Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 17 1440 Ramadn Late Night Majlis Humility 05222019

Hamzah Wald Maqbul
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The driver went to Pakistan to visit their family members and saw their plans to leave Pakistan. They discuss the importance of learning the path to achieving Islam and the need for people to make a commitment to their values. The driver also talks about the importance of humility and submission in protecting one's property and reputation, as it can lead to personal success. They also discuss the concept of being a doctor and a lawyer for poverty and access to power.

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			So we read, a couple of statements,
		
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			of the,
		
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			First, with regards to
		
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			what the essence of Tasawwuf is.
		
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			1st from Moana, Ashrafale Tanwi al Mu'lakab be
		
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			Hakimul Ummah.
		
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			The story of it about him being Hakimul
		
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			Ummah is as follows,
		
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			that he,
		
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			obviously, is a person of wisdom,
		
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			but there's a little bit more behind that.
		
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			When he, first received his Ijazah,
		
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			and, he
		
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			went to,
		
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			he went to teach.
		
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			He was,
		
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			frustrated
		
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			that the
		
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			madrassa at at Khampur would send him to
		
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			raise funds
		
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			a lot, and it annoyed him.
		
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			He saw it as against the honor of
		
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			the that they should have to stand in
		
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			front of people and,
		
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			ask for money,
		
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			and,
		
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			it was a distraction from his scholarly work.
		
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			So he made the,
		
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			he made the decision that he was going
		
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			to
		
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			go and give the board certification exam to
		
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			become a Hakim,
		
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			to become a a doctor of traditional medicine.
		
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			So Hikma,
		
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			the,
		
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			is the old the old,
		
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			system of medicine,
		
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			pre modern system of medicine,
		
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			which,
		
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			actually was,
		
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			you know, it was actually the not just
		
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			in the Indian subcontinent, it was all over
		
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			the world. But the Indian subcontinent was a
		
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			special center of its learning, and it still
		
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			is one of the few places where it
		
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			actually still survives to this day.
		
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			And,
		
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			you had to, you know, receive ijazah in
		
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			it as well. In fact, fact, most of
		
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			the were were people who studied at least
		
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			the basic modicum of,
		
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			similar to what you would read in Darshan
		
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			Izami. And to this day, still,
		
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			the people who have the knowledge of 1
		
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			have some knowledge of the other.
		
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			And so one of my one of my
		
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			also,
		
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			Allah have mercy on him. He was a
		
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			Hakim,
		
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			as well. He just passed away in this
		
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			last year,
		
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			and,
		
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			so at any rate,
		
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			so other than we said, he's he said
		
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			that I'm gonna
		
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			go to,
		
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			give the
		
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			exam, the board exam
		
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			to get the to get a license to
		
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			be a Hakim.
		
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			And then I'm gonna just practice medicine and
		
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			then teach on the side so I don't
		
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			have to take, you know, take all this
		
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			other,
		
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			these other duties that I'm not really interested
		
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			in. And so what happened was when he
		
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			went and gave the gave the exam, the
		
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			examiner who himself was a Hakim. Like we
		
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			said, the people of the people who are
		
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			the were also people who had knowledge of
		
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			din as well,
		
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			in those days,
		
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			unlike our doctors who give Khutba, but
		
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			Allah guide everybody.
		
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			So
		
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			he,
		
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			the examiner,
		
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			he he felt from Hazratani
		
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			that this is a person of a special
		
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			type of spirituality.
		
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			And, while he was taking the examination, he
		
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			told him he said, you'll pass.
		
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			It's not a big deal, but if you
		
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			permit me to give you some advice.
		
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			He said, what? He said,
		
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			he said that, this duniya is not is
		
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			not worth it.
		
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			Put up with the the the the
		
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			the difficulties
		
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			of
		
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			doing service to the dean,
		
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			even though they annoy
		
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			you because this dunya is is just not
		
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			worth it. It's not gonna last long enough
		
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			that that even that small amount of anoints
		
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			you save,
		
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			from having a, you know, earning a separate,
		
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			income,
		
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			it's not gonna be anything compared to what
		
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			you receive for serving the and serving serving
		
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			the people of,
		
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			the people of knowledge and the people of
		
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			Deen. And you see Hazratanmi
		
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			he was a person that,
		
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			a a number of,
		
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			very famous and and important
		
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			personalities from the Indian subcontinent.
		
