Hamza Ayedi – ShaBaan A Gateway To Ramadan

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The importance of planting intentions for a great deal of time is emphasized, along with forgiveness, finding one's own deeds, and planting for a busy month with events and practicing forgiveness. The use of rukhsah, a concession given by Allah for fasting, is a unique thing in the month of Jannah, and preparing for a busy month with events and practicing forgiveness is emphasized. Forgiveness is a combination of forgiveness and finding one's own deeds, and a national holiday is discussed with a photo of a football player being a highlight.

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			Bismillah, alhamdulillah, wassalatu wassalamu ala rasoolillah, wa ala
		
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			alihi wa sahbihi, wa man wala.
		
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			Allahumma la ilmah lana illa ma'allamtana innaka
		
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			anta al-alimul hakeem.
		
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			Allahumma alimna ma yinfa'na wa infa'na
		
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			bima'allamtana wa zidna ilmah.
		
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			Wa arina al-haqqa haqqan wa razuqna ittiba
		
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			'ah.
		
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			Wa arina al-baatila baatilan wa razuqna ijtinaabah.
		
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			Wa adkhilna bi rahmatika fi ibadika as-salihin.
		
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			Ameen ya rabbal alameen.
		
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			Ahlan wa sahlan everybody to our lecture tonight
		
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			about Sha'ban, a gateway to Ramadan.
		
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			The month of Sha'ban, wa ma adraaka,
		
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			what is Sha'ban?
		
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			What will make you understand what Sha'ban
		
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			is?
		
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			And I wanted to begin with a story.
		
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			And I'm just curious, how many of you
		
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			here have ever ran a marathon?
		
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			Show of hands.
		
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			Walking to the supermarket is not a marathon.
		
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			Like an actual marathon.
		
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			Nobody?
		
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			No, no, we need kilometers here.
		
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			No meters.
		
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			You've ran a marathon?
		
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			How many kilometers?
		
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			Allah Allah, khalas, then you'll understand.
		
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			Masha'Allah, 42 kilometers.
		
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			Tabarakallah.
		
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			Subhanallah, every year, they usually have like a
		
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			marathon for Palestine.
		
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			Like a run for Palestine.
		
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			Anybody do that last summer?
		
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			Nobody here?
		
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			Okay.
		
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			So, actually, last year in the summer, I
		
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			decided I'm going to do it.
		
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			This was like two months before.
		
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			And for those who, the reason why I'm
		
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			asking is because I want to see how
		
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			people understand what it means to run a
		
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			marathon.
		
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			Running a marathon, you can't just show up
		
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			on the day and be like, yalla, bismillah,
		
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			roll up your sleeves.
		
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			You'll probably end up in the hospital.
		
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			I'm not exaggerating, you'll probably end up in
		
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			the hospital.
		
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			You know, I knew what it takes, because
		
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			I've done one a long time ago.
		
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			And you need a lot of preparation.
		
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			You need to be preparing maybe, we can
		
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			say weeks, months, depending on how long the
		
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			marathon is.
		
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			What's the longest you've ever prepared for a
		
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			run?
		
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			Regular runner.
		
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			But if you're rusty, you would probably need
		
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			two, three months.
		
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			Subhanallah, you know, I told myself, I'm going
		
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			to run, I think they had five kilometers
		
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			and maybe like 10 or 15.
		
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			So I was like, I'll do the lesser
		
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			one, but I'm going to do it inshallah,
		
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			I'm going to prepare.
		
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			And I said, a week passed by, inshallah,
		
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			inshallah, I got busy, I'll prepare inshallah.
		
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			Another week passed by, until literally it came
		
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			the week before, and I was like, khalas,
		
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			you know, I'll just run every day.
		
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			I ended up running just one day before.
		
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			Sorry, one day from that week.
		
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			And I'm like, okay, khalas, better than nothing.
		
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			Okay, so I show up at the day
		
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			of the marathon.
		
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			It's a run, yeah, it's not a marathon.
		
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			It's a run, yeah, a run.
		
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			But it's a decent distance.
		
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			Right?
		
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			You know, everyone's excited, I'm like, bismillah, and
		
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			so we're running and literally, I mean, right
		
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			before the first kilometer, I'm like, out of
		
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			breath, I feel like I'm about to vomit.
		
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			You know, you get conscious, confused, dizzy, right?
		
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			It was one of those really difficult moments.
		
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			And I'm like, oh my god, I need
		
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			to stop.
		
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			But then I convinced myself to keep going.
		
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			You know, until, until, until I got to
		
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			the end.
		
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			And these kids are running by me, and
		
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			these young, you know, I started good, and
		
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			then I'm like falling behind, and all these
		
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			people are going ahead of me.
		
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			And that feeling when you see people go
		
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			ahead of you, you know, there's, if you
		
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			ever went through that feeling, it's very painful,
		
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			humiliating, you feel like you're powerless.
		
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			People are passing by you, they look at
		
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			you, you're like, you're puffing and huffing and
		
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			puffing.
		
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			SubhanAllah, for me, it was, Alhamdulillah, I made
		
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			it.
		
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			My standards were high, you know, top 10
		
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			or something.
		
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			Then the standard was just make it.
		
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			You know, then I was like, just don't
		
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			stop, just keep going.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, I made it alive.
		
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			It was very painful.
		
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			Lakin, I learned a big lesson.
		
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			I learned a big lesson.
		
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			And subhanAllah, this is, I wanted to mention
		
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			this story, because a lot of us, when
		
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			it comes to Ramadan, we treat it like
		
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			the way, you know, I treated that marathon,
		
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			right?
		
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			We go to the month of Ramadan, and
		
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			we're like, yalla, Bismillah, okay?
		
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			But we're not ready for it, we didn't
		
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			prepare for it.
		
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			Wait a second, are you supposed to prepare
		
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			for Ramadan?
		
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			Yes, we are supposed to prepare for Ramadan,
		
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			yeah?
		
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			Just like exactly we're supposed to prepare for
		
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			a marathon, because at the end of the
		
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			marathon, you want to reach the high spot,
		
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			right?
		
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			And at the end of Ramadan, what do
		
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			you want to do?
		
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			You want to reach the high spot, you
		
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			want to get out of Ramadan as a
		
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			new person, as a better person, as a
		
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			person who has achieved, you know, thousands and
		
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			thousands and maybe millions of hasanat.
		
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			Because that is the month, this is the
		
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			best month.
		
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			And before we understand the importance of preparing
		
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			for it, we need to understand the greatness
		
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			of this month, right?
		
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			And so this is, Allah subhanAllah, you know,
		
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			has chosen, you know, specific times, like He
		
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			favored Laylatul Qadr, He favored this month, the
		
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			month of Ramadan, out of all the months,
		
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			right?
		
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			It's a month where Allah subhanAllah forgives and
		
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			He takes the most people out of the
		
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			hellfire, right?
		
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			And so all these things about Ramadan, the
		
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			month that the Qur'an came down, the
		
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			month where Allah subhanAllah takes the most people
		
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			out of Jahannam and enters people into Jannah,
		
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			right?
		
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			And as-siyam, the main act of worship
		
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			that happens in that month, this is an
		
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			act that Allah subhanAllah says, this is for
		
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			me.
		
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			We know other acts of worship that you
		
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			get ten hasanat, you know, you get this
		
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			many hasanat, but as-siyam, Allah didn't mention.
		
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			He says, this is something that could be
		
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			multiplied, multiplied.
		
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			Allahu a'lam.
		
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			For this great month, many of us go
		
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			to it like that.
		
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			Another example is, you know, think of a
		
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			farmer.
		
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			Imagine a farmer came to the, you know,
		
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			he just bought a farm and then he
		
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			came to the month of harvesting and he's
		
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			like, Bismillah, let's harvest.
		
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			We'd say to him, what are you talking
		
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			about, Habibi?
		
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			You have to first plant the seed, you
		
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			have to water, you have to, it takes
		
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			time, subhanAllah.
		
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			The ulama, they say that the month of
		
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			Rajab, which just passed, today is what?
		
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			What's the date today?
		
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			The first of Sha'ban.
		
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			Today is the first of Sha'ban.
		
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			But what came before it?
		
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			Rajab.
		
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			And Rajab is from, it's an important month,
		
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			right?
		
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			It's one of the sacred months.
		
