Bilal Philips – Living Islam

Bilal Philips

Dr. Bilal Philips explains to us how we need to live Islam in our daily life as a way of life.

Jumu’ah Khutbah @ Masjid Bin Zaid (FANAR)

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The segment on the importance of affirming Islam's teachings emphasizes the need for individuals to be mindful of their spiritual activities and not reach their limits. It also touches on the importance of reinterpreting Islam to avoid dangerous harm and achieving spiritual goals. The segment emphasizes the need for a commitment to living Islam and the importance of praying and creating a living environment.

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			Indeed All praise is due to a law and as such we should praise Him, seek His help and seek His
forgiveness
		
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			and seek refuge in a law from the evil which is within ourselves, and the evil which results from
our deeds.
		
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			For whomsoever Allah has guided, none can misguide. And whomsoever a law has allowed to go astray,
none can guide
		
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			and I bear witness that there is no god worthy of worship, but Allah.
		
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			And I bear witness that Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was the last messenger of Allah.
		
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			inasmuch Allah hi de Kitab la
		
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			Hydra Howdy, howdy Mohammedan sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
		
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			or Cheryl ohmori Masada. Baku llama desert in VEDA will collaborate in dolla dolla dolla dolla Latin
phenol.
		
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			Indeed, the most truthful form of speech is the book of a law.
		
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			And the best source of guidance was the guidance brought by Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
		
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			And the worst of all affairs are the innovations in religion.
		
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			For every innovation in religion is cursed.
		
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			And all cursed innovation lead to misguidance. And all misguidance leads ultimately to the Hellfire
		
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			brothers and sisters.
		
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			Today
		
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			on this drama, this football,
		
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			I would like to focus on
		
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			the concept of
		
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			Islam being a way of life.
		
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			We hear it all the time.
		
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			Islam is a way of life.
		
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			Meaning what?
		
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			Meaning that it is supposed to guide all aspects of our lives.
		
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			It determines how we should function.
		
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			The decisions that we make every day
		
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			should be guided by
		
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			the teachings of Islam.
		
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			This is a way of life, meaning it's connected to all aspects of our lives.
		
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			We live it.
		
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			We live Islam.
		
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			It is not just a set of rituals that we do at certain times, in certain seasons, in certain places.
		
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			But something which is with us 24 724 hours a day, seven days a week.
		
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			It is always with us. As long as we are conscious. As long as we are aware of the world around us,
we're not in a coma.
		
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			We're not asleep,
		
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			then we are required to perceive that world to look at that world to understand that world to
operate within that world in accordance with the teachings of Islam.
		
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			Islam is a way of life.
		
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			And this is something that the West just cannot grasp.
		
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			It just sticks in their throat.
		
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			Religion is supposed to be something you keep in your back pocket. for special occasions you take it
out
		
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			and the rest of the time you put it away.
		
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			So this Islam 24 seven is just something it's extreme. in their mind that means extremist.
		
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			Islam is just
		
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			Supposed to be
		
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			fulfilling your personal spiritual need, that you see, you believe in a spirit. So fulfilling that
need on special occasions, you use it, but keep it there, don't bring it into school, don't bring it
into the workplace, don't bring it into government don't bring it into education, etc.
		
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			that is extreme.
		
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			That's how they perceive it.
		
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			But that is Islam.
		
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			That is Islam.
		
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			And that is what we need to get back to.
		
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			We have been colonized,
		
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			suppressed,
		
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			overcome,
		
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			enslaved,
		
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			exploited,
		
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			all around the world, our resources are not in our hands.
		
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			And in that process, we were also indoctrinated,
		
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			brainwashed into seeing Islam the way that they see religion.
		
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			And that is the heritage
		
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			that most of us, if not all of us, have inherited from our parents.
		
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			Yes, do your namaz. Do your salaat do your prayers.
		
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			But don't be extreme.
		
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			You have a life.
		
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			You have a life to live.
		
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			Pray on Fridays, it's good.
		
