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The speakers discuss the importance of honoring hadiths and reciting the Quran in a beautiful manner, as well as the negative impact of slavery and its negative consequences on society. They stress the need for personalized personalization and the importance of learning to attain success, as well as the importance of staying up late and optimizing one's waking hours. The speakers also provide advice on memorizing popular culture lines and achieving success, emphasizing the importance of prioritizing sleep and staying up late. The Roaha program is also mentioned as a way to contribute monthly donations.

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			You're listening to the Roha, daily guidance for
		
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			seekers with Sheikh Farazrabani,
		
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			who will be covering Imam Yusuf and Abiheni's
		
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			beautiful collection of 40 sets of 40 hadith
		
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			of the prophet, peace and blessings be upon
		
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			him, as well as Imam Zarnouji's guidance for
		
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			seekers of knowledge regarding the ways of seeking
		
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			knowledge.
		
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			We're continuing to look at
		
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			the 40 Hadiths
		
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			in praise
		
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			of the Noble Quran and in praise
		
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			of its recitation
		
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			by Sheikh Youssef
		
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			and Nabihani Rahimahullahahu
		
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			ta'ala.
		
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			And we stopped at hadith number 23.
		
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			So today we're beginning with hadith number
		
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			23. Correct?
		
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			That
		
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			Abu Hurair
		
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			relates that
		
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			he heard the Messenger of Allah say
		
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			Allah
		
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			has not allowed
		
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			anything
		
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			as he has allowed for a prophet
		
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			to have
		
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			a beautiful voice
		
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			by which
		
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			they recite the Quran
		
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			beautifully
		
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			and
		
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			exert themselves
		
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			regarding this.
		
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			That and the meaning of Allah has not
		
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			permitted, has not allowed anything
		
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			even his permission
		
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			meaning that Allah is not pleased
		
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			with anything as he is pleased
		
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			with even a prophet
		
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			who to have a beautiful voice
		
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			and to
		
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			is literally to sing.
		
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			Is to sing, but here it means
		
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			to recite melodiously,
		
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			to recite
		
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			in a beautiful manner
		
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			and with a beautiful intonation. So the beautiful
		
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			manner would be
		
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			in accordance with the rules of proper recitation,
		
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			but you can beautify that. Right?
		
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			You can follow the rules but in a
		
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			flat
		
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			tone, but you can also do it in
		
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			a with with a beautiful
		
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			melodious intonation.
		
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			Right? That one exerts themselves
		
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			who exerts themselves in it.
		
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			Because you can recite properly,
		
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			but plainly. You can do it properly and
		
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			beautify it, but you can strive to beautify
		
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			it as much as you can.
		
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			Right? So the underlying thing is that it
		
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			is
		
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			even for a prophet.
		
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			It is pleasing to Allah that they beautify
		
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			their voice.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And that they
		
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			chant the Quran melodiously,
		
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			to chant it, to recite it melodiously
		
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			in accordance with the rules of proper recitation
		
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			and to make that recitation then melodious and
		
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			beautiful
		
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			and to exert themselves
		
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			in that.
		
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			And they say the sign of this being
		
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			sincere
		
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			is that you recite properly and melodiously when
		
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			you're alone as you recite it
		
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			as when you're in front of people.
		
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			And that's sort of the safeguard
		
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			for sincerity in our acts of worship.
		
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			They say
		
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			being true is that one's
		
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			outward and inward are the same. One's public
		
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			and private are the same.
		
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			So one safeguard
		
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			against
		
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			unconscious showing off is that the way you
		
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			do your father and your nafil and your
		
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			sunnah, etcetera, the way you do it in
		
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			public should be the same as you do
		
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			it in private and vice versa.
		
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			Hadith number 24.
		
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			What what is?
		
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			Right?
		
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			So
		
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			here
		
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			the same meaning
		
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			repeated,
		
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			may Allah be well pleased with him,
		
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			said that the messenger of Allah
		
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			said Allah
		
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			had
		
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			grants greater permission
		
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			for a person
		
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			of beautiful voice with the Quran,
		
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			that beautify your voice as you wish, than
		
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			a person who has a slave with respect
		
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			to their slave.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Rahu ibnu Majah. Right? So this is one
		
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			of the things to keep in mind is
		
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			that the prophet addressing those
		
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			who are around him as well, that
		
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			this was something permitted
		
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			at that time and present
		
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			and the owner of a slave has rights
		
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			over the slave. And
		
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			the
		
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			and in that societal context, right, some people
		
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			are troubled that how come there was slavery
		
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			at the time of Prophet Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam? And we say there was no
		
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			injustice
		
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			in
		
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			the upholding of that in that context. Why?
		
