Hamza Yusuf – Being Spiritually Lukewarm Heedlessness In Islam

Hamza Yusuf
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The speakers discuss the meaning of "hammed" in Arabic language and the theory that animals are not in a state of fear. They also touch on the "has" of human emotions, including thoughts of anger and desire for loyalty. The "has" of human emotions caused by animals is discussed, including the negative impact of social anxiety and the success of a meal promotion. The "has" of human emotions is also discussed, including the struggles of the current pandemic and the negative impact of social media on people's mental health.
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Alhamdulillah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in

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the Qur'an, يَقْتَرَبَ لِلنَّاسِ حِسَابُهُمْ وَهُمْ فِي

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غَفَلَةٍ مُعْرِضُونَ that people's reckonings are drawing nearer

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and yet people are in heedlessness, not thinking

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about that.

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يَقْتَرَبَ لِلنَّاسِ حِسَابُهُمْ يَوْمَ الْحِسَابِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ the

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Day of Judgment, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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described the state of these people is that

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they're وَهُمْ فِي غَفْلَةٍ, غفلة is a word

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in Arabic, it has a lot of different

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meanings but generally whenever you have a word

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that begins with غَيْن, it has to do

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with some kind of covering or something being

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hidden, something being veiled like غابة, نغفرة, to

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cover over and so the basic meaning of

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it is that people are in a state

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of heedlessness غَفْلَة, the غافل is heedless, مغفل

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is a simpleton, a fool, somebody that can

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be easily tricked is مغفل, somebody that other

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people can fool them is a simpleton, so

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the idea that people are in a state

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of غفلة is a very strong Qur'anic

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idea, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in

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the Qur'an وَلَقَدْ ذَرَأْنَا لِدَهَنَّ مَا كَثِيرًا

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مِّنَ الْجِنِّ وَالْإِنسِ We have prepared for the

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* many multitudes of the jinn, unseen creatures

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and the ins, human beings لَهُمْ قُلُوبٌ لَا

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يَفْقَهُونَ بِهَا They have intellects, here the word

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قلب means intellect, they have intellects but they

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don't use them, they don't understand with their

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intellects, لَهُمْ قُلُوبٌ لَا يَفْقَهُونَ بِهَا لَهُمْ أَعْيُونٌ

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They have eyes لَا يُبْصِرُونَ بِهَا But they

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don't see with their eyes لَهُمْ قُلُوبٌ لَا

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يَفْقَهُونَ بِهَا لَهُمْ أَعْيُونٌ لَا يُبْصِرُونَ بِهَا وَلَهُمْ

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آذَانٌ And they have ears لَا يَسْمَعُونَ بِهَا

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But they don't hear أُولَٰئِكَ كَالْأَنْعَامُ Those people

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are like dumb beasts like cattle and sheep

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but then the Qur'an says بَلْ هُمْ

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أَضَلُ No and this is a rhetorical استدراك

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in Arabic بَلْ is used to clarify something

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if you made a mistake or said something

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that wasn't clear here it's used rhetorically they're

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like animals no بَلْ هُمْ أَضَلُ why أُولَٰئِكَ

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هُمْ الْغَافِلُونَ Because they're in a state of

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heedlessness now if you look at the animal

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kingdom you will not find animals in a

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state of heedlessness animals no matter what they're

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doing are always in a state of awareness

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if you watch an animal eating even a

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dog it'll immediately sense if somebody comes near

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it if you watch a rabbit eating rabbits

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move their ears around why because they're worried

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there's something that threatens them there's some danger

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most animals have very sensitive ears and eyes

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if you watch rats or mice if you

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watch a mouse come out of a hole

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a mouse doesn't just saunder out of the

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hole the mouse comes out slow it moves

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its head around the same with the lizard

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if you watch a lizard come out of

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its hole a lot can be learned from

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animals that's why allah uses them as metaphors

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in the quran if you watch a lizard

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come out of a hole a lizard like

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this the arabs say more bewildered than the

