Aqeel Mahmood – Tafseer of Surah alBalad Part 2

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			So last week we started the tafsir
		

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			of Suratul Barat or the previous lesson and
		

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			inshallah today we're going to be continuing
		

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			and we're going to be
		

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			explaining
		

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			the
		

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			3rd
		

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			and the 4th,
		

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			or the 4th and the 5th ayah of
		

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			Surat Al Balad Insha'Allah.
		

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			But before we go into the tafsir of
		

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			the 3rd 4th ayah,
		

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			just a couple of things with regards to
		

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			the previous ayahs.
		

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			As we mentioned last week, the first few
		

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			ayat, Allah
		

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			is making oath upon oath upon oath. And
		

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			we mentioned many times before that whenever Allah
		

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			is making oaths, he's emphasizing
		

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			what's going to come after. And also the
		

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			things he's making oaths of are things which
		

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			have status, things which have importance,
		

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			things which we should, you know, take lessons
		

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			from and also,
		

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			give them their due importance because Allah
		

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			himself is making oaths with those things. So
		

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			Allah
		

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			in the beginning of this surah, he says,
		

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			that I swear
		

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			by
		

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			this land. And we mentioned that the word
		

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			doesn't mean
		

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			doesn't mean negation even though some other scholars
		

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			did say this, but it means,
		

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			it's an it's a form of emphasis. So
		

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			Allah
		

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			here when he says,
		

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			he's putting emphasis
		

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			on his oath of the land, and the
		

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			land that's referred to here is the land
		

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			of Makkah. Because as we mentioned, this surah
		

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			itself is a Maqi surah. So when Allah
		

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			is making an oath with this land,
		

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			he's referring to the land of Makkah, the
		

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			Haram, the greatest land on the face of
		

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			the earth. And,
		

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			the second ayah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, he
		

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			also makes an oath, and he says,
		

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			and you are a resident of this land.
		

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			And then in the third ayah, Allah subhanahu
		

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			wa ta'ala makes an oath by and
		

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			a father and what he has fathered, what
		

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			you know, the offspring of,
		

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			the father. And what's interesting,
		

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			with regards to these 3 ayaat is that
		

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			in a way, all of these ayaat are
		

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			referring to the land of Makkah. They're referring
		

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			to the Haram of Makkah because Allah
		

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			in the first ayah, he's talking about Al
		

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			Balad, and we said the balad here is
		

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			referring to the land of Makkah. Also, Allah
		

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			in the second ayah, he's referring to
		

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			Makkah, but
		

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			through an individual
		

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			who was from the Quraysh, from the city
		

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			of Makkah itself,
		

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			which is the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
		

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			wa sallam. So he's swearing by,
		

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			the messenger of Allah, alaihi salatu wa sallam,
		

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			who was a resident of that land. And
		

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			this is why Allah
		

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			in the second ayah, he also mentions Al
		

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			Balad again.
		

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			He mentions Al Balad a second time.
		

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			So the first ayah, he mentions
		

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			He mentions the the land again.
		

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			You know, reminding people about the virtues and
		

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			the holiness of the land of Makkah of
		

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			the Haram area. So Allah
		

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			in the second ayah,
		

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			indirectly, it's as if he's also referring to,
		

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			Makkah. Also, the scholars, they say that the
		

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			the the Balad, the land here which is
		

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			being mentioned, meaning Makkah, it's mentioned twice,
		

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			for another reason. And this reason is the
		

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			fact that, in the first ayah, Allah is
		

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			swearing by the sacredness of the land.
		

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			The land of Makkah, the Haram area. In
		

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			the second ayah, Allah
		

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			is saying,
		

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			And we mentioned last, last lesson that Al
		

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			Hil here can also refer to the fact
		

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			that
		

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			some,
		

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			things were made permissible for the prophets and
		

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			messengers that weren't permissible for others. And when
		

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			it came to, the land of Mecca,
		

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			when the messenger of Allah alaihi wasallam returned
		

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			and he conquered Mecca,
		

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			he was allowed
		

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			certain things with regards to the sacredness
		

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			of the land of Mecca. We said before
		

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			that the Haram is called the Haram because
		

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			certain things are forbidden. No blood is allowed
		

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			to be spelt there. No tree is allowed
		

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			to be uprooted. And so because of this,
		

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			that place was sacred. Even the Quraysh knew
		

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			this. But there was a specific few hours,
		

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			a specific amount of time
		

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			after he conquered Makkah that blood was made
		

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			allowed for the messenger of Allah so that
		

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			certain individuals, certain war criminals will be executed
		

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			in the Haram area. And this was something
		

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			which was specifically for the messenger of Allah.
		

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			We mentioned this last week. So, again, it's
		

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			showing us the sacredness of Makkah, the sacredness
		

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			of the land, but also the fact that
		

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			the messenger of Allah SWAWSAWA was given exclusivity
		

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			with specific things that was only allowed for
		

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			him at a specific time, you know, in
		

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			a specific place. So the Haram was made
		

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			halal.
		

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			We said the word halal comes from the
		

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			word halal, same same root word, meanings things
		

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			certain things have been made allowed for you.
		

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			And also the other meaning was the fact
		

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			that you are a resident of that land.
		

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			You belong from that land. You're from that
		

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			place and even though you're from that place,
		

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			they're they're making things,
		

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			they're making things difficult for you. And also
		

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			we said that * here is referring to
		

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			the fact that they made his blood halal.
		

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			So three things here. The fact that you're
		

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			a resident of the land, and also it
		

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			can mean the fact that the disbelievers
		

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			made your blood halal even though they knew
		

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			the sacredness of the city of Mecca.
		

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			The fact that, you know, he he was
		

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			threatened and he was going to be killed
		

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			and that this is why he left Makkah.
		

