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The importance of sacred time is affirmation of sacredness and individuals are created by actions. The challenges of creating creative ideas and creating something that is creative and intelligent are highlighted. The importance of the holy grail and the interrelatedness of the 2 halves of the prayer is emphasized, along with the importance of refreshing one's understanding of the holy word and seeking the necessary qualities at a base level. The importance of knowing the state of the heart in one's life is emphasized, along with the importance of acquiring knowledge of the state of the heart for making choices. Making monthly donations at the screening hub is also discussed.

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			The messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be
		
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			upon him, encouraged us to strive for uprightness
		
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			by seeking assistance in the early mornings, late
		
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			afternoons at and something of the depths of
		
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			the night. From this tradition, the scholars made
		
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			it a habit to briefly read text of
		
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			religious guidance in the late afternoon and often
		
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			term such readings the daily.
		
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			The term refers to the late afternoon, but
		
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			also to a time of rest from worldly
		
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			toils and reinvigoration of one's spirit.
		
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			In this day, Sheikh Harazrabani will be covering
		
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			2 texts, imam Zarnunji's primer on the etiquette
		
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			of seeking knowledge,
		
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			and imam Youssef An Nabhani's beautiful collection of
		
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			40 sets of 40 prophetic hadith.
		
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			We are continuing to look at
		
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			the 40 hadith Qudsi
		
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			from the work of Sheikh Yousaf and Nabehany.
		
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			And
		
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			these Hadith Qudsi, if, you know, if you've
		
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			got a feel for them so far,
		
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			they convey
		
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			One of the reasons they call hadith.
		
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			What is?
		
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			Is
		
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			a very important
		
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			meaning in the Arabic language. Like, what is
		
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			what is?
		
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			Yeah. It's the affirmation of sacredness. Right? Well,
		
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			right? To be sacred
		
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			is that sense of. Right?
		
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			Right? Is to be distant from blemish,
		
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			to be
		
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			transcendent,
		
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			to be exalted.
		
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			Right? And those are the meanings of sacredness.
		
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			Right? Which is why Jerusalem is called Al
		
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			Quds.
		
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			It is the sacred city. Right?
		
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			And, of course, they say it's it it
		
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			symbolizes the nature of the dunya.
		
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			Right? The the you know, dunya is a
		
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			place of tribulation,
		
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			and this sacred city
		
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			is the city of tribulation.
		
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			So we completed hadith number 10. Correct?
		
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			Right.
		
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			About not cursing time,
		
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			but not cursing time.
		
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			Why? Because Allah is the lord of time.
		
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			The 11th
		
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			hadith,
		
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			It is related by ibn Abbas, may Allah
		
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			be well pleased with both
		
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			son and father
		
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			because
		
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			Abdullah ibn Abbas is the son of Al
		
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			Abbas, the uncle of the prophet that
		
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			the messenger of Allah
		
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			said that Allah most high says,
		
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			and who is a greater wrongdoer?
		
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			Who is a greater wrongdoer than one who
		
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			strives
		
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			to create
		
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			creation
		
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			like my creating?
		
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			First,
		
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			what is?
		
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			Who is a greater wrongdoer than one who
		
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			tried to create creation like my creation?
		
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			Is
		
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			not giving something its due
		
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			or it is to transgress
		
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			the right of another or to fall short
		
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			of the rights of another. Right? So there's
		
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			the Haqq and this is why
		
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			justice
		
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			is Adl,
		
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			right, is balance.
		
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			So if you exceed
		
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			the bounds with respect to the rights of
		
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			other, that's or you fall short
		
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			of their rights, that is
		
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			So who is a greater wrongdoer than one
		
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			who strives to create
		
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			anything
		
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			created
		
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			like my creating.
		
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			This is wrongdoing
		
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			above all at the level of
		
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			belief in Allah.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because
		
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			Right? Khalk
		
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			Truly
		
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			Allah's
		
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			is creating
		
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			and Allah's is the command.
		
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			Al Khalq
		
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			creating
		
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			is
		
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			is to bring something into existence is originating
		
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			from nothingness.
		
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			That is creating.
		
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			A lot of people get confused
		
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			regarding
		
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			the meaning here because it's mentioned in the
		
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			Quran as well. Let let them create
		
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			a fly, Zubaba.
		
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			And, well, now we have genetic and engineering,
		
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			and we have this and that. You know,
		
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			Siddhartha Mukherjee, who wrote the great book on
		
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			cancer, now has something on genetics,
		
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			which is an important
		
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			and intelligent
		
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			work. It just came out.
		
