Faraz Rabbani – The Rawha #021 Gratitude for Gods Bounty Proclaiming Gods Oneness and Divine Response

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The importance of gratitude and consciousness in the church's work is emphasized, along with the desire for their presence and help. The church is focused on providing opportunities for the speaker to be present with Allah's presence, and they are willing to donate monthly. The church's focus on consciousness and presence is emphasized, along with their desire to provide opportunities for the speaker to be present with Allah's presence. The church is willing to provide opportunities for the speaker to be present with Allah's presence, and they are also willing to provide consciousness and presence in their church's work.

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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 Zarrnouji'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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			And
		
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			we are in the final part, in the
		
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			final
		
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			5 hadiths
		
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			of
		
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			the 40 hadiths on
		
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			the 40
		
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			hadith and we stopped at hadith number
		
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			35.
		
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			We? We did not. We did not. Yeah.
		
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			And it's related by Sayidna Anas from the
		
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			prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, that
		
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			he said,
		
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			k? So
		
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			the
		
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			a
		
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			a person will be the the the child
		
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			of Adam, the human being will be brought
		
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			forth.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Will be brought forth on the the day
		
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			of judgment
		
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			as if
		
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			they are
		
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			a
		
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			a a baby sheep.
		
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			Right? Is,
		
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			right? Like a baby
		
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			sheep or baby goat. Right? They're brought forth.
		
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			And like if you've seen a baby sheep
		
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			or a baby goat, like they struggle to
		
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			walk. You cannot drag it along.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And they're made to stand
		
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			before Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And this is of course after
		
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			the gathering.
		
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			And the gathering itself
		
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			as we took in some of the recent
		
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			hadith could see, it is awe inspiring.
		
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			So Allah most high says to the servant,
		
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			I gave you
		
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			and I
		
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			bestowed upon you and I blessed and
		
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			I gave you my blessings.
		
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			I gave you my favors, my
		
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			So what have you done with them?
		
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			So the servant says, I gathered it
		
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			and
		
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			I
		
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			added value to it.
		
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			Right? I added value to it. And I
		
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			left
		
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			it as being more than it was.
		
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			Right? So you you Allah bestowed
		
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			all these things to us.
		
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			So I gathered them.
		
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			And I
		
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			like I literally bought them to fruition.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So
		
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			I increased I left them more than they
		
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			were. Says let me go back and I'll
		
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			bring them.
		
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			But this is the materialist mindset.
		
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			The person is still thinking about
		
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			the
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells in the Quran.
		
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			You know, you've been busy the way with
		
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			the mere amassing and even on the day
		
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			of resurrection
		
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			when you should be getting the point.
		
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			You're standing before Allah and Allah is telling
		
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			you, I gave you.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And I favored you and
		
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			I bestowed
		
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			blessings upon you.
		
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			But the servant is just seeing
		
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			the forms.
		
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			Right? That well, I gathered them. I increased
		
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			them. Them. If you let me go back,
		
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			I can show them to you.
		
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			So
		
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			there is
		
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			a servant
		
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			who did not
		
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			send forth any good
		
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			and they will be taken
		
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			forth to the fire.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And
		
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			here,
		
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			it's of course it's a reminder.
		
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			And we see this in so many of
		
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			the hadith on the day of resurrection
		
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			that what is the basis
		
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			of our response
		
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			to the reality of our humanness,
		
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			it is gratitude.
		
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			The reality
		
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			of who are who we are that we
		
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			are we are Allah's creation.
		
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			And as doctor Ingrid in her beautiful,
		
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			lesson on gratitude.
		
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			It's worth listening to again. Right? That of
		
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			the inherent relationship between
		
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			iman and shukr.
		
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			And between faith and gratitude.
		
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			Because faith into if you recognize Allah as
		
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			lord, you recognize
		
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			yourself
		
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			as
		
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			servant,
		
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			as created. If he is creator, you are
		
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			created.
		
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			He is bestower, you're the bestowed upon.
		
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			So that entail that's why the prophet
		
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			said not be a slave
		
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			who is truly grateful. Because being a slave
		
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			entails knowing he is the Lord. He is
		
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			the Lord. He is the bestower.
		
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			Right? Etcetera.
		
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			So this is tells us the the key
		
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			of gratitude
		
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			of seeing things as being from Allah.
		
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			And this is key to as well
		
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			that most people do not recognize blessings. That
		
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			one of the keys of
		
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			in our circles of family and friendship is
		
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			to remind people of Allah's blessings.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Is to remind people of Allah's blessings.
		
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			Encouraging
		
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			the blessings are difficult to deny.
		
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			And it's difficult for someone to truly say
		
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			that I deserve it fully for myself.
		
