Faraz Rabbani – The Rawha #160 Finding Comfort in Ones Acts of Worship and Its Cure

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The concept of success and failure in life is linked to the human self and how actions and worship contribute to one's pleasure. Success is a result of finding comfort in one's worship, while failure is a result of not being satisfied with actions. The speakers emphasize the importance of recognizing and not denying one's actions as a means to reach Allah's desire and the importance of following one's desires and not faithing his words. They also mention monthly donations as a means to support their beliefs.

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			You're listening to the Roha, daily guidance for
		
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			seekers with Sheikh Rasra Behni.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, as we're continuing to look
		
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			at the blame worthy traits of the human
		
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			self,
		
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			and
		
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			how to treat them
		
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			in this striving to have a pure heart,
		
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			which is the key quality
		
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			for
		
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			eternal success
		
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			in the hereafter.
		
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			The whole
		
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			success and failure in life has been made
		
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			contingent,
		
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			dependent
		
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			in the teachings of the Quran and the
		
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			teachings of our beloved Messenger
		
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			upon the health of one's heart. Allah swears
		
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			by the human self.
		
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			And by the soul and how Allah fashioned
		
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			it.
		
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			And he inspired to it both its virtue
		
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			and its vice.
		
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			Its vice and its virtue.
		
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			Successful is the one who purifies it.
		
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			And a true failure is one
		
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			who allows it
		
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			to be corrupted.
		
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			So this treatise of Imam
		
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			We've
		
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			reached
		
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			trait number 36.
		
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			And
		
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			he says,
		
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			From its blameworthy traits
		
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			is
		
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			its
		
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			finding
		
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			comfort
		
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			in its obedience
		
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			to Allah Subhanahu
		
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			wa
		
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			Ta'ala.
		
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			And
		
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			to look at one's good deeds with the
		
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			eye of approval.
		
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			And what's the problem with this?
		
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			The problem
		
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			of this is that while there's
		
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			a sweetness
		
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			to obedience,
		
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			a satisfaction,
		
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			and happiness
		
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			in the worship of Allah.
		
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			A contentment
		
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			in all states in which one is in
		
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			submission to Allah.
		
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			And a bitterness
		
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			and sadness and loss and regret and remorse
		
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			in all that turns one away from Allah.
		
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			However,
		
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			sincerity entails
		
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			that you worship Allah, that you obey Allah,
		
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			that you pray, that you fast, that you
		
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			give in charity,
		
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			that you do good deeds
		
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			not
		
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			for the buzz,
		
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			but for the Lord.
		
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			And this is one of the
		
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			apparently innocent,
		
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			but
		
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			actually
		
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			detrimental. Things that can arise out of someone
		
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			becoming accustomed to worshiping Allah.
		
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			Practically you go to work
		
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			and you know in the stress of the
		
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			day,
		
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			Zohar time this is a really nice break.
		
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			It gives me some time to
		
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			regroup,
		
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			to breathe, to de stress.
		
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			Alhamdulillah.
		
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			I can clear my thoughts.
		
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			I can relax.
		
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			So but what happens? You find Uns.
		
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			You find comfort in these
		
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			in these aspects of the worship
		
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			or even spiritually.
		
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			You know, you pray
		
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			and you find
		
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			a spiritual
		
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			joy.
		
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			So you become attached
		
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			to the joy
		
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			and not
		
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			to the giver of that joy. Because what
		
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			is sincerity?
		
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			Sincerity is to act seeking Allah
		
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			and no meaning
		
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			besides.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So
		
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			these
		
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			fruits
		
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			of one's worship
		
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			are
		
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			encouragements
		
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			from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			But the purpose
		
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			is beyond them.
		
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			And one of the harms of taking
		
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			joy in
		
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			these in these aspects of one's worship
		
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			is the second part. Then you look
		
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			at your worship with the eye of
		
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			self approval.
		
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			Look I pray so well. I've improved my
		
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			prayer so now I find
		
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			whether it's the spiritual meanings you find or
		
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			the personal
		
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			worldly benefits you find in the prayer. So
		
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			you look at it with the eye of
		
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			approval, I pray.
		
