Aqeel Mahmood – Avoid Superstition

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The importance of Islam in shaping the future is discussed, including the need for people to have the knowledge of Islam to avoid harm and misules. superstitions like "good luck" and "good speech" can lead to happiness and success, but negative emotions like anxiety and fear can also negatively impact our daily lives and relationships with Allah. Going back to the benefits of superstitions in Islam, including wary things that can affect our daily lives and relationships with Allah subhanahu wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa

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			Alhamdulillah, we praise Him, seek His help, and
		
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			seek His forgiveness.
		
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			And we seek refuge in Allah from the
		
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			evil of our souls and from the evil
		
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			of our deeds.
		
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			Whom Allah guides, no one is misguided, and
		
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			whom He misguides, no one is guided.
		
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			And I bear witness that there is no
		
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			god but Allah, alone, no partner.
		
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			And I bear witness that Muhammad is His
		
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			servant and Messenger.
		
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			O you who have believed, fear Allah as
		
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			He should be feared.
		
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			And do not die except as Muslims.
		
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			O you who have believed, fear your Lord
		
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			who created you from one soul, and created
		
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			from it its wife, and spread among them
		
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			many men and women.
		
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			And fear Allah with whom you ask for
		
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			help and mercy.
		
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			Indeed, Allah is ever watching over you.
		
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			O you who have believed, fear Allah and
		
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			say the right words.
		
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			He will correct your deeds and forgive your
		
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			sins.
		
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			And whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger has
		
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			won a great victory.
		
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			Indeed, the truth of the hadith is the
		
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			Book of Allah.
		
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			And the best gift is the gift of
		
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			Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him.
		
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			And he has shared the affairs of its
		
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			innovations.
		
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			And every innovation is an innovation, and every
		
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			innovation is a misguidance.
		
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			And every misguidance is in the Fire.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, brothers and sisters,
		
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			is the one who has knowledge over all
		
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			things.
		
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			And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the
		
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			only one who deserves to be worshipped.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the Qur
		
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			'an, in many places, He speaks about His
		
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			knowledge and His power.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, Verily, it
		
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			is Allah alone who has knowledge of the
		
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			hour.
		
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			And He is the one who sends down
		
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			the rain.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala continues.
		
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			He speaks about His knowledge of the hour.
		
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			He speaks about Him being the only one
		
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			who decides where the rain descends on earth.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, He is
		
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			the one who knows what is in the
		
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			womb.
		
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			And this also includes whether or not this
		
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			person in the womb, before it is born,
		
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			is going to be righteous, if it's going
		
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			to be a sinner, if it's going to
		
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			be from the inhabitants of paradise or hellfire.
		
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			Everything has been written.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, And a
		
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			soul does not know what he's going to
		
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			earn tomorrow.
		
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			This is something which only Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala has knowledge of.
		
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			A person, he may think that he has
		
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			a job which is a permanent job that
		
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			he's going to have for years.
		
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			And then he realizes he's lost his job.
		
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			He may believe and think that his business
		
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			which he owns and he's had for a
		
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			long time is secure and safe.
		
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			And then he realizes that he's going to
		
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			become bankrupt.
		
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			And that he'll have to find other means
		
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			of sustenance.
		
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			All of this, brothers and sisters, is in
		
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			the hands of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			It's knowledge which only Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala himself possesses.
		
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			Allah says, And a soul doesn't know on
		
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			which land he is going to die.
		
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			How many times have we heard or known
		
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			about people we know from our family members
		
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			or friends when they travel somewhere else away
		
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			from the land where they lived and they
		
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			end up passing away as a result of
		
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			an accident or an illness?
		
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			How many times have we heard about people
		
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			coming here from other parts of the world
		
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			just to visit on holiday for a temporary
		
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			amount of time and they end up passing
		
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			away away from home?
		
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			All of this, brothers and sisters, is in
		
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			the hands of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			This is part and parcel of the knowledge
		
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			of Allah.
		
