Haifaa Younis – Virtues of Memorising Surah al-Kahf I

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The importance of practicing and memorizing the first 10 or last 10 of a title is emphasized, along with the need to avoid wasting time and effort by reading and practicing. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of protecting oneself and others from infection through the use of "light," as it is not a flashlight and everyone has a new job. The speaker also discusses staying focused on one's deen and not being attached to things, as it is important for staying strong and staying focused on one's deen.

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			One of the duas we are supposed to
		
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			do
		
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			before we say salaam
		
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			in our salah on daily basis, minimum 5
		
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			times, is we seek refuge
		
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			from the test of the,
		
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			the dajjal and from the punishment
		
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			of the grave.
		
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			So Suratul Kahf, this is what he said
		
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			alayhi salatu wa salaam. There is memorizing,
		
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			and there is reading,
		
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			and it's all about either the first ten
		
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			or the last ten
		
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			of Suratul Kahr.
		
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			The first ten
		
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			and the last ten is not the stories.
		
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			It's just the introduction,
		
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			and he said the following. I just wanna
		
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			make sure so I don't read the the
		
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			hadith wrong. This one is in Muslim, and
		
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			he said, alayhi salaam,
		
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			this is related by Abu
		
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			Right? Now,
		
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			whomsoever
		
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			memorized 10 verses of Surat al Kahr, general.
		
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			10. How many of you? Show me hands.
		
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			It's okay. I wanna see this. Memorized
		
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			also
		
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			Also
		
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			All of it.
		
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			1 only.
		
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			234
		
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			5, 6,
		
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			7.
		
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			Don't be shy.
		
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			We have close to 60 here. We don't
		
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			even have 10.
		
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			Can I ask why not?
		
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			Don't answer me, but I want you to
		
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			go home and ask yourself this. Why not?
		
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			Why
		
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			not?
		
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			If I ask you again the same question
		
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			you have heard from me many times,
		
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			give me a recipe right now from your
		
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			memory
		
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			about the most
		
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			well known,
		
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			right,
		
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			recipe in your
		
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			country you came from or in the United
		
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			States.
		
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			All of you will give me the recipe.
		
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			Oh, why not Surat Al Kah?
		
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			It's 110 verses.
		
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			You read it every Friday. It's not difficult
		
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			to memorize.
		
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			It's not challenging. It's not like some other.
		
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			It's not
		
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			because it's stories
		
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			and doesn't have a lot of tough words
		
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			or difficult words for us. So the first
		
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			question everybody is gonna ask yourself,
		
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			why not? We keep asking Allah why not?
		
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			Why me?
		
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			Then I'm gonna ask to everybody why you
		
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			have not memorized Surat Al Kah.
		
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			And don't answer me. May Allah forgive me.
		
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			Well, Allah is gonna ask
		
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			you. Ten verses, at least start by 10
		
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			verses.
		
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			Ten verses. If you memorize 1 verse a
		
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			day,
		
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			1 verse a day, may Allah forgive me.
		
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			Right? You need 110 days. And how much
		
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			is 110 days?
		
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			It's 4 months.
		
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			And from now till the end of the
		
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			year.
		
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			4. One verse a day.
		
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			How long it takes
		
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			Okay. Review. What is the big deal?
		
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			You listen to a song a 1000 time.
		
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			You play the same,
		
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			game many times, and you enjoy it. You
		
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			watch the same thing many times.
		
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			I'm not saying haram. Shamat's all halal.
		
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			So put a goal
		
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			that I am
		
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			this is my goal till the end of
		
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			the year.
		
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			Right? We have absolutely 4 months and maybe
		
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			half.
		
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			I'm gonna memorize one
		
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			one verse.
		
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			1 verse a day,
		
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			and you have it translated, and you have
		
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			audio, and you name it, and you have
		
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			it.
		
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			Manhafi ba' Ashur
		
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			who memorized 10, and this is the one
		
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			in Muslim.
		
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			You memorized 10 protected from a dajjal. So
		
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			when he comes and those millions
		
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			don't read
		
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			what's written on his forehead. If you have
		
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			memorized those 10,
		
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			you will read it and you will be
		
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			saved.
		
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			That's one. 2nd one, hear also about Dada,
		
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			he said manqara'a
		
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			who read
		
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			the last ten verses of Suratul Kahah.
		
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			Also we will be protected from the test
		
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			of ad dajjal. So there is 2
		
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			opinions of it. The first one is stronger.
		
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			So you read
		
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			or you memorize.
		
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			Question for everybody, I really wanna see hands
		
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			because we really need to nowhere are we?
		
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			How many of you every Friday, they read
		
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			solar panel?
		
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			Every Friday.
		
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			Less than 50% in this class, and this
		
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			class supposed to be the best of the
		
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			best.
		
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			My question to everybody, why not?
		
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			And Friday starts from after Maghrib on Thursday,
		
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			so don't tell me I work on day
		
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			of Jummah.
		
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			Fine. Leave it Thursday night and in fact
		
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			there is a hadith of virtue of reading
		
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			it that night.
		
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			Why not Thursday night after Maghrib
		
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			before you go to bed on Thursday?
		
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			Right? Instead of scrolling
		
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			or talking
		
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			or texting
		
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			or reading something that is not beneficial.
		
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			Make it a habit.
		
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			Make it a habit. At least start by
		
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			reading.
		
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			Every Thursday or every Friday depends on your
		
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			schedule.
		
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			The more you read, memorization is much easier
		
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			because your eyes will memorize where is
		
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			it. Again, memorize it in read it in
		
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			transliteration. If you don't know the Arabic, that's
		
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			fine.
		
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			Read in transliteration,
		
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			listen
		
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			and work on it, and put it as
		
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			a goal till the end of the year.
		
