		
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			They don't question their path in life.
		
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			Only when they start
		
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			to lose money, to lose status,
		
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			to face setbacks in life, do they go
		
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			back and question what is happening to them
		
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			and why it's happening.
		
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			And a lot of people, unfortunately,
		
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			when they look at
		
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			the non Muslims or the people who are
		
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			sinful in general,
		
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			enjoying the bounties of this life that becomes
		
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			a great fitna to them
		
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			because they say, how come
		
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			they are so sinful,
		
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			so disobedient,
		
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			yet so blessed
		
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			and seemingly so happy?
		
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			And if you don't understand money as a
		
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			fitna,
		
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			if you don't understand money as a possible
		
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			destructive
		
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			tool,
		
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			we're not handled properly,
		
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			you will misinterpret
		
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			the situation of those who have wealth and
		
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			are sinful at the same time.
		
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			And Alhamdulillah,
		
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			that our Prophet
		
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			gave us something clear
		
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			to clarify this for us. So he said,
		
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			Alaihi Salatu Wa Salam,
		
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			He said if you see that Allah
		
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			is granting a servant of his
		
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			bounties of this world despite that he is
		
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			sinning,
		
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			you must understand that it is
		
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			istidraj.
		
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			He's being led on.
		
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			Led on to what? To his destruction. That's
		
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			what istidraj is. So if you see a
		
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			person who is sinning and at the same
		
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			time he's receiving what he loves from this
		
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			dunya,
		
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			how do you interpret this? The prophet, alaihis
		
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			salatu wasalam, he said this is Istiraj, he's
		
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			being led on to his destruction.
		
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			When
		
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			they forgot or when they ignored
		
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			what We have revealed to them, what we
		
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			have reminded them, well we opened for them
		
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			the doors of everything.
		
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			Until they became joyful
		
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			with what they have received and then We
		
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			destroyed them all of a sudden and they
		
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			became
		
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			hopeless.
		
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			So you understand what Allah
		
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			is telling you in this ayah?
		
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			What does He do with people?
		
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			He reminds them.
		
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			And with that reminder, He could test them
		
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			so that they be awakened.
		
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			Now what happens if they reject those reminders
		
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			and Allah Azzawajid had given up on them?
		
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			He no longer needs to remind them anymore.
		
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			What does He do with them?
		
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			He gives them the dunya
		
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			and so they get more and more of
		
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			it
		
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			And when they get more and more of
		
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			it, what do they do? What do you
		
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			think they do?
		
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			Do they repent
		
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			or do they regress
		
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			into greater sin and greater disobedience and greater
		
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			disbelief? Yeah, they become more criminal
		
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			than they were before.
		
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			And by that they be they invite Allah's
		
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			destruction, they invite Allah's punishment.
		
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			So when they become overjoyed with all the
		
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			things that they have look at our cities,
		
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			look at our roads, look at our money,
		
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			look at our banks, the cards and all
		
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			of this
		
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			and
		
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			the believer who is weak, who is oppressed,
		
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			who is poor, when he looks at all
		
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			of this, if he or she, they lack
		
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			understanding,
		
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			it becomes a fitna for them
		
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			because they say how come they are sinful
		
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			and they have all of that yet the
		
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			Prophet
		
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			and before that Allah
		
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			had really told you what all this is
		
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			about.
		
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			You should not be that naive
		
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			or ignorant.
		
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			Allah is leading them to their own destruction.
		
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			It may take time it may take time
		
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			but it will happen.
		
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			So Allah says, then all of a sudden
		
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			they get
		
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			destroyed.
		
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			So those are people who loved
		
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			the duniya more than Allah Azzawajal,
		
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			loved themselves
		
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			more than Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. That was
		
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			their consequence.
		
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			So when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			asks you to give,
		
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			you know very well that He's not asking
		
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			us to give because He needs us
		
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			but that we need to give.
		
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			You see the difference?
		
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			It's like the poor,
		
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			those that we call the needy, what do
		
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			they need from you? Your money.
		
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			But you need to spend that money.
		
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			You need to give that zakah. Why is
		
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			it that you need to do this?
		
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			Allah Azzawajal
		
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			said,
		
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			take from their wealth meaning command them
		
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			to donate, to give. Take from their wealth
		
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			a sadaqah
		
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			that You purified them
		
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			and You elevate them with
		
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			or bless them
		
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			with. Take from their money, al sadaqa,
		
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			that purifies
		
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			and blesses them.
		
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			So you need to purify yourself when you
		
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			give.
		
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			That's why you give.
		
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			To purify yourself from what?
		
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			So what did we say before about the
		
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			human self and its attachment to the dunya?
		
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			It loves wealth.
		
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			It's greedy
		
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			by nature,
		
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			selfish,
		
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			ignorant,
		
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			stingy.
		
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			Am I wrong?
		
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			Right? That's common, right? Not only when you
		
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			look at other people because it's easy to
		
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			see it in other people, right?
		
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			But the challenge here is to notice that
		
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			in yourself.
		
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			Can you notice it in yourself?
		
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			Yeah, you have to.
		
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			I am greedy. I am stingy. I am
		
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			ignorant. I love money. I'm attached to it.
		
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			So how do I overcome that impediment
		
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			because I cannot enter Jannah like that.
		
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			I cannot love Allah Azza wa Jal. I'm
		
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			not ready,
		
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			prepared to love Allah like that. So how
		
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			do I change?
		
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			You remedy that by giving money to purify
		
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			you of greed,
		
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			purify you of stinginess,
		
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			of selfishness so that you're thinking about others,
		
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			not just yourself,
		
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			that you're putting Allah first, not only your
		
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			needs.
		
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			So the more that you spend, the more
		
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			that you're treating yourself because you're taking the
		
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			illness
		
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			out of yourself and out of your hands
		
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			and into
		
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			somewhere else.
		
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			You're moving the possession of that illness
		
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			somewhere else. I'm not the owner of that
		
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			money right now.
		
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			So I've
		
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			learned to detach,
		
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			to give it up,
		
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			to favor something else. And when you do
		
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			this,
		
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			you'll be less greedy,
		
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			less stingy,
		
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			less ignorant
		
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			and are more willing to give even more
		
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			and more willing
		
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			or able to love Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			because you've given it for him.
		
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			See, you could give
		
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			to Allah Azza wa Jal because you love
		
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			Him more
		
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			or maybe you have not reached that level
		
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			yet but you want to love Him more
		
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			so you give to attain
		
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			that. You understand the difference between the 2?
		
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			You can give to Allah Azza wa Jal
		
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			because you already love Allah more than you
		
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			love money.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Or you can give to Allah Azza wa
		
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			Jal because you're struggling with yourself because you
		
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			wanna love Allah more than you love money.
		
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			Either way.
		
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			And the more that you love the thing
		
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			that you give, the more that you have
		
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			a chance of loving Allah because you spent
		
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			it.
		
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			It.
		
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			So
		
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			Ibn Mas'ud
		
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			commenting on the ayahuwaatalmaalaalahubihi
		
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			and he gave
		
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			wealth
		
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			despite loving it.
		
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			And he gave wealth that's
		
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			a person who's being praised in the Quran
		
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			gave wealth
		
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			despite loving that wealth.
		
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			He said
		
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			He said that you would give it
		
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			while you are healthy,
		
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			stingy,
		
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			hoping to live
		
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			and afraid of poverty.
		
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			And he had taken this
		
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			from the hadith of the Prophet alaihis salatu
		
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			wasallam when someone came to him and he
		
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			said
		
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			He said, O Messenger of Allah,
		
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			what type of Salaka, what type of charity
		
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			will give me the greatest reward?
		
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			Look at that
		
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			question.
		
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			Not just sadaqa but which type of sadaqa
		
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			will give me the greatest reward? So he
		
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			said,
		
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			He says that you would give charity
		
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			while you are healthy
		
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			and stingy,
		
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			afraid of poverty
		
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			and hoping to be rich.
		
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			And do not wait
		
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			until
		
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			your soul reaches your throat and then you
		
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			start saying to so and so I give
		
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			this and to so and so I give
		
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			that and it is already for them.
		
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			So he's saying what is the best sadaqa?
		
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			Sadaqa when you still love money.
		
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			That's what he says, Sahih, healthy. You're not
		
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			sick.
		
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			Stingy, meaning I need it. I need tomorrow.
		
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			I have this expenditure. I need it tomorrow,
		
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			I need to buy this, I need to
		
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			expand, I need
		
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			So you want it
		
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			and you're healthy you don't think that you're
		
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			gonna die soon.
		
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			You're afraid of poverty. What if I spend
		
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			that I don't have enough
		
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			for tomorrow because you hope that you're gonna
		
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			live for many many years to come.
		
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			I want to be rich, I want to
		
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			have more and more. He says when you
		
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			can give sadaqa,
		
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			when you're feeling like that, then this is
		
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			a sadaqa that is coming from your heart.
		
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			Out of love
		
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			because of you struggled with yourself
		
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			for that dollar to come out
		
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			is that's the greatest sadaqa. And he said
		
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			alaihis salatu wa sallam, when you continue and
		
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			don't wait till you're about to die
		
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			and then you say, okay fine, I'm gonna
		
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			give my money. That's not generosity,
		
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			Right? That's not generosity. You know that you're
		
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			not gonna live to see all of it.
		
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			That's why it's easy to give it away.
		
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			But when you feel that you're going to
		
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			spend all of it and then you give
		
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			some of it or a lot of it
		
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			then you really truly have given something to
		
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			Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			So you will give from what you love
		
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			because you're seeking a greater love.
		
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			And you will give from what you love
		
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			because you want to love the dunya less
		
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			and you want to love Allah Azza wa
		
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			Jin more. You wanna have a path
		
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			towards the love of Allah. You wanna have
		
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			a space in your heart, in your life
		
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			to love Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So you
		
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			spend
		
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			on the things
		
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			that matter to
		
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			you, not the things that don't matter.
		
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			So interestingly, Allah had noted
		
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			what some of us do
		
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			and he noted that in the Quran when
		
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			he said, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
		
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			Oh, you who have a man spend
		
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			from the good that you have earned
		
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			and what we have given you from this
		
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			earth.
		
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			And do not seek the lowly,
		
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			the inferior
		
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			part of it to spend.
		
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			And you would not take it unless you
		
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			close your eyes when you're taking
		
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			it. Know that Allah
		
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			is self sufficient
		
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			and praiseworthy.
		
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			Meaning in this ayah Allah
		
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			is telling us what to spend
		
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			from what you earn, the good things that
		
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			you earn and the things that we give
		
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			you.
		
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			But when you wanna spend, don't seek the
		
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			worst of it and give it away.
		
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			While if it were to be given to
		
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			you, you would not take it unless you
		
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			would close your eyes and take it. Meaning
		
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			you would not take such a thing. You
		
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			would not be happy with such a thing
		
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			for yourself.
		
