Aqeel Mahmood – Tafseer of Surah alGhashiyah Part 7

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The speaker discusses the benefits of gathering in joins, including avoiding evil speech and wasting time, and emphasizes the importance of praying and giving charity. They also discuss the importance of guidance and being a reminder, as it is linked to the surah Aligh and the importance of showing sincerity to avoid confusion and misunderstandings. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of guidance and showing the right path to avoid confusion and misunderstandings, and provides advice on the importance of giving confidentiality and showing sincerity. The punishment for those who turn away from guidance is not a temporary fix, but a permanent fix. The speaker also discusses the importance of learning from his lessons and reminding individuals of their actions.

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			So today, inshallah, we're going to be concluding
		
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			with the tafsir of Surat Al Ushiah.
		
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			And before we do the tafsir of, the
		
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			remaining ayat of this Surah, Insha'Allah,
		
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			I wanted to touch on some,
		
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			benefits and some that we didn't mention,
		
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			about specific ayat from previous lessons. One of
		
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			those ayat which I wanted to talk about
		
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			was where Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, says in
		
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			the 11th ayah of the Surah Surah Rashia,
		
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			Allah
		
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			says,
		
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			Allah
		
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			says, in it, you won't
		
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			hear any evil talk or any vain talk.
		
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			Now where is
		
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			this going to be? Who can tell me?
		
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			In Jannah, in paradise. So Allah is saying
		
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			in paradise, you won't hear any evil talk,
		
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			you won't hear any bad speech. And the
		
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			scholars, they talk about this ayah, and they
		
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			say this is
		
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			a sign
		
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			that when a person is in a place,
		
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			when he's in the company of people who
		
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			are speaking bad or who who they're saying
		
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			bad things, they're, you know, they're using bad
		
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			language, they're swearing, or they're saying bad things
		
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			about other individuals, they're backbiting, they're gossiping,
		
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			these places and these types of gatherings are
		
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			gatherings which should be avoided.
		
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			Why is this the case?
		
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			Because gatherings
		
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			like this won't exist in Jannah
		
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			because Jannah is void of any type of
		
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			evil, any type of bad things taking place.
		
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			So when somebody is in a gathering where
		
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			bad things are taking place, someone's saying bad
		
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			things, someone's swearing, using, you know,
		
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			wasting their time, vain talk, bad language, evil
		
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			speech, then, of course, this is a place
		
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			where there's there's not gonna be any benefit
		
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			from those gatherings. There's gonna not gonna be
		
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			no barakah, no blessing in those types of
		
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			gatherings. So this is the lesson that we
		
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			can learn from this ayah. Another lesson as
		
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			well from the previous ayah which
		
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			discuss and talk about paradise. So Allah Azzawal,
		
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			he talks about paradise. He talks about the
		
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			blessings of Jannah. He talks about what the
		
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			people will get in paradise.
		
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			There's an, a hadith, an authentic narration
		
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			in Sahih Muslim
		
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			and also in other books of
		
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			a story in which one of the companions,
		
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			he came to the messenger of Allah sallam,
		
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			asking him some questions about Islam.
		
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			And the companion's name, his name was,
		
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			Bwiman.
		
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			And so this companion, he came to the
		
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			messenger of Allah SWS, and the other companions,
		
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			they talk about this incident.
		
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			And they say that,
		
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			during the time of the messenger of Allah
		
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			SWS, we were prohibited from asking
		
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			anything,
		
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			which we thought was maybe
		
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			too forward or maybe we thought it was
		
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			not appropriate to ask the messenger of Allah
		
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			SWALLAM. You know, like, for example, someone has
		
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			a teacher, you're afraid to ask some types
		
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			of questions because you think it's too personal,
		
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			or you think maybe the way in which
		
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			you might ask them, he may be offended
		
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			by how you're asking those questions because of
		
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			the respect you have for them. So here,
		
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			the messenger of Allah sallam, he's in this
		
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			gathering. The companions are saying, sometimes we were
		
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			afraid of asking some types of questions in
		
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			specific ways because we didn't want to upset
		
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			the messenger of Allah sallam himself. And so
		
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			they said that
		
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			at certain points now at times with the
		
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			messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, we
		
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			would like for a person to come from
		
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			the from the desert, a Bedouin,
		
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			so that he could ask questions. We were
		
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			always looking forward to someone coming from the
		
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			desert. Why was this the case? So that
		
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			he could ask certain questions that then their
		
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			companions generally wouldn't normally ask. Okay? So they
		
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			would get a different perspective.
		
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			So they said one day, a Bedouin came,
		
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			and
		
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			we would like someone to come from the
		
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			Bedouins, not just a Bedouin, but someone who
		
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			was intelligent.
		
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			Because sometimes a a person would come from
		
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			the desert, and he wouldn't be smart, he
		
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			wouldn't ask the right questions. So they said,
		
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			whenever a Bedouin would come to the messenger,
		
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			Raul,ahu alaihi salam, and he was someone who
		
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			was smart, someone who was intelligent, we would
		
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			always pay attention because he would ask good
		
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			questions. And so they said a man came
		
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			one day from the desert,
		
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			and he came to the messenger of Allah
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and he said, yeah,
		
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			Muhammad, oh Muhammad sallallam, verily a messenger has
		
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			come to us, meaning someone has come to
		
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			us from our tribe, and he's claiming that
		
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			you claim to be a messenger of Allah.
		
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			And
		
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			the messenger of Allah, he said, yes. This
		
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			is true. And so the companion, he asked
		
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			him a series of questions.
		
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			And so he said,
		
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			He said, who created the sky?
		
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			And in Surah Gah, does Allah does Allah
		
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			talk about the sky?
		
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			Do you not see how the sky has
		
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			been, you know, raised up? So he said,
		
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			did Allah or who created the heaven? Who
		
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			created the sky? And so the messenger of
		
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			Raul al Salam, he said, Allah. And so
		
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			the man again, he asked,
		
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			man who created the earth? And again, the
		
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			next ayah in is
		
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			about the earth. So he said, who created
		
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			the earth? And so the messenger
		
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			said, Allah. And so the man asked another
		
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			question. He said, who erected
		
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			what?
		
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			The mountains.
		
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			So he's asking another question which came up
		
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			in Surah Gashia. So he said, who created
		
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			and erected the mountains and placed them wherever
		
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			they are placed in this earth? And so
		
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			the messenger of Allah, he said,
		
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			Allah
		
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			or he said, the one who created the
		
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			heaven and the earth is the one who
		
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			created these these mountains.
		
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			And so this man, he said again, he
		
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			asked him another question. He said, did Allah
		
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			send you? And so he said, yes. And
		
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			so the man, he said, your messenger claims
		
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			this man who came to us from amongst
		
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			you, who you sent to tell us about
		
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			his plan. He said that your messenger claims
		
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			that we are obligated to pray 5 times
		
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			a day in the in the day and
		
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			in the night. And so the messenger,
		
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			he said, sadaq.
		