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			1, because it was encouraged to, number 1,
		
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			to free them. Number 2,
		
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			slaves arose in the context of war.
		
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			It was there was no
		
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			political, economic, or social feasibility
		
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			to take
		
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			to imprison prisoners.
		
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			Where are you going to keep them?
		
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			Right? So what are you going to do?
		
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			You're gonna slaughter
		
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			them? You're going to what are you going
		
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			to do? So this was
		
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			this was a way where they were integrated
		
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			into society.
		
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			Right? They were integrated
		
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			into
		
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			society.
		
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			Right? And and that applied in that context.
		
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			This is not an institution in which there
		
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			is any inherent merit
		
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			or desirability.
		
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			Rather,
		
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			the greatest
		
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			of good act of good worldly actions includes
		
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			freeing a slave.
		
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			There's 2 ways in life as we know
		
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			in the Quran.
		
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			The Aqaba, which is the highway
		
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			and then there's
		
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			the low road, the way of virtue and
		
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			the way of wrongdoing.
		
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			And the first act mentioned is a what
		
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			is a a foundational virtuous act?
		
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			Is to free a slave.
		
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			But practically,
		
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			you don't judge society by the fact that
		
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			it has prisons. Prisons are not
		
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			good institutions.
		
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			Okay? But what is the alternative?
		
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			Like, if someone commits a crime, you slaughter
		
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			them.
		
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			But unlike prisons where all kinds of people
		
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			go in for all kinds, this was limited.
		
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			The institution of slavery was limited to
		
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			someone could only be in prison in the
		
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			context of war, nothing else.
		
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			And there's other limitations to it. And there's
		
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			guidance on their proper treatment, their proper
		
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			care, etcetera. And
		
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			then there's establish
		
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			social expectations because the purpose was for them
		
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			to be integrated. Now and we're very clear,
		
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			this is not something that the Sharia has
		
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			encouraged, but this is the reality that it's
		
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			dealing with and how do you make things
		
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			better to the extent possible.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And not not to make any comparison, but
		
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			if you judge the rule of a ruler
		
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			or a president,
		
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			you don't judge them in the abstract,
		
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			but you judge them in the context
		
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			of what is within their ability.
		
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			Right? So whoever is going to judge
		
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			whichever president. Let's just say
		
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			president Obama. You don't just judge, okay, what
		
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			did he do, but what what was he
		
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			able to do given the circumstances limiting him?
		
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			Poor you know, the guy,
		
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			first day he's president, he says, I'm gonna
		
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			close Guantanamo. I'm gonna close Guantanamo. He wanted
		
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			to close it before he got elected, but
		
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			he couldn't because there's
		
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			political circumstances that congress would not never approve
		
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			that.
		
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			And there's practically where you're gonna send the
		
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			prisoners. Right? Whether it's right or wrong is
		
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			not the point, but you have to look
		
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			at what are the surrounding circumstances. And then
		
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			from those circumstances, there arise expectations.
		
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			Right? So relations with one's female slave was
		
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			something that that was
		
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			socially
		
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			accepted by both sides of the relationship,
		
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			and there was an understood
		
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			wisdom and purpose in it. Why? Because we
		
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			may find it very difficult to how could
		
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			that be? We have to step back. Don't
		
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			judge
		
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			the past
		
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			by your standards, and don't think that we
		
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			are somehow better than they are.
		
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			Right? But rather, there's also why was it
		
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			accepted by the one who is enslaved?
		
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			That
		
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			the this, you know, the slave girl, if
		
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			she has a child
		
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			from
		
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			her her master, that child is born free.
		
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			And the umulwala becomes free by the freedom
		
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			of her child.
		
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			So that integrates someone. So
		
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			someone oh, you some village were was captured.
		
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			They are prisoners.
		
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			They're enslaved. Now what you
		
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			they were captured. In other
		
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			your people,
		
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			this was a way of of integrating them
		
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			and giving them rights rather than violating them
		
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			than violating their rights or killing them. Because
		
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			what are you going to do with so
		
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			it's not a good institution,
		
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			but it's a sometimes
		
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			there's certain
		
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			institutions, certain human choices
		
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			that are a matter of diminishing harm rather
		
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			than achieving benefit.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So and there's some very good discussions. One
		
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			of the most insightful people that's written about
		
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			this
		
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			and spoken about this is doctor Ingrid Madsen
		
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			who did her graduate academic research on this
		
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			and the institution of the Umul Waleed.
		