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			And that's very harmful.
		
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			Because that is from a lack of sincerity,
		
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			and the lack of sincerity is the breeding
		
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			ground
		
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			of vices.
		
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			Pride can come in,
		
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			well showing off can come in, conceit,
		
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			self satisfaction,
		
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			pride,
		
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			looking down on others,
		
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			heedlessness,
		
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			heedlessness. Because you're so satisfied.
		
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			They say it's the example of that is
		
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			like the person
		
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			who goes who goes
		
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			looking for the king.
		
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			And you get to the palace,
		
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			some people get busy by the trees,
		
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			some by the fruits, some by the rivers,
		
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			other people enter
		
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			the court of the king. And they're like
		
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			wow! So they're and the king's right there.
		
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			Did you really go looking for the king?
		
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			Wow. And they put, you know, they say,
		
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			welcome to the court, and they take off
		
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			your travel clothing, they put nice garbs, now
		
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			you're busy with the garments. You know, you
		
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			know,
		
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			can I get one of those belts too?
		
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			And, you know, so you're busy with those
		
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			things, then they serve the meal.
		
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			You're like focused on the steak
		
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			and the
		
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			potatoes,
		
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			and there's the king.
		
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			And no one's paying attention
		
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			to the king.
		
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			Whose gardens are those, whose rivers, whose castle,
		
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			whose court,
		
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			whose
		
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			whose gifts,
		
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			whose meal,
		
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			whose table,
		
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			it's the king. The point is the king.
		
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			So
		
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			that's why
		
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			Abu Bakr said
		
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			that
		
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			seeking
		
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			the sweet seeking
		
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			the sweetness of acts of worship
		
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			is a destructive
		
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			poison.
		
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			A destructive poison for whom? For someone who
		
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			is seeking closeness to Allah.
		
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			For someone seeking closeness to Allah.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Because
		
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			as
		
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			you know this work
		
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			that we're looking at,
		
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			or
		
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			Ibn al Sarami, Imam Zaruk has
		
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			a poem version of this.
		
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			And
		
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			it was commented upon by a student of
		
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			Iam Zarooq's,
		
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			one of his distinguished students, Imam Al Kharubi,
		
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			who says in his commentary,
		
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			What is incumbent upon the servant of Allah
		
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			is they not
		
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			be fixated
		
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			on their actions.
		
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			And not to ascribe your actions to yourself.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Allah has created you and all that you
		
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			do.
		
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			That is
		
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			what is befitting.
		
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			It's a type of
		
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			implicit
		
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			association of partners with Allah. It's insincerity
		
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			because you acted not for Allah.
		
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			Now it's not
		
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			a sinful motive or some, but you fell
		
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			short.
		
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			So why do you go to the court?
		
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			Not for the king, you went there because
		
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			you want the stake.
		
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			That's not sincerity.
		
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			That's not sincerity and that's not love.
		
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			So
		
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			that's why in one of the brilliant treatises
		
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			of Islam,
		
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			it's a deep reminder of what true faith
		
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			entails,
		
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			what oneness of Allah entails.
		
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			And this treatise is translated into English. A
		
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			treatise concerning divine oneness translated
		
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			by Usad Mukhtar Holland. May Allah have mercy
		
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			on him.
		
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			He says,
		
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			he begins
		
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			in a dramatic fashion. He says
		
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			your entirety
		
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			is hidden
		
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			association of partners with Allah. Why?
		
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			Because every time you seek
		
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			other than Allah,
		
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			this is
		
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			an an implicit,
		
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			unconscious
		
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			seeking of other than Allah. And that's it's
		
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			insincerity, and insincerity
		
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			is
		
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			against what we've been commanded of sincerity.
		
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			They've been commanded only that they worship Allah
		
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			making their religion
		
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			completely sincere for His sake alone.
		
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			And when you become attached
		
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			to these,
		
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			to the sweetness of worship, to the happiness,
		
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			to the social aspects of the worship, etcetera.
		
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			These are things. How do you treat those?
		
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			You treat those 2 as gifts.
		
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			So you thank Allah for the gift. You
		
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			have gratitude,
		
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			but you don't busy yourself with the gift
		
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			from the giver.
		
