Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah at ISNA HQ Ramadn Giving 06242016.mp4

Hamzah Wald Maqbul
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The speakers discuss the benefits of working for the spiritual world, including seeing and tasteing the spiritual experience. They stress the importance of positive and negative motivation in achieving healthy balance, forgiveness, and creating a "naught" process. They also emphasize the importance of feeding people who are fasting, practicing the deen Saas, and giving in a rewarding and rewarding way. The speakers emphasize the need to empower people to take on the mission of feeding the ones who are fasting, and emphasize the importance of giving in a rewarding and rewarding way.
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Alhamdulillah

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All praises to Allah.

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All praises to Allah.

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All praises to Allah who guided us to

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this,

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who guided us to Islam, and to iman,

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and to his

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house on this hour, this day, of this

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month.

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And we were not to be guided. Was

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it not that Allah had guided us?

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Oh, Allah to you is

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praise as is commensurate with the majesty of

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your countenance and the greatness of your authority.

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Oh, Allah, we do not limit you with

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any praise we can come up with ourselves.

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Rather, we admit that you are the only

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one who knows the true extent of your

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praise worthiness.

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And may the peace and blessings of Allah

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be upon his servant and messenger, Sayyidina Muhammad

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sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. May the peace and

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blessings of Allah

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be upon him,

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and upon his noble companions, and upon his

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pure wives, and upon his Mubarak and blessed

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family and progeny,

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and upon all of those who follow all

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of their way until the day of judgment.

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Brothers and sisters,

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in a hadith

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narrated by Sayedna Salman al Farisi Radhi Allah

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Ta'ala Anhu,

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which is included by Imam Behati

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in his

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Sunil Kubra.

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So in the Salman Farsi narrates that the

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Messenger of Allah

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at the beginning of Ramadan

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gave a long

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talk regarding

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the

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and the virtues, the benefits,

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the

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the the beauty of Ramadan.

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And this talk has a lot of information

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in it. Undoubtedly, you've heard the hadith before,

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but I wanted to focus just on a

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couple of

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things that the prophet

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refers to in this talk.

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He says regarding this month

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that it is the month of generosity.

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He says

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that it is a month of generosity and

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then the messenger of Allah

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he tells 3 benefits,

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3 benefits of

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the one who gives

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for the iftar, for the opening of the

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fast of the one who was fasting.

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The person who gives for the iftar, for

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the opening of the fast of the one

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who is fasting. He

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mentions

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3

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benefits, 3 rewards.

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The first is what?

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That the person who is

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giving for the one who is fasting, the

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one who gives for that person to open

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their fast. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will forgive

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them their sins.

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The second is what?

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The second is what?

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That that person, their neck will be freed.

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It will be liberated from the fire.

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Brothers and sisters, this is one of the

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many

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seeming paradoxes of the spiritual world.

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We don't believe we're not reductionist people who

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will only believe

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in the physical.

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Right? Only believe in the physical. This is

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a philosophy known as empiricism.

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This is a philosophy that doesn't even work

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in science, much less in religion.

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What is empiricism? If you cannot see it,

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if you cannot taste it, if you cannot

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touch it, if you cannot somehow experience

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it physically,

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or through some sort of sensory means, it

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doesn't exist.

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The most simple,

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refutation

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of

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empiricism is what is the idea of 0.

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0 is a number we've all become very

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accustomed to using.

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Without 0, you cannot make any of the

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calculations that allows the electrical system in the

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message to function, to allow us to build

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buildings like like the one that we're in,

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that allows us to build roads, the like

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the ones that we drive on or to

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drive in the to make the cars that

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we drive in. 0 is something we take

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for granted. Try to make a long division

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calculation using roman numerals and you'll see you

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cannot do anything without 0. Now, tell me

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something.

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0, can you show me 0?

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No. 0 is not a number. It's a

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philosophical concept.

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0 is not something that you can write

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because by writing you've written something. Right? It's

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a symbol

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that that that that that represents a philosophical

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concept,

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That it's a placeholder for something even though

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there's nothing physically there, but you know that

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there's something there that requires a placeholder, requires

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some sort of notation.

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From that, if a person learns thermodynamics,

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they know about this concept called absolute 0

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because of through which all of your anthropic

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calculations and all of your free energy calculations

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are made. Absolute 0 is also something that

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you cannot make in a lab. You cannot

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empirically

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experience it. You cannot taste it, smell it,

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touch it, or point to it and say,

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this isn't a lab. Look. This is absolute

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zero. But without it, none of the calculations

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that we that we do are possible.

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Brothers and sisters, we live in a time

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where people are empiricists.

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They have this idea, they transact in this

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idea or in this philosophy that if it's

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not physically present, it doesn't exist.