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			They basically received their face from him.
		
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			There's just, like, the whole, like, it's
		
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			a master,
		
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			defense of the Hanafi madhab, especially against the
		
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			objections of, like, Salafis and whatnot.
		
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			The entire Ala of Sunan is basically, like,
		
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			a 20 volume work written on Hazratan, like,
		
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			off the cuff comments here and there. That,
		
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			again, just like just like we mentioned yesterday,
		
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			sometimes the elders, they say something, and then
		
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			afterward, the will come afterward.
		
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			That one word puts them in the right
		
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			direction, and they can fill in the blanks
		
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			afterward. But if it was a matter of
		
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			coming up with that word themselves, it would
		
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			not have been possible. So Hazratani is a
		
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			person who himself, they attribute over a a
		
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			1000,
		
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			Tasnifat,
		
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			independent works,
		
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			to that that were written
		
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			by him. Some of them are short, but
		
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			some of them are very long.
		
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			One of his more masterful works is, the
		
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			Khalidi Masnavi. It's a 10 volume
		
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			commentary on the Masnavi of Molana Jaladin Rumi,
		
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			and a a number of other a number
		
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			of other
		
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			original works that don't fit neatly into any
		
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			one genre, but are,
		
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			works that address the the the issues that
		
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			that the the Muslims, especially in the subcontinent,
		
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			faced in the in in in their age,
		
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			in their time.
		
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			So, one of his comments that Hazar Sheikh
		
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			Zakari
		
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			writes,
		
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			in his autobiography
		
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			was that that he said that there are
		
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			2 there are 2 subjects or sciences that
		
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			I see are being wasted in this age
		
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			that we live in. He says one is
		
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			Tassof and the other is Tafsir.
		
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			Tassof is rife with cultural,
		
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			Tassof and with quackery,
		
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			and tafsir is also just become like story
		
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			time,
		
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			of what my opinion about the Quran is.
		
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			And the actual science or sciences in his
		
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			opinion were wasted or being wasted in his
		
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			age. So he said if Allah gives me
		
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			enough life, I'd like to do service of
		
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			these these sciences so that they can be
		
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			understood,
		
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			properly rather through rather than through,
		
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			the the the kind of abuse that they
		
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			were going through. So
		
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			the sheikh,
		
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			Kamaluzaman
		
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			writes,
		
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			a few words of summary that Hazratanmi
		
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			wrote wrote with regards to to.
		
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			The essence of this path, this is the
		
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			only way of reaching of Allah most high.
		
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			Meaning, blame blame worthy characteristics must be removed
		
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			and praiseworthy characteristics must be developed.
		
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			Sins must be given up and one must
		
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			be inspired toward acts of obedience.
		
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			Negligence and heedlessness with regards to Allah most
		
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			high must depart
		
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			and a person must turn toward Allah ta'ala.
		
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			A person should constantly be making
		
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			constantly turning back to Allah
		
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			On many occasions, I said to the students,
		
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			and to the public to become firm on
		
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			2 things, and I guarantee they will reach
		
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			Allah most high through them. 1 is to
		
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			abstain from sin,
		
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			that the this is a principle even amongst
		
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			the that to,
		
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			to ward off harm
		
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			takes priority over,
		
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			over,
		
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			gathering benefit.
		
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			The other is to speak less and to
		
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			make some time for seclusion for dhikr and
		
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			for reflection.
		
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			Hazratanvi says the object of your saluk, your
		
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			travel to Allah to Allah is what? It's
		
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			the pleasure of Allah. After that, 2 things
		
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			are necessary.
		
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			Meaning knowledge of the path and then practicing
		
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			that knowledge.
		
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			The path is 1. I he in adhering
		
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			to the external and internal injunctions of deen.
		
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			There are 2 things which would aid a
		
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			person on this path. 1 is the remembrance
		
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			of Allah that they can engage in regularly,
		
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			and 2 is the company of the of
		
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			Allah ta'ala as much as possible.
		
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			Now the word
		
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			translates literally to man, but in the the
		
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			the vocabulary of the the Sufis, it means
		
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			that those people who,
		
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			those people who fulfill their responsibilities
		
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			toward Allah even if, such a person happens
		
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			to be a female.
		