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			Right? But that reminder of gratitude
		
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			right? So someone found a
		
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			a husband. Someone got a job, all these
		
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			things these are doorways
		
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			to
		
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			reminding people
		
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			and this Allah tells
		
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			in
		
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			the
		
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			right? And as for the blessings of Allah,
		
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			talk about them. It is the blessings of
		
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			Allah upon you but also remind people of
		
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			those blessings.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Hadith number 36
		
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			The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			relates
		
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			that whoever says
		
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			There's no god but god and god is
		
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			that is
		
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			truly great.
		
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			Their lord confirms that.
		
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			Their lord confirms that
		
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			and says and Allah says, there is no
		
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			god but I,
		
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			and I am
		
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			the most great.
		
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			And when the servant says,
		
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			there's no God but Allah alone,
		
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			Allah most high says, there's no God but
		
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			me,
		
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			myself.
		
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			And when the servant says, there's no God
		
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			but God alone
		
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			without partner,
		
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			Allah most high says there's no god but
		
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			me alone without partner.
		
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			And when the servant says there's no God
		
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			but
		
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			Allah,
		
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			his is the dominion
		
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			and his is all praise. Allah most high
		
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			says there's no God but I.
		
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			Mine is the dominion and mine is all
		
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			praise.
		
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			So then
		
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			the the the prophet continues. And the servant
		
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			says, there's no god but Allah.
		
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			And there's no ability nor power except by
		
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			Allah.
		
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			The exalted,
		
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			the tremendous.
		
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			Allah
		
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			says, there's no god but me.
		
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			There's no ability nor power except by me.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So the prophet
		
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			said, whoever says this
		
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			Whoever says this
		
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			in sickness
		
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			and then they die, the fire will not
		
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			consume them in any way. K.
		
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			And here, this is one of the implications
		
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			of many implications of
		
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			Allah's words.
		
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			Remember me and I will remember you.
		
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			Which is of the numerous benefits of
		
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			that there is a
		
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			that you are facing Allah.
		
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			Right? And this is part of, you know,
		
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			the general principle.
		
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			As you are, so shall you find. So
		
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			when you turn to Allah, Allah turns to
		
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			you. If you turn to Allah in dua,
		
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			Allah turns to you in response.
		
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			But when you turn to Allah in remembrance,
		
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			Allah turns to you by remembering you.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And this is one of the wisdoms why
		
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			there's different types of spiritual works. Here
		
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			about
		
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			the importance of remembrance.
		
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			Call upon me.
		
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			I will answer
		
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			you.
		
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			Remember
		
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			me remember me and I will remember you.
		
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			The principle from this and many other things
		
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			as as we we see establish in tradition
		
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			that
		
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			As you are, so shall you find. As
		
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			you are with Allah, so shall you find.
		
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			And as you turn to Allah, so will
		
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			Allah turn to you. And there's numerous ways
		
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			of turning to Allah which is why
		
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			Right?
		
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			Right?
		
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			There was it.
		
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			There's many different
		
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			types
		
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			of
		
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			spiritual works.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Because of the many different types of
		
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			of divine
		
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			response.
		
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			So each of each work
		
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			the key thing is
		
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			that is what you're presenting to Allah but
		
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			how Allah is turning to you.
		
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			The same applies to the prayer etcetera that
		
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			when you turn to Allah
		
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			Allah is turning to you. So we see
		
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			that as an opportunity. So we strive
		
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			to turn completely
		
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			but also
		
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			we have a sense of awe
		
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			that you're every time you turn to Allah,
		
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			you are in his presence. But of course
		
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			the bigger reality is you're always in Allah's
		
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			presence. Just you're you're in his presence in
		
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			a state of absence.
		
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			He's with you wherever you may be.
		
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			We are his servants we should be present
		
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			with him at at every moment. But Allah
		
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			is merciful.
		
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			So he's granted us opportunities of presence. That
		
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			if you do these things I will accept
		
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			you.
		
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			His right
		
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			is that you be present with him
		
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			at every moment and if you're absent with
		
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			him even a moment you have fallen short
		
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			of what his right is.
		
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			But Allah is merciful. Right?
		
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			So may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us
		
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			recognition of the tremendous opportunity that every act
		
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			of zikr, every act of dua, every prayer,
		
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			the opportunity it has which is this presence
		
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			and the divine response
		
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			to that presence.
		
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			May Allah realizes in consciousness of these meanings,
		
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			so that we may
		
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			go from
		
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			with heedlessness to with consciousness.
		
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			And from with consciousness to
		
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			with
		
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			presence
		
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			to with beholding to with absence from all
		
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			but the one remembered as Ibn Atha'i mentions.
		
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			And that is not difficult for
		
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			Next session inshallah,
		
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			we will have a full session but we
		
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			will also next session will be the khatam
		
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			of
		
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			these 40 hadith.
		
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