Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 26 Ramadn 1442 Late Night Majlis Rm and the Sickness Which is Better Than the Cure

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The Hospital of the Bay describes the influence of love on people's health, behavior, and health. The concept of love is a source of pride and pride in one's life, and it is a war of pride and loss. People are trying to discount from every side until the "ma'am" feeling is discounted heavily. The experience of love is purer than water, and it is a war of pride and loss. Love is a spiritual passion, and it can be rewarded with a share of it. Love is a true love, and it is the heritage of the father Adam while the artist gives the reward.

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			Here in the, Ummah Center in Columbia Station,
		
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			Ohio.
		
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			We continue our, late night majlis on this
		
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			Mubarak
		
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			26th night of Ramadan.
		
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			Allah
		
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			write us all from the and from those
		
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			whose necks are men emitted from the
		
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			prison of the hellfire, Amin.
		
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			So we continue,
		
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			reading
		
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			of
		
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			the saviors of the Islamic Spirit,
		
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			with regards to Mulan Jalaluddin
		
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			Rumi
		
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			under the
		
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			subheading,
		
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			the love of God.
		
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			The impetus received by the movement of rationalism
		
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			and scholasticism in the 7th century of the
		
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			Muslim era had cooled the yearnings of the
		
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			human soul for the
		
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			apprehension of the divine.
		
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			From one end of the Islamic world to
		
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			another, leaving a few illuminated souls here and
		
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			there. Nobody seemed to have any taste for
		
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			divine manifestation and illumination of the heart.
		
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			It was as if an apathy or coolness
		
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			had overtaken
		
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			the hearts of people. It was a situation
		
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			expressed by Iqbal in the following verse.
		
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			The fire of love has cooled down. What
		
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			a calamity it is. The Musalman is naught
		
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			but a heap of ashes.
		
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			What's ashes? It's the wood, but the heat
		
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			is already gone.
		
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			It was at this critical stage that Rumi
		
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			sounded the note of alarm and exhorted the
		
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			people to be take the path of love.
		
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			His call fired frenzy of love once again,
		
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			and the entire world of Islam,
		
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			answered.
		
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			Rumi explained what he meant by love and
		
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			to what sublime eminence it could raise people.
		
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			He says
		
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			it's a quote from the Masnavi
		
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			By love, bitter things become sweet. By love,
		
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			pieces of copper turned to gold.
		
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			Who who's the copper?
		
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			It's you and me.
		
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			Who's the gold? Insha'Allah, it's you and me
		
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			as well.
		
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			Who's the bitter one? It's you and me.
		
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			But who's the the sweet afterward? InshaAllah, by
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, it's you and me
		
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			as well. He says, By love, bitter things
		
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			become sweet.
		
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			By love, pieces of copper turn into gold.
		
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			By love, dregs become clear.
		
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			By love, pains become healing. You know what
		
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			dregs are?
		
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			Drag? Dreg,
		
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			d r e g.
		
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			It's like it's like the like, if you
		
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			have, like, like, it's in wine, like, the
		
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			rot
		
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			of the wine is the dregs.
		
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			Like, you have some rotten grape juice that's,
		
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			like, actually just moldy grape part that got
		
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			caught in it and that didn't get filtered
		
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			out. So the person who's drinking the wine,
		
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			they throw the they throw the drags out.
		
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			And you could have it like an orange
		
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			juice or whatever if you see, like, it's
		
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			gone bad, the part, the gross part that
		
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			floats, you know. So this is by love,
		
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			dregs become clear, meaning it returns to the
		
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			non disgusting state.
		
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			By love, pain becomes healing.
		
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			By love, prisons become a garden, and without
		
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			love,
		
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			gardens
		
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			become desolate.
		
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			By love, prisons become a garden, and without
		
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			love, gardens become desolate.
		
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			By love, illness contributes to health.
		
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			Illness contributes to health,
		
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			and the scourge becomes a blessing.
		
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			By love, the dead is made living, and
		
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			by love, the king is made a slave.
		
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			You saw that, right?
		
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			The
		
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			whatever. Queen Elizabeth's grandson, fell in love, and
		
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			now he's like he abandoned the whole palace
		
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			and he's gone. He's like in LA or
		
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			whatever. I don't you know what I mean?
		