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			That everyone's confused. We can we can manipulate
		
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			the, you know,
		
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			the the genes. Forget the DNA. We can,
		
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			you know and they say, you know, genes,
		
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			you know, the human
		
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			genome,
		
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			they say is is like the Encyclopedia Britannica
		
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			if it were 60 something volumes.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And it's made up just of 4 letters.
		
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			Right? There's repetitions of that. Of course, no
		
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			one sees that, you know,
		
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			and that
		
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			that that there there are signs in that.
		
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			Right? But
		
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			for whom right? But
		
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			they behold not. But who's a greater wrongdoer
		
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			than one who would strive to create like
		
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			my creating?
		
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			And what is the challenge? And this is
		
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			a challenge till the end of times. We
		
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			shouldn't feel challenged by what people are doing.
		
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			Why? Because everything that people are doing is
		
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			bringing together creative things,
		
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			bring to a and b to produce c,
		
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			or fiddling with a, so it becomes
		
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			b.
		
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			Right?
		
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			It is not
		
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			It is not originating from absolutely
		
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			nothing.
		
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			And that is,
		
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			you know, that is
		
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			the divine
		
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			creating.
		
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			His command, if he wishes something to be,
		
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			he simply is be and it is. That
		
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			is Allah subha'tha is creating.
		
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			And that's the challenge.
		
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			Right? That's the challenge.
		
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			So let them create
		
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			a, an atom. Right? Something that small.
		
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			Aura.
		
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			Or let them create a grain.
		
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			Or let them create a head of barley.
		
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			Like a grain of barley.
		
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			Right?
		
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			This
		
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			yes. So this is this is a divine
		
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			challenge. Right? And at one level,
		
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			you know, when the prophet, salallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sama, speaks,
		
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			you know, the the oleman say it's he
		
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			is speaking to the stage
		
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			of all creation until the end of time.
		
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			Because who's sitting in Medina trying to create
		
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			a grain?
		
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			Right?
		
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			Right?
		
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			That's part of the, you know,
		
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			that he
		
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			is. I was sent to all people completely.
		
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			And that's not just the people in his
		
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			time,
		
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			but also till the end of time. And
		
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			this and this stands.
		
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			But we have to be careful not to
		
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			be
		
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			shaken by,
		
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			you know, this,
		
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			by these,
		
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			by
		
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			all the traces of Allah's creation. Right? We
		
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			we we see them for what they are.
		
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			Right?
		
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			The the next hadith
		
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			So Bouhay relates to the messenger of Allah
		
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			said that Allah most high says.
		
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			And this is a very powerful
		
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			hadith
		
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			on Surah Al Fatiha.
		
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			Right? On Surat Al Fatihah. And the significance
		
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			of Surat Al Fatihah.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And Surat Al Fatihah
		
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			is really the,
		
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			you know,
		
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			a sum a summary of the entire Quran.
		
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			The entire guidance of the Quran,
		
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			say Nabi Mitalib says is contained
		
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			in
		
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			goes back to Surat Al Baqarah. And there
		
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			are some great scholars who show how all
		
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			the
		
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			how
		
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			all
		
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			the Quran goes back to Surat Al Baqarah.
		
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			Amongst those who
		
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			touched upon that was Imam Burhanuddin
		
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			Bi'kari, in the in the author of the
		
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			tafsir nafmud Durar, but also of
		
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			the distinguished scholars of the 20th century,
		
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			Sheikh Saeed Hawa,
		
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			a beleaguered Syrian scholar who migrated to Jordan.
		
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			In
		
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			his in his work,
		
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			notable work,
		
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			particularly if one appreciates the very distressful circumstances
		
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			that he that his life lived out
		
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			through. It shows how all
		
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			all the meaning of the Quran goes back
		
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			to Surah Al Baqarah. And all the all
		
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			the meanings and guidance contained in Surah Al
		
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			Baqarah is affirmed in
		
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			Surat Al Fatiha.
		
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			Which is why Sayidna Ali bin Abita Lib
		
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			also said, I could explain Surat Al Baqarah
		
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			in camel loads
		
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			of volumes.
		
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			And many scholars wrote entire detailed volumes just
		
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			on Surat Al Fett amongst them.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And a lot of it is because there's
		
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			basic tafsir, right, which is a says b.
		
