Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 21 1440 Ramadn Late Night Majlis The Seal of Compulsion 05262019

Hamzah Wald Maqbul
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The speakers discuss the importance of forgiveness and the use of it in situations where it is impossible to be forgiven. They explain that forgiveness is a means to achieve a better understanding of the situation and that it is a sign of being aware of the actions of others. They also discuss the concept of a "will" of the heart and how it can be used to avoid sin, and warn that accepting the truth can lead to loss of life. They stress the importance of forgiveness and the need to be a fitna for people to be heedless and not let anyone push them around. They also discuss the negative sentiment of forgiveness and the importance of learning to be heedless and listening to the ha input of others.

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			So we continue.
		
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			By his father, we reached the last 10
		
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			nights of Ramadan.
		
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			And,
		
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			this is the 21st
		
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			night. It's an odd night.
		
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			There's a possibility that it's
		
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			and,
		
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			to fulfill the sunnah that the prophet
		
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			needs to remind his family as well,
		
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			in these nights
		
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			that, if a person is to
		
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			be in these nights in general and in
		
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			specific, if they are to feel that tonight
		
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			might be
		
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			then the the dua that was prescribed by
		
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			the prophet
		
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			You
		
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			are
		
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			the one who
		
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			is
		
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			completely and emphatically,
		
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			the person who
		
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			forgives
		
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			such a forgiveness that
		
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			it doesn't leave any ill effect behind.
		
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			One is someone asked for forgiveness and you
		
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			grudgingly forgive them, and one is that forgiveness
		
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			that is like forgive and forget. Although Allah
		
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			doesn't forget anything, but,
		
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			you know, it's the forgiveness that leaves behind
		
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			no trace of the of of the ill
		
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			will, from the offense to the point where
		
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			it comes in the hadith of the prophet
		
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			not only is the
		
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			the repentant from sin is the one who
		
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			has committed no sin at all. In fact,
		
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			the sin has turned into a good deed.
		
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			Allah will actually reward you for that sin
		
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			as one of the many,
		
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			acts of grace from
		
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			repenting to Allah.
		
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			So that's the the of Allah is that
		
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			that that he forgives in such a way
		
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			that he's not going to hold it against
		
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			you afterward once he's forgiven you.
		
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			You're the one who always forgives like that
		
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			unconditionally and completely.
		
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			And you're the one who loves that people
		
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			should forgive one another completely.
		
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			And this also has a connection with these
		
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			days,
		
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			with these Mubarak days. Why?
		
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			Because,
		
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			not forgiving one another
		
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			in these days,
		
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			when everything is said and done. Obviously, someone
		
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			still owes you money. They still owe you
		
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			money. If there's still some sort of zone
		
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			going on against you, you have the right
		
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			to pursue that if if, you know, there's
		
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			benefit in it.
		
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			You have the right to still pursue it,
		
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			and it's okay to pursue it if there's
		
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			some benefit in it. But when everything is
		
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			said and done and you've gotten your restitution
		
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			or things have passed,
		
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			a person should forgive.
		
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			And withholding forgiveness to one another is a
		
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			especially when somebody asks you for forgiveness. To
		
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			not forgive them at that point is just,
		
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			like, inhuman.
		
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			But even those who don't forgive you, you
		
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			know, even those who
		
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			wrong do and they don't say anything bad,
		
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			it's from a prophetic character to forgive them.
		
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			And, again, that doesn't mean that, you know,
		
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			the money they owe you that they haven't
		
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			paid, that that you, you know, that debt
		
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			is forgiven,
		
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			but, the sin that's involved with it.
		
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			So
		
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			it comes in the hadith that that withholding
		
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			forgiveness from one another is a reason that
		
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			Allah will withhold forgiveness from people, that the
		
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			day of Eid is a occasion of Allah's
		
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			forgiveness,
		
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			and Allah tells the angels that in the
		
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			unseen go and and give
		
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			to my
		
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			slaves that they've been forgiven.
		
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			And angels will ask how about so and
		
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			so and so until they still got beef
		
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			with one another.
		
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			And
		
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			the lord
		
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			will say, leave them until they forgive one
		
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			another, then then they'll be forgiven too. So
		
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			that you,
		
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			you know, you love that people forgive one
		
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			another completely and totally like that. And so
		
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			forgive us completely and totally,
		
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			like that. And, so
		
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			The difference between is for me and is
		
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			for us if you're making in
		
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			a gathering.
		