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			Like,
		
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			it does strange things. So if you're gonna
		
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			fall in love with someone, that's fine. I'm
		
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			sure that his wife is a lovely woman.
		
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			I'm not trying to say anything bad about
		
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			her, but you fall in love with someone
		
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			worthy of your love, and maybe you might
		
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			end up somewhere nicer than LA.
		
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			Rumi describes the vigor of love and its
		
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			virtue in these words.
		
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			Through love, the earthly abode soared to the
		
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			skies. The mountain began to dance and become
		
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			nimble.
		
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			Love inspired Mount Sinai, o lover, so that
		
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			Sinai was made drunken and, Moses fell in
		
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			a swoon.
		
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			And this is a passage that describes what?
		
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			This is this is this is a a
		
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			passage of the Quran that he's describing.
		
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			That it was it was what the the
		
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			tajalli of Subhanahu wa ta'ala you know, in
		
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			that mountain it completely rent the mountain ascender
		
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			and say the Musa alayhis salam,
		
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			he he he fell he fell in a
		
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			swoon. What is that? If it's not if
		
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			it's not Mahaba. So he's saying that that's
		
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			what it is that the intensity of connection
		
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			that,
		
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			Sayyidina Musa had with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			And this is a very special something that
		
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			people should think about. You go for Hajj,
		
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			you see the Jabal Noor.
		
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			Right? This is a place that has no
		
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			less value or no less importance in the
		
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			history of humanity than
		
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			the Jabal Tur, that the
		
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			Wahi came down and say the Musa alaihis
		
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			salam. That Rasulullah
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he didn't
		
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			know
		
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			how many juz the Quran is gonna have.
		
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			Which month of the year he's gonna be
		
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			fasting.
		
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			Or
		
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			what the arkan
		
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			and sunnahs of Hajj are?
		
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			Or how much what percentage zakat is going
		
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			be. But there was something that called him
		
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			to it.
		
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			And by the barakah of that thing,
		
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			what what he would go literally, go 6
		
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			for 6 months, he would go and just
		
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			just he wanted to be alone with Allah
		
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			and nobody else.
		
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			And that's that's what he's saying by love.
		
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			That's what love is. Love is thing that
		
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			makes a person draws a person to something
		
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			that other people will think that they're
		
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			crazy. And,
		
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			but, you know, to them, it makes more
		
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			sense than, what sense is of other
		
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			people. He says through love, the earthly body
		
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			soared to the skies.
		
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			And the mountain began
		
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			to dance and became nimble.
		
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			Love inspired Mount Sinai, O lover, so that
		
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			Sinai was made drunken and Moses fell in
		
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			a swoon, alayhi salam.
		
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			Moana Abu Hassan Ali Naddui continues. He says,
		
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			love is so dignified and high souled that
		
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			it cares nothing for empires.
		
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			One who
		
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			has once drunk at the spring of love
		
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			looks at this looks with disdain at all
		
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			worldly possessions.
		
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			Iqbal has expressed the same idea in the
		
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			couplet in which he says,
		
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			listless, it turns the heart from heaven and
		
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			earth. How should I describe
		
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			what the flavor of love is like?
		
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			The lover hardly cares for anything. He is
		
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			mad after the supreme beauty.
		
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			Rumi says, love turns heedless of the worlds,
		
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			this or that.
		
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			A thousand madnesses it imbibes in the lover's
		
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			heart.
		
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			The lover becomes a king of kings and
		
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			the object of true love. He tramples underfoot
		
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			the crown and scepter of authority.
		
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			Overt and latent quote,
		
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			to the empires
		
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			his wonders are,
		
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			for those who rule the heart aspire for
		
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			him. He treads a path different from others.
		
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			Even the throne of the king is under
		
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			his foot.
		
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			This is a quote from the Masnawi.
		
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			Speaking of love,
		
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			arrogant and stately,
		
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			Rumi himself becomes enchanted by tremendous spiritual enthusiasm,
		
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			and he says,
		
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			worldly dominion is lawful only to those who
		
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			indulge the body. We lovers are devoted to
		
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			the everlasting kingdom of love. Meaning what? If
		
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			a person has the love of Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala, he doesn't care anymore for these
		
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			things.
		
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			Really Rasool Allah SallAllahu Wa Salam didn't care.
		
