Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 1439 Ramadn Late Night Majlis 25 MarifMasnav The Royal Falcon 06102018

Hamzah Wald Maqbul
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The speakers discuss the history and cultural significance of the royal diploma, including its use as a symbol of man and women, the importance of acceptance of Islam, and the deeps of Islam. They emphasize the importance of learning from one's own experiences and avoiding wasting one's time in order to achieve success. The speakers also touch on the end of the d freight and the possibility of war.
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We've reached the 25th night of Ramadan.

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Allah

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make it a Mubarak night and make it

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one that's accepted and right for us in

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it that we are from those who

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he has freed from the fire. Allah

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forgive us our sins. Allah

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cover our shortcomings, and make the rest of

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what's left of our lives

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better than what has passed.

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With the rest of what's left of our

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lives just like the rest of Ramadan,

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that's in front of us. Allah make it

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better than what has passed.

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So today,

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there are 2, short that I I wanted

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to share

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with, with with everybody.

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The first one is the story of the

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royal falcon.

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So what is the royal falcon? The royal

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falcon is, a specialized animal that was used

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for hunting.

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As we've gone further and further from nature

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and depended more on artificial and mechanized,

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things,

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There's a lot that that that we've lost.

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Allah

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has created this entire world,

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in order to be, subjugated for the use

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of mankind and his stewardship. And,

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Insan was truly a Khalifa

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and truly is a Khalifa

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when he, is it is

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in harmony with his command

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and,

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observes things around him.

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So in the old days,

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people used to have hunting animals,

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and they still do. They they had hunting

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animals, dogs,

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and falcons,

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birds birds of prey that they would train,

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to

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go and find,

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prey,

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and the animals were so well trained that

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they wouldn't eat from the prey.

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And even in the sharia, there is there

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is permission

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to use, for example, hunting dog. As long

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as the dog doesn't eat from the prey,

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the animal that it's that's killed by it,

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and retrieved and brought back to,

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the hunter

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is considered to be halal.

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And at the time of releasing such an

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animal on a prey,

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a person says the Bismillah Allahu Akbar

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and makes intention of of of taking the

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life of that animal by the permission of

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Allah Ta'ala and it's for for its lawful

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use.

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And, some of these animals are really amazing.

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So

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the falcon, imagine to train a bird is

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not is not, an easy thing. But they

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used to have birds in the old days

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that would deliver messages, and they would come

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back. Or they used to have falcons that

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would,

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that would, from

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high in the sky,

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survey the landscape and find the best of

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prey and, kill it and bring it back

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to or kill it and, then,

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alert its master to its location.

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It said that the Mongols actually used to

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be able to, train,

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eagles or vultures, large birds of prey,

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to even be able to fly around on

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the battlefield

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if there was a particular individual that they

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wish to take out,

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that that that that that that large bird

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could dive out of the sky,

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with his talons and sink them into the

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neck and the throat of an unsuspecting,

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individual and kill it and then and then

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be gone in the air and fly away

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again,

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before harm could be done to it.

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There are a lot of animals. In fact,

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the the desert Arabs use, use cheetahs

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as well. They can train cheetahs to to

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to kill, prey, and then and then bring

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it back or to restrain it,

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sink its claws and its teeth into its

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neck to the point where the prey can't

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move

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and get back to, you know, get

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restrain it essentially until the hunter can get

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to it.

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So these are all these are all things

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that that that, you know, they captured people's

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imagination. To this day, the desert Arabs actually,

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they still, prize falcons.

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So people who know how to train falcons

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in order to hunt,

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that trained falcon can fetch a high price.

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And, the the the desert Arabs,

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still Bedouins and tribal Arabs still will pay

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quite a bit of money for for those,

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as it's part of their cultural tradition.

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So Milana uses the

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the,

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the the metaphor of the royal falcon,

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which is that falcon which is trained to

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hunt, has superb sight,

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and, is very lethal in its work,

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and is,

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treated very well because he belongs to the

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king.

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And once a king's falcon flew far far

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away from his palace and landed in the

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house of an old woman of the neighborhood.

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The old woman saw the falcon's long nails

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and its big wings

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and, started to cut them short and trim

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them,

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saying, with which unworthy person have you lived

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all this time who kept you like an

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orphan?

