Bilal Philips – Quranic Reflections #35

24 June 2022

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The transcript describes a verse from the Quranic reflection series that describes the need to avoid satanic path. The verse describes a woman who draws a line in the sand straight and says that she wants to follow the path of the garden of heaven. The woman then draws lines on the sand and says that she wants to go to the path of the garden of heaven, but the path is not straight. The woman then draws lines on the sand and says that she wants to go to the path of the garden of heaven, but the path is not straight. The woman tells people not to follow the path of the garden of heaven and to stay on the clear path.

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			Salam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh My dear brothers and sisters, this is another verse from
the Quranic reflection series. And it is from Surah Al Baqarah

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			lotta tiberiu teboho watershape on in the hula comb, I do womb when

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			do not follow Satan's footsteps, for indeed he is your open enemy, says verse 168.

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			This verse addresses the need to avoid the satanic way in all of its aspects.

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			So, the very first point of reflection is that Satan's footsteps are as clear as the forbidden tree
in the garden of paradise. However, the satanic path has been carefully beautified in a variety of
different ways in which our attention will be drawn away from what has been

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			made halal and permissible for us, and directed towards these footsteps of Satan, that have been so
beautified. We feel our lives are incomplete without following it.

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			The second point of reflection

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			is that on one occasion, Prophet Muhammad SAW Selim drew a line in the sand straight line.

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			And he said this is the longest path. Then he drew lines on the either side of that straight line
like veins on a leaf, you have the central line of the leaf and then veins going off to either side,

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			from the right and the left. And he said these paths

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			are the paths of misguidance these lines going off on either side. At the head of each path, there
is a devil inviting people to follow it.

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			And then he recited verse 153 of surah Allah Nam

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			Verily, this is my path leading straight. So follow it and do not follow the other paths, for they
will scatter you about from Allah's path.

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			The third point of reflection, is that Allah reminds us that Satan is our open enemy. So that no
matter what the satanic forces do to beautify the forbidden, like calling riba usury in Old English
interest. So it sounds interesting. It's in your interest, or they call it profit,

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			or returns on your investments, all of these sound beautiful.

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			Hearing these, we won't be fooled. So this is the normal procedure of the satanic forces

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			to beautify what is evil

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			so that we can't see it's evil.

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			We should always stay on that clear, straight path.

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			May Allah keep us there. Baraka Luffy

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			was Salam alaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.