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			Just 10. At the end, which is the
		
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			last page, you will be protected from the
		
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			test of al dajjal.
		
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			If I tell you now,
		
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			right, if once you leave, oh, I just
		
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			came in and there was a huge
		
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			accident,
		
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			right, on Jeffrey, Try to avoid Jeffrey. Will
		
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			anybody go to Jeffrey?
		
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			Right? You organize it. Take left and go
		
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			the other way.
		
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			Why did you believe me when I said
		
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			this?
		
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			And then you didn't believe Rasool Ali sat
		
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			to us salam when he told you this.
		
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			I didn't take any action.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Who can answer me?
		
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			It's not a priority.
		
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			So let's make this a priority. I want
		
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			to be protected.
		
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			You want to be protected? Take measures.
		
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			We all, may Allah forgive us and don't
		
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			you ever forget,
		
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			we all wore those masks,
		
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			remember?
		
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			And those
		
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			shields
		
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			and we stayed home and we took the
		
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			vaccine,
		
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			and he
		
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			lift it,
		
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			but we did it.
		
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			And I know there is gonna be
		
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			a fitna of a dajjal. Why don't I
		
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			prepare to protect myself?
		
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			The other one, he said,
		
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			there is a virtue when you read it
		
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			from 1 Friday to the other. Now it
		
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			is not about just reading it, but it's
		
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			consistently between Friday Friday. Now combine
		
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			everything I said. He said manqaaal kahf fiyomil
		
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			Jumu'ah
		
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			on the day of
		
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			Jumuah
		
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			You're gonna have a light,
		
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			and I'm gonna come to it, but just
		
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			not just translating.
		
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			Whosoever,
		
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			one Friday and Rad Al Kahf on the
		
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			other Friday. In between,
		
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			there is a light
		
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			for him or for her.
		
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			What is that light?
		
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			And why between Friday and the other Friday
		
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			combined with the tests we have?
		
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			I read it
		
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			and I said, hey. Be careful.
		
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			You just learned some dean. Don't be arrogant.
		
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			Hey. You are in a place. You just
		
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			got a new job, and there is a
		
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			lot of tests in the new job about
		
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			your dean.
		
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			Right? You just got money. You were just,
		
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			appointed
		
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			with a power. These are the 4 things.
		
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			When you read it in in that Jummah,
		
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			you're gonna read it with understanding, that's what
		
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			we are doing,
		
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			Then whatever happens in that Friday,
		
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			in that week,
		
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			you start your week
		
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			and you already have
		
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			what you need
		
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			to stay strong.
		
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			The light, what he says the light, is
		
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			not the light, is not a flashlight.
		
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			I see reality.
		
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			I see
		
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			that when I don't pray at work,
		
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			I see it and I can, and there
		
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			is no way you can tell me you
		
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			cannot pray at work. I will not take
		
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			this whatsoever.
		
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			You know why?
		
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			Because I went through it way before
		
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			when now everything is way easier
		
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			during September 11,
		
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			after September 11. When you are the only
		
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			one who wears hijab in this 5 it's
		
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			a 2000,
		
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			huge hospital,
		
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			You can do
		
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			it. So when you are have read Suratul
		
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			Kahf, you're gonna go Saturday
		
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			weekend, you went out, you know, you wanna
		
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			have fun,
		
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			but you will stay
		
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			focused on your deen because Alka have told
		
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			you that you will be tested in your
		
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			deen.
		
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			So every Friday to the other Friday, you
		
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			have a torch.
		
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			It's not a physical
		
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			torch. It's a spiritual torch that's gonna make
		
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			you see reality as reality.
		
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			In
		
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			the other hadith is even
		
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			and I want you to pay attention to
		
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			the beautiful
		
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			gatch here. He said manqaraahlaylatil
		
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			Jum'ah who read it at the night of
		
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			Jum'ah. Now we are night.
		
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			There will be the light between where he
		
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			or she is, and
		
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			meaning Mecca. Why?
		
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			Night is dark.
		
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			Mecca is very far.
		
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			Will put a light in front of you
		
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			that you folk, what is Al Bayt Alatiq?
		
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			What is what is Makkah? What is the
		
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			house of Allah? It's Allah.
		
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			Suratul Kahf will make you
		
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			attached,
		
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			connected,
		
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			protected,
		
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			and see this life as its reality.
		
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			Our issue all of us, may Allah forgive
		
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			me before anybody else. We don't see the
		
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			world as we should.
		
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			We don't see none of us in this
		
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			room, myself number 1 and nobody on online
		
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			see this dunya
		
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			as it's temporary.
		
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			We don't. Whether you are 15, whether you
		
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			are 70,
		
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			we're here forever.
		
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			Yes?
		
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			Yes or no? Yes. Yes. You know why?
		
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			Because I don't plan otherwise.
		
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			Right? There's a beautiful saying I learned it
		
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			years ago.
		
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			The wise person is the person who leave
		
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			Duniya
		
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			before Duniya leaves him.
		
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			And build and flourished
		
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			and furnish his or her grave
		
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			before they enter.
		
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			And please his or her lord before they
		
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			meet him.
		
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			Is that true?
		
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			Are we gonna leave the dunya
		
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			or the dunya will leave us?
		
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			Doesn't matter how you look at it but
		
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			we're leaving, true? Yes?
		
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			Perfect. Are we going to a grave?
		
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			Yes or no?
		
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			And are we meeting Allah?
		
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			Lovely. What have we prepared?
		
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			Did you leave Dunia? What is leaving Dunia?
		
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			Doesn't mean I'm not gonna do anything.
		
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			Leave Dunia. Don't get attached to it, and
		
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			don't make it your focus.