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			He spoke the truth. And so again, the
		
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			man asked him, he said, did Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala command you with this? And he
		
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			said, yes. And so he said, your messenger,
		
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			this man who we heard telling us about
		
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			Islam, he said that
		
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			you claim that you have to and you're
		
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			obliged to give charity from our wealth.
		
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			And again, the messenger of Allah, he said
		
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			in the affirmative. And then he asked him
		
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			about what else he's been commanded with. For
		
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			example, the performing of the Hajj. Have you
		
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			been have you been obligated to perform the
		
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			Hajj, to perform the pilgrimage? And he said,
		
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			yes. This is true as well. And so
		
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			he asked him a number of questions. At
		
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			the end of this, he said, by Allah,
		
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			by the one who has sent you the
		
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			truth, I won't add anything to this, and
		
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			I won't take away anything from this.
		
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			Mean meaning everything you've told me, I'm going
		
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			to do just these things. I'm not gonna
		
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			do anything else. I'm gonna pray. I'm gonna
		
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			give zakah. I'm gonna perform Hajjal. I'm gonna
		
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			fast in the month of Ramadan.
		
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			And so he said, I'm not gonna do
		
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			anything more. I'm not gonna do anything less.
		
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			And so the messenger of he
		
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			as he left, he said,
		
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			in that if he spoken the truth, if
		
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			he's going to do what he said he's
		
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			going to do, then for sure he's going
		
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			to enter into paradise.
		
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			So this shows us that the bare minimum
		
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			that a person
		
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			is required to do are these 5 pillars,
		
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			which are mentioned by the messian
		
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			Also, at the at the same time, this
		
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			hadith, it shows us that should a person
		
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			just do these 5 things or these 4
		
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			things, these 5 these 4 pillars?
		
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			No. You should do more. Why should he
		
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			do more?
		
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			To increase his chances of going into paradise.
		
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			Because, of course, it's better when he's looking
		
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			at the questions which he asked. And he's
		
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			saying, I'm gonna take whatever you've asked me
		
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			to do. I'm not gonna do anything more,
		
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			anything less. So this shows us that this
		
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			is the bare minimum. And if a person
		
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			does this properly,
		
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			then, of course, for sure, inshallah, he's going
		
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			to be guaranteed paradise, but there's no clear
		
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			guarantee a person isn't fully sure. He doesn't
		
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			know for sure he's going to enter. You
		
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			know, there may be mistakes with regards to
		
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			his salawat. His Hajj may not be accepted.
		
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			Some fast which he did in the month
		
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			of Ramadan may not may not have been
		
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			done properly, may not have been correct. He
		
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			may have, you know, committed some sins which
		
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			caused those
		
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			fast, for example, not to have been accepted.
		
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			So a person does extra deeds. He does,
		
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			deeds, optional,
		
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			prayers, for example, reciting Quran, doing other good
		
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			deeds so that this individual will have more
		
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			chances of entering into paradise.
		
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			So this is an interesting hadith where this
		
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			individual,
		
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			because
		
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			he accepted Islam,
		
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			it shows us that he mentioned these questions.
		
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			He asked these questions about who created the
		
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			heaven, who created the earth, who created the
		
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			mountains, and Allah
		
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			mentions them in this Surah in
		
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			Last week, we finished at the 11th or
		
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			21st,
		
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			ayah, where
		
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			Allah,
		
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			he says,
		
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			Remind because you are nothing except a reminder.
		
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			You are nothing but a reminder. And this
		
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			ayah comes after specific ayah where Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala, he's talking about paradise and he's
		
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			talking about hellfire. And also he's talking about
		
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			the creation of
		
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			the the dunya and also the creation of
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in general. Now what's
		
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			the link between
		
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			this ayah and the previous ayah? So if
		
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			you look at the previous ayah, the
		
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			he's talking about the creation of the heavens
		
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			and the earth. The creation of the sky,
		
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			the creation of the earth, the creation of
		
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			the mountains, for example.
		
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			So straight after Allah talks about the mountain
		
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			and how the mountains have been installed, how
		
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			they've been fixed, how they've been fixed on
		
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			the earth. Allah says,
		
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			and the earth, how it spread out, how
		
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			it spread out flat on the earth. So
		
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			he says after this,
		
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			remind because you are only a reminder. What's
		
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			the link between this and
		
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			the previous where Allah is talking about the
		
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			creation? Allah is talking about his creation.
		
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			One of the the reasons why Allah says
		
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			this after talking about the the creation of
		
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			Allah
		
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			is because
		
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			the previous ayat
		
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			before Allah talks about the creation, he's talking
		
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			about the heavens and the he's talking about
		
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			the the heavens where a person will be
		
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			admitted into, meaning paradise, and he's talking about
		
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			hellfire.
		
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			Before this, he's talking about those who do
		
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			good and those who do bad.
		
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			Do do you not hear about the overwhelming
		
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			news?
		
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			1 of the names of the day of
		
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			judgement, something which is too much for a
		
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			person to bear. And he's talking about the
		
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			the the punishments and how the state of
		
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			the the disbeliever is going to be on
		
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			the day of judgement. So he's talking about
		
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			the situation of the non Muslims, and then
		
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			he talks about the Muslims. And then he
		
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			talks
		
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			while he after he talks about the disbelievers,
		
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			he talks about hellfire.
		
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			After he talks about the believers, he talks
		
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			about paradise. And then he talks about the
		
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			creation.
		
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			So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			he's reminding the messenger of Allah
		
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			after he talks about how fire and the
		
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			people in how fire and how the person
		
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			is going to be given certain beautiful things
		
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			in paradise.
		
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			He reminds
		
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			the messenger of Allah and also us
		
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			about how he's able to create things in
		
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			this dunya, which a person doesn't know how
		
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			they were created. Meaning the sky, the heavens,
		
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			the earth itself. How did the earth come
		
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			about? You know, a person will ponder and
		
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			he reflect about the things around him. Meaning,
		
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			when a when Allah talks about things in
		
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			paradise,
		
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			a person may question
		
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			those things in paradise. He may think about
		
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			how would the how is that possible? How
		
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			are we going to have couches in paradise?
		
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			How are we going to have these homes,
		
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			rivers in paradise?
		
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			So Allah mentions,
		
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			do they not see and look at the
		
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			the camel itself, how it was created? Meaning,
		
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			you don't have to look and think and
		
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			ponder over the over paradise and how paradise
		
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			was created and the things in paradise.
		
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			All you have to do is look at
		
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			the things in this dunya. You know, look
		
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			at the camel. Look at the sky. Look
		
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			at the earth.
		
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			And even then, if they still don't accept
		
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			you, if they still don't listen to you,
		
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			remind them because you are only a reminder.
		
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			You are only someone who's going to remind
		
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			them. You can't specifically guide them.
		
