Faraz Rabbani – The Rawha #087 What Facilitates Provision and What Diminishes It

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The importance of being a good seeker of knowledge and pursuing knowledge is emphasized in all aspects of pursuing knowledge, including personal and daily services, providing support for students to become future teachers of religion, avoiding drinking at night, and being aware of natural processes and surrounding environments. The importance of respect for men and women, respect for senior parliamentators, and avoiding wasting one's time is emphasized. Money assisting the poor, avoiding asking and begging, and being aware of one's life are also emphasized. A daily guidance is provided for seekers, and listeners are encouraged to reach out for support.

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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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			In our daily Roha,
		
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			we have been looking at the final part
		
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			of one of the lasting masterpieces
		
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			on
		
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			the Edab of learning.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And the author began by mentioning a basic
		
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			principle
		
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			that
		
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			anything
		
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			that is pursued if pursued
		
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			without
		
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			the right approach
		
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			will not result will not have the desired
		
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			results.
		
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			Right? And that right approach is
		
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			which is the right way of doing things.
		
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			Just as
		
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			whoever wants to get to a destination
		
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			and they don't take
		
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			the right route,
		
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			they won't reach that destination regardless of how
		
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			long they've been traveling.
		
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			Right? So he has shared
		
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			some
		
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			unique
		
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			a lot of wisdom
		
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			related to the journey of knowledge.
		
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			But then he mentions
		
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			and then in the end,
		
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			he mentioned some
		
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			practical councils
		
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			related to how one relates to others, which
		
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			we we saw in previous chapters
		
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			of having
		
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			2 key qualities.
		
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			The seeker of knowledge needs 2 key qualities
		
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			in dealing with others which are Shafaqa,
		
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			your caring concern for others
		
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			and
		
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			and since you know being you
		
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			know having sincere
		
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			concern for them. And these qualities are essential
		
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			because this is what
		
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			the characteristic of someone
		
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			who is walking on the footsteps of the
		
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			prophet and
		
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			inheriting
		
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			the prophetic
		
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			responsibility,
		
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			the prophetic trust
		
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			of transmitting
		
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			his guidance
		
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			would entail.
		
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			Now with that,
		
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			one to be able to benefit, one needs
		
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			to be scrupulous.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And we looked at what is
		
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			warah. Right? This essential quality of to be
		
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			to be careful in matters
		
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			of religion and life both outward,
		
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			but also to be careful
		
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			about the state of one's heart.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And
		
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			in the
		
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			the chapter we're going to be looking at
		
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			today, which brings us very close to the
		
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			end of the work, he mentions
		
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			risk. Things that facilitate provision.
		
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			And that which give one a longer life.
		
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			Right and what diminishes.
		
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			Because
		
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			to be successful as a seeker of knowledge
		
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			one needs
		
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			to be able to retain one's knowledge which
		
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			is what he looked at in the previous
		
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			chapter.
		
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			And in this chapter
		
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			practically
		
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			to be able
		
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			to sustain oneself as a seeker of knowledge
		
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			one needs rizq, one needs provision
		
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			And that provision needs to be blessed.
		
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			Right? So the provision needs to be there.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And we've seen the seeker of knowledge is
		
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			either a dedicated student of knowledge, right, who
		
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			are stead who's studying full time.
		
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			And it's a communal obligation
		
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			upon the ummah to be supporting
		
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			the people of knowledge and the students of
		
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			knowledge.
		
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			Which is why and this was something the
		
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			early Muslims took particularly seriously.
		
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			Such that
		
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			in the early generations it was an accepted
		
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			truth
		
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			that
		
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			one could not charge
		
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			for teaching the religion. Why?
		
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			Because
		
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			the communal obligation was being so clearly fulfilled.
		
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			The people of knowledge were being supported,
		
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			right.
		
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			And one example of that, Imam Abu Hanifa
		
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			before he dedicated himself to seeking knowledge was
		
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			a wealthy merchant. He was a cloth merchant.
		
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			And when he dedicated himself to study
		
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			and he used to support the scholars.
		
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			And part of the sincerity of his
		
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			support and then when he dedicated himself to
		
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			study, he was supporting not only
		
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			scholars
		
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			from whom he agreed with but he also
		
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			supported
		
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			scholars and students of the scholars
		
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			of those who were
		
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			actively
		
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			in opposition to him, who actively disagreed with
		
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			him.
		
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			Many of the Ahlul Hadith of the scholars
		
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			of Hadith who are opposed to him, they
		
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			discovered that it was Abu Hanifa who'd been
		
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			supporting them when he passed away. Because until
		
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			the matters of inheritance were resolved, they did
		
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			not get their support for a period of
		
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			time. Because the inheritance get paused until
		
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			the estate gets paused until,
		
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			you know, the inheritance is discharged.
		
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			And
		
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			so there's a communal obligation aspect here that
		
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			one has to take very seriously.
		
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			And one of the keys they mentioned that
		
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			if Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has facilitated for
		
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			you at any level to seek knowledge and
		
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			you want to be blessed in the pursuit
		
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			of that knowledge, assist others who are seeking
		
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			knowledge. If you can assist them materially
		
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			or you can assist them
		
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			with serving them or facilitating them in any
		
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			way, we know
		
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			the general
		
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			promise of Allah and his messenger.
		
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			Allah
		
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			remains in
		
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			the assistance
		
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			of his servant as long as his servant
		
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			is in the assistance of others.
		
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			Right? From which the Ulema said,
		
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			Whoever does not serve regrets.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And one of the great scholars of India
		
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			who wrote several 100 books,
		
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			they asked him,
		
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			what made your knowledge so blessed?
		
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			He said, a daily hour.
		
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			So what do you mean by that? He
		
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			said that in the afternoon break
		
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			when people
		
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			would go would have lunch and rest he
		
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			would give an hour
		
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			of service to his teachers.
		
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			Of his own
		
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			you know so he sacrificed something of his
		
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			rest time, made his lunch break shorter and
		
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			used to serve his teachers.
		
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			And of course there's a practical element, if
		
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			you serve them
		
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			you'll be closer to them. So you'll learn
		
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			about their example.
		
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			You'll get some of their counsel, some of
		
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			their insights, etcetera.
		
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			But
		
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			you're and service is to assist other in
		
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			fulfilling
		
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			their
		
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			aims.
		
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			Right? That's service. Service isn't, well, I'm gonna
		
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			carry your shoes. I don't need you to
		
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			carry my shoes. Right?
		
