Cultivating Positivity #3

Ebrahim Bham

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Alhamdulillah wa Salatu was Salam O Allah Mallanna v Avada a mavado for the villa Jimenez shaytani r rajim, Bismillahi Rahmani Raheem. While after you know what other than one terminologia in many Sarah colocalizing respected viewers and listeners We begin by praising Almighty Allah azza wa jal sending salutations upon our beloved and via Kareem said Allah Allah He was alone after completing, maybe not completing, but doing the series on the purification of the heart and we have identifying certain spiritual diseases towards the end of Ramadan, we are doing something on cultivating positivity because always good to end of something on a positive note, and we gave examples with

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regard to that. And we also said together with ending something on a positive note, which is part of our traditions and values, and part of the Sunnah. There is also in our Sharia a general emphasis on being positive and being someone who is optimistic to give examples with regard to it via cream sauce them said actually unreal moment. wondrous is our fear of the believer is always good for him. When something happens according to his wishes, and things go well, he is grateful he gets a reward when things don't go well. He perseveres and he also gets a reward, then maybe a cream sauce himself be amongst those who spread the Good News bashira tuna Fira? Yes, sir, ah, Sarah, give glad tidings

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don't make people hate the truth. And then he said make things easy, don't make things difficult be the one who is a bearer of good news. And then a cream sauce also said be positive and productive till the end and recorded the Hadith in which there was an example, that if you have a seed and the time of Tiamat, and the Day of Judgment come, continue planting the seed. And a person who is positive will always be a people's magnet, he will be his optimism will be contagious, it will it will flow through to other people. So it makes a very big difference for a person to be positive and optimistic he will be a person's people's magnet, whereas a person who is a pessimist who is a

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gambler, who is all the time negative and is spreading negativity for a while people will listen to him but afterwards, they will tend to shy away from him not being comfortable with the negativity that he is spreading. And this in this regard, one of the greatest examples that we can give with regard to positivity is none other than the example of our beloved Nivea creme de la

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creme sauce. Lamb had this amazing ability and amazing aspect of providing optimism, even in the most difficult of times for the companions. This was something amazing. Look at this exam example in the Battle of the trench, because they do not have sufficient resources, the Sahaba and the Muslims took up a stance that they will take a trench to protect themselves against the overwhelming army that had come to attack la siege upon Medina. And while digging the trench, there comes a boulder that no one can remove. And they call the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam on via cream sauce that takes the X and it takes a chopper and he hits out of the Boulder. There is a certain amount of

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sparks that come to three times they are sparks that come in the boulders removed, it is cracked open by the physical strength of our beloved Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And then he tells the companions, he said, you know what those sparks represented. Sahaba said Allah is a soul knows best. And the vehicle himself said it represented that in a very short period, after my passing away in our history, the super powers of the time, the unjust, and the despotic, and the tyrannical. superpowers of the time will be taken over by the justice of Islam. This is an amazing thing. You have people who did not have sufficient resources, they didn't have enough to eat. And they were

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struggling that they had to create an air to build a trench to protect themselves. And the Prophet sallallahu wasallam is so optimistic. He's so positive, he's giving them glad tidings of the superpowers of the time that came to be falling in the hands of the Muslims. In due course it happened in a very short period of time in history, it happened. This is the optimism and the positive nature of our beloved prophet SAW sort of, he was even optimistic with regard to his own enemies, people who wanted to assassinate him. He may do Almighty Allah Allah Islam Dr. Marino hottub Oh Allah how Islam automotive photography Hello Toronto, when Khalid bin Walid

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Was amongst those who was responsible for the setback and the loss of many Muslim lives in the Battle of who had malaria cream sauce. Adam goes to Makkah and the ombre to lacava. And he was allowed three days to be in Makkah. He asked the brother Khalid, oh Walid, where is your brother? How did he say he could not even bear the Muslims coming into Makkah, he left Makkah. Via krimson Allahu alayhi wa sallam said, when he'd go and tell your brother, an intelligent person like him, and a capable person like him, cannot remain oblivious of the beauty of Islam for such a long period of time. Tell him to come to us. We will share and we will, we will value his honor and we all value

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his bravery. And let him come to see the beauty of Islam would have been when he writes a letter to Khalid. When he comes back, Khalid looks at that letter and said, he is a person I'm willing, and I'm prepared to go and assassinate, and this is the words that he is using for me. Look at the positive aspects with regard to even those who are the enemies who are responsible for the loss of so many lives of Muslims, and he happened to be occurring South Salem had such a remarkable approach towards them. And both of them, they became slaves of Islam. They carry the banner of Islam for such a long period of time, because of the optimistic nature of Libya, Karim Allah Allah wa sallam, so it

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was with a companions. They were replete with examples of a positive attitude from the Allahu taala and has reassuring the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam after he received the first way. And he came back and he said, milania milania Cover me, I'm afraid whether we'll be able to get it. She reassured him from the time of whether I shall be allowed as perseverance in the face in the match of allegations and her charitable nature in the form of other Jaffa Minami Taliban who subpoena melody allow co presenting Islam in hostile environments in our senior in Medina and changing the course of Islamic history. From Abdullayev Naomi matome, the blind Sahabi, who despite his physical

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challenges, he rose to become the magazine of our beloved via Kareem sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. This is the beauty of our religion, in terms of example of Nivea cream sauce them the example of the companions, they give us to give us an example and motivation and inspiration with regard to being positive and being optimistic. And we should bear this in mind as we come to the end of Ramadan and continue this optimistic and positive attribute and aspect as we go from Ramadan into the remainder 11 months of the year. You're lucky was a terrific