Bilal Assad – The Future is Bright

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The importance of learning and educating oneself to avoid becoming in the loss of loved ones in the COVID-19 pandemic is emphasized. The negative impact of social media on people's mental health can lead to the loss of faith. Personal and political arguments are also emphasized. A woman seductionally talks to a man and becomes a slave, becoming a successful sex worker. The importance of learning from past experiences and embracing opportunities to create a better future is emphasized.

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			hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam ala Ashraf al Anbiya II will mursaleen Nabina Muhammad
Ali he was so happy as you mean my brothers and sisters once again said Mr. Li, Kumar Mottola,
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			and today before we start our class in sha Allah, Allah will make it to heart for our brothers and
sisters who are suffering and those were slain and killed in his own Philistine. So say Amin
Allahumma. In nearness, Luca via smell he can husana will suffer the Corolla.
		
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			Allah whom Wajima sham lung theory herb aka or hammer Rafi mean, what will now sit on Muhammad Allah
home yeah, a chromatic Grameen alum fildena Allah doc Syrena will be my father's sofa Mina. Allah
whom, in that I learned was thrown at him with Taco Bell, Doha and hamara Amelia Carmela Grameen,
		
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			Oh Allah, we ask you in your glorious names and lofty attributes to bless and protect and look after
our brothers and sisters, in lizards and Philistine and everywhere else, oh Allah bless them and
have mercy upon their martyrs and accept them among the living with you whom you provide with the
shahada, the martyrs the prophets, and the righteous ones. Oh Allah, give them victory against the
enemy. Oh Allah unite them in goodness love and strength. Oh Allah strengthen their feet of Allah
make their children among the green birds in paradise and make them a wait for them at the fountain
of Rasul Allah is Allah Salam, and make their children awaiting them at the doors of Jannah in which
		
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			they will not enter without their parents and family. I will strengthen them and protect them and
change their fears into security and Aman. Oh Allah be with them. Oh ALLAH forgive our shortcomings.
Oh Allah, you know, our shortcomings and our inability to help more than what we can Oh Allah
strengthen us and allow us to help them in any way that you bless us with Oh Allah, change the state
of this ummah into goodness and change their fears into security and unite that will mean goodness,
love and Amen. Oh Allah assist us and help us and strengthen us and guide us. Meanwhile sal Allahu
Allah, Allah Bina Muhammad while early or Safi as you might my brothers and sisters today in sha
		
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			Allah hooter. Isla, as we remember our brothers and sisters in Western philosophy and all around the
world, will remember the oppressed it is daunting. And of course as the Prophet sallallahu wasallam
said,
		
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			method will not mean a feat our the Mataro homie him committed just ahead, it hashtag commonhold One
da la he said it was just said to me, sorry, we'll have
		
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			the similar tune and the example
		
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			of the believers to one another in their compassion and kindness and mercy to one another is like
one body. If one part of this body is in pain, the rest of the body begins to stay up at night, as
if it is stricken with fever and pain. So we are struggling with fever and pain for our brothers and
sisters and our hearts are with them. Even though our bodies cannot be with them. We make dark for
them. We are vocal to support them and to raise our voices in their defense and in their support. We
work together and we protest and raise our voices. We seek anything that helps them we donate to
them we give our charity to them. We ask Allah Subhana Allah to protect them. We ask Allah subhana
		
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			wa ala for goodness for them and us. Brothers and sisters, even though we are going through this
catastrophe and this sadness,
		
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			the guidance from Allah does not stop
		
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			and our own mother does not halt. And we do not stop learning our deen and our Amen. We don't stop
our prayers. We don't stop our fasting we don't stop I was sada COVID And stop our good work. We
don't stop cultivating our minds and raising our youth and our children. We don't stop teaching each
other and doing work in our communities in that which pleases Allah subhanaw taala and developing
		
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			and growing and learning and reading and educating ourselves. We don't stop that. For the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam whenever he was in battle battle of better Karlovo how battle have
handled any kind of battle, the battle of 100 and which Allah subhanaw taala says we're Bella gotten
colluvial hanergy in that state the believer
		
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			is we're in such a fearful moment. They're in such anxiety and fear. Allah describes this state as
if their hearts had reached their necks. You know, when you're so scared, you feel like your heart
is pumping so hard that says if right here at your neck, you can't even swallow.
		
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			And yet rasool Allah Azza wa sallam was teaching them about the etiquettes of eating and sleeping,
the etiquettes of making will do and what breaks the window and how to make up their Salah while
they were under siege. So brothers and sisters, don't ever think that if we talk about topics of
Deen that we are forgetting our brothers and sisters were Allah Hey, this is where the muscle comes
from. This is a victory comes from Allah says in the Quran, while also in in Santa Fe.
		
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			He levena Manu, I mean all slaw and he heard you know what else I won't be in a help when you're
what else long been solvable? By time that is running out by time that is running out? Surely man is
always in loss, you're losing time you're losing your life, you're losing your age, you're losing
your provision, you are nearing death. And you are in loss if you are just following this world to
accumulate from it and that's it, you're losing because everything you accumulate is going to go in
the end you're going to die and leave it all behind even your children, your family, yourself
everything you are in loss, living in this life by virtue of it, it is losing out the world is
		
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			ending you are ending you and I is ending. If the material world is our gain, you are in loss
because nothing lasts except to us. Well, so I said I've said four things in levena Ermanno, except
those who truly believe and have strong faith. You learn about your faith and your belief in your
deen and you make sure that it's right. clear of any shape or wrongfulness or misguidance you follow
the Quran and the Sunnah and you learn about it constantly. While I'm in Osaka head after your
belief, you continue to do righteous actions. What are the righteous actions anything that pleases
Allah, anything Rasul Allah Azza wa sallam stood and taught us as a role model.
		
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			What I've also been helped and you continue as a community, reminding each other and urging each
other and encouraging one another and enjoying one another with compassion and mercy and goodness
and wanting for your brothers and sisters what you love for yourself. That which is truth meaning
you help each other to stand firm on truth. You keep reminding your brothers and sisters come back
that's the wrong way brother and sister Wallahi My heart is with you. Let us learn the right path.
You correct me I correct you we stand on truth. Because once you're on false, we lose ourselves we
lose everything. What else solver solver and they enjoy each other, encourage each other and
		
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			motivate each other and are there for each other and pick up each other and save each other? By
what? By encouraging reminding each other to remain patient. There are so many things around us that
pull us down, draw us back, push us away. We sometimes we go with the wrong friends. Sometimes
certain desires tempt us sometimes we get too busy with materialism. Sometimes things make us doubt
if we are not a community, we will lose each other as Rasul Allah Azza wa sallam said, like a flock
of sheep. If one shape goes away from the flock, the wolf will go after the shape that is alone. So
what are the four things our faith and belief, our actions of righteousness, we enjoin as a
		
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			community to remind each other and keep each other on truth. And we enjoy and we continue to remind
each other and help each other on patience and perseverance. Until we die, we keep helping each
other. I've gone through a mental problem, you've gone through a financial problem, going through a
family problem, going through a physical problem, you're going through any kind of problem. And we
reach out to each other in sha Allah, all of us as a community, not on one person, but as a
community in sha Allah, to be patient and steadfast and keep going. We make diet for each other.
This is what it means. These are the four ingredients and the only four things that matter in this
		
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			world. If you go outside of them, then you are in loss. You're losing everything.
		