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			I don't care. You know, I'll you know,
		
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			it's not tokenism.
		
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			Right?
		
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			It's to assist them in
		
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			in what they're striving for.
		
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			So if you're, you know, trying to seek
		
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			knowledge yourself, one of the great ways to
		
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			facilitate that is to
		
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			to be of service
		
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			to the way of knowledge
		
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			with
		
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			with your wealth, with some of your time
		
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			etcetera. And you won't be losing that time,
		
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			but rather that time
		
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			will give you a return
		
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			in
		
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			blessing and benefit.
		
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			So he tells us.
		
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			It is absolutely needed required for the
		
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			seeker of knowledge to have
		
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			a sustenance.
		
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			The is your basic provision that that which
		
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			keeps you alive.
		
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			Right.
		
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			And that requires planning which is why not
		
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			everyone is able to study full time.
		
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			And
		
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			the smart plan though, if someone aspired to
		
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			do that,
		
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			they may work for a few years and
		
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			save
		
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			or if they have the readiness,
		
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			right. One of the important Sunnah with respect
		
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			to provision
		
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			is that
		
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			if one has the readiness,
		
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			right, in that one has
		
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			taken steps on the path of knowledge
		
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			and is finding progress and one
		
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			sees
		
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			an avidness
		
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			to benefit
		
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			oneself
		
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			from knowledge
		
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			and to be of service to others through
		
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			that knowledge.
		
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			Then particularly in our times
		
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			to seek the means to be able to
		
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			dedicate oneself to study is not from humbling
		
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			is not from
		
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			you know disgracing oneself.
		
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			It's not from Idullal.
		
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			Right? If the intention
		
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			is correct and that's what we always hear
		
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			from the scholars
		
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			when they advise students of knowledge. Right? That
		
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			someone says, well, I if I could, I
		
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			would seek knowledge. Take the means to be
		
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			able to do so. Right? See if there
		
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			are those in your community, etcetera, who will
		
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			support that. So I don't want to ask.
		
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			Say no. Don't ask for I.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Right. But rather, the question to ask is
		
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			have you been, you know, have you been
		
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			serious in
		
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			seeking knowledge and acting upon it yourself?
		
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			Are you keen to be of service to
		
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			others? It's not I want to become a
		
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			scholar. I it's not about I, but to
		
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			be of service, to be a benefit to
		
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			others and then taking the means of being
		
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			supported in that way with dignity, right,
		
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			is
		
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			something that it should not be neglected. And
		
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			every community
		
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			should needs to have a plan
		
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			of supporting
		
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			students to become scholars
		
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			and of supporting scholars
		
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			to be to be dedicated to teaching. Every
		
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			area where there's Muslims need to have some
		
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			people who are
		
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			dedicated to teaching
		
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			and some people who have been dedicated
		
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			communally
		
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			to become the next generation of scholars,
		
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			right? And this is something that there is
		
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			nothing more important,
		
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			right? No masjid, no Islamic school,
		
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			no social service
		
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			that a community can provide that is more
		
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			urgently needed than
		
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			the immediate facilitation
		
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			of
		
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			people of knowledge to be teaching there, to
		
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			be providing religious guidance. And number 2,
		
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			the next step, to be providing
		
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			support
		
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			for students of knowledge to be
		
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			to be to become
		
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			future
		
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			teachers of the religion.
		
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			Right? And that's something that our community
		
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			communities are
		
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			negligent
		
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			about.
		
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			So and then it's
		
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			needed for the student knowledge and
		
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			to know the things that increase in one's
		
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			provision,
		
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			right, in one's sustenance.
		
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			And because the and of course the increase
		
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			is not just material,
		
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			right? The the real increase in one's provision
		
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			is
		
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			the intangible increase that Allah bless it for
		
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			you
		
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			and that he give it that subtle reality
		
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			of barakah.
		
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			The secret of increase
		
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			in things.
		
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			And the things that increase in life
		
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			both in the duration of one's life and
		
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			in the benefit
		
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			of one's life. As Ibn Atha'ialla said, How
		
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			many a long life that had little
		
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			fruit that bore little fruit?
		
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			And how many a short life was exceedingly
		
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			fruitful.
		
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			And that which would increase in one's health.
		
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			Right? And taking the means to have
		
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			spiritual health so that one has a blessed
		
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			life but also in one's physical health so
		
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			that one has a lengthy life are both
		
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			called upon.
		
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			So that the seeker of knowledge can be
		
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			freed up
		
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			to strive
		
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			to actively strive. And is
		
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			active,
		
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			you know, to actively direct oneself.
		
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			Right?
		
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			K. As Allah says,
		
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			Whoever
		
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			seeks the next life and actively strives for
		
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			it with the striving befitting it, that striving
		
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			is
		
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			recognized. And in all of this, the
		
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			they, the scholars, have written many books.
		
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			But here I mentioned some of the things
		
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			that
		
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			that bless and increase one's wealth and one's
		
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			life
		
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			and one's
		
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			health in brief.
		
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			The messenger related
		
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			have said, nothing words of destiny other than
		
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			supplication,
		
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			and nothing
		
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			increases one's life
		
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			other than
		
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			virtue.
		
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			Increases it, meaning, in benefit.
		
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			And what's Bir?
		
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			Bir
		
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			is
		
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			to be virtuous
		
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			and to act virtuously.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And the prophet
		
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			highlighted the key quality of righteousness
		
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			of of of of of virtue
		
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			which is good character. He said,
		
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			Right?
		
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			Right virtue is good character. Of course this
		
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			is, what kind of?
		
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			What kind of relationship between virtue and good
		
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			character?
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			It's of
		
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			right. It it's
		
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			either that
		
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			good character is a key part of virtue
		
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			or it's a key expression of virtue depending
		
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			on how you define the two terms.
		
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			For and then the prophet related said, for
		
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			for a man may be prevented
		
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			from provision, from risk,
		
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			by the sins that they commit.
		
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			So here, there are 3 keys
		
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			to
		
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			blessedness
		
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			in life
		
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			and in time and in well-being,
		
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			which are
		
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			anything that you seek, seek it ask Allah
		
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			for it.
		
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			Right? Make du'a.
		
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			And of course du'a comes from seeing things
		
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			as being from Allah.
		
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			Number 2,
		
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			commit to virtue.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Because Allah is with the virtuous. In
		
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			Allah Allah,
		
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			truly Allah
		
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			is indeed with the people of excellence.
		