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			This is the weird of the in this
		
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			in this Mubarak nights.
		
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			So read as much Quran as you can,
		
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			pray as much as you can,
		
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			say your adkar as much as you can,
		
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			and, keep away from sin as much as
		
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			you can because in the holy times,
		
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			the the ill effect of sin is also
		
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			multiplied.
		
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			And to sin in these in these Mubarak
		
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			nights is a sign of it's a sign
		
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			of being deprived,
		
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			deprived, which is something we're gonna talk about
		
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			incidentally tonight.
		
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			So Allah protect us from it. So if
		
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			all you can do is just, you know,
		
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			shut off the TV or stop doing the
		
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			sins that you do in the other nights,
		
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			that's also a great there's a great if
		
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			all you can do in these nights is
		
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			just go and pray in congregation.
		
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			There's there's a great in it as well.
		
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			1,
		
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			that that's multiplied through Al Fisar, through a
		
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			1000 months, it comes out to a lot.
		
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			And 1, is a lot in and of
		
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			itself.
		
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			The Yom O'Puyama people will be walking,
		
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			back and forth between people,
		
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			like
		
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			stark and raving mad mad men,
		
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			hungry, driven
		
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			mad by hunger and thirst. For what? For
		
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			1
		
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			and for 1
		
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			and for 1
		
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			and
		
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			for 1 So, you know, take advantage of
		
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			these nights
		
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			for myself and for others.
		
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			So near the end of the,
		
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			the,
		
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			that we've been reading for for the last,
		
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			several,
		
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			nights over a week now, I guess,
		
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			is
		
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			a,
		
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			a a a a set of discussions
		
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			on different Quranic themes,
		
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			that are transmitted by the compiler of this
		
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			book, Mullana Kamruzaman
		
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			Elaha Bedi,
		
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			from,
		
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			a a work of Tafsir Jawahirullah Quran of
		
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			Maulana Hussein Ali. May Allah have mercy on
		
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			him. So he wanted to
		
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			he wanted to quote,
		
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			a couple of sections that are,
		
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			important for a person to understand,
		
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			how the heart works,
		
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			and how how, Allah
		
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			its transaction is with Allah on this path.
		
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			So the topic we wanted to discuss tonight
		
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			is what,
		
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			what what is referred to, in the technical
		
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			vocabulary is as
		
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			When Allah most high gave man a heart,
		
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			eyes, and ears to understand, see, and listen
		
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			to the truth, he commissioned the prophets
		
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			to explain the truth and he sent books
		
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			to them. If a person still does not
		
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			understand the truth,
		
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			does not see it and does not listen
		
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			to it, instead, opposes it out of stubbornness
		
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			and obstinacy,
		
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			and remains willful on his false beliefs and
		
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			polytheistic practices,
		
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			then the ability of such people to listen
		
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			to the truth and understand is obliterated from
		
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			them.
		
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			What what does this mean? This means that
		
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			the haqqiq comes to you and Allah gives
		
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			you a chance, he gives you another chance,
		
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			he gives you another chance, but you're not
		
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			given an infinite
		
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			number of chances.
		
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			And, that's something, I guess, everybody can understand
		
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			in the sense that nobody lives forever,
		
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			but it also doesn't necessarily mean that your
		
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			your,
		
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			your chances are as much life as you
		
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			have.
		
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			Your chances are as much life as you
		
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			have, but the life is not the life
		
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			of the body. The life is the life
		
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			of the heart.
		
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			So
		
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			not accepting the truth when it comes to
		
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			you, it's extremely dangerous act.
		
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			And rejecting it, even though you know it's
		
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			true or you have an inkling of its
		
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			truth inside of your heart is a very
		
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			harmful act. It's a suicide of the heart.
		
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			He says what? He says that
		
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			one who
		
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			opposes it out of stubbornness,
		
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			obstinacy,
		
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			obstinacy of 1,
		
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			and remains willful on false beliefs and polytheistic
		
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			practices,
		
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			then the ability of such people the ability
		
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			of such people to listen to the truth
		
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			and understand it is obliterated from them. It's
		
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			taken away from
		
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			them. They're they die spiritual death and they
		
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			die a death in the heart even though
		
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			the the the the physical heart and the
		
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			physical body may be still ticking. You may
		
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			be able to go to the hospital and
		
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			get your vitals taken and they'll they'll they're,
		
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			you know, they're they're not gonna sign your
		
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			death certificate yet. But spiritually, your death certificate
		
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			has been signed.
		