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			And it's one of the reasons, from the
		
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			many reasons, why we have this complete reliance
		
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			and tawakkul upon Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			In other ayat, Allah speaks about His knowledge
		
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			being more than the knowledge of everything else
		
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			put together.
		
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			His knowledge is knowledge which He has of
		
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			things which we can't even see.
		
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			Things which are invisible to us.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, وَعِنْدَهُمَّ فَاتِحُ
		
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			الْغَيْبِ He has the keys to the unseen.
		
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			He is aware of the unseen.
		
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			He knows what is happening with regards to
		
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			the world of the angels and the world
		
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			of the jinn.
		
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			He knows what's happening in paradise, in hellfire,
		
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			in the deepest and darkest depths of the
		
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			ocean.
		
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			All of these things, brothers and sisters, is
		
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			in the knowledge of Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala.
		
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			وَيَعْلَمُ مَا فِي الْبَرِّ وَالْبَحْرِ He knows what
		
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			is happening on land and He knows what
		
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			is happening in the oceans.
		
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			وَمَا تَسْفُطُ مِنْ وَرَقَةٍ إِلَّا يَعْلَمُهَا And there
		
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			is no leaf that falls except that Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala has knowledge of it.
		
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			Where it's going to fall, how it's going
		
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			to fall, where it's going to land.
		
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			This is the depths and the greatness of
		
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			the knowledge of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And nothing happens except by the permission of
		
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			Allah azza wa jal.
		
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			And this is why, brothers and sisters, our
		
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			reliance should be upon Allah.
		
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			And when we look at the future, it's
		
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			something which nobody knows except Allah.
		
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			And He is the one who has control
		
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			of the future just as He had control
		
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			of the past and He has control of
		
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			the present.
		
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			And so our reliance should be only upon
		
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			Allah.
		
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			In the days of Jahiliyyah and even today,
		
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			there are people who rely on things which
		
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			in fact have no power.
		
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			They're not able to read the future and
		
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			predict the future.
		
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			They don't have any power to cause even
		
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			harm to you.
		
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			Yet people end up having some kind of
		
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			fear or reliance on these things.
		
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			In the days of Jahiliyyah, they would have
		
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			similar superstitions.
		
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			For example, they would rely on animals or
		
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			inanimate objects to dictate what they should do
		
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			in the future.
		
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			Superstitious beliefs.
		
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			For example, they would look up into the
		
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			sky and if they saw a bird, they
		
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			would make decisions about whether or not they
		
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			would travel or do some kind of business
		
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			deal based on which direction the bird flew.
		
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			And if the bird flew right, they would
		
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			make a decision to travel.
		
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			If the bird flew left, they would decide
		
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			not to travel.
		
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			All based on the bird's directions.
		
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			They would, for example, have other superstitions such
		
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			as having things similar to dice.
		
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			And they would roll the dice and whichever
		
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			side faced upwards, that would dictate based on
		
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			whatever was facing upwards, what they should do
		
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			and what they shouldn't do.
		
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			And these superstitions, brothers and sisters, dictated what
		
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			they should do.
		
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			They gave these inanimate objects or even those
		
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			animals powers which they never had.
		
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			And it's something which exists today.
		
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			Superstitions.
		
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			Things which are considered bad luck or good
		
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			luck.
		
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			Good luck charms and bad luck charms.
		
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			For example, a person has a mirror in
		
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			his home.
		
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			And the mirror falls and breaks.
		
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			Certain people think and they assume based on
		
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			their superstitious beliefs that because of the mirror
		
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			breaking in the home, they will now have
		
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			7 years of bad luck.
		
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			This is the belief.
		
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			That the mirror has some kind of ability
		
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			and power to cause you 7 years of
		
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			harm and 7 years of bad luck.
		
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			And no doubt, brothers and sisters, something bad
		
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			will happen to you in those 7 years
		
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			because this is the decree of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala.
		