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			Nobody was giving him protection anymore even though
		

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			they knew the sacredness,
		

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			of of the land and they knew the
		

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			laws, which apply to everyone,
		

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			especially those from Quresh. And also the 3rd
		

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			meaning the fact that certain things were made
		

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			permissible for the messenger of Allah
		

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			So the 3rd ayat in Allah Subhanahu Wa
		

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			Ta'ala, he says,
		

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			and,
		

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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala here, he uses the
		

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			word Walid, but he doesn't use the word
		

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			Al Walid.
		

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			And there's a difference between the two. When
		

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			you say waled, it means a father.
		

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			It's not specific. It's not known. But when
		

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			you say al waled, the father, it's someone
		

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			known. You know, you see he says speak
		

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			to the father. It's someone specific. Speak to
		

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			a father, it can be any father. So
		

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			here, Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, he's saying,
		

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			and this is what the scholars, they say
		

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			that, the the waleed here is general. And
		

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			because it's general, it doesn't refer to someone
		

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			specific, but it's referring to all of,
		

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			you know, all fathers. And some of the
		

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			scholars, they say it refers to Adam alayhis
		

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			salaam. And Walad here, what he fathered, is
		

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			basically the children of Adam, meaning every single
		

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			one of us. But also interestingly, some of
		

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			the scholars, they said it refers to Ibrahim
		

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			alayhis salaam. And of course, Ibrahim alayhi salam
		

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			was the reason why the city of Makkah
		

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			was what it was, because Ibrahim alayhi salam
		

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			was the one who made dua. He's the
		

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			one who supplicated for the city of Makkah.
		

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			Oh, my lord, make this area make this
		

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			land.
		

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			He uses the word balat again. He says
		

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			make this land a land which is secure,
		

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			and he says provide them from it.
		

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			Provide from the land of Makkah itself a
		

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			means of sustenance so that they they're able
		

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			to survive in this land itself. So the
		

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			point is that Ibrahim alayhis salam was the
		

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			reason why this land in of itself was
		

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			was made sacred. It's what was it's why
		

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			it's called Haram in the first place because
		

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			of the dua of Ibrahim alayhi salam. So
		

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			the point is that it's it's as if
		

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			these first three ayaat, all of them, subhanAllah,
		

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			are referring to the land of Makkah, the
		

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			Haram of Makkah. And this again shows us
		

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			the beauty and the eloquence of the speech
		

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			of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and how, you
		

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			know,
		

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			sometimes in some ayat, as we'll see today
		

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			as well, that some ayat, they'll have multiple
		

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			meanings.
		

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			They'll have multiple meanings and this adds to
		

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			the depth and the beauty of the Quran
		

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			itself.
		

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			And also we mentioned
		

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			that generally the the scholars say that Walid
		

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			is referring to Adam and Walid is referring
		

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			to every, the the offspring of Adam alayhis
		

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			salam. And also Ibrahim, alayhis salam, was Abu
		

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			Ambiya.
		

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			He was the father of the prophets.
		

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			So Makkah is Umar Qura, the mother of
		

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			all cities.
		

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			And Abu Ambiya, the father of all the
		

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			prophets, was Ibrahim alaihi salam. So it's another
		

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			beautiful,
		

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			parallel or connection between, these ayaats.
		

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			So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala after he makes
		

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			these oaths,
		

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			then he goes into
		

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			detail with regards to
		

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			the subject of the oath or why Allah
		

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			is making these oaths in the first place.
		

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			And so Allah
		

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			in the 4th ayah, he says,
		

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			that verily we have created man in kabad.
		

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			And the word kabad here, it has multiple
		

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			meanings, and we'll mention all of these meanings
		

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			Insha'Allah.
		

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			Firstly, the scholars, they said the word Kabad
		

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			comes from a word which means uprightness
		

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			or righteousness
		

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			and integrity
		

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			and strength.
		

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			So
		

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			they say with regards to this word, this
		

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			is the first meaning that it means uprightness,
		

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			righteousness,
		

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			integrity, and strength. So Allah
		

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			here is saying that verily we've created man
		

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			in the upper
		

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			an an an an an upright form, a
		

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			good form, the best of forms. Allah
		

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			he says,
		

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			Oh, man, what made you careless about your
		

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			lord who is the most generous?
		

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			The one who created you,
		

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			fashioned you, and
		

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			proportioned you. And Allah
		

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			says
		

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			that verily we have created man in the
		

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			best of forms.
		

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			So this ayah, it's as if Allah
		

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			is reminding us, alphri is talking about the
		

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			best of people, the best of lands,
		

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			and the best of creation, Adam alayhis salam.
		

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			Meaning Adam alayhis salam and all of his
		

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			offspring, the human being. Allah Azzawajal, it's as
		

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			if he's saying we created man in the
		

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			best of forms. The best creation that we
		

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			have is the human being itself.
		

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			So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala here, it's as
		

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			if he's referring to the the the the
		

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			status of the human being and how is
		

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			the best of creation from the creation of
		

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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Also, what's interesting
		

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			is that
		

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			one of the meanings that we mentioned, uprightness,
		

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			righteousness,
		

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			integrity.
		

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			Uprightness meaning he's some he's upright and he's
		

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			straight. He's not, you know,
		

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			one way or another. It's it's it's something
		

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			which is straight. And another meaning of, the
		

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			word kabada
		

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			is
		

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			another another word which comes from this from
		

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			this from this word is the word kabid.
		

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			And the word kabid means liver in the
		

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			Arabic language.
		

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			And,
		

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			in in Arabic, they have a saying or
		

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			they they would say in the Arabic language,
		

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			with regards to the sun, they would say
		

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			that the sun is, fikabi dis summer.
		