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			And keep away from sin because sin
		
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			diminishes
		
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			good
		
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			Right? And knowledge is an honor,
		
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			it's not granted
		
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			to the criminals.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			At least beneficial knowledge.
		
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			And he says
		
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			risk. It is established by this hadith
		
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			that
		
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			committing
		
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			sins
		
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			is a cause
		
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			from being prevented from provision.
		
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			And risk
		
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			refers to what
		
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			and provision of course is what Allah gives
		
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			you of that which sustains you and nourishes
		
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			you.
		
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			Right. And there's a material sustenance and a
		
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			spiritual
		
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			sustenance.
		
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			Your knowledge is a risk from Allah.
		
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			Your the state of your heart is a
		
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			risk is a risk from Allah. Your akhlaq,
		
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			your character is a risk from Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And particularly
		
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			lying.
		
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			Why? Because it's come in so many Hadith
		
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			that
		
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			beware
		
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			of lying.
		
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			Right? That beware of lying because lying leads
		
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			to corruption,
		
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			Right?
		
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			And
		
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			there's many, many warnings about that. And that
		
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			the believer could have any
		
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			qualities, even bad ones, other than
		
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			lying and deception.
		
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			And these are from the signs of a
		
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			hypocrite.
		
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			Right? And all the other aspects of hypocrisy
		
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			all arise
		
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			from lying.
		
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			The prophet
		
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			said the signs
		
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			of
		
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			a hypocrite are 3.
		
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			When they speak, they lie.
		
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			And if they promise, they break their promise.
		
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			But the Ulamas say, break it speaking,
		
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			making a promise
		
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			without the intent of fulfilling it.
		
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			The prom your promise was a lie.
		
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			With a Tumina Khan, and when they're trusted,
		
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			when they're entrusted, they
		
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			breach their trust.
		
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			So when you said by your word or
		
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			your state that you will be trustworthy,
		
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			when you weren't going to be trustworthy,
		
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			that claim of trustworthiness was a lie.
		
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			So the qualities of hypocrisy
		
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			return
		
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			to lying.
		
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			Right?
		
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			That's why lying is so
		
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			so
		
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			serious. And lying
		
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			results in poverty.
		
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			Hadith
		
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			and and specific hadiths have come regarding this.
		
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			So this is the first thing. Right?
		
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			To guard one state,
		
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			particularly,
		
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			right, to be careful if you want to
		
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			be blessed. This is the broad principle that
		
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			he gives. Right? And this is how he
		
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			right? That if you want blessing in your
		
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			time
		
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			and in your life and in your well-being
		
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			and in your provision, then what do you
		
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			do?
		
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			You take care of
		
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			1, making dua.
		
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			Number 2,
		
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			of striving to uphold
		
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			virtue,
		
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			Bir,
		
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			right,
		
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			which is manifest in good character. And number
		
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			3,
		
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			leaving
		
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			sinfulness.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Right? Because sinfulness
		
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			distances. Right?
		
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			And
		
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			of the worst of the the root of
		
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			corruption
		
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			is lying.
		
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			Right? The root of corruption as so many
		
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			hadiths mentioned. Right? And the the warnings of
		
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			the Quran and Sunnah against lying
		
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			are numerous, and you can find them in
		
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			and
		
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			elsewhere.
		
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			And then
		
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			so he lay lays out the
		
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			the the broad principles and he gives practical
		
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			insights.
		
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			Right. So
		
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			he
		
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			says
		
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			says likewise
		
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			sleeping in the in the morning time
		
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			prevents provision. Because the prophet
		
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			said
		
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			Allah bless my community in its early hours.
		
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			Some of the olema said, this is unless
		
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			you have made the most of the night.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And the the ulama differ about it. Some
		
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			of the ulama would spend much of the
		
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			night awake
		
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			in worship
		
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			and in
		
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			seeking knowledge
		
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			or writing. And then,
		
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			But at the very least, to make the
		
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			most of fajr time, which is religiously called
		
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			upon. But the general you know, most people
		
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			who live in certainly, if you're in the
		
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			world of means, you have to work during
		
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			the day. So if you sleep in, you're
		
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			gonna miss out.
		
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			Generally classes would be in morning times.
		
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			Right or the you know
		
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			and that's one of the times when a
		
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			lot of people are prevented from benefit in
		
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			seeking knowledge
		
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			because
		
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			even if you're working full time,
		
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			the fajr time and the time before you
		
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			head out to work, that is a time
		
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			when you're on the risk of knowledge, that's
		
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			a time when you could have sought it
		
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			even if you're working full time.
		
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			Need some time management.
		
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			And he says
		
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			excessive sleep results in poverty because you miss
		
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			out.
		
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			And missing out on learning.
		
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			Right? And we've talked about having balance with
		
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			respect to sleep.
		
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			And one of them
		
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			said,
		
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			said the the pleasure of people is in
		
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			putting on clothes.
		
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			Right? That's what people are cared about is
		
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			their appearances.
		
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			And the gathering of knowledge is in leaving
		
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			even drowsiness.
		
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			Right?
		
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			But they say that the foundation of it
		
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			is to take care of one's
		
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			if of one's physical and
		
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			physical
		
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			and
		
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			emotional and spiritual health. Because if you have
		
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			physical well-being, then you'll have the the
		
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			the, you know, the the vigor
		
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			to pursue,
		
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			knowledge.
		
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			What another poet said, isn't it from complete
		
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			loss
		
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			that
		
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			that nights
		
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			pass by without benefit
		
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			and yet are counted
		
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			from my life.
		
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			Right?
		
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			It's an empty slate. Like, there's there's nothing
		
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			good to show
		
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			from it. And the least of it is
		
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			to spend something of the beginning of the
		
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			night and something of the end of the
		
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			night in the worship of Allah Subhanahu wa
		
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			Ta'ala and in the seeking of benefit.
		
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			A night is a time when if one
		
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			is not careful,
		
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			when that's one of the times when it
		
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			is very it's
		
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			nighttime is the more likely time to commit
		
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			grave sin than daytime.
		
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			Certainly, the sins of vices
		
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			are easier to commit at night than by
		
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			day for most people.
		
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			Which is why the prophet cautioned about staying
		
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			up unnecessarily at night unless one is doing
		
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			so with clear purpose or with clear benefit.
		
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			And another
		
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			said, said,
		
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			get up at night,
		
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			oh, so and so.
		