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That, the big wings and the, the long

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nails, the talons of the falcon, She considered

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them to be a sign of the falcon

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being unkempt.

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Milana Rumi

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said, so is the love of an ignorant

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person. For a falcon, long nails, and huge

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wings are necessary,

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and are considered its virtues and required in

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its pursuit of the prey.

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These signs of perfection in the falcon were

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looked upon as faults by the old woman

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due to her ignorance,

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of what constitutes perfection for a falcon.

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By cutting the nails and clipping its wings,

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she made the falcon useless.

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The king, in the meantime, searched for the

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falcon.

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One day, while searching, he came to the

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house of an old woman or of the

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house of the old woman. Seeing the falcon

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in the state, he wept,

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out of,

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out

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of losing, what was his prized possession.

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The falcon saw him and said,

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oh king, I am very much ashamed of

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myself.

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I repent now and make a promise and

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new commitment to you. Milana Rumi said, this

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dunya is like that old woman. That whoever

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inclines to it is just as disgraced and

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foolish.

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Whoever befriends 1, an ignorant one will meet

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the same fate as the falcon met at

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the hands of this old woman.

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And, again, this is the the the beauty

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and the perfection of the,

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the

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the the

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the metaphors of Moana's hikayat,

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that the king is

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is Allah, and indeed one of his names

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is Al Malik.

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And the falcon is the Saliq who is,

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who is taking the the spiritual path and

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received some sort of maqam or station with

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Allah

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in his service.

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And,

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the old woman is like the dunya, and

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we mentioned that before in, a previous majlis

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that Imam Ghazali

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he reported that Saidna Isa alaihislam,

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he saw the dunya in the form of

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an old woman.

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And, he asked her,

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what did you do with, everyone who ever

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loved you? He saw her in the in

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the form of an old woman who applied

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a dishonorable,

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trade,

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to say the least. And he said, what

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did you he asked her, what did you

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do to everyone who ever loved you? And

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she said, I I cut their throat. I

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killed them.

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And so, this is, almost like a a

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a prophetic use of, imagery,

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or at least borrowing from the prophetic use

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of imagery. That the old woman, she saw

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the falcon with all of its qualities

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and said that, you know, and said that,

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oh, you poor orphan. No one took care

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of you. Because she was unable to appreciate

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what what,

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what what's really a quality in in a

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human being. Because from the point of view,

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the material world,

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having a heart that's clean and in love

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with Allah

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is not,

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considered to be a grace.

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The world only values money and stuff.

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So it says that, he who befriends an

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ignorant one will meet the same fate as

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the falcon met at the hands of the

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ignorant old woman.

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So the person who has Allah and knows

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Allah and has deen, they have to understand

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what the what the value of deen is

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and what the value of theirs is with

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Allah as being a person who says,

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and this is not arrogance.

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Arrogance is thinking that you're better than other

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people. A person, you know, appreciating the gifts

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that Allah gave them and,

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thinking they're better than other people are 2

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very different things. Arrogance is to say that

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I'm good and other are bad. The gifts

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Allah gave

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you,

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Allah

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says,

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and as for the the the bounties and

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the treasures and the blessings Allah gave you,

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declare them to people. Say, Allah gave me

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this

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Allah gave me that I can pray 5

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times a day, that I can memorize some

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part of the Quran, that I can fast

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the month of Ramadan. He gave me this

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deen, and

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it's a great blessing. It's a great blessing.

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And,

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that's different than arrogance. And the difference is

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what? Right? Rasulullah

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he was asked,

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he was asked by a Sahabi that,

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what do you say about a man who

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likes to wear nice clothes and likes to

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have nice sandals?

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Is that arrogance? And Rassoulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

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said,

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Allah ta'ala is beautiful and he loves beauty.

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Just having blessings and being blessed is not

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a sign of arrogance.

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He says,

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He said that,

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arrogance actual arrogance is to

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to push away. If someone tells you the

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truth, to push it away and throw it

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in their face. You know, someone tells you

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something, like, you know, corrects you in something

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that you were doing that's wrong to just

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to just throw it in that person's face

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so you don't know what you're talking about

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or pay attention to yourself or whatever.