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			The company of the is the reason that
		
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			the used to have in the old days,
		
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			and it's the reason that,
		
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			that's the reason that, the sound cloud,
		
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			and podcasts are not enough for you to
		
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			become a good Muslim.
		
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			And they're not going to, they're not going
		
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			to aid you as much on the path
		
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			toward Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Although it is
		
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			true that if a person,
		
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			reads a book
		
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			or remembers somebody or thinks of somebody with
		
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			awe and reverence,
		
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			whether good or bad, that that person will
		
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			have some sort of spiritual company of that
		
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			person
		
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			through that through that path. But conventionally, that's
		
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			not how it's that's not how it's supposed
		
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			to be done.
		
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			So,
		
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			good news to the people who come and
		
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			keep the suhbah of the salihin and of
		
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			the people of knowledge,
		
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			and,
		
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			another another,
		
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			you know,
		
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			between these two things. He mentions 2 things.
		
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			1 is the of Allah that a person
		
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			can engage in regularly, and the second is
		
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			the company of the, the the the
		
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			Allah as much as
		
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			possible.
		
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			Whoever whoever listens to a band or listens
		
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			to the majlis or listens to some other
		
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			ban and doesn't make it to,
		
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			then
		
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			you, you know, you have sacrificed,
		
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			the company of, that you've sacrificed in order
		
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			to get the company of the the the
		
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			slaves of Allah. You sacrificed the company of
		
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			Allah himself. And this is one of the
		
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			reasons why, this is one of the reasons
		
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			I've seen from none of our mashaif and
		
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			elders that they even though they hold majalis
		
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			and have bands in in in Ramadan in
		
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			the nights as well, none of them ever
		
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			put it in the middle of the.
		
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			Why why would they do that? This is
		
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			like an entire mentality. This is the same
		
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			thing like the whole issue about whether
		
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			it's allowed to,
		
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			give the in a language other than Arabic
		
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			or not. It's a difference of opinion. So
		
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			So the fiqh issues, this is not a
		
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			majlis of fiqh. We're not gonna argue it
		
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			one way or the other. But one of
		
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			the arguments people give is they say, well,
		
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			this is the time everybody is there and
		
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			so you can talk to them.
		
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			And the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wasallam is what? Is that the khutba should
		
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			be short and that the salah should be
		
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			long.
		
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			And even the khutba itself is referred to
		
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			by Allah in his book as the dhikr,
		
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			as,
		
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			as by the word or the expression dhikr.
		
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			So it betrays a mindset,
		
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			that a person thinks that through squawking, they're
		
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			going to, be able to do those things
		
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			that the zikr of Allah won't do.
		
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			So,
		
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			one takes priority over the other. Although both
		
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			of them are both of them are important
		
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			and they're both necessary as well. They're both
		
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			necessary. So we don't take 1 and jettison
		
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			it jettison the other in favor of it.
		
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			That's also a type of extremism, and it's
		
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			gonna end up in a lopsided,
		
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			practice of deen. But given that both of
		
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			them are important,
		
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			we should know also as part of the
		
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			faqaha of a of a Muslim to know,
		
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			which one takes priority over the other,
		
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			which one takes priority over the other. So
		
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			as a time he says, if a person
		
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			doesn't have sufficient time for the latter, meaning
		
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			the company, the rida of Allah,
		
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			and some people are in different situations. Someone
		
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			is in in college, somewhere far away, somebody
		
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			is,
		
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			you know, not allowed to leave, somebody doesn't
		
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			have a car, you know, like, you do
		
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			you have a driver's license?
		
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			No. Right? So maybe you can't go. You
		
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			can't attend the the or the,
		
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			you know, regularly because of that, because you
		
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			don't have conveyance. So we have, like, people,
		
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			like, it's, you know, the SoundCloud. There are
		
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			people who listen and they'll ask questions online
		
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			and things like that. It's like a convert
		
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			grandmother who lives, like, somewhere in, like, you
		
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			know,
		
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			some rural part of some other state, you
		
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			know. You're not gonna tell her, okay, come
		
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			to come to on Sundays.
		
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			There are some people that you can and
		
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			you should and I do, and most of
		
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			them don't listen. And some of them surprise
		
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			me and it's very awkward when they do.
		
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			But, most of them, you know, generally, they
		
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			they don't listen.
		
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			But, you know, the ones that there's no
		
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			there's no there's no, what you call it,
		
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			you can't believe a person who's genuinely not
		
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			able to make it.
		