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			So that you may be rightly guided,
		
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			how long will you spend the night asleep
		
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			and
		
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			life
		
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			is and your lifetime is extinguished.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And but sleep
		
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			is at least
		
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			sleep may be bereft of you know, may
		
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			may not you may not acquire direct benefit
		
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			from it,
		
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			but at least it is not harmful.
		
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			And a lot of what keeps people awake
		
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			at night,
		
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			they
		
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			do not give their body their due, but
		
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			they do not use it in benefit either.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And that's a detrimental staying up at night,
		
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			which one has to be careful of.
		
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			And there's some things that they caution about
		
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			because they're bad.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And sleeping
		
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			naked.
		
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			Right?
		
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			These are things that diminish blessings.
		
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			And we're sleeping naked is at two levels.
		
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			Right?
		
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			One is sleeping naked if you're safely covered
		
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			by,
		
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			you know, by bedsheets
		
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			is
		
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			completely permissible.
		
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			Actually,
		
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			in some schools they've actually even mentioned that
		
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			there's recommendation in it
		
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			because there's basis in the sunnah of that.
		
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			It was but it was from the habits
		
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			at the time of the prophet that was
		
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			acknowledged by the prophet.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So sleeping naked. But this is when you
		
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			sleep naked
		
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			with disregard that if someone came into your
		
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			room, you'd be
		
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			uncovered. Right? That's a state that is like,
		
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			if you wish to sleep uncovered, then, you
		
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			know, like, without clothing,
		
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			then you you sleep with a bedsheet on.
		
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			Urinating naked.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And again,
		
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			like, then how do you urinate if you're
		
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			covered? Meaning that, you know, because the basis
		
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			of uncovering
		
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			is that one reduces
		
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			its extent and its duration.
		
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			So the sunnah is that you uncover you
		
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			don't uncover and then you
		
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			sit or squat to urinate
		
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			but you uncover as you descend
		
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			because you diminish
		
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			the extent and duration of the uncovering.
		
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			Right? But say okay now I'm in the
		
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			washroom,
		
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			I return to my original state without call.
		
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			You know that's
		
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			contrary to the sunnah.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Well, and an eating
		
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			in a state of major ritual impurity.
		
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			In general,
		
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			one does not remain in a state of
		
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			major ritual impurity that which requires
		
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			for an excessive
		
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			duration of time. Right? One can go to
		
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			sleep when requiring ghusl etcetera even you know,
		
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			the prophet did it on some at some
		
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			times.
		
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			Right? However,
		
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			the discretionary thing one does,
		
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			one should it is superior
		
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			to take one's first before
		
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			doing them. The least, of course, is to
		
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			wash one's hands,
		
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			right,
		
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			As is come in in the sunnah.
		
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			But these are, you know, bad habits diminish
		
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			blessings. Right? Bad habits leaving the adab.
		
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			We can take a broad principle leaving the
		
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			proper manners,
		
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			let alone the sunnahs of the religion,
		
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			diminish
		
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			the blessedness
		
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			of
		
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			one's life, one state,
		
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			and one's knowledge.
		
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			Says
		
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			and and eating reclining on one side.
		
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			The general sunnah of the prophet
		
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			is that you would eat
		
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			leaning slightly forward
		
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			And and you can see in the works
		
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			of Shamal the description of the eating of
		
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			the prophet. He generally sat on the ground
		
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			and and
		
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			he used to lean forward and there's wisdom
		
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			in it. It makes you less hungry for
		
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			the food. Right?
		
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			And
		
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			it less
		
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			susceptible to being too relaxed so that you
		
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			you don't overeat.
		
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			Although the capacity of some people to overeat
		
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			in any position,
		
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			standing, sitting, or lying down,
		
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			is pretty amazing. But
		
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			there's been a discouragement
		
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			understood in the sunnah
		
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			of eating
		
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			leaning against something.
		
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			Right? Particularly on one side. Right? So you're
		
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			you're you're eating
		
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			leaning on one side that it's bad adab
		
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			at several levels
		
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			right. 1 because you're leaving the sunnah of
		
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			of eating. Number 2
		
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			it's not expressive
		
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			of the appreciation for the blessing of food
		
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			Right. If you see the duas one says
		
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			before one eats and the duas one says
		
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			after one eats.
		
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			Right.
		
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			That one sees this is what Allah has
		
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			sent you that will keep you alive.
		
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			Right? Food is a tremendous blessing.
		
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			Right? Which is why Abu Madyan said that
		
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			there are 3 occasions
		
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			when
		
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			blessings descend upon the seekers of Allah.
		
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			One of them is when they eat because
		
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			they
		
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			eat out of
		
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			neediness
		
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			and gratitude.
		
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			And that's the other of eating. They eat
		
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			out of neediness to Allah and gratitude for
		
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			Allah's blessings,
		
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			which is expressed in the duas that the
		
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			prophet taught us.
		
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			And likewise
		
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			from the things that diminish blessing in one's
		
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			life
		
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			and one's time
		
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			and in one's provision and one's knowledge
		
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			is to be
		
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			to have disregard
		
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			with
		
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			the food
		
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			that
		
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			falls to the side
		
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			of the
		
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			at the table spread.
		
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			You're eating some food fell, you're supposed to
		
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			pick it up and eat it.
		
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			Let alone
		
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			wasting food. And this is one of the
		
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			great sources of diminishment of blessing in our
		
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			times. People waste
		
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			tremendous amounts of food.
		
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			And the ulama would say that even you
		
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			know everything
		
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			that when you have bread eat the old
		
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			bread first before the fresh bread.
		
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			Because if you keep bringing fresh bread the
		
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			old bread will get wasted.
		
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			Right? So always pay attention to the all
		
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			these things that
		
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			because
		
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			only when you are appreciative of what you
		
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			have
		
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			and grateful for it
		
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			that you will secure
		
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			increase from Allah in
		
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			beneficial ways.
		
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			If you are grateful we will grant you
		
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			increase.
		
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			And the increase that counts is not just
		
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			increase in amount, but in
		
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			benefit.
		
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			Says
		
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			and burning
		
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			the the outer case of
		
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			the outer layer of onions
		
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			and garlic,
		
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			again, because you'll waste it. Don't
		
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			don't waste even the because that too is
		
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			edible.
		
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			Don't waste even little things.
		
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			And to clean one's house with
		
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			a handkerchief,
		
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			right? Because a cloth handkerchief
		
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			is a respected item.
		
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			So you don't use it for things that
		
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			are not
		
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			respectable.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Because it what is the handkerchief? It's a
		
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			blessing from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Right?
		