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			So after Allah talks about the heavens and
		
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			the earth, and Allah talks about, for example,
		
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			paradise and hellfire. Allah is saying to the
		
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			messenger, all
		
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			your job is to your all you have
		
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			to do, your job is simply to convey
		
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			the message. As for whether or not they
		
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			accept or whether or not they believe in
		
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			you or whether they,
		
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			you know, are happy with what you have
		
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			to say. That's something which is between them
		
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			and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. You don't have
		
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			to worry about anything that they do or
		
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			anything that they believe. Whether they believe in
		
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			the paradise and how fire, whether they believe
		
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			in the fact that Allah is the one
		
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			who created everything that we see around us,
		
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			then that's something which is between them and
		
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			Allah. You don't have to worry about that.
		
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			So
		
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			this is why Allah mentions
		
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			Remind because you are nothing but a reminder.
		
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			All you have to do, all your job
		
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			is to is to remind other people. Another
		
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			benefit of this ayah is that there's a
		
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			similar ayah like this in which we mentioned
		
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			at the beginning of the tafsir of this
		
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			surah because it's one of the things which
		
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			link this surah and the surah which comes
		
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			before it, which is Sur al A'la.
		
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			So this ayah is linking between,
		
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			an ayah which is in Sur al A'la.
		
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			Who can tell me what that what that
		
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			specific ayah is?
		
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			In Surah Alah.
		
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			So in this in this Surah Allah says
		
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			remind because you are only a a reminder,
		
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			someone who reminds.
		
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			Allah
		
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			says remind
		
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			because they benefit from the
		
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			reminder. Because the reminder benefits.
		
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			So there's this link between and
		
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			because of these 2 ayaat which are similar.
		
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			Verily the reminder benefits. Remind because the reminder
		
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			benefits. So this is one of the links
		
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			between these two surahs, and it's why this
		
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			surah comes after
		
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			because of the similarities
		
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			in the message and in the the the
		
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			themes and the things which I talked about
		
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			in both of these Surahs. Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala, he says,
		
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			remind because you are only someone who reminds,
		
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			you have no control over them.
		
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			And Allah mentions the word.
		
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			And the word,
		
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			the word in of itself is recited in
		
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			2 ways. Normally, we recite it with a.
		
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			But if we notice in the Quran, for
		
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			example,
		
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			the word itself would have a sin also
		
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			next to it. The sin will have a
		
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			sod. So it'll have both letters on one
		
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			on top of the other.
		
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			And
		
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			another recitation,
		
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			they recite it with a sin, not with
		
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			a sod. So So they don't say but
		
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			they say.
		
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			So it is a slight difference between how
		
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			you pronounce it. But the general meaning is
		
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			similar. So here in this ayah, Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala, he says, lest the be Musaydir.
		
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			Meaning, all your job is to do is
		
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			to remind them. And you have no control
		
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			over them. Meaning
		
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			literally means that you don't have
		
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			the ability to be able to force someone
		
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			to do something. You can't force someone to
		
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			do something specific.
		
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			So the messenger of Allah
		
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			isn't the one who guides.
		
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			He's not the one who is able to
		
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			guide someone to the truth. It's simply Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala who guides whomsoever he wishes.
		
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			What's the famous thing that we hear in
		
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			the?
		
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			Who can tell me?
		
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			Allah mentions in another ayah.
		
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			That whomsoever Allah misguides,
		
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			then there is nobody who is going to
		
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			be able to guide him. If Allah
		
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			decides to misguide somebody, then nobody can guide
		
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			that person. Because at the end of the
		
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			day, it's Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who guides.
		
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			Now what's interesting about this this and
		
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			the issue of guidance being from Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala
		
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			is in the Quran,
		
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			Allah
		
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			alludes to the messenger of Allah
		
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			being the one who guides.
		
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			Allah
		
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			for example he says
		
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			that verily you, oh Muhammad,
		
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			you guide to the straight path.
		
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			But we just said that it's only Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala who guides.
		
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			And also in another ayah, Allah will say,
		
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			you don't guide whomsoever you love. When Abu
		
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			Tari passed away. And he he passed away
		
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			as a non Muslim. Allah says
		
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			you don't guide whomsoever you love but Allah
		
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			guides whomsoever
		
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			he wishes, whomsoever he wants.
		
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			So someone may say this is a contradiction.
		
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			In one eye, Allah is saying, verily, you
		
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			guide to the straight path. In another eye,
		
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			Allah is saying, you don't guide whomsoever you
		
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			love. Allah guides whomsoever he wishes. You don't
		
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			guide those who you love.
		
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			So how do we reconcile between these?
		
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			You can tell me
		
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			how we can reconcile between these.
		
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			One, I Allah is saying, you guide to
		
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			the straight path. Another is saying, you don't
		
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			guide those whom you love.
		
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			Excellent. Good. So because there's a there's different
		
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			types of
		
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			Hidayah,
		
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			there's different types of
		
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			guidance.
		
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			So for example,
		
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			if somebody was lost
		
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			and you were walking down the street and
		
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			somebody parks up next to you and you
		
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			ask for directions to somewhere,
		
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			And so you tell him. Okay. You tell
		
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			him take a take a right at the
		
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			end of this road, take a left at
		
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			the roundabout, a right at the traffic lights,
		
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			go straight down, and you'll find you what
		
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			you're looking for. You'll get to where you
		
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			want to go. You've shown him how to
		
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			get there.
		
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			You've shown him the directions, the way in
		
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			which he needs to go where he wants
		
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			to go. He he knows now his destination.
		
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			Does that mean now he's guaranteed to arrive
		
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			where he's going to arrive
		
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			or where he wants to go?
		
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			It's not guaranteed. You can show him the
		
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			way, but at the end of the day,
		
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			it's up to him to get to where
		
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			he wants to
		
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			go. For him to get to the destination,
		
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			he has to rely on his own efforts
		
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			and also on Allah
		
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			guiding him to where he wants to go.
		
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			Because if he's not up to Allah, maybe
		
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			something might happen on the way. He might
		
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			have an accident, something he might turn around.
		
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			He might, you know, have a phone call
		
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			and the plans might change.
		
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			So ultimately, it's up to Allah whether he
		
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			arrives at the destination. But the message of
		
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			Allah is
		
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			the one who shows people the right path.
		
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			Someone asks us for directions, we show them
		
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			the directions. We tell them the directions. But
		
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			as for them arriving and getting there safe
		
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			and sound, getting there how they want to
		
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			get there in the in the acquired time,
		
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			in the in the, you know, in the
		
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			best time possible, that's up to them.
		
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			And that's up to Allah ultimately. So, likewise,
		
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			there's 2 types of guidance. Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala is the one who ultimately
		
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			guides people
		
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			to paradise. Or
		
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			if he is misguided, then he'll end up
		
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			in in hellfire itself.
		