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That type of attitude is is is is

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1,

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one showing of arrogance to arrogance that will

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bar a person from entering Jannah. And that

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that shaitanic trait,

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of arrogance as to what, when someone tells

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you the truth, to like throw it in

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their face and just reject it,

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out of hand. And the second is what

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is to look at other people and think

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you're better than them. So

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this indeed is a great blessing from Allah

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However,

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you and I, you know, it's from his

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Allah's father. You and I did nothing to

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earn it. We did nothing to deserve it.

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If Allah

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wished to, he could take it away from

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us and give it to somebody else. So

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we shouldn't walk around thinking that we're better

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than other people because of who we are

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in our own self. However, if Allah gives

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somebody a a gift that that actually makes

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them better than that gift is attributed to

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Allah, it's not attributed to the self. And

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indeed, Allah gives certain people gifts that make

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them better than other people. On the day

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of judgment,

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you know, the people who have iman will

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be manifestly better than the people of Kufr.

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Allah make us from amongst the former and

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protect us from ever being from thee amongst

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the latter.

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Allah himself, you know,

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These are the prophets we preferred certain ones

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of them over others.

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That look how we favored some of you

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over the others. And the hereafter,

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you'll see even a greater disparity between the

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ranks of our favor,

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between the ranks that we give people and

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even greater disparity

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between how much we favored certain,

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ones of the creation over others.

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And so a person, it's part of their

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deen to understand which person which thing is

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a sign of Allah's blessing that gives a

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person rank over the other. And if you

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find those things inside of you, it is

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in fact,

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in gratitude to,

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to to

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ignore them or pretend that they don't exist.

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And we we see people doing that, and

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it's just like a type

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of weird, like,

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irrationality,

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you know, where somebody is a Muslim and

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another person's Muslim says, oh, you know, you

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know, these people are Muslims, but other people

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are better than them. Why? Because they know

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how to stand in line or they have

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really good,

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you know, their their houses are very clean

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or, you know, their corporations are run well

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or blah blah blah, all of this other

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stuff. The fact of the matter is anyone

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who has is

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better than anyone who doesn't. And one of

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the reasons that we don't go go about

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picking, you know, taking names and making

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specific judgments is that nobody knows how they're

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going to die. Nobody knows which cafe is

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going to, repent and die an iman, and

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nobody knows which believer is going to slip

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and fall,

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from from from the position of,

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of Allah's love and and end up in

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the fire, in the hereafter. We don't know

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who truly professes iman and who's a. For

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this reason, except for those people who

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are those people who are, mentioned in the

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book of Allah

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specifically as being in Jannah or Jahannam, we

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we we reserve,

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we reserve judgment regarding people. But at the

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same time, we do say in general, those

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people who didn't make,

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make a pact with Allah in this world,

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of faith,

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those people are, the worst of Allah's creation,

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and those people are going to the hellfire

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forever and ever. And those people who did

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make a pact of faith with Allah to

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Allah before leaving this world and they died

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in that state,

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with that pact valid,

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those people are,

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are people who Allah to Allah loves. And

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even though we don't take names from either

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group, it's manifestly clear why one is better

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than the other. And so part of, part

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of your, understanding of the deen and not

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constantly shooting yourself in the foot and spiritually

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and intellectually and living a life in which

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you doubt things that are are are true

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is to accept that fact that that Iman

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is better than Kufr, that faith is better

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than disbelief, that truth is better than falsehood,

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that goodness is better than,

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evil. You have to accept it, and accepting

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that is not arrogance.

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It's not arrogance. And if Allah gave you,

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one of those good qualities,

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then it would be arrogant to think that

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you deserved it or you earned it because

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that's how Shaitan used to think. But if

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you understand that it's a a a purely,

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the grace of Allah that he gave it

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to you, and it's not because of you.

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It's not an expression of how good you

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are. Rather, the fact that he gave it

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to you is an expression of how generous

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and how merciful he is.

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Then a person has understood this concept and

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put everything in its in its right place.

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He said, whoever befriends an ignorant one will

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meet the same fate as the falcon had

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met at the hands of the ignorant old

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woman. Allah protect us from,

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throwing,

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the most, valuable of his bounties and treasures

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in the garbage because of our, bad company

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or bad effect that we take from this

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material world and from its children.