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			Sayyid Abu Bakr Siddiq Radhiallahu Anhu, Sayyidna
		
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			The companions, the Khulafa Rashidun, they're like In
		
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			some ways we would think they're like Majzub
		
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			people. Why?
		
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			Said Abu Bakr Siddiq
		
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			he like, they had to convince him even
		
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			to take
		
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			a stipend for
		
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			his work.
		
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			Sayyidina Umar alayhi wa ta'ala Anhu used to
		
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			take Paylullah, he used to take his daily
		
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			nap in the masjid.
		
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			The other people had enough adab to know
		
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			that if someone comes from outside and they
		
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			say, I wanna talk to Umar, I'd like
		
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			to stop them from waking him up because
		
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			if he doesn't rest it's gonna like harm
		
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			his health. Otherwise, he himself didn't care for
		
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			any of those things.
		
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			Anyone else who does something like that or
		
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			who rules in a way like that, it's
		
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			not gonna work, it's gonna fall apart.
		
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			But this is this is like the,
		
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			the state that this Mahaba of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala put in them. They really didn't
		
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			care.
		
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			They really didn't care. Sayyidna,
		
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			Abu Huraira
		
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			they complained that he was sent to be
		
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			the governor of Bahrain. The people complain that
		
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			all he does
		
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			is he prays the Hajjud all night and
		
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			fast all day, and like he's bent over
		
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			of hunger all of the time. It's hard
		
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			to even like get anything done with him.
		
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			Said, Nama
		
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			Ralli literally called him back and said, you
		
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			know what? Keep teaching hadith. This, you know,
		
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			ruling is not for you. It's not your
		
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			gig.
		
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			Why? Because they didn't care anymore.
		
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			And it doesn't mean that they weren't effective
		
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			rulers. Saeedullah alayhiallahu was a very effective administrator.
		
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			Saeedullah
		
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			alayhiallahu was actually a very effective ruler and
		
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			Islam expanded in his reign in a way
		
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			that it didn't expand in other people's reign.
		
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			They're very sagacious people. They're very wise people.
		
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			The decisions they made,
		
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			it seems like the Ummah, basically, after their
		
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			rule ended, the Ummah has just been coasting
		
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			ever since then. The sacrifices that they made
		
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			and things that they put in place, everything
		
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			that's right with Islam that works, it was
		
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			from their era.
		
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			And so what is, you know, what what
		
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			does it mean? It doesn't mean that if
		
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			you're like in love, you know, that if
		
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			you have love in your heart, you don't
		
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			eat or drink anymore. It's just you don't
		
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			care about these things anymore. They no longer
		
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			capture your, attention. This is one of the
		
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			reasons, you know, especially in the in the,
		
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			in the Persianate or in the Ajami cultures
		
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			of the east,
		
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			these types of works are given a lot
		
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			of importance. Why? Because the people don't have
		
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			a connection with the Quran.
		
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			And so these are simple
		
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			ideas that are put forth simply in order
		
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			to describe the of the companions
		
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			of the of the mashayikh,
		
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			in order to revive that that kind of
		
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			fascination that people used to have with the
		
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			love of Allah Ta'ala. That this is my
		
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			rub and I'm going to make him happy,
		
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			and like to * with the rest of
		
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			the world. What is it gonna do if
		
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			Allah ta'ala is with me? What else what
		
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			else is it what is it is it
		
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			gonna do? And it's there in the hadith
		
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			of the prophet
		
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			Quran All of them, you know, if they
		
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			all got together the instant, the jinn, the
		
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			first of the the creation and the last
		
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			of them, in order to benefit you with
		
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			something that Allah Ta'ala wrote that you're not
		
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			gonna benefit from it, then, it's not gonna
		
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			benefit you. And if they all got together
		
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			in order to harm you with something Allah
		
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			Ta'ala wrote that it's not gonna harm you.
		
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			It's not gonna harm you. This is the
		
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			deen of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			The sad part is now what happens is
		
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			that the Arabs are no longer Arabs anymore.
		
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			They need no longer they no longer have
		
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			connection with
		
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			the language either.
		
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			It's just an identity now.
		
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			It's just a flag.
		
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			It's just an identity. In the old days,
		
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			if an Arab was a,
		
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			a profligate, if he's a fasihq, what would
		
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			he do?
		