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			But
		
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			there's also the reflective tafsir
		
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			that, for example, if you reflect on Surat
		
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			Al,
		
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			you know, you know, there's many
		
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			levels of on there's levels of understanding beyond
		
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			limit that are understood
		
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			from Surah Al Fati. Amongst them,
		
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			goes into that we understand
		
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			the primacy of Sayid Nabu Bakr as Siddiq
		
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			from
		
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			Surat Al Fatiha.
		
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			How?
		
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			Because
		
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			Allah
		
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			Right? We ask to be guided to the
		
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			straight path. The path of those you whom
		
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			you blessed before us. And who are those
		
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			whom you blessed before us? It explain elsewhere
		
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			in the Quran.
		
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			In
		
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			the
		
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			Quran.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Of the prophets and the
		
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			and the and the and he was agreed
		
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			upon
		
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			to be known as a.
		
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			Right? Like, even his enemies
		
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			acknowledge that title. Right? That he's a.
		
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			This guy is so if the prophet is
		
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			a,
		
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			then he is this he's like even his
		
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			enemies say he's Siddiq. Right?
		
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			He's a champion of that truth that the
		
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			prophet came with.
		
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			And
		
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			these are reflective
		
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			in
		
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			meanings that are understood. Some of them, of
		
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			course, are,
		
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			you know, they're,
		
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			you know, they're they're they're dependent on external
		
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			meanings, but but if you accept the Quran
		
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			as being a whole,
		
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			then
		
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			so this so this fatiha,
		
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			you know,
		
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			deserves
		
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			reflection. And here, we see some of the
		
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			significance.
		
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			So
		
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			I have divided the prayer between myself and
		
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			my servant,
		
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			in 2 halves.
		
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			And from my servant has whatever they asked
		
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			for.
		
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			Now here one of the things
		
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			the this hadith will tell us about
		
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			Surah Al Fatiha.
		
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			It'll tell us about Surah Al Fatiha.
		
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			So one of the names of Surah Al
		
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			Fatiha
		
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			according to a lot of the based on
		
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			this,
		
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			hadith
		
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			and other hadiths
		
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			is
		
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			a
		
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			salah.
		
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			I have divided the prayer of salah
		
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			between myself
		
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			and my servant in into 2 halves, And
		
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			my servant shall have whatever they ask.
		
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			Because what is the subject here? So some
		
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			scholars said that, well,
		
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			the whole prayer is divided 2 halves.
		
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			There is because what is the prayer? There's
		
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			a prayer is a turning to Allah and
		
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			an asking of Allah.
		
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			Right? So in so far as it's a
		
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			turning to Allah, it's in recognition of his
		
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			lordship, his glory, his greatness that is the
		
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			the role of the dhikr in the prayer.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And there's the role of du'a in the
		
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			prayer which is to ask. Right? And the
		
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			prayer is between dhikr and du'a.
		
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			And the states of the prayer are between
		
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			dhikr and du'a. The standing is a dhikr
		
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			and it's a du'a.
		
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			And both come together. Right? It's not one
		
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			or the other. Because the dhikr of the
		
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			dua affirms dhikr. Because when you ask
		
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			you are turning to the one asked. When
		
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			you turn to the one asked
		
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			when you turn to Allah, you're affirming
		
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			the asking
		
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			of the state of your neediness.
		
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			Right? So
		
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			the ask the turning
		
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			in recognition and the asking
		
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			are interrelated. 1 entails the other if complete.
		
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			Right? So the 2 halves are not separated.
		
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			So what am I saying? There's 2 halves
		
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			but they fit together.
		
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			But they don't fit together only in in
		
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			the sense that there's this and
		
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			there's this. The 2 come together.
		
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			So does it apply to the whole prayer?
		
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			Some people say the the the the fat
		
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			has been used here as an example. So
		
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			you begin,
		
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			this is how it begins.
		
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			And like they say and
		
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			the rest follows in the same way.
		
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			But another way of looking at it is
		
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			that the Fatiha itself is the prayer.
		
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			Now
		
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			how? At several levels. 1, the Arabs used
		
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			the
		
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			the concept of
		
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			Sometimes you can refer
		
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			to a part
		
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			by the whole.
		
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			And sometimes you can
		
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			refer to a part by the whole.
		
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			Or you can refer to the whole by
		
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			the part.
		
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			That's from the power of the Arabic language.
		
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			So, for example, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says
		
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			bow with those who bow.
		