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			In the days also it's not bad time to time.
		
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			But don't be extreme.
		
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			Be moderate.
		
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			Not knowing that. moderation means that we live our lives in accordance with Islam. We don't go to
extremes whereby we go beyond the boundaries of Islam. This is where the extremism comes. It comes
when we cross the bounds, the bounds which Allah has set, that's when you are extreme, either to one
side or to the other.
		
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			But as long as you're doing Islam,
		
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			as long as you're living Islam, it can never be extreme.
		
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			It is not the extreme.
		
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			It is the way of life which a law has prescribed for human beings.
		
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			So this understanding
		
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			this consciousness, which is growing slowly,
		
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			in all parts of the oma
		
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			The Awakening taking place, it may not be said in these terms, people say it in many different
terms. There's just the terms that I chose to speak about it in.
		
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			But we all know there is an awakening.
		
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			We all feel it in all of our countries, from all the different parts of the omo that we have come.
There is a consciousness now of what Islam is. That was not understood 50 years ago, 100 years ago.
		
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			It was not understood, as it is now being understood. That's reality.
		
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			However, that consciousness
		
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			has to be guided
		
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			at consciousness has to be properly guided otherwise, it gets hijacked.
		
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			hijacked by those with limited knowledge,
		
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			who have their own agendas based on their own interpretations
		
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			following the ways of other revolutionaries,
		
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			social revolutionaries whether it's Castro or it's multitone
		
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			Are Lenin or somebody out there who has done something following their example, instead of following
the example of Rasulullah sallallahu sallam.
		
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			They're looking in modern terms,
		
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			trying to
		
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			twist and
		
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			divert and, and warp the teachings of Islam so that they can fit into this particular channel. And
that channel is a violent channel
		
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			where they begin by unleashing violence against those who they perceive as the enemies of Islam.
		
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			But shortly thereafter, you find them unleashing that violence against Muslims themselves.
		
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			In the name of Islam.
		
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			That is an extreme
		
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			expression.
		
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			It has different names in different countries.
		
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			The popular one we hear in the news now is Boko Haram.
		
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			In Nigeria,
		
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			that's one we hear before we heard Qaeda, that was the big still we hear it from time to time.
		
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			The Islamic state of
		
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			sharmin
		
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			were supposed to be fighting for the Islamic State, in Syria.
		
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			And others.
		
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			And brothers please, the doors can you close the doors please. With us open doors, hot air is coming
in here and making it difficult for everybody here, the place is closed. The Masjid is full. Can you
just close the door and find a place? Thank you.
		
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			So that extreme wing
		
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			that chooses violence as its root,
		
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			distorting the image of Islam globally,
		
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			harming Muslims and not producing anything but destruction, corruption, and harm to the oma.
		
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			And on the other side,
		
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			we have others who have gone to another extreme that is the extremes of modernism.
		
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			The extremes of modernism
		
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			really reinterpreting Islam, in modern terms, brothers, please close the door, please close the
door. There is no room Close the door.
		
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			Those brothers at the door there can you just keep that door closed?
		
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			Those who feel
		
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			that Islam needs to be reinterpreted
		
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			in these modern times.
		
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			So
		
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			because there is an attack on Islam from a number of different perspectives,
		
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			they start to
		
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			compromise.
		
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			And say that
		
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			though Islam says this, you know that ancient times and we have changed now and it's not anymore
because this thing of cutting off hands.
		
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			It's just cutting off heads.
		
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			Mohammed Salah Mehrotra Ayesha,
		
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			the law of Apostasy these are the things which right now the West is focusing on big, big issues
forcing trying to force Muslims to back off these rules, these laws, which are a part of our Sharia,
and we find Muslims today in circles in Harvard and big discussions and you know, debates etc. You
find Muslims. Oh, no, no, no, we don't really believe that. There's difference of opinion and all
this kind of stuff.
		
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			That's an extreme opinion, extreme opinion to cut off a person's hand for stealing in Islam.
		