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			Get drunk
		
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			and listen to hamriyat, listen to poets like
		
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			say wine poetry, there's a fasihah in it.
		
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			At least if you can understand that poetry,
		
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			you'll understand the Quran.
		
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			It's not good.
		
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			It's definitely a bad thing. It's not something
		
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			I recommend. The American Liver Association definitely doesn't
		
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			recommend it either
		
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			but, nor do the nor do the fuqaha,
		
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			you know, give fatwa in its in its,
		
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			permissibility.
		
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			But at least that's one thing is that
		
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			you would be able to understand. They would
		
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			be those people would be able to understand
		
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			when they heard the Quran it would affect
		
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			them.
		
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			But,
		
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			unfortunately, sadly now that's gone as well, that
		
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			ability to access that,
		
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			that message of of of of a type
		
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			of love that like,
		
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			you know,
		
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			help me out.
		
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			Right? That,
		
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			the queen
		
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			built peace of Saba, she she said that
		
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			like, we don't want this army to come
		
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			here because this is kings their habit is
		
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			when they enter into
		
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			a country,
		
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			they completely turn it upside down,
		
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			and they make the most noble and most
		
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			honored people in that country, they humiliate them
		
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			the most.
		
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			Why? Because they are trying to show there's
		
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			a new system in town. So the governors
		
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			and the judges and the people who are
		
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			prominent people, they humiliate them the most And
		
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			they let the like riffraff go. They don't
		
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			mess with them.
		
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			And so it's it's interesting that you know
		
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			the masha'i from the who made tafsir of
		
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			this ayat. They said that they said that
		
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			Allah ta'ala one of his one of his
		
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			attributes is what? That Allah ta'ala is Al
		
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			Malik. Allah ta'ala is the king. Allah is
		
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			the king of kings. Allah is the
		
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			That when Allah love enters into a heart,
		
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			that's exactly what it does. It completely turns
		
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			it upside down. Completely turns it upside down
		
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			to the point where those things that a
		
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			normal heart would find
		
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			so important.
		
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			Those are the things that because of the
		
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			love of Allah ta'ala,
		
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			the heart of the lover now
		
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			takes a special joy
		
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			in
		
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			disrespecting them.
		
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			What is it that everybody loves so much?
		
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			Right? Money, property,
		
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			power.
		
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			Right? The masha'i, they
		
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			used to take a special enjoyment, a special
		
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			pleasure in showing Allah that these things mean
		
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			nothing to me. These things mean nothing to
		
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			me.
		
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			And so the thing is look, this is
		
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			a Maqam not everybody is going to
		
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			make it to this station
		
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			and not everyone's there. And for most people,
		
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			there are some exceptions, but for most people
		
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			the one who aspires to it, it takes
		
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			a very long
		
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			life filled with hard work in order to
		
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			attain it.
		
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			However, just the love of this nakam and
		
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			the celebration of it, the idea that this
		
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			is a good thing, this is a sign
		
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			of kherin people.
		
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			Because the wilayah of the awliya, the sainthood
		
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			of the saints,
		
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			itself
		
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			is a very lofty and high position with
		
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			Allah.
		
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			To bear witness to it is itself
		
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			a type of hulia as well.
		
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			Imagine the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam who he
		
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			was.
		
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			No one else is going to be him.
		
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			Right?
		
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			The companions were the Allahu and whom were
		
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			the companions what? Because they saw him and
		
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			they said, this is we bear witness that
		
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			you're the messenger of Allah.
		
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			That's itself a station.
		
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			And so this is a this is kinda
		
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			like like money on the table, like you
		
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			don't put in business terms, we're leaving money
		
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			on the table here. That if you're not
		
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			gonna be like that, you're like, Sheikh, I
		
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			kinda do like money and it's nice to
		
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			be in a nice house and this and
		
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			that. It's okay. I I I love money
		
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			too, masha'Allah. I love all sorts of dunya
		
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			things. Trust me. Right? But the thing is
		
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			this is at least to say like these
		
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			people, this is the one who really loves
		
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			Allah.
		
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			But what is it nowadays that we do?
		
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			No, you know, Shaykh, this is extreme. This
		
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			is this. This is that. This is extreme.
		