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			إِنَّ عِدَّةَ الشُّهُورِ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ إِثْنَا عَشَرَ شَهْرًا
		
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			مِنْهَا أَرْبَعَةٌ حُرُمٌ There are four months that
		
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			are Muharram, right?
		
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			Muharram, Rajab, and Dhul-Qi'ah, Dhul-Hijjah.
		
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			So these are sacred months.
		
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			They're special months, right?
		
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			But there is a month that people neglect.
		
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			And of course we have the month of
		
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			Ramadan, we know its place.
		
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			But there's a month that comes between Ramadan
		
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			and Rajab that people neglect.
		
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			And that is the month of Sha'ban.
		
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			And that is the month of Sha'ban.
		
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			And so the ulama, they say that in
		
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			Rajab, you're supposed to plant the seed.
		
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			رَجَبْ شَعْبَانْ رَمَضَانْ رَمَضَانْ is what number?
		
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			Number in the month?
		
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			تِسْعَ صَحْ Number nine, okay?
		
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			So Sha'ban right now, we're in the
		
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			eighth month.
		
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			Before it comes Rajab.
		
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			رَجَبْ شَعْبَانْ رَمَضَانْ Okay?
		
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			Memorize that.
		
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			طيب.
		
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			So in the month of Rajab, what we're
		
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			supposed to do, think of a farmer, you
		
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			gotta plant the seeds, right?
		
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			This is the time where you're really like,
		
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			okay, you know, it's been this many months,
		
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			okay, got rusty, a lot of sins, you
		
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			know, fallen behind.
		
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			It's time to, you know, get ready and
		
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			get back, you know, get back to business.
		
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			And so this is the month where you
		
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			start making the intentions, and start planting the
		
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			seeds.
		
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			What do I want to achieve in Ramadan?
		
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			You know people, now we're finishing January, but
		
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			what were people doing in December, in the
		
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			beginning of January?
		
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			They were what?
		
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			Yeah, they're what?
		
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			Resolutions, right?
		
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			And so people who prepared for the resolutions,
		
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			by the way, they're the ones who actually
		
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			end up achieving them.
		
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			And people who just wake up, okay, well,
		
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			everybody on TikTok and Snapchat is doing resolutions,
		
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			let me just do some.
		
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			يلا بسم الله.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			One month, خلص, they're gone.
		
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			And this is what happens with a lot
		
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			of people in Ramadan.
		
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			They enter the month of Ramadan, they're gone.
		
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			You were in the first line, and they're
		
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			gone.
		
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			خلص.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And then for many people, they enter Ramadan,
		
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			and it's a painful experience.
		
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			And many people, when you see Ramadan is
		
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			coming on the mimbar, okay, you can see
		
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			it from their faces.
		
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			It's like, oh my God, it's that month,
		
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			no coffee, no this, no that.
		
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			So for them, it's a negative feeling.
		
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			And this is the kind of feeling I
		
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			had after that run.
		
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			When you don't prepare for something, and you
		
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			put yourself through that pain, it can give
		
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			you a negative feeling.
		
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			And that's the feeling some people have with
		
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			Ramadan.
		
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			It's a negative, it's a bad relationship you
		
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			have with the greatest month.
		
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			And you see people on the other hand,
		
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			they're dying, they're waiting, they're so excited about
		
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			Ramadan.
		
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			It's like they're about to buy a new
		
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			car or something, you know.
		
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			They're about to graduate or something.
		
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			Like, it's a month that they're thirsty for.
		
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			How come these guys are like this, and
		
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			other people are like, oh my God, I
		
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			don't want to see Ramadan.
		
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			And they can't wait till it's over.
		
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			And they're counting the days.
		
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			Like, they're on the calendar, they're like, yalla,
		
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			yalla.
		
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			Where's Eid?
		
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			Right?
		
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			And then Eid comes, and really, it's like,
		
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			it's Eid, he has a thawb jadeed, and
		
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			his qalb is maghreed, as they say.
		
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			You know, it's Eid, he doesn't really have
		
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			anything to celebrate, he didn't really achieve much.
		
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			You know, he gets new clothes, but he's
		
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			the same.
		
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			His heart is still sick, he didn't become
		
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			a better person, he didn't increase in taqwa.
		
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			Why?
		
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			A lot of these things happen because we
		
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			don't, we don't prepare for Ramadan.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And so, you know, maybe some people would
		
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			have seen this title, preparation for Ramadan, eh,
		
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			I know Ramadan, I don't need to come.
		
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			Lakin, I promise you, this is one of
		
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			the most important lectures, inshallah, they will attend.
		
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			Because in this lecture, you will see the
		
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			importance of preparing for Ramadan.
		
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			We've got 30 days, maybe 29, we've got
		
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			30 days, inshallah, and in this month, inshallah,
		
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			if you take care of it, if you
		
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			prepare, if you put the effort, you will
		
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			have the best Ramadan in your life, bi
		
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			-idhnillah.
		
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			And this is the time to plant that
		
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			seed and to make that intention, that inshallah,
		
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			this month of Ramadan, I'm gonna be a
		
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			new person.
		
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			Because Ramadan is a month for us to
		
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			become better people.
		
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			It's a month, and Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala has made it in a way where
		
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			it's easy for you to become a better
		
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			person.
		
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			It's easy for you to give up bad
		
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			habits.
		
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			It's easy for you to build new habits,
		
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			okay?
		
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			And so this is a golden opportunity.
		
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			Forget New Year's, January, this is the perfect
		
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			time, okay, there is no other time of
		
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			the year, and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			you know, the shayateen are chained, and everything,
		
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			the red carpet is there for us, but
		
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			many people don't want to walk on the
		
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			carpet.
		
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			They're like, I'll go somewhere else.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			And so, Sha'ban is that month, is
		
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			that amazing month, okay, where we can prepare
		
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			so we can have a great Ramadan.
		
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			And so, in Sha'ban, now you wanna
		
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			water the seeds.
		
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			You've planted the seeds in Rajab.
		
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			We just finished Rajab, we can still make
		
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			those intentions, you know, this month, this Ramadan,
		
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			this year, I wanna have the best Ramadan.
		
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			I want Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			forgive all my sins.
		
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			I want to have a relationship with the
		
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			Qur'an.
		
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			I want to enjoy Qiyam al-Layl.
		
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			I want to give a lot of Sadaqah.
		
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			I want, I want, I want.
		
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			I want to come out, having given up
		
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			this bad habit I have.
		
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			I want to come out.
		
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			This is the time to plant those intentions
		
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			right now.
		
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			Does making intentions cost you any money or
		
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			time?
		
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			It doesn't really.
		
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			Right now, as we're speaking, you can make
		
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			those intentions, subhanallah.
		
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			But this is the month to do that.
		
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			And then now, you need to water your
		
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			seeds.
		
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			If you don't water your seeds, if you
		
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			made intentions in Rajab, okay, let's assume we're
		
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			in Rajab, okay, and you don't water your
		
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			seed, is it gonna grow in the month
		
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			of harvesting, which is Ramadan?
		
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			It's not gonna grow.
		
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			And so in Rajab, you're supposed to plant
		
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			your seeds.
		
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			In Sha'ban, you're supposed to water them
		
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			and take care of them.
		
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			And how do you do that?
		
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			You start getting ready.
		
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			So I want to have a relationship with
		
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			the Qur'an, and I want to enjoy
		
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			the Qur'an in Ramadan, I'm gonna start
		
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			reading slowly in Sha'ban, right?
		
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			I want to be from the Mutasaddiqun.
		
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			And Nabi ﷺ used to be the most
		
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			generous in Ramadan.
		
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			Does it make sense logically that someone who
		
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			never gives at all in Ramadan, he's gonna
		
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			become a very generous person?
		
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			It really doesn't make sense.
		
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			A person prepares themselves slowly, slowly, slowly.
		
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			Does it make sense that a person will
		
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			enjoy Qiyam al-Layl in Ramadan, and he's
		
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			never done it the whole year?
		
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			It doesn't make sense, right?
		
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			He's gonna force himself, right?
		
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			And it's painful for him, right?
		
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			Versus someone who's prepared and practiced in Sha
		
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			'ban, he's watered his seeds, then on the
		
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			month of Ramadan, he will enjoy that.
		
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			And he will tell, and he will wish
		
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			that the Imam read more.
		