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			Right? So, of course, where we find ourselves
		
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			in, there's some literalist fools who say
		
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			that we're we're reviving the institution of slavery.
		
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			Why? Because pleasing to Allah?
		
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			That that's foolishness. Right? That's that's foolishness.
		
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			When the prophet
		
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			praised, for example,
		
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			the tasbih after the prayer,
		
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			saying subhanAllah,
		
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			this is better than freeing a slave from
		
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			the children of Ibrahim
		
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			from the descendants of Sayid Nabraham.
		
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			Right? That this is of unimaginably great reward,
		
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			and that's the reward of freeing a slave.
		
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			One of the categories of zakat, where is
		
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			where should charity be given? One of them
		
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			is to buy
		
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			the freedom of a slave.
		
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			So that that's what the that's what the
		
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			lawgiver
		
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			wants.
		
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			That that is the what is sought. But
		
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			there's also a reality that how do you
		
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			deal with it,
		
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			and how do you live within that reality
		
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			going towards
		
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			those ideals.
		
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			So just as the owner has a has
		
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			rights over that,
		
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			the person who has Quran
		
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			should
		
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			beautify
		
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			their recitation of the
		
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			So relates to the Messenger of Allah
		
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			said,
		
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			adorn the Quran with your voices.
		
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			Adorn the Quran with your voices.
		
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			Dua Lama explained this in a number of
		
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			ways. One is that this is
		
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			there's a there's a rhetorical reversal
		
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			here
		
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			which actually means
		
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			adorn
		
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			your voices with the Quran.
		
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			That's one of the ways it's understood
		
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			as a the commentators on the hadith, and
		
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			there's a number similar hadith.
		
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			To adorn your voice, the most beautiful thing,
		
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			but also it can be literal that the
		
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			Quran
		
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			has rights.
		
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			The Quran has rights.
		
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			Reside the Quran
		
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			with with
		
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			steady measured tones.
		
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			The other
		
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			Quranic verses,
		
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			who recite it as it deserves to be
		
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			recited.
		
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			And part of that is
		
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			to
		
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			strive to recite it beautifully. Practically, what that
		
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			means is we should always be working on
		
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			one's on our Tajweed,
		
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			right, reviewing it. 1, to learn it,
		
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			to learn
		
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			sound recitation,
		
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			but then to go from sound recitation to
		
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			good recitation, to excellent recitation.
		
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			But
		
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			all these things require review, which you see,
		
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			macheikh, if someone comes who knows who's an
		
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			adept Quran reciters and say, I'd like to
		
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			review my
		
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			my Quran under them. Why?
		
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			Or review the fed, review, sir, and spend
		
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			that time
		
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			also
		
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			benefiting from improving one's recitation because there's a
		
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			prophetic
		
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			there's a divine call and a prophetic call
		
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			to that.
		
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			The final hadith we'll look at today,
		
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			hadith number 26,
		
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			So,
		
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			say, Nasad ibn Abi Waqqas
		
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			relates that the prophet said,
		
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			whoever
		
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			does not
		
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			chant the Quran beautifully
		
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			is not of us.
		
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			And this expression not of us is not
		
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			following our way as it deserves to be
		
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			followed. Doesn't mean that they're doesn't
		
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			mean that they're
		
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			doesn't mean is not following us as
		
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			they should be following us.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And let me
		
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			Quran.
		
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			Most of the ulama said what it means
		
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			is whoever does not
		
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			beautify their voice, the whoever doesn't try to
		
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			improve their voice with the Quran.
		
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			The basic level would be to recite
		
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			it soundly.
		
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			Right? To to to have a sound recitation.
		
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			That's at the level of obligation.
		
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			Then there is
		
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			Tassinulqira'a,
		
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			then there is
		
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			reciting not just validly
		
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			but
		
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			well,
		
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			which is because Tajweed has a basic level
		
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			of Tajweed,
		
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			which is Tassihul hruf, right, one pronounces each
		
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			letter
		
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			correctly
		
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			and one does the,
		
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			you know, the different
		
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			vowels and so on correctly.
		
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			But then there are there's a
		
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			from valid recitation, a proper recitation which is
		
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			to fulfill
		
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			the Muqamilat of Tajweed. The details
		
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			of proper recitation. That's highly recommended.
		