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			My brothers and sisters, even after all of that, this evening, I want to talk to the young people.
Why do I want to talk to the young people? I want to talk to the young people, because the young
people are the ones who are the next generation. I want to talk to the young people, because it is
the young people who are going to make the change in what is to come.
		
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			Your generation and the following generation Insha Allah, the world we live in right now is open now
is open to a new civilization. A new culture, new morality, new ethics, new guidance. This young
generation, not the old generation, this young generation is different.
		
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			Wallahi it's different.
		
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			Muslim or non Muslim. They're out
		
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			To stand for anything they believe is the right thing and they don't care.
		
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			Even if whatever people or even authorities try to manipulate them with, they read, they learn, they
stand together on truth.
		
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			You as a believer, you also stand on truth and all that. But we've got one extra thing that your
intention is for the sake of Allah, you have a belief you have an amen. Allah says in the Quran, if
you fall or go through any pain or hardships, they also go through hardships, meaning whether you're
a believer or not, everyone goes through hardships, everybody feels pain in the same way you're both
human. Don't think that you because you're a believer that Allah is going to send 1000 Angels to
lift you and protect you from everything. No, you are the same as everyone else. We are all in a
test in this world. And the time this test ends is that our death, he says you feel pain and they
		
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			feel pain. But one thing is different. What they're doing I mean, Allah He may Allah join you as
believers in the truth of the Quran and Sunnah and the truth of what Allah Subhana Allah has
presented, you have a hope, you have a hope, which they cannot have. And I've heard on social media,
so many non Muslims and even atheist have now coming up and saying, We have chosen now to read the
Quran.
		
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			You'll say I'm an atheist, but I've chosen to read the Quran. Why? Because they are saying, we want
to know how and why. Those men, women and children in Gaza, through all the atrocities that they're
going through, through everything that will make you lose hope. They are only getting stronger. What
is the hope that keeps them going? We want to read this Quran we want to know how are they facing
persecution and oppression and pain. Their children are being massacred and chopped to pieces in
front of them, yet they strong they stand even stronger in Amen. We want to know what the secret is
because they don't. They don't know what the secret is. Most people who become atheists is not
		
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			because logically, they were not convinced that's only part of the reason. But it's because they
cannot understand the meaning of suffering and why God would create people with suffering on this
earth that can't explain it. They can't interpret it. Whereas Did you know that Islam is the only
religion which emphasizes emphasizes to embrace suffering, and to love it?
		
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			We look at it positively suffering, the mindset is different. Because when you look at suffering in
a positive light, you know that Allah is putting you through this hardship for a reason. And that
hardship is your test for the hereafter, or there is good that's going to come out of it. Or Allah
has a plan, or you're learning from mistakes that you made. And Muslim never looks at suffering in a
negative light. If you do, then you are punishing yourself. Don't ever ask the question.
		
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			How do I know if Allah is punishing me or not? That's a wrong question. The question is, how should
you be facing that suffering, which will determine if it becomes a punishment? Or a blessing for
you? It's you it was always been new. It's never been Allah, it's you. Allah gives you them as a
blessing in disguise. Didn't you hear when Allah says in the Marlowe's reuse or an enamel or through
your straw, as a matter of fact, indeed, with every one hardship, there are many eases and Allah
repeats it again with every hardship there are many aces meaning suffering is a blessing in
disguise.
		
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			A child, a baby does not learn how to walk and stand up. without falling many times. They have to
feel the pain.
		
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			They don't know that the fire burns until they feel the heat.
		
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			You don't know
		
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			what forgiveness is forgiveness is
		
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			until
		
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			somebody has done something wrong to you, you've done wrong to them. You don't know what mercy is,
until blessings are taken away and comfort. We don't know. You don't become a doctor. You don't
become a leader. You don't become a helper. You don't become a person of welfare and, and a person
who does goodness without seeing the opposite the suffering. You don't follow the truth without
knowing the false you don't know the good without knowing the evil. Brothers and sisters.
		
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			Allah Subhana Allah has created us in this world for a test and that test is short. And until you
can accept that you will not find the true happiness that you're looking for. Brothers and sisters
let us move now to the young people. You young people, you are full of resilience, full of energy
full of creativity. You don't fear much we fear more as you get older, your fear more. You've got
your hold on more you hold on to your children more you hold on to your money more you hold on to
life more because you know you're getting closer to the grave. That's just
		
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			Very natural, except the Motoki in those who have been raised in their youth in Taqwa and piety,
young people don't think as much like that, because they think I've still got my life ahead of me.
I've still got my strength, I still got time. Maybe they don't have much money, but they have time.
They have strength, they have energy, they have their life ahead of them. Insha Allah, and Allah
subhanho wa Taala calls this stage of life Pull what Allah says, We created you. First out of
weakness, meaning as babies, then after weakness, we gave you strength, for a period of time. And
then after that period of time of strength, we resorted your back to weakness, meaning old age, so a
		
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			lot of hold the youth, the strength, what is youth, youth is from puberty. As soon as you hit
puberty,
		
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			till about 35. And some scholars said 40 years old.
		
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			There is even a minority view up to 50 because Prophets was sent,
		
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			not past 40 years old, they became prophets and most prophets of Islam. Most messengers of Islam,
were always most of them were under 40 years old. Some of them were sent as prophets at puberty,
teenagers, some at 30, summit 20 that we're all young. And we know, for example, Asa alayhis, Salam
Jesus, most likely it's accepted that he was about 30 to 33 years old. Ibrahim Ali has Salam. When
he first came out as a prophet, he was a teenager he was a feta. Feta in Arabic means a teenager.
		
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			We have Fattah, we have Hola.
		
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			We have Shab. We have all these names. Fattah is somebody who has just blossomed. So if you look at
a boy who was a fighter, he is a teenager, about 1314 1516 It's when they've got light hair on their
face. That's called a fetter. Ibrahim Hassan was a Fattah when he was a prophet in Noho fatten Samia
Anna be fat feta nucar, Lulu who, Ibrahim that's when the statues and idols were broken. They said
we heard of a Fattah a young teenager His name is Ibrahim Ibrahim Ali Salam. Who do you think what
around the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam? Most of the prasar sellers companions were
younger than him.
		
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			Even I think only one compared to maybe Abacha Golan was slightly older or maybe younger, I'm not
sure, but the majority of them are younger than him.
		