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			Haven't you noticed there's some people that say,
		
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			Ya Shaykh, it's too long.
		
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			You know, it's like, six pages.
		
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			It's too long, Shaykh.
		
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			You know, when I was in Riyadh, there's
		
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			some masajid, they're like, four pages, khalas.
		
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			It's too much for them.
		
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			I'm like, shoo hada.
		
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			They take the days off, and it's like,
		
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			Isha is late, and some people just can't
		
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			handle more than four pages, right?
		
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			And then there's people who come and they
		
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			attend, right?
		
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			And they're used to Qiyam al-Layl in
		
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			Sha'ban, and so they say, Ya Shaykh,
		
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			make it longer.
		
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			I wish it could be longer.
		
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			You know, they're not like, waiting and like,
		
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			trying to get out of, you know, as
		
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			soon as the Imam says salamu alaykum, they're
		
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			gone.
		
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			SubhanAllah, this goes back to preparation for that,
		
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			for that month.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And it's easy now to say, yes, you
		
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			know, Ramadan, I want to be forgiven.
		
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			I want to get this many deeds, right?
		
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			If I was to ask you, who here
		
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			would like to be from those who Allah
		
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			Subhanu wa Ta'ala will make Jahannam haram
		
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			for them?
		
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			You raise your hand.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			And then say, how many of you are
		
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			willing to do the work?
		
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			Most of us will raise their hand.
		
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			But when it comes down to doing the
		
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			work, most of us will not do the
		
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			work.
		
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			And Allah Subhanu wa Ta'ala tells us
		
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			in Surah At-Tawbah about the hypocrites.
		
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			Surah At-Tawbah is one of those surahs,
		
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			it's the surah, it's the only surah in
		
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			the Qur'an that doesn't have Basmala.
		
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			And it's the surah that they call Al
		
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			-Fadhiha, because Allah Subhanu wa Ta'ala exposed
		
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			the hypocrites.
		
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			Allah Subhanu wa Ta'ala exposed the hypocrites.
		
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			In one of the ayat, Allah Subhanu wa
		
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			Ta'ala talks about the hypocrites when they
		
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			had to go to the Battle of Tabuk.
		
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			The Battle of Tabuk, it didn't actually take
		
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			place, but it was going to be one
		
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			of the most difficult battles for the Muslims.
		
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			They were about to face one of the
		
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			superpowers, right?
		
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			The Byzantine Empire.
		
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			And so, and it was a difficult time,
		
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			and it was a hot summer, right?
		
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			And so, a lot of the hypocrites start
		
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			coming with excuses, right?
		
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			You know, we have family, we have kids,
		
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			we have jobs, we have this, we have
		
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			that, and they start making excuses.
		
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			Allah Subhanu wa Ta'ala says, Had they
		
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			really wanted to go for battle, they would
		
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			have prepared for it.
		
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			But because they didn't want to go to
		
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			battle, because they came to the Prophet saying,
		
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			we want to go, we want to support,
		
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			okay?
		
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			But in reality, in their hearts, they didn't
		
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			want to.
		
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			They just wanted an excuse, and they didn't
		
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			want to really go and do the work.
		
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			And so Allah exposed them, He says, Had
		
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			they wanted to go out and assist in
		
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			the battle, and fight for Islam, okay?
		
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			Then they would have prepared for it, because
		
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			to go to battle, you have to prepare.
		
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			You can't just be like, yallah, bismillah, let's
		
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			go guys.
		
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			If someone wants to climb Mount Everest, do
		
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			they just go, yallah, bismillah?
		
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			They're preparing for months, right?
		
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			To battle, you're preparing for months, right?
		
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			And so, Allah says, they didn't prepare aslan,
		
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			so they didn't really want to go.
		
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			Because you know, someone who's preparing, and then
		
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			something emergency comes up, you know?
		
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			Some terminal illness.
		
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			At least they've prepared, and Allah knows their
		
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			intention.
		
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			And their preparation is a proof of their,
		
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			of their niyyah.
		
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			And their lack of preparation is a proof
		
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			of that their niyyah was not to go
		
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			out.
		
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			So Allah says, وَلَاكِنْ كَرِهَا اللَّهُمْ بِعَاثَهُمْ Actually,
		
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			Allah did not want them to go because
		
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			they actually didn't want to go.
		
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			And because they didn't want to go, Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala caused them to stay
		
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			behind.
		
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			And Allah said, you stay there, وَقِلَا قُعُدُوا
		
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			مَعَ الْقَاعِدِينَ You stay behind with the boys
		
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			and the girls, with the boys and the
		
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			women.
		
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			And this is a humiliation for them, right?
		
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			And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, had
		
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			they come out with you, they would have
		
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			been a problem, they would have been a
		
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			burden for you.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			And so one of the signs that our
		
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			intention is pure, the intention we're making in
		
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			Rajab and Sha'ban is that we actually
		
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			prepare for it.
		
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			That we're actually watering, watering those seeds in
		
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			the month of Sha'ban.
		
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			عائشة رضي الله عنها قالت, لم يكن النبي
		
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			صلى الله عليه وسلم يصوم من شهر أكثر
		
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			من شعبان النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم did
		
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			not fast a month as much as he
		
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			would fast Sha'ban after Ramadan, right?
		
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			فإنه كان يصوم شعبان كله وفي رواية كان
		
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			يصوم شعبان إلا قليلا عائشة saying that, when
		
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			we used to notice the Prophet ﷺ, after
		
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			Ramadan, the month he would fast the most
		
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			is the month of Sha'ban.
		
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			And he says, in one way he says
		
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			he would fast all of it.
		
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			كله يعني معظمه يعني most of it.
		
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			In Arabic كله doesn't always mean all of
		
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			it, but most of it.
		
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			يعني 20 days, 25 days, 26 days.
		
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			So the Prophet ﷺ used to fast a
		
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			lot of Sha'ban.
		
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			And the question is why?
		
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			Why would he do that?
		
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			What's so special about Sha'ban?
		
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			In another narration, Usam ibn Zaid رضي الله
		
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			عنه he noticed the same thing.
		
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			He noticed that the Prophet ﷺ is fasting
		
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			a lot in Sha'ban.
		
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			قَالَ قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ لَمْ أَرَاكَ تَصُومُ
		
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			شَهْرًا مِنَ الشُّهُورِ مَا تَصُومُ مِن شَعْبَانِ Like,
		
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			I don't see that you fast a lot
		
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			of fasting like Sha'ban.
		
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			I don't see you fasting this much in
		
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			any other month like Sha'ban, right?
		
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			قَالَ ذَٰلِكَ شَهْرٌ يَغْفُلُ النَّاسُ عَنْهُ بَيْنَ رَجَبٍ
		
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			وَرَمَضَانٍ He said ﷺ there is a month
		
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			that many people are heedless about.
		
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			This month comes between Sha'ban and Rajab.
		
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			I told you that sorry, this month comes
		
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			between Ramadhan and Rajab.
		
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			This month comes between Ramadhan and Rajab.
		
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			We said that Ramadhan is the ninth month
		
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			and Rajab is the seventh.
		
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			So what comes between them?
		
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			The eighth month which is Sha'ban.
		
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			So he ﷺ said a lot of people
		
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			are heedless about it.
		
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			They don't pay attention to it, right?
		
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			غَفِلِين يعني يَغْفُلُونَ They're heedless.
		
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			They don't pay attention to it.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Allah ﷻ says in Surah الْأَنْبِيَاءَ اِقْتَرَبَ لِلنَّاسِ
		
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			حِسَابُهُمْ وَهُمْ فِي غَفْلَةٍ مُعْرِضُونَ That the time
		
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			of hisaab, the day of judgment is coming
		
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			closer and closer and many people are in
		
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			a ghaflah.
		
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			They're heedless.
		
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			They're just playing and wasting time not realizing
		
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			that every day they're coming closer to that
		
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			day, to meeting Allah ﷻ.
		
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			So ghaflah is when you're heedless.
		
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			Like you're not aware of what's happening.
		
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			You're not aware of its importance.
		
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			So he says there's a month between Ramadan
		
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			and Rajab that many people are heedless about.
		
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			وَهُوَ شَهْرٌ تُرْفَعُ فِيهِ الْأَعْمَالُ It is a
		
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			month where the deeds are raised.
		