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			And then there there there is more to
		
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			it which is the your own striving to
		
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			beautify your voice with it. You're reading it
		
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			with internal feeling and and
		
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			and emotion
		
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			and care and presence and so on. And
		
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			there's an internal taghani bil Quran, that to
		
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			be moved by it. Right?
		
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			That's the majority.
		
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			Right? It it has to do with an
		
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			outward aspect, but there's also a second meaning
		
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			that the olema of, you know, the the
		
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			olema of, you know, who commented on on
		
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			on these hadiths mentioned, which is is from
		
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			whoever
		
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			does
		
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			not find
		
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			their sufficiency in the Quran
		
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			from other than it is not of us.
		
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			Right? From,
		
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			right, which is to be free of need.
		
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			Whoever doesn't find
		
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			their sufficiency in the Quran
		
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			is not of us. That's a less likely
		
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			meaning because it's not the most obvious
		
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			from the
		
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			lexical structure, but it is it is possible
		
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			from the lexical structure, and there's also a
		
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			meaning there. The whoever does not find sufficiency
		
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			in the Quran that they they look
		
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			you know, they they prefer other ideas and
		
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			theories. So it's okay. How should I conduct
		
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			myself? Well, there's these theories and so on.
		
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			And, yeah, well, the Quran says that. You
		
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			know? So I'm feeling stressed out. So instead
		
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			of saying, well, the Quran says to make
		
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			zikr,
		
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			say, well, let me do yoga.
		
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			And and well, that's what I'm doing these
		
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			days. Right? That's not falling to sunnah.
		
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			Right? And a lot of people are stuck
		
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			in those kinds of things as well.
		
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			Right?
		
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			That's a secondary meaning, but the ulema has
		
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			both are sound, but the more more obvious
		
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			meaning of the hadith itself,
		
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			whoever does not,
		
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			whoever does not recite the Quran beautifully is
		
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			not of us. And, of course, reciting it
		
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			beautifully
		
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			is striving to recite it beautifully.
		
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			That you seek to do so and you
		
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			exert your effort
		
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			in doing so even if it at present
		
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			comes out badly.
		
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			Okay. So that's what we wanted to look
		
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			at today. So we should all
		
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			make a serious commitment to
		
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			learn to read if we haven't learned it
		
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			and if we have,
		
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			then to always to check because errors creep
		
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			in.
		
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			And errors
		
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			creep in.
		
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			And we're going to look next at
		
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			the,
		
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			the work Talim al Mu'ta'lim.
		
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			We we're in the section on,
		
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			striving
		
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			and consistency and high resolve,
		
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			and
		
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			we talked about and he's talking about,
		
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			you know, consistent effort that whoever keeps knocking
		
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			on the door
		
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			and is consistent in their knocking will eventually
		
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			enter.
		
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			Long, meaning to the extent that you keep
		
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			reminding yourself and renewing
		
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			your aspiration, will you attain what you aspire
		
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			to? Please say, okay. I want to be
		
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			able to benefit myself and others with knowledge.
		
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			But then you don't think about it. So
		
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			to the extent that you renew
		
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			your
		
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			temeni, which is your hope, to the extent
		
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			that you to the extent that you hope,
		
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			will you attain what you hope?
		
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			Meaning, to the extent that you keep renewing
		
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			your your your your goals.
		
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			And
		
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			in that regard says that if the light
		
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			of spiritual insight
		
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			were
		
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			shining in your heart, then you see the
		
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			hereafter
		
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			being
		
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			so close to you that you don't have
		
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			to travel to it because it's hot.
		
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			Right? And just as you live in creative
		
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			things, time itself is just created. Right? Time
		
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			is not some ultimate reality. Time is just
		
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			a relationship between created things.
		
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			K? So
		
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			Jannah and Nar,
		
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			closeness
		
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			to Allah and distance,
		
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			they're all
		
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			immediate
		
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			they they are just as real as the
		
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			moment you're in. Actually, the moment you're in
		
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			is fleeting because as soon as you're in
		
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			it, you're out of it.
		
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			Right? So the goals that matter, that last
		
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			to the extent that one
		
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			has them and to the extent that one
		
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			reminds oneself of them, we'll be able to
		
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			attain them.
		
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			And and also spiritually,
		
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			call upon me and I'll answer you. So
		
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			if you ask him and you keep asking
		
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			him and you keep seeking it, Allah will
		
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			grant it to you.
		
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			Why else is he the merciful?
		