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Said,

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in similar manner, some ignorant ones become claimants

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to being servants of Islam.

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Then in their ignorance,

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they make Islam subject to their stupid opinions

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thereby

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distorting the true teachings of Islam. This is

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generally true of those people who through their

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own study later become authors of books and

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articles on Islam without having studied Deen at

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the feet of a scholarly,

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teacher.

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When looking at these writings of these authors,

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a great precaution is required.

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Here, there's a hadith in, the Sahih,

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Sunan of Imam Tirmidhi that the messenger of

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Allah

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said, see from whom you take your, deen

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and the correct part of,

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the correct transmission of,

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of of of

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of information is part, part of the dean.

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It says he said that, that look look

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at, you know, like a person who is

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person is going to be on the dean

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of the one he,

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spends time with. So let every person look

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at who they take their dean from. In

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other words, in regards to him from whom

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you learn your dean, first inquire from well

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known scholars about such a person's credibility.

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The jug from which you drink water should

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first be inspected

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to see that the water inside is clean

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and not contaminated.

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And if this was a a good advice

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in the time of Hazrat Tanvi,

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you know, more than a century ago,

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then, it's double good advice in the era

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of

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Facebook and Google and

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Twitter and, you know, everybody's writing articles.

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There are there

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are deluded people writing articles. There are misguided

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people writing articles. There are people who have

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no connection with all of my writing articles.

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There are people who have some connection with

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all of my, but they can't read a

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lick of Arabic,

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and understand it. It's one thing somebody knows

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how to read the Quran with, you know,

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even with Tajweed, you don't need to really

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know Arabic in order to do that. There

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are people who don't know a lick of

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classical Arabic, and, you know, they've set up

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big blogs and, you know, they have a

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big profile pictures of them stand themselves standing

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behind a podium.

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And, you know, for inquiries,

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you know, please email info at my nuffs.com

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or dot org or whatever.edu.

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And, it's just it's it's just become ridiculous.

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And,

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you know, what did Milana Rumi say is

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that he who befriends an ignorant one will

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meet the same fate as the falcon had

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met at the hands of this ignorant old

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woman.

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That, you know, such people and some of

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them even even they understand what I'm saying

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right now, and they say, oh, we're just

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writing to defend the din or defend the

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ulama.

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Even those people will will, will destroy you

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and send you off the path.

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How how lucky and how fortunate is one

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to know the value of just keeping their

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mouth shut?

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How fortunate is a person just to know

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the value of just staying quiet

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when something is, beyond above their league. It's

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not like, you know, if you don't make

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a comment on some tweet tweet or something

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like that, it's not like Islam is going

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to fall apart.

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The intellectual

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and the civilizational

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edifice of this deen is much more than

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social media, and we think that these social

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media wars that people get into are such

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a big deal. They really are meaningless.

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Islam is Mahfool

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in the hearts of Allah's oliya. It's protected

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in the hearts of every farmer and every

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worker and every villager

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who prays his 5 times daily prayer. It's

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Mahfool in the in the hearts of the

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businessmen

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of the metropoli of Dar al Islam who

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hear the adhan 5 times a day and,

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finance and fund the the running of the

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masajid when our governments have shut them down.

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It's Mahul that's protected inside of the hearts

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of every

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person who loves

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and who, loves Allah and his rasool

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And most of those people, you know, they're

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not they're not subject to what's going on

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in Facebook or Twitter. In fact, probably the

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the Facebook and Twitter, social media, blogosphere, etcetera

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is, has overrepresentation

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just of, Muslims who live,

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who live as minorities

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in in, non Muslim countries and have had

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a very superficial or tangential

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brush with Islam that involves reading articles and

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watching online videos rather than actually having years

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long suhba with the mashaikh.

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So, you know, blessed is the person who

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knows just how to stay quiet.

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A person is going to regret their speech

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far more frequently than they're going to

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regret their silence.

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And so

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the second hikaya I wanted to share is

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the story of the falcon and the owls.

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So it's interesting the the metaphor of the

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owl in,

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the metaphor of the owl in, in the

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west is the wise owl, the wise old

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owl. Whereas in the east, the owl is

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not really looked upon very favorably.

