Hamza Ayedi – Friday Khutba Consistency And Moderation

Hamza Ayedi
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The importance of Islam and the power of God is highlighted, along with the need for people to pray for their spiritual health and do the right things. Consistent actions and moderation are also emphasized. Prayer for others is also discussed, emphasizing the importance of finding oneself more sincere in small actions and building confidence. The need for action and consistency in life is emphasized, along with the importance of learning from actions and practicing them to become more confident.
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Alhamdulillah, we praise Him, we ask for His

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help and we ask for His forgiveness.

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And we seek refuge in Allah from the

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evil of our souls and from the evil

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of our deeds.

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Whom Allah guides, none can misguide him, and

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whom He misguides, none can guide him.

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And I bear witness that there is no

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god but Allah, alone, with no partner.

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And I bear witness that Muhammad is His

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servant and Messenger.

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O you who have believed, fear Allah as

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He should be feared.

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And you will not die except as Muslims.

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O you who have believed, fear Allah as

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He should be feared.

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And He has created you from one soul,

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and He has created from it a wife,

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and He has spread from it many men

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and women.

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And fear Allah, about whom you ask, and

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the wombs.

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Indeed, Allah is ever watching over you.

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O you who have believed, fear Allah and

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say a firm word.

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He will correct your deeds and forgive you

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your sins.

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And whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger has

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won a great victory.

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As for the next, the most truthful hadith

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is the Book of Allah.

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And the best gift is the gift of

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Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him.

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And the worst of things are its innovations.

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And every innovation is an innovation, and every

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innovation is a misguidance, and every misguidance is

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in the Fire.

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Then, as for the next, about Aisha, may

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Allah be pleased with her, it was said

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that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings

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be upon him, had a snake.

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And he used to cast it out at

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night.

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Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her, the

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wife of the Prophet, peace and blessings be

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upon him, she mentions that the Prophet, peace

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and blessings be upon him, used to have

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a straw mat.

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He used to have a straw mat.

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And he used to use it, وَكَانَ يُحَجِّرُهُ

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فِي اللَّيْلِ And he used to use it

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in the masjid to kind of seclude himself

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in an area.

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So he would stand it up, and he

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would kind of seclude himself to have some

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privacy to pray, to pray the night.

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وَكَانَ يُحَجِّرُهُ مِنَ اللَّيْلِ فَيُصَلِّي فِيهِ And so

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he would pray in it the night prayer.

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And we know that the Prophet, peace and

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blessings be upon him, from his sunnah that

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he would pray the night prayer.

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فَجَعَلَ النَّاسُ يُصَلُّونَ بِصَلَاتِهِ So people started seeing

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him do it, so they started going behind

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him and joining the salah.

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فَجَعَلَ النَّاسُ يُصَلُّونَ بِصَلَاتِهِ And the Prophet, peace

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and blessings be upon him, used to then

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after just take it down and just sit

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on it and use it throughout his day.

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So one day he noticed a lot of

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people started coming.

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So Aisha, she narrates, فَثَابُوا ذَاتَ لَيْلَةٍ

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فَقَال So he said to them, he thought

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that this is an opportunity to teach a

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lesson to the companions.

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رضي الله عنهم So he said to them,

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يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ O people, عَلَيْكُم مِّنَ الْأَعْمَالِ

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مَا تُطِيقُونَ O people, upon you is to

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do righteous deeds that you can handle.

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Only do the righteous deeds that you can

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handle.

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مِنَ الْأَعْمَالِ مَا تُطِيقُونَ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَمَلُّ

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حَتَّى تَمَلُّ Because indeed Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala does not stop, does not get tired

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of rewarding you until you stop doing that

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act, doing the good deeds.

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فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَمَلُّ حَتَّى تَمَلُّ وَإِنَّ أَحَبَّ

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الْأَعْمَالِ إِلَى اللَّهِ مَا دُوِمَ عَلَيْهِ وَإِن قَلْ

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And indeed the most beloved actions to Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala, that which is consistent

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even though if it's a little.

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وَإِنَّ أَحَبَّ الْأَعْمَالِ إِلَى اللَّهِ مَا دُوِمَ عَلَيْهِ

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وَإِن قَلْ And the most beloved actions to

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Allah are the actions that are consistent even

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if they're little.

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And in a similar narration, a woman came

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to Aisha radiallahu anha, and then she left.