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			It
		
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			said, it is said that 3 require
		
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			striving
		
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			in learning
		
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			and in gaining understanding.
		
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			There's 3 that require
		
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			striving
		
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			for
		
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			in the path of study
		
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			and gaining understanding, tafakkuh.
		
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			Al Mutalim,
		
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			the student.
		
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			They have to strive.
		
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			They have to exert the effort
		
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			to learn and
		
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			to review and so on.
		
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			And the teacher because they have to be
		
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			giving of their time and their attention and
		
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			their counsel.
		
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			And the parent.
		
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			If they're still alive.
		
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			Because the family has to be patient
		
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			that well, because your parents want the success
		
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			of their child, etcetera. So now you you're
		
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			at an age where you could be working,
		
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			you could progress in your career, etcetera,
		
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			but the parents have to strive.
		
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			1, to put off their material
		
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			goals for their child for the other goals
		
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			that they have. They may have may strive
		
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			in supporting their child
		
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			in their goals and that's something very neglected.
		
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			A lot of
		
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			the the the learned scholars their their parents
		
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			put, you know, in the old days people
		
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			used to study
		
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			for decades.
		
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			I was talking to Sheikh Salic and said,
		
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			who's a scholar in our time?
		
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			And
		
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			he was only Sheikh Salic could pull something.
		
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			He said,
		
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			who says that Murabitat Hajj is a is
		
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			an imam?
		
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			He's a he's someone who can explain the
		
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			text to you,
		
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			Said no one is a decisive proof.
		
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			Only he could say that, the context. Said
		
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			said he said we we've studied under Murabitul
		
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			Hajj for, you know, 20
		
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			25 years. I said, well, just a Talib
		
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			as well. I can explain some books to
		
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			you, and that's that's all I can do.
		
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			So
		
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			but it requires time and to support them,
		
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			you know, and to facilitate for them. That
		
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			all requires striving.
		
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			Right? So
		
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			he
		
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			says, one of his teachers,
		
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			told
		
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			him some lines of portrait of
		
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			He said, striving draws close
		
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			every high
		
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			difficult
		
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			matter.
		
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			And
		
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			by striving
		
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			are opened
		
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			all doors
		
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			that were locked.
		
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			And the most deserving of Allah's creation
		
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			in having high resolve
		
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			of of having concern
		
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			is a person who has high aspiration,
		
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			who is
		
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			tested
		
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			with
		
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			constrained,
		
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			material
		
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			conditions.
		
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			And then if you have high aspiration and
		
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			there's constrained material,
		
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			you you know, you're not able
		
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			to
		
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			attain some fleeting worldly goals. You know, you
		
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			don't have enough money to buy
		
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			the latest gadget
		
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			or you live you live in a house
		
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			that the other people
		
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			in your age group, they they own this
		
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			and that, but you have other priorities,
		
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			then
		
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			the people most deserving
		
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			of
		
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			of Allah's creation to have
		
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			high concern
		
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			is a person who has a high aspiration.
		
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			They want to attain something,
		
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			and they're tested with constrained
		
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			livelihood
		
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			whether the high aspiration is a high spiritual
		
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			aspiration
		
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			or high knowledge aspiration or even a high
		
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			worldly aspiration. I remember, you know, my one
		
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			of my uncles, everyone thought he was nuts.
		
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			He was convinced
		
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			that he'd he'd discovered
		
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			a synthetic fiber that could make really good
		
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			cloth. And I was always
		
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			nuts. And then they even
		
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			his his
		
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			father and uncles had a business. He
		
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			didn't take a share of that business.
		
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			He lived in someone else's house. It's embarrassing.
		
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			It within the family. He drove someone else's
		
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			car. I used to stay with them
		
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			when I went to Pakistan.
		
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			And it was like, most days just rice
		
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			and lentils for for lunch.
		
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			Meat was
		
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			relatively rare.
		
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			Everyone was like, he's the black sheep, the
		
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			embarrassment in the family, but he had an
		
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			aspiration. Well, he couldn't care less. He'd go
		
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			every day to this little shop he had.
		
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			He's working. What are you doing? So I'm
		
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			he's like the the nerdy scientist.
		
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			I've almost got it right, but it wasn't
		
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			worth. It took better part of a decade.
		
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			Now he employs,
		
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			whatever, 1200 plus people, travel all over the
		
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			world, always traveling first class.
		
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			We know because
		
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			the pictures get shared on our WhatsApp group.
		
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			But it takes if you really want something,
		
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			then doesn't matter.
		