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Anyone who,

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knows the Urdu language,

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or really any Indic language knows that the

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the owl,

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in Urdu is called Ulu,

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and it's actually a cognate. They're both exactly

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they're actually the same word.

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And, they know that calling someone an is

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like it's like calling a person an idiot.

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And, the the old,

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I guess, the old

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understanding about owls was that wherever owls are,

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it's a sign of destruction and desolation

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because they are not, you know, they're they're

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hunters that hunt by night, and they're opportunistic

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hunters. They don't have the same noble qualities

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as the falcon or the eagle

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that, hunt a living prey and can take

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on formidable prey and kill with with with,

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lethality and accuracy.

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Rather, the owl is kind of a a

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daft,

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scavenger,

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of an animal. And,

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you know, the the places that the owl

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stay are usually places of death and desolation

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because they're opportunistic hunters,

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and and and they the other quality they

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have is they make a loud and irritating

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noise that, at least in the east was

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not considered to be a very endearing quality.

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So once a king's falcon flew away from

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his palace and landed in some ruins, meaning

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a old uninhabited

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city, where many owls were staying.

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As soon as they saw him arrive in

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their midst, the owls raised a loud voice

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of protest and objection against his arrival saying,

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this falcon wants to take over the ruins

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for himself.

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The falcon hearing this accusation was bewildered and

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perplexed and said to them, I shall not

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tarry here amongst you, but shall return to

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the king.

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You may keep your ruins to yourself. My

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place is with the king and near the

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crown.

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So, again, remember who the falcon is and

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who the king is. And the owls are

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are who. They're just Hasidim. They're just haters.

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They're just the the children of the dunya,

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and they're haters, and they're just jealous,

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and they think that because,

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all they're,

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looking for is dead carcasses

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and,

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desolated places, that the royal falcon, also like

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them, is only preoccupied with those same dead

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carcasses and that same desolation.

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So the the the falcon hearing their accusation,

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was bewildered and perplexed and said to them,

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I shall not tarry here amongst you, but

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shall return to the king. You may keep

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your ruins to yourself. My place is with

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the king and near the crown.

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And this is exactly what the reply to

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the

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to the

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of the prophets was. So

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that I don't ask you, you know, that

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this

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this message I'm sending to you, it's not

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in lieu of any money or monetary payment

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or insistence on being king or taking anything

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from this world. He said, I don't ask

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you any,

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or any any any,

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fee or service from it.

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Fee or or or cost for service,

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through this. Rather, my my,

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payment for my service is on the account

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of Allah Ta'ala. He's the one who's going

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to reward for me.

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Allah Ta'anabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was also

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commanded, right, that I don't or to say

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that I don't ask for any

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that you should just have some kindness and

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love for my family. That's all.

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Meaning what? The prophets aren't asking for anything.

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They don't want the dunya in the first

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place. You know, someone might say that, you

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know, the like, look at the prophet sallallahu

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alaihi wa sallam himself, his his, example that

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not only did he not used to,

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take any special, money from the, from the

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treasury. His pay pay was what?

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For being for being the leader,

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of the Muslims

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religiously and temporally.

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What was his pay? He said

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that my my provision was put in the

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shade of my spear. Meaning what? Meaning, he

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he used to go out in jihad

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and when they're victorious,

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he used to receive a share of

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he used to receive a share, as a

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soldier, a foot soldier. He would receive a

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share of,

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of the spoils of war like everybody else

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did.

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He, sallallahu

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alaihi wasallam,

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even zakat himself, zakat and sadaqa, he never

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ate from. And zakat, he made haram on

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his family

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so no one could say that he took

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one for the team and then his family

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thereafter was set for, you know, until until

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Yom Kiyama.

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None of these things. The prophet sallallahu alaihi

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wa sallam didn't care for any of these

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things. And, a person might say, oh, well,

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look at, you know, there were certain certain

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prophets who were kings. Right? Say in the

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Dawud Alaihi Salam was a king,

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and Sayin Soleiman Alaihi was a king,

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and Sayna Soleiman alayhis was a king. Sayna

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Yusuf alayhis salam had a high position. He

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was a wealthy

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wealthy man. All of those people

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had their positions not through their nabua.