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			But the issue of directing someone, showing someone,
		
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			differentiating
		
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			between good and bad, you know, someone showing
		
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			someone the difference between what's right and what's
		
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			wrong, distinguishing between what's right and what's wrong,
		
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			someone showing another person good and bad, right
		
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			and wrong, evil and good, then that's that's
		
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			an responsibility
		
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			which we have after the messenger of Allah
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So we show people
		
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			the right path. It's up to them to
		
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			take that path.
		
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			And ultimately, it's Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who
		
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			is the one who is responsible for guiding
		
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			other individuals
		
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			to the straight path itself.
		
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			So there's a difference between the types of
		
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			guidance.
		
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			There's the guidance of the messenger to
		
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			the straight path, and then there's the guidance
		
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			of Allah
		
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			Allah to remain on the straight path. That's
		
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			why we say
		
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			guide us to the straight path because we
		
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			continue to be, you know, guided to the
		
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			straight path because anytime a person can be
		
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			misguided. And, also, a person can be on
		
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			the straight path 1 minute, and he can
		
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			be off it the next day. He can
		
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			end up leaving Islam.
		
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			So ultimate guidance is from Allah.
		
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			Showing the person the way and the straight
		
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			path itself is the messenger of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa sallam's job, and it's our job after
		
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			him to show people the correct path. And
		
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			also at the same time, this doesn't mean
		
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			that a person doesn't give that.
		
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			And if we don't say, for example, that,
		
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			you know, it's Allah. Allah is the one
		
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			who guides. We don't have to tell anybody
		
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			about Islam. You know, if Allah guides a
		
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			person, then he guides a person. Otherwise, it's
		
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			no big deal. You know, that's because at
		
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			the end of the day, Allah is the
		
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			one who's going to guide whether I say
		
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			something or not. Because it's up to us,
		
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			and it's our responsibility
		
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			to give as much as we can, whatever
		
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			is in our ability to do so.
		
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			And this is why, you know, there's many
		
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			narrations which talk about the importance of calling
		
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			people to Islam. Even if it's something small,
		
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			even if it's just one aya that we
		
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			that we know. Even if it's just one
		
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			aya, one hadith that we're aware of, one
		
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			hadith that we know, one ayah that we've
		
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			learned to call people to Islam through that
		
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			specific ayah.
		
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			And also what's interesting
		
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			about this ayah,
		
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			you don't have control over them.
		
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			At the same time, it doesn't mean that
		
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			an individual can use this now as an
		
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			excuse of not being guided to Islam.
		
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			He can't say for example, I wasn't guided
		
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			because Allah never told me, Allah never guided
		
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			me. Because at the end of the day,
		
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			every single one of us, we have the
		
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			ability to be able to distinguish between right
		
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			and wrong. We choose what we want to
		
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			do and what we don't want to do.
		
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			And that's why today, for example, you'll hear
		
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			many people, when we try to advise them,
		
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			you'll hear certain people, they'll say they'll say
		
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			don't judge
		
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			me. This is something common now. You know,
		
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			you try to give advice to someone, and
		
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			they'll say don't judge me. Now
		
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			one of the reasons why a person may
		
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			say this
		
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			is because it's not necessarily their fault, but
		
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			it's our fault in the way we try
		
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			to give that award in the first place.
		
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			You know, sometimes when we speak in a
		
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			harsh way, when we talk to them a
		
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			specific way, we may say you're gonna enter
		
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			hellfire because of what you're doing. You know,
		
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			the way you're behaving,
		
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			you're going to be destroyed.
		
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			And so, of course, this type of attitude
		
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			and the way we talk to a person,
		
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			and, of course, it's not permissible for a
		
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			person to tell someone they're going to enter
		
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			hellfire because this is something which is about
		
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			between him and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Only
		
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			Allah
		
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			has the ability
		
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			and the the power to be able to
		
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			decide who's going to enter hellfire and who's
		
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			going to enter paradise. So in a way,
		
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			sometimes we have to be careful about how
		
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			we give dawah in the first place. Because
		
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			sometimes the way we give dawah, it can
		
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			end up being harsh, and a person may
		
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			end up leaving Islam, or he may end
		
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			up showing animosity towards Islam itself. And he
		
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			may have a dislike for Islam even if
		
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			he was a Muslim, for example.
		
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			So a person needs to have wisdom with
		
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			regards to how he gives dawah. Another interesting
		
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			thing when a person says this is he
		
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			himself
		
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			is contradicting his own words.
		
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			How is he contradicting his own words?
		
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			Because when he's saying don't judge me,
		
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			he's the one who's actually judging.
		
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			If someone if if you advise someone with
		
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			wisdom and you say, brother, you know, you
		
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			should pray 5 times a day, you know,
		
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			and you and you have good
		
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			when you speak to him about this issue,
		
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			and then he replies and says, don't judge
		
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			me,
		
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			Then in fact, he's the one who's judging
		
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			you because you're giving sincere advice.
		
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			So if it's a Muslim you're giving advice
		
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			to and he says something like this, he's
		
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			showing insincerity
		
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			because he's thinking you have a hidden agenda
		
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			or you have the the incorrect intention.
		
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			And, of course, the general
		
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			rule is that a person has good good
		
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			thoughts of another individual.
		
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			You know, a person thinks he means well,
		
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			he means good. So, likewise, you know, when
		
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			a person gives,
		
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			a person should always have sincerity.
		
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			The right reason for why he's giving, why
		
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			he's calling this person to Islam in the
		
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			first place. At the same time, this is
		
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			a reminder for us as well.
		
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			You know, we may not necessarily say don't
		
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			judge me, but sometimes we may have that
		
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			thought in our minds.
		
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			You know, we may say, for example, this
		
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			person is only telling me, you know, giving
		
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			me certain advice because I said something to
		
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			him a few days ago.
		
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			You know, I gave him some advice, and
		
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			now he's thinking he wants to get his
		
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			own back. Because he he saw me not
		
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			doing something I should have been doing. I
		
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			shouldn't I was doing something that I shouldn't
		
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			have been doing or I didn't do something
		
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			which I should have been doing. And so
		
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			now he's advised me because I said something
		
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			to him about doing something which he wasn't
		
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			doing a few days ago.
		
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			And so sometimes it can backfire.
		
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			You know, sometimes we end up being the
		
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			ones who judge. Even though we may not
		
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			we may not necessarily
		
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			say these these words in of themselves, but
		
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			we have that same thought in our minds.
		
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			You know, we're thinking this person just he's
		
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			got ulterior motives. He's saying these things for
		
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			the wrong reasons.
		
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			Again, we have no we we have no
		
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			idea. A person has no idea that that
		
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			was actually his intention.
		
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			But he's only saying this because, you know,
		
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			of the discussion or the conversation he had
		
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			with that person
		
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			previously. Maybe he has certain bad bad ideas
		
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			or bad thoughts of that person.
		