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			تُرْفَعُ فِيهِ الْأَعْمَالُ إِلَىٰ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ The deeds
		
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			are raised to the Lord of the worlds,
		
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			Allah ﷻ.
		
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			So he says, so now this is the
		
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			reason.
		
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			فَأُحِبُّ أَن يُرْفَعَ عَمَلِي وَأَنَا صَائِمُ So I
		
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			would love that when my deeds are raised,
		
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			I'm fasting.
		
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			So I love that when my deeds are
		
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			raised to Allah ﷻ, I'm fasting.
		
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			And we see in other narrations, this concept
		
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			of the a'mal being raised to Allah ﷻ.
		
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			The a'mal are raised to Allah ﷻ in
		
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			three different time portions.
		
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			What's the first one?
		
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			Anybody know?
		
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			Daily, when?
		
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			Daily, daily, in the day.
		
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			Fajr and Asr.
		
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			So there's angels that come in that time,
		
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			and they raise our a'mal to Allah ﷻ.
		
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			And so Allah asks, how did you find
		
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			them?
		
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			He said, we found them, they asked the
		
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			angels.
		
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			And he knows, Allah knows the answer, but
		
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			it's there to be a witness.
		
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			He asked them, how did you find my
		
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			slaves?
		
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			They say, we found them praying.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And that's why Salatul Fajr and Salatul Asr
		
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			are such important prayers, because the angels come
		
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			and they record, and then they go tell
		
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			Allah ﷻ, we found Muhammad and Fatima and
		
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			Abdullah and all these people, they were praying.
		
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			So this is the first time, in the
		
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			day.
		
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			They come in the Fajr and in the
		
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			Asr time.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ, the believer should be
		
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			praying in those times, so that when it's
		
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			raised to Allah ﷻ, they are met while
		
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			they are praying.
		
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			What's the second time?
		
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			What's the second frequency, I guess?
		
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			Huh?
		
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			In the?
		
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			In the week.
		
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			When?
		
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			Monday and Thursday.
		
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			Yeah?
		
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			And so Monday and Thursday, the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			told us that also the deeds are raised
		
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			to Allah ﷻ on Monday and Thursday.
		
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			And that's one of the reasons why the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ, what?
		
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			He would fast those days.
		
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			He would fast Monday and Thursday.
		
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			The same reason, because he wanted that when
		
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			the deeds are raised, that he is fasting.
		
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			So here we see how great the act
		
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			of fasting is.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ, he told us that,
		
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			whoever fasts a day, whoever fasts a day,
		
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			then Allah will push his face away from
		
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			the hellfire 70 years.
		
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			70 years.
		
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			70 years just for fasting one day.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			And so, number one, they are raised in
		
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			the day, Fajr and Asr.
		
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			Number two, they are raised in the week,
		
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			Monday and Thursday.
		
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			And number three, they're raised annually when?
		
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			In the month of Sha'ban.
		
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			In the month of Sha'ban.
		
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			And so this is the month also where
		
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			the deeds are raised to Allah ﷻ.
		
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			What does it mean that they are raised?
		
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			People do actions.
		
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			People do a'mal, right?
		
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			Now these actions have to go up, right,
		
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			to Allah ﷻ.
		
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			And some people, their deeds don't go up.
		
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			Or when they go up, they're not in
		
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			the best state.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And subhanallah we have the hadith.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And this is a good time to talk
		
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			about the 15th of Sha'ban.
		
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			Right?
		
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			This always comes up about the 15th of
		
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			Sha'ban.
		
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			What's so special about the 15th of Sha
		
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			'ban?
		
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			The 15th of Sha'ban, this is the
		
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			middle of the month, right?
		
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			And we have some narrations.
		
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			A lot of them are da'if.
		
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			Others, some of the ulama, they said that
		
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			it's hasan nighayri, like it's acceptable hadith.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			And that is the hadith where, about Abu
		
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			Musa al-Ash'ariy, about the messenger of
		
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			Allah ﷺ, he said, إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَيَتْطَلِعُ فِي
		
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			لَيْلَةِ النِّصْفِ مِن شَعْبَانِ That Allah ﷻ will
		
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			look down upon His slaves on the middle
		
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			night of Sha'ban.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			فَيَغْفِرُ لِجَمِيعِ خَلْقِهِ And He will forgive to
		
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			all creation.
		
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			Allah ﷻ will look down and He will
		
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			forgive all of the creation.
		
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			All the creation.
		
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			إِلَّا إِلَّا Except for two people.
		
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			Anybody know the two people, the two kinds
		
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			of people?
		
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			Huh?
		
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			Someone who has shahna' and someone who is
		
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			mushrik.
		
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			All the creation, Allah ﷻ will forgive them,
		
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			except a mushrik.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			A mushrik is someone who associates partners with
		
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			Allah ﷻ.
		
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			And a mushahin.
		
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			اش يعني مشاحن What's a mushahin?
		
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			Hmm?
		
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			Someone who keeps grudges.
		
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			احسنت.
		
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			A mushahin.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And this is very interesting.
		
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			Like I said, this hadith, and it's a
		
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			good time to talk about this night.
		
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			There's a lot of exaggeration from some people
		
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			on this night.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And some of the ulama, we have some
		
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			narrations actually where Ibn Abbas ﷺ would actually
		
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			spend this night praying and read the Qur
		
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			'an and spend it in ibadah.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Some people try to fast on this day.
		
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			Some people try to pray qiyam al-layl
		
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			and do special adhkar, etc.
		
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			We don't really have any authentic proof that
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ used to do special things.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			Some of the sahaba and tabi'een would
		
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			try to do extra deeds.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because the more good deeds you do, the
		
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			more likely Allah ﷻ will forgive your deeds.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So this is taqarrub to Allah ﷻ.
		
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			So if someone says, I want to read
		
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			Qur'an or I want to pray the
		
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			night or I want to fast, okay, then
		
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			there's no problem.
		
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			But to specify the day for fasting and
		
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			not the rest of sha'ban is not
		
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			from the sunnah.
		
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			The sunnah is to actually try to fast
		
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			as much as you can in sha'ban.
		
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			The sunnah is to try to fast the
		
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			Mondays and Thursdays in sha'ban.
		
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			The sunnah is to try to fast the
		
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			ayam al-bid, like the middle days of
		
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			the month in sha'ban.
		
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			That is closer to the sunnah.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			Some people, you know, we have this thing
		
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			where we try to find the shortcut, like
		
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			the 27th night of Ramadan and, you know,
		
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			the middle of sha'ban.
		
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			Right?
		
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			But that's not the sunnah of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			But it is a special night and we
		
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			have this hadith.
		
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			Right?
		
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			It's an acceptable hadith.
		
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			Right?
		
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			It's a special night.
		
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			But the place where I wanted to talk
		
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			about is that Allah ﷻ will forgive all
		
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			the creation except the mushrik, okay, or someone
		
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			who has shahna, has a grudge.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because we have a hadith.
		
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			Right?
		
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			We have a hadith that, that, that the
		
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			doors of Jannah are opened on Monday.
		
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			And the day of Thursday.
		
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			We mentioned this a few minutes ago.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So, these people will be forgiven except, okay,
		
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			except a person that had grudge with another
		
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			person.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			So, it will be said to the angels,
		
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			take a look.
		
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			So, wait for these two people that have
		
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			grudge between each other until they make up.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Until they reconcile.
		
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			Until they figure out this grudge or this
		
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			beef they have between each other.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			So, you say, Three times.
		
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			Wait for these until they make up.
		
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			Delay their forgiveness until they reconcile.
		
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			Delay their forgiveness until they reconcile.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			And so there are people that they're doing
		
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			good deeds and when the time comes for
		
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			these deeds to go up to Allah ﷻ,
		
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			they are held back.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because they have a grudge against someone.
		
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			Right?
		
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			People, a person doesn't talk to their brother
		
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			for years.
		
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			The other day, I was talking to a
		
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			person, she hasn't talked to her father for
		
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			six years.
		
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			Six years she hasn't talked to her father.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			How are your deeds being raised to Allah
		
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			ﷻ?
		
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			Right?
		
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			And so one of the things that we
		
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			need to do, inshaAllah, we're going to talk
		
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			about this in Sha'ban, is that we
		
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			need to make sure there is no shahna.
		