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And then Nabi salallahu alaihi wa sallam asked

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her, who was that?

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And she said, it's fulana bid fulana.

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She mentioned a name from Banu Asad.

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And then Aisha said, زَعَمُوا أَنَّهَا تَقُومُوا اللَّيْلُ

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وَلَا تَنَامُوا People said that this woman would

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pray the whole night, and she would never

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sleep.

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And so Nabi salallahu alaihi wa sallam, he

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said, تَقُومُوا اللَّيْلُ She prays the whole night,

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almost like he's upset.

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تَقُومُوا اللَّيْلُ كُلُّ And she said, yes.

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And then he said the same thing.

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يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ خُذُوا مِنَ الْأَعْمَالِ مَا تُطِيقُونَ

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Yani, only do the actions that you can

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handle.

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And so from this hadith, dear brothers and

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sisters, we can get a lot of lessons.

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But today inshallah, we wanna focus on moderation

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and consistency when it comes to when it

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comes to الْأَعْمَالِ الصَّالِحَةِ Righteous deeds.

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Obviously here in this hadith, Nabi salallahu alaihi

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wa sallam, he's not talking about al-Fara

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'at, the obligatory acts.

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He's not talking about praying Dhuhr and Asr

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and Maghrib and Isha and fasting your obligatory

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fast.

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He's talking about al-Nawafil, the extra acts

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of deeds that we are recommended to do.

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And here we learn a big lesson.

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The Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam, طبعاً, he's

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a Nabi, he's a Prophet.

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And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala actually has

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commanded him to pray the night.

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And so it's different for him.

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But now people started joining him.

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So Nabi salallahu alaihi wa sallam was afraid

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that people now will think that for them

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to be righteous, for them to reach a

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high level, they have to come and pray

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and do things that they can't handle.

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So he wanted to tell them that, listen,

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only do the extra actions that you can

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handle.

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You don't have to just because fulan prays

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or reads for 6 hours a day from

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the Quran, it doesn't mean that you have

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to do that.

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You do from the righteous deeds, from the

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extra righteous deeds that you can handle.

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Because Muhammad has maybe more time than Salih.

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And Fatima has more time than Aisha.

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Or maybe fulan, okay, she's a mother and

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has many kids.

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Everybody has different situation.

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And everybody is at a different level in

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their Iman, in their Islam, right?

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When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala revealed the

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Quran, the disbelievers, they said, وَقَالَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا

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لَوْلَا نُزِّلَ عَلَيْهِ الْقُرْآنَ جُمْلَةً وَاحِدًا طيب, they

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said, why did the Quran, why was the

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Quran not sent down جُمْلَةً وَاحِدًا one time

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like that?

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, كَذَٰلِكَ لِنُثَبِّتَ

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بِهِ فُؤَادَكَ يعني Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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says, we sent it down slowly, ayah by

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ayah.

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He didn't send it all at once.

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Why?

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لِنُثَبِّتَ بِهِ فُؤَادَكَ So it can be strong

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and firm in your heart.

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Because if it came one time all down

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at one time, then that would have been

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difficult for the Prophet ﷺ.

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And the same thing here for us.

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We shouldn't try to do more than we

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can handle.

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So if you're someone who, you know, is

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not used to reading, you know, a juz'

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of Quran a day, you know, but you

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wanna do like your friend who mashaAllah he's

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a hafidh of Quran.

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And for him it's a piece of cake.

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You don't have to do 20 pages.

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Do what you can do.

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Start with one page.

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And then you can build up with that.

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And actually from this hadith, we also understand

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the nehi of someone doing that.

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It can reach a level of tahreem, of

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being impermissible for someone to do too much.

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Right?

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Why?

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Because of the consequences.

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Because of the consequences of doing too much.

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Remember when the three men came to the

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Prophet ﷺ, right?

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And one of them said, I'm gonna pray

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the night and not sleep.

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And one of them said, I'm gonna, you

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know, not marry.

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Right?

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So Prophet ﷺ says, you know, I pray.

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I mean, and the other one said, I'm

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gonna fast every day.

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He says, I fast, and I marry, and

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I sleep from the night.

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And so whoever goes astray from my sunnah,

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then he's not from my ummah.

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He's not from my ummah, from my people.

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And so we see here that actually it

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can reach a level of tahreem, of prohibition,

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if someone tries to do too much.

