Ali Hammuda – A Goal Driven Universe – Winter Conference – Leeds 2024

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The importance of Islam's religion, Allah Almighty, is highlighted in driving everyone's ability to achieve their goals. Order and regularity are also important in life, and praying for the creator's mercy is crucial. The importance of praying for the creator's mercy and not devising behavior is emphasized, as it is crucial for achieving one's goals and personal success. The Sun rises and sets repeatedly, causing physical outages and random events, causing harm to the wearer, and leading to random events and failures. The audience is encouraged to pursue their beliefs and goals, as they are the ones who will achieve their dreams and achieve their potential.

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			Alhamdulillah wahdahu wa s-salatu wa s-salamu
		
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			ala man la nabiya ba'dahu wa ala alihi
		
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			wa sahbihi ajma'in.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, I thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			to have this opportunity to stand here before
		
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			you and it's been a year, about a
		
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			year from today we were in the same
		
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			venue and we were discussing similar topics.
		
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			I just pray that from then until now
		
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			a huge amount of growing, learning, repenting and
		
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			adjusting has happened from then until now.
		
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			We ask Allah Almighty to allow us to
		
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			continue to be in a perpetual state of
		
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			growth and planting for that inevitable day.
		
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			Our religion is the most wholesome of them
		
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			all.
		
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			Our religion is Allah Almighty's perfect and chosen
		
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			way of life for all of humanity and
		
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			so naturally and predictably this would be a
		
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			religion that would foster in the lives of
		
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			its adherents the most wholesome and perfect of
		
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			characteristics.
		
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			Characteristics that help them not only become as
		
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			they say today to become the best version
		
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			of yourself but more importantly characteristics that enable
		
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			you and I to attain those highest gardens
		
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			in Jannah and to fast track our ability
		
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			to reach the acceptance of Allah Almighty.
		
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			Is this not our ultimate goal?
		
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			And from those many perfect characteristics that Islam
		
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			wants to inculcate and foster and nurture in
		
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			the hearts of all of us, young and
		
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			old, male and female, is the characteristic that
		
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			focuses and centers on the idea of being
		
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			orderly, of being regulated, of being organized in
		
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			your life, of being a man and woman
		
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			who works towards a specific and noble goal.
		
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			This of course is in contrast to the
		
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			idea of being spontaneous, random, chaotic, taking opportunities
		
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			as they come and just tumbling through life.
		
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			Islam does not want you to live that
		
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			type of life.
		
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			And so allow me my brother my sister
		
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			to take you on a quick tour through
		
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			the universe and into the Quran and into
		
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			the laws of Islam to show you how
		
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			this characteristic of being orderly, of being systematic,
		
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			regulated and driven by a goal as opposed
		
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			to just being random and spontaneous in life.
		
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			This is a theme that runs from the
		
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			universe into the Quran down to the laws
		
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			of Islam and by the end of this
		
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			talk I would have hoped that Allah Almighty
		
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			would have enabled me to put a strong
		
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			case before you to live that type of
		
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			life.
		
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			So let us look at the universe.
		
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			What do you find?
		
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			Allah Almighty He answers and He said He
		
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			is the one to whom belongs the kingdom
		
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			of the heavens and the earth.
		
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			And He has not taken for Himself a
		
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			son.
		
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			And He has no associate in the dominion.
		
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			And He created all things.
		
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			Listen to the tail end of the ayah.
		
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			And He determined it with precise determination.
		
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			He created all of this that He spoke
		
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			about and He said He determined it with
		
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			precise determination.
		
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			Nothing in the universe is random or without
		
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			purpose.
		
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			Take a look into the planets.
		
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			Allah Almighty tells us that the same theme
		
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			of order, of being regulated, systemized, working towards
		
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			a goal even exist in those planets.
		
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			Allah Almighty He said It was never for
		
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			the sun to catch up with the moon.
		
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			And nor would the night ever outstrip the
		
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			day.
		
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			And all of them are floating within a
		
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			precise orbit.
		
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			Order, regulation, systematic movement and working towards a
		
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			goal.
		
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			In fact this theme exists in all of
		
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			creation.
		
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			Allah Almighty said Everything with Him is according
		
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			to due measure.
		
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			La ilaha illa Allah.
		
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			So there's the universe for you and the
		
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			theme is clear.
		
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			I think you see where I'm going with
		
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			this.
		
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			Let us move to the Quran.
		
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			The same theme of orderliness and lack of
		
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			randomness being organized and working towards a goal
		
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			exists in the Quran.
		