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			So Haider Khanmi says, for the for those
		
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			people, reading and studying the lives, and statements
		
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			of, our Akabir Masha'if is an alternative.
		
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			The Sahaba, the Tabrin, the Tabat Tabrin, the
		
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			Masha'if of the Tariq, of the Ummah,
		
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			etcetera.
		
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			Reading,
		
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			reading and studying their lives and reading their
		
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			statements is an alternative.
		
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			And although it's not it's not a substitute
		
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			for coming and being present in the Majlis,
		
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			but sometimes
		
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			the
		
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			and the spirituality of some of the is
		
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			such that it will reach you through the
		
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			book, and it will reach you through the
		
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			translation, and it will reach you through
		
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			centuries of time and thousands of miles of
		
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			space, and it will still affect you.
		
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			Even though this is not a it's not
		
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			correct that a person should should
		
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			just use it as a crutch, but sometimes
		
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			it will still affect you anyway. So if
		
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			you have no alternative, then,
		
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			you know, sit with with reverence and and
		
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			and and seek something through that and and,
		
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			Allah I will give you.
		
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			2 things are obstacles on the path
		
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			or prevent one from realizing its objectives.
		
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			One is sin and the other is preoccupation
		
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			with futile activities, I e, the the the
		
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			phone,
		
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			and and and other things like that. After
		
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			that, it depends on each person's capability.
		
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			This will determine how quick or how long
		
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			it will take a person to realize their
		
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			objective,
		
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			and this is the gist of the path.
		
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			Continues. He says an explanation of Sharia, Tarifa
		
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			and Hatifa.
		
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			Sharia, meaning the sacred law, the Tarifa is
		
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			the the the the way to Allah to
		
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			a'la and the is the realization of of,
		
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			just like the is the realization of the
		
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			knowledge in the mind, the is the realization
		
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			in the heart.
		
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			In
		
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			his
		
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			who is the who was, with, who
		
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			we talked about yesterday,
		
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			a cofounder of the Daruloom and Deoband,
		
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			and through whom, the Asani, the probably most
		
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			of the people with a living
		
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			hadith go through. Uh-uh.
		
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			He explains,
		
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			to a seeker in the following matter manner.
		
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			In reality, Sharia is obligatory and the fundamental
		
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			objective of Deen.
		
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			To follow the the the rulings and the
		
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			laws of the Sharia is not only is
		
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			it obligatory, but it's the fundamental objective of
		
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			the Deen. The Tarifa is the internal Sharia
		
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			and the Hatikah,
		
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			and and the noses
		
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			of Allah to a list to complete and
		
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			perfect the Sharia.
		
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			The total following of the Sharia is not
		
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			even possible without Ma'rifa.
		
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			Without knowing all that, there's no way a
		
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			person is going to be able to fulfill
		
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			the Sharia. So those people who say that
		
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			this is all hippie pie in the sky,
		
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			pot smoking,
		
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			hippie, peace and love time,
		
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			to them know that until the peace and
		
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			love enters into your heart, you're not going
		
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			to you're not going to have the following
		
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			the Sharia.
		
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			Rather it will be like the Torah was
		
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			for the Banu Israel.
		
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			Something that
		
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			a lot of people knew about and very
		
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			few people actually follow.
		
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			Not not not not that there's not there
		
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			there weren't people, there were people who followed
		
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			it. But very few people followed it, and,
		
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			it skipped most people. So it explains the
		
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			objective of Saluk in a very comprehensive manner.
		
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			This is this is
		
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			this is this this is what I like,
		
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			the my favorite statement for the whole night.
		
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			InshaAllah.
		
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			This is some objective of saluk, the the
		
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			traversing the path to Allah ta'ala is to
		
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			have an aversion for sins and a yearning
		
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			for obedience.
		
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			Spiritual conditions, restlessness, and so on are not
		
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			the objectives. A servant is a servant on
		
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			account of his servitude not because of his
		
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			restlessness.
		
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			This is the sum objective of traveling to
		
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			Allah to Allah is to have observe aversion
		
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			for sin and a yearning for obedience. Meaning
		
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			that those commandments that are in there there
		
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			in the Sharia, you want them yourself.
		