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			They would say that the sun is,
		

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			fikabi dis summer. It's in the center of
		

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			the sky. It's in the middle of the
		

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			sky, in the center of the sky, meaning
		

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			it's at the midday point.
		

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			So when the sun is at its highest
		

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			point in the sky, they would call this
		

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			kabidissama.
		

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			And they would call it this because the
		

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			liver itself in the human being, it's not
		

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			right at the top and it's not at
		

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			the bottom, but it's in the middle of
		

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			the human being. And so they would use
		

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			this as an expression. And so when they
		

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			would say kebide sama, that the sun is
		

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			feek kebide sama, it's in the center of
		

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			the sky
		

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			because the the similarities, because the liver itself
		

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			is in the middle of the human body.
		

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			And also they would use this this description
		

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			because when the sun is at its highest
		

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			point, especially in hot countries,
		

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			a person is,
		

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			open to,
		

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			you know, becoming tired. He's he's he's open
		

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			to the elements, and when he goes out,
		

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			he starts to sweat, and he stays inside
		

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			because of the severe heat. So he doesn't
		

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			want to go out. And so they would
		

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			call this kabi this summer,
		

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			because it has a kind of difficulty to
		

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			it. And this brings us on to the
		

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			next meaning,
		

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			which is difficulty and hardship.
		

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			So Allah when
		

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			he says,
		

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			verily we have created man,
		

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			it means we have created man in difficulty
		

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			and in hardship. And the scholars, they talk
		

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			about
		

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			the the origin of the word, and they
		

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			say that,
		

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			the origin of this word comes from an
		

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			illness, which is an illness of the liver
		

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			which causes immense pain.
		

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			So at the same time, it means the
		

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			liver, another meaning, also is an an illness
		

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			which causes immense pain, which comes from the
		

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			same root word that means liver.
		

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			So, you know,
		

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			it it it's something which causes difficulty. It's
		

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			something which causes hardship when a person's in
		

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			pain, especially with this illness of the liver.
		

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			And then after this, it was used for
		

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			any difficulties an individual faces.
		

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			So initially, it was an illness of the
		

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			liver, but then it became an illness or
		

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			or a difficulty which a human being would
		

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			go through, any type of difficulty, any type
		

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			of hardship which a person would go would
		

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			go through. And so it became
		

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			a word which would describe hardships and difficulties.
		

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			And this is why Ibn Umar,
		

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			radiAllahu
		

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			an he would say he would say,
		

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			He would say, gratitude
		

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			is difficult,
		

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			from the word kabada, which means difficult, hard.
		

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			He would say, gratitude is difficult in times
		

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			of ease.
		

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			Gratitude is difficult
		

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			in times of ease. Why is it difficult
		

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			in times of ease? Because the last thing
		

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			you are thinking about is showing thanks and
		

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			being thankful to Allah for the blessings you
		

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			have. Because sometimes when you have everything, when
		

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			things are going well, when things are going
		

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			easy, you don't appreciate what you have and
		

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			you're comfortable, you become attached to the dunya.
		

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			And so you start to think less about
		

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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So he's saying,
		

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			that gratitude becomes difficult in times of ease.
		

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			And then he said,
		

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			that patience is difficult in times of hardship.
		

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			And so this is why the believer, you
		

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			know, when he's when things are going easy
		

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			for him, he's thankful to Allah. He's, you
		

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			know, supplicating to Allah, praying to
		

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			Allah, giving in charity, fasting, reading the Quran,
		

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			you know, because he's thankful. He he's thankful
		

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			to Allah
		

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			for this ease which he has. And even
		

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			at times of difficulty,
		

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			when he's patience, this is his way of
		

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			showing thanks. This is his way of,
		

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			remembering Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		

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			Except for those who advise with the truth
		

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			and they and they advise with patience. Patience
		

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			is a beautiful virtue. Sabrun Jameel, as Yaqub
		

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			alayhi salam said in Surah Yusuf, that's
		

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			beautiful patience is, you know, is is the
		

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			utmost,
		

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			state or is the utmost level of patience
		

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			itself because patience has many different stages. And
		

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			they say the the highest stage of patience
		

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			is sabron jamil, beautiful patience. And beautiful patience
		

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			is when a person is patient without complaining.
		

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			That's the best type of patience because we
		

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			all have some element of patience. But there
		

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			comes a point where we do have we
		

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			have enough, and we just wanna let it
		

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			all out and just complain to someone. Our,
		

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			you know, our spouses or our, you know,
		

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			parents or it might be our close relatives
		

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			or our friends or our boss. You know?
		

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			We always complain.
		

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			So the pinnacle of patience is when a
		

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			person manages to, you know, refrain from complaining
		

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			about things. And this is why Yaqub alayhi
		

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			salam said,
		

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			in Allah, that I only complain about my
		

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			grievances and hardships to Allah
		

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			and my sadness to Allah.
		

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			So when a person is in hardships
		

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			and he has patience, he and he only
		

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			makes dua to Allah and only complains to
		

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			Allah, obviously, in the best of ways, in
		

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			the best of manners, with the best of
		

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			etiquette, then this is the pinnacle. This is
		

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			the the highest point of patience because you
		

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			don't,
		

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			you know, show your impatience to others and
		

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			complain to others, but rather you complain to
		

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			Allah
		

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			himself. And
		

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			from this meaning, the fact that Kabad means
		

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			something which is hard, a difficulty, a hardship,
		

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			it's as if Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is
		

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			saying that every single person
		

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			in this world is going to suffer in
		

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			one way or another. There's going to be
		

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			some element of hardship, some element of difficulty,
		

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			and no individual
		

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			is going to live his life except that
		

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			he's going to suffer from some type of
		

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			hardship,
		

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			even though that hardship might be different from
		

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			person to person.
		