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			Yet that's the thing you give away.
		
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			So Allah azzawal is teaching us something here
		
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			which is what? There are 2 types of
		
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			spending:
		
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			spending from what you love and spending from
		
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			things that you don't care for anymore.
		
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			Are they the same?
		
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			Now, if there are things that you have
		
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			at home that you're not gonna use anymore,
		
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			it's better that you give them to someone
		
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			rather than throw them away, right?
		
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			Right?
		
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			But that's not the type of spending or
		
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			sadaqa that Allah
		
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			wants to push us to perform.
		
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			Simply the things that you're going to throw
		
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			away then you say I'll give that away.
		
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			That's garbage, that's junk. You don't really care
		
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			about it.
		
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			But is that loving for your brother what
		
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			you love for yourself?
		
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			Is this the thing that you would love
		
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			to receive from other people?
		
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			Would you accept this?
		
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			Would you wear that? Would you use this?
		
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			Would you eat that?
		
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			So if this is not fit enough for
		
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			you,
		
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			why do you think this is fit enough
		
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			to give Allah Azzawajal?
		
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			Right. So Allah Azzawajal wants to elevate your
		
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			perception of sadaqa.
		
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			It's not garbage that I'm getting rid of
		
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			but something that I'm giving Allah
		
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			and I'm fusing to heal myself. So it
		
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			has to come from something
		
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			similar
		
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			to what I love
		
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			that honors
		
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			the recipient
		
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			but also before that honors Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala,
		
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			the true recipient of sadaqa, and heals me
		
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			in the process.
		
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			So spending from what we love means things
		
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			that we love
		
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			during a time when we love to spend
		
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			it or love to keep it.
		
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			And only then would that struggle
		
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			to spend mean a thing.
		
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			Now
		
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			we'll take just a small detour to understand
		
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			why the prophet alaihis salatu wasalam directed Abu
		
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			Talha to give that money to his relatives
		
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			and the importance of kindness to relatives
		
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			because
		
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			perhaps often this is something that is overlooked.
		
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			When we hear in the masjid, when we
		
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			read in books,
		
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			reminders that we are supposed to be kind,
		
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			have the best of character,
		
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			treat people well.
		
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			Usually in our mind
		
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			we reserve this to strangers
		
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			people I will meet in the Masjid,
		
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			right? My
		
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			neighbor maybe.
		
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			Stranger I'll meet
		
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			outside the home,
		
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			outside the Masjid.
		
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			So be on my best behavior when I
		
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			meet them, when I see them. That's what
		
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			we think of when we think of character.
		
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			But improved character or kindness, do we think
		
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			that
		
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			our families deserve the best of that
		
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			or not?
		
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			Usually, we exclude them from it.
		
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			And we exclude them maybe because we have
		
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			learned to exclude them whenever we think about
		
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			how to act or react because after all
		
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			this, this is just family,
		
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			right?
		
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			Spouse, a child, a parent,
		
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			they're not strangers.
		
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			At the same time,
		
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			it is harder to be kind to family
		
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			than strangers.
		
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			It's hard
		
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			or harder
		
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			to be kind to family than strangers
		
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			because with a stranger
		
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			you have no prior knowledge, no prior commitment,
		
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			and most importantly no friction between you and
		
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			them so you can be the nicest.
		
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			You could smile.
		
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			Your encounter with them is brief and you
		
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			are gonna then depart and leave them. They
		
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			will leave you. So it's easy.
		
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			It's not challenging,
		
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			right.
		
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			But when you're with a family member,
		
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			there is
		
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			frequent conversations,
		
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			there is friction,
		
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			there is past
		
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			insults or,
		
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			what I'm looking for is
		
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			animosity.
		
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			So it's hard really
		
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			to be your best with them
		
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			and it's hard to remember that they deserve
		
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			your charity more than a stranger or a
		
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			non relative
		
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			because when you are kind to a relative,
		
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			you're doing 2 things:
		
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			there is kindness
		
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			or if it is charity it is sadaqa
		
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			but there's also
		
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			Kindness to your kin, to your family. So
		
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			Allah rewards you more for it because they
		
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			are relatives.
		
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			So if you have 2 people,
		
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			a relative who needs your financial help and
		
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			a stranger who needs your financial help, who
		
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			is more worthy of it?
		
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			The relative.
		
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			Right?
		
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			If there are 2 people who need help,
		
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			1 is your neighbor and somebody else is
		
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			a far, far neighbor,
		
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			Who is more worthy of it, the close
		
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			or the far neighbor? The close one.
		
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			So the closer to you, whether they are
		
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			neighbors, physically close to you, or they are
		
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			close because they are blood relatives,
		
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			they need more of your kindness, more of
		
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			your charity. So the Prophet
		
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			in one sense he wants Abu Talha to
		
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			get the most out of his sadaqa. So
		
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			he says give it to your relatives.
		
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			So he gave it to his relatives.
		
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			And at the same time Allah the Prophet
		
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			he said pay attention to your relatives as
		
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			well.
		
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			Take care of them before you take care
		
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			of strangers.
		
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			Take care of their feelings,
		
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			take care of their needs more than you
		
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			do with strangers
		
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			because they deserve it the most.
		
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			And what is interesting also about
		
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			the donation that Abu Talha
		
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			gave.
		
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			Now when Abu Tala
		
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			said to the Prophet alaihis salam, Take it.
		
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			Put it wherever Allah wants you to put
		
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			it. Did he expect anything back
		
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			from it?
		
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			No.
		
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			So if Allah if the Prophet salallahu alaihi
		
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			wasallam would give it to anyone in Madinah,
		
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			Abu Talha would not expect a thank you.
		
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			Would he?
		
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			He wouldn't expect a thank you because he
		
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			just, this is for you, do whatever you
		
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			want with it. I'm not expecting anything back.
		
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			Now if Abu Talha
		
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			took this and gave the garden,
		
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			whether divided it or gave it in whole,
		
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			doesn't matter, took it and gave it to
		
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			a relative,
		
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			should he expect anything in return
		
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			in terms of gratitude
		
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			or thankfulness?
		
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			In the same fashion he shouldn't,
		
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			right?
		
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			And in that there is another lesson.
		
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			If you want to do something good, don't
		
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			expect
		
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			anything from anyone,
		
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			even relatives.
		
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			Even relatives.
		
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			That is if you
		
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			are kind
		
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			but they're not kind in return.
		
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			If your kindness was for Allah Azzawajal,
		
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			it does not matter
		
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			because it was not done for them,
		
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			right. It's in your head.
		
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			It doesn't matter to me if they call
		
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			back.
		
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			It doesn't matter to me if they visit
		
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			back.
		
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			I didn't do it for that.
		
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			So you're not expecting anything from that.
		
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			And so if it doesn't happen, you're not
		
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			disappointed.
		
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			And if it happens, Alhamdulillah,
		
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			that's
		
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			greater
		
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			family relations.
		
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			But if it doesn't, you're not expecting it.
		
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			Just like when you give someone money, you
		
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			donate money in the masjid. You're not waiting
		
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			to hear gratitude from them because they received
		
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			something from you. He says, This is for
		
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			Lillah Azzurjid, for Allah. The only thing that
		
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			I need is from Him.
		
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			So when you're
		
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			performing
		
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			or being kind
		
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			to your family
		
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			members
		
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			close
		
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			or not so close.
		
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			Understand that if this is for Allah
		
00:35:10 --> 00:35:11
			the most peaceful
		
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			feeling would come when you don't expect anything
		
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			in return from it but expect anything and
		
00:35:17 --> 00:35:20
			everything from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Just like
		
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			Abu Talha here. You wanna take it? Give
		
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			it to the relatives. I don't need any
		
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			thank you from you. I gave it to
		
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			Allah and to the prophet alaihis salatu was
		
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			salam. I didn't give it to you for
		
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			you, I gave it to you for Allah.
		
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			And if the Muslim has that attitude,
		
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			it will relieve him from a lot of
		
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			angst and anger when it comes to
		
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			family
		
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			and relatives,
		
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			right?
		
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			Now
		
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			going back to what we talked about, why
		
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			loving money and loving the dunya is so
		
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			problematic.
		
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			The prophet, alayhi salatu wa sallam,
		
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			said,
		
00:36:08 --> 00:36:10
			He said, Alayhi Salatu Wa Salam,
		
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			The one who loves their world,
		
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			their dunya,
		
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			will harm their akhira, their
		
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			hereafter.
		
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			And the one who loves their hereafter will
		
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			harm their world.
		
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			So give preference to what lasts over what
		
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			perishes.
		
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			So the Prophet
		
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			here is declaring something that if you remember
		
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			it,
		
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			it will continuously
		
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			shock you back
		
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			to sanity
		
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			as the world is filled with insanity.
		
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			What he's saying, alayhi salatu wa salam, he
		
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			says, If you love your duniya,
		
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			you're gonna harm your akhira.
		
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			Is that clear?
		
00:36:55 --> 00:36:58
			Here's this dunya, and here's the Akhira. Here's
		
00:36:58 --> 00:36:59
			this life. Here's the next life. He says
		
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			you're gonna love this life. You're gonna harm
		
00:37:01 --> 00:37:02
			the next life.
		
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			There's no compromise here. This is it.
		
00:37:06 --> 00:37:08
			You're gonna harm the next life you're gonna
		
00:37:08 --> 00:37:09
			harm this life.
		
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			Okay. So then you say, What do I
		
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			do?
		
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			What do I do then?
		
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			Because
		
00:37:19 --> 00:37:21
			ideally, you want to say, I want both.
		
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			Right?
		
00:37:23 --> 00:37:24
			I want both.
		
00:37:25 --> 00:37:26
			So what he's telling you,
		
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			Can you?
		
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			No,
		
00:37:30 --> 00:37:31
			you can't.
		
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			So
		
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			how to choose?
		
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			He says, Favor what lasts
		
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			because that is what is going to stay.
		
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			If you harm your dunya, let it
		
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			it's gonna end anyway.
		
00:37:46 --> 00:37:47
			Then so what?
		
00:37:48 --> 00:37:50
			So if you live in a small house
		
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			rather than a palace,
		
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			at the end of your life, both of
		
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			them become rubble.
		
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			Then what?
		
00:37:58 --> 00:37:58
			Right?
		
00:38:00 --> 00:38:03
			So you're not as healthy as everybody else.
		
00:38:04 --> 00:38:06
			At the end of both of your lives,
		
00:38:06 --> 00:38:07
			both of you are under
		
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			6 feet,
		
00:38:10 --> 00:38:11
			then what?
		
00:38:12 --> 00:38:13
			What did your health do?
		
00:38:15 --> 00:38:18
			So you're not as young, you're not as
		
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			handsome, you're not as beautiful,
		
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			you're not as rich.
		