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			To be. This is not like a one
		
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			or another or you are you you know,
		
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			this is our. No. This is Islam. That
		
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			Rasulullah
		
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			said that one of you will not perfect
		
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			their belief until they,
		
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			their, desires are conformant with that which I
		
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			brought. So he says what? He says the
		
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			sum objectives of saluk is to have an
		
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			aversion for sins and a yearning for the
		
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			obedience of Allah.
		
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			Spiritual conditions,
		
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			restlessness,
		
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			whether or not you can see the future
		
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			in your dreams, whether or not you can
		
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			float, whether or not you can shoot, light
		
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			from your fingertips, whether or not people you
		
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			may do against get struck by lightning. Lightning.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			Whether or not, you know, when you, look
		
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			at somebody, that person will become rich, whether
		
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			or not you, you know, like, you can
		
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			do Jedi mind tricks on people. Right? All
		
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			of this stuff, there any any fake thing
		
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			that someone made up in, like, Lord of
		
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			the Rings or Star Wars, I promise you
		
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			there's someone from this Uma who did something
		
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			more impressive than that, like, in real life.
		
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			However, despite that,
		
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			the most impressive person is what? Is the
		
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			one who they have a yearning for the
		
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			obedience of Allah and an aversion to sin.
		
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			And if somebody has all the Jedi tricks
		
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			in the world, the guy can be master
		
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			Yoda,
		
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			with the green light saber and everything. Okay?
		
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			But,
		
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			imagine that that there are 2 people who
		
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			can't keep this Kfia inside of their hearts.
		
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			1 is, like, super master Yoda out, like,
		
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			he can
		
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			move his hands and, like, make boulders fly
		
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			at people and, like, absorb, like, whatever, like,
		
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			Darth whatever emperor lightning into his, like, lightsaber
		
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			and, all kind of crazy stuff, you know?
		
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			And then the other one doesn't.
		
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			But they both carry the same kefir in
		
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			their heart. Whose ma'am is higher with Allah?
		
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			It's the one who doesn't have all of
		
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			the parlor tricks.
		
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			It's the one who doesn't have all of
		
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			those parlor tricks.
		
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			Why? Because they just did what they were
		
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			supposed to do regardless of what happened. Imagine
		
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			that. I mean, because we struggle with our
		
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			deen and this is a a great with
		
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			with Allah that we, at least have the
		
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			to struggle. But there are some people who
		
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			have, like, real problems. Not like you and
		
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			me problems. They have, like, real problems. Like,
		
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			weird, like, you see, like, the Burmese refugees
		
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			got kicked out of their their homes on
		
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			a moment's notice under the threat of weird,
		
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			like, * and torture and all this other
		
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			weird
		
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			stuff. And,
		
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			you see that
		
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			that those types of people, they live and
		
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			they die in these harsh circumstances, but the
		
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			more,
		
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			astonishing thing is that they never utter a
		
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			complaint against Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala. And so that person, obviously, their will
		
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			be higher than the person who,
		
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			you know, is walking around with all of
		
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			these miraculous protections and whatnot. In fact, the
		
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			reality is that these miraculous protections themselves are
		
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			a a a, a mercy Allah gives to
		
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			us because of our weakness.
		
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			Otherwise, the place that all of these accounts
		
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			are to be settled is not in this
		
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			world. It's in the hereafter. But Allah protects
		
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			our iman by by by throwing us a
		
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			bone, here and there with these types of
		
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			things. Otherwise, if a person was, what, like,
		
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			so what he says, a servant is a
		
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			servant on account of his servitude, not because
		
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			he was restless. Restlessness. Restlessness here means, like,
		
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			they're the the kefiat that a person goes
		
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			through, the weird spiritual conditions that are oftentimes
		
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			very marvelous and wonderful and enjoyable, and people
		
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			will gape at them in awe,
		
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			that the servant is a serve servant in
		
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			on account of his servitude, not on account
		
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			of his,
		
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			restlessness or his other kefiyat
		
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			as such. That the person who, did what
		
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			they did because they because of Allah, because
		
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			of who he was, and because of being
		
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			his servant, that person is the one that
		
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			the person with the true inside inside of
		
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			their heart should marvel at.
		
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			Muhammadu Khmer Zaman continues. He says, I now
		
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			quote a statement of Sha'a'aliyah,
		
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			rhamma'ala,
		
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			on the subject of affinity and love toward
		
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			Allah, nisbet toward Allah,
		
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			and his approval and, in fact, preference of
		
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			those who possess it.
		