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			This is something very scary and this is
		
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			something a person should take
		
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			a take a lesson from in other people.
		
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			And, this is something that a person should
		
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			be very careful that they,
		
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			surround themselves with the haqq at all times.
		
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			That they hear the hak in their ears
		
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			and they look at the hak with their
		
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			eyes
		
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			and they, understand the hak in their hearts,
		
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			whether it's whether it makes them feel good
		
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			or it doesn't make them feel good. Why?
		
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			Because as long as you keep the channels
		
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			for the hop open to your heart, your
		
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			heart still has life in it. There's still
		
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			some chance that you can do good.
		
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			Whereas once it's blocked, once your eyes are
		
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			now watching,
		
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			you know, Instagram and YouTube videos and,
		
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			Netflix and all these things, but they're not
		
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			seeing the hawk anymore. And once your ears
		
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			are listening to whatever,
		
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			iTunes and,
		
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			Spotify and, you know, whatever nonsense Baqwas is
		
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			on the radio. Some people are like, well,
		
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			I listen to the news. Sometimes the news
		
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			is the worst thing to listen to. Sometimes
		
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			it's better just to listen to Britney Spears
		
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			or whatever than some of the garbage that
		
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			they put on the news.
		
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			You know,
		
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			if that's all you're listening to, that's all
		
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			you're hearing, and you're not hearing the hawk,
		
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			then,
		
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			then then that's a really scary a really
		
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			scary situation to be in.
		
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			The inspiration to embrace iman is taken away
		
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			from them. This is a condition known as,
		
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			al kahr al jabari,
		
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			or, the force of compulsion.
		
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			This is not jabr
		
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			in the in the in the sense of,
		
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			the predestination
		
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			which
		
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			completely absolves a person from the moral responsibility
		
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			of choice. Because Jabbar is when a person
		
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			is not even given the ability to understand
		
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			the truth,
		
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			and nor are they given the means to
		
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			recognize the truth.
		
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			Those means are not provided to that person.
		
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			So this is different than that. This is
		
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			what that you chose wrong enough times that
		
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			you killed your heart, and and then afterward
		
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			the
		
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			the lock is placed on it. The Quran
		
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			explains this concept in various ways.
		
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			Allah says in
		
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			his book
		
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			They have hearts with which they do not
		
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			understand. They have eyes with which they do
		
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			not see. They have ears with which do
		
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			they do not hear. They are like they
		
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			are like grazing animals.
		
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			Al Anam is what? Is goats, sheep, cattle,
		
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			and camels.
		
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			Animals that are herded and grazed, raised for
		
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			their meat or for some, you know, for
		
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			milk or or or, you know, just for
		
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			consumption essentially.
		
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			It says they are like grazing animals. In
		
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			fact, they are further astray.
		
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			They are the ones who are completely heedless.
		
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			So that's a that's a really powerful metaphor
		
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			that Quran uses that those are the animals
		
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			that are literally raised to be eaten,
		
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			but they still are obedient in in in
		
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			most of their in most of their daily
		
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			things, and they're attached to the one who's
		
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			gonna want to eat them.
		
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			And it is a a a epitome of
		
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			of stupidity. Why? Because the dean teaches us
		
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			that everything is well that ends well.
		
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			So, you know, somebody, no matter how nice
		
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			they are to you, if you know they're
		
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			gonna eat you, they're not your friend.
		
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			You understand what I'm saying?
		
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			If you know they're gonna eat you,
		
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			you know one day they'll take a knife
		
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			to your throat, cut you into pieces, and
		
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			then have a barbecue. But with you, Not
		
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			like as in share the barbecue with you,
		
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			but you are the barbecue. They're not your
		
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			friend.
		
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			So the one who still, has a bond
		
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			of obedience with someone like someone like that
		
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			is like the person who is,
		
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			subjected,
		
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			themselves and their existence to the ultimate stupidity.
		
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			This verse does not attribute this condition of
		
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			theirs to any cause.
		
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			However, the condition,
		
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			of,
		
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			is the force of compulsion is sometimes attributed
		
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			to false beliefs and polytheistic practices.
		