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			And to,
		
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			you
		
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			know, brush 1 you know,
		
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			to clean one's
		
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			house at night, especially in the old days
		
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			because they they would be you know, you
		
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			could
		
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			hurt yourself. Right? This is practical advice.
		
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			And also that's not what the nighttime is
		
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			for.
		
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			And leave
		
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			and leaving
		
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			dirt in the house.
		
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			I say diminishes blessings rather than say keeping
		
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			and I thought it was superstition but it's
		
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			a there's a lot about it
		
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			that anyone who's serious
		
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			about
		
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			adab with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala should at
		
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			least strive
		
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			to keep things clean.
		
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			The angels are attracted to cleanliness.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And you know forces of you know jinn
		
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			and
		
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			and dark forces of darkness
		
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			like
		
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			chaos.
		
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			And just as we seek
		
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			spiritual cleanliness,
		
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			there's a physical cleanliness of body, of clothing,
		
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			also of one's place that is entailed by
		
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			see you know, seeking cleanliness
		
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			and keeping one's house dirty
		
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			is not a is not a good
		
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			state to be in.
		
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			It it affects one. And then also, it's
		
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			not conducive to,
		
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			you know, to serenity and the other states.
		
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			And some of the other things, we'll just
		
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			mention them briefly before we before we
		
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			stop. And
		
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			walking ahead
		
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			of one's teachers.
		
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			Unless they they request you to. They may
		
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			be talking privately some to someone so they
		
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			request that you you know that you go
		
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			ahead but respect
		
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			entails deference.
		
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			And calling upon the parents by their by
		
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			their name. And this is one of the
		
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			innovations of our age,
		
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			not so much with parents,
		
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			is the leaving of terms of respect
		
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			is an unfortunate
		
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			custom,
		
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			right? And it is not from the customs
		
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			that are wholesome
		
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			in whatever society that they've been adopted,
		
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			Right?
		
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			Right?
		
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			Just a generation you know, just 2 generations
		
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			ago, nobody would just call the president by
		
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			their first name, then Obama did this or
		
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			whoever it is.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Because
		
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			we've been commanded to to express respect for
		
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			all those respected amongst people.
		
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			Right?
		
00:36:06 --> 00:36:08
			So whether it be
		
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			your uncle or your aunt's
		
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			cousin your siblings or cousins who are older,
		
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			right? Our deen is based on respect.
		
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			We give respect
		
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			where respect
		
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			is deserved and where it is due
		
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			socially, even if undeserved.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So like that, you don't go you may
		
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			develop
		
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			a relationship of familiarity
		
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			with one of your professors at university.
		
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			Never refer to them by first name.
		
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			Always refer to them with a term of
		
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			respect. Everyone calls them by their first name,
		
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			doesn't matter.
		
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			Right? We uphold Adab because that's the way
		
00:36:46 --> 00:36:47
			of our of the messenger. Right?
		
00:36:48 --> 00:36:50
			This this tendency
		
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			to refer to senior scholars just by their
		
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			first name? Say no. So we use terms
		
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			of respect.
		
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			Sheikh,
		
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			Ustad,
		
00:37:01 --> 00:37:01
			Sayedi,
		
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			all these various terms and different cultures
		
00:37:06 --> 00:37:06
			etcetera.
		
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			These are terms of respect and the whole
		
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			religion is based on respect.
		
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			Right? Because who is your uncle? Your uncle
		
00:37:14 --> 00:37:17
			or your aunt, right? There's someone who is
		
00:37:17 --> 00:37:18
			a relative
		
00:37:18 --> 00:37:19
			and that relationship
		
00:37:20 --> 00:37:21
			has been made
		
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			sacred by Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, right?
		
00:37:25 --> 00:37:28
			Who is a all these relationships
		
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			have been placed by Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			and these are what preserve
		
00:37:33 --> 00:37:34
			the good of this world
		
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			and
		
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			facilitate
		
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			the good of the next. So that's something
		
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			that
		
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			should be taken with the utmost
		
00:37:43 --> 00:37:45
			seriousness. Right? And you see this in the
		
00:37:45 --> 00:37:47
			conduct of senior scholars.
		
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			Right? Look at doctor Omer when he deals
		
00:37:50 --> 00:37:51
			with, you know,
		
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			with young students of knowledge who could be
		
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			his grandchildren.
		
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			He'll still refer to as sheikh so and
		
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			so, Ustad so and so. Why?
		
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			Because
		
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			respect you give respect where respect
		
00:38:07 --> 00:38:09
			is deserved and where it's due.
		
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			Right? And that's critical. And if you don't
		
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			give respect, why should you be worthy of
		
00:38:15 --> 00:38:16
			the respect of knowledge?
		
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			And and then other
		
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			small thing and to clean your teeth with
		
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			any,
		
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			with any
		
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			piece of wood. Because it's a sunnah
		
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			to both brush one's teeth and to clean
		
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			between one's teeth. But don't use random things
		
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			so you you'll hurt yourself.
		
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			Right? And it's
		
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			being
		
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			negligent of the blessing of teeth and being
		
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			negligent of proper manners.
		
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			And to wash one's hands
		
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			with
		
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			mud and dust. Right? Because when you're in
		
00:38:52 --> 00:38:53
			the old days when you're out and about
		
00:38:53 --> 00:38:54
			and your hands are dirty,
		
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			right, if you muddy your hands, like, you
		
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			know, bad manners.
		
00:39:03 --> 00:39:05
			Right? And to sit
		
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			on
		
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			the,
		
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			on the wall
		
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			at the end
		
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			at the at the wall at the entrance
		
00:39:14 --> 00:39:17
			of of houses because, you know, it's again,
		
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			the the poor manners,
		
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			and to lean against one of the sides
		
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			of of the doors. Because this is also
		
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			from what idle people do.
		
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			They're just sitting outside or they're doing shooting
		
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			the breeze.
		
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			It's called wasting the time. Right?
		
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			That's and the prophet forbid it.
		
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			Said don't sit by the roadside.
		
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			Don't idle.
		
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			The Sahabat thought about it and said,
		
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			We can't avoid doing that O Messenger of
		
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			Allah. He said, If you must,
		
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			then give
		
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			the road its rights,
		
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			and give the street side its
		
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			rights. And you can find the hadiths
		
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			related to it that you know that you
		
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			greet
		
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			and you command the good and you're of
		
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			sincere counsel and that you don't engage in
		
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			backbiting and slander
		
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			etcetera. You
		
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			uphold
		
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			what,
		
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			this
		
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			sincere concern.
		