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			But if sister Yasmeen heard that, says, Allah
		
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			only commanded us to bow with those who
		
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			bow. So she just sits waiting. When the
		
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			sisters get into Ruqoah, she joins in. I
		
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			bowed with those who bowed. And then she
		
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			says, well,
		
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			I'm tired. And she just relaxes. Is that
		
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			considered praying? No. Why the bowing there, it
		
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			refer
		
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			or prostrate with those who prostrate. We weren't
		
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			of those who prostrated.
		
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			K? When the the people asked the people
		
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			of Jehannam, why didn't
		
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			what took you into succor? They say,
		
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			Musalim.
		
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			Right? We did we weren't of those who
		
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			prayed but was it?
		
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			Elsewhere
		
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			that we we did not prostrate with those
		
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			who prostrated.
		
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			Right?
		
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			But it's that's mentioning the part and intending
		
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			the whole. So in in that sense and
		
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			sometimes a part is mentioned to highlight its
		
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			significance.
		
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			K? And the greatest
		
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			what's the greatest part of the prayer?
		
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			What's the greatest part of the prayer?
		
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			Good.
		
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			Though
		
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			prostration is particularly
		
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			emphatic
		
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			in expression of neediness and closeness,
		
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			the closest
		
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			is to the Lord
		
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			is when they're in prostration because that state
		
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			even to one heedless should be expressive of
		
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			your complete neediness. I know several people personally
		
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			who became Muslim when they prostrated.
		
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			And some good friend of mine,
		
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			white Californian,
		
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			surfer type,
		
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			you know, left the US military,
		
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			became a photographer,
		
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			took a photoshopping
		
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			Photoshop course,
		
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			ran into some lady, seemed to be wearing
		
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			a hoodie in the summer. They asked her,
		
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			what's up with that? Is that a new
		
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			style? She was like a jibab wearing sister.
		
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			So she pointed him. She'd explained a few
		
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			answers, fell shy, pointed him to the masjid,
		
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			went there, long story,
		
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			ended up
		
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			at
		
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			when the one type of masjid walked out
		
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			because it seems strange.
		
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			Allah protected him.
		
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			Ran to his his grandparents, his neighbor, African
		
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			American, that was Muslim.
		
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			Said, Paul, what are you doing coming out
		
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			of that mosque? He said, it's really weird.
		
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			Said he explained. Went to the masjid. Had
		
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			no thought about Islam.
		
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			But being sort of hip Californian,
		
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			said, well, his his grandparents' neighbor said, wanna
		
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			join in with us?
		
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			Sure.
		
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			Said, well, I'll do what you guys are
		
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			doing. And no thought about Islam. When he
		
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			put his foot forehead on the ground, he
		
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			realized
		
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			that this has to be the truth.
		
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			And next day he was he was Muslim.
		
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			So
		
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			but despite the place of the prostration, for
		
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			example,
		
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			the greatest part of the prayer
		
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			by clear text of the Quran,
		
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			by clear
		
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			indications of the text of the Quran, but
		
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			very clear and explicitly
		
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			in the sunnah
		
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			of the Prophet
		
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			it is clear and there is a position
		
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			of the vast majority of salam al khaljid,
		
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			the best part of the prayer is the
		
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			recitation.
		
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			By transmission the Prophet said The
		
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			best of prayer is lengthy recitation
		
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			and many other
		
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			texts. And all and also rationally,
		
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			because if you look at what you're doing
		
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			when you're standing, you're reciting Quran and Quran
		
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			is superior to zikr.
		
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			Right? Etcetera. But it's textually.
		
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			So
		
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			and my servant has whatever they asked for.
		
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			Right? And to be people of meaning, we
		
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			we reflect on these things. And my servant
		
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			has whatever
		
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			they asked for.
		
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			But you're dealing with a generous lord. You
		
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			didn't ask for anything. He'll still reward you.
		
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			But it's not like the one who asked.
		
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			Right? And it's not like the one who
		
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			asked for Allah.
		
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			And my servant
		
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			my servant
		
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			and is
		
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			for Istihq.
		
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			I you know,
		
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			it's for them.
		
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			It's for them. Right? So it's like there,
		
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			you didn't ask for it.
		
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			Right?
		
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			We did not wrong them. It was there.
		
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			You didn't ask for it.
		
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			Right? And rather it was they wronged themselves.
		
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			So if the servant and here, of course,
		
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			it hide you know, when when a term
		
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			when
		
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			someone is referred to something,
		
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			one has to pay attention to what are
		
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			they being referred to as.
		