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lizard because the lizard looks like he's bewildered

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what he's really doing is he's checking is

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there any danger out there animals are constantly

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aware of danger they're always aware of danger

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why because their their existence is threatened and

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that awareness if they're not aware they're endangering

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themselves they're endangering their pride if they're lions

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or their flock if they're sheep that's why

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in in the in the dumbest of animals

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you have that we domesticate not animals in

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nature animals that are domesticated need a shepherd

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because they've humans have domesticated them they feel

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safe they're in fences their food is there

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they don't have to forage for it so

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they start feeling safe so then you bring

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in the right but if you go out

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in nature animal fish are constantly watch a

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fish they turn all at the same time

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if they sense anything fish are constantly aware

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because like the arabs one fish big fish

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eat little fish so fish are always aware

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there's a lot of animals that have uh

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they'll only come out of their shell like

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a turtle it'll come out of the shell

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if it senses any danger it goes back

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into the shell there's animals that that's their

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hole the same thing they'll run back to

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their hole the jar boy has two one

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one there it checks if it's safe it'll

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go out if it's not it goes out

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the other one it's called a nafta which

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is where the arabs get monastic from because

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that's where hypocrites are always have exits exit

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strategy but that's why allah says that these

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people are more astray than animals because animals

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are not in a state of heedlessness about

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the the danger that is threatening them but

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humans are in heedlessness they they lie around

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an animal if they sense fire they immediately

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run you watch any animal you put fire

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near an animal and they flee what do

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people do they see a fire they say

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let's go check the fire out they're curious

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because this is the type heedlessness man is

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is so clever his cleverness kills him this

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is the state of human beings but allah

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warns of that state allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala says about the people of the cities

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do people feel safe in these cities that

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are harm won't come in the night time

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while they're sleeping do people feel safe during

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the daytime that our harm won't come to

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them and they're playing why does allah use

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play he doesn't say they're working because if

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you have no purpose in your life in

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what you're doing then you're playing that's what

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love is it's it's an activity that has

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no purpose other than entertainment that's that's what

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games are they're simply to entertain people and

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so this is what allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala is saying about people they're in a

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state of heedlessness do they feel safe from

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the design of god the only people that

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feel safe from the the design of god

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who are they the losers the losers same

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word surely by time by the passage of

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time man humanity is in a state of

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loss you're losing time your time is running

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out you've got a clock on your on

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your hand that will tell you 12 hours

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you also have a clock that allah has

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designed is an internal clock it's got 50

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years 75 years 40 years 30 years and

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that clock comes to an end that's it

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that you you don't you don't get a

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battery recharged if your clock breaks down here

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you go and get it fixed no it's

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over and then people what do they say

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let me go back i'll do good that's

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what people say that's the state of people

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is a state of heedlessness people are walking

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around daydreaming they're completely unaware i was taking

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my children across the street yesterday uh it

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was at night and and they had ridden

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somewhere i rode with them and and i

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said look when you go across it you

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have to be completely aware because these people

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are sleeping they're driving around in a they're

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daydreaming people are on automatic pilot and just

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to prove my point as i stepped off

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the curve and i had the right away

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and the pedestrian things had a sign saying

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you know walk 10 9 7 6 8

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and a car swirl almost hit me coming

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around and this lady looks at me and

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like she she didn't even see me just

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to prove the point you know that could

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have been it for me but that's the

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state people are in they're in a complete

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state of heedlessness when you're driving out there

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driving is ibadah because you have a a

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weapon of mass destruction behind you that's what

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you've got there that's a weapon of mass

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destruction and you don't give weapons of mass

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destruction to idiots a car can kill large

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numbers of people you can you can kill

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50 people on the freeway now that's a

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we had 30 people died 33 people died

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in virginia it's a national catastrophe you know

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how many people died yesterday on in automobile

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accidents but people don't think of that but

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but it's the same type of heedlessness that's

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what people are in they're in a state