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			Well, at the end of your life and
		
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			his life,
		
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			both of your wealth goes to some other
		
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			people
		
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			and both of you are poor under the
		
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			dirt.
		
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			Then what?
		
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			So all of you reach the same conclusion
		
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			and the same end, having nothing
		
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			if you have the dunya.
		
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			You're the wealthiest
		
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			in the dunya. You can compete, by the
		
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			way, if you wish. The wealthiest person in
		
00:38:47 --> 00:38:49
			the world today and you.
		
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			Both of your lives will end the same.
		
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			So the prophet alaihis salatu wasallam is saying,
		
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			Then what is the loss here?
		
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			Even if you sacrifice this dunya for Allah
		
00:39:01 --> 00:39:03
			Azdul, what did you really lose? But the
		
00:39:03 --> 00:39:06
			akhirah that is gonna stay for you. So
		
00:39:06 --> 00:39:07
			favor that.
		
00:39:08 --> 00:39:09
			So here there is really no compromise.
		
00:39:10 --> 00:39:13
			If you favor the akhira, you must harm
		
00:39:13 --> 00:39:15
			part of your dunya by the way,
		
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			right? I mean, you think about it if
		
00:39:18 --> 00:39:19
			you wonder, I mean, why would that be
		
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			the case?
		
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			Imagine someone who has a shop,
		
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			who has a business,
		
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			Something haram comes in and he says, No,
		
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			not going to take it. Is he not
		
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			going to lose money? Versus
		
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			someone who says yes to everything
		
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			is not going to be richer.
		
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			Somebody who says now it's time for salah,
		
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			I'm going to close my shop. Versus somebody
		
00:39:42 --> 00:39:44
			who is working 20 fourseven He doesn't care
		
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			about salat time or anything else.
		
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			No restraints,
		
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			no moral boundaries. Is Dina gonna become richer?
		
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			Right?
		
00:39:54 --> 00:39:56
			Somebody who doesn't mind to kill
		
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			versus somebody who is virtuous and he says,
		
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			no, this is haram. Don't you think the
		
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			other person will be more powerful? Somebody who
		
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			does not mind ruining people's lives in order
		
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			to get what he wants versus somebody who's
		
00:40:07 --> 00:40:08
			afraid of Allah
		
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			Isn't the other person the virtuous is gonna
		
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			be less powerful than the other person?
		
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			So he says if you favor the akhirah,
		
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			your dunya must suffer.
		
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			But don't worry about it because all of
		
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			it is gonna end but if you want
		
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			the dunya, then your akhirah must suffer as
		
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			well.
		
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			And there's no middle ground here.
		
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			So the believer develops and should develop an
		
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			attitude
		
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			of preferring the akhira.
		
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			Even if he loses
		
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			some of the dunya and by the way,
		
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			you're not gonna lose all of the dunya.
		
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			There is time for it. There is space
		
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			for it. You're not gonna lose all of
		
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			it. You'll have whatever Allah had destined, had
		
00:40:48 --> 00:40:51
			written for you, but you're not gonna have
		
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			excessive
		
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			wealth
		
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			like some
		
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			greedy
		
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			disbelievers
		
00:41:01 --> 00:41:02
			or sinful people do.
		
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			And the attitude, in fact, should be
		
00:41:08 --> 00:41:08
			one
		
00:41:09 --> 00:41:11
			of distance from the dunya.
		
00:41:13 --> 00:41:14
			The attitude of the believer
		
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			should be of one where he is distant
		
00:41:17 --> 00:41:18
			from the dunya.
		
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			The Prophet alaihis salatu wa sallam and we'll
		
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			kind of highlight distant from the dunya. We'll
		
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			explain Insha'Allah what that means.
		
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			Once a man asked the Prophet
		
00:41:32 --> 00:41:33
			Who is best, O Prophet of Allah? Tell
		
00:41:33 --> 00:41:35
			me about the best of people.
		
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			He said,
		
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			He said, Everyone
		
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			with a clean heart and a truthful tongue.
		
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			Everyone with a clean heart and a truthful
		
00:41:47 --> 00:41:49
			tongue. They say, O Prophet of Allah, we
		
00:41:49 --> 00:41:52
			know what a truthful tongue means. But what
		
00:41:52 --> 00:41:54
			is this Mahmumul Kalbi?
		
00:41:55 --> 00:41:56
			They say he is
		
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			Who is this one who has a clean
		
00:42:03 --> 00:42:05
			heart? What is that? He says he's the
		
00:42:05 --> 00:42:06
			one who has taqwa,
		
00:42:07 --> 00:42:07
			pure.
		
00:42:08 --> 00:42:10
			His heart is pure. There is no sin
		
00:42:10 --> 00:42:12
			in it. There's no transgression.
		
00:42:12 --> 00:42:14
			There's no hatred, and there's no envy.
		
00:42:15 --> 00:42:17
			That's his heart, a clean heart.
		
00:42:19 --> 00:42:21
			Then they said, O Messenger of Allah, then
		
00:42:21 --> 00:42:21
			who?
		
00:42:25 --> 00:42:27
			He says, The one who hates the dunya
		
00:42:27 --> 00:42:28
			and loves the akhira.
		
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			The one who hates the duniya
		
00:42:32 --> 00:42:33
			and loves the akhirah.
		
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			Now,
		
00:42:35 --> 00:42:37
			it's important to understand what the Prophet
		
00:42:39 --> 00:42:40
			meant when he said he hates
		
00:42:40 --> 00:42:41
			the duniya
		
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			because does that mean that he hates food
		
00:42:45 --> 00:42:45
			and water,
		
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			marriage and children,
		
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			hates
		
00:42:50 --> 00:42:52
			plants and animals on the mount? Does does
		
00:42:52 --> 00:42:53
			that
		
00:42:53 --> 00:42:55
			mean hating the dunya or what does he
		
00:42:55 --> 00:42:56
			mean by hating the dunya?
		
00:42:57 --> 00:42:59
			Well, first of all, the prophet alaihis salatu
		
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			wa sallam loved aspects of this dunya.
		
00:43:02 --> 00:43:03
			So he said in the hadith
		
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			He
		
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			said
		
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			that women and perfume were made beloved to
		
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			me from this world
		
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			and my greatest joy is in salah.
		
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			And note, by the way, this hadith,
		
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			his greatest joy is worldly or otherworldly?
		
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			His greatest joy is from the dunya or
		
00:43:30 --> 00:43:31
			the akhira?
		
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			The akhira.
		
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			And it does actually say something if you
		
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			were to ask yourself,
		
00:43:38 --> 00:43:39
			What is your greatest joy?
		
00:43:40 --> 00:43:42
			It's a really interesting question, by the way,
		
00:43:42 --> 00:43:44
			to say what is the thing that gives
		
00:43:44 --> 00:43:46
			me the greatest joy?
		
00:43:47 --> 00:43:48
			And here you don't have to lie to
		
00:43:48 --> 00:43:50
			anybody because it's just you and yourself.
		
00:43:51 --> 00:43:53
			What is the thing that gives me the
		
00:43:53 --> 00:43:55
			greatest joy? So if you were to ask
		
00:43:55 --> 00:43:57
			Muhammad alaihis salatu wa salam, he would say
		
00:43:57 --> 00:43:58
			Salah,
		
00:44:00 --> 00:44:02
			right? So just think about how much we
		
00:44:02 --> 00:44:04
			would need to struggle
		
00:44:05 --> 00:44:08
			until we could say I find my greatest
		
00:44:08 --> 00:44:09
			joy in salah.
		
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			Not in eating,
		
00:44:12 --> 00:44:13
			not in traveling,
		
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			not in talking to so and so
		
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			but in talking to Allah that's
		
00:44:19 --> 00:44:20
			my greatest joy.
		
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			Just think about it and that is and
		
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			by the way, don't say, oh, that was
		
00:44:25 --> 00:44:26
			the Prophet alaihi salatu wa sallam and it's
		
00:44:26 --> 00:44:28
			so difficult for us to do this so
		
00:44:28 --> 00:44:29
			we're not gonna do it.
		
00:44:29 --> 00:44:31
			So how is he an example if you're
		
00:44:31 --> 00:44:33
			not gonna do this? This is he's the
		
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			model. So in your mind you should say,
		
00:44:36 --> 00:44:37
			I'm gonna try to do that.
		
00:44:38 --> 00:44:40
			I'm gonna try to do that or die
		
00:44:40 --> 00:44:41
			trying
		
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			but at least
		
00:44:43 --> 00:44:44
			that's the goal, right?
		
00:44:45 --> 00:44:46
			So
		
00:44:48 --> 00:44:49
			the Prophet alaihi wa sallam
		
00:44:49 --> 00:44:52
			loved things from this dunya. He did not
		
00:44:52 --> 00:44:54
			hate the dunya in that way.
		
00:44:54 --> 00:44:56
			And the Prophet married and he had children
		
00:44:56 --> 00:44:58
			and he recommended both.
		
00:44:59 --> 00:45:01
			So what does it mean to hate the
		
00:45:01 --> 00:45:01
			dunya?
		
00:45:03 --> 00:45:05
			It means first of all to hate the
		
00:45:05 --> 00:45:06
			Haram that is in it.
		
00:45:08 --> 00:45:11
			Then to hate anything that is in it
		
00:45:11 --> 00:45:14
			that distracts you and distances you from Allah
		
00:45:14 --> 00:45:15
			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
00:45:16 --> 00:45:18
			That aspect of the dunya should be disliked
		
00:45:18 --> 00:45:19
			and hated
		
00:45:20 --> 00:45:23
			and anything in the Duniya that brings you
		
00:45:23 --> 00:45:23
			to Allah
		
00:45:24 --> 00:45:26
			should be praised and loved.
		
00:45:28 --> 00:45:31
			So for instance, if I cannot avoid the
		
00:45:31 --> 00:45:34
			Haram except by adopting the Halal, isn't the
		
00:45:34 --> 00:45:37
			halal then recommended or even an obligation to
		
00:45:37 --> 00:45:38
			adopt?
		
00:45:39 --> 00:45:40
			Like marriage for instance
		
00:45:41 --> 00:45:43
			or having a halal job?
		
00:45:45 --> 00:45:48
			So since it is a fence against the
		
00:45:48 --> 00:45:49
			Haram, it is praiseworthy.
		
00:45:50 --> 00:45:53
			You do not hate that because it takes
		
00:45:53 --> 00:45:55
			you closer to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
00:45:56 --> 00:45:57
			But a job that you
		
00:45:58 --> 00:45:59
			take
		
00:46:00 --> 00:46:02
			and that thing starts to distract you from
		
00:46:02 --> 00:46:04
			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
00:46:05 --> 00:46:05
			until
		
00:46:06 --> 00:46:06
			you are
		
00:46:07 --> 00:46:09
			immersed in haram
		
00:46:09 --> 00:46:11
			or you're immersed in
		
00:46:12 --> 00:46:12
			ignorance
		
00:46:13 --> 00:46:13
			and
		
00:46:14 --> 00:46:15
			neglect of Him,
		
00:46:16 --> 00:46:18
			that becomes something that you should hate.
		