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Why?

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Why?

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Because when someone tries to do too much,

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what can happen?

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They can start disliking the ibadah.

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If you force someone to do too much,

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then they might dislike the ibadah and leave

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all of it.

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Maybe he was praying, or he was reading

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two ayahs a day or something, or listen

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to the Quran for five minutes.

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And then you tell him, go, you know,

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you have to do more, man.

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You have to do the whole juzah.

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And then you have to, and then he

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does it, and then he dislikes it.

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And now he has a negative emotion towards

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that ibadah.

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Right?

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And so it takes time, it takes tadaruj,

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for us to get used to ibadah.

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It doesn't mean we don't aim high.

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But you know yourself, you know what you

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can handle, and slowly you build up, and

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slowly you build up.

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us about

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the Christians, one of the things that they

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did, they invented, they innovated monasticism.

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Right?

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala never commanded them

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to do it.

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But they said, you know what?

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And maybe it was from a good intention,

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but we know that the intention is not

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enough.

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You have to also follow the sunnah of

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your Prophet.

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And Isa a.s. never came with that.

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Musa a.s. never came with that.

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So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reprimanded them

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and says, ورهبانية ابتدعوها This monasticism that they

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innovated, ما كتبناها عليهم We never made it

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obligatory upon them, but they made it obligatory

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upon themselves.

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فما رعوها حق رعايتها And they didn't even

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live up to that.

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Because you cannot.

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You cannot live and just leave the whole

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dunya.

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That's what they used to do.

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They would leave the whole dunya, they would

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not marry, they would not interact with people,

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and they would just seclude themselves.

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Right?

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رهبانية ابتدعوها And so we learn from this

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that the sharia, the religion, is not here

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to tell you to leave everything, and be

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extreme.

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Yeah, this is extremism.

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When somebody says, you know, I'm gonna spend

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my whole day.

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And we know stories from the sahaba.

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One of the sahaba, Abdullah ibn Amr al-'As,

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later in his life, he regretted something he

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did.

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What is it?

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He was known to almost fast every day.

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And so this reached the Prophet ﷺ.

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And so he talked to him, he told

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him, you know, your body has rights, your

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wife has rights, your children have rights, and

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so on.

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And so he wanted to fast.

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He said, the best you can do is

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the fast of Dawood ﷺ, which is fast

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one day, and break your fast the other

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day.

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So he said, I will do that.

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Right?

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And then later in his life, and he

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made like a, almost like a, like a,

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you know, an oath for himself that he's

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gonna stick to that.

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And then later, you know, he didn't wanna

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leave it, because he kind of made an

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oath with the Prophet ﷺ.

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And he regretted it later.

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He said, I wish I took the advice

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of the Prophet ﷺ to take it easy.

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لا يكلف الله نفسه إلا وسعه.

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Allah ﷻ is not gonna hold you accountable,

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okay, for something, for more than you can

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handle.

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Right?

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And we also have to remember that it's

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not just about the quantity.

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It's about the quality that you do.

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Right?

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It's about the quality that you do.

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And so from the dangers of doing too

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much is that a person will dislike it,

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a person will leave it.

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And Nabi ﷺ here, he said, فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ

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لَا يَمَلُّ حَتَّى تَمَلُّ.

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Okay?

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What does this mean?

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It means that Allah ﷻ is not gonna

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stop giving you ajr and reward, okay, even

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if for something little that you're doing, until

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you stop.

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Another understanding is that, if you do too

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much, if you try to do too much,

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you will stop, okay, and you will cut

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your ajr.

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Why?

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Because when you do too much, people tend

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to stop.

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You know, I can't do this anymore, ibadah

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is too difficult, so I'm not gonna do

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it.

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I'm not gonna do extra things.

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I'm not gonna come, you know, someone never

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comes to the masjid, and then they say,

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I'm gonna come everyday, every salah, okay, and

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then they say too hard and they quit,

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they never come back.

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Right?

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So we understand from this hadith that Allah

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ﷻ will never stop rewarding you for even

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the little things.

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You know, when you do something good to

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a person, you know, they'll thank you the

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first time, the second time, the third time,

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but over time, خلاص, it becomes like عادة.

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You don't get that thanks anymore.

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But Allah ﷻ, whenever you do a good

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deed, even if it's something small, the hasanat

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was still coming, Allah ﷻ يعني لا يمل

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من إعطاء الجزاء.