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			So a person, he should have good thoughts
		
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			of another individual.
		
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			And,
		
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			you know, for us, when we're talking about
		
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			Islam, we should have wisdom when we're given
		
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			that one. The word where Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala, he says,
		
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			You are not someone who can force another
		
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			individual
		
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			to do something you have no control over
		
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			them. We said that the word
		
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			means to force someone to do something. And
		
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			how
		
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			as I mentioned,
		
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			the recitation of
		
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			they recited with a sin. Not
		
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			But the meaning itself is more or less
		
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			the same. And also this shows us another
		
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			bit another lesson which is the fact that
		
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			true guidance is from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			Real guidance is only from Allah. Again, we
		
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			go back to
		
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			Surah
		
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			Fatihah.
		
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			Guide us to the straight path, the path
		
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			which you have favored upon them.
		
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			Meaning, the greatest favor which Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala can give someone
		
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			is the favor of being guided to Islam.
		
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			This is why Allah says,
		
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			you
		
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			have blessed them you have blessed them with
		
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			this guidance
		
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			because the greatest thing a person can have
		
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			is guidance to Islam itself.
		
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			And so when we're calling to Islam the
		
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			only thing we can do is call them
		
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			to Islam, give them the give them the
		
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			correct impression, the correct image of Islam. As
		
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			for them accepting the call and worshiping Allah,
		
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			that's between them and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			That's something which they have to do, and
		
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			that's a decision they have to make. Another
		
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			lesson we can learn from this as well
		
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			is that a person shouldn't be upset if
		
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			people don't understand or if people don't listen.
		
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			You know, sometimes we think I've always advised
		
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			my family members. I've always tried to tell
		
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			them about praying or about not doing this
		
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			or doing this. I've always advised my, you
		
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			know, friends or relatives to do these certain
		
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			types of things which a person has to
		
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			do as a Muslim, but they never listen.
		
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			They never do it. And so I'm I'm
		
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			fed up now, and maybe we end we
		
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			end up becoming angry or hostile towards them
		
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			because we don't have the patience. And, of
		
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			course, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala talks about the
		
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			importance of patience when given dawah, you know,
		
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			having sabah. You know, we look at, for
		
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			example, Nuh alaihi salaam, 950 years, he's calling
		
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			people to Islam.
		
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			I know sometimes over a few weeks, over
		
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			a few months, we don't have that patience.
		
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			We stop calling people to Islam. You know,
		
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			we we we maybe abandon people because of
		
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			the fact that they don't listen.
		
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			But you being there, you being in their
		
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			company is still good.
		
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			It's better than you avoiding them and staying
		
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			away from them because there's still some good
		
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			influence.
		
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			Because at least, you know, when
		
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			you're in their presence, they're a bit more
		
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			careful.
		
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			Maybe not so much, but again, it rubs
		
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			it rubs off on them over a long
		
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			period of time. Sometimes longer than, you know,
		
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			than than others.
		
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			And certain people may be stubborn. Certain people
		
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			may it may take longer than other individuals.
		
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			So a person shouldn't be upset if someone
		
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			doesn't listen, if someone doesn't understand something because,
		
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			again, even understanding
		
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			something to do with Islam.
		
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			Even us, for example, if we're studying something,
		
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			if we're learning some ayat in the Quran,
		
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			if we're learning some ahadith, if we're studying
		
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			or something else, and we're having difficulty understanding
		
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			something, even this understanding is from Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			Because for example, you know, we may have
		
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			a class and we may be learning something,
		
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			and there may be 20 people in the
		
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			class, but
		
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			maybe 10 people passed that exam at the
		
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			end of the year.
		
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			Or there might be a class, 15 people
		
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			in that class from one lesson, they understand
		
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			something 5 people don't understand.
		
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			Whereas they were in the exact same classroom,
		
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			and the teacher was the exact exact same
		
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			teacher. The same teacher was teaching them, and
		
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			it was the same period of time. And
		
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			they were all sitting there listening to the
		
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			same words. But some of them understood more
		
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			than others. Why is this the case? How
		
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			is this the case? Because Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala gives some guidance more than others. He
		
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			makes some people understand more than others. And
		
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			this is why the messenger of Allah, he
		
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			made du'a for one of the companions, and
		
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			he said, Allah
		
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			gave him understanding of the religion
		
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			because it's a blessing from Allah. If Allah
		
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			doesn't bless you with something with understanding of
		
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			the religion, with you understanding some ayat or
		
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			memorizing Quran or understanding hadith or understanding how
		
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			to pray or the wisdom behind certain things,
		
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			then you'll never be able to understand. Because
		
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			at the end of the day, Allah is
		
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			the one who gave you that wisdom
		
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			or a lack of wisdom. Allah is the
		
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			one who gave you that knowledge or he's
		
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			the one who prevented you from understanding that
		
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			thing. Also, another benefit from this ayah
		
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			is
		
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			that
		
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			we can't force individuals to do certain things.
		
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			Allah says,
		
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			you have no control over them.
		
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			And so, for example, when we're at work
		
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			or our friends, for example,
		
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			we can't force them to come with us
		
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			to the Masjid to pray or for the
		
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			Jum'ah prayer. You know, we can't force them
		
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			to stop drinking.
		
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			It's up to them at the end of
		
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			the day. We can't force them to stop
		
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			committing zina.
		
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			That's something between them and Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala. All we can do is advise them.
		
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			You know, we can't cause physical harm to
		
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			them in order for them to stop doing
		
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			these things or to do these things specifically.
		
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			At the end of the day, this is
		
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			between them and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Lest
		
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			the alayim be Musaitir. You want someone who
		
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			can force them to do something. You have
		
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			no control over them. All you can do
		
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			is advise them, give them,
		
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			call them to Islam, hope that they will
		
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			worship Allah and leave shirk. But at the
		
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			end of the day, it's not something that
		
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			we have any control over. And this is
		
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			a good lesson for us, especially living here.
		
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			It's something which we have no control over.
		
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			You know, we have only control over our
		
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			own actions and what we can do. We
		
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			do the best with regards to calling people
		
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			to Islam.
		
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			Whether they accept, whether they worship Allah, that's
		
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			something between them and Allah is something that
		
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			they have to deal with in the
		
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			is something we can't really force them to
		
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			do. Also, as I mentioned, guidance is from
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. It's not something that
		
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			we can control. And so if Allah blesses
		
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			them with this guidance, then
		
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			and if Allah doesn't bless them with this
		
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			guidance,
		
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			then in fact it's not something which should
		
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			frustrate us. We shouldn't be upset or angry
		
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			because someone doesn't listen to us.
		
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			Because at the end of the day, it's
		
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			the decree of Allah that Allah decides someone
		
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			is going to worship Allah, someone's going to
		
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			be a believer, or someone's going to be
		
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			a disbeliever.
		