00:46:20 --> 00:46:22
			So as a principle, what is the dunya
		
00:46:22 --> 00:46:25
			that we're supposed to distance ourselves from
		
00:46:25 --> 00:46:28
			and the dunya that we're supposed to hate?
		
00:46:28 --> 00:46:30
			Anything that takes you away from Allah Subhanahu
		
00:46:30 --> 00:46:32
			Wa Ta'ala. Then that is hateful.
		
00:46:33 --> 00:46:34
			That could be haram,
		
00:46:35 --> 00:46:37
			that could be the doubtful,
		
00:46:38 --> 00:46:39
			that could be the disliked,
		
00:46:39 --> 00:46:41
			and that could be excessive
		
00:46:42 --> 00:46:42
			halal
		
00:46:43 --> 00:46:44
			that you do not need.
		
00:46:46 --> 00:46:47
			An excessive halal
		
00:46:50 --> 00:46:52
			that takes you away from Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
00:46:52 --> 00:46:54
			Ta'ala becomes something that is not for you
		
00:46:54 --> 00:46:56
			but against you.
		
00:46:56 --> 00:46:58
			It doesn't help you but harm you.
		
00:46:59 --> 00:47:02
			Like someone who has a business, Alhamdulillah,
		
00:47:02 --> 00:47:03
			his business is profitable.
		
00:47:04 --> 00:47:07
			He keeps expanding that business until he forgets
		
00:47:07 --> 00:47:08
			about Allah.
		
00:47:08 --> 00:47:08
			That
		
00:47:09 --> 00:47:11
			expansion is disliked or Haram.
		
00:47:13 --> 00:47:15
			Even though in essence if he can find
		
00:47:15 --> 00:47:17
			the balance, it's halal.
		
00:47:18 --> 00:47:20
			But because he could not, it becomes haram
		
00:47:20 --> 00:47:21
			for him.
		
00:47:22 --> 00:47:23
			So you understand
		
00:47:24 --> 00:47:26
			the balance here. If it takes you away
		
00:47:26 --> 00:47:28
			from Allah, Azza wa Jal, it becomes
		
00:47:28 --> 00:47:29
			harmful
		
00:47:29 --> 00:47:32
			part of the dunya that we're supposed to
		
00:47:32 --> 00:47:34
			stay away from and supposed to
		
00:47:35 --> 00:47:37
			protect ourselves from.
		
00:47:37 --> 00:47:38
			And it's important
		
00:47:39 --> 00:47:40
			to constantly
		
00:47:41 --> 00:47:42
			remind ourselves
		
00:47:43 --> 00:47:44
			of the value of the dunya, of the
		
00:47:44 --> 00:47:46
			true value of the dunya
		
00:47:47 --> 00:47:49
			and these types of ahadith are
		
00:47:50 --> 00:47:52
			helpful because they do settle in the heart
		
00:47:53 --> 00:47:54
			and emphasize
		
00:47:55 --> 00:47:58
			how fleeting the dunya is, oh, how small
		
00:47:58 --> 00:47:59
			it is
		
00:48:00 --> 00:48:02
			for Allah Azza wa Jal and also in
		
00:48:02 --> 00:48:03
			the eyes of the righteous.
		
00:48:03 --> 00:48:06
			So in the following hadith, the prophet sallallahu
		
00:48:06 --> 00:48:07
			alaihi wa sallam
		
00:48:07 --> 00:48:08
			entered
		
00:48:09 --> 00:48:10
			the market in Medina
		
00:48:11 --> 00:48:12
			and found
		
00:48:13 --> 00:48:14
			what did he find here?
		
00:48:15 --> 00:48:17
			A dead short eared young goat.
		
00:48:18 --> 00:48:19
			So a dead goat
		
00:48:20 --> 00:48:21
			just laying around,
		
00:48:21 --> 00:48:23
			right? Somebody threw it away.
		
00:48:26 --> 00:48:28
			So he held it by its ear,
		
00:48:28 --> 00:48:29
			that dead goat.
		
00:48:30 --> 00:48:31
			And he says, Who among you would like
		
00:48:31 --> 00:48:33
			to buy this with 1 dirham?
		
00:48:35 --> 00:48:36
			So I don't know. You can think of
		
00:48:36 --> 00:48:37
			$5 or $1.
		
00:48:38 --> 00:48:39
			Who would love to buy this for a
		
00:48:39 --> 00:48:40
			dollar?
		
00:48:41 --> 00:48:43
			So they say, O Prophet of Allah, we
		
00:48:43 --> 00:48:44
			would not want to buy it for a
		
00:48:44 --> 00:48:46
			dollar. What would we do with it?
		
00:48:47 --> 00:48:49
			So he said, would you like that it
		
00:48:49 --> 00:48:49
			is yours?
		
00:48:50 --> 00:48:52
			They said no. He repeated this, Would you
		
00:48:52 --> 00:48:53
			like that this is yours? Would you like
		
00:48:53 --> 00:48:55
			the tik aid? Would you like that this
		
00:48:55 --> 00:48:57
			is yours? He said that 3 times. He
		
00:48:57 --> 00:48:59
			said, O Prophet of Allah, no. Even if
		
00:48:59 --> 00:49:00
			it was alive it's defective
		
00:49:01 --> 00:49:02
			and it has small ears
		
00:49:03 --> 00:49:05
			even then we do not want it even
		
00:49:05 --> 00:49:07
			if it's alive. So he said the
		
00:49:08 --> 00:49:11
			the duniya weighs less or is less
		
00:49:11 --> 00:49:12
			for Allah Azzawajal,
		
00:49:13 --> 00:49:14
			then this goat is for you.
		
00:49:16 --> 00:49:17
			This goat for you is nothing.
		
00:49:18 --> 00:49:20
			You don't want to even take it for
		
00:49:20 --> 00:49:20
			free,
		
00:49:21 --> 00:49:22
			right?
		
00:49:22 --> 00:49:23
			It's just garbage.
		
00:49:24 --> 00:49:26
			So he says the dunya for Allah Azzawjil
		
00:49:26 --> 00:49:28
			is less than this goat for you.
		
00:49:29 --> 00:49:30
			If you know
		
00:49:31 --> 00:49:32
			that this is how Allah
		
00:49:33 --> 00:49:34
			sees the dunya
		
00:49:34 --> 00:49:36
			then it should just melt away.
		
00:49:37 --> 00:49:39
			Anything and everything that is in it should
		
00:49:39 --> 00:49:40
			just disappear
		
00:49:40 --> 00:49:41
			from before your eyes
		
00:49:42 --> 00:49:43
			because Allah sees this as nothing.
		
00:49:44 --> 00:49:46
			You know, like when you see skyscrapers
		
00:49:46 --> 00:49:47
			and you see
		
00:49:48 --> 00:49:49
			modern buildings and you see
		
00:49:50 --> 00:49:52
			decorations here and gold and silver and this
		
00:49:52 --> 00:49:54
			glitters and this that shines
		
00:49:55 --> 00:49:56
			and it impresses you,
		
00:49:57 --> 00:50:00
			all of that really impresses you and you
		
00:50:00 --> 00:50:02
			see palaces and expensive cars and all that
		
00:50:03 --> 00:50:05
			impresses you and you see tons and tons
		
00:50:05 --> 00:50:08
			of gold and silver and it impresses you
		
00:50:08 --> 00:50:09
			but when you hear that hadith,
		
00:50:10 --> 00:50:12
			all this is supposed to melt away. This
		
00:50:12 --> 00:50:12
			is nothing
		
00:50:13 --> 00:50:13
			for Allah
		
00:50:14 --> 00:50:17
			and then you will understand its reality
		
00:50:17 --> 00:50:19
			that it is not real.
		
00:50:19 --> 00:50:20
			It exists
		
00:50:20 --> 00:50:21
			but it's not real.
		
00:50:22 --> 00:50:25
			Real. What is real? What is valuable
		
00:50:25 --> 00:50:27
			in the sight of Allah Azza wa Jal?
		
00:50:28 --> 00:50:29
			He said
		
00:50:31 --> 00:50:33
			again and this is when he teaches
		
00:50:35 --> 00:50:37
			he gives examples so that people can understand
		
00:50:38 --> 00:50:40
			and can relate to what He's saying. He
		
00:50:40 --> 00:50:41
			says,
		
00:50:49 --> 00:50:51
			He said, who among you would like to
		
00:50:51 --> 00:50:52
			head each morning
		
00:50:52 --> 00:50:55
			to Bouthan or to Al Aqiq? Two valleys.
		
00:50:56 --> 00:50:58
			And he comes back with 2 big humped
		
00:50:58 --> 00:50:59
			she camels
		
00:50:59 --> 00:51:02
			without being guilty of sin or severing ties
		
00:51:02 --> 00:51:03
			of kinship.
		
00:51:04 --> 00:51:06
			They said, Oh Messenger of Allah, each one
		
00:51:06 --> 00:51:08
			of us would like to do this.
		
00:51:09 --> 00:51:11
			So he said, if one of you would
		
00:51:11 --> 00:51:13
			go in the morning to the Masjid and
		
00:51:13 --> 00:51:15
			he would learn or he would read 2
		
00:51:15 --> 00:51:17
			ayahs from the book of Allah
		
00:51:17 --> 00:51:19
			that would be better than 2 camels
		
00:51:19 --> 00:51:21
			and if you learn and read 2 or
		
00:51:21 --> 00:51:23
			3 ayahs from the book of Allah that
		
00:51:23 --> 00:51:25
			would be better than 3 camels. And whatever
		
00:51:26 --> 00:51:28
			number of ayaas you would learn will be
		
00:51:28 --> 00:51:30
			better than their number of camels.
		
00:51:32 --> 00:51:33
			So you understand
		
00:51:34 --> 00:51:35
			this example.
		
00:51:36 --> 00:51:37
			He's saying Alaihi Wasallam,
		
00:51:38 --> 00:51:40
			would you like to get free camels?
		
00:51:43 --> 00:51:45
			Free. How much would a camel cost today?
		
00:51:46 --> 00:51:48
			I would imagine 1,000,
		
00:51:48 --> 00:51:49
			right? 1,000.
		
00:51:50 --> 00:51:51
			And if it's the
		
00:51:53 --> 00:51:54
			main vehicle of transportation,
		
00:51:58 --> 00:52:00
			it is reasonable to equate that with a
		
00:52:00 --> 00:52:01
			vehicle today.
		
