Faraz Rabbani – The Rawha #051 Keys to Paradise Making Good Ones Islam Signs of Faith Laziness and Its Treatment

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The importance of learning about one's good deeds and surrendering to the church's values is emphasized. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of faith and understanding of one's responsibility, and the importance of good intentions to achieve wealth. The speaker provides a detailed list of the importance of good knowledge in building wealth and offers a monthly donation for listeners. The speaker also discusses the importance of good learning and reflect on the interrelated qualities of knowledge and its virtues, manakib manqaba, and the importance of good knowledge in shaping one's life and building wealth.

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			You're listening to the daily guidance for seekers
		
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			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 Zarnooji's guidance for
		
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			seekers of knowledge regarding the ways of seeking
		
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			knowledge.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, we're continuing to look at
		
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			these great 40 hadiths on
		
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			the virtues
		
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			of
		
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			Iman and Islam
		
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			by the great scholar,
		
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			Sheikh Youssef
		
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			and Nabhani,
		
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			And we've reached
		
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			hadith number 9,
		
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			which is also related by Sayidna Muaz ibn
		
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			Jabal radiAllahu ta'ala.
		
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			One of the foremost
		
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			of the companions of our beloved messenger
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And the question whenever we
		
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			read the names of the companion, we should
		
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			ask ourselves this question
		
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			that
		
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			to what extent do I know this companion?
		
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			Particularly companions
		
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			whose names that we hear very often
		
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			and even those who have only a fleeting
		
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			acquaintance with
		
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			sports or celebrities
		
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			even if they don't follow they know some
		
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			things about them
		
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			good or
		
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			bad. But these are the greatest
		
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			the very best community raised unto humanity
		
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			and how much do we know about them
		
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			and that should be a personal
		
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			commitment to learn more about the companions and
		
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			family of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
		
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			So Anma'ad ibn Nijabal radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu qal
		
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			qalarib Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam mafati
		
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			huljannati
		
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			The so Mo'ad bin Jabael relates to the
		
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			messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Salam said to
		
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			me,
		
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			the keys to paradise
		
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			are
		
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			to bear witness
		
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			that there is no God but God, that
		
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			there is no God but Allah.
		
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			This is related by Imam Ahmad.
		
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			And
		
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			one of the early Muslims Wahhabi mum Munabbi
		
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			so Shirkus al Nabhani mentions this, Imam al
		
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			Bukhari mentions this Talikhan,
		
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			Imam al Bukhari
		
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			in the text of Sahih al Bukhari includes
		
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			only hadiths of the Prophet Sallallahu Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam, but he makes talik, he mentions certain
		
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			things and also he will mention them sometimes
		
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			without their chain of transmission
		
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			in his chapter headings. So what one of
		
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			the early Muslims Wahab ibn Munabbih
		
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			was asked
		
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			that
		
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			was asked,
		
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			isn't La ilaha illallah the key to paradise?
		
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			He said, indeed it is.
		
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			He
		
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			said, indeed it is. But however, there is
		
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			no key except that it has
		
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			grooves.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Literally in Arabic, teeth.
		
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			Right? That it has grooves.
		
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			Right? Each of which is like a tooth.
		
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			Right? So in jita
		
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			And he said, if you come with a
		
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			key
		
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			that has grooves,
		
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			the door will be will open for you.
		
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			The key that has its literally its teeth,
		
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			the door will open to you. Otherwise, it
		
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			will not open.
		
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			Which
		
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			And what's meant by
		
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			the teeth,
		
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			the grooves
		
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			are acting
		
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			on the acts of obedience and avoiding sins.
		
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			But this tells you of course of the
		
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			great
		
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			salvific consequence of La ilaha illallah, right, we
		
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			should for which we must have gratitude.
		
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			It is that gratitude for the gift of
		
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			La ilaha illallah that should lead us
		
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			to
		
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			all
		
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			to rush
		
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			to righteous deeds.
		
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			Which is why it's come that all praise
		
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			is due to Allah for the blessing of
		
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			Islam and it's sufficient it is
		
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			as blessing
		
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			The 10th Hadith,
		
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			So Abu Hurair radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu relates to
		
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			the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said
		
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			that
		
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			if one of you
		
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			makes good
		
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			their Islam
		
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			then every good deed that they perform is
		
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			written for them as
		
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			10 of its kind.
		
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			Right? Meaning it's rewarded tenfold.
		
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			Up to 700 times
		
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			while every bad deed that
		
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			one of you does
		
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			is written
		
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			as just one bad deed
		
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			until they meet Allah.
		