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			Most of the companions were between 14 or even 11 years old, till about 30. Amara Malhotra Donna was
27 years old when he converted when he embraced Islam. Abu Bakr the Alana was 36 when he memorized
the entire Quran
		
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			and a sub nomadic was 11 and 10 years old. Abdullah if not best 1112 13 years old highlighted the
hola Juan was 10 years old. They they've no therapy at 16 years old and the prophets are 18 years
old and the Prophet sallallaahu Selim made it the commander of the army
		
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			Masada no omae are the Allahu Anhu was barely 20 years old when he sent him as the ambassador of
Islam to Medina. And when he turned Medina into Muslim spirit, nila, they were all young people,
brothers sisters,
		
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			in
		
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			fifth year, don't
		
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			be around beat him was it in
		
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			or about 1.0 being him is far more folk on on on going out on boards.
		
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			Down, learn neither one adorning and pointing
		
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			isn't shelf on for Allah mentions young people dedicated to them in a whole chapter called Surah Al
Kahf. Dedicated to young people. Allah says they were indeed.
		
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			What were they he says? He says they were indeed a group of young men who had faith in their Lord
and we increase them in guidance
		
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			and strengthen their hearts when they stood up and proclaimed, our Lord is the Lord of the heavens
and the earth. We shall call upon no other God beside him. For if we did so, we shall be uttering a
blessed for me. We are going to talk now, three examples of young people and how Allah subhanho wa
Taala guides you. What should you become? How should you live your life? Yes, young people are full
of integrity and cultivation, energy, innovative and creative. And Allah Subhana Allah will change
this world on your hands in sha Allah, Allah Allah, but you need to have the proper character and
the proper guidance and where else can you get the proper character and guidance them from the
		
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			Quran? Allah
		
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			pantalla dedicated tonight on will use three examples dedicated three particular sorters just to the
young people, they are Sora target have followed by Surah Look man, followed by Surratt use of and
there is also one in sort of Maryam about Ibrahim Ali Salam but I will talk about the first three
inshallah. Let's look at Surah Toluca Hough number one surah Kahf talks about your identity, your
foundation, your integrity, and what you stand for.
		
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			Allah says in the Quran, and has saved
		
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			us herbal caffeine, water Rotimi can who mean the agenda, Allah begins chapter 18 Verse nine with
the following question to the people of Quraysh and to Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam in answer to the
kuffar the disbelievers when they said, how can you tell us that there is a God who created all of
this? So Allah replied by saying, Well, you know, the story that you all talk about, which has now
become a legend to you, he's talking to the Jews, the Christians, and the people of Makkah in his
time, because in the Scriptures, the story of these young men called the men or the young men of the
cave, is mentioned in the ancient scriptures. Allah says, Do you think that the people of the cave,
		
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			and the inscription were one of our wonderous signs?
		
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			The story of the young men is that there was a tyrant king in their time, an Emperor, who forced the
people to worship idols.
		
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			He changed the religion and the way of Musa alayhis, Salam Moses, and made the people go into a
false, misguided belief of a twisted type of Christianity. And there were some Christians who still
stuck to the original beliefs of Jesus peace be upon him, a Sally set up, among them with these
young group of friends.
		
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			This tyrant ruler heard that these young men had chosen to stick to a different belief than what the
emperor had allowed the people to believe in. And based on that belief, he ran his country.
		
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			These young men stood up and said, No,
		
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			the God the Creator, who created this emperor in the entire world deserves to be believed in, we
will make a stance. So they protested meaning they stood up, and they began to teach the people in
open
		
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			people. This is not the teachings of the Prophets and Messengers. These are the teachings is only
one God worthy of worship. The Emperor heard about them, and he summoned them. And he asked them,
What do you believe in? Even though the Emperor knew what they were believing in? Why did he ask
them the question? Because they were young.
		
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			Teenagers, they were probably 1617 years old. And so because they were so young, the Emperor wanted
to give them a chance, said, I'll give you three days to think about if you're going to stick to
that belief or change it because this is similar to treason. Although it wasn't treason, it's just
the belief. So they went for three days. In those three days, they took the opportunity to run away
from the land. They looked at each other, Allah says, is our fifth here to Ilana, Falco and Rob
Bana.
		
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			Tina.
		
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			We're here. Hey, Lana. I'm in Medina, Russia.
		
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			Allah says, when those youths sought refuge in the cave and said, How will Lord, grant us mercy from
yourself and provide for us rectitude? In our affairs? The first thing we learned about these young
people is what did they do?
		
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			They ran away with their religion. Why? Number one, they were not powerful enough to resist the
Emperor and his army, there were just a few of them less than 10 in number,
		
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			less than 10 in number, maybe five, maybe seven, maybe
		
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			eight, something like that. Allah does not give us the number in particular because Allah does not
want to busy us with little tiny, superficial knowledge which doesn't benefit us. The first thing we
learn from here is young people do not enter into debates and argumentations that waste your time on
superficial things that do not benefit you.
		
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			If you remember in a class in the past, I gave a hadith which some people misunderstood. The hadith
which is acceptable by scholars says if you want to perfect your religion and your Eman, stay away
from that which does not concern or benefit you. Some people thought that we're not allowed to talk
about
		
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			out even oppression or any, or guiding people or advising people or, you know commanding good and
prohibiting evil No, no, no. It means things that will not benefit you in your, in your religion in
your hereafter in this world. Some people said, oh, so we don't make dua and we don't talk about our
brother and sisters and brothers, I would say no, that does concern you. This is oppression.
Everybody has to stand up against oppression because it involves mankind.
		
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			It means do not busy yourselves with debates and argumentations and people's personal lives that
benefit you nothing.
		
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			Things that are truly personal supposed to be personal.
		
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			Such as
		
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			trying on people saying continuously why, you know, why haven't you had a baby it? How do you? What
do you do at home? How come you don't do this? How can you do that? Just personal things that have
nothing to do with religion, nothing good with advice, no benefit whatsoever. gossip and backbiting.
For example, trying to no personal private things that are none of your business about a personal
life
		
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			debating and talking about things that benefit you nothing except waste your time I see it on the
internet all the time. People splitting his straw man arguments why?
		
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			Allah says doesn't matter about that number. Some people say but how many were they exactly? Imagine
people debating for a week. There were no there were eight there were nine. No, the dog was the 10th
No, I reckon the scriptures are right. What for? Allah says, Who cares.
		
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			Cora Buka Allah will be the team. Your Lord knows how many they were it doesn't really matter. What
matters is the purpose and what we learned from them. They were a young people full of energy, full
of strength. They didn't fear talking about the truth. They ran away with their religion because
they were persecuted because of their religion. And this means that a person should migrate and
leave a land in which their religion is persecuted. You are not allowed to practice your deen there
you are imprisoned. If you pray you are imprisoned if you if you're seen to eat pork, for example,
you are imprisoned for standing up to show that you're, you know, a person of such and such a belief
		
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			you're persecuted, or a place which affects your religion, directly and directly and realistically
		
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			turns you away from your religion. These boys, they ran away with their religion because they knew
if they were going to stay there, they're going to be persecuted to their religion and probably even
be caused to forcefully move away from religion because of torture. So they're left with their
religion.
		