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			The Quran is not clear.
		
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			Factor Weide.
		
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			off their hands is not clear.
		
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			Of course, when presenting this, we don't present it as meat cleaver in the hand saying we should
cut off the hands of all thieves. This is our way No, no, no.
		
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			There are rules. There's a legal process, evidence has to be brought circumstances have to be looked
into all these different things. After all of that, then yes,
		
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			if you are found guilty, your hand will be amputated.
		
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			That's the law.
		
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			And we should not be ashamed of it. Because to be ashamed of it is to be ashamed of the Quran
itself.
		
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			And what does that say about someone's faith, ashamed of what Allah subhanho wa Taala has said in
the Quran.
		
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			But it is the how, how do we present it, of course, reality is that no matter how you present it,
		
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			in the end,
		
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			they want us to stop it.
		
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			To cancel it.
		
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			That is the bottom line.
		
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			So
		
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			we cannot escape the attack.
		
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			But if we have control of the media, then at least we can express our point of view.
		
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			point is we don't have access to the media. This is a big problem.
		
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			We have not focused on the importance of the media in conveying the message of Islam to the world.
		
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			So we have many channels, that many Arab,
		
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			national, Pakistani, you know, Indonesian, etc, channels around the world. But what is on those
channels? Nonsense.
		
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			Just nonsense. Those channels could be used for conveying Islam globally, and conveying Islam
nationally. But the consciousness of the oma has not reached that point. This is reality.
		
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			There is what we would like.
		
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			And then there's the reality.
		
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			But what concerns us most and what should concern us as individuals, you and I as individuals, we
cannot by channel say is good, it's true, we should do it. Let's go out and buy a channel. Now we
get millions of dollars we don't have the money.
		
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			So what does the law expect of us
		
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			towards
		
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			defense of Islam, promotion of Islam.
		
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			Allah wants us to live Islam.
		
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			If all of us here for Juma
		
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			made that
		
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			spiritual commitment to a loss of ohana with Allah.
		
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			That when we leave the Juma Today
		
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			we will strive
		
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			to make Islam our way of life.
		
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			In all of its aspects what we don't know we learn
		
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			as Allah told us first and the decree in quantum law tell us those who know if you don't know.
		
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			We find out truly yes of course if you ask the average person what do you need to do here? They're
they're there and I'm not sure I don't know. Find out
		
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			but have that commitment to know.
		
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			Leave here without commitment to live Islam. Make it real.
		
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			We will make a difference.
		
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			We will make a difference.
		
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			We might not see it right now.
		
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			This week,
		
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			this month
		
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			but know
		
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			that we will make a difference
		
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			So I asked the last one to Allah,
		
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			to strengthen our hearts,
		
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			to firm our feet
		
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			and to give us the courage
		
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			to make that commitment to him,
		
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			as it is only the commitment to him that matters.
		
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			And we ask Allah to forgive what has gone before, of our negligence or ignorance, or malpractice or
disobedience, our sins
		
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			and to forgive the sins of our parents, our grandparents, our families,
		
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			and we asked him
		
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			to turn those sins into righteous deeds.
		
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			Leaving Islam
		
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			leaving Islam
		
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			means living every aspect of Islam.
		
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			And the most important aspect
		
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			about which we will be asked first, on the day of judgment will be Salah.
		
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			Salah
		
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			the last words of the Prophet sallallahu wasallam.
		
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			leaving this world
		
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			was a Sala
		
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			take care of the prayer.
		
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			Look after this Allah,
		
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			Allah
		
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			how do we live?
		
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			The Salah.
		
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			Well, first and foremost, we must know what the Salah is
		
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			we need to know
		
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			what are the goals of the salah
		
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			and what are the means by which we get to those goals.
		
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			Because if we are focused on the means
		
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			and we don't understand the goals,
		
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			then we cannot live the salon.
		
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			So it is worth reflecting.
		
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			In order to bring our lives in conformity with Islam,
		
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			it is worth reflecting on what are the means and the goals of Salah.
		