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			So Shahwulullah is the the the musnid of
		
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			Hind, and he was an alim of of
		
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			the first rank
		
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			of the outward sciences,
		
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			and he's saying it. It's not just, you
		
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			know, it's not just some Babaji who's, you
		
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			know, whatever, collecting donations from them reads. He's
		
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			he's like he he he's the he's the
		
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			real deal, you know.
		
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			He says, I take an oath in the
		
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			name of,
		
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			the being in whose control is my life.
		
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			That this point with regards to the importance
		
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			of Nisba with Allah Ta'ala is the most
		
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			intricate of the objectives of the Sharia,
		
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			in in regards to its very source and
		
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			the deepest,
		
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			in regards to its origin. And it is
		
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			to the Sharia, like the soulless to the
		
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			body, and it is,
		
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			to the Sharia,
		
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			like meaning is to word.
		
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			So, you say a word,
		
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			like word, it has a meaning. If it
		
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			had no meaning, then the sound word means
		
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			nothing. Has no no benefit whatsoever. It says,
		
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			it's it is to the Sharia like meaning
		
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			is to a word. The Sufis, may Allah
		
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			be pleased with them, took the responsibility of
		
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			preserving it in the Ummah. Consequently, they were
		
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			guided and they guided others, and they drank
		
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			from it, and they gave others to drink.
		
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			And in this, way, they, acquired the greatest
		
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			fortune
		
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			and the largest share.
		
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			Continues.
		
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			He says, look at the powers powerful statement
		
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			of Shah. Will you Allah? May Allah have
		
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			mercy on him on the subject of the
		
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			consciousness of Allah to Allah, of the awareness
		
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			of Allah, and the Nisbuh with Allah, and
		
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			how he praised it and praised those who
		
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			are devoted to it. He refers to this
		
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			objective as the deepest and most intricate because
		
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			it is the soul of everything else.
		
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			Anything which has this quality is always the
		
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			most intricate.
		
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			I do not think that we, that the
		
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			need for tasulaf can be explained in any
		
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			better way. Just as is considered to be
		
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			the most intricate of the outward,
		
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			sciences and the deepest and most
		
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			complex, in in a like manner,
		
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			refers to the internal fit. The Nisba with
		
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			Allah and sincerity to be the most
		
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			and Juris are fulfilling their responsibilities,
		
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			with this regard in this time as well.
		
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			May Allah most high reward them for their
		
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			efforts and bless them with more inspiration. However,
		
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			we are certainly found wanting in this important
		
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			service in Deen,
		
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			which the genuine Sufis have shouldered. May Allah
		
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			enable us to atone for it
		
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			and inspire,
		
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			inspire us to fulfill its objective.
		
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			The final the final
		
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			subtopic I wanted to read for tonight,
		
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			is, one with regards to humility and submission,
		
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			in the heart is the life of the
		
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			heart.
		
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			The messenger of Allah
		
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			made the general dua for humility. He said,
		
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			O Allah, Let me live as
		
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			a. The translator translated as a humble person,
		
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			but the
		
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			the the definition of a is a person
		
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			who doesn't who wakes up in the morning
		
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			and doesn't know where they're going to get
		
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			their provision for for the rest of the
		
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			day. So it's a, it's the word fakir
		
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			is a general word, and the word miskin
		
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			is a specific word, with regards to,
		
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			with regards to
		
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			an extreme type of faqal of poverty.
		
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			And, even in whatever, like modern Arabic,
		
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			you know, when you say and so and
		
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			so, it's like poor, it's like it's like
		
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			the object of pity,
		
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			being being in a state of pitifulness.
		
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			And that the Rasul
		
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			made the,
		
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			made the dua, oh, Allah,
		
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			Let me live as a humble person as
		
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			a
		
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			and let me die as a and raise
		
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			me amongst the group of, the Masakin.
		
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			That wherever the Mesakine are raised, let me
		
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			be raised with them. Now obviously, for those
		
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			of us who are right now,
		
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			you know,
		
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			our whole, like, self esteem is pinned on
		
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			becoming a doctor, or,
		
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			our entire hopes and dreams, of our, children
		
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			is pinned on becoming a doctor. It's fine.
		