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			You know. And this is why a child,
		

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			an individual when he's a child, even from
		

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			time he's born up till when he's an
		

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			old man, there's stages which he goes through,
		

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			and those stages are stages of difficulty and
		

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			hardship.
		

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			When he when he's born, the first time
		

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			he's born, he's screaming and he shout he's
		

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			screaming and he's crying, you know, and he's
		

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			unable to feed, he's unable to walk, and
		

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			then he starts to teethe. You know, any
		

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			of us who who have kids, you know,
		

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			the the kids start to teethe and they're
		

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			screaming all night and, you know, they don't
		

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			let a person sleep, so they're going through
		

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			hardships. And then they're they're trying to eat
		

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			themselves,
		

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			eat their own food by themselves, they're trying
		

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			to walk, and and it's like difficult for
		

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			them. And then they're trying to speak, and
		

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			then they go to school, and they're trying
		

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			to learn, and then the teenagers, those are
		

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			that's that's a whole separate issue, you know.
		

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			And then when they get older, they're looking
		

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			for job and they're studying,
		

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			you know, they study first, they go to
		

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			school, and that has its own types of
		

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			hardships, and then relationships with, you know, other
		

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			family members and their friends, and then they're
		

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			looking for work, and even at work they
		

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			have hardships and difficulties,
		

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			and then they may have personal problems,
		

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			health problems.
		

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			Every single person, he goes to some type
		

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			of illness, some type of sickness, whether it's
		

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			a severe sickness, whether it's a mild type
		

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			of sickness. You know, sometimes a person, subhanallah,
		

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			and it's by the Qadr of Allah, sometimes
		

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			some people,
		

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			they don't don't have many illnesses. They don't
		

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			become sick that often. I know people, they
		

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			don't become sick, very rarely, masha'Allah.
		

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			They don't become sick. But when they do,
		

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			it's very severe.
		

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			So they'll become sick, you know, and it'll
		

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			be a very, you know, tough sickness for
		

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			them for a few days, 3 or 4
		

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			or 5 days or maybe a week, and
		

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			then they're better again. Sometimes some people, they
		

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			don't have to go to the doctors every
		

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			few months or every few weeks. You know,
		

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			maybe it's, every few years that they end
		

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			up going to the doctor.
		

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			They hardly ever see the doctor. They go
		

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			to the doctor and their files are, like,
		

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			really thin because they never go. Whereas other
		

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			people, they have to go every few weeks,
		

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			maybe every few months.
		

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			And so this is the way Allah
		

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			has, you know,
		

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			has
		

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			distributed
		

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			hardships among the the slaves of Allah
		

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			And also a person, for example, mentally, he
		

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			may be going through other types of anxiety
		

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			and stress and pressure.
		

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			And even when we look at people from
		

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			different places,
		

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			you know, people who are in first world
		

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			countries, they have their own sets of problems.
		

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			People who are in, you know, 3rd world
		

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			countries, they also have their own sets of
		

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			problems, but their problems nevertheless for those people
		

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			who are going through them. And a person,
		

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			for example, in this country, he may be
		

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			stressed stressed out because, you know, he doesn't
		

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			know what car to buy, for example, or
		

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			he doesn't know what house to buy, and
		

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			he's under pressure. He's stressing out. Whereas a
		

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			person in a third world country, he doesn't
		

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			know where he's gonna get the next, you
		

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			know, meal from
		

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			to survive.
		

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			So these are all types of worries. These
		

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			are all types of distress and hardships and
		

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			calamity calamity that that people go through, but
		

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			the type of calamities that we have are
		

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			all different based on the based on based
		

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			on where we come from and based on
		

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			who we are. But at the end of
		

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			the day, those individuals
		

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			who have patience
		

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			and they persevere no matter where you're from,
		

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			then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, as a result
		

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			of that, will expiate one's sins. And this
		

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			is the beauty of,
		

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			you know, the the the the mercy of
		

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			Allah
		

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			and the beauty of Islam. And this is
		

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			why the messenger of Allah, he said that
		

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			there's no hardship, no anxiety,
		

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			no stress, no worry, no sad, no sadness,
		

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			no pain, no no no grief,
		

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			except that a person who experiences it, Allah
		

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			subhanahu wa ta'ala, as a result of this,
		

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			he'll experience some of his sins.
		

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			And so we see the beauty of of
		

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			Islam and that it's a a religion which
		

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			is, you know, worldwide. It's not something specific
		

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			for a specific group of people. No matter
		

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			where you're from, you'll have problems that you're
		

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			going to be going through. But when a
		

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			person remembers Allah has patience, then Allah
		

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			will make things easy for him. And sometimes,
		

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			you know, we think that other individuals aren't
		

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			going through certain hardships.
		

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			They're not going through certain difficulties, but the
		

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			fact of the matter is that every single
		

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			one of us, myself and all of you
		

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			and anyone that we see people on television,
		

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			maybe people who we think are, you know,
		

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			more religious than us, they're also going through
		

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			hardships.
		

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			They go every single one of us goes
		

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			through difficulties and goes through hardships.
		

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			The type of hardships they go through may
		

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			be different from person to person, but every
		

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			single one of us goes through hardships. And
		

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			non Muslims also go through hardships. And this
		

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			is why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the
		

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			Quran,
		

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			he was,
		

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			directed
		

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			his speech towards,
		

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			the companions
		

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			and the messenger of Allah
		

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			and also indirectly towards us when he said,
		

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			don't become weak when you pursue the enemy,
		

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			meaning in terms of battle. When you're at
		

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			war with the non Muslims, don't become weak,
		

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			when you pursue them. And then Allah Subhanahu
		

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			Wa Ta'ala, he said
		

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			that if you feel hardships,
		

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			then surely they also feel hardships just like
		

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			you are feeling hardships.
		