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Sayidna Dawud alayhis salam, he took his he

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he received his nabua after,

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after being becoming the the leader of Banu

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Israel. Say the Soleiman was the the the

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the the crown prince and then successor of

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Sayed Nadawd alaihi salam.

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His

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had nothing to do with him receiving kingship.

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Their kingship was something they had from before,

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and their

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in fact,

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caused them even more,

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caused them even more difficulty and hardship. It

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would have been easier for them to enjoy

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the the honor of being a king without

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without having, that.

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And a vast majority of the Ambiya alaihimusa

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to Islam,

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there are a couple of handfuls of of,

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of examples of who enjoyed temporal power and

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wealth.

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The vast majority of them definitely,

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didn't take that path,

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including Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.

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And so but the Abin Abdu dunya, when

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you try to bring them to something that's

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better for them in this in this world

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and the hereafter,

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because they don't care about the a lot

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and they don't care about the next world

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and they don't care about lofty ideals. They

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don't care about justice. They don't care about

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they don't care about any of those other

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types of things.

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Because of that, they

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accuse other people of having their minds in

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the gutter as well that, like, you know,

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just like they're working looking for a carcass.

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They accuse the falcon also of looking for

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a carcass, where the falcon doesn't need to

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look for a carcass. A falcon can kill,

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most beasts where they stand, even the formidable

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ones.

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The the the falcon only works in the

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service of the king. So the the falcon

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understands his place is with the king and

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near the crown. He says you could you

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may keep your ruins to yourself. My place

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is with the king and near the crown.

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The owls replied,

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this falcon is busy with a deceitful plan.

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He wants to oust us from these ruins

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and claim it claim them for himself.

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He wants to take possession of our homes,

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and with his flattering and clever plans, intends

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to destroy our nests. The falcon got the

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impression that the owls were going to attack

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attack him and warn them thus. If through

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your mischief, one of my wings should break,

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the king,

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to whom I am a cherished one will

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attack and destroy your whole neighborhood.

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That king's bounty and kindness protects me wherever

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I go. His protective glance is over me.

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I am in the thoughts of the king

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at all times. And without me and his

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thoughts, his art heart becomes ill. I am

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a royal falcon, and for that all envy

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me. How can stupid owls understand my position?

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And again, the idea is what? That a

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person who's a salik on the path to

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, don't undersell yourself.

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Again, the people of the dunya, if they

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have something important in the dunya, they won't

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they won't mind telling you, no. You know,

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I don't have time for you. You know,

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I I have a exam tomorrow. I have

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I have I have to take my car

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to be fixed. I have this. I have

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that. I can't give you any time. However,

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the the the people of Deen,

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their entire Ramadan, they're,

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wasting their time to recite. They're wasting their

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time to read in order to make other

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people happy. They're wasting their in order to

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make people happy. They're, you know, putting their

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children in the,

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company of other children that will,

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destroy their character and akhlaq in order to

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make people happy. They're,

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eating haram things because they're afraid of offending

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those people, the owls. The falcon is eating

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the haram because he's, afraid of offending the

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the owl. Look.

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People understand you gotta do what you gotta

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do. If this deen is important to you

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and these

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these blessings from Allah means something to you,

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then you don't have to be rude about

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it to people. You don't have to be

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a jerk about it. You can be polite,

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but be firm in protecting,

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protecting your station that you have with Allah

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with the king and with the crown.

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And know that Allah loves you because of

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your love of him,

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not because you're there to become like a

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a a a a syrupy slop in front

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of every person who doesn't care about your

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welfare in this world or in the

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hereafter.

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And this is something I think a lot

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of people from back home,

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from India and Pakistan

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and to a very high degree and perhaps

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a lesser degree other parts of,

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other parts of traditional cultures, we all oftentimes

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live,

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you know, in order to, fulfill other people's

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expectations.

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And this is one nice thing about American

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culture is that people, they live to fulfill

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their own expectations from themselves. We should learn

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that because the sahaba

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were like that.

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Their Maqam with Allah Ta'ala, they wouldn't waste

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it for anybody in the world.

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And,

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you know, this is something I think that's

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good about this culture. We should accept it.

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Many people think it's, selfish and self centered.