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Allah ﷻ will not stop giving you the

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reward for even the little things.

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Because sometimes shaitan will come to a person

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and say, you know, whatever you're doing that's

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little, it's not good enough.

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You need to do more, you need to

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be like that person and that person and

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that person.

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Right?

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But this is from the waswasah of shaitan.

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وَقُلُوا قَوْلِ هَذَا وَاسْتَغْفُرُوا اللَّهُ لِي وَلَكُمْ وَلِسَائِرِ

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الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَالْمُسْلِمَاتِ فَاسْتَغْفِرُهُ إِنَّهُ وَالْغَفُورُ الرَّحِيمِ

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Ask Allah ﷻ for forgiveness.

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بسم الله الحمد والله والصلاة والسلام وعلى رسول

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الله وعلى آله وصحبه ومن والاه So Nabi

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ﷺ, he told us that, يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ

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خُذُوا مِنَ الْأَعْمَالِ مَا تُطِيقُونَ O people, take

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or do from the good deeds, from the

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extra good deeds, from that which you can

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handle.

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Tamam?

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And everyone of us knows what we can

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handle.

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The objective is not to minimize what you

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do.

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Let's not misunderstand this hadith.

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The objective is to do what you're comfortable

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with.

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The objective is to do what you, you

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know, what you enjoy more.

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Why not?

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If you enjoy something more than something else,

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then do that more.

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Right?

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Because this is, in this field of Islam,

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you are free to do whatever you want.

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If you want to fast more, you want

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to read Qur'an more, maybe, you know,

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this person, he enjoys reading a lot of

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Qur'an, so let him get his hasanat

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from that.

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Right?

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So you start with that and you build

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on that.

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That's the objective.

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But it's not for you to go, you

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know, someone wants to memorize the Qur'an.

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Right?

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You don't just go tell them, يَا أَيُّهَا

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النَّاسُ خُذُوا مِنَ الْأَعْمَالِ مَا تُطِيقُونَ Go memorize

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600 pages in one year.

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They will look at it and be like,

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I've never even memorized half a page in

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my life.

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Right?

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And then they'll be like, this is impossible.

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But when you give someone, you know, go

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memorize these 5 pages.

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Okay?

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In 2 weeks.

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They can do it, it's realistic.

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Then you give them another 5 pages.

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Okay, it's realistic.

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Then they're done with 20 pages.

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And you tell them, it's just 30 more.

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Ah!

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So from the benefits of doing that is

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that you gain confidence.

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And that's why in the end of the

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hadith, the Prophet ﷺ wanted to emphasize what

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is the priority here.

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It's not about the amount of hasanat that

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you do.

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It's about being consistent.

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It's about being consistent even if it's a

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little.

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And so the objective is consistency.

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The objective is to do something even if

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it's little.

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وَإِن قَلْ But consistently.

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يعني a person who reads half a page

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a day, one page of Qur'an a

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day, right, throughout the year, is better than

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the person who sits down one night and

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reads the whole Qur'an and never looks

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at the whole, you know, for the rest

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of the year.

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That person is more beloved to Allah ﷻ.

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Why?

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Think about it.

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Consistency proves many things.

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Consistency proves commitment to that action.

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Consistency actually, it makes you love that action

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more.

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Right?

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Because when you're consistent, you slowly start getting

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used to it, and it draws you closer

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to Allah ﷻ, versus someone who just does

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it out of emotion.

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You know, sometimes we do things out of

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emotion.

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You know, we hear something, we see a

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video, you know, we hear a lecture, and

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you know, I'm gonna do all this, and

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then you do it once and then you

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stop.

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No, actually it's more beloved to Allah ﷻ

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that you do something consistently even if it's

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a little.

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Right?

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And so from the benefit we said of

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doing something, even if it's small, consistently is

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that you gain confidence.

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When a person says, I wanna pray Qiyam

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al-Layl.

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Ta'ib, he's never prayed Qiyam al-Layl.

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You're gonna tell him, go pray, get up

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before Fajr, and pray 20 rak'ah?

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No, you tell him, go pray a witr

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after your isha, before you sleep.

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Okay, he's done that for a few days.

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Ta'ib, now, maybe you can pray your

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witr, your one witr, before Fajr.

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Get up five minutes before Fajr.

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Okay, that's doable.