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			You know, sometimes a person, you know, and
		

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			generally speaking is is is when a person
		

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			plays sports or when a person even in
		

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			business, for example, is competing with somebody else
		

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			and he looks at the other person and
		

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			he thinks this person, he seems like he's
		

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			so happy, he seems like he's so comfortable,
		

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			he seems like he's so successful. Look where
		

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			I am. And so he thinks that that
		

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			person isn't going through difficulties like he is,
		

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			but the fact of the matter is that
		

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			every single one of us is going through,
		

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			you know,
		

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			difficult times at one point or another, and
		

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			every single one of us has, you know,
		

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			things which,
		

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			are affecting us. Even though we don't see
		

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			them, you know, all the time or we
		

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			don't see them when we meet that person,
		

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			he doesn't show it.
		

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			So this shows us the fact that every
		

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			single one of us is going through hardships.
		

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			Every single one of us is going through
		

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			some element and some type of difficulty.
		

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			If you're feeling hardships and you're feeling,
		

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			you know, you feel like you're going through
		

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			difficult times,
		

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			then you're they're feeling hardships just like you
		

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			are feeling hardships as well. So this shows
		

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			us the importance of a person,
		

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			you know, always being thankful to Allah Subhanahu
		

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			Wa Ta'ala for whatever he's blessed him with.
		

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			And when a person is thankful to Allah
		

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			Azzawajal,
		

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			then anything which comes his way, it's a
		

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			means of purification for him. And he's not
		

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			thinking about how Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has
		

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			maybe made his life more difficult than another
		

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			person. And so this is the mindset a
		

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			person should have, and it's it's a shame
		

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			that a person doesn't have this type of
		

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			feeling when it comes to acts of worship.
		

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			You know, we saw we see with the
		

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			companions that they would always compete with one
		

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			another.
		

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			And so when they would see someone who
		

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			was worshiping Allah, they would have this jealousy
		

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			for them. And not a bad type of
		

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			jealousy, a good type of jealousy. They would
		

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			they would say to themselves, I wish I
		

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			was able to learn Quran and recite Quran
		

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			like he did. I wish I had a
		

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			good memory and I was able to memorize
		

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			Quran so that I would be able to
		

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			recite like he recites.
		

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			Or I wish I had wealth like this
		

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			individual because he's giving for the sake of
		

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			Allah. And if I had that much money,
		

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			I would give for the sake of Allah
		

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			as well. And so there's this type of,
		

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			you know,
		

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			competitiveness
		

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			in the deen which is allowed. It's something
		

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			which is there's nothing wrong with it because
		

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			you're doing it for the sake of Allah,
		

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			and you're doing it to gain an increase
		

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			in good deeds.
		

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			And all hardships that we experience, as I
		

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			mentioned, they're overcome
		

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			because we're able to bear them. And this
		

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			is why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says
		

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			that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala doesn't burden a
		

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			person more than what he can bear.
		

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			So sometimes, you know, a person thinks why
		

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			did Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala inflict me with
		

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			this problem? But he has to realize that
		

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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala only tests you to
		

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			the to the limit of what you're able
		

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			to bear,
		

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			and he won't test you more than what
		

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			you can bear yourself. And even when we
		

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			think of think back to situations where we
		

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			were tested,
		

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			there were ways and there were methods and
		

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			there was
		

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			there was a way in which we were
		

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			able to overcome those things.
		

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			There was always a way out. There was
		

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			always something that,
		

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			Allah
		

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			showed us, you know, provided for us in
		

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			which we were able to use that as
		

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			a means of
		

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			getting away from that difficulty or resolving that
		

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			issue that we had in the past. And
		

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			this is from the mercy of Allah subhanahu
		

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			wa ta'ala himself.
		

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			Imam al Hassan al Basri, the famous
		

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			Tabi'i
		

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			and the scholars, they say that he was,
		

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			the greatest Tabi'i.
		

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			The greatest Tabi'i, some of the scholars, they
		

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			say he was Imam al Hassan al Basri,
		

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			and other scholars, they say that he was,
		

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			Oway Sul Karni,
		

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			the famous Tabi'i,
		

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			whom the messenger himself
		

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			he mentioned. He said,
		

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			that the greatest Tabi'i is a man whose
		

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			name is Owais Al Karni.
		

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			So they say this man was the greatest
		

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			Tabi'i. He never met the messenger of even
		

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			though he lived during his time, but he
		

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			came to visit him one day and he
		

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			wasn't there. And then he went back because
		

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			his mother was waiting for him, and he
		

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			was obedient to his mother. And he made
		

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			dua to Allah
		

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			after he had some kind of skin disease,
		

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			and Allah
		

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			cured him of this disease. And the scholars,
		

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			they say that, the reason why his dua
		

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			was answered was because of his obedience to
		

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			his mother. And so they say that a
		

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			person who is obedient to his mother, one
		

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			of the ways a person can have his
		

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			dua and supplication responded to is when he
		

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			shows obedience to his parents, and it shows
		

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			obedience
		

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			and, you know, is good to his to
		

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			his parents and good to his mother. So
		

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			the point is that some of the scholars
		

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			said that imam imam al Hassan al Basri
		

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			was the greatest Taabein.
		

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			And other scholars, they said that with regards
		

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			to knowledge, it was imam al Hassan al
		

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			Basri. Al Hassan al Basri was the greatest
		

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			Taabein with regards to knowledge. And others said
		

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			that, and and they said always was
		

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			the greatest with regards to humility.
		

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			With regards to humility,
		

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			he was the greatest.
		