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			For example, Allah Ta'al says in his book,
		
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			nay, indeed,
		
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			rather, it is the rust,
		
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			that that that completely encapsulated their heart because
		
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			the the the sins that they earned with
		
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			their with their hands.
		
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			So a person keeps sinning and they keep
		
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			damaging their heart more and more until it
		
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			completely dies.
		
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			And then they're subject to this they're subject
		
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			to this
		
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			compulsion by Allah
		
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			that they they no longer
		
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			are are able to receive Hidayah anymore.
		
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			And legally, they're still required to become a
		
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			Muslim. They just destroyed the means spiritually for
		
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			for them to to do so.
		
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			Sometimes the condition is attributed to the polytheists
		
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			themselves.
		
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			They say our hearts are covered. They're completely
		
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			they're completely in hijab,
		
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			toward that which you call us.
		
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			And, our ears are blocked and there's a
		
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			veil between you and between us.
		
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			So do whatever you like and we're gonna
		
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			keep doing whatever we like.
		
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			Sometimes it is attributed to Allah most high
		
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			because he is the real doer and the
		
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			creator of man's actions.
		
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			Allah says in his book,
		
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			Allah has sealed,
		
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			cast a seal on their hearts and on
		
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			their on their hearing and on their,
		
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			sight is a veil
		
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			and for them is reserved a
		
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			a a a a a huge punishment.
		
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			Allah says in his book
		
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			says when you recite the Quran, we place
		
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			between you and those who don't believe in
		
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			the hereafter
		
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			a a a a a barrier which is
		
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			hidden.
		
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			And Allah says in his book,
		
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			He describes, the people who are in such
		
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			a condition that those are the ones who
		
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			Allah has placed a seal cast a seal
		
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			on their heart and on their hearing and
		
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			on their,
		
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			their their vision.
		
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			And this is what their spiritual their spiritual
		
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			faculties.
		
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			Those are the people that they they they
		
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			can see they can see even the prophet
		
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			themselves. They can see the masjid, they can
		
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			see every alama and sign of the haqq,
		
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			and it's not gonna affect them. Even though
		
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			they can see that you see 2020, they
		
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			don't need glasses, they don't need, contacts or
		
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			LASIK vision or any of this stuff. But
		
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			when they see the it just doesn't register
		
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			in their spiritual heart. When they hear the
		
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			haqq, it doesn't touch their heart anymore.
		
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			Those people are the hafilun. Those are the
		
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			ones who are heedless. They're the ones who
		
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			don't know what's going on.
		
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			Even if they, you know you know, know
		
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			the stock sign of every,
		
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			every stock in the, in the stock exchange.
		
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			And even if they know every the atomic
		
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			weight of every chemical in the periodic table,
		
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			and if they can name the entire pharmacology
		
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			of all the different medicines, and they get
		
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			all, you know, all of these things, whatever
		
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			it is you need to know in order
		
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			to know. They say it's a knowledge based
		
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			economy.
		
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			Well, the economy is destroying the earth and
		
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			it's poisoning the air and the water. I
		
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			think of it in some ways as a
		
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			jahold based economy. But anyway,
		
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			if nothing else, the fact that your economy
		
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			is based on the precept that there's only
		
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			$10 in the world and so I have
		
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			it and you don't. So I'll lend it
		
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			lend you $10 and then you have to
		
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			pay me back 11.
		
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			That is that possible?
		
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			It's not, you know, so that's that's our
		
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			quote unquote knowledge based economy. That's the type
		
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			of jahu that Allah will afflict people with.
		
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			And it causes wars, it cause people to
		
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			kill, each other and then eventually kill themselves
		
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			as well. That's the type of economy that
		
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			makes people voluntarily
		
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			destroy their own lineages.
		
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			So this this is the wafla that Allah
		
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			cast on the heart of somebody,
		
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			who who keeps,
		
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			running afoul of this,
		
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			running afoul of Allah Taal's guidance.
		
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			The reason for these different approaches is so
		
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			that the adress he may learn what is
		
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			intended by the seal of compulsion.
		
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			Why and where why and when it is
		
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			set and who sets the seal.
		
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			The first, second, and third,
		
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			each of these is in the sequence of
		
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			explaining what, why,
		
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			when, and who sets the seal.
		
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			Sometimes the Quran explains the nature of the
		
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			seal of compulsion,
		
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			but the reasons for it are not explained.
		