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			So when a person becomes upset and he
		
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			questions, how is it possible that this person
		
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			isn't a Muslim?
		
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			You know, sometimes for example, we see people
		
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			on TV or we hear about certain people
		
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			and they're such good people we think we
		
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			can't believe why they aren't Muslim. They have
		
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			the etiquettes of a Muslim. They have the
		
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			in the manners of a Muslim, the way
		
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			they behave, the way they speak. And we
		
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			think to ourselves, why isn't he a Muslim?
		
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			How is that not possible?
		
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			And sometimes we give that our, you know,
		
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			everyday to someone and they still haven't accepted
		
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			Islam even though we've talked to them, advised
		
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			them over and over again for months and
		
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			even years. And so we sometimes question, how
		
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			is it that they haven't accepted Islam? Because
		
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			ultimately, that's from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And
		
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			if Allah doesn't guide someone, it shouldn't detract
		
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			from our own iman.
		
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			You know, it shouldn't detract from our own
		
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			Islam
		
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			because this is between him and Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala. Allah guides whomsoever he wishes, and
		
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			a person just carries on doing what he's
		
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			doing. And whoever Allah accepts,
		
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			and whoever Allah guides, that's something which Allah
		
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			blesses that person with. As for us, our
		
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			job is to call people to Islam. If
		
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			they accept and
		
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			if they don't accept, then we've done our
		
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			part. And, of course, we still carry on
		
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			and we still try. But at the end
		
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			of the day, guidance, true guidance is only
		
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			from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Then Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala, he says in the 23rd
		
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			ayah. He says, except the one who turns
		
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			away
		
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			and he disbelieves.
		
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			Turns away from what?
		
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			What is this person turning away from?
		
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			Guidance.
		
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			He's turning away from
		
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			specifically in the previous hour. What does Allah
		
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			say?
		
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			2 hours before.
		
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			Remind him because you are only someone who
		
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			reminds. So they're turning away specifically from reminders.
		
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			Okay? Which leads to guidance.
		
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			So ultimately,
		
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			Allah is saying
		
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			except for those who turn away and they
		
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			disbelieve.
		
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			Meaning those who turn away from your reminder
		
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			and those who disbelieve in Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala
		
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			or
		
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			disbelieve in
		
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			the message of the messenger of Allah Ahi
		
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			Rasoolahu Wa Salam, and eventually, as a result
		
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			of this, disbelieving in Allah himself.
		
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			And another lesson we can learn from this
		
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			from this Surah and specifically from this ayah
		
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			and these sets of ayah is the fact
		
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			that
		
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			when a person turns away,
		
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			when a person turns away from
		
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			the remembrance of Allah, When a person avoids
		
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			the remembrance of Allah or he ignores
		
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			guidance itself, he ignores advice which people are
		
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			giving him because at the end of the
		
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			day, we have
		
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			we think a person is guiding us and
		
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			he has the right intention when he's giving
		
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			us
		
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			advice. So when a person avoids this, when
		
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			a person ignores this, when a person doesn't
		
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			listen to advice,
		
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			this turning away from advice can lead to
		
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			what?
		
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			It can lead to disbelief.
		
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			It's a step towards step closer towards someone
		
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			leaving Islam itself.
		
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			Why? Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
		
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			except for the one who turns away and
		
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			disbelieves.
		
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			Meaning if a person starts rejecting, if a
		
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			person starts avoiding reminders which are given to
		
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			him, advice which a person gives to him,
		
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			what's going to happen eventually?
		
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			He's going to start disliking that person.
		
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			He's going to start disliking that advice itself.
		
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			A person will be giving him sincere advice
		
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			about worshiping Allah, about performing their prayers, about
		
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			attending Jum'ah prayer, about unwatching things he shouldn't
		
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			be watching, about, you know, committing zina, you
		
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			know, free mixing, about, for example,
		
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			drinking alcohol. And so when he sees that
		
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			person, when he hears this advice, he becomes
		
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			agitated.
		
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			You know, he doesn't wanna hear that advice
		
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			anymore.
		
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			And so this is a kind of dislike
		
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			for Allah and his messenger and for the
		
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			message of Islam.
		
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			And so this is making a person
		
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			further ways, taking a person further away from
		
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			Islam and closer and closer to kufr and
		
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			disbelief eventually.
		
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			So it's one of the first initial steps
		
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			where a person may end up further down
		
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			the line rejecting Islam itself.
		
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			And so again, it's a it's a lesson
		
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			for us as well when we give dua
		
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			to be soft and be, you know, have
		
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			wisdom, be wise when we give dua and
		
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			when we call people to Islam.
		
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			Then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, he says, for
		
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			you In the previous ayah, Allah says, except
		
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			for those who turn away and disbelieve.
		
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			Meaning, you aren't in control over anybody
		
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			except for those who turn away and disbelieve.
		
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			So does this mean that the messenger of
		
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			Allah is in control of those who disbelieve
		
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			and turn away?
		
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			This doesn't mean that. So what does Allah
		
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			say? Make this exception. What does he say
		
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			except for those who turn away and they
		
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			disbelieve?
		
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			Because the next day Allah says, those individuals
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will punish them with
		
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			the big punishment.
		
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			Meaning Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala here, he's saying
		
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			that you have no control. You remind people
		
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			and all you are is someone who reminds
		
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			and you have no control over them except
		
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			for those who disbelieve, meaning those people, they're
		
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			the exception. What's going to happen to them?
		
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			Allah is singling them out. What's going to
		
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			happen to them?
		
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			They're going to be punished a big huge
		
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			punishment.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in this ayah,
		
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			he's telling us
		
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			the fact that
		
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			in fact when a person
		
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			leaves the remembrance of Allah, when a person
		
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			doesn't remember Allah, when a person doesn't worship
		
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			Allah, when a person
		
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			isn't doesn't have Allah in his mind throughout
		
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			the day on a regular basis with his
		
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			which is salawat and so on and so
		
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			forth,
		
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			remembering Allah
		
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			regularly
		
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			will protect us from what?
		
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			Protect us from his
		
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			punishment.
		
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			Because in the previous ayat, what does Allah
		
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			say?
		
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			Remind because you are only someone who reminds.
		
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			In the previous, what does Allah say?
		
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			Remind because the reminder benefits people,
		
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			which shows us that the person who doesn't
		
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			remind or or the person who doesn't take
		
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			on the reminders, doesn't take on this advice,
		
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			doesn't worship Allah,
		
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			doesn't keep his tongue moist with the remembrance
		
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			of Allah. This person, the opposite is going
		
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			to happen. He won't be protected from Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala and from his punishment.
		
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			Except for the one who turns away from
		
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			the reminder,
		
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			and he disbelieves.
		
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			This person Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will punish
		
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			punish him with a big punishment.
		