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			It has nothing to do with mirrors.
		
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			A person is walking down the street and
		
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			he sees a black cat walk in front
		
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			of him.
		
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			And he considers this to be bad luck.
		
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			That it's going to cause harm.
		
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			Or that it has the ability, the potential
		
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			to cause him harm.
		
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			Something bad will happen to him as a
		
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			result of that black cat walking in front
		
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			of him.
		
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			But it's just a cat that maybe saw
		
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			some food on the other side of the
		
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			street.
		
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			And it was just walking across.
		
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			But the person has these superstitious beliefs.
		
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			A person, for example, spills salt on the
		
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			table.
		
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			And they say this is bad luck.
		
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			And even more crazy is they say if
		
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			you pick up the salt and throw it
		
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			over your shoulder, the bad luck is removed.
		
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			It's wiped away.
		
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			It's fine.
		
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			These kinds of superstitions, brothers and sisters, they
		
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			could resort to a person committing shirk.
		
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			Because you're associating partners with Allah by giving
		
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			powers that only Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			has to things which are either inanimate or
		
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			if they do have life, they don't have
		
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			the potential to cause you that kind of
		
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			harm.
		
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			They don't have the ability.
		
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			And so you're ascribing powers that only Allah
		
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			azza wa jal has to things which will
		
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			cause you no harm.
		
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			Irrational types of fears.
		
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			Superstitions.
		
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			A person goes palm reading, for example.
		
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			And the palm reader reads things.
		
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			And as a result of this, the person
		
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			becomes scared because the man said bad things
		
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			are going to happen to you today, or
		
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			this week, or this month.
		
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			And no doubt, bad things happen to everybody.
		
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			Bad things happen to the messenger of Allah
		
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			a.s. But it was as a decree
		
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			from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And it's something which we believe.
		
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			But the believer is always patient and reliant
		
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			upon Allah in all circumstances.
		
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			Moreover, brothers and sisters, when a person has
		
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			these kinds of superstitious beliefs, he ends up
		
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			having irrational fears, stresses, worries, anxieties.
		
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			He starts to become worried.
		
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			He's completely fine.
		
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			He wakes up in the morning happy, content,
		
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			ready for the day.
		
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			Leaves his home.
		
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			Sees a black cat.
		
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			Now it's the worst day of his life.
		
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			He's now anxious and stressed and sad and
		
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			doesn't know what's going to happen.
		
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			Where the harm will come from?
		
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			Even though nothing actually has happened.
		
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			Because he doesn't have reliance upon Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala.
		
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			Other superstitions.
		
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			Good luck charms.
		
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			People think a four-leaf clover will give
		
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			them benefit.
		
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			Other types of good luck and bad luck
		
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			charms and things which people perceive to bring
		
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			them good luck and bad luck.
		
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			These things make a person stressed and anxious.
		
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			He's worried and stressed about things which won't
		
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			benefit him and won't cause him any harm.
		
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			And this is how he ends up living
		
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			his days.
		
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			The believer on the other hand, when he
		
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			has complete reliance upon Allah azza wa jal,
		
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			he doesn't fear those things which he knows
		
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			won't cause him any harm.
		
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			There are no superstitions.
		
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			And this is what the Messenger of Allah
		
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			a.s.w. will tell us.
		
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			There are no evil omens.
		
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			And there are no animal superstitions.
		
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			And then he said, salallahu alayhi wa sallam,
		
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			وَيُعْجِبُنِيَ الْفَأَلُ And fa'al impresses me.
		
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			And the companions they said, Oh Messenger of
		
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			Allah, what is fa'al?
		
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			And the Prophet a.s.w. he said,
		
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			كَلِمَةً طَيِّبَةً Good speech.
		
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			Saying good things to others.
		
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			As opposed to a person assuming bad things
		
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			and thinking bad things, he spreads good by
		
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			saying good things to others.
		