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			This is a dream. This is,
		
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			you know, cream. I don't know, like, this
		
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			is maybe they, you know, we should like,
		
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			you know, don't you guys pray too much
		
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			in the masjid, and you should pray less,
		
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			and you should read less Quran, and you
		
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			should have less rakas, and you should have,
		
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			you know, and, you know, we should cancel
		
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			Jum'ah just for for another year, just for
		
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			fun. Like, the danger is gone. When when
		
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			there's danger, even I say, okay, go ahead.
		
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			Cancel Jum'ah. I don't want people to die,
		
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			you know? But like, when the danger is
		
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			gone, let's cancel this and cancel that and,
		
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			you know, it's haram. I don't say everything
		
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			is haram. It's all halal. It's okay. People
		
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			are trying to discount from every side,
		
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			from every side until the deen itself become
		
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			discount so heavily discounted it just becomes cheap.
		
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			Where's the love then?
		
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			Where's the love that's left, right? You go
		
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			home and your wife, you know, or, you
		
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			know, your husband for the sisters, right, ask
		
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			what's the proof that you love me?
		
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			What are you gonna say? You'll be like,
		
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			you remember that one time like I did
		
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			something that I didn't wanna do, I only
		
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			did it because I Love you. Love you.
		
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			Right? You're not gonna be able to be
		
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			like, oh, you remember we went to that
		
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			dinner to the one restaurant that I like
		
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			and we ordered the thing that I like
		
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			and you paid for it? Is that a
		
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			proof of love?
		
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			No dude, that's bogus like
		
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			she's gonna start reevaluating
		
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			the foundation of this relationship, right?
		
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			And then look on the flip side, when
		
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			you go on Hajj, what do you do?
		
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			You throw
		
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			rocks
		
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			at
		
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			the
		
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			at the at the jamarat.
		
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			The Rasulullah says when you throw a rock
		
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			at the Jamarat for every rock that's thrown,
		
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			for every stone that's cast,
		
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			One sin is forgiven
		
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			that is such a sin that if Allah
		
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			were to take you to account fully for
		
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			that sin you would have gone to the
		
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			* fire. Such a sin is forgiven.
		
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			But like think about it like a like
		
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			think about it like not from fiqh and
		
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			not from theology, think about it from like
		
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			very human point of view. Right?
		
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			Imagine there's like a young couple, right? And
		
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			the young lady catches her Romeo like
		
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			looking as another
		
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			young lady walks by. She's like, what were
		
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			you looking at? What is he gonna say?
		
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			He's like, no no, she's nothing. She's that
		
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			oh, no, not her.
		
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			Her hair is disgusting or she's like this.
		
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			I would never she's nothing compared to you.
		
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			Right?
		
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			What is it? It's a very human thing.
		
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			It's a very human thing. If the fiqh
		
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			is there and if all the other things
		
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			are there but the love is gone, where's
		
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			the where's the where's the benefit? Otherwise, there
		
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			are many people who walk by and they
		
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			just
		
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			they're just hucking rocks at a thing. Otherwise,
		
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			it's like, what's the point of it? If
		
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			Allah doesn't accept it, what's the point? That
		
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			they're hucking rocks at the at the thing
		
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			but the love isn't there.
		
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			That they don't and you see on the
		
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			flip side there are some people, mashallah, very
		
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			simple villagers they go on Hajj
		
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			and they go like overboard
		
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			when when they, you know, when they go
		
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			like,
		
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			and they're like as if they're like, you
		
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			know, like fire a rocket at
		
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			a at a tank or something, or like,
		
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			you know, in the old days, the the
		
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			the
		
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			yeah, man. You know, they're they're they're cussing,
		
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			some people start cussing at the thing like
		
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			using foul language and things. It's like not
		
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			in shaitan, it's just like a stone pillar,
		
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			like it's a stone wall, you know. It's
		
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			not actually shaitan.
		
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			And like or in the old days they
		
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			used to have the pillar, it was actually
		
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			a pillar, now it's like a wall, right?
		
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			It's actually it used to be a pillar,
		
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			people would get on it and start beating
		
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			you with their and, like, with their ship
		
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			ship, they start beating it and, like
		
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			and okay, the fiqh is wrong. If you
		
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			ask the Mufti, is this good? No, you
		
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			can't do that, I'm like, what are you
		
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			doing? Get that person off of there. Right?
		
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			The mazub, mazkeen, like, lost their mind. But
		
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			at least the heart's in the right place.
		