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			Meaning those who don't turn away from the
		
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			reminder, those who take on that advice,
		
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			those who take on those, people who give
		
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			them sincere advice, and and, you know, the
		
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			the and the the benefits that that person
		
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			gives them, those people who act upon that
		
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			advice, those people they won't be punished by
		
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			Allah.
		
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			And they'll be safe from the punishment of
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Another lesson from this ayah, Allah says
		
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			That Allah will punish them with
		
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			the big punishment.
		
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			And there's 2 ways a person can interpret
		
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			this. Al Akbar can mean the greater, the
		
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			bigger punishment,
		
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			and it can also mean the greatest punishment,
		
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			the biggest punishment.
		
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			Now the question is if this is the
		
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			biggest punishment,
		
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			then what's the small what are the smaller
		
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			punishments?
		
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			What are the smaller punishments which Allah is
		
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			talking about?
		
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			Because here, Allah is talking about the great
		
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			punishment, the big punishment. What is his punishment
		
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			in the first place?
		
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			Hellfire.
		
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			Jahannam.
		
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			So if Allah is talking about Jahannam here
		
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			as being,
		
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			the big punishment, the great punishment,
		
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			what are the small punishments then in this
		
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			case?
		
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			Punishment in this for
		
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			example.
		
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			Okay. Capital punishment in a Muslim country for
		
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			example.
		
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			Okay. The life being constricted. So for example,
		
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			a person who doesn't live a comfortable life
		
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			in this world.
		
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			These are lesser punishments from Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala. So a person who goes through certain
		
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			types of,
		
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			you know, financial problems.
		
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			Maybe he has health issues.
		
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			Maybe he has family, you know, family problems.
		
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			Maybe for example, he's suffering from other types
		
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			of issues and problems, you know, depression,
		
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			you know, mental issues, mental problems.
		
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			So a person,
		
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			he has lesser punishments in this dunya.
		
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			And for the disbeliever, for the non Muslim,
		
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			any type of difficulty he goes through, it's
		
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			a source of punishment for him.
		
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			He's actually being punished,
		
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			and those punishments are punishments of this dunya.
		
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			And in the he's going to be punished
		
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			with a great punishment of hellfire
		
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			because of his disbelief in Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala.
		
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			Now what about, for example, the one who
		
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			doesn't
		
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			suffer from from any problems in this world?
		
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			You You know, you have disbelievers who are
		
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			living a life of luxury. They're happy. They're
		
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			content.
		
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			What about those people?
		
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			Their their punishment in the hereafter
		
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			will be magnified. It's going to be even
		
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			greater.
		
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			Allah
		
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			talks about this in the Quran that those
		
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			people, their punishment they're not being punished in
		
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			this world. It's not something good for them
		
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			when they've been given these good things. In
		
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			fact, it's something which is evil for them
		
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			because the punishment in the hereafter is going
		
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			to be even greater for them, even worse
		
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			for them. Allah is saving it for the
		
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			hereafter.
		
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			What about the believer, for example, who has
		
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			trials and difficulties in this dunya? Is it
		
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			something good or is it something bad?
		
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			So if a person is going through certain
		
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			difficulties,
		
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			maybe he's going through a hard time, does
		
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			he say these are good things for me?
		
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			Is it you think that okay. Anybody else?
		
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			So it depends.
		
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			So for example, if another individual is going
		
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			through hardship, if a person is going through
		
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			difficult times,
		
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			one of your friends, one of your family
		
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			members,
		
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			something bad is happening to him.
		
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			Then in that case, for that person, what
		
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			do you say? You say Allah is testing
		
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			him.
		
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			He's going through certain he's going through certain
		
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			tests. Allah is, you know, testing him because
		
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			of his strong iman. Allah wants to see
		
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			how he's going to deal with those problems
		
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			that he's facing.
		
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			When certain things are,
		
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			happening in our lives, when we're going through
		
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			certain problems and certain issues in our lives,
		
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			we don't say the same thing. We don't
		
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			say my iman is so strong.
		
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			Allah is testing me with these problems because
		
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			I'm such a good Muslim.
		
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			What do we say?
		
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			We question our iman. We question the sins
		
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			that we committed, which as a result of
		
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			those sins, Allah is now sending down these
		
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			problems.
		
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			So we distinguish.
		
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			Because, of course, when we look at others,
		
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			what should we think of others?
		
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			Muslims,
		
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			we should think good of them. And so
		
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			when they go through a crisis, when when
		
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			they go through a time of difficulty,
		
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			we should say Allah is testing them. We
		
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			shouldn't say Allah is punishing them because he
		
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			did something to me a few days ago.
		
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			He said something bad to me. Because this
		
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			isn't having good thoughts of your Muslim brother.
		
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			When something bad happens to you, what's the
		
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			goal? What's the aim? To always be
		
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			improving and developing and bettering oneself as a
		
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			Muslim.
		
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			So when something happens in our lives, when
		
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			we go through a trial, we should question
		
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			the sins that we've been committing. Think about
		
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			the mistakes we've been making, the bad deeds
		
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			we've been committing, the things that we say,
		
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			you know, our dealings in business,
		
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			how we talk to others,
		
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			you know, how how we're maybe buying things
		
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			we shouldn't be buying. We're involved in certain
		
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			haram transactions. We're involved in reba for example.
		
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			We're selling things we shouldn't be selling. Lying
		
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			on a day to day basis without us
		
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			even realizing.
		
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			And so we should reflect in our own
		
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			sins and we should correct our own, you
		
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			know,
		
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			attitudes, our own actions, our own speech, our
		
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			own behavior, so that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			can relieve these issues for us. And at
		
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			the same time,
		
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			we still also in the back of our
		
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			minds know that these things are going to
		
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			be a a a source of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala relieving some sins from our from
		
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			our, you know, scale of of deeds on
		
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			the day of judgement.
		
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			So
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			will punish those who turn away from his
		
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			remembrance and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as a
		
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			result of this, those who remember him, they'll
		
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			be safe and they'll be protected from the
		
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			punishment of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And then
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he says in the
		
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			25th ayah, he says
		
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			verily to us is their return.
		
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			Meaning, every single creation,
		
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			the from mankind and from the jinn, ultimately,
		
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			they're going to be how to task for
		
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			their actions.
		
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			Everything that we see is something which is
		
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			temporary.
		
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			Nothing is permanent.
		
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			You know, things are going to wear out
		
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			over time. Even structures and buildings and things
		
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			like this. You know, they're not gonna last
		
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			forever.
		
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			You know, you have wonders of the world
		
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			which are which are no more anymore. They
		
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			don't exist anymore.
		
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			Things will never last forever. Human beings never
		
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			last forever. The things that they did, you
		
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			know, maybe in this dunya, it won't be
		
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			remembered for a long time.
		
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			You know, we don't even remember what our
		
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			grandfathers or great grandfathers did.
		
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			We don't record, even though they're family members.
		