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			Allah Almighty He said, praising His book All
		
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			praise belongs to Allah Almighty who revealed the
		
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			book upon His servant and He has made
		
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			in the book no crookedness.
		
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			Perfect, it's orderly, it's organized, it's coherent, it
		
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			works towards building a goal.
		
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			Allah Almighty also said speaking about the Quran
		
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			This is a book the verses of which
		
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			have been perfected.
		
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			And then it was explained in detail by
		
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			a Lord who is wise and knowing.
		
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			So that is the Quran and that is
		
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			the universe.
		
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			A universe and a Quran that is orderly
		
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			regulated and goal-driven.
		
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			Where are we going with all of this?
		
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			I will tell you in a moment.
		
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			Move down to the laws of Islam and
		
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			surprise surprise it's the exact same theme.
		
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			Look into salah.
		
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			Do you just pray when you feel like
		
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			praying?
		
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			The answer is no.
		
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			There are five daily prayers of a specific
		
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			quantity for each that happen at a specific
		
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			time of the day outside of these five
		
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			you pray as you wish.
		
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			The first prayer is Salatul Fajr, the dawn
		
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			prayer.
		
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			It comes in specifically at the break of
		
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			dawn and when the Sun rises the time
		
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			for it has ended.
		
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			It is orderly.
		
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			Then you have the second salah, Salatul Dhuhr,
		
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			the noon prayer.
		
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			That happens when the Sun moves from its
		
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			zenith and that continues until the length of
		
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			shadows is equivalent to the object that is
		
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			standing erect.
		
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			That is the end of the second prayer
		
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			and the beginning now of the third, Salatul
		
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			Asr, according to the majority of the scholars.
		
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			Then when the Sun sets completely, that's the
		
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			end or the beginning of the fourth salah.
		
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			When you come to the removal or the
		
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			disappearance of the red afterglow in the sky,
		
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			that is the end of the time for
		
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			the fourth prayer and this is the beginning
		
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			of Salatul Isha, your fifth prayer.
		
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			It is all organized.
		
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			Nothing is random, nothing is accidental, nothing is
		
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			chaotic.
		
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			That is the deen of Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala.
		
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			What is the message that Allah Almighty is
		
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			sending us?
		
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			And then look at the form of the
		
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			prayer.
		
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			We just prayed Salatul Maghrib.
		
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			What did the Imam say to us just
		
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			before he began salah?
		
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			He said to us, establish your rows, and
		
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			align your shoulders, close the gaps between you,
		
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			and be gentle with the hand of your
		
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			brother who tries to adjust you, and don't
		
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			leave gaps for shaitaan, and whoever connects a
		
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			broken row, Allah will connect him to His
		
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			mercy.
		
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			And whoever breaks a complete row, Allah will
		
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			break him away from His mercy.
		
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			It's all ordered, it's all regulation, it's all
		
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			a systematic process, it's all organized, it's all
		
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			goal-driven.
		
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			Look at Mecca.
		
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			Tens of thousands of people gathered around the
		
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			Kaaba, hustle and bustle, talking and socializing, du
		
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			'a and dhikr Qur'an, and you say
		
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			to yourself, la ilaha illallah, who can gather
		
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			these huge crowds of people?
		
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			And then that mu'adhin says, allahu akbar,
		
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			allahu akbar.
		
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			The second call of the prayer begins, and
		
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			guess what?
		
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			Within just ten seconds, they're all standing in
		
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			lines, organized, praying behind one Imam, and bowing
		
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			and prostrating to one Creator.
		
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			La ilaha illallah.
		
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			Move to your fasting, hajj, or move to
		
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			your fasting, siyam, you find the exact same
		
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			theme.
		
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			You don't eat, you don't drink, you don't
		
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			engage in matrimonial relations, it's very specific things.
		
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			From a specific time, the break of dawn,
		
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			to a specific time, the setting of the
		
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			Sun, you can't deviate from that, because the
		
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			religion is ordered, regulated, organized.
		
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			Look at the Muslims, in their millions, just
		
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			20 seconds before the Sun sets, not a
		
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			brother, not a sister will bring a date
		
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			to their mouth, or lift a cup of
		
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			water to their mouths, until the Sun has
		
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			fully set, because they understand that they have
		
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			subscribed to a religion that is ordered and
		
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			organized, and wants you to live accordingly.
		
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			Hajj, same theme, your pilgrimage.
		