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			Right? So if a name is used,
		
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			right, so if, you know, someone gave, you
		
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			say, the the generous man then
		
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			gave a lot in charity. Why is
		
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			kareem mentioned there?
		
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			Because you want to highlight that quality.
		
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			You don't you don't say
		
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			then the
		
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			you you want to highlight
		
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			you you mention things if you are speaking
		
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			intelligently
		
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			with a distinguishing quality.
		
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			Right?
		
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			You have to highlight a meaning. So
		
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			if the servant
		
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			says right? Because what is the basis of
		
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			prayer? It is it's it's
		
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			servitive. You could say if the one praying.
		
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			Right?
		
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			But the meaning being highlighted is
		
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			servanthood.
		
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			Right?
		
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			If the servant says all praise is due
		
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			to Allah, Lord of the worlds.
		
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			Allah most high says, my servant
		
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			my servant has praised me.
		
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			Which is why this one of the wisdoms
		
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			why the prophet when he recited,
		
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			he would pause after every
		
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			verse.
		
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			Right? And they say there's several aspects. One
		
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			is to reflect on what you're going to
		
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			say next, but also every meaning
		
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			has a response.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Right? So they say it's like, you know,
		
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			you ask for water, you have to wait
		
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			for it to be poured. I say, give
		
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			me some water and then said, could you
		
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			top it up with some drops of lemon?
		
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			But you didn't, like, you know, you have
		
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			to wait.
		
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			Right? So this is part of,
		
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			you need the adam. Right? That there's a
		
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			divine response coming. We have
		
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			to give
		
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			it
		
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			its spiritual deed.
		
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			And if the servant says,
		
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			all merciful,
		
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			most compassionate.
		
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			Allah says my servant has
		
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			exalted me.
		
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			You
		
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			know, my servant has exalted me.
		
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			If the servant says, master of the day
		
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			of resurrection
		
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			or the
		
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			day
		
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			of
		
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			reckoning
		
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			Allah
		
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			most high says, my servant has affirmed my
		
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			majesty.
		
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			And if the servant says, you alone
		
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			do we serve
		
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			and you alone
		
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			do we seek assistance of.
		
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			Allah says
		
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			this is between me and my servant.
		
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			And my servant shall have whatever they ask
		
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			for.
		
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			Alright. This is why
		
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			differ. What is the greatest part of the
		
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			What's the greatest part of the
		
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			And some argue that it it is.
		
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			The great Wali,
		
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			and imam, and his Hambali. Very interesting. Hambali
		
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			from Herat.
		
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			They used to be Hanbalis in in Afghanistan.
		
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			Wajah Abdulah
		
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			Ansari and his work.
		
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			Right?
		
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			The the the stations of those traveling to
		
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			closeness to Allah is a great imam of
		
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			hadith and a great imam of fiqh and
		
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			a great imam of spirituality.
		
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			Interesting a work commented upon by Ibn Khayim
		
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			Al Jazia amongst many others.
		
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			It's men in the
		
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			is Menazil Usa Irene,
		
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			and he says between the two stations of
		
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			Iyak and Abu Du and Iyak and Esteyn.
		
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			Because all of
		
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			all of life is between these two meanings.
		
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			Okay? And between these two meanings is
		
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			being with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. You alone
		
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			we serve,
		
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			you alone we rely upon.
		
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			This is between me
		
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			And what is what is between you and
		
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			between your lord? That's closeness.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Right? So many have said this is the
		
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			greatest part of Surat Al Shaddai. Others have
		
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			said, it's
		
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			guide us to the straight path. What does
		
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			the straight path lead you to?
		
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			To the realization of
		
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			That's between you and Allah.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Right?
		
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			Right? So if one is seeking
		
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			to
		
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			attain closeness, and the closeness talked about in
		
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			the the Hadith Qudsi of
		
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			of
		
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			How do you draw close?
		
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			By the realization of these two meanings.
		
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			Realization of slave hood and realization of reliance
		
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			upon Allah.
		
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			Right? And all the spiritual path is between
		
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			these two meanings.
		
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			Right?
		
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			This is between me and my servant.
		
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			And my servant shall have whatever they ask
		
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			for. And, again,
		
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			what are you asking for? Right?
		
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			And the people of intelligence ask Allah for
		
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			Allah.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And if when the servant says,
		
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			guide us to the straight path, the path
		
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			of those you blessed before us, not those
		
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			under your wrath
		
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			nor those
		
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			astray.
		