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			So he says,
		
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			Your
		
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			affirmation of divine oneness
		
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			will not become manifest for you until you
		
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			leave your own self
		
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			and all your attachments
		
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			by Him,
		
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			by being attached to Allah.
		
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			So that you are
		
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			by Him and for Him,
		
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			and not by yourself and for
		
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			yourself. Right? And that's a high level reminder.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Wali as
		
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			well says these amazing words. He says,
		
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			Oh you who are imprisoned
		
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			by desires.
		
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			Oh you who are imprisoned
		
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			by your acts of worship.
		
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			Oh you who are imprisoned
		
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			by stations
		
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			and
		
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			by visions.
		
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			You are deluded.
		
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			The sinner is deluded
		
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			by their sin
		
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			and turning away from Allah. But the one
		
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			who's worshipping
		
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			is also deluded, it's not as bad a
		
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			delusion in one sense
		
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			because you are at least obeying Allah.
		
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			But
		
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			if you're obeying Allah, not seeking Allah,
		
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			that too
		
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			is
		
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			in
		
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			It's stepping down from the station of slavehood.
		
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			You are worshiping Allah, but not sincerely for
		
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			Allah. You've been commanded both.
		
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			It is you we worship, it is you
		
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			we rely upon.
		
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			So you're still a prisoner.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And all of these are from absence from
		
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			Allah
		
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			Whereas what is sought
		
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			by the worship
		
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			is the one worshiped.
		
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			What is sought
		
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			in one's worship is the one worshiped.
		
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			So see the Abdul Ghani Nabi will see
		
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			in his commentary.
		
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			He says,
		
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			So stopping
		
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			with the acts of worship alone
		
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			without
		
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			genuinely
		
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			purifying with sincerity of motive
		
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			is
		
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			a preventative
		
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			from reaching
		
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			Allah
		
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			You're in the castle but you're ignoring the
		
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			king.
		
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			At least you're in the castle, that's better
		
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			than being out there somewhere.
		
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			But sometimes being in the castle could be
		
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			a false claim.
		
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			So, yeah, you gotta go to the castle,
		
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			but you gotta pay attention to the king.
		
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			As Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says in Surat
		
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			Najm, verse 42, and truly to your Lord
		
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			is all end.
		
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			Is all end.
		
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			Is all that is sought.
		
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			Alright.
		
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			So
		
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			and this goes against Sidq,
		
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			being true to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			Because as Sidi Abdul Ghani Nabulsi says, because
		
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			if you were true to Allah,
		
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			you would not turn away from Him
		
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			towards your desires and your sin or towards
		
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			the worship and its fruits. You would engage
		
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			in the worship
		
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			but engaging your heart with Allah
		
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			So this is the
		
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			underlying
		
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			principle here that don't
		
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			worship Allah for Allah.
		
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			Right?
		
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			That truly by the remembrance of Allah do
		
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			hearts find rest.
		
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			But that
		
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			by the remembrance of Allah is by the
		
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			one remembered.
		
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			That is the
		
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			rest that is sought. The rest that is
		
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			sought is
		
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			the rest of
		
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			reaching Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			Right? And
		
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			and that rest is a rest in which
		
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			there is no rest.
		
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			You have inward rest but outwardly you are
		
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			always striving.
		
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			What you seek
		
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			is beyond you.
		
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			What you seek
		
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			is beyond you.
		
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			Because you never reach Allah that okay I've
		
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			reached.
		
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			So how do you deal with this? He
		
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			says
		
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			It's treatment first is to know that your
		
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			actions,
		
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			even if you strive to make them sincere,
		
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			they have
		
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			hidden defects, they have shortcomings.
		
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			Were you conscious of Allah at every moment?
		
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			Did you
		
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			uphold what Allah says when He says
		
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			Be mindful of Allah as He deserves.
		
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			Right? Esteem Allah as He deserves to be
		
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			esteemed.
		
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			Allah tells us the answer.
		
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			They did not esteem Allah as He deserves
		
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			to be esteemed.
		