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			So Imam al Hassan Abbasid,
		

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			he,
		

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			mentioned,
		

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			something with regards to difficulty.
		

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			And he said, I don't know any other
		

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			creation of Allah that suffers as much with
		

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			regards to the to his affairs as the
		

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			human being.
		

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			Mean there's no other creature, there's no other
		

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			creation of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that goes
		

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			through as many hardships and difficulties as the
		

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			human being. Mental difficulties, physical difficulties, difficulties with
		

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			his interaction with other individuals from his family
		

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			and friends and relatives and other people.
		

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			So this shows us the the fact that
		

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			the human being, although he's the greatest
		

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			creation of Allah, at the same time,
		

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			he's being tested the most and he goes
		

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			through the most hardships.
		

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			And also,
		

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			others, they also talked about,
		

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			hardships as well, and we'll mention them, later
		

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			Insha'Allah.
		

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			Some also said with regards to this ayah
		

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			this ayah where Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala, he
		

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			said, Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala, said,
		

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			that we have created man, in hardship.
		

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			They said that it refers to one specific
		

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			individual
		

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			during the time of the messenger of Allah,
		

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			And this individual was a man by the
		

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			name of Abu Asht Hussain ibn Uqalada al
		

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			Jamahi.
		

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			Abu Asht Hussain ibn Uqalada.
		

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			And this man, he was an enemy of,
		

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			of Islam and the Muslims in the early
		

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			days,
		

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			and he was known for his immense strength.
		

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			He was someone who was physically very, very
		

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			strong, and he was someone also who was
		

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			blessed with wealth. He was very wealthy, and
		

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			he was very strong. Both of these things.
		

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			You know, sometimes it's one or the other.
		

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			But this person, he had both. And he
		

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			was an enemy, and he had he had
		

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			hatreds towards Islam itself.
		

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			And it said that he asked once he
		

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			asked people
		

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			to challenge he gave them a challenge to
		

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			to to basically show off his strength. So
		

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			he had, like, a leather
		

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			he had a piece of leather, and he
		

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			placed a part of that leather under his
		

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			feet. And he told people that if they
		

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			were able to pull this leather from under
		

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			his feet, he would basically give them lots
		

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			of wealth. He would give them lots of
		

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			money. And so he said that about 10
		

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			people would all of them, they'll try to
		

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			pull this piece of leather from under his
		

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			feet. But all that would happen was the
		

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			leather itself would rip and the leather would
		

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			stay under his feet. He would nobody would
		

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			be able to remove it. And so, again,
		

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			this shows us his huge, you know, size
		

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			as well as well as his strength. The
		

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			fact that he was someone who was who
		

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			had an immense type of strength. So it's
		

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			as if Allah
		

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			is
		

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			referring to,
		

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			this individual
		

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			with this ayah and also the following ayah
		

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			as well,
		

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			and which we'll talk about inshallah.
		

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			Also,
		

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			with regards to the the first three ayat
		

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			we mentioned that Allah
		

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			is talking about the
		

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			the
		

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			the the city of Makkah, the land of
		

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			Makkah, and also the messenger of Allah Subhassalam
		

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			and also Adam, alayhi, salam, and the offspring
		

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			of Adam, alayhi, salam.
		

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			What's the connection between this ayah and the
		

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			first three ayah?
		

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			We created man in hardship and difficulty. What
		

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			does that have to do with the land
		

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			of Makkah? What does it have to do
		

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			with the messenger of Allah SWAW? What does
		

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			it have to do with?
		

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			The the father and what he fathers. What's
		

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			the connection between those things and the fact
		

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			that man was created in difficulty? It could
		

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			be said in Allah knows best that
		

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			uprightness
		

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			that there's uprightness
		

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			and difficulty
		

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			with regards to the land of Mecca,
		

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			with regards
		

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			to Mecca itself.
		

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			How is that so? Because Mecca itself, if
		

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			we took the meaning that Kabat means uprightness,
		

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			There's no other place which is more upright,
		

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			which has more status, which has more,
		

00:31:02 --> 00:31:04

			dignity in the sight of Allah subhanahu wa
		

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			ta'ala. If we're talking about land, then Makkah
		

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			itself,
		

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			then Makkah itself. And also, you know, along
		

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			with a place like Makkah,
		

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			there's also difficulty living there. It's not an
		

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			easy place to live. And I know people
		

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			who who moved from here to to Makkah,
		

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			and they go through so many difficulties and
		

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			so many trials
		

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			just to live there. Because when you go
		

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			to the best place on the face of
		

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			this earth, Allah isn't going to make it
		

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			some somewhere where it's easy for you, to
		

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			live and it's gonna be comfortable for you.
		

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			Allah is going to test you because you're
		

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			claiming the best price, which is, you know,
		

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			moving to a to a to a land
		

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			which is the greatest land on the face
		

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			of this earth.
		

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			So in that sense, you could say that
		

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			Mecca has this connection
		

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			with the ayah which talks about difficulty.
		

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			Also,
		

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			in the second ayah, Allah Azzawadullah is talking
		

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			about the messenger of Allah
		

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			And if we're talking about uprightness, there's no
		

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			human being who was more upright, who was
		

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			more perfect than the messenger of Allah azzawajalahu
		

00:32:01 --> 00:32:02

			wa ta'ala.
		

00:32:03 --> 00:32:05

			You know, Allah azzawajal in many ayaats, he
		

00:32:05 --> 00:32:06

			talks about
		

00:32:07 --> 00:32:09

			that you are from the you have the
		

00:32:09 --> 00:32:10

			best of character.
		

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			You are the best example. So
		

00:32:13 --> 00:32:14

			Allah
		

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			at the same time, he's praising the messenger
		

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			of Allah,
		

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			and also he's talking about the difficulty that
		

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			he was going through in Makkah.
		