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			You start your tawaf, your circumambulation from the
		
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			Black Stone, not from Ar-Rukn al-Yamani,
		
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			not from Ar-Rukn al-Shami, you start
		
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			from the Black Stone, and you move about
		
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			it seven times, not six, and not eight,
		
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			and then you make your way to Safa
		
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			and Marwa, and you begin to move between
		
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			the mountains.
		
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			You do that seven times, not six, and
		
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			not eight, and you start with Safa, not
		
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			Marwa, and you end with Marwa, not Safa,
		
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			it's organized.
		
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			Nothing left for randomness, nothing chaotic about the
		
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			religion.
		
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			What's the message that Allah Almighty is sending
		
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			us?
		
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			And then when you are doing your hajj
		
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			and you're pelting the stones, how do you
		
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			do it?
		
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			It's in an ordered way.
		
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			You begin with the Sughra, the minor one,
		
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			then al-Wusta, the middle one, then the
		
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			Kubra, the major one.
		
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			There's no deviation from that, because the religion
		
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			is ordered, organized, and goal-driven.
		
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			What is the message that Allah Almighty is
		
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			sending us?
		
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			And then when you look down to the
		
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			roles that are given to prophets and messengers,
		
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			nothing is left to chance.
		
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			There is a role for a prophet, and
		
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			there is a role for a rasool, a
		
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			messenger.
		
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			There is a role for the male in
		
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			life, and there is a role for the
		
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			female.
		
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			There is a role for the man or
		
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			for the husband, and there is a role
		
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			for the mother.
		
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			There is a role for the animals according
		
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			to the Qur'an.
		
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			The Qur'an has given even animals roles,
		
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			nothing is accidental.
		
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			The angels, they don't all play the same
		
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			role.
		
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			Some angels are there to breathe life into
		
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			a fetus when the time is to begin.
		
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			Some angels are there to claim lives when
		
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			the time has ended.
		
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			Some angels are managing the mountains.
		
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			Some angels are managing the weather.
		
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			Some angels manage revelation, wahi.
		
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			Some angels take care of you when you
		
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			are crossing the road.
		
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			Nothing is left to chance.
		
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			La ilaha illallah.
		
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			So there you have it.
		
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			The universe, the Qur'an, the rulings of
		
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			Islam, the roles of the male and female,
		
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			the roles of angels, the roles of animals.
		
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			It's the same thing.
		
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			It's an organized way of life.
		
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			It's a systemized way of life.
		
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			Whether that is the universe, whether that's the
		
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			religion that you subscribe to.
		
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			So now with this we're ready to ask
		
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			the question, is your life and mine defined
		
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			by a similar level of organization, patterns?
		
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			Are our lives driven by goals or are
		
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			we just tumbling through life?
		
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			Be honest.
		
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			Walking through the corridors of existence and just
		
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			hoping that opportunities will open up.
		
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			Come what may, is this how a hereafter
		
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			is established?
		
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			Is this how a house in Jannah is
		
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			built?
		
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			How can we live like this, my brother,
		
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			my sister, when the universe around you is
		
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			a daily reminder and the religion you subscribe
		
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			to is a daily reminder that this is
		
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			not how Allah Almighty wants you to live
		
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			but wants you to be organized and goal
		
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			-driven.
		
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			What is your goal in life as a
		
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			believer?
		
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			What is your 30-year project?
		
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			We cannot be just floating through existence and
		
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			hoping that doors will open and somehow we
		
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			will then earn the highest gardens in Jannah.
		
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			The Quran is evidence against that.
		
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			The skies and the planets are evidence against
		
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			that.
		
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			And I give you three analogies if the
		
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			message is still a little bit vague or
		
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			unclear.
		
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			The first of those analogies.
		
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			Imagine if we were sat on board of
		
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			an aircraft, an airplane, and then we ask
		
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			the captain or the air hostesses, where is
		
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			this aircraft going?
		
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			And then they say, we don't really know.
		
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			Just cruising in the air and we're just
		
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			gonna see where it takes us and where
		
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			we end up landing.
		
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			We're just gonna hope for the best.
		
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			Can you imagine?
		
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			Is that an acceptable answer?
		
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			It would be chaos in the aircraft.
		
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			The reality is that you only jump on
		
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			board of an airplane when you know the
		
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			where and the to and the how and
		
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			the what-ifs and with whom and the
		
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			why's.
		
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			You've answered all of those questions then you
		
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			go on a plane.
		
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			So if this is how we operate and
		
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			this is how we plan and this is
		
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			how organized we are when it comes to
		
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			a worldly journey, how much more organized should
		
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			we be on the way to Allah Almighty
		
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			and the home of the Hereafter?
		