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			Being doctor in haram. Right? Being a lawyer
		
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			for that matter. Right? It's not haram or
		
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			nothing. Right? Like, imagine, has other Tanvi himself
		
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			was a Hakim, and imagine like that also
		
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			that that,
		
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			that that examiner who gave him that good
		
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			advice as well, who's also Hakim, he was
		
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			also a practicing he was a practicing Hakim
		
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			as well. Right? But But I'm talking about
		
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			those people who this becomes, like, a weird
		
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			idol for them. For them, it's it's like
		
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			they they shutter. I'll I'll tell you, the
		
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			dean is really interesting thing. Like, I went
		
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			to Madrasa, I went to in Pakistan.
		
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			Going to Madrasa is not like the most,
		
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			like, 4 Seasons Ritz Carlton experience in the
		
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			world, you know.
		
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			You you know, you you put you carried
		
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			out your sentence as well over here. Right?
		
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			But
		
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			what you saw here is, like, the Ritz
		
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			Carlton compared to where I went. Okay? And
		
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			where I went was the Ritz Carlton compared
		
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			to Mauritania.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			So where I went in Pakistan,
		
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			there was 3 types of dal served twice
		
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			a day. So dal a, dal b, and
		
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			then dal b, dal c.
		
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			Sorry, dal a, dal b, and then dal
		
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			c, dal a, then dal b, dal c,
		
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			and then you repeat the cycle over again.
		
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			And,
		
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			rice and meat were like served maybe once
		
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			a month, if even that. And, there was
		
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			no doors. The the the construction was going
		
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			on, so we're living in the Masjid under
		
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			construction.
		
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			We slept on on woven straw mats, and,
		
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			there's no windows,
		
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			no AC.
		
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			Power was out, like, you know, 12 hours
		
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			a day was good.
		
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			So, it was
		
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			it was it was fun times.
		
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			Okay? My my my uncle who almost guaranteed
		
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			is,
		
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			I don't know if any of my relatives
		
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			ever listened to any of these at all.
		
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			But my my, my my father's brother, his
		
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			his two daughters, my cousins were getting married
		
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			in Pakistan.
		
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			So I I went to their wedding,
		
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			and, he once came in a car, like,
		
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			with a driver to come pick me up
		
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			from the madrasa,
		
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			to visit me. And I said, you know,
		
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			he the the dropped us off dropped me
		
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			off at the, like, the gate or, like,
		
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			the the border of the the the Madrasa
		
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			land.
		
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			So
		
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			I said, don't you wonder, you know,
		
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			don't you wonder, like, what is what is
		
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			it I'm doing all all this time over
		
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			here? Don't you wanna, like, at least see
		
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			it or, like, when you have no questions
		
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			about it, whatever?
		
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			He was like, yeah. Why not? You know,
		
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			I I said, why don't you come in
		
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			and take a look at least. Right?
		
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			And,
		
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			so the driver took the car into the
		
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			Madrasa,
		
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			which there was not like a rotary. It's
		
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			just like dirt path. And,
		
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			he came and he he he just came
		
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			to the door, the threshold of it. It's
		
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			like a masjid, basically. It's like a masjid,
		
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			but you do like, you study there as
		
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			well. Right?
		
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			And he looked in and, like, I I
		
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			seen this not just him, a number of
		
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			people who came to visit would come to
		
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			visit Pakistan and they would like come to
		
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			see me. The same thing would happen. There's
		
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			very few people very few people this wouldn't
		
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			happen with. From, like, my whatever, quote unquote,
		
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			dunya like life. Right? He looked in and,
		
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			like, just freaked out.
		
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			And he said, I have to leave, and
		
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			he just left.
		
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			You know? There are a couple of people
		
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			there are a couple of people, you know,
		
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			that that had, like I would say it's
		
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			just the of, like, they could look in
		
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			and, like, it would attract them and they
		
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			would go inside. Most people, they can't even
		
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			look at it. It's, like, too much for
		
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			them to look at. It's I don't know
		
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			what it is. Like, a jib thing, like,
		
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			whatever. Allah taught guide everybody and forgive them
		
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			their sins and what. I'm not saying this
		
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			to, like, dog him, but it's overwhelming for
		
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			even a person who has good intentions. It's,
		
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			like, too much for them sometimes.
		