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			And they said to each other, let's seek refuge they saw a cave now on their way a dog saw them in a
farm. And the dog followed them they tried to get rid of it with a dog insisted on staying with
them. Allahu Allah, why God knows best why the dog is in the picture. But perhaps some scholars said
animals are also an example of
		
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			worship of Allah. We look at animals and when we see how Allah had created them, the way they are
naturally teaches us Allah also brought us a religion, Islam, the natural religion, that just as the
animals and the creatures worship Allah,
		
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			Allah has honored us and we have a choice. So we should choose also to worship Allah, just like
everything in creation worships Allah, the dog followed them, and they found a cave and hid inside
it. They said, Let's go into this cave and hide. Allah says when they sat inside the cave and they
went to sleep, The dog went and stood and sat with his legs out as a guard, cutting the story short,
Allah Subhanallah made them fall asleep. They fell asleep and they went for hundreds of years.
Asleep. We don't know how many years again, Allah says some will say it was 309 years some will say
300 and so many years, whatever. Allah says called Rob Buka Allah mu B. mela call Allahu Allah mobi
		
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			Mela. Basil, say, Allah knows how long they were really in there, again, don't sit there debating
over little superficial things. Then they woke up after hundreds of years, and they hadn't known
that they had slept for that long. When they woke up they thought it was a night or two nights They
quarreled among each other. They said Carlo Camela wisdom, how long do you think you were asleep?
The coin whatever snowman Obadiah we were a day or part of a day. Now Allah uses a word libitum and
this word is usually used for death, because sleep is minor death. And truly they went over to a
state that was similar to death, but they were just asleep and Allah would make the sunrise coming
		
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			from the right and from the left. When the sun rose and when the sun set in order to give them
vitamin D and sunlight and everything. One can label that Alia meaning whether the CheMin and Allah
says We made their bodies toss and turn right and left
		
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			To so that their bodies don't decay, and so on. So Allah Samantha looked after them and preserved
them and protected them. Now, listen to this. When they woke up, they said, Allah knows, one said,
or maybe a day, the other one said, two days down says it feels like a week, another one said a few
hours. Then in the end, they said, listen, our Lord knows how long we were asleep for now, take this
coin and go out and buy us some food. But don't let anyone see you. They thought the emperor was
still there. So they when they went out, and also I want to point out something this young youth
were wise and intelligent. They didn't sit there debating and having a fight night and day how long
		
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			they slept for. In the end, they said hulless Allah knows how many. Let's now focus on our goal.
Don't lose sight of the goal. Don't lose sight of the goal.
		
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			That's why when I sit when I hear about brothers, sisters going up for protest, I say to you, don't
lose sight of your goal. Your rallying your voicing, I support it, insha Allah, in this case, I
support it, we'll talk about it soon Inshallah, that focus on the goal, do things that please Allah
subhanahu, wa taala, don't get provoked, don't let them use you. And so on. These boys, they went
out quietly when they took the coin. The story is long. Anyway, the people of the community found
out that they were the ancient people who had vanished.
		
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			And they brought the police guard and all that stuff. And they came and they found the cave in which
there was inscriptions and things so people had known about them. And the generations had changed.
There were approximately, you know, as I said, a few 100 years, maybe 200 years, 300 years, between
when the last emperor was there, and this generation, and I want to highlight something that people
of the land had changed their ways, they had left polythene ism. And they had changed from the old
emperor who was unjust and oppressed the people and the persecution and religion had gone, the new
generation had changed everything that was before.
		
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			Sometimes brothers and sisters, listen carefully. Sometimes, Allah subhanahu wa ala allows certain
events, and at times, they could be extremely catastrophic will,
		
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			to the point that it makes such
		
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			an explosive awareness throughout the globe, all people
		
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			that it becomes unforgettable,
		
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			carved into the memories of every person,
		
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			and it will not be forgotten. And then Allah brings a new generation soon,
		
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			when they grow up and gives them power and strength to change the oppression of the generation
before them.
		
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			As Allah says, What will kill a Yamanaka widow have been a nurse these days never stay the same. We
replace people with others. In other verses, Allah replaces power with other authorities when they
become unjust. So don't despair brothers and sisters, what is happening to her and sisters in Reza.
And there are and I have to mention there are Christian Palestinians there because this is a thing
of oppression, whose lands have been stolen, whose lands have been taken. And these people are
oppressed in the eyes of Allah. And now in our eyes, the awareness that has been done in such a
hurtful, painful way can now never be forgotten. Insha Allah, and I believe that the next
		
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			generations will change this state in sha Allah who died in sha Allah, brothers and sisters, these
young people went back into the cave. They slept that night and never woke up again. Allah subhanaw
taala caused them to die. But the older people there had returned back to monotheism because of
their story.
		
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			And they built a place of worship above them. Now there was another group who said let's build a
wall around them. But Allah says paella, Latina Rolla, Bolla Emery Him, those who are more in power
that overstep them, they said, Let's build a worshiping place over them. Meaning that the people
wanted to build a wall were right, but they were too weak to have authority. The authority said, Put
a worship in place over them which is wrong, because we're not meant to build the masjid and
worshipping places over people and we call saints and prophets. Also Salam said, may Allah Allah
Azza wa sallam, he said, Don't do what the Jews and Christians did before. Curse them those who did
		
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			this, Jah Lu, Cobra and BA hem massage they turned their profits graves into mosques and places of
worship, like churches and synagogues in the past. So we don't do that. But anyway, I wanted to make
a point that those who are in authority make the decision and those who are in the could be weak
people who are on truth they try their best as it's presented here and sorted curve. Allah says call
Lubenow Allah him banana, a little group
		
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			of people who didn't have authority among them said let's build a wall around them. Call Allah
Latina Allah Allah Allah and Rahim, Lana Takeda gnarly him Machida, those who had authority and
power above them. They said, No, no, we are going to build a worship in place over them. It means
that even if you are a small amount and you don't have power, you do what you can. But also
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
		
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			Mara, I mean, c'mon, Karan fell Euro year who Beardy. Whoever if you sees an evil or wrong, then
change it physically, physically, for Ilam, you're stuck there. But if you are not able to change it
physically, meaning number one, truly, you are not capable, you don't have the power to do so. Or if
you change it physically, it will cause a greater evil. Sometimes you might see an evil and say I
can't change that physically. But if you do it, you got to think wise, will it cause another
problem, a bigger problem, then you can't change it physically. For a limb, you're stuck there for
barely 70. You can't change it physical ends or it's not wise to do so. Use your tongue with your
		
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			voice. For LM your stutter, same conditions for be called BT. Finally, in your heart, know your
belief, know what you stand for. And always remember that with early god awful, amen. That's the
last resort. You can't go any more than that. Because nobody can change your heart. No one can
change your belief. Isn't that right? You own your belief and Hamdulillah. So brothers and sisters,
one thing also I want to say about these young men,
		
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			did you realize something very important. And that is
		
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			how they stuck together.
		