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			And to make
		
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			in the toilet.
		
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			Right? Right?
		
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			And of course, this is not referring to
		
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			a washroom.
		
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			The toilet being where you relieve yourself.
		
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			Right and there's only a place to relieve
		
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			oneself. So now even
		
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			like any place where there's also a sink
		
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			would not be considered
		
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			that place. But for example a practical example
		
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			would be some of the you
		
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			know, some of the disable you know, like,
		
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			you have
		
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			the
		
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			in in the washroom, you have the disabled
		
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			what do you call it? The
		
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			the like the stall
		
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			but but there's a place to wash your
		
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			hands there. But that's it.
		
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			That's not meant to be to wash up.
		
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			That's just you know just to wash your
		
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			hands to make wudu there would be improper
		
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			but it's particularly where the filth is. So
		
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			you're embarrassed to make. So you make it
		
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			on top of the toilet.
		
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			Right? Except in situation that says this is
		
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			poor Adam. Why? Because that's not where you
		
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			should be performing an act of worship. As
		
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			for a place where there's a dedicated sink,
		
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			that's not considered a toilet.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And to stitch one's clothing while it's still
		
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			on one's body. So you ripped it. So
		
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			you stitch it while you're making it. Why?
		
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			Because you could easily hurt yourself.
		
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			Right?
		
00:42:04 --> 00:42:05
			And to dry one's face
		
00:42:06 --> 00:42:07
			with one's clothing
		
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			rather than using a towel. Again, because it's
		
00:42:10 --> 00:42:11
			bad at them.
		
00:42:12 --> 00:42:13
			Right?
		
00:42:17 --> 00:42:18
			And and to leave
		
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			cobwebs in the home because it arises from
		
00:42:21 --> 00:42:22
			not keeping it clean.
		
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			K. And
		
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			being,
		
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			lacks about prayer.
		
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			And to hasten to leave the masjid after
		
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			fajr prayer
		
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			because the sunnah is to sit.
		
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			Unless there's a reason
		
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			Unless
		
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			there's a reason to. And some of the
		
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			early Muslims
		
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			adopted the practice of walking at fajr time
		
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			rather than staying in the masjid, particularly if
		
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			they found
		
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			that there's too much worldly talking in the
		
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			masjid
		
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			cause it wasn't conducive to them,
		
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			making zikr.
		
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			And Mulla'i and other hadith commentators mentioned that
		
00:43:04 --> 00:43:06
			the merit of making zikr,
		
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			sitting down after fajr till sunrise, is achieved
		
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			by making zikr till sunrise even if one's
		
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			not sitting down.
		
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			Right. Now if one can sit and do
		
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			so in the masjid it is superior in
		
00:43:19 --> 00:43:20
			of itself.
		
00:43:20 --> 00:43:22
			But there could be secondary considerations
		
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			amongst them if the masjid gets very loud
		
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			at that time or whatever.
		
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			Right? Or if that's the only time one
		
00:43:28 --> 00:43:30
			is able to walk and of course of
		
00:43:30 --> 00:43:32
			the things that is considered dhikr during Fajr
		
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			time is seeking knowledge as well. And many
		
00:43:35 --> 00:43:37
			of the ulama would use that time particularly
		
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			to facilitate learning for those who have to
		
00:43:40 --> 00:43:42
			go to their worldly occupations.
		
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			And
		
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			being
		
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			and go get go getting to the marketplace
		
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			too early.
		
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			Right? It diminishes blessing.
		
00:43:59 --> 00:44:01
			Right? If of course if it's done out
		
00:44:01 --> 00:44:02
			of over avidness
		
00:44:03 --> 00:44:04
			to earn your living.
		
00:44:05 --> 00:44:07
			Now they could be practical things, you beat
		
00:44:07 --> 00:44:07
			the traffic.
		
00:44:08 --> 00:44:10
			Right. They could be practical. But if it's
		
00:44:10 --> 00:44:11
			out of over avidness for the dunya,
		
00:44:12 --> 00:44:13
			it's blameworthy.
		
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			Why? Because that's a time that you can
		
00:44:15 --> 00:44:17
			use for spiritual benefit,
		
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			for social benefit.
		
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			Right. For your spiritual routines, for knowledge routines,
		
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			your time with family, many things. But if
		
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			it's done for good reason, you you open
		
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			early because let's say
		
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			for some practical reason or that way you
		
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			can get get home early then there's nothing
		
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			wrong with that.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And to stay too long at work.
		
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			Right? If it's out of worldliness.
		
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			Of course, if there's a need to. Right?
		
00:44:46 --> 00:44:48
			But a lot of people who work overtime,
		
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			they're not actually working more. Right? They're just
		
00:44:52 --> 00:44:52
			being escapist.
		
00:44:53 --> 00:44:55
			You can't deal with your family.
		
00:44:56 --> 00:44:57
			You're stressed out. You don't know what to
		
00:44:57 --> 00:44:59
			do. So you just stay at work for
		
00:44:59 --> 00:45:00
			a long time.
		
00:45:00 --> 00:45:02
			But if you see what they're actually doing,
		
00:45:02 --> 00:45:03
			it's like the
		
00:45:04 --> 00:45:04
			someone
		
00:45:05 --> 00:45:07
			said, been kind of busy doing something close
		
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			to nothing.
		
00:45:08 --> 00:45:09
			Right?
		
00:45:18 --> 00:45:19
			And to buy
		
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			the broken bits of bread from the poor.
		
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			And this is where it's very contextual because
		
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			in the old time the poor would
		
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			very often find
		
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			dry bread
		
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			to take.
		
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			So you buy that from them. Why? Because
		
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			you want to put it in food or
		
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			something.
		
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			Now they may get the money, but they
		
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			can't afford to buy other bread.
		
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			That's a despicable thing.
		
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			Yeah. You should be financially assisting the poor
		
00:45:49 --> 00:45:51
			not extracting benefit from them.
		
00:45:51 --> 00:45:52
			Right?
		
00:45:56 --> 00:45:57
			And excessive asking.
		
00:45:59 --> 00:46:01
			Oh, sorry. From the the the the poor
		
00:46:01 --> 00:46:03
			who beg. Right? The other thing is
		
00:46:04 --> 00:46:06
			buying little things from those who are inveterate
		
00:46:07 --> 00:46:07
			beggars.
		