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			What is the goal?
		
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			What is your 30-year project?
		
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			Have you answered those questions my brother, my
		
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			sister?
		
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			The message is still vague and unclear.
		
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			I share with you the second of the
		
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			three analogies.
		
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			And that is, imagine if the universe was
		
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			unorderly.
		
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			Have you thought about that?
		
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			You take it for granted that you're able
		
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			to calculate the exact setting of the Sun
		
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			to the second almost.
		
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			Imagine if it wasn't like that.
		
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			Imagine if the Sun would rise at random
		
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			times and would set at random times and
		
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			you couldn't predict it.
		
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			Could we live our lives like this?
		
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			Imagine, Sun rises on one day for an
		
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			hour, flickers in the sky, and then it
		
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			sets for 23 hours, we're plunged into darkness.
		
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			Then you wait for the next day, you
		
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			have no idea what's gonna happen.
		
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			The Sun rises for 22 hours, scorching heat,
		
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			and then the Sun sets for another two
		
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			hours, your night is just two hours, then
		
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			the Sun rises again.
		
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			Can you imagine the type of physical, biological,
		
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			spiritual damage that it would cause to you
		
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			and I?
		
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			That's untenable.
		
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			Yet a lot of us, when it comes
		
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			to the lives of the hereafter and planning
		
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			for that, that's exactly how it is.
		
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			It's random.
		
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			Our Islamic Sun rises randomly and it sets
		
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			randomly and the damage that you will cause
		
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			there in the hereafter to yourself is no
		
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			less than the damage that we would have
		
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			been caused today if the world was random.
		
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			And I say one last time, if the
		
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			message is still unclear and it is still
		
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			somewhat vague, maybe I will leave you then
		
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			with this last and final analogy.
		
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			This one will be a little bit closer
		
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			to home, one that is a little bit
		
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			more personal to you.
		
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			Imagine with me, you're making your way to
		
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			the funeral and the burial of someone dear
		
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			to you in your life.
		
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			You think who that person is in your
		
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			mind and you've parked up your car and
		
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			it's just dawned upon you that this is
		
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			a reality.
		
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			This person is gone and there's no retrieving
		
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			him or her till the day we meet
		
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			on Yawm al-Qiyamah.
		
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			You come out of your car and it
		
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			is pin drop silence and you make your
		
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			way to the cemetery and you weave between
		
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			the crowds of people who've all come just
		
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			like you to pay their respects and to
		
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			start shoveling the soil over the face of
		
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			the deceased.
		
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			Pin drop silence that is only perhaps punctuated
		
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			with some dhikr of Allah or someone saying
		
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			la ilaha illallah or someone saying subhanallah or
		
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			someone reciting Quran.
		
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			And you look around you and these are
		
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			familiar faces who are grieving, who are weeping,
		
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			who are mourning the very same person whom
		
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			you have come to mourn this afternoon.
		
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			And you cut through the crowds and you
		
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			try to stave off another wave of tears
		
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			desperately and you make your way to the
		
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			hole, to the pit, to the grave and
		
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			you want to just cast one last glance
		
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			at this beloved one just before the shoveling
		
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			begins and you look inside and it's like
		
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			a thunderbolt that has just struck you.
		
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			You look into the face of the deceased
		
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			and you realized that it's you.
		
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			You are the one who has passed away.
		
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			All of these people who have come to
		
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			pay their respects and to do their dua,
		
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			they have come to do it for you.
		
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			And then you look back up and you
		
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			see four men standing at the edge of
		
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			your grave and each one of them has
		
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			a paper and he is about to pay
		
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			respects and speak in your praise.
		
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			One of those four men is a family
		
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			member.
		
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			One of them is a friend, your closest
		
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			associate.
		
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			One of them is a colleague at work.
		
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			The fourth one is somebody from your masjid,
		
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			your local Muslim community.
		
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			I want you to imagine what will they
		
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			say about you.
		
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			You, Abdullah, Khalid, Hamza, Fatima, Suheila, you.
		
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			What would those four individuals say about you?
		
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			What would you wish for them to say
		
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			about you now that you have passed?
		
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			How would you like to be remembered?
		
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			Because their words are going to represent the
		
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			sum total of the effects that you had
		
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			left behind you.
		
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			Your family, your friends, your colleagues at work,
		
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			just as importantly those in your Muslim community
		
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			in the masjid.
		
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			What can they say?
		
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			What will they say?
		
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			Will they be stuttering because there's not much
		
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			to say?
		