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			The means we know
		
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			begin with Voodoo,
		
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			Voodoo
		
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			and they proceed
		
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			to the outer movements that we learn that beer
		
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			the things that we say Al Fatiha
		
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			prostration
		
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			bowing, sitting
		
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			those are the means
		
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			those are the means
		
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			the Salah is incorporated within that. But those are not the goals.
		
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			Many people today have confused goals with means.
		
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			So, we think that
		
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			the goal of Salah
		
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			what we are supposed to do is we'll do and the prayer.
		
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			But that is only the means
		
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			because we think
		
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			of the means as the goal.
		
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			Then we look at it as a burden.
		
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			We look at it as a burden.
		
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			Getting up for fudger
		
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			stopping what we're doing and going to praise or an awesome and Margaret
		
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			praise
		
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			Asia, it's a burden
		
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			which we take off our back at those different times.
		
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			And we will do it quickly.
		
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			Most of the times, we will do it quickly as quick as possible.
		
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			If we catch ourselves maybe we slow down a bit, but otherwise we do it quickly
		
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			get it done out of the way finished carry on with life
		
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			that's how we treat the Sala
		
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			as if this Allah was something we have to give a law you know at these times of the day we have this
burden we need to put it okay here it is a lot. Here it is, here it is done.
		
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			But that is not
		
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			that is not the sole law, which a law has prescribed
		
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			the living Sala
		
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			that is a dead Sala
		
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			that's a dead set of rituals that we go through daily
		
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			about which non Muslims complain
		
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			Look at this guy. He prays five times in the workplace is there is going is praying and
		
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			he cheats us It doesn't pay our salaries on time.
		
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			He makes us work more than we supposed to work
		
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			in lies
		
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			What is this a lot?
		
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			I've heard it many times from non Muslims. What is the value of this Salah this prayer
		
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			and I have to say I agree with you.
		
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			I agree with you
		
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			that Salah which that individual is making his value less
		
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			it is a value less prayer.
		
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			Virtually
		
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			maybe a lot gives them 1% or something I don't know I can't say zero but virtually value less have
no real value.
		
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			Yes, he removed the obligation of prayer from himself.
		
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			So okay, there is a valid point.
		
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			But the reward,
		
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			the impact the effect on his or her life
		
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			not there.
		
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			So how can Sala be a part of a living faith.
		
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			It's just a ritual
		
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			which we are doing mechanically.
		
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			Like robots.
		
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			At those times that have been prescribed, we do it.
		
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			But that is not the Salah which was prescribed.
		
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			Allah doesn't need our Salah we all agree.
		
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			I'm sure there's nobody here who thinks your lawn needs my prayer?
		
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			No. If you think that then you don't know who allies.
		
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			We all know Allahu Samad.
		
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			He has no need.
		
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			He depends on no one.
		
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			And all depends on him.
		
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			So that's so law is not for him.
		
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			He didn't prescribe it out of a need that he had. That's what we do. When we tell people do this, we
have a need.
		
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			They do it we benefit in one way or another.
		
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			But this is not a law. That's us human beings.
		
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			We have those needs. A law has no need.
		
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			So So law is prescribed for us.
		
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			As a life changing
		
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			event
		
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			at five times a day,
		
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			seven days a week.
		
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			throughout our lives
		
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			it has been prescribed because we need it.
		
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			Our worship of a law is out of a need that we have he prescribed it, because we need to worship Him.
		
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			All of that is for what?
		
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			So that we can get
		
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			the reward
		
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			the prize,
		
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			Jenna, for which we were created.
		
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			Allah created us for Jana.
		
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			But he gave us a choice.
		
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			Some people say, well, so why did he give us a choice when it just put us in gentlemen be done
finishing?
		
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			Why? Why do we have to go through all of this?
		
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			Why didn't you just make us and put us agenda finish End of story. We could just live happily ever
after Finnish.
		
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			People asked that question.
		
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			Because he already created angels.
		