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			So you're dealing with a generous Lord. That's
		
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			another thing to be grateful for. But the
		
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			key here in the hadith is
		
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			If any of you makes good their Islam
		
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			and making good their Islam, it begins with
		
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			the inward commitment.
		
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			Islam is
		
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			a a
		
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			Islam
		
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			as
		
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			the Islam
		
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			explained
		
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			Islam
		
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			is an inward
		
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			submission and surrender.
		
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			You surrender
		
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			to Allah.
		
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			You commit
		
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			to obey Him.
		
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			You commit
		
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			to please Him, which is why
		
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			imam attahawi says in his creed
		
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			that one's
		
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			feet are not firm
		
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			upon Islam
		
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			except
		
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			on the grounding
		
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			of ist Islam, of complete surrender.
		
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			That is to make good one's Islam, that
		
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			you
		
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			have the attitude of.
		
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			We
		
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			hear and we obey. Why?
		
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			Because we accept
		
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			without
		
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			reluctance.
		
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			And if one does so, and then to
		
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			the extent
		
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			that from making good one's Islam,
		
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			which is Islam to Allah,
		
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			to the extent that you seek Allah through
		
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			your submission
		
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			is are your deeds multiplied. But because you
		
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			are seeking Allah in life,
		
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			then
		
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			such a person
		
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			their bad deeds
		
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			are less weighty than the deeds of the
		
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			one who's not committed
		
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			to seeking Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			Right? Though they say at the same time
		
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			that
		
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			that
		
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			as a servant's rank rises Allah,
		
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			punishment come
		
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			punishment comes faster to them. Meaning that Allah
		
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			they will witness
		
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			the
		
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			divine correction,
		
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			the divine reproach in their life much faster.
		
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			Because the standard is higher,
		
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			The standard is higher because the more you
		
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			know, the more you understand,
		
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			the more
		
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			responsibility you have.
		
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			So you know it's like that's common sense.
		
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			Someone comes to the hub and they don't
		
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			know that
		
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			you don't throw wet things in the garbage.
		
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			They
		
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			threw something wet in the garbage. But if
		
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			you know, you're more responsible.
		
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			You know our coffee laws.
		
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			We have coffee laws here. If you don't
		
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			know, you're less responsible than someone who does.
		
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			So Abu Umama
		
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			may Allah be well pleased with him said
		
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			that a man asked the messenger of Allah
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam what is faith?
		
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			Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			So Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
		
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			if you are pleased, if you are if
		
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			you
		
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			are made happy
		
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			by your good deeds
		
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			and you are saddened
		
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			by
		
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			your bad deeds,
		
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			then you are a believer.
		
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			The prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam came
		
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			not
		
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			as
		
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			a mere teacher.
		
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			He came as a guide.
		
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			So when the Prophet was asked about something,
		
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			he did not just give
		
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			a knowledge answer.
		
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			And this is the role of the scholars
		
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			as well. Like if you ask someone, what
		
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			is iman? Now
		
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			you're a mukman. Unless you give them a
		
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			reason to give you a merely knowledge answer,
		
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			their concern is not
		
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			to give you a maaluma,
		
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			a point of knowledge.
		
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			Their point is
		
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			to give you
		
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			knowledge that benefits, which is
		
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			Knowledge that will point you towards Allah So
		
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			I
		
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			believe in command and command. So what is
		
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			faith? The prophet did not give
		
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			merely sort of what the theoretical understanding of
		
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			faith is. Faith is to confirm is true
		
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			that which the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam has come with.
		
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			But he gave one of
		
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			he gave one of the signs of the
		
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			strength of faith.
		
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			Something that you can measure yourself with
		
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			to know
		
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			the health of your faith
		
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			because there is mere faith
		
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			and sound faith
		
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			and perfected faith. You can look at faith
		
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			as being at 3 levels.
		
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			Mere faith,
		
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			proper faith
		
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			and perfected faith. Mere faith is that you
		
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			accept as true. That's what the Messenger of
		
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			Allah has come with. Sound faith
		
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			is faith
		
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			that is such that you're acting on its
		
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			consequences,
		
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			which is that you believe, and you affirm
		
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			that you believe, and you strive to act
		
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			accordingly.
		
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			And then there's perfected faith,
		
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			which is that one attains
		
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			the qualities
		
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			of the truly faithful servants of Allah, the
		
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			pinnacle
		
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			and result of which is to worship Allah
		
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			as though one beholds him.
		
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			So
		
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			but a a sign of healthy faith or
		
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			sound faith is
		
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			if your good deeds make make you happy
		
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			and your bad deeds make you sad. Right?
		