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			At least
		
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			the heart is in the right place. And
		
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			if their heart is in the right place,
		
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			who knows maybe that you know like kinda
		
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			like bogus like Hajj or bogus jama'at that
		
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			they did, maybe Allah loved it and forgave
		
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			them anyway,
		
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			you know. Again, this is like don't do
		
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			this at home. If you guys if you
		
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			and me do it, we're gonna be faking
		
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			because we saw someone else. But I'm just
		
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			saying that those are genuine feelings that people
		
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			have. If you can combine that knowledge of
		
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			fiqh with this genuine feeling, that's where the
		
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			barakah is. That's the word of Rasool sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wasallam came with. That's what he taught.
		
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			That's the khulafa rashidur. You combine the knowledge
		
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			with this genuine feeling and that's that's,
		
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			where it's supposed to take you.
		
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			So
		
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			he continues.
		
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			He says love is so dignified in a
		
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			high soul that it carries nothing for
		
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			empires.
		
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			One who has once drunk at the spring
		
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			of love looks with disdain at all worldly
		
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			possessions.
		
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			He says that,
		
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			this is the
		
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			this is Rumi says, love turns the heedless
		
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			of the worlds love turns 1 heedless of
		
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			the worlds this or that. A A thousand
		
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			madnesses it imbibes in the lover's heart. The
		
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			lover becomes a king of kings and an
		
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			object of true love. He tramples underfoot the
		
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			crowns and scepters of authority.
		
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			Speaking of love,
		
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			arrogant and stately, which is a very strange
		
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			thing. He could describe Milan as arrogant in
		
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			a sense but like meaning what indignant I
		
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			think maybe a better word to use.
		
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			Rumi himself becomes enchanted by a tremendous spiritual
		
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			enthusiasm.
		
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			Says worldly dominion is lawful only to those
		
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			who indulge the body. We lovers are devoted
		
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			to an everlasting kingdom of love.
		
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			It says lover love is the only sickness,
		
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			the only malady welcomed by its sufferer who
		
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			never desires to recover from it. The lover
		
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			really desires a continuous increase in his affliction.
		
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			Quote, all the sick hope to be cured,
		
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			but this sick one sobs, crying, increase my
		
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			sickness.
		
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			I have found no drink sweeter than this
		
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			poison and no state of health that can
		
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			be sweeter than this disease.
		
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			After the illness of love, no other sickness
		
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			can overtake the lover. Quote,
		
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			the words spoken by him deliver you from
		
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			the words of idle disputation,
		
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			and the sickness of love inspired by him
		
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			lets you escape from
		
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			the sickness of this world.
		
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			If love is a sickness, it is a
		
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			1,000,
		
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			worth a 1,000 healths.
		
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			It pains and pinches
		
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			but still it is sweeter than a 1,000
		
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			pleasures.
		
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			Therefore the sickness of love
		
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			is the very soul of health. Its pains
		
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			are the envy of every pleasure.
		
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			Rumi
		
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			says that love essentially is a spiritual passion.
		
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			If,
		
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			it is to be regarded by regarded as
		
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			a sin, virtue can be rightly be sacrificed
		
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			as at its altar.
		
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			In so far as it serves to purify
		
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			the soul, it helps to ascend to divine
		
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			favor in a moment, that years of penance
		
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			and prayer may be unable to attain.
		
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			What does that mean? Like is this just
		
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			something you know like some goofy sufi stuff
		
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			that they made up?
		
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			Rasulullah
		
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			literally
		
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			a bedoon walked into the masjid in madinah
		
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			of Munawara and asked
		
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			That a Bedouin walked into the masjid, saw
		
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			the companions
		
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			and says, what do you say about a
		
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			man who loves a people but is unable
		
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			to be as good as they are?
		
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			And what did Rasulullah
		
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			say? He says,
		
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			a person will be with the one that
		
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			they love.
		
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			So what does What is that? What is
		
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			that? So Rumi says that love essentially is
		
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			a spiritual passion even if it is to
		
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			be regarded
		
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			as a sin, virtue can be rightly sacrificed
		
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			at its altar. In so far as it
		
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			serves to purify the soul and helps to
		
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			ascend to divine favor in a moment.
		
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			In a moment,
		
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			that which years of penance and prayer may
		
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			be unable to attain.
		