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			So to know that your actions,
		
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			even if you strive to be sincere, have
		
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			shortcomings. So how could you take pride in
		
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			your efforts?
		
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			And that all your actions are never
		
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			short of
		
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			never bereft of shortcomings.
		
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			So rather than taking pride in what you
		
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			did,
		
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			recognize that you fall short of what Allah
		
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			deserves.
		
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			And that's the state of our beloved Messenger
		
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			the
		
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			one who is told
		
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			by his Lord
		
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			I am the foremost of the children of
		
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			Adam
		
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			and that's not a boast. He is commanded
		
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			to tell us that.
		
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			In my hand will be
		
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			the banner
		
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			of praise on the day of resurrection.
		
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			He will be, you know,
		
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			like, they'll be advertising on the day of
		
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			resurrection,
		
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			this is the beloved of Allah.
		
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			Right?
		
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			But yet,
		
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			what is his sunnah? It is his sunnah
		
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			to make Istighfar 3 times after the greatest
		
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			act of worship, the prayer.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because Allah you deserve better.
		
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			His state is that in one gathering he
		
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			would make Istighfar
		
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			70 times. Why?
		
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			Because
		
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			as
		
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			a servant rises in their relationship with Allah,
		
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			they realize
		
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			how much more does Allah deserve.
		
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			Right? How much more
		
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			does Allah deserve?
		
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			Because he says
		
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			And to know that its actions
		
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			will
		
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			not become sincere except
		
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			by stopping to look at one's own actions
		
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			with the eye of approval.
		
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			Rather, how does one look at one's actions?
		
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			When I was still in university, we had
		
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			a deed intensive
		
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			here in Canada, this is 1995.
		
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			And many of us were having an activist
		
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			crisis back then,
		
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			because we had been running around,
		
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			you know, a lot of harukah.
		
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			That's what we thought. A lot
		
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			of action
		
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			with little
		
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			that was blessed. And there's always benefit.
		
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			But we're,
		
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			a bunch of us are very concerned.
		
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			I asked one of the scholars that, you
		
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			know,
		
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			I'm worried that all this, you know, activism
		
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			and positions of leadership in the MSA, and
		
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			in the community, and this and that. So
		
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			should I step away from that and
		
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			and sort of work on myself?
		
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			And this this scholar
		
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			looked as I said, the strangest thing he'd
		
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			heard.
		
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			He said, why would you do that?
		
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			I said, because you're just worried about insincerity
		
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			and pride, and
		
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			And he smiled, and he said,
		
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			only a fool would take pride in the
		
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			actions of another.
		
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			Only a fool would take pride in the
		
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			actions of another. Why?
		
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			But Allah tells us,
		
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			Allah has created you,
		
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			and He has created all that you do.
		
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			Your your actions
		
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			are a gift from Allah
		
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			Your actions are a gift from Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala. Don't ascribe it to yourself.
		
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			Strive out of Adab with Allah,
		
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			but see
		
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			the action,
		
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			see the inspiration to the action,
		
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			the facilitation of the action,
		
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			the knowledge by which you can direct yourself
		
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			to the action. You've learned how to pray.
		
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			See that as a gift from Allah.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And what is the beginning of gratitude,
		
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			which is the way of the prophets
		
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			in all their actions?
		
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			Say, act, oh family of David,
		
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			with gratitude.
		
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			And few of my servants are truly grateful.
		
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			And what is gratitude?
		
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			Abu Bakr al Wasafi
		
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			said, same person we quoted earlier about looking,
		
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			if seeking the sweetness of one's acts of
		
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			worship, making that one that that's a killing
		
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			destructive that's
		
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			a
		
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			destructive poison. Radiallahu Wa Ta'ala says,
		
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			Gratitude
		
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			is to behold
		
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			divine favor.
		
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			Gratitude
		
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			is to behold
		
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			divine favor.
		
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			So we ask Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la to
		
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			grant us of that.
		
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			Next,
		
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			tomorrow, we'll
		
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			be looking at
		
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			the harm of following one's desires,
		
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			right,
		
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			And how
		
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			following one's desires kills
		
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			the the human self,
		
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			kills one's heart. So we'll look at that
		
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