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			But why?
		
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			Because the good is what
		
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			Allah deems to be good and the bad
		
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			is what Allah deems to be bad.
		
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			Right? So good deed is a deed that
		
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			is pleasing to Allah
		
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			And the believer is one who is pleased
		
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			by what is pleasing to Allah.
		
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			So if they did a bad deed,
		
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			they're saddened not because I did a bad
		
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			deed, but because this is displeasing to Allah.
		
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			This is displeasing to Allah. They have that
		
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			sense of wanting to please Allah and not
		
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			wanting to displease Allah. So
		
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			their good deeds make them pleased, but the
		
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			surur,
		
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			this pleasure,
		
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			pleasure is a dangerous
		
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			quality.
		
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			Because
		
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			they say.
		
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			The pleasure
		
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			of delusion is being pleased with oneself. I
		
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			did the good deed.
		
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			That's not the believer.
		
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			Rather, the believers on who
		
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			Whoever finds the good, let them praise Allah.
		
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			The
		
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			who is pleased here from their good deed
		
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			out of gratitude to Allah.
		
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			And happy
		
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			because of the favor of Allah.
		
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			And of course there's many causes of happiness
		
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			in a good deed
		
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			and who's saddened by their bad deeds.
		
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			And this, of course, is also the root
		
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			of repentance.
		
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			The true believer isn't good because the very
		
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			nature of a believer
		
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			is that they're repentant,
		
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			because they're remorseful if they do a bad
		
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			deed.
		
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			A true believer would not
		
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			accept any bad that they're doing,
		
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			which is why.
		
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			How strange are the affairs of a true
		
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			believer, says the prophet,
		
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			because everything ends up being for their good.
		
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			The true believer, they would never just say,
		
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			well,
		
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			I commit that sin. They would always be
		
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			remorseful. They would always regret. And that is
		
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			repentance.
		
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			And they would always be striving to change.
		
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			Then the man asked,
		
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			so what is sin?
		
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			And again the Prophet did not give an
		
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			academic definition of sin. Sin is that which
		
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			is in contravention to the command of Allah
		
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			k. But rather, he said,
		
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			This is also called sort
		
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			of in called
		
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			This is a wise answer.
		
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			You're not just you're not answering what the
		
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			person says, but you're answering according to what
		
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			the person
		
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			needs and will benefit from. Joabu
		
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			Hakim.
		
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			The prophet
		
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			said when asked what is sin? He said,
		
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			if
		
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			it is
		
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			if
		
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			it
		
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			is unsettled within you, if anything
		
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			cause
		
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			it remains unsettled within you
		
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			then leave it.
		
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			If anything is unsettled within you, meaning you're
		
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			not comfortable
		
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			with.
		
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			The the the hadith of the man and
		
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			the hadith is in the 40 now way.
		
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			A man came to the prophet
		
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			and he asked him, did you come to
		
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			ask about
		
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			Have you come to ask about righteousness? And
		
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			the man hadn't said anything. He'd just been
		
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			thinking about it. He hadn't told anyone. He
		
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			came up to the prophet,
		
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			and it said it was after fajr prayer.
		
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			And the prophet, have you come to ask
		
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			about righteousness? He said, and the prophet told
		
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			him.
		
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			And,
		
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			and about sin.
		
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			A sin a sign of a sin is
		
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			something that you're not comfortable with
		
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			and that you wouldn't like other people to
		
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			see.
		
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			That such thing, leave it.
		
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			Of course, what what this requires
		
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			to have
		
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			a sound
		
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			spiritual sense
		
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			you need
		
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			basic knowledge
		
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			at least.
		
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			The lawful is clear and the unlawful is
		
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			clear. At least if you don't have that
		
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			amount the basic amount of knowledge, then you
		
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			don't know
		
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			why you're not comfortable with something
		
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			because it just could be pure confusion.
		
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			But once you have a certain degree of
		
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			religious
		
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			of basic
		
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			religious literacy
		
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			and awareness
		
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			and some degree of spiritual consciousness,
		
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			basic spiritual consciousness,
		
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			then
		
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			you anything that makes you uncomfortable,
		
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			you may not know. Okay. Yeah. That's
		
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			haram or that's milk, but you're not comfortable
		
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			with it. Then leave it until
		
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			you are sure.
		
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			Right? You're not comfortable with it? Leave it.
		
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			And if you're still inclined towards it,
		
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			either because there appears to be a need
		
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			in it or a benefit in it,
		
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			or you want it for some reason,
		
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			then
		
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			make sure.
		