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of and that is what the quran is

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warning about don't be in that state don't

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be in that state don't be worse than

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animal because animals aren't in that state animals

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are thinking about danger danger they're aware of

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their enemies we're not aware of our enemies

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those are enemies of man just like every

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animal out there has natural enemies that it's

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worried about constantly it's vigilant about why because

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it doesn't want to lose its life and

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humans should be conscious of losing their eternal

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life that's that's that's what we're here for

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we're here to prepare if you look imam

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rahab is bahani says that allah has given

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us three powers who that he put in

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the human being the first power is called

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which is a a power that we share

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with animals it's called appetitive and it's part

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of our animal nature because human is high

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one but he's high one not to collect

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the arab say an articulate or a rational

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animal but that power the ability to to

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this power of appetite is a is a

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healthy thing when it's kept in check and

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that's the the masharab the makal and the

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mankah eating drinking and procreation that that that

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that's the shahwa that human beings begin and

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then you have the quwa al-ghadabiya which

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is called the irascible power or faculty that

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that god has put into man and this

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relates to the emotions it's why people get

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angry and that's put in there for a

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reason because you should get angry about things

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that should elicit proper anger but you should

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get angry for the right reasons in the

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right degree at the right time and towards

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the right object you don't just get angry

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there's people now walking around they're just filled

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with rage they're filled with anger they'll get

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angry at the slightest thing because that's their

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state that's the hub that they're in because

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the the irascible self has overwhelmed them just

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like there's people now just looking for there's

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people 40 million downloads of * in this

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country every day 40 million the highest *

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downloading going on per capita are in muslim

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countries you can look at the google you

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can look at the google research on it

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and i'm reading a book on this subject

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where i can't even believe it what's going

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on out there because people are complete slaves

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of their selves and that's total heedlessness you

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couldn't do something like that unless you were

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in a complete state of heedlessness that's what

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it is it's total heedlessness and now shaitan

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has vehicles has has their their their machines

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and technology that can completely destroy a human

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being completely you'll you'll put out your inner

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eye blind it it's like it's like taking

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a you know you're the uh the the

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scholars of this science say the inner eye

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is more sensitive than the outer eye the

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spiritual eye is more sensitive than the outer

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eye just like when you get a little

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speck of sand in your eye you can't

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see you just want to clear your eyes

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anything that you're looking at that is haram

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that's what it's doing to your inner eye

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but worse it's like stabbing it it's like

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stabbing it and that's what people are doing

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that's what there is it's all heedlessness that's

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why imam al-junaid said that the real

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root cause of all sin crime evil in

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the world is ghafla that's what he said

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that is the root crime human beings are

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sleepwalkers in the insomnambulant states not aware that

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that the time is coming we're gonna have

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to meet allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the

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the reckoning is drawing near and people are

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in heedlessness they're not thinking about it the

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prophet sallallahu alaihi was thinking about it constantly

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take yourself to account before you're taken to

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account consider yourselves already in the grave that's

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a hadith in sahih muslim consider yourselves already

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in the grave be prepared to meet allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala it's real it's real

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i mean those are hadith fire is real

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paradise is real the day of judgment is

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real the holders it's all real this is

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the illusion people think they're going to be

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here forever there were people 100 years ago

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listening to the same ayahs hearing the same

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they're all gone they're dead all of them

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they're all gone and here we are and

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we're going to be gone and these young

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people they'll be sitting here with the same

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problems the same stupidities the same miserliness greed

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envy backbiting namima all the same diseases and

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that's why in in the hadith the prophet

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sallallahu alaihi wasallam when he said set out

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on the journey and reap the rewards he

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said don't take this as some kind of

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outward journey the prophet when he tells you

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a commandment because outwardly merchants when they go

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out on a journey they they benefit like

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the arabs say travel there's five benefits in

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traveling you get benefit from job but this

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is a spiritual traveling set out on a

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journey to god to allah and he says

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that journey and finally i want before i

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get to that the the third it's the