00:52:02 --> 00:52:04
			So suppose, for instance, somebody tells you, would
		
00:52:04 --> 00:52:06
			like to go and get a car or
		
00:52:06 --> 00:52:07
			2 for free
		
00:52:09 --> 00:52:10
			without being guilty of theft.
		
00:52:12 --> 00:52:15
			Just free. This is really free. This is
		
00:52:15 --> 00:52:16
			absolutely free. Do you would like to go
		
00:52:16 --> 00:52:18
			and get it? Now by the way, it's
		
00:52:18 --> 00:52:19
			not just a car
		
00:52:21 --> 00:52:24
			meaning they are precious camel, big humped camels,
		
00:52:24 --> 00:52:26
			expensive and precious.
		
00:52:26 --> 00:52:29
			So an expensive carb by the way. Would
		
00:52:29 --> 00:52:30
			you like them?
		
00:52:30 --> 00:52:31
			He says, Yes.
		
00:52:32 --> 00:52:34
			So he said, Alaihi Sallahu Wa Salam, Well,
		
00:52:34 --> 00:52:35
			you know what? If you go to the
		
00:52:35 --> 00:52:37
			Masjid and learn 2 ayahs, that's better than
		
00:52:37 --> 00:52:38
			2 camels.
		
00:52:39 --> 00:52:40
			Now, we don't think like that
		
00:52:42 --> 00:52:43
			but if you were to switch your mind
		
00:52:43 --> 00:52:46
			so that you start thinking like that, you'll
		
00:52:46 --> 00:52:48
			be thinking the way that Allah sees things
		
00:52:48 --> 00:52:51
			and values things and the way that Muhammad
		
00:52:51 --> 00:52:54
			alaihis salatu wasalam sees and values things and
		
00:52:54 --> 00:52:56
			the way that the sahaba used to live
		
00:52:57 --> 00:52:58
			if you were to simply come to the
		
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			Masjid because today you would you could say
		
00:53:00 --> 00:53:02
			to yourself, you know what,
		
00:53:03 --> 00:53:05
			I can't compete with the richest man in
		
00:53:05 --> 00:53:07
			the world today because we probably today he
		
00:53:07 --> 00:53:08
			had won
		
00:53:08 --> 00:53:09
			how many thousands?
		
00:53:10 --> 00:53:12
			He had made how many thousands just today.
		
00:53:14 --> 00:53:15
			I didn't
		
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			earn much today, right?
		
00:53:18 --> 00:53:20
			But he probably had made 10,000, 20,000,
		
00:53:21 --> 00:53:22
			a 100,000 just today.
		
00:53:23 --> 00:53:25
			But you can compete
		
00:53:26 --> 00:53:27
			because if you just come to the house
		
00:53:27 --> 00:53:28
			of Allah
		
00:53:28 --> 00:53:30
			and you learn 2 or 3 ayahs, 2
		
00:53:30 --> 00:53:33
			or 3 hadith, that's better than everything that
		
00:53:33 --> 00:53:35
			he had accumulated for today.
		
00:53:36 --> 00:53:38
			So you're the winner not the loser but
		
00:53:38 --> 00:53:39
			you'd have to have
		
00:53:39 --> 00:53:41
			the eyes of the believer,
		
00:53:42 --> 00:53:43
			not the eye of the disbeliever.
		
00:53:44 --> 00:53:47
			The way that we see things today,
		
00:53:47 --> 00:53:49
			we have the eyes of the disbelievers.
		
00:53:50 --> 00:53:51
			You believe me?
		
00:53:52 --> 00:53:54
			The way that we see things today, we're
		
00:53:54 --> 00:53:54
			not judging
		
00:53:55 --> 00:53:57
			like a believer judges things.
		
00:53:57 --> 00:54:00
			How a prophet would see the world today,
		
00:54:00 --> 00:54:02
			that's not how we see the world today.
		
00:54:02 --> 00:54:04
			We see it how a Kafir sees the
		
00:54:04 --> 00:54:06
			world today and that's why we feel sorry
		
00:54:06 --> 00:54:07
			for ourselves.
		
00:54:08 --> 00:54:10
			But if you see it as a prophet
		
00:54:10 --> 00:54:11
			would see it, as a believer would see
		
00:54:11 --> 00:54:13
			it, you say, Why do I need to
		
00:54:13 --> 00:54:15
			compete with him in getting 100 of 1,000
		
00:54:15 --> 00:54:18
			of dollars and he's gonna lose that anyway?
		
00:54:18 --> 00:54:19
			And it's not adding
		
00:54:20 --> 00:54:22
			to any piety of his or bringing him
		
00:54:22 --> 00:54:23
			closer to Allah
		
00:54:24 --> 00:54:25
			But if you come to the masjid and
		
00:54:25 --> 00:54:28
			you learn your religion then you've learned something
		
00:54:28 --> 00:54:28
			invaluable
		
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			that no other rich person can supersede.
		
00:54:33 --> 00:54:35
			You're the winner and you're richer because of
		
00:54:35 --> 00:54:35
			it.
		
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			So if you read these hadith and you
		
00:54:38 --> 00:54:40
			remember these hadith, you will believe
		
00:54:41 --> 00:54:41
			and
		
00:54:42 --> 00:54:42
			again
		
00:54:43 --> 00:54:45
			firmly attach yourself
		
00:54:45 --> 00:54:47
			to what Allah values
		
00:54:48 --> 00:54:49
			not what humans do.
		
00:54:50 --> 00:54:51
			And if someone says
		
00:54:53 --> 00:54:54
			as if we need
		
00:54:54 --> 00:54:56
			more evidence to convince us,
		
00:54:57 --> 00:54:58
			Well,
		
00:55:00 --> 00:55:02
			I love the dunya no matter I'm just
		
00:55:02 --> 00:55:03
			gonna keep loving it.
		
00:55:04 --> 00:55:04
			And
		
00:55:05 --> 00:55:07
			I have time and maybe later I could
		
00:55:07 --> 00:55:09
			repent and maybe later I could love Allah
		
00:55:10 --> 00:55:10
			and
		
00:55:12 --> 00:55:14
			and or we have to say that we
		
00:55:14 --> 00:55:15
			are out of time.
		
00:55:17 --> 00:55:19
			Not the least of which because when you
		
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			love the dunya so much it weakens you
		
00:55:22 --> 00:55:25
			to the extent that your enemies overpower you.
		
00:55:26 --> 00:55:28
			So if you look at Muslims today,
		
00:55:29 --> 00:55:31
			would you say that they are strong or
		
00:55:31 --> 00:55:32
			weak?
		
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			Weak, right? I don't even have to ask
		
00:55:37 --> 00:55:38
			you, right? They are weak.
		
00:55:39 --> 00:55:41
			If you want to locate the reason for
		
00:55:41 --> 00:55:42
			that weakness
		
00:55:42 --> 00:55:44
			Because everybody would say, Well, I want the
		
00:55:44 --> 00:55:46
			Muslims to be strong today.
		
00:55:47 --> 00:55:49
			This minute. This minute.
		
00:55:49 --> 00:55:51
			Because we can't wait anymore, right? You would
		
00:55:51 --> 00:55:52
			agree?
		
00:55:52 --> 00:55:54
			I want it to be strong now.
		
00:55:55 --> 00:55:57
			Well, the Prophet alaihis salaam is gonna tell
		
00:55:57 --> 00:55:59
			you that what the reason why they are
		
00:55:59 --> 00:56:01
			weak is because they love the dunya.
		
00:56:03 --> 00:56:03
			Period.
		
00:56:05 --> 00:56:07
			So you can't afford to continue to love
		
00:56:07 --> 00:56:09
			the dunya regardless of the consequences
		
00:56:09 --> 00:56:10
			because the consequences
		
00:56:10 --> 00:56:11
			are destructive.
		
00:56:12 --> 00:56:14
			Even if you don't care care about the
		
00:56:14 --> 00:56:14
			hereafter,
		
00:56:14 --> 00:56:15
			It is destructive
		
00:56:16 --> 00:56:18
			right here and right now because you are
		
00:56:18 --> 00:56:20
			being killed because of it.
		
00:56:21 --> 00:56:22
			So when He said
		
00:56:28 --> 00:56:30
			He says the nations are about to invite
		
00:56:30 --> 00:56:33
			each other to attack you like people invite
		
00:56:33 --> 00:56:34
			each other to eat
		
00:56:35 --> 00:56:37
			on, you know, one big dish.
		
00:56:38 --> 00:56:40
			And they said, O Prophet of Allah, are
		
00:56:40 --> 00:56:43
			we few at that time? And he said,
		
00:56:43 --> 00:56:45
			alaihis salatu wa sallam, no, there's a lot
		
00:56:45 --> 00:56:47
			of you then, but you are a dredge
		
00:56:47 --> 00:56:49
			like the dredge of,
		
00:56:49 --> 00:56:52
			a stream or you are dregs of a
		
00:56:52 --> 00:56:52
			stream.
		
00:56:53 --> 00:56:55
			You will be like the dregs of a
		
00:56:55 --> 00:56:58
			stream what floats on top of a stream
		
00:56:58 --> 00:57:00
			or on top of water. And he said
		
00:57:08 --> 00:57:09
			Allah
		
00:57:10 --> 00:57:12
			is gonna extract from the hearts of your
		
00:57:12 --> 00:57:12
			enemy
		
00:57:12 --> 00:57:15
			any fear that they have towards you and
		
00:57:15 --> 00:57:17
			they will deposit weakness in your heart. So
		
00:57:17 --> 00:57:19
			they said, O prophet of Allah, what is
		
00:57:19 --> 00:57:22
			this weakness? He said, loving the dunya and
		
00:57:22 --> 00:57:23
			hating death.
		
00:57:24 --> 00:57:26
			So the essence of it all, it goes
		
00:57:26 --> 00:57:29
			back to the heart. He says, Your hearts
		
00:57:29 --> 00:57:29
			are weak
		
00:57:30 --> 00:57:32
			and your enemies are not afraid of you.
		
00:57:33 --> 00:57:35
			Why our hearts are weak? He said, Do
		
00:57:35 --> 00:57:36
			you love the dunya and you're afraid of
		
00:57:36 --> 00:57:38
			death? This is it.
		
00:57:39 --> 00:57:41
			So the more that you love the dunya,
		
00:57:41 --> 00:57:42
			the more that you are attached to it
		
00:57:42 --> 00:57:43
			and when you are attached to it, you're
		
00:57:43 --> 00:57:46
			not gonna sacrifice anything for Allah's sake.
		
00:57:47 --> 00:57:49
			You'll favor it over Allah,
		
00:57:49 --> 00:57:52
			you'll favor it over listening to Him. And
		
00:57:52 --> 00:57:53
			And of course, then
		
00:57:53 --> 00:57:55
			you're not gonna sacrifice your life.
		