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			Who is your friendship circle? Young people, if you want to be leaders, and Allah Subhana Allah be
pleased with you. And you change things from worse from bad to good, and become people of benefit.
And people who are loved by Allah subhanho wa taala. And you cultivate what you have, and you're
productive, and you make changes and you save yourself and your people of Ghana. Then be careful the
company that you associate yourselves with some people, you have no choice like family, friends at
school. Choosing your company means those who you become like and you always want to be with
		
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			Alma Omar, Amanda hub, Ross also set them set on a day of judgment personal together with those whom
they love. Those who they imitate, sometimes your company may not be with you. Sometimes they're
people that you follow on social media, influencers and all that stuff and celebrities who lead you
astray or lead you in a good way. That's your company now. And if you really want to know a formula,
one person is the is the
		
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			one person is the result of four or five people around you in your life. Those four or five people
that you spend most of your time, whether distance from a distance or close, is you are the product
of these four or five people. Nobody really has more than four or five people that influences and
yet between three to five, these are people that influence you the most so monitor who your company
is and less than a little bit from here, increase a little bit from there. One of the best places to
come to the masjid with a community of the Muslims is and sift through who you get closer to and who
you don't insure a lot with dial these people. These young men they stuck together because they
		
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			reminded each other of righteousness and perseverance and Allah Spano die that says in the Quran
		
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			we all met easy.
		
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			About only about the night
		
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			we met
		
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			about boom li about the NADA one in me dunking. Yeah, Eva Dean coloful gnarly, cool Malaya. Allah
		
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			on levena movie yet Dena waka no Muslim mean. Allah says on the day of judgment the best friends
will become the biggest enemies
		
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			except the Pious One and righteous ones who are God fearing these to remind each other of
righteousness and goodness.
		
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			Hey, they used to fear Allah.
		
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			Oh my dear servants, now Allah addresses you those who are close to each other on piety. Oh, my dear
servants, duckling, the pious ones, there will be no fear upon you.
		
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			And there will be no sadness that is awaiting you.
		
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			The ones who believed in all my verses.
		
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			And they were built and they were submitters as Muslims.
		
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			Those are the triumphant ones.
		
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			We move on now to suit look, man. So that look man talks to young people.
		
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			This time it's about morals, ethics, and character.
		
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			We all believe in Allah. We all believe in the Quran. Some of us pray five times a day. Any person
who is just Muslim by name goes to hush goes to ombre. That's all the easy part. The real part is
here. How do you live your life? How do you interact with others? How are you as a person? How do
you work? How is your contracts? How do you speak? How do you walk? Where does your money come from?
How do you spend it? How are you with your family? How are you with your neighbors? How are you with
your colleagues? How were you as a person?
		
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			How will you with your children? How are you with your parents? This is the tough advice you believe
you pray has to have an effect. What is solid for in the salata tinhorn in fascia it will Moncure
salah and prayer is supposed to prevent from immoral and indecent acts, and sinful acts.
		
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			If it doesn't go to review, whether you're praying with consciousness, whether you are present in
your prayer, and I'm going to give you a little tiny hint to improve your prayer in insha. Allah to
hints here is one very quick hack. Number one, before you pray brothers and sisters, give yourself
10 seconds to just stand there and reflect don't talk to anyone put your phone away, Wait, calm
down, and then say Allahu Akbar. The second hint, instead of spending a quick raka when you go into
bowing
		
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			Just five more seconds more every movement you make make five more seconds, just five more seconds.
In the end the difference between an amazing prayer and a quickened prayer that had no consciousness
or you weren't present in will equal to about a minute and a half to two minutes, that's all and
that's in the bag. I'll give you a third hint. If you're not feeling it in your normal solid have
just randomly randomly make Waldo and offer Toyota cars in the middle of the day voluntarily. I
promise you you're going to feel a different presence to your solid inshallah these are just three
simple hints. Let's look now as sort of look man, he was a righteous man. He was not a prophet. His
		
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			name is Look man, Allah Subhana Allah mentioned is just his name in the Quran, and he now is
advising his son, his son has just reached puberty. And this advice everything I've said brothers
and sisters applies to men and women. Although it happened to be that this story is about the men
but they are both men and women. So Allah Allah says in the Quran, or is God I know Conan will live
in he went who I
		
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			went to shinny Cuban in a shin can avoid him more. Now we Allah says in chapter 31, verse 13, and
call to mind when look man said to his son, while exhorting him, My son did not associate others
with Allah in His divinity, surely, associating others with Allah and His divinity is a mighty
wrong. So it all starts with your identity and your belief if you don't have your Tawheed and your
monotheism, correct. Forget about everything else. All your actions are destroyed, who you're
praying to. If you're if you've got political Islam and you who we are praying to, all of it is
gone. Secondly, Allah says, Now listen to this might hurt some of the youngsters, but it's a key to
		
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			your development, while slang
		
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			send me anywhere any day. Hi, I'm Alan
		
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			Nyla, new
		
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			fee. I mean, what feels law in your home fee? I mean, you Ernie scorned anyone you early they lie.
And mostly, we enjoined upon man to be dutiful to his parents. His mother bought him in weakness
upon weakness, and he's winning Gluster two years. We therefore enjoined upon him, Give thanks to
me, and give thanks to your parents, to me, is your ultimate return to me is your ultimate return?
Who's your ultimate return? Meaning you and your parents, if you complain, your parents mistreat you
and all that stuff, and you do good to them. Allah says in the Quran, don't worry about that. You
just do your part as a son or a daughter. That is part of your development, and they will come back
		
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			to either reward you or bite you. When you grow older and you have your own family. Trust me, you do
your part to your parents, if they mistreat you and don't do their duty. Well, I've told you in the
end here, all of you will come back to me and I in other words, Allah saying I will judge between
you don't worry if you have
		
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			right against your parents, I'll take it back. If your parents had a right against you, I will sort
it out. You do your part. You do your part not because you think they deserve your parents deserve
it or not. You do your part could have just reminded you, You already owe them from the moment you
were born. I just told you Allah says, Your father and mother they sacrificed and waited and gave
you security until you grew up.
		
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			Your mother breastfed you for two whole years and the pain that she went through.
		
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			If you don't know ask your mothers, how weaning happens. If you don't know about pregnancy, ask your
mothers if you dare.
		
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			You don't know what's gonna go through. And here you are.
		