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rational soul the power the faculty that human

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beings have that separates them from all other

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species on this planet with the exception of

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the jinn that faculty is the ability to

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reason it's the ability to think and if

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that that faculty is meant to to be

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in control of the other two faculties but

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what's happened is it's switched over the horse

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is riding the man the donkey is riding

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you that's what's happening it's switched it's completely

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backward you can tell people that it takes

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your basal metabolic rate is like 1600 it'll

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burn 1600 calories a day right so you

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just need that just to survive i mean

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you'll you'll burn fat or something like that

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for a certain amount of time and then

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the body starts eating itself then you die

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that's what you need and then based on

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your movement you need something on top of

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that 500 a thousand depending on what people

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do laborers need more people that use their

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intellect need more because there's glucose you have

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to have caloric intake for thinking so but

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there's people out there eating 4 000 calories

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a day every time they get on the

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scale they see it going up they get

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diabetes and then they pray you know for

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a shifa people eat the all that ghee

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and dalda and and this that and the

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other and and then they get a triple

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bypass alhamdulillah no seriously if you if you're

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if you're sick people get sick you know

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genes there's a lot of reason people get

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sick but most people make themselves sick and

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then they ask god for i give you

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a body it has legs with muscles you

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have a stomach that's meant to digest it's

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all meant for it's all wisdom but you

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can understand all of that rationally do people

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exercise no the doctor tells them to exercise

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they don't exercise do people overeat when the

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ice cream comes do they eat it yes

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even with diabetes i've seen people shoot up

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insulin before they have their dessert i'm not

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making that up why because they can't control

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themselves it's as simple as that people aren't

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well but you're human beings i mean this

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this is we're not insignificant creatures we're meant

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to be to to be people of discipline

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i mean that's why allah has given us

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this religion five prayers a day in specific

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time the prophet saw him once saw a

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man who had a heavy stomach and he

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said that would be better if it was

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on somebody else 30 000 children died yesterday

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of starvation and all and probably more or

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as many died from overeating because it's imbalanced

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people don't think about other people they just

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think about themselves that's hafla it's it's all

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greed it's all ego it's all me me

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me that's what's going on out on that

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freeway out there nobody's thinking of the other

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when i grew up people had courtesy on

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the road i remember that clearly i'm not

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making this up people had courtesy on the

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road people would actually stop and let you

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get in now they speed up and and

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then flip you off seriously that because this

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is a a complete me culture that's what's

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happening it's the whole planet we got six

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billion people me me me six billion people

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it makes a wonderful world doesn't it well

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you don't know that that's what islam is

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about they prefer others to themselves khasasa even

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if they have needs they actually prefer others

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to themselves like the two of the ansar

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who had a guest and they turned out

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the lights because they didn't have enough food

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for themselves they they put their children to

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sleep and then they fed the guest and

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the prophet said allah was pleased with with

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what you did last night because allah is

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aware those are real people those are human

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beings it's not all these selfish people out

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there it's not all these people filled with

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that me me me attitude it's human beings

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that's what we're supposed to be we're supposed

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to be human beings now if you know

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if you look what happened in in virginia

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i mean there's a lot of it's a

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very deep problem but it's a problem that

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we need to think about as a society

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about where this whole thing is going where

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this project is going you know internet and

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and violence that's so graphic you know that

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if you have any sanity at all you

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have to feel sick in in in the

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fact that it's out there all this graphic

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violence video games all these things i mean

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even the kid is is imitating a film

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that he saw that's what it you know

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but if you look what happened to him

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that's what i'm interested in what happened to

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him i mean how how did that get

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created you know humiliated laughed at because he's

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korean made fun of by go back to

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china people don't even know the difference between

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a korean and a chinese person you know

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they're very distinct look and they know they

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know each other but korean sees another korean

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they know each other chinese know each other

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it's like africans people think blacks all look

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alike when i was in africa i had

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to learn all the different europa hausa manding

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for that they all look different and i