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			Encouraging people to do good things.
		
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			Saying good things.
		
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			Positive remarks.
		
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			Praising people.
		
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			In a manner in which a person will
		
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			be encouraged to do more good things.
		
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			A person is always saying nice things.
		
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			Being kind.
		
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			Showing acts of mercy.
		
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			And Allah a.s.w. speaks about the
		
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			blessings and the benefits of good speech.
		
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			Allah alikens it to a tree.
		
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			أَصْلُهَا ثَابِتُ Its roots are firm.
		
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			وَفَرْعُهَا فِي السَّمَاءِ And its branches are way
		
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			high up in the sky.
		
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			Meaning it's something which will benefit the person
		
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			who is saying it.
		
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			And the benefits are such that a person
		
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			can tell somebody something positive.
		
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			And that person could remember that remark, that
		
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			good speech that he was given and he
		
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			was told for the rest of his life.
		
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			How many times brothers and sisters have we
		
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			been in a circumstance or situation where somebody
		
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			has encouraged us.
		
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			Given us support.
		
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			Said good things.
		
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			In times of difficulty and we never forget
		
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			those people.
		
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			Because it has an effect.
		
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			تُعْتِي أُقُلَهَا كُلَّ حِينٍ Allah says it gives
		
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			its fruits all the time.
		
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			This tree which is good speech, saying good
		
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			things.
		
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			It's always beneficial to the person who says
		
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			them and the person who earns them or
		
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			receives them.
		
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			So brothers and sisters, superstitions in Islam are
		
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			things which we have to be wary of.
		
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			And it's something which can affect our deen.
		
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			And it can affect our connection and relationship
		
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			towards Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And it can affect our daily lives.
		
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			أَقُولُ قَوْلِ هَذَا وَاسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ لِوَلَكُمْ إِنَّهُ هُوَ
		
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			الْغَفُورُ الرَّحِيمُ بسم
		
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			الله الرحمن الرحيم.
		
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			الحمد لله رب العالمين.
		
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			والصلاة والسلام على أشرف الأنبياء والمرسلين.
		
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			نبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين.
		
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			Brothers and sisters, we were speaking about the
		
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			dangers of superstitions.
		
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			And having superstitious beliefs.
		
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			And how it's something which can affect our
		
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			relationship with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And it's something which affects us on a
		
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			daily basis because a person becomes stressed, anxious
		
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			because he saw something or he heard something
		
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			or he experienced something which he believes will
		
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			cause him harm.
		
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			But in fact all things which happen to
		
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			him are as a result of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala.
		
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			And Allah azza wa jal in the Quran
		
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			speaks about harm which afflicts a person.
		
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			Allah says, وَمَا أَصَابَكُم مِّن مُصِيبَةٍ فَبِمَا كَسَبَتْ
		
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			أَيْدِيكُمْ Whatever harm afflicts you, whatever harm comes
		
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			to you, it's because of what your own
		
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			hands have done.
		
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			It's as a result of your own actions.
		
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			The things you've said to others, the lying
		
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			and the backbiting and the ghiba and the
		
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			slander and the curses.
		
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			It's about things you've said, things you've done,
		
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			the things you've done with your eyes, the
		
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			sins of the eyes, the sins of the
		
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			hands.
		
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			Those sins that you commit, brothers and sisters,
		
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			are a cause for a person having trials
		
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			and tribulations in his life.
		
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			How can a person remove those superstitious, false
		
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			superstitious beliefs from his heart and from his
		
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			mind?
		
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			Number one, brothers and sisters, as we've already
		
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			mentioned, having complete tawakkul in Allah azza wa
		
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			jal.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, وَمَن يَتَوَكَّلْ
		
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			عَلَى اللَّهِ فَهُوَ حَسْبُهُ Whomsoever has tawakkul and
		
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			trust upon Allah, then that is enough for
		
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			him.
		
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			He doesn't need anything else.
		