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			This is because
		
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			only a description of the condition is intended
		
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			as in the case of
		
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			Allah has set a seal on their hearts.
		
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			Sometimes the reasons are mentioned.
		
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			This is because they prefer the life of
		
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			this world over the hereafter,
		
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			and because Allah doesn't guide unbelieving people.
		
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			It is these
		
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			upon whose hearts, seal is cast and upon
		
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			whose eyes and ears, seal is cast.
		
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			Meaning what? What does it mean to prefer
		
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			this world over the hereafter?
		
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			This dunya is a place of hijab between
		
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			you and Allah
		
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			The creation in this in this life, the
		
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			creation is the proof that Allah exists because
		
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			nothing creates itself.
		
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			Everything that exists has to have a creator
		
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			to to to create it.
		
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			And so the idea is that that that
		
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			in this world, we only see the creation.
		
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			In the next world, we'll see the creator.
		
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			And the one who prefers this life over
		
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			the hereafter, what what is it? He said
		
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			they don't wanna meet Allah Ta'ala. That they
		
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			don't have love for Allah Ta'ala.
		
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			And so Allah
		
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			then says, if you love the dunya, if
		
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			you love things so much, here,
		
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			separate yourself from me and stay with those
		
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			things.
		
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			You get what you want. It's not really
		
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			something you can blame Allah for. And there
		
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			are some people, they really don't they really
		
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			don't care. You tell them about the Jannah,
		
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			and you tell them about Jazal al Amal
		
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			and things like that. And they they say
		
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			things it's really interesting in the Quran. Right?
		
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			Like Surat Surat Suratul Kahf yesterday, masha'Allah
		
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			Jum'ah, and it's also good to read it
		
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			anyway, otherwise, other than as well. So now
		
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			to read the the the the
		
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			of
		
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			every day also.
		
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			That that there's a story in there, the
		
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			story of the
		
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			etcetera.
		
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			That
		
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			that that one of the verses, you know,
		
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			that one one man is telling another wealthy
		
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			man,
		
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			and wealthy people are especially
		
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			subject to these things. And wealth here means
		
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			being free from need. And most poor people
		
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			in this country are also free from need.
		
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			There are poor in America for sure, but
		
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			many of them are not starving to death.
		
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			You know?
		
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			Some of them might be, but we're not
		
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			talking about those ones. We're talking about the
		
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			ones that whose basic needs are are fulfilled,
		
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			even if they live in the penthouse suite
		
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			or anything. But they have enough food to
		
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			eat, and they're, you know, the heater works
		
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			in the winter, and things like that. So,
		
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			And this is actually one of the few
		
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			places for the, people of tera'at,
		
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			that there's actually a difference in the in
		
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			the Rasama as well, that in wars it's
		
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			But at any rate, he says that this
		
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			guy is like, you know, he's his his
		
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			his friend who's not as wealthy as him
		
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			is telling him to, you know, fear Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And he's like, you know,
		
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			all this Allah
		
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			stuff. And then and then at the end
		
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			of, at the end of that rant, he
		
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			says what?
		
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			Anyway anyway, my my rabbi Allah is such
		
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			that, you know, even if it turns out
		
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			that this all this stuff is true, that
		
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			you're saying all this religious hocus pocus is
		
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			true,
		
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			Allah will forgive me anyway.
		
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			Right? Allah will forgive me. Right?
		
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			Anyway,
		
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			just for free, he's gonna forgive me. No,
		
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			it doesn't unfortunately it doesn't work that way.
		
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			And that story it's really interesting that Allah
		
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			mentioned that as well because the Quran is
		
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			very emphatic about about the forgiveness of Allah
		
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			But we mentioned this yesterday also that Allah
		
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			himself says in his book, he said,
		
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			that that that,
		
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			he that I myself am,
		
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			the zafar
		
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			for the one who makes toba and the
		
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			one who
		
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			works,
		
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			righteous deeds.
		
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			Right? That that was the the quote from,
		
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			Moana,
		
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			Muhammad,
		
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			who was again one of the
		
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			the the the great masha'ikh
		
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			of one of the great masha'ikh of the
		
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			tariqa in the subcontinent for the from the
		
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			last century. He's one of the of Moa
		
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			Hakim Akhtar Sab as well, and he was
		
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			a very well known a very well known
		
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			dignified
		
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			and and spiritual personage of
		
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			of the tariq. And he said that that
		
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			people people say that
		
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			being forgiveness
		
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			being forgiven is easy.
		