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			You you're patient with
		
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			the the short term
		
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			or just the the the worldly considerations. And
		
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			and if the more important what you seek
		
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			is, the more you would sacrifice in that.
		
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			He says, from the signs
		
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			of divine decree
		
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			and divine judgment
		
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			that things are by Allah's decree and judgment
		
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			is
		
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			the
		
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			the poverty
		
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			of one smart
		
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			and the comfortable life of a fool.
		
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			Like, it could only be
		
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			because really smart people and they're poor and
		
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			this total dumb person, and they're successful. Why?
		
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			Because it's that's a sign, said Imam Shafeh,
		
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			of there being divine decree
		
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			and divine judgment.
		
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			However,
		
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			the one who's
		
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			Right?
		
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			However, the one who's granted
		
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			intelligence
		
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			is prevented
		
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			from
		
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			mere
		
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			fleeting wealth
		
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			because opposites
		
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			part
		
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			completely. Meaning, the one who is truly smart
		
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			would not just be seeking material
		
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			richness
		
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			because what you the intelligent person should be
		
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			seeking
		
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			is not merely the material.
		
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			And I heard from other than him, from
		
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			other than
		
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			It
		
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			says,
		
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			I said, you you long to become
		
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			a
		
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			and a
		
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			of high rank who can debate others
		
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			without
		
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			and here it may be minhrei ana in.
		
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			Yeah. There's a mistake in the copy here.
		
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			Without toil.
		
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			And madness is of different
		
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			and madness has many forms
		
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			that you want to be.
		
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			Do you want to become
		
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			a faqih and a munavir,
		
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			a great
		
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			scholar of fiqh and was able to debate
		
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			people and to become a great scholar without
		
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			exerting yourself? Anna
		
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			is
		
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			is toil,
		
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			and madness has many forms.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Said
		
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			acquiring wealth doesn't happen without effort,
		
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			without hardship
		
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			that you take on.
		
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			So how could knowledge
		
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			be attained otherwise?
		
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			Just so you have to work hard
		
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			to to gain wealth. How could you how
		
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			else could you gain knowledge?
		
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			Right?
		
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			And then there's these beautiful lines by Abu
		
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			Tayib. And who's Abu Tayib?
		
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			Abu Taib is al Mutanabbi.
		
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			Al Mutanabbi
		
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			was one of the greatest of the Arab
		
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			poets in the Islamic period,
		
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			and he was a real character. And I
		
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			won't go in if you want to Google
		
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			Mutanabbi,
		
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			he was
		
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			one heck of a character,
		
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			and I won't tell you why he's called
		
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			al mutineb bi.
		
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			But anyways,
		
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			Abu Tayyib al mutineb bi.
		
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			And a lot of the Arab poets
		
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			poets were honored by the Arabs, even the
		
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			Islamic age,
		
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			and and rulers like surrounding themselves with poets.
		
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			They're like
		
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			the worldly celebrities.
		
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			But a lot of times, they're praising
		
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			the rulers and and so on, and many
		
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			lines of poetry that the Ulema use in
		
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			reference
		
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			to
		
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			pray to to talk about
		
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			Allah is actually the poet actually used it
		
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			to praise the ruler who was giving them
		
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			their stipend. So one of them said in
		
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			praise of the the ruler
		
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			that
		
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			had
		
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			if he had nothing in his hand
		
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			other than his very life
		
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			and you asked him for it, he would
		
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			give it.
		
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			So let the one asking
		
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			beware.
		
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			And this was mentioned regarding, I think it
		
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			was Sayfud Daulah of Aleppo. May Allah
		
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			protect it and bring it peace and protect
		
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			its people from
		
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			the genocide taking place.
		
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			But ibn Rajab quotes that and said these
		
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			lines in reality
		
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			apply to no one in creation but the
		
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			prophet
		
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			that if he had nothing in his hand
		
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			except his very soul
		
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			and he was asked for it, he would
		
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			give that too. So let
		
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			the one asking beware.
		
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			So he said,
		
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			he said, this would only apply. It was
		
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			only befitting Allah. So
		
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			he said, and these are amazing lines. If
		
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			you're a student of knowledge, you should memorize
		
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			them.
		
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			And always
		
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			look at yourself
		
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			with respect to this.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Because there's many books that talk about, you
		
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			know, if elderly people, when they reach old
		
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			age,
		
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			how they feel.
		