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			Will they be scratching their heads to get
		
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			over and done with with this formal formality?
		
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			Will they be struggling to string together a
		
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			coherent sentence because you and I had not
		
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			done much?
		
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			And now that you've passed away, it's like
		
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			nobody has passed away because you didn't really
		
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			leave a mark and an impression behind you.
		
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			Or will they be pouring with emotion and
		
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			passion, not knowing where to start and begin
		
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			because you are a man and woman who
		
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			left a legacy behind you.
		
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			You were the most generous of your family
		
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			members.
		
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			You were the most patient.
		
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			You were the most sincere in your workplace.
		
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			You were the kindest to your neighbor.
		
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			You were the closest and most loyal to
		
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			your friends and advising.
		
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			And you were the most productive Muslim man,
		
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			Muslim woman.
		
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			You are an example in Quran, an example
		
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			in hijab, an example in salah, an example
		
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			in learning the sciences, an example in leading
		
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			a life worth living.
		
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			You had left behind a legacy.
		
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			And so they spill with emotion as they
		
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			sing in your praise.
		
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			In conclusion, my brothers and sisters in Islam,
		
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			don't wait for the ideal circumstances in your
		
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			life to come about, to begin planning for
		
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			your religion, and to organize your life, and
		
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			to live by a goal.
		
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			Don't wait for the opportunity to arise.
		
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			Rather, engineer the circumstances that are required for
		
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			your flourishing and for your success with Allah
		
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			Jalla Jalaluhu.
		
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			Don't be that man or woman who tumbles
		
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			through life and waits for doors to open
		
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			up.
		
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			Be the one who takes command of their
		
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			life and makes the opportunities and opens the
		
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			door, and a person who does things even
		
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			though they feel that they are not yet
		
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			ready for it.
		
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			Build your home in the hereafter and be
		
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			organized when doing so.
		
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			And here is a suggestion as for how
		
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			you can do that.
		
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			Number one, begin with the end in mind.
		
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			Begin by setting the ultimate goal.
		
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			The ultimate goal is to please Allah Almighty
		
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			and enter Jannah.
		
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			We should be in agreement.
		
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			This is our objective.
		
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			Once you've set that goal, move to step
		
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			number two.
		
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			Begin some introspection.
		
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			Ask yourself some tough questions now.
		
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			Grill yourself.
		
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			Who am I?
		
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			What are my skills?
		
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			What are my passions?
		
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			Don't say I don't have any.
		
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			Don't you dare accuse Allah Almighty of not
		
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			giving you the skills needed to enter Jannah.
		
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			Enough of that.
		
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			What are my passions?
		
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			What are my skills?
		
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			What am I good at?
		
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			What was I praised for as a young
		
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			man?
		
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			What did my parents say about me?
		
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			What did my friends say about me?
		
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			What am I?
		
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			What am I not?
		
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			What am I good at?
		
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			What am I not good at?
		
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			What can I be?
		
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			What will I never be?
		
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			Who am I?
		
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			Once you've found the answer to that question,
		
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			move on to phase number three, and that
		
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			is set an Islamic project of some sort
		
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			that will define the rest of your life.
		
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			At least the next 20 or 30 years
		
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			of your life where your sleepless nights, and
		
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			your anxiety, and your worries, and your dua,
		
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			and your spending, and your socializing, your interacting,
		
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			and your networking is all governed and obsessed
		
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			with this idea of living on a project
		
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			that is different to the medic, different to
		
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			the engineer, different to the mother at home,
		
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			different to the taxi driver, different to the
		
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			teacher and educator.
		
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			What is your project?
		
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			What will be the mahr?
		
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			What will be the dowry that you will
		
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			offer Allah Almighty on the Day of Judgment
		
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			to justify your pleas for Jannah?
		
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			These are the people who will be the
		
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			happiest on Yawm al-Qiyamah.
		
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			Those who are ordered, those who are organized,
		
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			those who are driven by a goal.
		
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			These are the men and women whom when
		
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			they pass away, those four individuals will stand,
		
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			and they will sing in their praise, and
		
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			most importantly, when they stand before Allah Almighty,
		
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			Allah Almighty will look at him and her
		
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			and say, for a person like you, and
		
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			an impression that you left behind you, there
		
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			is no home that befits you except Jannah.
		
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			May Allah Almighty allow that to be a
		
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			conversation that we hear on Yawm al-Qiyamah,
		
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			where He, Allah Almighty tells us, there is
		
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			no home suitable for us than Jannah.