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			Right? Until then, because it could be sinful.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Some things you're not comfortable because it is
		
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			likely to be sinful if you're if you're
		
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			honest with yourself.
		
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			So I keep getting asked random crazy question.
		
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			Can I
		
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			right? And
		
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			so many people don't act on the basis
		
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			of knowledge, right, that there's a difference between
		
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			assessing a political candidate
		
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			and listening
		
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			to sinful speech.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And
		
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			you know, we don't need to go into
		
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			the details of specific the specifics of different
		
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			accusations about a person
		
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			to
		
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			distance, particularly like if you're if you're a
		
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			Canadian, not even voting in the US election.
		
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			Why do you need to know about what
		
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			this one accused him of this? And you
		
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			watch the interview and you do this. Just
		
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			ask yourself.
		
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			K?
		
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			Is this
		
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			are you comfortable with that? Now
		
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			having basic religious awareness would make you aware
		
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			that
		
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			that no. There's things that one does not
		
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			busy oneself with.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So
		
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			this
		
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			but a key to that, that's part of
		
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			why we seek
		
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			to have
		
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			a clean heart,
		
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			a heart that is not occluded
		
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			by sin and heedlessness
		
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			so that we have clarity about moral choices.
		
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			And when one's unclear about a moral choice,
		
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			then there's a possibility that this would be
		
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			a wrong choice. So you leave it until
		
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			you can achieve clarity
		
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			regarding it.
		
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			And
		
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			we'll continue
		
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			from this hadith,
		
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			next
		
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			we'll look
		
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			at Imam Zarrnouji's work Talim al Mutalim,
		
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			Instruction of the Student
		
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			on the ways of
		
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			learning,
		
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			and
		
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			the author has been talking about
		
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			high resolve
		
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			and determination
		
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			in seeking knowledge,
		
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			we're looking at Talim and Mutalim instructing the
		
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			student on the ways of learning.
		
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			This says
		
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			it
		
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			has been said
		
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			it has been said that laziness is from
		
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			the lack of reflecting on
		
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			the qualities of knowledge and its virtues, manakib
		
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			manqaba is a distinguishing quality,
		
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			which is why biographies of the righteous
		
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			are distinguishing quality or distinguishing trait,
		
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			they are also called manakib,
		
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			distinguishing qualities,
		
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			wafaba'il
		
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			and virtues,
		
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			And
		
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			a
		
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			is
		
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			Right? Fadl in the Arabic language
		
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			is is something that's increased.
		
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			I
		
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			mean, Fadil wa'du'ihi,
		
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			leftover water of the wudu, for example.
		
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			So Fadil is extra.
		
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			And Fadilah
		
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			is
		
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			a. Of virtue is
		
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			an increase in the direction of good. Just
		
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			a Bemuri
		
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			excess is called from
		
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			the same root.
		
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			The
		
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			is in the wrong direction.
		
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			Is plural of
		
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			is virtues.
		
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			So it befits the seeker of knowledge
		
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			to to direct themselves
		
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			to attainment,
		
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			to to direct themselves
		
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			towards attainment
		
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			towards attainment means towards attainment of knowledge
		
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			and in striving
		
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			in attaining knowledge
		
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			and to be consistent in that, you know,
		
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			the 3 interrelated qualities, how?
		
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			By reflecting.
		
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			A change begins
		
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			with reflection,
		
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			in the virtues of knowledge. And one of
		
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			the places
		
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			to look in that
		
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			is the
		
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			chapter on the virtues
		
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			of knowledge as
		
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			key hadiths
		
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			and Quranic verses.
		
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			Imam Al Ghazali's
		
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			book of knowledge
		
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			is brilliant, and, alhamdulillah, now it's available in
		
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			a good English translation.
		
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			And he says,
		
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			because knowledge remains as
		
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			by
		
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			as long as the things that can be
		
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			known remain.
		
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			So knowledge remains.
		
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			But wealth
		
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			perishes.
		
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			Your wealth won't last.
		
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			As
		
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			the as is related from
		
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			that he said
		
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			He says, we are content
		
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			with the apportioning
		
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			of
		
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			the overpowering
		
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			Lord
		
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			over us.
		
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			We have knowledge. And our enemies have wealth,
		
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			for wealth perishes
		
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			quickly.
		
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			And knowledge lasts
		
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			and is never extinguished.
		
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			And through beneficial knowledge, one attains good mention,
		
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			right, good mention, ultimate good mention with Allah
		
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			but good mention in this life. Why? Because
		
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			a human being,
		
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			by one of the necessary consequences
		
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			of their neediness
		
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			is
		
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			that
		
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			the human being is in need,
		
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			has an intrinsic need
		
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			to feel respected.
		