00:57:56 --> 00:57:57
			You're not gonna listen to Him, Subhanahu Wa
		
00:57:57 --> 00:58:01
			Ta'ala. Your enemies will overpower you. Your enemies
		
00:58:01 --> 00:58:04
			will kill you. You'll be too cowardly to
		
00:58:04 --> 00:58:04
			act.
		
00:58:06 --> 00:58:08
			So in order to
		
00:58:09 --> 00:58:10
			free the heart
		
00:58:10 --> 00:58:12
			from its enslavement to the dunya
		
00:58:13 --> 00:58:15
			and weaken the Muslim body in general against
		
00:58:15 --> 00:58:17
			their enemy, you need
		
00:58:18 --> 00:58:20
			to rid yourself of the love of the
		
00:58:20 --> 00:58:22
			dunya or at least excessive love of the
		
00:58:22 --> 00:58:22
			dunya.
		
00:58:23 --> 00:58:26
			And what helps you also is to understand
		
00:58:26 --> 00:58:28
			that eventually you are going to lose it
		
00:58:28 --> 00:58:28
			anyway
		
00:58:29 --> 00:58:30
			all of it is going to go anyway.
		
00:58:31 --> 00:58:32
			So if you don't give it up now,
		
00:58:32 --> 00:58:34
			it's going to leave you later.
		
00:58:36 --> 00:58:38
			And it eventually does not amount to much
		
00:58:38 --> 00:58:40
			and it's not even anything.
		
00:58:42 --> 00:58:43
			Not only with Allah
		
00:58:44 --> 00:58:46
			but also for the believers who pass on
		
00:58:46 --> 00:58:47
			to the next life.
		
00:58:48 --> 00:58:50
			This dunya does not matter to them at
		
00:58:50 --> 00:58:52
			all when they the reality of the next
		
00:58:52 --> 00:58:53
			life.
		
00:58:54 --> 00:58:55
			So this hadith
		
00:58:56 --> 00:58:57
			and the prophet he
		
00:58:59 --> 00:59:00
			said,
		
00:59:07 --> 00:59:09
			He said, There is no one on this
		
00:59:09 --> 00:59:11
			earth who passes away, dies
		
00:59:12 --> 00:59:13
			and what they have with Allah
		
00:59:14 --> 00:59:16
			is something that they are pleased with, meaning
		
00:59:16 --> 00:59:17
			that they are righteous.
		
00:59:18 --> 00:59:20
			When they see what they have with Allah
		
00:59:21 --> 00:59:23
			they never want to come back to this
		
00:59:23 --> 00:59:23
			life
		
00:59:24 --> 00:59:25
			even if you give it everything in this
		
00:59:25 --> 00:59:26
			life.
		
00:59:28 --> 00:59:29
			So
		
00:59:29 --> 00:59:32
			you get what the Prophet alaihis salaam is
		
00:59:32 --> 00:59:32
			saying?
		
00:59:32 --> 00:59:34
			He says if you were to die
		
00:59:35 --> 00:59:37
			and you're in the next life and you
		
00:59:37 --> 00:59:39
			see what Allah has prepared for you then
		
00:59:39 --> 00:59:40
			Allah gives you the option. Do you wanna
		
00:59:40 --> 00:59:42
			go back to this dunya?
		
00:59:42 --> 00:59:43
			What would you say?
		
00:59:44 --> 00:59:45
			Never.
		
00:59:45 --> 00:59:47
			He says, If I'm going to give you
		
00:59:47 --> 00:59:48
			all this dunya,
		
00:59:49 --> 00:59:51
			not just make you the richest person who
		
00:59:51 --> 00:59:52
			had ever lived. No.
		
00:59:53 --> 00:59:55
			All of this dunya and no one has
		
00:59:55 --> 00:59:57
			all of this dunya. I'll give it all
		
00:59:57 --> 00:59:59
			to you. Would you want to go back?
		
00:59:59 --> 01:00:00
			You say no.
		
01:00:00 --> 01:00:01
			Except for 1.
		
01:00:03 --> 01:00:04
			He said, Alaihi Sallahu
		
01:00:07 --> 01:00:09
			Wa Salam, except the shahid, the mother.
		
01:00:13 --> 01:00:15
			Except the mother, he would love to go
		
01:00:15 --> 01:00:16
			back to be killed again
		
01:00:18 --> 01:00:19
			for Allah's sake.
		
01:00:20 --> 01:00:23
			You see how great what He witnesses the
		
01:00:23 --> 01:00:23
			shahi
		
01:00:25 --> 01:00:28
			That it is better than this entire earth,
		
01:00:29 --> 01:00:30
			right?
		
01:00:30 --> 01:00:33
			Because that's the only incentive that supersedes it
		
01:00:33 --> 01:00:35
			that is more than it because Allah
		
01:00:35 --> 01:00:37
			if He were to say take all of
		
01:00:37 --> 01:00:39
			this dunya and go back to earth,
		
01:00:39 --> 01:00:41
			go back to this worldly life, He would
		
01:00:41 --> 01:00:42
			say never.
		
01:00:43 --> 01:00:44
			After what I've seen here
		
01:00:45 --> 01:00:46
			I would never want to go back
		
01:00:49 --> 01:00:51
			except if a person is shaheed.
		
01:00:52 --> 01:00:53
			What he sees of Allah's
		
01:00:54 --> 01:00:55
			welcome
		
01:00:55 --> 01:00:57
			and mercy and honor
		
01:00:58 --> 01:01:00
			is greater than anything in the dunya.
		
01:01:02 --> 01:01:03
			And this is what I said
		
01:01:04 --> 01:01:05
			recently.
		
01:01:05 --> 01:01:07
			He says when you look at people who
		
01:01:07 --> 01:01:09
			are killed for Allah's sake,
		
01:01:10 --> 01:01:12
			you feel so sorry for them,
		
01:01:13 --> 01:01:15
			right. And some people start to lose their
		
01:01:15 --> 01:01:17
			faith because what is happening to them, but
		
01:01:17 --> 01:01:20
			you don't realize that if Allah had led
		
01:01:20 --> 01:01:22
			them to shahada to martyr them
		
01:01:23 --> 01:01:26
			they have received the greatest gift possible.
		
01:01:28 --> 01:01:30
			So you shouldn't cry over them but cry
		
01:01:30 --> 01:01:31
			over yourself
		
01:01:32 --> 01:01:34
			who had been denied that gift.
		
01:01:35 --> 01:01:36
			Of course, we don't want Muslims to be
		
01:01:36 --> 01:01:37
			harmed and killed.
		
01:01:38 --> 01:01:40
			But I'm saying look at it not only
		
01:01:40 --> 01:01:42
			from the perspective of this life and what
		
01:01:42 --> 01:01:42
			is happening
		
01:01:43 --> 01:01:45
			but from the perspective of the next life
		
01:01:45 --> 01:01:47
			and what Allah has promised those
		
01:01:47 --> 01:01:49
			who are martyred, who are killed.
		
01:01:51 --> 01:01:53
			So if this dunya is nothing in the
		
01:01:53 --> 01:01:55
			sight of Allah Azza wa Jal and it's
		
01:01:55 --> 01:01:57
			gonna end anyway
		
01:01:58 --> 01:01:59
			And if we need
		
01:02:01 --> 01:02:02
			to give up some of it,
		
01:02:03 --> 01:02:04
			especially the parts of it that we love
		
01:02:04 --> 01:02:06
			to get to get Allah's love,
		
01:02:07 --> 01:02:09
			then we should start thinking about giving up
		
01:02:09 --> 01:02:11
			more and more of it
		
01:02:11 --> 01:02:13
			for the sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
01:02:13 --> 01:02:14
			And as
		
01:02:15 --> 01:02:16
			Dunoon is gonna say now,
		
01:02:17 --> 01:02:18
			the love of Allah and the love of
		
01:02:18 --> 01:02:20
			the dunya are always in competition
		
01:02:21 --> 01:02:23
			and they cannot coexist
		
01:02:23 --> 01:02:24
			in a person's heart.
		
01:02:25 --> 01:02:26
			So this is what he said,
		
01:02:41 --> 01:02:43
			He says, Know that Allah's beloved
		
01:02:44 --> 01:02:47
			does not consider any sacrifice for Allah's sake
		
01:02:47 --> 01:02:49
			to be too big because for them there
		
01:02:49 --> 01:02:51
			is nothing greater than Allah.
		
01:02:53 --> 01:02:55
			There is nothing that you can give up
		
01:02:55 --> 01:02:56
			for Allah
		
01:02:56 --> 01:02:59
			is too big because already for you,
		
01:02:59 --> 01:03:01
			with you, in your heart
		
01:03:01 --> 01:03:02
			Allah is the biggest.
		
01:03:04 --> 01:03:07
			Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest
		
01:03:07 --> 01:03:09
			love that you have. So there is no
		
01:03:09 --> 01:03:11
			thing as this is too much sacrifice.
		
01:03:13 --> 01:03:15
			Allah is always bigger than that.
		
01:03:17 --> 01:03:19
			Allah is always more important than that.
		
01:03:26 --> 01:03:28
			He says so the one who loves Allah
		
01:03:29 --> 01:03:30
			must exhibit
		
01:03:30 --> 01:03:32
			the mark of that in terms of rejection
		
01:03:33 --> 01:03:33
			of the dunya,
		
01:03:34 --> 01:03:36
			distance from the dunya, meaning if you really
		
01:03:36 --> 01:03:36
			love Allah
		
01:03:37 --> 01:03:39
			then you should manifest
		
01:03:39 --> 01:03:41
			a distance from the dunya
		
01:03:42 --> 01:03:44
			that reflects how much you love Allah
		
01:03:49 --> 01:03:50
			because it's impossible
		
01:03:51 --> 01:03:52
			he said
		
01:03:52 --> 01:03:55
			that the love of Allah could coexist in
		
01:03:55 --> 01:03:56
			the heart with the love of the dunya
		
01:04:01 --> 01:04:02
			So whoever loves Allah
		
01:04:03 --> 01:04:05
			does not give much weight to what he
		
01:04:05 --> 01:04:08
			receives from the duniya, He does not think
		
01:04:08 --> 01:04:10
			of it to be much to be celebrated.
		
01:04:13 --> 01:04:16
			And he does not need anything from someone
		
01:04:16 --> 01:04:18
			other than the one that He loves.
		
01:04:20 --> 01:04:21
			Now this is
		
01:04:22 --> 01:04:22
			deep,
		
01:04:23 --> 01:04:25
			right. This is really deep
		
01:04:26 --> 01:04:28
			and don't think that if you just read
		
01:04:28 --> 01:04:30
			it or if I just read it, we
		
01:04:30 --> 01:04:31
			understand it.
		