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			He says that Allah is all forgiving and
		
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			most merciful,
		
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			and he he said that I I I
		
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			say forgiveness is not so easy, rather it
		
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			requires repentance and iman and good deeds. Allah
		
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			said in this regard,
		
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			That I am the one you'll find, that
		
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			I'm the one who forgives again and again
		
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			and again. For who? For the one who
		
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			repents
		
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			and then who does good deeds,
		
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			and then,
		
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			takes the path of guidance. If you don't
		
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			do it, then this whole thing
		
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			Yeah. Anyway, if even if all your stuff
		
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			is true, you know,
		
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			that even then, you know, he's he's nice
		
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			he's nice. He'll forgive me anyway. It doesn't
		
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			really work that way. In fact, that's that
		
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			that sentiment of not putting any effort and
		
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			not putting any love in it and feeling
		
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			entitled afterward afterward to the forgiveness itself is
		
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			a sin that that many sins,
		
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			are nothing compared to that sin. That itself
		
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			is a a a great sin. And it
		
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			itself is,
		
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			you know, the talk of somebody who is
		
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			trying to earn the seal being cast onto
		
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			their heart. Allah be our protection.
		
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			So, the sheikh
		
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			explains he says, this can be explained through
		
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			an example.
		
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			A person is in the early stages of
		
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			suffering from
		
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			a terminal illness. A very professional and affectionate
		
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			doctor gives him medication for free,
		
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			and says to him,
		
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			take the medicine immediately
		
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			or your condition will become incurable.
		
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			The patient totally disregards the doctor's advice and
		
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			does not take the medicine.
		
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			Or later on when he's forced to take
		
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			it, he spits it out.
		
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			And his condition worsens to accept to the
		
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			point where the doctor informs him that it
		
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			is now incurable.
		
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			There's nothing but death. Obviously, it was no
		
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			fault of the doctor. If anyone was at
		
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			fault, it was none other than the patient
		
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			himself.
		
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			The disbelievers and polytheists are, on whose hearts
		
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			the seal of compulsion is set are are
		
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			just like this patient.
		
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			You know, Allah
		
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			warned that person. Allah gave them all the
		
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			means to to take Hidayah. Allah gave them
		
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			all the means to do what was right
		
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			and to benefit themselves, and they themselves rejected
		
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			it. This is a a really important
		
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			insight.
		
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			Why? Because a lot of people,
		
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			in America,
		
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			you know, Islam was new to them
		
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			not too long ago.
		
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			And this is both the both the,
		
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			both the the the those who are indigenous
		
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			and converts and people who were,
		
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			immigrants to the society.
		
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			The ones who were immigrants, they thought that
		
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			somehow,
		
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			they are going to be separate from separate
		
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			from society.
		
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			Why? Because back in our old countries, we
		
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			never heard of anybody leaving the din, or
		
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			it was exceedingly rare.
		
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			Back in our old countries, we never heard,
		
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			like, you know, it was very rare that
		
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			someone, you know, their
		
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			sons and daughters will openly commit or
		
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			their children will, you know, openly do a
		
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			certain bad acts. It was known to happen,
		
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			but at least there was some sort of,
		
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			like,
		
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			a a shame that people had about it.
		
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			The shamelessness with it, it it wasn't there.
		
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			And those who accepted Islam as well, the
		
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			the the the zeal and the fervor of
		
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			fervor of a new convert,
		
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			it's it's something it's something very real, but
		
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			it doesn't last forever.
		
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			And it doesn't last, you know,
		
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			through generations either.
		
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			So now those people,
		
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			became Muslims, for example, and now their grandchildren
		
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			are born as Muslims. But they're still gonna
		
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			go to school. They're still gonna go they're
		
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			still gonna go through everything else that everybody
		
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			else goes through.
		
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			And,
		
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			the idea is this is that
		
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			the kefia
		
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			the the the kefia or the
		
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			condition of gafla, heedlessness,
		
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			has taken such a grip of people because
		
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			unlike in a Muslim majority country
		
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			or unlike in,
		
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			in
		
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			times where Muslims had, like, political hegemony,
		
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			or even unlike in situations of extreme,
		
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			oppression.
		