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			That a person through the love of their
		
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			companions radhiyallahu ta'ala anhu.
		
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			If he was just to sit in the
		
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			desert himself and just
		
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			do his Istighfar and his salat,
		
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			that love would never have had a place
		
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			to enter into his heart.
		
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			But he came in and saw how much
		
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			better these people are than he is
		
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			and instead of being a hater because what
		
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			happens people are like haters, you know. They're
		
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			like, oh, you know,
		
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			a Pakistani, you know, what does he know
		
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			or whatever. Like what does, you know,
		
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			this okay. Fine. Like maybe that's fine. What
		
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			do I know? But you see somebody else
		
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			doing good or you see somebody else in
		
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			a good position and you like, you become
		
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			jealous or hate or resent them for it.
		
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			Instead of that, if you
		
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			love them for it, what's the recompense? Is
		
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			that even if they have a state that
		
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			you would have never been able to achieve
		
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			through the barakah of love, what will happen?
		
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			You'll get
		
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			you'll connect with them somehow.
		
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			You won't literally become them but somehow you'll
		
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			connect with them. Whatever they're getting from that,
		
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			you'll also get a share of it. Allah
		
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			will write for you some portion of
		
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			what they have.
		
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			No act of piety can be better than
		
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			this sin.
		
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			This is obviously, this is the metaphor of
		
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			of of literary people, right? When you write
		
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			poetry and things like that, it's not written
		
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			like a law book. It's not really a
		
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			sin. But he's saying that if somebody wants
		
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			to be a hater and say, oh, you
		
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			guys are all just goofballs.
		
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			Say, no act of piety can be better
		
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			than this quote unquote sin. Years in comparison
		
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			with this moment are
		
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			are are nothing.
		
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			They're just like a short period of time.
		
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			Meaning what? Years of hard work,
		
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			there's a lot of barakah in them. But
		
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			one moment of love will transport the heart
		
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			from one place to another in a way
		
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			that the years of work can't do.
		
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			And, you know, we should do both. It's
		
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			a sunnah to do both.
		
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			Sunnah to do both. You can't just you
		
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			can't just abandon, you know, one or the
		
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			other.
		
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			In fact, the person who says, oh yeah,
		
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			I'm just gonna do love and I'm gonna
		
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			abandon the years of work, then you have
		
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			to wonder, is this really love or not?
		
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			Because that's not how lovers talk.
		
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			But if you're gonna do the work anyway,
		
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			you're gonna put in the hard work anyway
		
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			and you know that this is a bonus
		
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			that comes with it.
		
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			Which is that if you look with the
		
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			eye of love, and if you feel with
		
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			the heart of love, something that you somebody,
		
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			you know, like they pass salat and they're
		
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			like, how wonderful is this salat? How wonderful
		
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			is this Quran that's being recited?
		
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			How high and noble is its kalam, and
		
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			how beautiful is the things that it commands
		
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			to, you know. Just that one moment of
		
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			of the light of Mahaba inside of a
		
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			person's heart,
		
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			you know, that will
		
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			that will take all of those hours of,
		
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			you know, listening and standing in Tarawi and
		
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			driving for miles, it'll take that and it'll
		
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			just
		
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			launch it into the into the stratosphere.
		
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			The blood of a martyr,
		
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			of love is purer than water. For the
		
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			martyr does not need a purifying bath and
		
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			ablution.
		
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			It's a that we don't give a whistle
		
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			to the we
		
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			to the shayid.
		
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			For martyrs,
		
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			blood is better than water. This fault committed
		
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			by him is better than a 100 right
		
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			actions of another.
		
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			Why? Imagine a person, a normal person when
		
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			they die, you give whistle to the body,
		
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			whereas the shahid,
		
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			the the blood and the wounds are left
		
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			the way they are.
		
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			And the hadith of the prophet salallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam is what?
		
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			That the person that shahid will be called
		
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			on the day of judgment and their wounds
		
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			will bleed,
		
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			crimson like the blood in this world.
		
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			But it won't be it won't be blood,
		
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			it won't be najis rather, it will be
		
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			more fragrant than misk. It will be like
		
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			a sign of honor on that day.
		
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			So which person is going to want to
		
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			be shayid? Nobody wants to die.
		