00:46:08 --> 00:46:09
			That's another thing that
		
00:46:10 --> 00:46:12
			right? Because one should not give to inveterate
		
00:46:12 --> 00:46:13
			beggars,
		
00:46:14 --> 00:46:17
			to those who make begging their profession.
		
00:46:17 --> 00:46:18
			And in many countries
		
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			the whole begging industry,
		
00:46:21 --> 00:46:22
			like your children are,
		
00:46:23 --> 00:46:24
			are mutilated
		
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			so that they can
		
00:46:26 --> 00:46:27
			so there's cartels
		
00:46:29 --> 00:46:30
			of begging etcetera.
		
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			In those there one has to assess. The
		
00:46:33 --> 00:46:35
			basis is with a person who's begging is
		
00:46:35 --> 00:46:36
			that you give them.
		
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			Unless it is well established that there are
		
00:46:38 --> 00:46:40
			people who are professional beggars.
		
00:46:40 --> 00:46:44
			Right? But outside of that, unless there's surety
		
00:46:44 --> 00:46:46
			without ill opinion, the basis that you give
		
00:46:46 --> 00:46:47
			something
		
00:46:47 --> 00:46:50
			to them. Right? But you do not assist
		
00:46:50 --> 00:46:51
			professional begging.
		
00:46:52 --> 00:46:54
			In some places, that's a sad truth. Rather
		
00:46:54 --> 00:46:56
			there you should if you want to give,
		
00:46:56 --> 00:46:58
			give to those who help those people get
		
00:46:58 --> 00:47:01
			out of those situations of injustice.
		
00:47:01 --> 00:47:02
			Right?
		
00:47:06 --> 00:47:06
			And making
		
00:47:08 --> 00:47:09
			a bad dua
		
00:47:10 --> 00:47:12
			against one's child.
		
00:47:12 --> 00:47:14
			One should never do that.
		
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			Right?
		
00:47:19 --> 00:47:21
			And leaving covering one's dishes.
		
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			Because it's a sunnah of the prophet
		
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			that at night if any dishes are outside
		
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			whether
		
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			containers of liquid
		
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			or things that have food that won't cover
		
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			them up.
		
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			They differ about fruit.
		
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			Something that
		
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			is encased.
		
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			That's covered.
		
00:47:45 --> 00:47:47
			That has its skin. But certainly
		
00:47:47 --> 00:47:49
			liquid that's outside
		
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			you should cover it up. So if you
		
00:47:51 --> 00:47:52
			keep water
		
00:47:52 --> 00:47:54
			by your bedside for example,
		
00:47:54 --> 00:47:56
			you should put a cover on it. There's
		
00:47:56 --> 00:47:57
			hadith about that.
		
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			Like I said food if it's left outside
		
00:48:01 --> 00:48:03
			for whatever reason should be covered over.
		
00:48:04 --> 00:48:06
			If it's in the fridge, that's a separate
		
00:48:06 --> 00:48:06
			matter.
		
00:48:07 --> 00:48:08
			But the the
		
00:48:09 --> 00:48:10
			with fruit,
		
00:48:10 --> 00:48:11
			there's no need to. Though some people used
		
00:48:11 --> 00:48:13
			to put a, like a, like a, you
		
00:48:13 --> 00:48:15
			know, like like a
		
00:48:16 --> 00:48:17
			like a meshing kind of thing over it
		
00:48:17 --> 00:48:20
			out of adab with the sunnah even with
		
00:48:20 --> 00:48:21
			that. And you can see the details in
		
00:48:21 --> 00:48:22
			the works of adab.
		
00:48:25 --> 00:48:27
			And to try to extinguish a lantern
		
00:48:28 --> 00:48:30
			by just blowing on it. The lantern has
		
00:48:30 --> 00:48:32
			a strong light. You blow hard on it,
		
00:48:32 --> 00:48:35
			it's it's bad at the because it's going
		
00:48:35 --> 00:48:37
			to produce smoke. It's an a lantern is
		
00:48:37 --> 00:48:38
			oil based.
		
00:48:38 --> 00:48:41
			Right? So there's a proper way to to
		
00:48:41 --> 00:48:42
			switch off the lantern. Right? They'd have a
		
00:48:43 --> 00:48:44
			we blow on it, you have bad adab,
		
00:48:44 --> 00:48:47
			and it's detrimental. Right? Because what can happen?
		
00:48:47 --> 00:48:48
			You blow on it, it could blow back.
		
00:48:48 --> 00:48:48
			You could
		
00:48:49 --> 00:48:51
			yeah. The least is you get some smoke
		
00:48:51 --> 00:48:52
			on yourself.
		
00:48:53 --> 00:48:55
			Right? It looks bad
		
00:48:55 --> 00:48:57
			and you get bad smell,
		
00:48:57 --> 00:48:59
			could hurt yourself because you know, so these
		
00:48:59 --> 00:49:00
			are,
		
00:49:00 --> 00:49:01
			of course, contextual thing.
		
00:49:02 --> 00:49:03
			Don't have bad bad at them.
		
00:49:05 --> 00:49:08
			All these things lead to poverty of state
		
00:49:08 --> 00:49:09
			because you have left
		
00:49:09 --> 00:49:11
			proper manners and you've left the sunnah.
		
00:49:14 --> 00:49:16
			Right? And all of these have been known
		
00:49:16 --> 00:49:18
			by narrations either from the prophet or from
		
00:49:18 --> 00:49:19
			the early Muslims.
		
00:49:20 --> 00:49:23
			And then he mentions other things that result
		
00:49:24 --> 00:49:25
			in,
		
00:49:26 --> 00:49:27
			you know, that that,
		
00:49:27 --> 00:49:29
			you know, that affect,
		
00:49:30 --> 00:49:31
			one's
		
00:49:34 --> 00:49:36
			one state with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
00:49:38 --> 00:49:39
			And likewise writing
		
00:49:40 --> 00:49:41
			with with with a pen
		
00:49:43 --> 00:49:43
			that
		
00:49:44 --> 00:49:44
			is
		
00:49:45 --> 00:49:46
			that that is broken.
		
00:49:47 --> 00:49:51
			Right? That's just tied up. Why? 1, because
		
00:49:51 --> 00:49:52
			you won't be able to write properly with
		
00:49:52 --> 00:49:54
			it. So it's a broken pen you kind
		
00:49:54 --> 00:49:56
			of just fix it up. Of course not
		
00:49:56 --> 00:49:58
			it's properly repaired,
		
00:49:58 --> 00:50:00
			right, but it's tied back together.
		