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			And one thing, a lot of old people
		
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			thinking old people. Rafla is a great mercy
		
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			of Allah. A lot of people don't think.
		
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			They tend to be happier than people who
		
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			think.
		
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			One of the biggest things that they regret
		
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			is that they didn't make most of their
		
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			life. So
		
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			he
		
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			says, So I have not seen in the
		
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			faults of people
		
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			a fault
		
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			like the falling short of those able
		
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			from
		
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			completion.
		
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			And
		
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			I have not seen in the in the
		
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			faults, in the blameworthy qualities of people any
		
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			blameworthy quality
		
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			like the falling short of those able from
		
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			complete attainment.
		
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			That's why they say,
		
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			missing out is complete loss.
		
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			And in that light, this is what the
		
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			message of Surah Al Asr is.
		
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			By time, man is indeed
		
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			in in loss, immersed in loss.
		
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			What is the you know, and that which
		
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			is why
		
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			Sheikh Abdulhaman al Shahuri in his argument in
		
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			his most famous poem,
		
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			He says,
		
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			Sahi, my dear friend,
		
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			Sahi
		
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			is dear friend,
		
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			make the most of your life.
		
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			How many a dead person has he given
		
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			life? And even if you feel that you're
		
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			totally dead right now,
		
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			ask him, and he'll give you
		
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			life.
		
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			Never
		
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			ever
		
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			would he let down ever
		
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			one who comes to him with true intention.
		
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			Right?
		
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			But what do you have to do?
		
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			Empty your heart
		
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			for him to manifest.
		
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			And other than him, anything that will not
		
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			lead to him,
		
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			let go,
		
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			dear friend.
		
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			Let go of it.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Right?
		
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			Right? And he explains
		
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			the way of spiritual turning. Right? So commit
		
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			to it. And then
		
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			from that, he says, and we'll close with
		
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			these lines.
		
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			He says,
		
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			It's necessary for the seeker to stay up
		
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			at night. Of course, staying up at night
		
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			here has a context.
		
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			In the old days, once it was dark,
		
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			it would be dark to be lights out.
		
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			And if
		
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			and try that at home sometime.
		
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			After I switch off all the lights,
		
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			like all of them including digital devices, etcetera,
		
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			you'll fall asleep.
		
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			Right? One of the things that prevents proper
		
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			sleep is that you have
		
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			sources of light because the human being, if
		
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			there's light, they want to be awake
		
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			naturally. So
		
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			so people would
		
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			at night,
		
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			the body naturally inclined to sleep. So here,
		
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			staying up is to sacrifice
		
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			some of the excess
		
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			sleep
		
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			for seeking knowledge or sacrifice some of the
		
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			excesses that are done at night
		
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			of idle socializing,
		
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			idle entertainment, etcetera.
		
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			It's to sacrifice
		
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			the excess of sleep or the excess
		
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			that is done at night. That's what's meant
		
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			by sleep staying up at night. It doesn't
		
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			mean that deprive
		
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			yourself of sleep.
		
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			Right? He he
		
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			says, as the poet said,
		
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			Where is
		
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			It says, by to the extent of striving,
		
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			is
		
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			like jid.
		
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			To the extent of striving are high matters
		
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			attained,
		
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			and whoever
		
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			seeks high things
		
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			stays up at night, but stays up at
		
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			night in seeking them.
		
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			Not in I I stay up at night,
		
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			come as student of knowledge. But what are
		
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			you doing at night?
		
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			Oh, I'm following the US elections. Are you
		
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			voting? No. Then
		
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			You seek
		
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			honor, but then you sleep at night.
		
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			The one
		
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			seeking pearls
		
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			dives in to the ocean.
		
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			High attainment
		
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			is through
		
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			high
		
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			resolves,
		
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			and the honor of a person
		
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			is through staying up at night, making, sacrificing
		
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			comfort
		
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			and I and,
		
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			you know, idleness
		
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			for
		
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			what matters.
		
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			So he says, and whoever seeks high matters
		
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			without striving
		
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			waste their life
		
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			in seeking the absurd.
		
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			Then he addresses Allah Subha
		
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			Says, I have left sleep,
		
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			oh lord, at night
		
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			for the sake of your good pleasure,
		
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			oh master of masters.
		