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			Someone said hey, sheikh, you know, you wanna
		
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			get a paper cut? I don't even wanna
		
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			get a paper cut.
		
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			It's horrible, sucks. You know what I mean?
		
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			I don't I don't still to this day,
		
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			I have all these doctors, you're still to
		
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			this day, I despise getting vaccinations.
		
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			This is not anti vaxxer. I'm just saying
		
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			general. Right? Whatever vaccination it might be. Because
		
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			it hurts, not because it's not efficacious or
		
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			whatever. Right?
		
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			But then you see what
		
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			the maqam that the shahid has with Allah
		
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			and there are generations of people who
		
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			desired that shahada.
		
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			The only thing that can make that happen
		
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			inside your heart is what?
		
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			It's this love.
		
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			This love that we don't talk about anymore.
		
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			It's this love of Allah that makes people
		
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			desire these things. The hadith of the prophet
		
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			that whoever desires and ask Allah Ta'ala with
		
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			with sincerity.
		
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			That you should take me as a shahid.
		
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			That you should take my life for your
		
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			sake. That I should be a martyr in
		
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			your path. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will write
		
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			for for that person
		
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			the reward of a shahid even if he
		
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			dies in old age on his bed.
		
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			What is the good deed being done there?
		
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			It's not shahada, it's not actual martyrdom.
		
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			It's what? It's the love.
		
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			That's what Allah loves and that's what he
		
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			accepts. Otherwise if a shayid, someone goes out
		
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			to show off how tough they are or
		
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			whatever, just because their friends are going, they
		
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			don't think about it, and they die, And
		
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			of course that that person's Maqam will not
		
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			be like the Maqam or the person who
		
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			knew what he was sacrificing
		
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			but wanted to sacrifice it for the sake
		
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			of Allah because of the love of Allah
		
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			ta'ala.
		
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			The distraught lover of God is not liable
		
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			to follow the laws and ordinances promulgated for
		
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			ordinary folk.
		
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			How can tithe be levied on a village
		
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			already devastated?
		
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			So how can you how can you tax
		
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			a village when it's already been burned down?
		
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			Says, To lovers, there is a burning which
		
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			consumes them in every moment.
		
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			Tax and tithe are not imposed on a
		
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			ruined village.
		
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			Love is the heritage of our father Adam
		
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			while Satan bequeathed artfulness and cunningness.
		
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			Quote.
		
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			He that is blessed and familiar with spiritual
		
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			mysteries
		
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			knows that the intelligence,
		
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			what the intelligence of Iblis is and knows
		
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			what the love of Adam is.
		
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			The cunning and artful depends on his wits
		
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			and craftiness while the lover seeks asylum from
		
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			his friend and entrusts himself to his care.
		
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			Cunningness and artfulness are like swimming in a
		
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			deluge while love is like
		
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			the ark. Right? Cunningness and artfulness is like
		
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			learning to swim when the flood comes. Whereas
		
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			love is like the ark which is gonna
		
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			be the thing that saves you. You're not
		
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			gonna have you swim the entire across the
		
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			from someone drops you in the middle of
		
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			the ocean, you're gonna swim across us. It's
		
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			not gonna work. You need something else. You
		
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			need something else to take you across.
		
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			And has anyone seen the crafty and the
		
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			cunning coming off safely from the great deluge?
		
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			Or has anyone seen Sadanu alayhi salam's ark
		
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			submerging unit?
		
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			Intelligence is like swimming in the seas. He
		
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			the swimmer is not saved. He is drowned
		
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			at the end of his business.
		
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			Love is as a ship for the elect.
		
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			Seldom is calamity the result.
		
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			For the most part, it is deliverance.
		
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			Allah
		
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			make us from the people of Mahaba. Allah
		
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			give
		
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			us true Mahaba.
		
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			Allah give us true knowledge. Allah give us
		
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			true Mahaba for Allah and for his deen
		
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			and for his rasul
		
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			and for the his sunnah of his rasul,
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Allah make us from
		
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			those who love to sacrifice for his sake,
		
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			and who are enchanted, and whose
		
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			attention, and whose
		
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			imagination is captured,
		
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			by the one thought, that my rub should
		
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			be happy with me, that he should be
		
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			pleased with me, and that the best day
		
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			of my existence should be the day that
		
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			I return to him. May Allah make it
		
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			so.