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			There is no grudges that we enter Ramadan
		
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			with a clean heart.
		
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			And this is one of the easiest things
		
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			to do in terms of effort, but it's
		
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			one of the hardest things to do.
		
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			One of the most difficult things to do
		
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			is to forgive someone or to let go
		
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			of something when they were wrong.
		
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			Or somebody who wronged you.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Especially when it comes to family.
		
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			Lakin we know our obligation when it comes
		
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			to family.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And then Nabi ﷺ is telling us that
		
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			Allah will not forgive that person.
		
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			And Allah will tell the angels, wait, wait
		
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			until they make up.
		
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			Think about how many people you have you
		
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			cut off intentionally.
		
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			Whether it's a brother in Islam, whether it's
		
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			a far relative or a close relative.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Think of how many people you've cut off.
		
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			Those relationships have to be fixed.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And so a person might fast the whole
		
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			month and they have this shahna.
		
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			Allah ﷻ will their sins be forgiven.
		
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			Allah ﷻ.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And so, what are some of the things
		
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			that we can do in the month of
		
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			Sha'ban?
		
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			And we'll conclude with this, bi-idhnillahi ta
		
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			'ala.
		
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			What are some of the things that we
		
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			can do in the month of Sha'ban?
		
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			Okay, number one is fasting, obviously.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And Nabi ﷺ said that, you know, the
		
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			reason why he fasted so many times, so
		
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			many days in Sha'ban, because this is
		
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			the month where the deeds are raised to
		
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			Allah ﷻ and he wishes that when they
		
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			are raised, he's fasting.
		
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			Right?
		
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			When it comes to fasting, number one, we
		
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			have our obligatory fast that we missed from
		
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			last Ramadan.
		
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			So if you have any fast that you
		
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			missed from last Ramadan, you need to make
		
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			sure that you make them up.
		
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			You need to make sure that you make
		
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			them up.
		
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			And if another Ramadan comes and you haven't
		
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			made them up, then you are sinful.
		
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			If another Ramadan comes and you don't make
		
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			up those fasts, then you are sinful.
		
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			You are sinful for those days.
		
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			Right?
		
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			You are excused and you had eleven months
		
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			to make them up.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			So this is like your last chance.
		
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			So those are number one priority.
		
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			You need to make up those days.
		
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			That is going to be dain.
		
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			It's going to be something that you owe
		
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			Allah ﷻ on the Day of Judgment.
		
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			So you have to make up those obligatory
		
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			fasts, number one.
		
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			Number two, there's the voluntary fast, right?
		
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			The voluntary fast, we said Mondays and Thursdays.
		
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			And we have from the Sunnah, the middle
		
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			days, الأيام البيض, in the middle of the
		
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			month.
		
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			Those months are also from the Sunnah, right?
		
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			The closest to the Sunnah.
		
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			It's a Sunnah mu'akkadah to pray those
		
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			days.
		
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			And of course the whole month.
		
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			Right?
		
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			The whole month, it's a great month to
		
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			fast.
		
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			The only day I would say don't fast
		
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			is the month, is the day right before
		
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			the viewing of the moon, of the month
		
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			of Ramadan.
		
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			Right?
		
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			That day, just so you can separate between
		
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			Ramadan and some ulama said there's karaha for
		
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			fasting on that day, the last day.
		
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			So just leave that day out.
		
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			But the rest of the month, try your
		
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			best to fast in that month.
		
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			And remember, the person who's fasting in Sha
		
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			'ban, how's his fasting going to be in
		
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			Ramadan?
		
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			It's going to be very enjoyable, right?
		
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			It's going to be very comforting.
		
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			Because now he's ready.
		
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			What happens for those of us who haven't
		
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			fasted for 11 months, and then now we're
		
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			fasting in Ramadan, right?
		
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			We are like, we crash in the first
		
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			day, and we have headaches, and all those
		
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			things that come up, right?
		
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			And it makes Ramadan less, yeah, less enjoyable,
		
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			right?
		
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			But if you prepare, and you fast a
		
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			few days in Sha'ban, then you will
		
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			enter Ramadan energetic, ready.
		
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			Your body has adjusted.
		
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			Your heart has adjusted, subhanAllah.
		
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			And remember the reason why we fast.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Why do we fast?
		
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			What's the illah of fasting?
		
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			نعم, الله سبحانه وتعالى says, يَأَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا
		
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			كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ الصِّيَامُ كَمَا كُتِبَ عَلَى الَّذِينَ قَبْلِكُمْ
		
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			لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ This is the illah, this is
		
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			the reason.
		
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			So the main reason, okay, the main hikmah
		
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			of fasting, Allah mentioned siyam in general here.
		
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			The main reason for fasting is that in
		
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			the hopes, لَعَلَّكُمْ in hopes that you can
		
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			gain taqwa.
		
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			In the hopes that you can gain what?
		
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			Taqwa, God consciousness, fear of Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So imagine someone who's been fasting, you know,
		
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			few days here and there in Sha'ban
		
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			and he enters Ramadan with a high level
		
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			of taqwa.
		
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			How is his recitation of the Quran in
		
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			Ramadan with the shayateen chain and everybody around
		
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			him fasting and qiyam, how is his relationship
		
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			going to be?
		
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			It's going to be different.
		
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			He's going to actually enjoy it.
		
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			He's going to find peace.
		
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			He's going to have tadabbur, you know.
		
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			أَفَلَا يَتَدَبُّرُونَ الْقُرْآنَ أَمْ عَلَى قُلُوبٍ أَخْفَلُهَا Many
		
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			of us cannot contemplate and understand and enjoy
		
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			the Quran because there are chains, there are
		
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			locks on our hearts from the sins.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And the key is with shaytan and he's
		
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			run off with it subhanAllah.
		
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			And we let him run off with it.
		
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			And the month of Sha'ban is the
		
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			month to get that key back.
		
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			And the month to unlock those locks on
		
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			our hearts.
		
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			Right?
		
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			To have our heart ready for the month
		
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			of Ramadan.
		
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			So fasting is one of the best ways
		
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			because fasting gets you physically ready and it
		
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			gets you spiritually ready.
		
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			And it gets you spiritually ready.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Number two is reading the Quran.
		
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			Shahr Ramadan is the shahr of the Quran.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And it's the best month for us to
		
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			get closer to the Quran, to the book
		
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			of Allah.
		
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			It's the best month to build a relationship
		
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			with the Quran.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			It's interesting, in the month of Ramadan you
		
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			know, there are people who will not touch
		
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			the Quran for 10 to 11 months.
		
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			And in the month of Ramadan they will
		
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			do a khatmah.
		
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			They will read the whole Quran.
		
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			It's amazing.
		
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			It's a blessed month.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala makes it easy
		
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			for people to do that.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And so imagine someone now who, you know,
		
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			some of the ulama they say that the
		
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			month of Sha'ban this month that we're
		
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			in right now they called it the month
		
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			of the qurra.
		
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			Why they call it the month of the
		
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			qurra?
		
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			Because this is the month where the qurra,
		
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			those who recite the Quran in Ramadan, they
		
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			start preparing.
		
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			And those who used to own shops they
		
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			would close their shops in Sha'ban.
		
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			You know, we're closed.
		
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			Sorry, we're closed.
		
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			This is the month of preparation.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			Because they wanted to reach Ramadan in optimal
		
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			form.
		
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			Ready for that marathon.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Ready to just * everything they can from
		
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			that month.
		
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			Because that month is short.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And subhanallah that month makes such a big
		
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			difference.
		
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			A person who lived one extra year, one
		
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			extra Ramadan might go so many levels higher
		
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			than someone who missed that Ramadan.
		
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			And we don't know.
		
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			And Nabi salallahu alayhi wa sallam there's some
		
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			discussion about the authenticity of this hadith.
		
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			But he would say, you know, Allahumma barik
		
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			lana fee sha'ban, wabalighna Ramadan.
		
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			Oh Allah bless us in Sha'ban and
		
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			give us the ability to be alive in
		
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			Ramadan.
		
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			Can anybody know, can anybody guarantee here if
		
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			we're gonna be alive in Ramadan?
		
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			Lakin, you know what's amazing?
		
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			What's amazing is had, if you plant the
		
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			seeds, and you make the intention to water
		
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			them, and you plan the intention to have
		
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			the best Ramadan, guess what?
		