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			So brothers and sisters Allah says You already owe them whether they are Muslim or not Allah then
says another advice or in Jahad
		
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			to Shrek beam na Sena, can I be hey, I need more fun. Don't Don't was all here boom. Feed duniya no
room for
		
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			what Debbie Sabina and Elaine some ala mode on Jiang Fett, Luna Bianca,
		
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			beam,
		
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			dome top man Darkman. But if they your parents press you to associate others with me in my divinity,
to associate those regarding whom you have no knowledge that they are my associates, meaning if they
cause you to do kufr disbelief. Do not obey them. Do not obey them. And yet, continue to treat them
well in this world and follow the way of him who turns to me in devotion. Eventually it is to me
that all of you shall return. And I shall then tell you all that you did. Again, Allah is saying you
do your part, I will judge your parents and I will judge you together. As for following just because
your parents tell you to do the wrong thing. You don't obey them. Your duty is to continue to be
		
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			good to them as much as you can as a child.
		
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			But you don't have to follow them. Allah says follow whoever is devoted to me.
		
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			And this also goes to show about people who carry on their ancestral beliefs in the wrong way. They
say my family bloodline taught me to believe in that. And if a family believes that a wall is God,
they'll say our worship the wall not because the truth because it's my family bloodline. Allah says
Don't, don't follow your parents in wrong. Say my father was in wrong as Ibrahim Ali Salam is to
say, he said,
		
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			My Father, you're following the Shaitan. Yanni the shaitan is leading you astray. Yusuf alayhi
salam, when he was in the prison prophet Joseph, he said to his companions in the prison, I left the
worship of those who are astray and followed the correct worship of my forefathers because my
forefathers were on the truth I followed them not because they were my forefathers. Allah then says
that look man said to his son, yeah, born a in in Turku myth color her birth him in holiday.
		
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			Feeding software it in movies. Where do you feel?
		
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			Own feel? The TV how long in a long and healthy, fun hobby. Look, man said, My son, Allah will bring
forth everything. Even if it be as small as the grain of a mustard seed. Even though it'd be hidden
inside a rock, or anywhere in the heavens or earth. Allah is most subtle, all aware, what is he
telling his son, he's saying, Son, don't only worship Allah, in open when people are watching you.
Don't only do good when people are watching you. Fear Allah and do good to be the same when you are
in private alone when no one is watching you. For know that. If you think that you're in the dark,
thinking that no one sees you I remind you of Allah who sees the little tiny seed even if it's
		
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			inside of a rock, to who you're going to hide from, who you're going to hide from.
		
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			When you are alone, Allah is there. So beware, son. And as the great scholars used to say, I think
it was on what are the Allahu Anhu said, You will know your true faith when your actions in public
are the same as in private. Of course, there are people who make mistakes and sin in private. But
these people repent, and they keep it a secret between them and Allah and they don't feel good about
it. That is also a sign of good faith. But in sha Allah, they need to work towards improving
themselves as much as they can. So you're not a hypocrite if your public affairs and your private
affairs clash. You're a hypocrite if you deliberately try to appear in public only and when you're
		
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			in private
		
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			If you do not care whatsoever, you have no care. So stuff that I don't even believe in all that
stuff. That's hypocrisy. But if you do care, but you're weak to your desires in secret, that's a
different story. hamdulillah know that Allah is forgiving, and try to work towards improving
yourself.
		
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			He then says to his son,
		
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			yeah, booni email signup, more than being an MT. Rufina one how I needed
		
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			Cody was better I'll
		
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			log back in an economy nice me.
		
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			And my son established prayer, in joint all that is good and prohibit forbid all that is evil, and
endure with patience whatever affliction befalls you.
		
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			Without a doubt, these are among the qualities of true courage and determination.
		
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			Do you remember in the beginning we said that a Muslim embraces suffering?
		
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			Here it is. Life is built on suffering brothers and sisters. The problem with people is that they
expect this life to be paradise, you're going the wrong way. This life is not meant to be like that.
		
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			So it's your choice. Choose to be determined and brave to face suffering and take it as a positive
thing and continue and show yourself and to Allah subhanaw taala that you are still resilient and
strong. And now you have your brothers and sisters and sisters who are showing you that
		
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			oh, you can turn that into a weakness and a punishment in this world and also in the hereafter.
Anything that happens to your brothers and sisters know that you have the ability in sha Allah to
get through it, and nothing lasts forever. Everything changes and you'll come out stronger than ever
before.
		
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			Start with the mindset.
		
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			Start with the mindset.
		
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			Rely on Allah subhanaw taala he says, What's better I learned of sabak be resilient, persevering, be
persevering, and hold yourself together.
		
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			No matter how much you get rattled when hardships come to you.
		
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			A sawbuck masiva means things that you did not expect.
		
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			When you are going in a particular smooth line, and suddenly a tragedy happens that was unexpected
that causes you pain and gone and backwardness. You think you're going backward. That's called a
masiva. Allah says that look, man said to his son, be patient, get through it, son, get through it,
because only a short time you got to get through it to test. It's a test for you get through it,
you're going to be stronger after it. And now learn from it. What's the better Isla Asaba in early
kemenah husband mode, this indeed, is the true quality of courage and determination.
		
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			Once you do that, brothers sisters, you will be that 3% of the world who moves forward Insha Allah,
Allah then says or alert or sign or hudec le in C one term shinfield the Mara in a long
		
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			book
		
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			a lot that says, Do not contemptuously turn your face away from people.
		
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			Norwalk heartily upon the earth. Allah does not love the arrogant, and the vain, glorious. Let's go
through that very quickly. Look, man is saying to his son, do not turn your face away from people.
contemptuously.
		
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			It means when you think that you are superior to others and better than others, they are not worthy
of you giving them your attention.
		
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			It doesn't mean that everybody has to give their attention to every person. Your time is precious.
And sometimes you can't. It doesn't mean that it doesn't mean practically like you truly are busy
or, you know you've got priorities know. What it means is that when you do it, because you think
you're superior to them, and they're not worthy of you.
		
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			Do you understand the difference? This is called arrogance and pride. Racism. When you when you
think you're racist, you think you're superior. When you've got supremacy over others. You think
that because you've got more money, this person can't talk to you. You've got a nicer car can't hang
out can't be seen with this person.
		
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			You got your own community. The others are peasants. You're up here, man. You're a hotshot. If you
were to look for a sole Allah, He sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and you went back in time 1400 years
ago, and you wanted to find the Prophet sallallahu sallam, but you've never seen him. Where do you
think is the first place you should look? It's not prayer time. But imagine it's not prayer time and
you went back in time. 1400 years, you entered into Medina and you're looking for the Prophet
sallallahu wasallam you find out there are no battles.
		
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			He's not overseas is he's in town. It's not solid time it's not jamaa and he's not with his family.
Where do you think is the first place you should look?
		
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			For look for poor people?
		
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			Look for where poor people are sitting, you can recognize them. That is your biggest chance of
finding the Prophet sallallahu wasallam because he used to love sitting with the poor people.
		