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			Right now, life is so normal. The normalcy
		
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			of the life itself is is is something
		
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			that that that's harmful. Like, if you look
		
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			at immigrant populations. Right? There's certain immigrant populations.
		
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			Why? Because they look black or they look
		
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			white, their, they they they, their children will,
		
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			assimilate
		
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			very easily.
		
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			Whereas somebody who doesn't look like somebody who's
		
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			like a quote unquote indigenous
		
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			American, or,
		
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			I don't wanna say Native American because that
		
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			means something else, but somebody like black, white,
		
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			or just some, you know, well known or
		
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			accepted
		
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			racial designation, whether that designation has any haptikar
		
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			or not, that person, they'll always look different
		
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			because you stick out, you're not gonna be
		
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			accepted.
		
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			Beholden to your difference all the time.
		
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			Whereas, if you get caught up in your,
		
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			what you call, accepted into the society,
		
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			very quickly,
		
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			then,
		
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			what happens is that there's a great fitna
		
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			for a person for them to be heedless,
		
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			to just be like the Anam, like, the
		
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			whole rest of the pack of flock of
		
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			sheep is going in a certain direction.
		
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			And,
		
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			that direction is the direction of the slaughterhouse.
		
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			And you're like,
		
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			I know that I don't wanna get eaten,
		
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			but at the same time, look, everybody else
		
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			is doing it.
		
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			This is a this is a great danger.
		
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			People should know this. These are things that
		
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			happen. They should know this for their own
		
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			homes, for their own houses, for their own
		
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			children. Don't just send your kids to school.
		
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			Forget about regular school. Don't just send your
		
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			kids to Islamic school for that matter. And
		
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			think that these these these pressures are not
		
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			going to be on them. That they're going
		
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			to have to constantly actively
		
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			be trained how to
		
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			look for the Haqq, how to cast their
		
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			glance on the Haqq and away from the
		
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			batil again, away from the falsehood. How to
		
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			constantly listen, see where is the Haqq so
		
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			that they can constantly keep listening to it.
		
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			So that the ears don't rust and they
		
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			they they they don't lose the ability to
		
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			hear the anymore.
		
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			Because, you know, it's if a person is,
		
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			like, you know, like I said, as a
		
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			small kid, think about what it's like to
		
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			be a kid. People always boss you around,
		
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			order you around, push you around, bully you
		
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			around. You're accustomed to it as a kid.
		
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			Once you become, like, big, like, you know,
		
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			professional respectable type of person, then no one
		
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			can tell you what to do anymore. And
		
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			someone pushing you around like they used to
		
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			when you're a kid, even, like, a fraction
		
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			of that, you get really upset really quickly.
		
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			Right? The fact of the matter is that,
		
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			yes, you shouldn't let other people push you
		
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			around. But Allah is the one who, has
		
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			the heart that if he tells you to
		
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			do something, whether you like it or not,
		
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			your own
		
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			perception of your own self esteem is irrelevant
		
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			to,
		
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			how dangerous it is to not accept that
		
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			accept that order. A person has to keep
		
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			themselves connected to these things. Otherwise, this
		
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			this
		
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			is going to take hold inside of a
		
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			person's heart. Many people many people beyond I
		
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			I'll be honest. Many of the many of
		
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			the people who are on the quote, unquote
		
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			path of guidance and piety, it's just a
		
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			crisis of opportunity. If they had a upper
		
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			opportunity to fit in, they would have done
		
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			it and they would have been gone as
		
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			well. Right? So people like like me, like
		
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			you look brown looking dude, don't look black
		
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			and don't look white.
		
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			Okay? So I can be like, yeah, you
		
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			know, go white because if I put on
		
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			a suit people still look like me a
		
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			biggie. This guy looks like Pacqui anyway. You
		
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			know? Like, it's not gonna do anything for
		
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			me. Right? However, I've seen this in other
		
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			countries. They're like you go to South America.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			Colombia. Right? Every every every Colombian either looks
		
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			like he's Desi or he looks like he's
		
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			Arab. It's like 1 or 2 choices. I
		
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			see that. Our people come in their Khalats.
		
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			They're gone. They mix like sugar and water.
		
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			They they, have no trouble getting married. They
		
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			have no trouble getting a job. If they
		
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			can speak Spanish, just fine. You know, people
		
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			don't look at look at you like you're
		
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			different.
		