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			So grant me facilitation
		
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			to attain
		
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			knowledge
		
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			and make me reach
		
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			to the highest limits
		
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			of high rank, meaning of high ranks of
		
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			closeness to you.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So, of course, this is not to be
		
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			excessive. Your body has rights over you, but
		
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			also you
		
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			wrong yourself with respect to what you do
		
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			at night. Right? So that's one of the
		
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			times that one
		
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			makes the most of. Most people get home
		
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			at a certain time from their work and
		
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			from there
		
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			till you look at from the time they're
		
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			done,
		
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			their work
		
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			to fajr time,
		
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			what are they doing? There's a lot of
		
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			dead time.
		
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			Right? So that but the prophet
		
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			said and this applies to the night as
		
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			well. Someone asked him about sleep. He said
		
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			excess is not in sleep, but the excess
		
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			is in wakefulness.
		
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			So the ulama say and I kept asking
		
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			king Sheikh Mohammed Pailesh about how much should
		
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			one sleep, and he kept saying
		
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			that
		
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			that
		
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			excess
		
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			is
		
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			not in sleep, excess is in wakefulness.
		
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			Right? That first optimize
		
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			your waking hours. So what what they
		
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			staying up at night, meaning
		
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			making your nighttime fruitful,
		
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			and nighttime begins with Maghrib. So from Maghrib
		
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			time
		
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			till the time you go to work the
		
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			next day. How are you spending that?
		
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			How are you spending the waking hours there?
		
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			Optimize that first because that's more discretionary. Once
		
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			you've optimized that, then look at how much
		
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			should I be sleeping.
		
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			And you try to optimize. Because you optimize,
		
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			you make the most of what you have
		
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			control
		
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			over first then what is more difficult
		
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			to control. So we ask Allah to
		
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			grant us high resolve in that and we'll
		
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			close
		
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			by
		
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			the words of Imam Malik ibn Anas
		
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			as mentioned by Ibn Abdul Bar in his
		
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			amazing work.
		
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			So this is from the
		
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			from the council of
		
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			of Imam Malik that is not befitting someone
		
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			who has some knowledge to leave learning,
		
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			which
		
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			is why it has come in narrations from
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			right,
		
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			as related by Abu Zar
		
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			that the messenger of the
		
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			said, that if death comes
		
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			to a seeker of knowledge or and they're
		
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			in that state of seeking knowledge,
		
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			they die
		
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			a martyr.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And,
		
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			and this is
		
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			related by
		
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			ibn Abi Sheba in his Musanaf
		
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			and
		
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			by Adarimi and others
		
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			and the meaning is sound and the meaning
		
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			is sound and there's many related
		
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			narrations. It's confirmed by the words of the
		
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			prophet that
		
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			whoever pursues a path seeking knowledge therein, they're
		
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			on the path of Allah. And one who's
		
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			on the path of Allah is a mujahid.
		
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			And the high and of the highest forms
		
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			of jihad is
		
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			seeking knowledge, right, seeking knowledge with its intentions
		
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			to and to spread knowledge with its intentions.
		
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			Right?
		
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			You know the intentions encapsulated by Imam Al
		
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			Haddad,
		
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			whoever is on that path,
		
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			you know, as facilitated with them to them
		
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			in their life. They're on the path of
		
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			Allah, so one dies on that path, one
		
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			dies a shahid.
		
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			And one dies a shahid. And that metaphor
		
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			of seeking knowledge being a jihad,
		
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			there's numerous hadiths about it that is on
		
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			the path of Allah. And also
		
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			that leaving the seeking of knowledge
		
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			and once, you know,
		
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			the it's considered one of the worst forms
		
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			of fira'ru minazahaf,
		
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			one of the greatest of enormities
		
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			is to flee from the front lines
		
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			is to flee from the front lines in
		
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			jihad.
		
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			And they say of the most dangerous types
		
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			of fleeing from the front lines is to
		
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			not fulfill one's duty with respect
		
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			to the preservation of the deen, and the
		
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			preservation of the deen is through 'ilm and
		
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			through dawah. That am I doing what I
		
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			should be doing in seeking and spreading knowledge
		
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			given what Allah has facilitated for me?
		
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			And am I
		
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			calling to Allah
		
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			and striving to do so
		
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			and in a manner that fulfills the communal
		
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			obligation of calling to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			given my circumstances. Right? And particularly those who
		
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			are aware of that,
		
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			you know,
		
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			that's,
		
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			that's something that, you know, should
		
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			be
		
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			that's,
		
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			you know, that's the
		
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			that's what stirred the concern of the prophet
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, right?
		
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			So we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			for for that for that concern and the
		
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			striving that that arises
		
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			from that concern.
		
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			Thank you for listening to the Roaha, daily
		
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