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			So this Dua is like that because there
		
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			are so many people they assemble their entire
		
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			life with the objective of whatever. I mean,
		
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			we left our homelands for this. You know
		
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			what I mean? Like, my grandfather my grandfather
		
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			was like like like like like a feudal
		
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			lord, you know, and we left it for
		
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			what? For money.
		
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			Right? You're you're you're you're, you know, you
		
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			you the Shamis left their Sham, the Iraqis
		
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			left their Iraq, the Messines left their for
		
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			this.
		
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			Umadunya and you could major your your mother
		
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			is like now, bereaved of you, you know?
		
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			Skip that. You know what I mean? Yeah.
		
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			So, like, Iraq was the place where everyone
		
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			used to come at one time. You know,
		
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			the entire dude's it was, like, the the
		
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			the Ajib of
		
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			the world.
		
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			And, like, we left it for what?
		
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			We left it because we wanna, you know,
		
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			have 3 square meal meals a day. We
		
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			wanna drive a car. We wanna have a
		
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			TV. We wanna, like, we did it. We
		
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			I mean, we personally may not have done
		
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			it, but, like, you know, our people did
		
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			it.
		
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			And they come from a people who would
		
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			also do it as well if they had
		
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			the chance. Not everybody,
		
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			but there are a lot. And we're from
		
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			that group. We're we're from group we're that
		
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			group a. We're not group b. We're not
		
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			the other group.
		
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			And so when you when you then you
		
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			come to America and, like, all of that
		
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			and you left your entire everything and then
		
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			you have to come face to face with
		
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			it again because you can't leave us with
		
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			love. We wanna go to Jannam. Right? Right?
		
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			And so people, like, yeah. Okay. We don't
		
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			wanna go to Jannam. We'll still be Muslim
		
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			and stuff, you know, like, you know, some
		
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			of them actually even thought they would leave
		
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			that, but, Alhamdulillah, Allah guided them back.
		
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			But there were a couple of weird years
		
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			in the middle where, you know, people didn't
		
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			go to Jomar or they went to Jomar
		
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			on Sunday or weird stuff like that. But,
		
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			we're we're over we're over that as much.
		
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			But now you've come close face to face
		
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			with it again. Right? Now that the ISNA
		
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			conference is over and the,
		
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			all this other, you know, like, all other
		
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			fun and games, you know, like, you know,
		
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			okay, Michelle, you know, our sister got elected,
		
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			to congress both in in in in Detroit
		
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			and in in in in in in in
		
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			in, you know, so political this and that,
		
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			and, like, we protested the Muslim ban, and
		
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			we've done all our other stuff, and now
		
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			come face to face with it again. It's
		
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			a hard thing to look at. It's not
		
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			it's not easy for a lot of
		
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			people.
		
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			Sheikh Zakaria, here is not but
		
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			Sheikh Zakaria as in Zakaria al Ansari Sheikh
		
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			Islam, the old Shafi'i,
		
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			Sheikh from our Ka'vir, Mashay. He was asked,
		
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			may Allah have mercy on him about the
		
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			meaning of this hadith. He said it means
		
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			that the person is asking Allah for humbleness,
		
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			for humility.
		
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			Not necessarily for poverty, but this is that
		
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			person is asking for the humility that's associated
		
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			with that
		
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			dire level of dependence on Allah Ta'ala.
		
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			Yeah. That the person is asking for humility
		
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			and for submission
		
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			and not to make him from amongst, the
		
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			people who carry the this kefir and the
		
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			state in their heart of the tyrants or
		
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			from the people of
		
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			pride,
		
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			or from the wasteful and extravagant of the
		
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			wealthy.
		
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			Allah Masubqi
		
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			said, it also refers to the submissiveness of
		
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			the heart. He says, the, that the of
		
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			this hadith doesn't refer poverty because the messenger
		
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			of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was the wealthiest
		
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			person by the grace of Allah.
		
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			He was the wealthiest of people by the
		
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			grace of Allah Ta'ala.
		
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			And so, Malik Hamra Zaman also then he
		
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			repeats the the the the the the hadith
		
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			of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			in the form of him making the dua
		
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			himself.
		
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			He says, Allah, make make me and make
		
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			all of us,
		
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			messakin,
		
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			and give us death as masakin,
		
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			and gather us in the, in the in
		
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			the group of the masakin
		
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			on the day of judgment.