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			We
		
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			have honored the children of Adam. And expressing
		
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			respect to others and not disrespecting
		
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			them is very important in the Sharia.
		
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			And certain types of insults are criminal.
		
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			If you insult someone in certain ways, it's
		
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			criminal.
		
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			Accusing them of certain sins, etcetera, it's criminal.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because it go it's going against a good
		
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			name of a person in society, which they
		
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			need
		
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			to be in good standing in society.
		
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			But beneficial knowledge gives a person
		
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			good mention.
		
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			And that remains even after their passing away.
		
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			Because it is
		
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			eternal life.
		
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			It is lasting life.
		
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			The good mention remains in this life. But
		
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			what matters, it is eternal in its consequence.
		
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			This is. This is.
		
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			This is other than
		
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			so this distinguished scholar of many long titles,
		
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			He said,
		
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			He said, the ignorant,
		
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			they're dead before their death.
		
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			And as for those who know,
		
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			even if they die,
		
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			they're alive.
		
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			1 shaddana, sheikhul Islam, Burhanuddin,
		
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			and he keeps referring he said,
		
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			sheikhul Islam, Burhanuddin,
		
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			meaning Al Marghinani,
		
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			the author of the Hidass.
		
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			He he related to us.
		
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			Says, in ignorance
		
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			before death, there is death
		
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			for
		
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			its people.
		
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			For
		
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			their bodies
		
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			even before the grave are like graves.
		
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			And if a person
		
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			does not come to life through knowledge,
		
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			they're dead.
		
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			And then they will not have
		
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			upon resurrection
		
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			any
		
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			resurrection.
		
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			That the basis of benefit in life is
		
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			is to know
		
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			right, is to know.
		
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			Surat al Asr reminds us of that the
		
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			man is indeed in loss
		
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			except those who believe and do righteous deeds
		
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			and who call one another to truth. But
		
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			before calling others
		
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			to one another to truth, you must know
		
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			because if you don't know you cannot have
		
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			faith because faith is to confirm as true
		
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			what you know to be true.
		
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			Righteous deeds are only possible if you know
		
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			what it means to be sincere to Allah
		
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			and you know what is sound action with
		
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			Allah.
		
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			You cannot
		
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			call to truth unless you know what it
		
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			is. You cannot call to patience and steadfastness
		
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			upon the truth unless you know what that
		
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			is. So all the qualities of the successful,
		
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			those who are alive in this life and
		
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			who have a fruitful resurrection,
		
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			all revolve around
		
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			beneficial knowledge.
		
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			And another said,
		
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			a person of knowledge
		
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			is living
		
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			and and remains
		
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			even after
		
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			their death.
		
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			Their
		
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			limbs
		
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			while
		
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			even though their limbs are under the dust
		
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			crumbled,
		
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			and the ignorant are dead
		
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			even if they're walking upon the stars.
		
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			They're considered alive,
		
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			but they are nothing.
		
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			Alright. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions
		
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			about those who come on the day of
		
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			judgment and their actions
		
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			are
		
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			like dust, become like dust that scatters.
		
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			Wukal akar, another said he likes poetry a
		
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			lot.
		
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			Another
		
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			said the life of hearts is knowledge,
		
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			So
		
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			so make the most of it.
		
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			Right? So profit from it.
		
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			And the death of heart is ignorance,
		
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			so avoid it.
		
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			Is prophet.
		
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			Is acquire profit.
		
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			Is
		
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			acquire
		
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			profit.
		
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			Is
		
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			to put something to jenbiz aside.
		
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			Is to put
		
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			is to cast
		
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			it aside, meaning avoid it,
		
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			to give you a to it,
		
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			leave it aside.
		
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			And then he quotes
		
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			a lengthy poem by,
		
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			Imam
		
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			al Marghinani again.
		
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			But you see his great respect for his
		
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			teacher. He keeps mentioning him. He can just
		
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			say,
		
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			our teacher said, every time he mentioned,
		
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			And he loved him dearly and partly because
		
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			the author of the Hidayah, like many of
		
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			the like like the great scholars of the
		
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			founder worthy of being loved.
		
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			And we'll we'll look at that from
		
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			next class, the point here being to really
		
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			appreciate
		
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			what knowledge is and to thereby
		
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			make the most of it in seeking it.
		
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			We ask Allah Subha'ala
		
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			knowledge that benefits
		
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			and hearts that are illumined by acting upon
		
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			knowledge.
		
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