00:50:00 --> 00:50:02
			1, because with reed pens if you just
		
00:50:02 --> 00:50:04
			sort of fix it together
		
00:50:04 --> 00:50:06
			it could break and could hurt you.
		
00:50:06 --> 00:50:07
			Right?
		
00:50:07 --> 00:50:10
			And it'll make it more difficult to write
		
00:50:10 --> 00:50:12
			properly. And how will we benefit from knowledge
		
00:50:12 --> 00:50:13
			that's not decipherable?
		
00:50:18 --> 00:50:20
			And brushing with a broken comb.
		
00:50:20 --> 00:50:22
			That's damaging his poor Adam.
		
00:50:25 --> 00:50:27
			Adam. And leaving to make dua for the
		
00:50:27 --> 00:50:28
			good for one's parents.
		
00:50:28 --> 00:50:31
			Abu Leith Samarkandhi mentions
		
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			that one should that practically because we've been
		
00:50:34 --> 00:50:36
			called upon to make dua regularly for one's
		
00:50:36 --> 00:50:36
			parents
		
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			is the way one can be sure to
		
00:50:39 --> 00:50:41
			fulfill that minimally
		
00:50:41 --> 00:50:42
			is to commit
		
00:50:43 --> 00:50:45
			to make du'a for one's parents
		
00:50:45 --> 00:50:48
			with presence of heart after every prayer.
		
00:50:50 --> 00:50:51
			But Allah has told us to be grateful
		
00:50:51 --> 00:50:52
			to
		
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			him and to and and and and to
		
00:50:54 --> 00:50:56
			be grateful to our parents.
		
00:50:56 --> 00:50:57
			The
		
00:50:57 --> 00:51:00
			the practical outward expression of gratitude to parents
		
00:51:00 --> 00:51:02
			is to to to Allah is the 5
		
00:51:02 --> 00:51:03
			obligatory prayers.
		
00:51:05 --> 00:51:06
			Right.
		
00:51:08 --> 00:51:10
			So and if so the gratitude to Allah
		
00:51:10 --> 00:51:12
			has been connected with gratitude to our parents.
		
00:51:12 --> 00:51:15
			So we express gratitude to them above all
		
00:51:15 --> 00:51:15
			through dua.
		
00:51:16 --> 00:51:18
			So it would you know, a simple way
		
00:51:18 --> 00:51:20
			of doing that is to connect the 2.
		
00:51:20 --> 00:51:22
			Always make dua for them in your prayer.
		
00:51:25 --> 00:51:26
			And to put on one to wrap one's
		
00:51:26 --> 00:51:28
			turban sitting down. Because a sunnah has to
		
00:51:28 --> 00:51:31
			do so standing up. Okay.
		
00:51:35 --> 00:51:38
			And to put on one's trousers standing up
		
00:51:38 --> 00:51:40
			because the sunnah with putting on trousers because
		
00:51:40 --> 00:51:41
			if you're uncovered
		
00:51:42 --> 00:51:45
			you diminish it in extent and duration. And
		
00:51:45 --> 00:51:47
			the sunnah in putting on
		
00:51:47 --> 00:51:48
			one's clothing
		
00:51:49 --> 00:51:51
			is to put it sitting down put it
		
00:51:51 --> 00:51:53
			on sitting down especially that which relates to
		
00:51:53 --> 00:51:55
			uncovering. Because if you're seated,
		
00:51:56 --> 00:51:59
			you are uncovered for a lesser extent than
		
00:51:59 --> 00:52:00
			if you're standing.
		
00:52:08 --> 00:52:09
			And stinginess
		
00:52:10 --> 00:52:11
			and
		
00:52:11 --> 00:52:15
			using things excessively little. Right? Taqthir is to
		
00:52:15 --> 00:52:17
			look for example, is to use excessively little
		
00:52:17 --> 00:52:18
			when you could use
		
00:52:19 --> 00:52:21
			a proper amount. Like you use too too
		
00:52:21 --> 00:52:22
			too little water
		
00:52:22 --> 00:52:25
			in wudu. So it's barely enough to be
		
00:52:25 --> 00:52:27
			considered washing. But there was enough water because
		
00:52:27 --> 00:52:28
			it's a type of ingratitude
		
00:52:29 --> 00:52:32
			and a stinginess of state.
		
00:52:33 --> 00:52:34
			But also to be wasteful
		
00:52:34 --> 00:52:35
			diminishes blessings.
		
00:52:37 --> 00:52:38
			And to be lazy.
		
00:52:39 --> 00:52:41
			It's a quality that one should shake out
		
00:52:41 --> 00:52:42
			of oneself.
		
00:52:43 --> 00:52:44
			And putting things off.
		
00:52:45 --> 00:52:45
			Right?
		
00:52:47 --> 00:52:47
			And to be
		
00:52:48 --> 00:52:48
			just
		
00:52:50 --> 00:52:53
			lackadaisical in attitude, the believer should have a
		
00:52:53 --> 00:52:54
			sense of urgency.
		
00:52:56 --> 00:52:59
			And the prophet never the prophet had
		
00:53:00 --> 00:53:02
			he was circumspect. He did things
		
00:53:02 --> 00:53:04
			gradually and steadily, but he was the most
		
00:53:04 --> 00:53:07
			purposeful human being ever, alayhi salatu
		
00:53:08 --> 00:53:08
			was salaam.
		
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			And then we're we're going to finish the
		
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			the rest of the text
		
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			tomorrow inshallah.
		
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			Because we have just
		
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			because much of what's left is some other
		
00:53:20 --> 00:53:22
			things that lead to blessing and he mentioned
		
00:53:22 --> 00:53:24
			some of the duas that facilitate
		
00:53:26 --> 00:53:28
			blessing which basically reading. So So we ask
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to put the secret
		
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			of increase in all that we do, in
		
00:53:32 --> 00:53:33
			our seeking of knowledge
		
00:53:34 --> 00:53:35
			and in our worship
		
00:53:35 --> 00:53:36
			and in our,
		
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			relationships
		
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			and our in our striving to be of
		
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			service
		
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			to his creation
		
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			in, you know, seeking him thereby
		
00:53:44 --> 00:53:47
			and likewise in all of one's life.
		
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			So that we can be of those whom
		
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			Allah's
		
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			messenger described that amongst Allah's
		
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			servant are those who are
		
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			Though of those who are keys of good
		
00:53:59 --> 00:54:00
			and locks against evil.
		
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			And the prophet
		
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			Those are the ones who've been granted
		
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			complete absolution
		
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