01:04:32 --> 01:04:33
			This requires
		
01:04:34 --> 01:04:35
			application
		
01:04:35 --> 01:04:38
			and struggle for you to start to feel
		
01:04:38 --> 01:04:38
			it,
		
01:04:39 --> 01:04:41
			for you to be able to say
		
01:04:42 --> 01:04:45
			nothing is too big to be sacrificed for
		
01:04:45 --> 01:04:46
			Allah's sake.
		
01:04:48 --> 01:04:50
			Right. And what comes to mind is Ibrahim
		
01:04:53 --> 01:04:53
			right.
		
01:04:53 --> 01:04:54
			And
		
01:04:54 --> 01:04:56
			what comes to mind is Ibrahim alaihis salam
		
01:04:56 --> 01:04:57
			sacrificing his son Ishmael. Nothing is too big
		
01:04:57 --> 01:04:57
			to give to Allah Azzawajal.
		
01:04:58 --> 01:04:59
			Not time,
		
01:05:00 --> 01:05:01
			not money, not family,
		
01:05:02 --> 01:05:03
			not myself.
		
01:05:05 --> 01:05:07
			And what he is saying, he says you
		
01:05:07 --> 01:05:09
			can't love 2 at the same time not
		
01:05:09 --> 01:05:10
			the dunya and Allah.
		
01:05:12 --> 01:05:14
			What he means by that is what? What
		
01:05:14 --> 01:05:15
			is dominant
		
01:05:16 --> 01:05:17
			can only be 1.
		
01:05:17 --> 01:05:19
			You can love Allah and love parts of
		
01:05:19 --> 01:05:20
			the dunya
		
01:05:20 --> 01:05:22
			but those parts of the dunya are not
		
01:05:22 --> 01:05:22
			dominant.
		
01:05:24 --> 01:05:25
			1 is dominant.
		
01:05:26 --> 01:05:28
			You have 1 rub, 1 ilaha and 1
		
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			master. You don't have multiple masters.
		
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			So if the love of Allah is dominant,
		
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			the duniya cannot compete
		
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			and you'll give up the duniya for Allah
		
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			Azzawajal.
		
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			If the love of the duniya is dominant,
		
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			you'll give up Allah for the duniya.
		
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			And that is the struggle and that is
		
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			tawheed and that is shirk.
		
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			Shirk is not always
		
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			lowering your head to an idol.
		
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			Shirk is sometimes lowering your heart
		
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			to an idol that is on the inside
		
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			to a love that is on the inside.
		
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			So
		
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			when we give from what we love, we're
		
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			trying to fight that
		
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			because the love of dunya is not gonna
		
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			leave our hearts that easily.
		
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			And the love of Allah is not gonna
		
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			grow in the heart that easily. It has
		
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			to be
		
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			pushed. We have to strive.
		
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			So you have to look at the things
		
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			that you love. And whenever you see them
		
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			competing with Allah's love, you have to say
		
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			Allah should come first.
		
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			Even if I'm not at the level where
		
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			naturally Allah is coming first,
		
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			you say Allah should come first. Push yourself.
		
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			So it's time for salah
		
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			or you're playing a video game?
		
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			Or it's time for salah and you want
		
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			to sleep?
		
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			Or you're time for salah, and you're having
		
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			an interesting phone conversation with a friend.
		
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			Or it's time for salah, and you're watching
		
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			a movie.
		
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			That competition
		
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			which you put first tells
		
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			you what you love more.
		
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			This is impossible
		
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			that
		
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			you love Allah Azawajal more and you don't
		
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			respond to His call.
		
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			And we mentioned before the reason why we
		
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			commit a sin is why?
		
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			Because we love that sin at that moment
		
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			more than we love Allah.
		
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			It'd be impossible again
		
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			if we love Allah more at that time
		
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			for us to commit that sin.
		
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			So
		
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			the noon, Rahimahullah, is saying what?
		
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			If Allah is truly great in your heart
		
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			then nothing would be equal to Him.
		
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			And if you want Allah to be great
		
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			in your heart
		
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			you have to take the love of duniya
		
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			out of it.
		
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			And one way
		
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			to do that
		
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			is to follow the Sharia of Muhammad alayhis
		
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			salatu wasalam.
		
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			Ibrahim Abu Adam said this on page 407.
		
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			He says, Wara,
		
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			which is leaving the haram and doubtful matters,
		
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			leads one to Zuhd, which is turning away
		
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			from the world.
		
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			And turning away from the world leads one
		
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			to the love of Allah Azzud.
		
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			So Ibn 'Adham here is saying
		
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			as if the Sharia,
		
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			all of it is designed
		
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			to lead you gradually to the love of
		
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			Allah Azza wa Jal. What is the first
		
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			level he's talking about? He's saying
		
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			Warah is turning away from the haram. He's
		
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			saying no, this is haram. I'm not gonna
		
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			do it.
		
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			And that's haram. I'm not gonna do it.
		
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			Add to it doubtful matters.
		
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			They say this is ambiguous. This could be
		
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			right or it could be wrong. Could be
		
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			haram or could be halal. Better stay away
		
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			from it. They say if you do this,
		
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			then you will shun, you will stay away
		
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			from a large portion of this dunya.
		
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			Right or wrong?
		
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			A large portion of that dunya
		
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			that is destructive,
		
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			that is harmful
		
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			when you say no to the haram
		
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			and to what is doubtful,
		
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			you've distanced yourself already from parts of that
		
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			duniya
		
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			that are very destructive.
		
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			That's your first level.
		
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			And if you manage to fulfill that level,
		
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			he says, then comes zud.
		
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			And zud is turning away from the world,
		
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			meaning the unnecessary,
		
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			So house is enough for me. I don't
		
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			need that mansion. So you will have zuhud
		
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			in it. So you buy what is less.
		
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			I can buy this expensive brand but this
		
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			lesser brand does the job. So you buy
		
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			this not that.
		
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			I can be extravagant or I could be
		
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			humble. Being humble is better so you be
		
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			humble instead of being extravagant.
		
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			So that type of zuhd which is shunning
		
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			the dunya,
		
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			excessive dunya turns you away from further
		
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			parts of it.
		
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			And when
		
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			you diminish, when you decrease the love of
		
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			the dunya and the place that it has
		
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			in your heart,
		
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			you're not spending time on it, you're not
		
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			worried about it, you're not thinking about it,
		
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			then the rest of the heart is free
		
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			to think about Allah
		
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			Right?
		
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			And that's how it leads you to the
		
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			love of Allah. It empties the heart of
		
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			the dunya
		
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			to allow Allah to enter your heart.
		
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			But if you don't do this,
		
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			the dunya will occupy the heart and displace
		
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			Allah from it.
		
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			So then think to yourself,
		
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			what do you worry about the most?
		
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			What do you think about the most?
		
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			What do you want to achieve the most?
		
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			And if it's all related to the dunya,
		
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			then the dunya and its love is what
		
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			is dominant,
		
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			not Allah
		
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			What do I do?
		
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			That process.
		
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			Don't think about the Haram or seek it.
		
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			Don't seek
		
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			or partake of the ambiguous.
		
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			Stay away from
		
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			it. The next step:
		
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			non beneficial,
		
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			excessive, extra, extravagant.
		
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			It's halal,
		
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			but it's not needed. And it's distracting.
		
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			Try to gradually withdraw from it.
		
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			What do I replace it with?
		
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			Things that please Allah Azza wa Jal. And
		
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			be patient
		
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			and ask Allah for support
		
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			until you start to actually value and love
		
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			what Allah loves
		
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			more than what yourself likes,
		
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			more than what other people like.
		
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			And then you would have achieved
		
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			the love of Allah Azza wa Jal or
		
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			at least
		
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			the possibility and the potential to love Him
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			So what we want to take and learn
		
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			from this hadith
		
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			is what Allah Azzawajal said in the aya
		
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			You'll not be able to conquer the love
		
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			that you have for this dunya
		
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			until you give up what you love from
		
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			it for Allah's sake.
		
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			Right? You're not gonna be able to conquer
		
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			the love that the hold that this world
		
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			has
		
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			on you. You will not be able to
		
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			defeat it until you spend from what you
		
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			love and give that to Allah Azza wa
		
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			Jal. When you start the process and you
		
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			push yourself, they give up
		
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			wealth but not only that,
		
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			time
		
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			as well,
		
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			body
		
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			as well,
		
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			your thoughts, what you're thinking about as well
		
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			to give that for Allah
		
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			and withdraw that from the dunya,
		
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			only then would you be available to love
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. But if not, the
		
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			dunya will not allow you to love Allah.
		
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			You will continue to struggle.
		
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			Now the path
		
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			is clear.
		
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			What is
		
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			or has remained is for us, insha'Allah, to
		
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			take that and digest it and to at
		
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			least start to take
		
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			small steps towards that end
		
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			because this whole thing
		
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			could seem overwhelming. So what do I do
		
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			then?
		
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			If you decide to be more humble in
		
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			how you dress, how you talk,
		
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			if you decide to be
		
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			more pleasing to Allah in how you spend
		
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			money, I'm not going to spend it on
		
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			haram, I'm not going to be wasteful,
		
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			I'm gonna be more mindful of giving to
		
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			Allah Azza wa Jal to those who need
		
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			it, I'm gonna try to give from what
		
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			I love for Allah's love. If you try
		
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			to institute
		
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			some of these practices,
		
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			even small steps that you take each day
		
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			or each week that you can build on
		
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			with time, that would be progress towards Allah's
		
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			love.
		
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			And if you monitor
		
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			the state of your heart and what you
		
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			love and what is competing
		
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			for your attention, you'll understand from time to
		
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			time, oh, I'm drifting towards the love of
		
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			this thing or to worry about that thing,
		
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			but this is dunya. Does it help me
		
01:14:26 --> 01:14:27
			in the?
		
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			No. It doesn't. Then why am I worried
		
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			about it? Why am I paying attention to
		
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			it? Why shouldn't I refocus my energy, attention,
		
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			money, body, life towards what's gonna last rather
		
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			than the thing that's gonna end and perish.
		
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			So this is the hadith
		
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			and Insha'Allah, let me know if you have
		
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			questions.
		
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			Happy
		
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			to answer them. We still have some time.
		
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			So the question here is it is it
		
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			logical or possible that a Muslim could be
		
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			inconsistent in maintaining the rights of Allah
		
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			but consistent in observing the rights of other
		
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			Muslim people around him? For example, he does
		
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			not pray 5 times
		
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			but he does not wrong the people around
		
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			him. Is it possible?
		
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			Not completely possible.
		