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			We don't know what they did. We don't
		
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			know the actions that they did for the
		
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			most part. We don't know how they live
		
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			their life, the good deeds that they did,
		
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			things that they passed on,
		
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			accomplishments that they maybe did.
		
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			So it just goes to show maybe 50
		
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			years from now, 100 years from now, no
		
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			one's gonna be talking about us. They're going
		
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			to be forgotten
		
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			unless we really contributed to Islam
		
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			and the Muslims.
		
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			But other than that, once we die, it's
		
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			something which is temporary. These lives that we
		
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			have, the things, the possessions that that we
		
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			possess, our belongings, our wealth
		
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			is something which is temporary. All of these
		
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			things are temporary.
		
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			The only thing which is for sure is
		
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			that on the day of judgment, we're going
		
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			to be how to account for our actions,
		
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			but nothing is going to last forever. And
		
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			so it's a reminder for every single one
		
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			of us that ultimately everything that we have,
		
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			everything we possess
		
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			is just something that we possess for a
		
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			temporary period of time.
		
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			This wealth that we have, even this wealth
		
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			that we have, it's come from the earth
		
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			itself.
		
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			Once we die, our wealth is going to
		
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			be given to to those who, you know,
		
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			who are from our family members. They're going
		
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			to inherit our wealth. The famous hadith of
		
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			the messenger of Allah,
		
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			that three things will follow the person to
		
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			the grave. 2 of those 3 2 of
		
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			those 3 things will return, one of those
		
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			things will stay.
		
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			His wealth and his family are going to
		
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			return.
		
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			His family are going to go. His past
		
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			maybe they might marry somebody else,
		
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			and his wealth is going to be distributed.
		
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			He's not gonna take his wealth with him
		
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			to the. It's not gonna benefit him. His
		
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			family members are gonna take his wealth. It's
		
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			going to be distributed.
		
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			When they die, that same wealth you had
		
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			that you protected so much, that's going to
		
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			be given from them when they die, from
		
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			your children when they die to their children.
		
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			So really, ultimately,
		
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			you know,
		
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			all these types of things are things which
		
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			are temporary. The only thing which will stay
		
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			is a person's actions. And this is where
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, he said in the
		
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			last eye of this Surah,
		
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			And then upon us is their reckoning.
		
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			We're going to judge over them. We're going
		
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			to decide
		
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			how they live their life, whether they were
		
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			sincere with regards to their actions, and whether
		
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			they're going to enter paradise or the hellfire.
		
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			Allah is
		
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			the final judge, and he's going to, you
		
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			know, judge over all of creation.
		
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			What they did, how they did it, you
		
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			you know, whether they were sincere,
		
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			who they who they harmed, who they abused,
		
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			who they killed, who they cheated,
		
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			who they stole from,
		
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			how many acts of worship did a person
		
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			do, whether he was steadfast with his salawat.
		
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			Because at the end of the day, it's
		
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			only a person's actions which are going to
		
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			stay with that person.
		
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			And this is why a person needs to
		
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			ensure
		
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			that he has some good deeds which carry
		
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			on after him. You know,
		
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			ongoing charity.
		
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			Because at the end of the day, those
		
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			are the only things which are going to
		
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			benefit him.
		
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			And what's interesting about this also
		
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			is the fact that this whole Surah like
		
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			other Surah, it's a conversation between Allah and
		
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			his messenger
		
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			So it's as if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			is telling the messenger of Allah sallam,
		
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			don't worry.
		
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			At the end of the day,
		
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			they're going to return to us. All these
		
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			people who are questioning you, they're doubting your
		
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			message. They're questioning paradise and hellfire, and we
		
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			give them examples of this dunya. Example of
		
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			the the camel. Look at the camel. Look
		
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			at the sky. Look at the earth. Look
		
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			at the mountains.
		
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			We're giving them all of these examples. If
		
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			they still don't believe, then you're just a
		
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			reminder.
		
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			Just someone who reminds them, you don't have
		
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			any control over them. At the end of
		
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			the day, they're going to return to us,
		
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			and we're going to judge
		
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			over
		
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			the decisions and the actions that they did
		
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			in this dunya.
		
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			So subhanallah is like this conversation
		
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			between Allah and the messenger of Allah
		
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			and this really intimate conversation because it's as
		
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			if it's just them 2 who are having
		
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			this conversation.
		
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			And everybody else is just listening, is overlooking
		
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			this conversation.
		
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			And so it's a beautiful,
		
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			Surah just like other Surah in in in
		
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			this in this in Juz in Juz the
		
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			Amma where they were revealed in Mecca when
		
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			there was a lot of hostility
		
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			to the messenger of Allah SWA. A lot
		
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			of,
		
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			attacks on the message of Islam and the
		
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			companions themselves in Mecca.
		
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			And so it's encouraging
		
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			the messenger of Allah
		
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			to continue his call. You can just remind.
		
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			Just keep on reminding Allah will guide whomsoever
		
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			he wants to guide. And, ultimately, whatever harm
		
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			they do or whatever they do in this
		
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			dunya,
		
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			at the end of the day, they're going
		
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			to come back to us, and we're going
		
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			to decide their fate. And when we decide
		
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			their fate, it's going to be permanent. It's
		
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			not going to be temporary like this dunya
		
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			that you're living in right now.
		
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			So it's a beautiful ending to the Surah
		
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			itself. And generally speaking, as we mentioned, many
		
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			of these Surah's in this in this jewels,
		
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			in the last days of the Quran, they
		
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			talk about paradise and hellfire,
		
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			and the day of judgment itself.
		
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			So this is the end of, the tafsir
		
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			of the Surah Surah Gashia.
		
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			Inshallah, we'll continue with the tafsir in 2
		
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			weeks time. Next week, we're going to be,
		
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			as we some as we've done previously,
		
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			we're going to be covering the life of
		
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			one of the Mufasirun, the famous Mufasirun of
		
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			the past. And inshallah, we're going to be
		
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			covering the life of Ikhlima Mola Ibn Abbas.
		
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			He was the servant of Ibn Abbas, the
		
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			famous companion.
		
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			In fact, he was one of the main
		
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			one of the main interpreters of the of
		
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			the Quran. So we'll talk about his life,
		
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			lessons we can learn from his life, and,
		
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			you know, some interesting things about,
		
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			his life itself. He was he was a
		
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			servant
		
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			of Ibn Abbas.
		
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			So it's interesting how, subhanallah, someone who we
		
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			would regard as someone lowly
		
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			has been given such a high status in
		
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			the sight of Allah
		
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			You know, lessons we can learn, benefits, incident
		
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			which took place, stories from his life, and
		
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			maybe something to do maybe something about his,
		
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			the first day of the Quran as well.
		
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			Some things he said about some ayat if
		
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			we have time as well inshallah. So if
		
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			you have any questions, then I'll do my
		
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			best to answer them inshallah.
		
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			Okay.