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			He already created angels
		
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			who live happily ever after.
		
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			He didn't want to create more angels.
		
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			He wanted to create another set of beings
		
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			who would choose to be there.
		
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			So he created humankind.
		
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			And he gave them a choice
		
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			for that choice to be meaningful.
		
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			Then there had to be help.
		
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			People ask me if this god of yours is a good God and he's all powerful. Why did he make *
		
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			is a good God? Yeah, it's a good guy. So why why am I why *? Why make * if he's a good God?
		
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			The question people ask.
		
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			The point is that
		
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			when he created beings with a choice,
		
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			without there being *, there is no choice.
		
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			If there is only paradise, no choice.
		
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			So then what was the point of the choice? pointless.
		
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			So for the choice to be real,
		
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			how is the natural consequence there is heaven and there is how
		
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			we choose which one we want to go to.
		
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			So Salah what is Salah about Salah is to help us get to heaven.
		
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			That's what Salah is all about. For us, we need it to help us to get to heaven.
		
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			Simple
		
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			but the only Salah which will help us get to heaven
		
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			is the living Sala.
		
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			The real Sala
		
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			the way of life. Sala
		
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			not the ritual Sala
		
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			then
		
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			writes at
		
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			empty
		
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			that is not going to do anything for us.
		
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			So brothers, sisters,
		
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			as we make that commitment
		
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			to leave today
		
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			at the end of our Juma
		
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			to leave
		
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			with a new perspective on living Islam, making Islam real.
		
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			Begin with Salah.
		
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			This is the beginning point
		
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			To make it real
		
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			and this topic is actually a huge topic
		
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			not a topic which could be covered completely in
		
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			the Juma
		
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			Our time is limited.
		
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			The Prophet sallahu wa sallam left us with a simple principle,
		
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			a simple principle
		
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			sufficient in and of itself
		
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			to make Sala real.
		
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			If we can just grasp its implications and try to live its meaning. Very simple.
		
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			He said
		
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			solu. salata, mwah died,
		
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			pray the farewell prayer,
		
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			prayer pray the prayer of one giving farewell to this life.
		
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			Every one of us knows this.
		
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			This doesn't require a special understanding special Vickery of somebody, you have to do this with
your head and you have to
		
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			it is very straightforward.
		
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			And that was the dean. Very clear, straightforward. It doesn't involve special practices and
philosophies and
		
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			you know, each and every one of us knows that if somebody told you
		
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			you only have
		
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			three minutes left in your life
		
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			only enough time to make Voodoo
		
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			and make Sala
		
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			how are you going to make that we'll do
		
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			like we do it now.
		
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			We're going to do it like that? Surely not.
		
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			I think you all agree, we will not wait like that at all will be very carefully washing that.
		
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			Everything that we do we do it so carefully. We try to do it perfectly.
		
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			And the salaat
		
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			No, no way. He would be.
		
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			We know it. We know how we would do it.
		
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			Nobody needs to teach us this.
		
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			We just need to do it.
		
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			Of course.
		
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			It's not easy.
		
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			It's not easy.
		
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			Because we have so many distractions.
		
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			But at least
		
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			try to remember
		
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			and try to come as close as you can
		
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			to that ideal.
		
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			An ideal which is achievable. Not something which is on the moon. But you can only look up at this
is something we actually can do.
		
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			So I asked Allah subhanaw taala
		
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			to help us
		
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			make our prayers, farewell prayers
		
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			to make our will do farewell boos
		
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			to make our commitment to Islam, that of one who has no other commitment in his or her life
		
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			to keep our hearts firm
		
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			To remove the doubts
		
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			and to raise our children fairing a law as he deserves to be feared.
		
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			I asked a law sumanta Allah to give us long lives in righteousness
		
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			and to bless us
		
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			with righteous husbands and wives and righteous children
		
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			and to give us at the end of this world
		
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			an exit
		
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			which is pleasing to Him
		
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			where our last words are La Ilaha Illa Ma.
		
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