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			He doesn't need anybody else.
		
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			And the companions were at the forefront of
		
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			having complete reliance upon Allah.
		
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			They would never ask others for things because
		
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			of their reliance upon Allah.
		
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			Their dependency upon Allah was on a different
		
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			level.
		
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			Sometimes the companions would be on their horses
		
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			and their whip would fall from their hands
		
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			and land on the floor.
		
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			And they wouldn't ask anybody who was next
		
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			to them, walking beside them, to pick it
		
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			up for them.
		
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			They would come off their horses and pick
		
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			it up themselves.
		
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			Because they felt like they were dependent on
		
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			others and they could have done those things
		
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			themselves.
		
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			And they were completely dependent upon Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala.
		
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			Number two, brothers and sisters, from the ways
		
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			a person can avoid superstition, is by increasing
		
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			in doing good deeds.
		
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			The scholars, they say, that every time you
		
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			spend in obedience towards Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala, you'll find its blessings and its fruits
		
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			and its rewards.
		
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			And every single time you spend in evil
		
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			and in sin, you're going to taste that
		
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			evil and the consequences of that evil in
		
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			your life, in the future, in one way
		
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			or another.
		
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			So, brothers and sisters, ensuring that a person
		
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			continues and increases in good deeds, especially considering
		
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			the month of Ramadan is almost upon us,
		
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			in a couple of months' time.
		
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			Practicing new good deeds that maybe he hasn't
		
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			done before.
		
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			Getting into the habit of being consistent in
		
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			some good deeds.
		
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			Starting something new from the good deeds established
		
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			in the Quran and Sunnah that he hasn't
		
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			done before, will enable a person to have
		
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			more reliance upon Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And finally, brothers and sisters, making dua.
		
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			The scholars, they would say, الدعاء صلاح المؤمن
		
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			that the dua, the supplication, is the weapon
		
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			of the believer.
		
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			Regardless of which circumstance you may be in,
		
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			what calamities are befalling you, what trials you
		
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			may be going through, even if everybody has
		
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			abandoned you, dua is a weapon which you
		
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			will always have.
		
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			Even if nobody else is with you and
		
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			nobody else is supporting you, Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala will always respond if you supplicate
		
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			to Him.
		
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			This is something which a person always has
		
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			with him.
		
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			And Allah azza wa jal hears and sees
		
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			everything, as we've already mentioned.
		
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			If Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala can see
		
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			everything, can hear everything, knows everything, and knows
		
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			the future, it only makes sense that when
		
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			we rely, we rely only upon Allah.
		
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			And when we supplicate, we supplicate with the
		
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			belief that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has
		
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			the knowledge, the ability, and the power to
		
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			be able to listen and respond to our
		
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			supplications.
		
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			We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that
		
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			He gives us the ability to be able
		
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			to remove any superstitions from our lives and
		
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			from our hearts.
		
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			And that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala increases
		
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			our tawakkul in Him.
		
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			Allahumma salli ala Muhammad wa ala aali Muhammad.
		
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			Kama sallita ala Ibrahim wa ala aali Ibrahim.
		
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			Innaka hamidun majeed.
		
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			Allahumma barik ala Muhammad wa ala aali Muhammad.
		
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			Kama barikta ala Ibrahim wa ala aali Ibrahim.
		
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			Innaka hamidun majeed.
		
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			Allahumma aghfir al muslimin wa al muslimat wa
		
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			al mu'minin wa al mu'minat.
		
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			Al ahya'i minhum wa al amwat.
		
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			Inna Allah ya'murukum bil adli wal ihsan wa
		
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			ita'idil qurba wa ninha'an al fahsha
		
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			'i wa al munkari wa al baghi.
		
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			Ja'idukum la'alakum tadhakarun.
		
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			Wa ladhikru Allahi a'ala wa awla wa
		
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			akbar.
		
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			Wallahu ya'alamu ma tasna'oon.