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			That's what it means. Do you know the story either so what are well under a hula Ana, he frowned and
turned away when the blind man came to him to talk about the Prophet sallallahu sallam, a blind man
came to us also SLM had leaders of Quraysh he wanted to talk to them about Islam and he thought if I
can talk to them and they can convert to Islam or revert, then they will give strength to Islam. So
it's a good cause. But the blind man came not knowing the process. I was talking to leaders. And
then he says, Yeah, Rasul Allah yet also he wants to ask him a question. While he called him Yeah,
Mohammed, he wasn't Muslim yet. And he kind of avoided him. And Allah recommended Rasul Allah says,
		
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			Allah says, Allah so Allah to Allah, he found and turned away from the blind man when he came to
him, and how would you know, a messenger of God, whether the blind man will be more beneficial than
the leaders that you're talking to?
		
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			That's what it means. Secondly, he says,
		
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			Do not walk mortally. What does that mean? To walk haughtily means, you know, the types of people
who walk
		
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			swaggering.
		
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			A cocky type of walk, hot shots, the type of talk which screams all eyes on me. That type of walk.
You seen those types of people? I hope you're not one of them run sisters. You know that walk. Allah
hates that walk.
		
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			Allah hates that walk, swaggering, cocky type of walk all eyes on me made on the best out of the
shed dooba had a deep neighborhood the Lebanese lyric. Anyway, it means that you are too good for
the for the earth, to even be worthy of your feet. So brothers and sisters, Allah hates that type of
work. It's not literally the walk like you can walk straight. And it doesn't mean that you got to
walk with your back arched, honorable hotdogs saw a man with his head dangling and arched. He said
to him stand up.
		
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			Don't make Islam look like and so it's don't make Islam look like it's a sickness. Islam is not a
sickness, stand up straight. Another man was walking with pride. But also salam said Allah hates
that walk. However, only in one time, Allah loved that walk.
		
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			His name was a bull Dogen he used to wear a red ribbon in the time of war in battle. And when he
wore his red ribbon, he stood out.
		
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			Islam doesn't like people who show up and stand out.
		
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			But he stood out why the enemies when they saw him with a red ribbon, he knew he was going to become
a lion. Don't mess with the red ribbon men. And one day he was walking with his, with his chest up
high. And his head up high. The swaggering walk, the one that looked really full of arrogance.
		
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			parasocial and he started walking up and down front of the enemy. Plus also Salem laughed and he
said, Allah hates that walk except in this situation, because it cause fear and intimidation to the
enemy. In that case, yes, but not a person outside that in his car cut you off brother and sisters.
That's not the person that you go and show your swaggering nature
		
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			it's not when you get into a fight outside of a something stupid No, I'm Muslim is not like that.
		
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			Allah says in hola hola yo hip beaucoup lemma hotel in for hood. Mactan. In the original plot
implies a person who has a very high opinion of himself. Allah does not like people who think of
themselves higher than others.
		
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			I'm the best. I'm the greatest for whoever doesn't like for whoever is the one who boasts of his
superiority over others. He doesn't stop talking about himself. Every time someone talks is the
loudest. Then Allah subhanho wa taala. He says, All ghostly defeat him as she goes along. Most men
slow dick in
		
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			Colorado and elsewhere de la sought to help me. Be moderate. be moderate in your stride,
		
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			and lower your voice. Verily the most distinguished Verily, the most disgusting of all voices is the
brain of the donkey. The breaking of the donkey it knows those donkey wasn't a fell word. It wasn't
an insulting word donkeys donkey, but you know how the donkey sounds when it breaks? So Allah
Subhana Allah is saying be moderate in your stride, meaning don't walk on earth or drive your car or
get on your motorbike or your horse and think you're higher than everyone else. Not that type of
		
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			Some people that go and do burnouts so that everyone can see
		
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			you know
		
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			you know what a sick call dude this guy's some people posted on social media
		
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			what no one else had a boy
		
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			you know they put all these colors and everything and I mean I know you're happy but honestly it's
not a very good character for a Muslim or other things boasting about what you've got boasting about
what you achieved boasting boasting but honestly well I'm telling you nobody cares
		
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			nobody cares maybe just your family
		
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			tell you something
		
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			come down off the horse a little bit Wallah you'll feel better. I promise you Allah you'll feel
better. Nothing wrong with driving a nice car. I think wrong driving a nice motor but I hate
motorbikes. But let's say you got them, but just be moderate. Don't do don't do it for the people.
		
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			Anything, anything in life, don't be haughty, be moderate and humble.
		
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			One way to be humble is to praise other people's belongings. Genuinely I've got a friend every time
he sees me. In my car, he says, well, Lebra Masha, Allah tuberculoma Allah bless your cow, Allah
hits beautiful and he smiles. Now good. I feel I also feel humbled. So I tried it myself, it makes
me feel amazing. It's like I own 10 of those cars. When I praise it. It's like I own the best beauty
in the world. And I praise my brothers beautiful face. Alright, in a brotherly way.
		
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			It's a beautiful thing.
		
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			Lastly, hello speaks to the young people in soret. Use of now a one more thing, raising your voice.
It doesn't mean that you don't raise your voice. It doesn't mean that you make your voice, little
and small, what's your name?
		
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			What's your name? None other and you don't scream it out. What it means is when there's a need to
raise your voice raise it when there's no need lower. But in normal cases, keep it moderate. It
means this is what it means. It means that when you're in a gathering, when you're out on the
street, when you're with your family, don't have a habit of always needing to raise your voice so
that everyone can hear you and no one else. You want to be the person where all eyes are on them and
all ears are on them.
		
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			Allah does not like that. Be moderate and listen, give and take well you'll feel better about
yourself. So these are things that a youth should learn Inshallah, as the golden I swear Wallahi
you'll develop into an amazing person. Lastly is sort of use of we all know the story, the story of
sort of use of use of Alayhis Salam is known for many reasons. Number one, he was a child of about
10 or 11 years old when he saw the dream. Next he had a good relationship with his father and his
mother. Third, he went through domestic violence, his brothers tried to kill him. And then they
threw him in the well and they sold him to merchants passing by, he became a slave. He missed his
		
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			father, his father missed his son. He cried for him so badly over these until he became blind. He
missed his brother who was from his same mother, and he ended up becoming a slave in Egypt. The
story goes long. The most important part for the young people is the following. Allah says, while
I'm showing down, Dana, how can
		
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			what can the Nika energies in seeking? Allah says in chapter 12, verse 22, and when Joseph Yusuf
reached the age of maturity, we granted him judgment and knowledge, thus do We reward those who do
good. So the first thing about young people is to educate yourself, read, educate, gather skills,
gather more knowledge, read about anything that will benefit you. It doesn't have to be purely
Hadith, purely purely Syrah that do it and learn a little bit of it but you don't have to be scholar
in in one area. Read about other things, anything of your interest that is beneficial to you and to
others and to your hereafter develop yourself and cultivate yourself brothers sisters, so that you
		
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			are able to judge better and know better. Number two, Allah says, whoa, that team wifey bank.
		
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			I've seen one one now continue.
		
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			Call that hey Turlock Carla long in BF Sen ms more
		
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			in your friendly home on the moon.
		