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			So it's as if Allah
		

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			is saying, you're going through difficulties in Makkah
		

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			right now. Your blood is made has been
		

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			made halal for this, your blood has been
		

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			made halal.
		

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			Your own people have made your blood halal
		

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			in Makkah itself. So it's as if Allah
		

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			is
		

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			saying,
		

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			but don't worry because every single person
		

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			goes through distress,
		

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			goes through hardship, goes through difficulty. It's not
		

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			something which is new. Prophets and messengers who
		

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			came before you also went through hardship and
		

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			difficulty. People who are going to come after
		

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			you will also go through hardships and difficulty.
		

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			They themselves, the non Muslims are also going
		

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			through hardships and difficulties even though you don't
		

00:33:02 --> 00:33:04

			think so, even though you may think like
		

00:33:04 --> 00:33:06

			this is something which is difficult for you.
		

00:33:06 --> 00:33:07

			And in the 3rd ayah, Allah subhanahu wa
		

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			ta'ala talks about
		

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			the the father and what he fathers, talking
		

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			about how
		

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			an individual
		

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			will be upright if he worships Allah subhanahu
		

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			wa ta'ala. And and and every single individual
		

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			will go through difficulty and hardships
		

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			from the time of Adam alaihi salam
		

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			and to the end of time to the
		

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			last person who ever lives. Every single person
		

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			will go through difficulty and will go through
		

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			hardships in his life, whether it's, you know,
		

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			an issue with wealth or an issue with,
		

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			you know, relationships with others or his health
		

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			or whatever it may be. You know? And
		

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			even if we talk about Adam alaihis salam
		

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			himself, even the first man on the face
		

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			of this earth went through problems.
		

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			You know, he was tested by
		

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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		

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			and Ibrahim alaihi salaam.
		

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			And so if those individuals are being tested,
		

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			then it's only,
		

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			natural that every single one of us after
		

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			them are going to be tested as well.
		

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			So,
		

00:34:03 --> 00:34:06

			that's the connection with this, of of of
		

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			this ayah with the oaths which Allah
		

00:34:09 --> 00:34:12

			makes in the previous ayah. The next ayah,
		

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			ayah number 5, Allah
		

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			he says,
		

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			Does he think that no one has power
		

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			over him?
		

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			And the scholars they say that
		

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			this if we take the opinion that it's
		

00:34:26 --> 00:34:28

			referring to Abu Asht, this specific individual,
		

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			that this is Ayah is specifically referring to
		

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			him.
		

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			Does he think that no one has power
		

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			over him? I mean, does he think that
		

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			he's going to have this wealth and this
		

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			strength and that no one is going to
		

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			be able to, you know, take this power
		

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			and wealth away from him? Meaning every single
		

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			person is under the power of Allah Subhanahu
		

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			Wa Ta'ala. Allah is the one who gives
		

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			life and takes it away.
		

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			In Nahu, who are you he what you
		

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			meet as Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says. He
		

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			gives life and he takes it away. And
		

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			also, from this ayah we learn
		

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			that, you know, when an individual, when a
		

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			human being,
		

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			when he feels weakness
		

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			and then
		

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			he, you know, he he because of this
		

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			weakness, whatever type of weakness may be of
		

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			the body, of the mind, he may be
		

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			feeling distressed, worried, anxious,
		

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			physically weak, whatever the case may be. After
		

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			a while, when he regains the strength which
		

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			he had in the beginning,
		

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			does he not think and reflect
		

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			after he goes through this phase of of
		

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			being strong and then weak and then strong
		

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			again
		

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			that there's something behind all of this, meaning
		

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			he's not doing it by himself.
		

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			There's a entity.
		

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			There's a supreme being. It's Allah who's
		

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			the one who's responsible for that individual,
		

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			for giving him life, for taking it away,
		

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			for giving him strength, and for making him
		

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			weak.
		

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			Does he think that no one has any
		

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			power over him? Does he not reflect?
		

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			Meaning we made a person in distress.
		

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			He's a weak human being.
		

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			And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying,
		

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			does he not realize that we you know,
		

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			he's someone who he had he's weak in
		

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			the sight of Allah, that he no one
		

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			has power over him. Is that what he
		

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			thinks? He thinks no one has power over
		

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			him. Even though it's Allah
		

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			who once he gives
		

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			him once he gives him,
		

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			the once he gives him the strength after
		

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			weakness, even then he denies the existence of
		

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			Allah
		

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			Also, another thing we can learn from this
		

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			ayah
		

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			is that sometimes
		

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			we feel distress,
		

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			subhanAllah, without any external factors.
		

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			Yeah. And if for example, a person will
		

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			wake up one day
		

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			and, you know, they say he wakes up
		

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			on the wrong he woke up on the
		

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			wrong side of the bed. Nothing's happened. He
		

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			slept in the same bed, maybe the same
		

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			number of hours. He's had a, you know,
		

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			a a meal before he went to sleep.
		

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			He woke up at the same time. He
		

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			never had any nightmares or or bad dreams.
		

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			You know, never had any arguments with his
		

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			spouse or with her she never had an
		

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			argument with her spouse, but the morning when
		

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			a person wakes up, something's not right, you
		

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			know. Mentally, there's some kind of anxiety, some
		

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			type of stress, some type of worry. Now
		

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			when we think about this situation that a
		

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			person wakes up and he feels distressed,
		

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			then what makes us think that we're able
		

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			to stop Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		

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			from punishing us and from causing harm to
		

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			us? If we commit sins or when we
		

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			commit sins.
		