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			Says, this is for my servant, and my
		
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			servant shall have what they asked for.
		
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			So one of the many
		
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			had this understood from this is that at
		
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			every stage,
		
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			know what you're asking for.
		
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			I don't just say it,
		
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			but
		
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			ask.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Right? Ask.
		
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			And this is related by and he goes
		
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			into detail. Why? Because
		
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			it's so well related. It's raised by Ahmed,
		
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			by by Muslims. So it's an really, it's
		
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			the authentic hadith.
		
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			But
		
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			it's in all these other major collections to
		
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			Abu Dawood and Tirmidi Nasai and ibn Majah
		
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			and ibn Hiban.
		
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			So that's what we wanted to to look
		
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			at today. So we should all we should
		
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			always strive to renew
		
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			our recitation of Surah Al Fatiha, to refresh
		
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			it,
		
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			to reinvigorate it,
		
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			to reflect on it,
		
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			and
		
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			to always also with our own personal reflection
		
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			to always go back and strive
		
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			to reacquaint ourselves with its meanings.
		
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			Right? Because meanings,
		
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			become
		
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			can become
		
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			occluded.
		
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			Right? Can become occluded
		
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			by lack of
		
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			you know? And they're refreshed.
		
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			Right? Remind.
		
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			So for reminders, benefit believers.
		
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			And
		
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			we we remind others, but we also remind
		
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			ourselves by reviewing
		
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			the tafsir,
		
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			by re rereading
		
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			the tafsir
		
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			of these verses.
		
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			Any questions here?
		
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			Go ahead.
		
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			This
		
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			is between my servant
		
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			and and I,
		
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			and my servant shall have whatever they ask
		
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			for. Right? That it is
		
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			and there's many
		
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			there's many possibilities,
		
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			and the honorable mention a number of meaning.
		
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			Ultimately, what is between you and but what
		
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			is between the lord and the servant?
		
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			That is that is the relationship between the
		
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			lord and the servant. And that servant should
		
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			have whatever they asked for.
		
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			So when one says it, one should want
		
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			yeah. This is the relation. And what is
		
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			a servant seeking?
		
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			Closeness to Allah. The love of Allah.
		
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			The good pleasure of Allah.
		
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			Right? So they're seeking Allah. That's
		
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			Ikhlas.
		
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			As one of the great poets said, do
		
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			not seek other than Allah
		
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			privately and publicly.
		
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			And be certain that Allah is present with
		
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			you wherever you may be.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Because present
		
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			not physically
		
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			because that's madness.
		
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			Right? So that's about the closeness. So what's
		
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			the essence of the fatiha?
		
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			It's about that closeness to Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala.
		
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			And yeah. And the servants shall have whatever
		
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			they asked for. So we should renew our
		
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			asking.
		
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			Now the second part we look briefly at
		
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			the
		
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			Ta'lim al Mut'alim.
		
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			So we we are
		
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			in the first chapter still looking at the
		
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			various knowledges that are obligatory. In general,
		
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			that you're responsible for essential knowledge.
		
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			And particular and the the essential knowledge related
		
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			to your worship, he talked about
		
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			related to any other matter in life that
		
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			you engage in. So he explained that.
		
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			Knowledge related to transactions.
		
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			Right? At the heart of transactions being the
		
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			sales and the contract. And why? That is
		
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			the basis of
		
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			zuhud, of renunciation,
		
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			and the basis of spirituality,
		
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			practically.
		
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			And then
		
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			he says,
		
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			likewise, it is obligatory upon them to have
		
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			knowledge of the states of the heart.
		
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			Likewise, it is obligatory upon
		
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			the one morally responsible
		
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			to gain knowledge of the states of the
		
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			heart
		
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			from reliance upon Allah and from penitence
		
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			and
		
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			and having reverent awe and
		
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			and contentment.
		
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			For these
		
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			affect 1 in all states.
		
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			Now technically
		
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			the knowledge of them is not required in
		
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			itself.
		
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			These states, they're states that Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala has commanded
		
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			and they're obligatory. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells
		
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			us,
		
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			Be in fearful of me if you believe.
		
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			And Allah commands to have
		
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			rely upon the living who is undying.
		
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			Right? That's a command just as
		
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			just like establish the prayer.
		
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			Right? The
		
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			at the level of the command and at
		
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			the level of encouragement.
		
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			Allah is with the mindful.
		
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			All these qualities are mentioned.
		