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And then maybe you can do an extra

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two.

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That's doable.

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Right?

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With tadarroj, right?

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Step by step, so that they can reach

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the level that they want to reach.

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But not just jumping right into it, so

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they gain confidence.

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It becomes a habit of your life.

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It becomes like second nature.

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And so for those people, for example, who

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get themselves used to doing the adhkar right

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after salah, okay, one dhikr, just one dhikr.

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Okay?

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You know, they say, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah.

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Do that for a week, and then it

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becomes a habit.

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Then you can add something else.

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Right?

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And so it's not from the sunnah to

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just grab the whole book, and you know,

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try to memorize all of it at once.

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Do one thing at a time, and then

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you can become consistent with it.

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And also one thing, that this could prove

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ikhlas.

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This could be a proof of your ikhlas,

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your sincerity towards that action.

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Right?

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Because who is more likely to be sincere?

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The one who does it consistently, or the

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one who does it once in his life?

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Or once in a while?

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Right?

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The one who does it consistently is the

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one who's probably gonna have more sincerity, and

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he's gonna build more sincerity.

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Because he's committed to that action.

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Right?

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He's not just doing it for some other

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reason.

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And also, subhanallah, we don't realize this, but

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small actions over time, they pile up.

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We don't realize it.

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Small actions over time.

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Right?

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If someone just gets themselves used to saying,

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you know, استغفر الله استغفر الله استغفر الله

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افتحوا صلاة.

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اللهم اعني على ذكرك وشكرك.

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خلاص.

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Now it becomes a habit.

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And they forget about it.

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Over time, 10, 20, 30 years, some of

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you have been doing that.

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Imagine how many hasanat that is.

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Right?

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And so, when you do small things over

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time, and they become a habit and part

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of your life, you unconsciously are getting so

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many hasanat, and you don't even realize.

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And then when you meet Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala on the day of judgment, you

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have these mountains of hasanat that you didn't

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even realize.

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Subhanallah.

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And it becomes like easy.

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You don't even realize that you're actually putting

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effort for that.

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And Aisha finished the hadith by saying, وَكَانَ

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آلُ مُحَمَّدٍ Aisha is saying this, وَكَانَ آلُ

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مُحَمَّدٍ صلى الله عليه وسلم And the family

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of the Prophet ﷺ, they used to, إِذَا

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عَمِلُوا عَمَلًا أَثْبَتُوهُ That when they learned an

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action, when they did an action, أَثْبَتُوهُ They

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made it firm.

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يعني they were consistent with it.

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Right?

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And so they would learn one thing, and

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then they would practice it.

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And they would practice it until it became

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ثابت.

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أَثْبَتُوهُ يعني it became ثابت.

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It became something like part of their life.

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Right?

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And so a lesson we can learn here,

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right, is that we should take things one

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step at a time.

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So don't do too much, but at the

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same time, don't just do nothing.

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Right?

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Pick something small that you can add to

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your life every week, every month, and inshallah

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by the end of the year, you have

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all these new habits, and you don't even

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feel them because they become something that is

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automatic in your life.

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Ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to make

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us of those who listen to the speech

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and follow the best of it.

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اللهم أعز الإسلام والمسلمين اللهم أعز الإسلام والمسلمين

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و أحمي حوزة الدين و دمر أعداء الدين

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و وحد بين الصهوف والمسلمين اللهم آتِ نفوسنا

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تقواها و زكِّها أنت خير من زكَّاها أنت

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وليها و مولاها ربنا آتنا في الدنيا حسنة

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و في الآخرة حسنة و قنا عذاب النار

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ثم صلوا و سلموا على خاتم النبيين و

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رسول رب العالمين فقد أمرتم بذلك في كتاب

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المبين إن الله و ملائكته يصلون على النبي

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يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا صَلُّوا عَلَيْهِ وَسَلِّمُوا تَسْلِيمًا

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اللهم صلِّ وسلِّم و بارِك على عبدك و

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رسولك محمد عباد الله إن الله يأمر بالعدل

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و الإحسان و إيتاء ذي القربة و ينهى

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عن الفحشاء و المنكر و البغي يَعِذُكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ

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تَذَكَّرُونَ فاذكروا الله الجليل يذكركم و اشكروه على

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نعم يزدكم و لذكروا الله أكبر و الله

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يعلم ما تصنعون before we do the Iqamah

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