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			And, you know, speaking with the people in
		
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			the community down there, and the imams, and
		
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			things like that, they say this is a
		
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			fitna
		
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			that people come, they'll immigrate in order to
		
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			get a job or something like that, that,
		
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			you know, you'll see that person will be
		
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			coming to the masjid, and they'll be just
		
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			fine on their game. And then what happens,
		
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			Janab, they've,
		
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			you know, get married,
		
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			and,
		
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			which is fine. That's a wonderful thing. There's
		
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			nothing wrong with getting married, you know, but
		
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			they just mix into the into the family
		
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			and cost. It's, you know, they're they're gone
		
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			now. There there's no longer any,
		
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			any any struggle. Why? Because there's they feel
		
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			like there's no need to struggle anymore. The
		
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			entire flock is going to the slaughterhouse. Why
		
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			don't I just go with them?
		
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			Why don't I just go with them? This
		
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			is a fitna all of us are gonna
		
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			face over here. All of us are gonna
		
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			face over here. Even this entire, like, this
		
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			whole thing about Muslims, for example,
		
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			you know, making, quote unquote, alliances with,
		
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			you know,
		
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			extreme liberals or extreme conservatives for that matter.
		
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			What is it?
		
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			Right? You can cast your alliance with people
		
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			in ad hoc way. Meaning, like, on a
		
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			one issue thing. Like, you guys wanna
		
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			get, like, the ordinance to, like, ban payday
		
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			lenders in the state past, and we do
		
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			too. So that's our alliance. That's where it
		
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			starts. That's where it ends. If there's something
		
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			else that we wanna ally with, then we'll
		
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			ally on that one issue as well. That's
		
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			not only is there nothing wrong with that,
		
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			it's just smart politics. But this idea that
		
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			somehow our our lot is cast in with
		
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			these people together, and if we make friends
		
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			with them that we'll finally belong and we
		
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			won't be, you know not everyone's not gonna
		
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			look at us and be like, oh, look
		
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			terrorist, you know? Oh, look. It's it's it's
		
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			Osama who's, like, you know, up to his
		
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			jihad again or whatever and, you know, like,
		
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			we we wanna we're just regular Americans like
		
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			you and everybody else. Obviously, in some way,
		
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			we're not whoever says
		
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			forget about being regular Americans.
		
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			Was a member of. He was in the
		
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			middle of and he was thrown out because
		
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			of this.
		
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			There are people who are just not gonna
		
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			like it.
		
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			And the fact of the matter is you
		
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			have you have to choose. Is this what
		
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			you want or is it is something else
		
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			that you want? Until you can you can
		
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			push that
		
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			that that,
		
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			push that that
		
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			that heedlessness
		
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			that want to just,
		
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			you know, have everything just go
		
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			quote unquote normal or go easy in life.
		
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			And until you can push that out and
		
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			accept the fact that, I'm gonna have to
		
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			keep my eyes open. I'm gonna have to
		
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			keep my ears open. I'm gonna have to
		
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			keep my heart open to realities that may
		
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			be sometimes uncomfortable. Why?
		
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			Because that's what will keep my heart connected
		
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			with Allah and
		
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			keep it alive.
		
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			Then those those those channels are going
		
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			to erode and die. And once they die,
		
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			they cut off the lifeblood and the the
		
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			nur to the heart that needs to survive.
		
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			And then once the heart dies, then the
		
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			seal is cast, and a time may come
		
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			when a person hears every ayah in the
		
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			book of Allah, every hadith in the book
		
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			of, in every hadith of the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			they may see every convincing proof in the
		
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			in the in the in the in the
		
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			faces and the deeds of the oliya of
		
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			Allah
		
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			living and dead, and it's not gonna affect
		
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			them anymore.
		
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			And that's not,
		
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			something that you can blame Allah for because
		
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			he gave us every choice in our life.
		
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			So it's
		
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			from Allah that we have these Mubarak days
		
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			and nights that we can make mudakah out
		
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			of this when the grip of shaitan on
		
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			us is is let free, and the grip
		
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			of the nafs on us is at least
		
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			loosened. Allah give us
		
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			to live by his,
		
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			to live by his pleasure and die by
		
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			his pleasure and to live by his, love
		
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			and to die with his love
		
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			in this world and the hereafter, and to
		
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			forgive one another even though it's difficult.