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			If you don't make it, if I don't
		
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			make it, and that's a very big possibility,
		
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			if we don't make it to Ramadan, insha
		
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			'Allah all of that is written for you.
		
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			Allahu Akbar.
		
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			All of that is written for you.
		
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			And Nabi salallahu alayhi wa sallam told us,
		
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			the person who makes an intention, a sincere
		
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			intention, and he's not able to fulfill that,
		
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			then Allah writes it down for him.
		
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			Allahu Akbar.
		
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			Allah will write down right now if you
		
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			made an intention to have the best Ramadan,
		
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			that you had that great Ramadan.
		
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			So why would someone not do that?
		
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			Right?
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			So the second thing is reading the Quran,
		
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			reciting the Quran, getting used to reciting the
		
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			Quran, you know, starting to spend some time
		
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			with the Quran.
		
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			So that's number two.
		
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			Number three is trying to pray some qiyam.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And so, it's amazing how a lot of
		
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			people will force themselves to go to taraweeh.
		
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			And they'll push through.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And you know, high five for that, and
		
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			that's excellent.
		
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			Lakin, how is their experience with qiyam al
		
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			-layl?
		
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			Is it enjoyable?
		
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			Is it painful?
		
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			Some people are like barely holding on.
		
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			Some people are just waiting for like, you
		
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			know, al-shafa' al-witr.
		
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			You know, they're just waiting for al-shafa'
		
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			al-witr just to, you know, because it's
		
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			so painful.
		
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			And some people are just enjoying it.
		
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			And some people stay and pray until they
		
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			do 20.
		
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			Allahu Akbar.
		
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			And they go home and they'll pray more.
		
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			And they'll wake up.
		
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			How?
		
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			Because they got their body used to it.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And so one of the greatest advice the
		
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			ulama give about qiyam al-layl is if
		
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			you are someone who does not pray qiyam
		
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			al-layl at all.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Then start with just praying that one witr
		
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			before you sleep.
		
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			That one witr that you pray, and a
		
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			witr is a sunnah mu'akkadah.
		
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			Right?
		
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			It's a extremely recommended sunnah.
		
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			And so that one rak'ah of witr.
		
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			Is that difficult?
		
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			One rak'ah of witr?
		
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			It's not that difficult.
		
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			That rak'ah of witr, pray it for
		
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			7 days in a row before you sleep.
		
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			Or just after isha.
		
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			Start with after isha.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Just pray that one rak'ah.
		
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			And then do it right before you sleep.
		
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			Another week.
		
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			And then another week, wake up before fajr.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, we haven't increased the hour.
		
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			It's coming.
		
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			It's coming soon in Ramadan.
		
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			Right?
		
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			But, you know, fajr is still a bit
		
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			late.
		
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			So if you're up at 6, you can
		
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			still pray qiyam.
		
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			Delay that right before fajr time.
		
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			Right?
		
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			For another week.
		
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			And you'll see now that it's easier for
		
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			you to get up for qiyam al-layl.
		
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			And then maybe increase, add 2 rak'ahs,
		
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			and then 5 rak'ahs, and then 7,
		
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			and then it becomes a habit.
		
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			This is how you build a habit.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			Ramadan is great for that.
		
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			But the problem with Ramadan is many people
		
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			go from zero to yalla, bismillah, hour and
		
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			a half.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And then it's so difficult for them that
		
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			when Ramadan goes by, they will never go
		
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			back to it.
		
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			Because they went in hard, it was painful,
		
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			it was not an enjoyable experience, and they
		
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			didn't take the right steps.
		
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			Right?
		
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			They didn't take the right steps.
		
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			Similar to the example, any students here?
		
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			Any students, students, university?
		
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			Yalla.
		
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			What happens when you cram the night before?
		
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			Huh?
		
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			What happens after the test?
		
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			Do you remember anything?
		
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			Khalas.
		
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			You don't even want to look at the
		
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			notes.
		
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			You don't even want to see them.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			But it's possible to get a good grade.
		
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			It's possible to benefit, right?
		
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			You get a good grade.
		
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			But then you come out and it's like,
		
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			your friend asks you, what did you put
		
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			on the answer?
		
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			He's like, I don't even know what I
		
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			put.
		
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			You know?
		
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			You were studying for 20 hours.
		
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			And subhanallah, a lot of people are like
		
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			that with Ramadan.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Lakin, the one who prepares, the one who
		
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			studies like two weeks before, very few of
		
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			us do that.
		
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			But those who study like weeks before a
		
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			test, you know, they're the ones who enjoy
		
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			the test.
		
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			They're the ones who benefit from that knowledge
		
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			after the test.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			And they'll get their grades.
		
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			And it's the same thing with fasting and
		
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			Qur'an and Qiyam.
		
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			The next thing is, and this is one
		
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			of the most important, is forgiveness.
		
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			And forgiveness, two things.
		
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			Number one, having a tawbah nasuha, a sincere
		
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			tawbah to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ told us that the
		
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			one who has a sincere tawbah, Allah will
		
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			forgive him.
		
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			It's guaranteed.
		
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			Allah will forgive you.
		
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			Whatever you did, لَا تَقْنَطُوا مِن رَحْمَةِ اللَّهِ
		
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			إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَغْفِرُوا الذُّنُوبَ جَمِيعًۭ Allah forgives all
		
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			the sins.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			Allah says, قُلْ يَا عِبَادِيَا الَّذِينَ أَسْرَفُوا All
		
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			My servants who have done the extremes, they've
		
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			done everything.
		
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			They didn't leave any sin unturned.
		
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			They've done everything.
		
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			Allah says, لَا تَقْنَطُوا مِن رَحْمَةِ اللَّهِ إِنَّ
		
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			اللَّهَ يَغْفِرُوا الذُّنُوبَ Allah forgives all the sins.
		
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			So number one, we have to ask for
		
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			forgiveness and make tawbah.
		
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			Number two, which is related, is we need
		
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			to forgive others.
		
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			Remember that shahnaa, that guwaj we talked about?
		
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			We need to let go of that.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			We need to forgive others.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, in surah an
		
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			-Nur, He tells us the story, right?
		
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			Of al-ifq.
		
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			We don't have time to go through it.
		
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			But one of the key moments in that
		
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			surah, surah an-Nur, is the incident with
		
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			Abu Bakr radhiAllahu anhu.
		
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			Abu Bakr, his daughter was accused of zina.
		
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			Aisha radhiAllahu anhu, the wife of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			So his daughter was accused of zina.
		
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			A relative of his daughter, okay, is one
		
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			of the people who spread.
		
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			He was a believer but he made a
		
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			mistake.
		
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			He spread the rumor.
		
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			And what's interesting, Abu Bakr used to, used
		
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			to give him an allowance.
		
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			I want you to imagine, one of your
		
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			relatives, you give them an allowance monthly.
		
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			Maybe they're back home, they're not well, they
		
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			need money.
		
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			So you send them a monthly allowance.
		
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			And then they spread rumors about your daughter.
		
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			How would you feel?
		
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			So naturally, Abu Bakr said, I will not
		
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			spend on him.
		
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			I will not send him anymore.
		
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			He's upset.
		
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			It became a big incident and everybody is
		
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			talking about it.
		
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			And so Allah ﷻ revealed an ayah.
		
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			Allah ﷻ revealed an ayah that don't let
		
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			those people who have fadl, who have, who
		
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			are doing good deeds, right?
		
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			From the muhajireen.
		
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			Don't let those people stop doing those good
		
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			deeds.
		
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			And to forgive.
		
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			And then this is what I wanted to
		
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			focus on.
		
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			And then Allah says, wouldn't you love that
		
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			Allah would forgive you?
		
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			Abu Bakr, when he heard this ayah, he
		
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			said, yes, of course I would love that
		
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			Allah would forgive me.
		
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			The implication here or what's being implied here
		
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			is that as if Allah ﷻ is saying,
		
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			if you want Allah to forgive you, then
		
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			forgive others.
		
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			And the more you are willing to forgive
		
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			others, then Allah will forgive you.
		
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			Some people will say, I don't want to
		
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			forgive.
		
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			They wrong me.
		
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			They don't deserve it.
		