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It's only selfish and self centered if you

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are a selfish and self centered person. If

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your goal is to make Allah

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happy, then it's in fact a a very

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good property, the quality to have, not to

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be overly concerned with what other people are

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gonna think or say when you,

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do those things and and say those things

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and act in a way that makes Allah

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happy. What that is, you have to learn

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it from the uleman, from the mashaikh. You

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can't just make it up as you go

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along and then tell everybody I'm a real

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falcon. But

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at the same time, once you know what

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those things are, then, you know, don't be

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don't be, don't be like,

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don't be like,

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a person who, you know, gets their wings

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and their,

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their their their, talents clipped,

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by the old woman. Or worse yet, you

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know, throws away the the their their falcon

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like qualities,

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in front of the jeering of the owls.

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Be like this royal falcon who who knows

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what his value is and who knows who

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Allah is that protects them. If through your

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mischief one of my wings should break, that

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king to whom I am a cherished one

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will attack and destroy your whole neighborhood.

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That king's bounty and kindness protects me. I

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am in the thoughts of the king at

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all times. And without me and his thoughts,

00:31:01 --> 00:31:03

his heart becomes ill. I am a royal

00:31:03 --> 00:31:06

falcon and for that all envy me. How

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can stupid owls understand my position?

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Mullana Hakim Akhtar comments,

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there are times when the aliyah, of Allah,

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who are like the royal falcons and the

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beloved of Allah, are looked at by stupid

00:31:19 --> 00:31:21

and worldly ones in the same manners that

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the owls looked at the falcon,

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through wrong reasoning and analogy.

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Similarly, we find those who trouble them as

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a result of their wrong reasoning and conceptions,

00:31:32 --> 00:31:33

we find that there are some that will

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trouble them as a result of their wrong

00:31:35 --> 00:31:38

reasoning and conceptions. Conceptions. Allah, however, protects them.

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They are never for one moment out of

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the sight of the master no matter where

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they go. As Allah says to the Rasool,

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sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, in naka bi a'yunina,

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that verily you are within our sight. In

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other words,

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Allah is saying,

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oh, Muhammad

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these non believers cannot destroy you for you

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are at all times in our sight and

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under our protection. And this is the the

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the reason that the,

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the Hadith Qudsi is there in Sahih Bukhari,

00:32:06 --> 00:32:07

in which

00:32:09 --> 00:32:10

Rasoolullah tells us that Allah said,

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that Allah said who whoever,

00:32:19 --> 00:32:22

makes an enemy, whichever owl makes an enemy

00:32:22 --> 00:32:23

of my falcon, whichever

00:32:24 --> 00:32:26

person makes an enemy of a wali of

00:32:26 --> 00:32:29

mine, I declare war on such a person

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because that person is like the royal falcon,

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one of the most prized possessions of the

00:32:33 --> 00:32:36

king. And, if the owls come anywhere near

00:32:36 --> 00:32:37

it, he'll raise their entire neighborhood,

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and it's happened before.

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And,

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eventually, this is what will happen to this

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dunya as well.

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That this entire dunya will end because the

00:32:47 --> 00:32:49

remembrance of Allah will leave it. That will

00:32:49 --> 00:32:50

be the reason for its end because the

00:32:50 --> 00:32:53

reason for its creation has gone away. Eventually,

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on the day of judgement, entire nations will

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be burned in the garbage heap of the

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hellfire.

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And

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even if only 1 or 2 people believed

00:33:01 --> 00:33:03

in those nations, those are the ones that

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will have eternal and everlasting life with Allah

00:33:05 --> 00:33:08

Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and will bear honor on

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behalf of everybody.

00:33:09 --> 00:33:11

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has blessed us that

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we're from the Ummah of Sayid Muhammad sallallahu

00:33:13 --> 00:33:14

alaihi wa sallam.

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Such an Ummah that people in multitudes and

00:33:18 --> 00:33:20

great numbers will enter into Jannah through it.

00:33:20 --> 00:33:23

And then after that, even greater multitudes will

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enter to Jannah through its intercession.

00:33:25 --> 00:33:27

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us of the

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first and from the second and and and

00:33:29 --> 00:33:32

protect us from ever being, from anyone other

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than them.

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