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			This person could have,
		
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			an imbalance in their life. We talked about
		
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			that imbalance before. An imbalance where they're not
		
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			right with Allah
		
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			but they're more
		
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			observant of the rights of people, that they
		
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			try not to hurt so and so, not
		
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			to insult so and so, not to wrong
		
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			them in general,
		
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			but that they would be completely
		
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			right with people,
		
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			that would not be possible
		
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			because those people include
		
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			spouse and children and parents and anyone who's
		
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			around him and you will not be able
		
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			to be fully right with people around you
		
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			unless you have Allah's guidance to support you
		
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			and unless you have patience to be able
		
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			to sustain
		
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			a proper relationship with people. How do you
		
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			know what is right and what is wrong
		
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			with people unless Allah tells you how to
		
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			act?
		
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			Right? That this is right, this is wrong,
		
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			this is halal, this is haram. So for
		
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			him to be absolutely right with people around
		
01:16:31 --> 01:16:31
			him
		
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			though he is not right with Allah Azza
		
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			wa Jal, that is not possible. For him
		
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			to be better with people that he is
		
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			with Allah, yeah, that's possible and in fact
		
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			that's observable,
		
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			right? And that's indicative
		
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			of an imbalance in either understanding Islam or
		
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			understanding life in general.
		
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			So if it's true that we see the
		
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			dunya the way that disbelievers see it, what
		
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			do we need to do
		
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			to break the cycle
		
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			and how to begin?
		
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			Well, you begin by understanding how Allah
		
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			you keep repeating this and teaching it to
		
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			yourself and to your family and to your
		
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			children and
		
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			it's almost
		
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			a daily reminder.
		
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			And if you need a daily reminder and
		
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			all of us need it, it comes through
		
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			Qur'anic recitation
		
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			and
		
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			readings of the hadith of the Prophet alaihis
		
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			salatu wa sallam because you are being bombarded
		
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			daily
		
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			with a viewpoint of the disbelievers.
		
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			As soon as you turn on
		
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			something that brings information whether it's TV, computer,
		
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			your phone, whatever you receive information through,
		
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			the information
		
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			is always comes through the prism or the
		
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			lens of a disbeliever
		
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			and it reflects their view of the dunya,
		
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			not the view the Muslim view of this
		
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			world but
		
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			the disbelievers view of this world.
		
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			So there's always this shift in your mind
		
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			towards what they think and what they believe
		
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			so you need to bring yourself back. How
		
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			do you bring yourself back? You need that
		
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			daily So
		
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			you
		
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			the better equipped you are to see the
		
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			reality of this life and to decipher
		
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			its messages
		
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			to know right from wrong
		
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			and to,
		
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			block the attempts of misinterpreting
		
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			life that comes through that lens or prism
		
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			that I talked about. So this is how
		
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			you begin, Wallahu Alam, and sustain that effort.
		
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			You can celebrate the worldly achievements of your
		
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			children, but it's always good to connect this
		
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			to Allah
		
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			So you won this, you
		
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			succeeded here but who is behind that success?
		
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			Remember to thank Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			and use that achievement, use whatever you have
		
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			learned and earned
		
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			to please Him Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So it's
		
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			not about let me celebrate
		
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			my own glory,
		
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			my own greatness.
		
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			No. Reflect back to Allah.
		
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			Reflect back to how are you going to
		
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			use this now? So you graduated, you have
		
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			a degree. Alhamdulillah.
		
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			Good. Is it going to enable you to
		
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			get a job, to get money and all
		
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			of that? But how are you gonna use
		
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			this to please Allah? That's the question.
		
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			How is this gonna bring you to Allah
		
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			Azza wa Jal? That's how the celebration of
		
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			the dunya does not turn into vanity.
		
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			Right?
		
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			What is best what what best to do
		
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			as parents when we see the competition
		
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			that our children have
		
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			that struggle seeming like he put other matters
		
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			before Allah. So if you see that your
		
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			child or even you see yourself
		
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			putting others before Allah,
		
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			it's the reminders here that matter.
		
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			Don't
		
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			compete for the sake of the duniya for
		
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			the duniya itself
		
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			because you're going to lose all of it
		
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			and then what?
		
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			But if you want to compete to get
		
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			the duniya, make it for Allah Azza wa
		
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			Jal. Be the best in what you're doing
		
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			to please Him Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala so you
		
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			could help others,
		
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			not so that you would be the best.
		
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			Then what are you gonna do with being
		
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			the best?
		
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			What if you are the smartest
		
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			or the wealthiest or the fastest
		
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			or the one who can jump the highest,
		
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			but then what are you going to do
		
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			with this?
		
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			So simply it's just to,
		
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			glorify yourself,
		
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			then all that is wasted.
		
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			All that is wasted.
		
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			But if it is to help other people,
		
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			if you want to compete to help other
		
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			people,
		
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			then your competition matters.
		
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			So redirect
		
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			the cause or the goal of that competition
		
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			and remind them to make it for Allah
		
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			and remind them that the world is
		
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			vanishing soon.
		
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			So don't look at yourself and achievements but
		
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			rather connect it to Allah.
		
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			Anyone present here? Yeah.
		
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			What is a good definition of
		
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			Zuhud?
		
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			So zuhud is
		
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			to renunciation,
		
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			distance from,
		
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			is for you to
		
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			think less of something,
		
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			to think less of something.
		
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			It can be used in the context of
		
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			the dunya or linguistically.
		
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			He does not like it anymore. He thinks
		
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			less of it. He's turning away from it.
		
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			So that's the zud,
		
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			a distance from it because in your eyes,
		
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			it is less.
		
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			Right. So anything so a definition of Zuhd
		
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			could be anything that takes you away from
		
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			Allah Azzawajal is something that you should stay
		
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			away from have Zuhd
		
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			in. So anything also you could also phrase
		
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			it as anything that does not benefit you
		
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			in the akhira
		
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			stay away from it.
		
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			And that is kind of the highest levels
		
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			of Zuhud
		
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			because we can have Zuhud in the, Haram
		
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			obviously, right. That's an obligation.
		
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			You can have zuhud in the mubah.
		
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			Mubah meaning the
		
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			permissible.
		
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			But here anything that does not even benefit
		
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			you in the akhira,
		
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			you have zud in it, that's the highest
		
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			level of zud. Meaning if it benefits brings
		
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			me to Allah,
		
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			I'm for it and with it and next
		
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			to it. If not,
		
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			I don't care about it.
		
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			You would be climbing into different different levels
		
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			in zone.
		
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			No.
		
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			No. I mean,
		
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			it gets political.
		
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			It gets political sometimes.
		
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			For sure. For sure. I mean, they were
		
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			gonna die, they were gonna die anyway. They're
		
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			gonna die anyway.
		
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			May Allah accept, you know, their their death
		
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			and their,
		
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			their deeds.
		
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			So he didn't get the point about the
		
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			shahid,
		
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			why he would like to go back to
		
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			the dunya, to be killed again.
		
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			Because of
		
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			the honor that he sees receiving from Allah
		
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			He receives such an honor.
		
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			Think of it as such a celebration,
		
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			such a such praise,
		
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			such elevation
		
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			that he would wish to see that again.
		
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			And that is we said that is better
		
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			than everything that you see in the dunya.
		
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			Subhan'Allah. I mean, a lot of us in
		
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			the dunya, we would kill
		
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			other people for a portion of this dunya,
		
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			right? What do you think we would do
		
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			if somebody's gonna give us all of this
		
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			dunya?
		
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			Yet all of this duniya to someone who
		
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			had seen the akhirah is nothing,
		
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			right? You know, like, the closest that I
		
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			can give you.
		
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			Have you ever seen
		
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			a really, really good dream?
		
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			Then you when you wake up from that
		
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			dream, you say to myself, Why did I
		
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			wake up? It was such a good dream.
		
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			Like the feeling there could never be reproduced
		
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			in life.
		
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			You got that sometimes?
		
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			Right? And you wish to say to yourself,
		
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			I wish I could go back there. If
		
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			I could go back there, I want to
		
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			stay there. Because the feeling is unmatched to
		
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			anything that you see in the dunya. You
		
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			got that feeling sometimes?
		
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			So you understand how
		
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			people in the next life
		
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			would have such an experience that surpasses your
		
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			experience of that dream many many many times
		
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			that what they feel that the serenity,
		
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			the peace,
		
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			just the joy. And you say come back
		
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			to the dunya. You say what?
		
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			I would never do this. Leave this
		
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			to that. I was struggling, I was unhappy,
		
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			I was depressed,
		
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			but here it's so blissful,
		
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			it's so peaceful.
		
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			Now imagine the shahid saying I would leave
		
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			all of that, to go back to the
		
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			duniya, all of its trouble, to be killed,
		
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			not to live, killed again,
		
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			to be in battle again
		
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			because when I
		
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			am received by Allah Azza wa Jal, owe
		
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			the honor,
		
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			owe the joy, owe the peace.
		
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			I want to see that again.
		
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			That's why.
		
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			Uh-huh,
		
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			you'll be killed again. But Allah says, No,
		
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			you cannot go.
		
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			There's more.
		
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			Tell people what you have done to them
		
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			to do the same or better.
		
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			I don't understand.
		
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			So, I mean, Zuhud as which is the
		
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			question is about levels of Zuhud. You graduate
		
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			in Zuhud as we said.
		
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			So as we said, there is this Zuhud
		
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			in the Haram,
		
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			then Zuhd in the doubtful matters,
		
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			Zuhd
		
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			in the disliked,
		
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			Zuhd in the Mubah, the permissible,
		
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			and then ultimately zuhud in anything that does
		
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			not bring you close to Allah as zuhud.
		
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			So we talked about zuhud in excess of
		
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			Mubah.
		
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			Then it will be zuhud in any Mubah
		
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			anything permissible
		
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			that does not bring you to Allah Azzawjal.
		
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			That is at the level where a person
		
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			would
		
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			sleep for Allah's sake, eat for Allah's sake,
		
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			work for Allah's sake,
		
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			speak for Allah's sake, be quiet for Allah's
		
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			sake. So anything to them that is permissible
		
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			but does not lead to Allah, they don't
		
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			engage in. And anything that they engage in
		
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			is for Allah
		
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			even anything permissible that they do. So they
		
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			marry for Allah's sake, they have children for
		
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			Allah's sake that is the highest level of
		
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			zuhl. So all of their life is for
		
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			Allah and it is distant from anything that
		
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			is away from Muhammad
		
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			Does this apply to other categories
		
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			of other than the killed one? No. Just
		
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			the killed one.
		
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			Just the killed one because it says
		
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			the one who is killed.
		
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			There is this question here that I don't
		
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			fully understand. It says tell people what you
		
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			have done to help them to do the
		
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			same or better,
		
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			not looking for recognition. Does that count as
		
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			glorified? No. I think I understand the question.
		
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			So if you're telling people about the good
		
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			things that you have done in order to
		
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			motivate and inspire them, that's not self glorification.
		
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			That is if the intent is to motivate,
		
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			then Allah rewards you for that intent,
		
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			right? Allahu'a.
		
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			I think InshaAllah we will conclude
		
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			for today, and we'll see you at the
		
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			same time next week.