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			Subhanallah, if Allah ﷻ wanted to take us
		
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			to account for what we did, Allah says,
		
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			مَا تَرَكَ عَلَى ظَهْرِهَا مِن دَبِّ وَلَوْ يُؤَخِذُ
		
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			اللَّهُ النَّاسُ If Allah ﷻ was to take
		
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			people to account for what they actually do,
		
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			we wouldn't even be standing here.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			Look how merciful Allah ﷻ is to us.
		
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			And so Allah ﷻ is telling us, have
		
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			some mercy on other people.
		
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			And Allah ﷻ will forgive you.
		
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			And so one of the ways for us
		
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			to gain forgiveness in this month, and that
		
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			night of Shaban, is that we forgive others.
		
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			Remember He said, accept one who is a
		
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			mushrik, and the one who has shahna, who's
		
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			got beef, who's got grudge with other people,
		
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			who is not willing to forgive.
		
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			And like I said, it's one of the...
		
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			there's no effort.
		
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			What do you have to do?
		
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			You have to lift a box?
		
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			You have to like run a marathon?
		
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			You just have to really sit down, and
		
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			just humble yourself, and just forgive that person.
		
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			Pick up the phone, and call that cousin
		
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			that you haven't called in 10 years because
		
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			of, you know, he didn't return that 100
		
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			bucks, subhanallah.
		
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			Petty things.
		
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			Things in the dunya, right?
		
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			Or he said something, or you heard someone
		
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			told you that he said something about you.
		
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			And maybe it's not even true, subhanallah.
		
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			And shaitan breaks that relationship, and your deeds
		
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			are not being graced.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			So that's one of the greatest things to
		
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			do, is to try to get that out
		
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			of the way, forgive others, you know, connect
		
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			with those relatives.
		
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			And Allah ﷻ told the Prophet ﷺ, خُذِ
		
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			الْعَفُّ, take al-'afu, pardon.
		
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			Like, it's as if it's something that you
		
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			take.
		
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			This is something you take.
		
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			Al-'afu is something you take.
		
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			You know, when people talk about forgiveness, yeah,
		
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			they see it as, I'm giving up something.
		
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			I'm on the weaker end of it, you
		
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			know.
		
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			Allah ﷻ says, Allah ﷻ talks about al-'afu,
		
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			pardoning people, as if it's something that you're
		
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			gaining.
		
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			He says, خُذِ الْعَفُّ, it's something you take.
		
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			خُذِ الْعَفُّ, subhanallah.
		
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			And so, when we look at al-'afu, and
		
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			pardoning people in that way, and subhanallah, we
		
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			have a hadith, some said it's da'if,
		
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			some said it's hasan, yeah, that on the
		
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			Day of Judgment, right, on the Day of
		
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			Judgment, imagine, when all the people are there,
		
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			okay, an angel will call out, اين العافون
		
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			عن الناس?
		
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			Where are those people who used to pardon
		
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			others?
		
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			اين العافون عن الناس?
		
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			And so the people who used to pardon,
		
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			it was a habit from the pardon, they
		
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			will all stand.
		
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			And so now the angel will say to
		
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			them, enter Jannah without any حساب.
		
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			Enter Jannah without any questioning.
		
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			You people will enter Jannah without any questioning.
		
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			And it makes sense, يعني because, يعني the
		
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			نص makes sense because Allah told us that
		
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			when you forgive, Allah forgives you.
		
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			When you forgive, Allah forgives you.
		
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			Like the hadith of the person who used
		
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			to lend people money, and he used to
		
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			pardon them when they couldn't pay it off,
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, right, will ask
		
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			him, what good deeds do you have?
		
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			And he says, I don't have much, except
		
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			that I used to pardon people who had
		
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			debts.
		
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			And Allah says, I am more merciful than
		
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			you, so enter Jannah, subhanAllah.
		
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			And so pardoning is one of the greatest
		
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			things that we can do.
		
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			And the last thing, and I'll finish with
		
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			this, is dua, right, preparing our duas.
		
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			You know, the month of Ramadan, one of
		
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			the unique things is the Qur'an, but
		
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			one of the unique things when you read
		
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			the ayat in the Qur'an, is that
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala talks about dua,
		
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			right.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, إني قريب,
		
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			أجيب دعوة الداعي إذا دعان It's the month
		
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			of dua.
		
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			And so because it's the month of dua,
		
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			we don't want to go in, like some
		
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			people, you hear stories, people go to hajj,
		
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			and they go on the month of Arafah,
		
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			and they're bored, they don't know what to
		
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			do.
		
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			Arafah, the greatest, like really the greatest day,
		
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			the day where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			is hosting, like these are the guests of
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, and Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala forgives the people of Arafah.
		
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			And some people come and sleep.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because they went there unprepared.
		
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			And then you have people making dua and
		
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			crying, and there's so many things, subhanAllah, how
		
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			shaitan tricks people.
		
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			And so sometimes people come to Ramadan, and
		
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			they don't make dua, they don't take advantage.
		
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			And so one of the best things you
		
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			can do is at least prepare five or
		
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			six or seven duas, you know, that really
		
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			will, from the dunya and akhira, that will
		
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			bring you closer, will make you a better
		
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			person.
		
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			And write them down, and memorize them, and
		
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			ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala every day.
		
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			And remember that if a dua falls on
		
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			one of the, on Laylatul Qadr, it will
		
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			be accepted 100%.
		
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			And so if a person, imagine a person
		
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			makes dua in the last 10 nights, every
		
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			day, every day, every day, for sure Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala will accept that dua.
		
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			And so many stories were heard about that.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			So in conclusion, what are the things that
		
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			we can do?
		
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			So we can be practical about this.
		
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			Number one, fast.
		
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			Make sure you do your obligations before the
		
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			sunan.
		
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			Fast, get yourself ready.
		
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			Get acquainted with the Qur'an, start reading
		
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			the Qur'an slowly, slowly.
		
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			Don't start with two juz' tonight, if you're
		
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			not used to, you haven't read in months.
		
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			Start with a page, five pages, seven pages,
		
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			ten pages, and so on, right?
		
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			Read the Qur'an.
		
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			Try to do some qiyam.
		
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			We said start with a witr.
		
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			Just at least one witr.
		
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			Now, before you sleep, make sure you pray
		
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			your witr.
		
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			If you didn't pray your witr, pray your
		
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			witr, do it for a week, try to
		
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			do it then before fajr, okay?
		
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			Number four is forgiveness.
		
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			Make tawbah to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			and forgive others, right?
		
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			And I would say forgive others first and
		
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			then make tawbah and inshallah the tawbah will
		
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			be accepted and the last thing is make
		
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			dua.
		
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			Prepare your duas and inshallah bi'idhnillah, we
		
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			will have the best Ramadan in our lives.
		
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			And that's an intention.
		
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			None of us here has the excuse to
		
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			leave without making that intention.
		
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			Mahroom the person who reaches Ramadan without making
		
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			that intention.
		
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			Nobody here has the excuse to leave and
		
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			go to sleep tonight without having made that
		
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			intention at least.
		
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			At least, right?
		
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			That's all I wanted to say and we'll
		
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			open the floor for questions inshallah.
		
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			Questions about Ramadan.
		
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			Sh.
		
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			Ali inshallah, I think next week we'll be
		
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			having a session or the week after on
		
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			the fiqh of fasting, the questions about fasting.
		
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			Also tomorrow inshallah in Fairview we have our
		
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			fiqh of fasting lectures starting tomorrow inshallah in
		
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			Fairview at 6.30 bi'idhnillah ta'ala.
		
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			So you're welcome to attend those inshallah.
		
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			Questions?
		
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			So can you fast Fridays in Sha'ban?
		
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			No problem.
		
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			It's okay to fast.
		
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			So he's asking the question about the traveler,
		
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			right?
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave us a
		
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			concession, a rukhsah for the musafir, right?
		
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			For the musafir, okay, because it's difficult, right?
		
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			So it's a rukhsah.
		
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			This is the debate between some of the
		
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			ulama.
		
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			Is it better to try to fast, or
		
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			is it the sunnah, is it actually the
		
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			sunnah to fast, or is it the sunnah
		
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			to not fast, right?
		
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			And there's a long discussion about it.
		
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			But what makes sense is that you have
		
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			a rukhsah, it's okay to use it.
		
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			There's no blame for a person who uses
		
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			it, right?
		