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			Yeah. And if things can happen to us,
		

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			if we can start to become worried for
		

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			no reason at all,
		

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			if we can become weak, if we can
		

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			become ill, if we can become sick, if
		

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			things can happen to us, hardships and difficulties,
		

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			you know, illnesses,
		

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			some type of sorrow or sadness, if these
		

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			things can happen to us for no apparent
		

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			reason, then what makes us think that Allah
		

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			subhanahu wa ta'ala
		

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			is not going to punish us
		

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			for things that we actually do.
		

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			You know, that we're not gonna be held
		

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			to account for the consequences of our actions.
		

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			And also this ayah tells us the fact
		

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			that
		

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			this individual,
		

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			the human being, he has no power over
		

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			some things. There are some things he has
		

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			power over, like the things he says, the
		

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			things he does. But ultimately,
		

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			everything is in the hands of Allah subhanahu
		

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			wa ta'ala, and death is something which he
		

00:38:09 --> 00:38:10

			has no control over.
		

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			Natural disasters take place all the time,
		

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			You know, a person, for example, there may
		

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			be a flood, a light lightning may strike
		

00:38:18 --> 00:38:19

			and he may be struck by that light,
		

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			then he may die.
		

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			And this is something he has no control
		

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			over.
		

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			Does he think that no one has power
		

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			over him? A person will be rich one
		

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			day, the next day he'll lose all of
		

00:38:30 --> 00:38:32

			his money, and all without his it's out
		

00:38:32 --> 00:38:33

			of his hands.
		

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			He has no power. He has no control
		

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			over it. So when he becomes ill,
		

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			he becomes sick. He never chose to become
		

00:38:40 --> 00:38:43

			sick. So there are certain things which we
		

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			have no power over, we have to accept
		

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			it. We have to accept that Allah subhanahu
		

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			wa ta'ala is Al Qadeer. He is the
		

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			one in charge of everything, and he is
		

00:38:51 --> 00:38:55

			the one who has predestined everything which will
		

00:38:55 --> 00:38:56

			take place in the future. And this is
		

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			why the individual on the day of judgment,
		

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			he'll complain, and he'll be saying
		

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			that my wealth hasn't benefited me. There was
		

00:39:06 --> 00:39:07

			no benefit in my wealth.
		

00:39:09 --> 00:39:11

			The power that I had, the strength that
		

00:39:11 --> 00:39:12

			I had has gone away from me.
		

00:39:13 --> 00:39:13

			The salatah,
		

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			the the strength that I had. I have
		

00:39:16 --> 00:39:18

			no strength anymore on this day. So Allah
		

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			he is the one yohi what you meet.
		

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			He is the one who gives life. He
		

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			is the one who takes who takes life
		

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			away. And Imam al Hasan al Basri,
		

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			he said that this ayah
		

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			is referring to the power that Allah Subhanahu
		

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			Wa Ta'ala has to take an individual's wealth.
		

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			So
		

00:39:35 --> 00:39:38

			specifically, his wealth. And others like,
		

00:39:39 --> 00:39:41

			he said the power
		

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			to ask about his wealth,
		

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			meaning on the day of judgment. He'll be
		

00:39:45 --> 00:39:47

			asked about specific things.
		

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			Allah That then on that day, you will
		

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			be asked
		

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			about the blessings which you were given. Everything
		

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			that you were given from your wealth and
		

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			everything else, you'll be asked on that day.
		

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			So, you know, the some of the scholars,
		

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			they said this is referring to the the
		

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			fact that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has that
		

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			power to ask an individual on the day
		

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			of judgment what he did with the wealth
		

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			he was given by Allah Azzawajal.
		

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			And also the scholars they said that this
		

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			individual,
		

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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, it's as if he's
		

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			saying that he's proud of how much money
		

00:40:23 --> 00:40:26

			he has and how he spends his money
		

00:40:26 --> 00:40:27

			for whatever he desires.
		

00:40:30 --> 00:40:33

			Does he not think that does he think
		

00:40:33 --> 00:40:34

			that no one has power over him? You
		

00:40:34 --> 00:40:36

			know, he's so proud of the wealth that
		

00:40:36 --> 00:40:39

			he has, he's just spending it on whatever
		

00:40:39 --> 00:40:41

			he desires and whatever he wants. On everything
		

00:40:41 --> 00:40:43

			he desires from the dunya, he's just buying
		

00:40:43 --> 00:40:45

			it and he doesn't seem to care about
		

00:40:45 --> 00:40:46

			the consequences
		

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			of his actions and what he's, you know,
		

00:40:48 --> 00:40:50

			what he's using his money for, for good
		

00:40:50 --> 00:40:52

			or for bad, you know, for for means
		

00:40:52 --> 00:40:55

			of gaining closeness to Allah or a means
		

00:40:55 --> 00:40:57

			of destroying his dunya and also his akhirah.
		

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			And so, Insha'Allah,
		

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			this is,
		

00:41:00 --> 00:41:02

			the tafsirah of these 2 ayaat, the 4th
		

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			and the 5th aya. And next week, we'll
		

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			continue with the tafsirah of Surah Ballard Insha'Allah.
		

00:41:06 --> 00:41:08

			If there's any questions, then I'll do my
		

00:41:08 --> 00:41:09

			best to answer them Insha'Allah.
		

00:41:14 --> 00:41:15

			Okay.
		

00:41:17 --> 00:41:19

			Yeah. Next week, time is going to change.
		

00:41:21 --> 00:41:23

			So I think it's going to be after
		

00:41:23 --> 00:41:24

			Maghrib
		

00:41:24 --> 00:41:26

			because Maghrib will be 7:30. Yeah?
		

00:41:27 --> 00:41:29

			It's going 1 hour ahead. So I think
		

00:41:29 --> 00:41:32

			it'll probably be after after Maghrib.
		

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			Inshallah.
		

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			Okay.