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			And it so happened that the lady in whose house Yusuf was living sought to tempt him to herself. And
one day after she bolted the doors, she said to him, come on now. Come on, Joseph answered, may
Allah grant me refuge My Lord has provided me an honorable abode for me. So how can I do something
so evil such wrongdoers never prosper?
		
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			Brothers and sisters, he was tempted by a powerful, strong woman who had him as a slave and she
locked the doors and he was a slave. On top of that he was the most attractive man any person has
ever laid their eyes on. We all know about Yusuf Ali's seller, a slave. Nobody cares what he does.
If he does anything haram with her.
		
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			Everyone's gonna blame her. How could an honorable woman of power seduce her slave? It's her
reputation on the line not here. So it's got nothing to lose. Number two, she will protect them.
She'll look after him. So he's got some things to gain not only through pleasure, but also through
life. Number three, she locked the doors nobody's going to find out.
		
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			And number four, anything that goes wrong, she'll cover him.
		
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			But what did he say? My Allah, I seek refuge in Allah.
		
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			And then he said, My Lord has looked after me me remember Allah's blessings that He has put upon me
and the hereafter and why has created me and all of that stuff.
		
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			My brothers and sisters, he said, those who are wrongdoers never prosper, meaning those who follow
the temptations and desires will not prosper.
		
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			If you allow your desires and your temptations to control you, you become a slave to your desires.
If you become a slave to your desires, and you get tempted by the opposite *, or the same * or
whatever you want to call it, or buy a chair even or buy a wall or whatever, some people today they
get tempted by so many things.
		
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			Then brothers and sisters, you are now a slave to your temptations, you will not prosper. What does
it mean? It means that you will not be able to put in a place of leadership and authority with power
that people will follow you and respect you. You will not be able to control yourself because you'll
be easily tempted and fall into temptations and desires. I hear stories where people used to work in
the corporate world. And they told me
		
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			this day and age in the West, if we were the wedding ring, we take it off. I said why do you take it
off? They said to me when you have a wedding ring, the women they go after you and the men go after
a woman who's wearing a wedding ring I said Why? Why? Said because there's no strings attached. They
know you're not going to come after them after that.
		
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			So it's like a one night stand and nothing's going to happen to nightstands, 100 nightstands
		
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			but they said, ah because he's wearing a ring he'll go back to his wife, he won't say anything or do
anything.
		
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			Well, Allah has so many brothers, and even some sisters have fallen into this. I know their stories.
And the last $5 save them. And the man was strong. Some of them left the old businesses in their
corporate world or wherever they worked. In order to escape this. Yusuf alayhi salam, his story is
long and
		
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			he ran to the door. He ran away from her.
		
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			And she ran after him.
		
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			And she grabbed his shirt from the back
		
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			to us to pull him back to her.
		
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			And she ripped his shirt from the aggressiveness. And then her husband.
		
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			Well, we assume his or her husband or her man, he arrived at the door. Immediately. She said What's
the punishment of somebody who seduces your wife?
		
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			Except to be imprisoned or a torture?
		
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			Because you're supposed to kill them, it's
		
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			but she said prison or torture. Meaning she is trying to keep him alive. Why? Because she wants to
seduce him again.
		
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			So he said she's the one that seduced me.
		
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			So they got a judge and one member of her family bed witness that if his shirt is ripped from the
front, then he seduced her and if it's ripped from the back, she's seduced him. When they found the
shirt ripped from the back, hey, her husband said to her, this is from your plots. Use of Camilla
Can you keep this quiet? Just forget about it.
		
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			And so it was forgotten. Women in the city said oh, look, look the mystery of the powerful woman the
wife of the treasurer seduced her own slaves. She's gone crazy. She's nuts. She's psycho.
		
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			So then she called them to come in and she got a cushion and some pillows and gave them some food to
cut with a knife. As they were cutting and talking she told us to come out. When he came out. They
all just stared at him mesmerized and hypnotized. And they forgot that they were cutting the fruit
or vegetable whatever is in their hands. Allah says for called partner Adi when they began slicing
their own hands
		
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			without realizing
		
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			over and over again. They sliced it once, twice, three times.
		
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			because they were so hypnotized by his looks, they didn't even realize they're cutting their hands
three four times. What pulling her hair Shatila. They say, Oh, God, Maha Bashara that's not a human
in her Illa Malecon Karim. Oh, he is but an angel, a generous, beautiful angel.
		
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			And then the woman said, this is the one that you accused me of and looked down on me and degraded
may look what happened to you.
		
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			And if he doesn't do what I said, because I am the one who seduced him, I'm going to get him
imprisoned.
		
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			You'll suffer I said, I'm gonna make dua to Allah that night and said, call our decision on a hot
boy in the Yemen mega drone and ELA said, My Lord, the prison is more beloved to my heart than what
they are calling me to do.
		
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			So now it's collective. All the women have this intention. He said, The prison is more beloved to me
than what they are calling me to do. Because that's gone to hellfire. The prison of this world is
now more beloved.
		
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			What Allah does refund Nikita Han la Henault, a commoner Jaya Haley, and if you do not deter them
away from me, I will probably fall prey to them. In my normal human nature, and I will become among
the ignorant and last ones. Foster jerboa horrible, his Lord responded to him for sort of fine,
okay, the one he saved him from them in a horse, semi Aulani. Allah, He has all prayers and he knows
all what happening. And then he ended up in prison and the story is long, he ended up becoming the
treasurer of Egypt, a big powerful person. And he was
		
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			a CT came and they found out that she truly seduced him and so on and so forth. And his whole family
came back, and his dream came true. Whereas parents bowed to him, and his brothers who tried to kill
him bow to him. Brothers and sisters, the story of Yusuf Ali said and this young man
		
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			is an amazing story for young people. These the formulas today that I told you brothers and sisters,
that will create an amazing man and an amazing woman out of you young people
		
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			that will create a paradise on earth and a paradise in the hereafter for you. You will be that
generation in which Allah will use for his work in this life. I hope insha Allah era that you have
learned something from here tonight and can take away at least one or two things. And I ask Allah
subhanho wa Taala the most high to bless you my young brothers and sisters, I swear by Allah, that I
care about you with all my heart. I've been giving you know lectures and stuff. 26 years people know
me from even a masjid. And my main concern has always been the young people will law Hill housing
because you are an extremely powerful entity that Allah has created. But it saddens me when young
		
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			people waste their youth, I look at them Allahu I tear up. And I say I wish I wish these young
people knew how powerful and amazing they are. So don't waste your lives.
		
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			Grow yourselves.
		
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			Develop yourselves have your email and follow these examples. attach yourself to the Quran every day
read it for 15 minutes brother and sisters. Try to understand what it's saying live with it.
		
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			I hope in sha Allah Europe that I have done some justice tonight. And my last Fanta Isla preserve
you bless you how they will sell Aloha Nabina Muhammad while early you will sabe Germaine