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			But if a person is doing like a
		
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			short travel, I don't know, like he's flying
		
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			from here to Edmonton on a half an
		
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			hour plane, just fast.
		
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			Because it's better to gain that fast in
		
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			Ramadan if there's no difficulty.
		
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			But sometimes there's difficulty, like I remember once,
		
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			you know, when I was in Riyadh, from
		
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			Riyadh to Mecca is how long?
		
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			It's like, you know, a thousand kilometers or
		
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			something, right?
		
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			It's like going to Vancouver or something, or
		
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			Kelowna, somewhere there.
		
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			I was going with these shabab, my friends
		
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			from Toronto, and we were going, it was
		
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			Ramadan, and so they wanted to go do
		
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			Umrah.
		
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			So I said, shabab, it's a long trip,
		
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			we're going to be very tired, we're driving,
		
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			it's hot, let's just, right?
		
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			And so the leader of the trip said,
		
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			no, let's fast, we're fasting.
		
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			And he was the driver of the car,
		
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			so he said, let's fast.
		
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			And it was one of the most difficult
		
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			fasts.
		
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			We reached, and they wanted to do Umrah,
		
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			and the problem is those of you who
		
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			have done Umrah know, Umrah takes effort, right?
		
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			And literally we reached and we're doing, you
		
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			know, tawaf and sa'i, and I'm about
		
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			to fall on the floor.
		
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			I'm just waiting for the adhan came like
		
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			when I'm doing sa'i, right?
		
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			And the guy who was giving out the
		
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			tea and coffee, I just took the whole
		
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			thing.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			It was very difficult.
		
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			And I said to myself, subhanallah, Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala didn't want us to go
		
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			through that difficulty, we shouldn't have fasted.
		
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			So if someone knows it's going to be
		
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			a difficult travel, then don't fast.
		
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			You have the rukhsah, and you're not blamed
		
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			for that, right?
		
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			And you're getting, I mean, by Allah you're
		
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			not blamed for that.
		
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			It's not like you have less iman or
		
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			that.
		
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			No, it's fine.
		
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			Take the concession, but if it's like a
		
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			short travel, you know, like someone is going
		
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			to Red Deer, drive to Red Deer, just
		
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			fast.
		
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			There's no problem.
		
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			It's like an hour and a half or
		
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			something.
		
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			Good question.
		
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			Sisters.
		
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			Do you have a question?
		
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			Please go ahead.
		
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			Yes.
		
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			Yes.
		
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			Yes.
		
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			Uh huh.
		
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			So what's your question?
		
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			So if you forgive that, does it count
		
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			as forgiveness?
		
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			The sister is asking, when it comes to
		
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			afu, forgiveness, pardoning, right?
		
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			Do you have to go to the person
		
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			and be like, Abdullah, you know, all this
		
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			time I didn't talk to you, I'm so
		
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			sorry, you know, I shouldn't have, blah, blah.
		
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			Or can you just do it in your
		
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			heart?
		
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			This goes back to, what is it, what's
		
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			your relationship with that person, right?
		
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			There's some people that if you told them,
		
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			it might get worse.
		
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			So I would say step one is to
		
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			forgive in your heart.
		
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			Step one is to forgive that person in
		
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			your heart.
		
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			You know what?
		
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			That cousin that, you know, spread those rumors
		
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			about me, I forgive him.
		
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			Oh Allah, bear witness, I forgive him.
		
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			This is something you sit down and do
		
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			it by yourself.
		
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			I forgive that person.
		
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			Oh Allah, I forgive that person.
		
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			And now the second step, I would say
		
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			the second level, okay, of ihsan now here,
		
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			is to call up that person, because he's
		
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			still cut off.
		
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			You still, if you've intentionally cut him off,
		
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			they're still cut off, right?
		
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			And so Allah is saying, wait until they
		
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			reconcile.
		
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			So you have reconciled halfway.
		
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			You still have to, you still should call
		
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			that person and reconcile with them.
		
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			And okay, you might say, well, he might
		
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			say, no, I don't want to talk to
		
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			you.
		
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			Khalas, you've done your job.
		
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			You now, your a'mal will be raised by
		
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			Ibn Allah Ta'ala.
		
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			When it comes to you, you've done your
		
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			due diligence.
		
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			That person is between him and Allah Subhanu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala, right?
		
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			And that's why, salat al-rahim, let's talk
		
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			about salat al-rahim for a second.
		
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			Salat al-rahim, the ulama, they say salat
		
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			al-rahim, and toosal man qata'ak.
		
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			Salat al-rahim, like connecting with the kins,
		
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			the relatives.
		
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			It's not about, you know, tit for tat,
		
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			like, he calls me, I'll call him.
		
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			He doesn't call me, I don't call him.
		
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			Some people, this is their, this is their,
		
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			like, their their aqeedah when it comes to,
		
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			you know, dealing with people.
		
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			But that's not what salat al-rahim is.
		
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			Salat al-rahim is connecting those who cut
		
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			you off.
		
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			Someone cut you off, you try to connect.
		
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			They don't call me back.
		
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			That's it.
		
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			You try, that's it.
		
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			And you're getting great reward for that.
		
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			Don't forget that you're getting great reward for
		
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			that.
		
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			So yes, you should try to call that
		
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			person up, you know, reconcile with them.
		
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			If it's something bad you did against them
		
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			and they don't know about it, then you
		
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			could, you know, do a sadaq for them
		
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			or make dua for them.
		
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			Maybe that's a different topic.
		
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			But yeah, you should try to reconcile with
		
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			that person.
		
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			You should.
		
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			You should try your best.
		
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			Their reaction is not your responsibility.
		
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			مَا عَلَيْكَ إِلَّا الْبَلَغُ Your responsibility is to?
		
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			Is to what?
		
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			Is to give the message.
		
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			Right?
		
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			If they accept or not, that's their responsibility.
		
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			It's a good question.
		
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			Now, any other questions?
		
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			So everybody's ready for...
		
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			Shaaban started.
		
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			Yeah, the race started.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			But this is the time inshaAllah.
		
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			Try your best inshaAllah to do that.
		
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			Try your best and inshaAllah this will be
		
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			the best Ramadan.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			No, no.
		
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			You don't have to fast.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ, it was from his he's
		
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			asking, do you have to fast every day
		
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			of Shaaban?
		
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			No, no.
		
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			That's not what I...
		
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			The hadith says that the Prophet ﷺ would
		
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			fast after Ramadan.
		
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			Shaaban is the month he would fast the
		
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			most.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			And so he'd fast most of it.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Aisha said like all of it, meaning like
		
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			most of it.
		
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			Pretty much most of it.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Like sometimes she says we would watch him
		
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			fast and we don't know if he's ever
		
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			going to break his fast.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So yeah, you try to fast as much
		
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			as you can.
		
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			And like I said, I would say you
		
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			focus.
		
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			If you say I can't do all of
		
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			it, focus Monday, Thursday.
		
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			Because that's, you know, you're getting, that's the
		
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			time where the actions are raised.
		
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			And you know, the ayyam al-bi't, right?
		
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			The middle days of the month.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And so on.
		
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			And you try your best.
		
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			Try to fast a few days.
		
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			And la yakallifu Allah nafsan illa wus'aha
		
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			naam.
		
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			Any other questions?
		
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			Fadhal.
		
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			So ayyam al-bi't, Monday, Thursday?
		
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			Yeah, and the rest is free for all.
		
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			Salam.
		
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			Any other sunnahs I'm forgetting?
		
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			Fadhal.
		
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			There's a popular view that what?
		
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			Ah, that he fasted the first 15?
		
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			Allah alam, I've never read any narrations relating
		
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			to that.
		
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			He said there's some, there's an opinion that
		
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			the Prophet would fast the first 15 and
		
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			then rest in the other 15.
		
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			Allah alam, I'm not sure about that narration.
		
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			But this hadith is very clear.
		
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			Like she said, most of it or all
		
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			of it.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So, is half most in the English language?
		
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			I would say half, you know, most of
		
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			it is more than half.
		
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			Allah alam.
		
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			I didn't, I don't know if there's any
		
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			adillah.
		
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			Naam?
		
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			Sisters?
		
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			Brothers?
		
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			Khalas?
		
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			Everyone ready for the race?
		
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			Jazakumullah khair.
		
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			Wassalamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.