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			But Allah commands repeatedly
		
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			to qualities just as he commands to actions.
		
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			How many times does that come? Oh, you
		
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			who believe have taqwa of Allah.
		
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			Is a command.
		
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			And the command indicates obligation.
		
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			And the most oft repeated commands
		
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			are not simply related to actions,
		
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			they're related to states.
		
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			So the state
		
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			is obligatory that one must have certain qualities
		
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			at a basic level, is a base level
		
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			of qualities of the heart that are obligatory.
		
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			And there's a perfection of those qualities
		
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			that is
		
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			recommended and that's from becoming of the,
		
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			right, of the foremost
		
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			to the extent that one acquires them.
		
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			Knowledge of them is not sought in itself.
		
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			Right? Someone, they could have awe of Allah
		
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			without knowing anything about awe of Allah. Someone
		
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			could have all these qualities
		
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			without knowing even their names.
		
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			Right?
		
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			But the knowledge of it
		
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			is a means
		
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			is the the normal means to acquire
		
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			the
		
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			required
		
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			state.
		
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			Right? Is a normal means. How can you
		
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			seek something if you don't know what it
		
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			is? What are you working on right now?
		
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			The state of my heart. So what are
		
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			you working on? I don't know. How are
		
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			you going to acquire it? Noku.
		
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			How will you know if you acquired it?
		
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			There'll be signs. What are they? I don't
		
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			know.
		
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			It's possible that you could attain it, but
		
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			it's not like the possibility of someone who
		
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			knows what they're seeking and they know how
		
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			to seek it
		
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			and the means of, you know, the the
		
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			means of seeking it,
		
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			the signs of attaining it,
		
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			the obstacles in its attainment,
		
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			the challenges that one faces, how to deal
		
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			with those challenges, etcetera.
		
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			Right? So there's
		
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			a a illmi aspect. And each of these
		
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			qualities, the olema generally talk about the the
		
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			illmi aspect, knowing
		
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			about the virtue and its acquisition
		
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			and the impediments to the virtue.
		
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			And
		
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			there's the Amelie aspect, the practical aspect of
		
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			acquiring it. And ideally, both are required. And
		
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			there's different methods
		
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			of a of
		
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			their acquisition.
		
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			Right? And but and it's a lifetime struggle.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Someone asked Sheikh Abdul Ahmed Shoaib once. Say,
		
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			are you now a
		
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			a a perfected sheikh? Are you a sheikh
		
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			Kamil? He said,
		
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			I'm the perfectly
		
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			imperfect.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And it that has many,
		
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			many possible
		
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			meanings, but that's the the realization
		
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			that
		
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			know, that it
		
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			and in the, you know, the you know,
		
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			one, Al Kamal Al Muqlaq is
		
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			Right?
		
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			And,
		
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			you know, and human perfection
		
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			is the prophet.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Right? Even the prophet says, Imam, it's quite
		
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			shockingly
		
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			phrase, but if you read the opening of
		
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			the Hamzian, I'd recommend you to to read
		
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			it.
		
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			He begins,
		
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			how can even prophets rise
		
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			to your high station?
		
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			Oh, sky that no sky can encompass.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Right?
		
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			That is the
		
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			that
		
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			is the goal. So
		
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			everyone and Allah Subha Ta'ala
		
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			manifest
		
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			to us our shortcomings.
		
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			And tawfeeq is to realize that and to
		
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			rectify.
		
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			And like what there there is and then
		
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			the the states of the heart are those
		
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			states that relate to our relationship with Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And there's the states that
		
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			relate to our relating to Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala's
		
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			creation.
		
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			And both and sometimes they consider them together
		
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			and sometimes they consider them separately.
		
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			And
		
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			this
		
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			and the olema say that after
		
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			full after gaining knowledge of what one must
		
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			believe about Allah and one's worship,
		
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			right, and
		
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			what one is engaged in on a day
		
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			to day level in one's life at a
		
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			basic level,
		
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			so that one is not in the state
		
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			of sin in one's day to day,
		
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			then
		
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			of the most urgent obligations is to acquire
		
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			knowledge of
		
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			the the states of the heart. But, of
		
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			course, the knowledge of the states of the
		
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			heart is not just to learn about it,
		
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			but
		
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			is to take is to strive
		
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			to acquire them. Right? But that but that
		
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			is an ongoing
		
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			commitment. Right? That's an ongoing
		
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			commitment.
		