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learned to see i meet people on the

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street that are from africa i'll say oh

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where are you from nigeria how do you

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know i said you're europa how do you

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know they can't even believe an american would

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even know that there's different kind of black

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people in the world but you have to

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treat people with dignity that's what happened this

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man was humiliated since he was a little

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kid in grade school and that's what happens

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all this bullying and the quran prohibits that

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is one of the worst things that you

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can do is is making fun of people

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mocking people humiliating people the same thing happened

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in columbine you study those two boys that

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did that in columbine the same thing they

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were uh mocked by the jocks of the

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school spit on called faggots what kind of

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culture is that what do we teach our

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children in the houses there's so much abuse

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out there if you want to know why

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people are in the states they're in look

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at the way they're being raised look the

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way they're being spoken to just human respect

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human dignity treating people like human beings welcoming

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people this is what humans are supposed to

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be doing that that's what humanity is about

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that's what we're here for we're here to

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help each other work with each other in

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righteous things don't work with each other in

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harmful things Allah says don't let one people

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mock another people and the qaum here is

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nakira it's an indefinite substantive whenever you have

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a negative before that it means anybody it's

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like the usulyun say it means anybody no

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people should mock another people arabs shouldn't mock

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americans americans shouldn't mock arabs people should not

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mock each other because when you mock people

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they get angry because you're humiliating them you're

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making them feel insignificant you're making them feel

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like rich people that mock poor people that

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was a lot of his diatribe was about

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rich people their insensitivity and that happens we're

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in a culture where we don't even know

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there's a whole other culture living alongside this

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culture that doesn't have anything really people that

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don't have anything they live with rats and

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cockroaches in this culture we've got uh new

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orleans right now down there nothing's been done

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we're trying to rebuild iraq and a whole

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city was wiped off the map and and

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still there's people that can't go back to

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their homes well what's happened and these are

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questions we have to ask as a culture

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as a country and these are really really

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troubling things that people should be deeply troubled

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by these things just come and go and

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then it's just a media flash in and

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and everybody gets excited and then it's over

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until the next one happens people don't think

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about what's going on what are we teaching

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our children there's a book by dave grossman

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he's lieutenant colonel taught the psychology of killing

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it's called stop teaching our children to kill

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he it's been proven by social sciences that

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there is a small number of people out

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there that are going to become violent from

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all of these violent games that they watch

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yeah it's small it doesn't happen to everybody

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but if it happens to a small number

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that's the whole purpose of islam you prohibit

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things to protect that minority that's going to

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be endangered by those things like alcohol a

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lot of people that have their glass of

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wine every night the doctor said no it's

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good for your heart forget about your liver

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and your kidneys but it's good for your

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heart but but what happens right there's a

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whole other group of people they start drinking

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that stuff it destroys their marriages it destroys

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their life it's just like internet * in

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this book i'm reading there's so many marriages

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have been destroyed destroyed people that get addicted

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to that don't even want to have a

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intimate relationship with a real human being there's

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in cyber world kind of culture people have

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to ask themselves those questions ya

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arham arrahimin wa ja'alna min al-faizin

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yawm al-deen ya arham arrahimin allahumma iqibna

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min al-ghaflati wa min al-ihtiqar wa

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min al-iftikhar wa min kulli quseebatin tuba

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'iduna anka ya arham arrahimin wa qahir qulubina

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wa al-sinatina allahumma wahid sufufina wa alaf

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bayna qulubina anta arham arrahimin subhana rabbika rabb

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al-izzati amma shukhoon wa salamun ala al

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-mursaleen wa alhamdulillahi rabb al-alamin inna allaha

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ya'maru bil-adli wal-ihsan wa ita'i

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dhikr al-qurba wa yanha an al-fahsha

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'i wal-munkar wal-baghi ya'idhakum la

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'adukum tadhakkaroon wadhkurallaha yudhkurukum wa shukroohu wa la

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tukfuroon wa aqeem al-salat

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