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			So this is part of the obligation as
		
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			well. Yeah. This knowledge of the states of
		
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			the heart. And the science related to that
		
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			is
		
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			the science of
		
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			and it has different names.
		
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			The science
		
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			related to what the prophet referred to as
		
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			in the hadith
		
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			Jibril.
		
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			Right?
		
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			The early Muslims often referred to it as
		
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			a zuhud, renunciation.
		
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			To renounce worldliness
		
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			and all qualities of the worldly
		
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			and all to renounce all that distances one
		
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			from a land, embrace all that turns one
		
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			towards Allah. Others refer to it as
		
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			with the whole number of names, the
		
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			the the title for the science as an
		
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			Islamic science
		
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			became Tasawuf.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And there's
		
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			abuses of that just as there's abuses of
		
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			theology
		
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			of
		
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			and fiqh.
		
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			There are those who are
		
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			mainstream and sound in that. There are those
		
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			who are not.
		
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			And then
		
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			he explains the the the virtue of knowledge,
		
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			and we'll just read that very briefly because
		
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			this discursive doesn't require a lot of explanation.
		
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			He says,
		
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			and the virtue of knowledge
		
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			is not hidden to anyone.
		
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			Anyone will be aware of it. Of knowledge,
		
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			meaning knowledge itself.
		
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			Because it is what is unique
		
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			to
		
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			humanity.
		
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			Because all other qualities
		
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			besides knowledge are shared
		
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			between
		
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			humans and other animals.
		
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			And by knowledge, we we mean here
		
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			acquired knowledge that is pleasing to Allah. We're
		
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			not denying
		
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			that animals
		
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			have cognition.
		
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			Right? But here is knowledge
		
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			of how to seek the pleasure of Allah
		
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			subhanahu. And the knowledge that enables 1, knowledge
		
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			that enable gives on the capacity to make
		
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			choices. Right? The knowledge related to the
		
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			that Allah has placed within us.
		
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			Right? Which is choice.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Because other qualities are shared between
		
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			humans and animals.
		
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			Such as bravery
		
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			and such as,
		
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			and and,
		
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			you know,
		
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			bravery. Right?
		
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			Courage and bravery.
		
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			And strength.
		
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			And generosity.
		
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			And caring concern.
		
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			And other qualities.
		
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			Other than knowledge.
		
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			And through knowledge, Allah manifested
		
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			the virtue of Adam,
		
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			of the prophet Adam, peace be upon him.
		
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			Upon the angels.
		
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			And Allah commanded them to prostrate to Adam.
		
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			Right? As is coming in
		
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			verse 31, for example. Right?
		
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			Allah taught Adam all the names. And then
		
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			when the angels asked
		
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			why have you,
		
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			you know, why have you created one who
		
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			will disobey you and
		
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			spill blood, etcetera? Allah taught Adam the names
		
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			of all things
		
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			and then presented those things to the angels
		
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			and said,
		
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			tell me of the names of these things.
		
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			If you are true.
		
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			So what was the virtue of Adam that
		
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			Allah manifest?
		
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			Allah taught Adam.
		
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			And what is the quality
		
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			by which Allah has granted
		
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			We have honored the children of Adam. It
		
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			begins with knowledge.
		
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			So the one bereft of knowledge
		
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			is bereft of the
		
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			the actualization of the potential
		
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			within them.
		
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			And the angels were commanded to prostrate themselves
		
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			to Adam because of that.
		
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			And the only
		
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			virtue of knowledge
		
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			is because it is
		
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			the means to taqwa,
		
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			To taqwa, to mindfulness of Allah, to god
		
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			consciousness,
		
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			to piety.
		
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			Through which quality, through taqwa,
		
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			a person
		
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			becomes deserving of honor,
		
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			of honoring
		
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			in the sight of Allah most high.
		
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			The most honored of you in the sight
		
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			of Allah are
		
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			those of greatest taqwa.
		
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			And eternal felicity.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Because if you you see
		
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			all the things that the people of taqwa
		
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			are promised in the Quran. There's no quality
		
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			for which people are promised more
		
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			than they are promised for Taqwa.
		
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			Right? And all of guidance
		
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			is contingent upon Taqwa.
		
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			It's It is guidance for those of taqwa.
		
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			And then he continues
		
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			by
		
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			the his first round of poetry,
		
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			by quoting,
		
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			something that was said to Mohammed bin Hassan
		
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			in encouraging him to learn, and we'll look
		
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			at that.
		
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