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Now, when the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam

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says,

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What does this mean? That the hellfire is

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real. The hellfire is a reality. Allah subhanahu

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wa ta'ala created it for a reason,

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for a purpose.

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And one of the other very,

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one of the very in vogue and

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and and,

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in vogue philosophies and philosophies that is,

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that pervades kind of the the the the

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the dominant discourse that

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that, we transact in is what? Is positivism.

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That we only wanna talk about certain things

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if they're positive. We only wanna talk about

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positive things, we don't wanna be negative.

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The fact of the matter is, if negativity

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wasn't useful, Allah and his messenger salallahu alaihi

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wa sallam would not have used them.

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There would be no hellfire.

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There would be no mention of punishment in

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the Quran. There would be no warning against

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punishment in the Quran. The Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi

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Wasallam would have been a bashir and not

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a nadeer, only a bringer of glad tidings

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and not a warner. But the fact of

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the matter is the messenger of Allah salallahu

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alaihi wa sallam serves both functions.

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Not just by his own Mubarak speech

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but by the the text of the Quran

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itself, by the nasa of the Quran itself.

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And the fact of the matter is that

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a person,

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to be healthy, has to have a balance

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between two extremes,

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between and between

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Between positive motivation and negative motivation. Between hope

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in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and fear of

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's punishment.

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So the paradox is what? The paradox is

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this, that Allah created the fire. The one

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who fears that fire, that person would be

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safe from the fire. And the one who

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when he hears or she hears a hadith

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regarding the fire, a hadith regarding jahannam,

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and they think that that's for somebody else,

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that's not for me. The fact of the

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matter is that person is perilously, dangerously

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close to that fire. It comes in the

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hadith of the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi

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wa sallam. That when a person dies and

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is put inside of their grave, the people

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of iman and the people of righteousness, these

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are hadith. You don't know how to be

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a specialist to find them. You can find

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them in the real of in in in

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simple collections of a hadith that are, that

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the ulama compiled for for for the laity,

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for the for the general masses.

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When a person dies on iman and on

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faith and on righteousness, when they enter into

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the into their grave, one of the things

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that happens after their questioning is that the

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angel is commanded to open a window into

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the hellfire and to show the person. This

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is the place that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

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created for each and every one of us.

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Each and every one of us. Allah has

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already created a place for us in the

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fire, and the angel will show you that

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place in the fire, and the angel will

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say, but because of the mercy and the

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grace of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and because

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of your efforts and your

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your your your your striving in your life

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to be free from it, Allah

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has replaced it for a place in Jannah.

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But the idea that there is a place

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in the fire for each and every one

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of us, When

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we seek

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refuge

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in

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Allah

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The most generous of the generous and noble

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of the noble. The fact that there's a

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place created for each and every one of

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us in the fire is something that should

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creep us, it should spook us, it should

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cause us distress, it should cause us to

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fear that that place not be used one

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day. May Allah be our protection. Right? From

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the night of Saturday, from Magrib of Saturday,

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the last 10 nights of Ramadan will start.

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In the same hadith, the Nabi

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describes the last 10 nights of Ramadan as

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what?

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Right? That this is the time that the

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slave

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whose neck is enslaved to the fire, that

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that that that those chains will be opened.

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Right? That slave will be manumitted from the

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the the the the fire.

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What a horrible master to have. What a

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horrible what a horrible, dominance

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to be put under. What a horrible society

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society to be a part of. What a

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horrible social structure to be a part of.

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That these last 10 days are literally

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reserved from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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for the special purpose of what? The one

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who wants to have his neck or her

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neck freed from the fire, that that neck

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will be freed from the fire if the

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person asks in those 10 days.

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And the hadith of the prophet

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that his dua in these last 10 nights

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was what?

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Oh Allah,

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you are the one who forgives. And you

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love forgiveness, so forgive me. Right? And this

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is not the forgiveness of one thing or

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another thing. This is a total and absolute

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forgiveness

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for all of the things that all of

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us did in our life. Allah ta'ala sees

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everything and hears everything.

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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, because of whom and

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in front of whom, even the prophet salayhi

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musawatu wa sallam feared that their good deeds

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were not good enough for him. His right

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over every single one of the creation is

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absolute

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and without any sort of condition.

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Allah ta'ala is right over every one of

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the creation is absolute without any sort of

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condition. If one of you were to buy

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a a a car, if you were to

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buy a Lexus or a Tesla or you

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were to buy whatever, like, the most fancy

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car you can think of is, and then

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you pay for it in cash, and you

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drive it out to your your your lot,

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you know, like to a farm, farmhouse that

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you own. And you took a sledgehammer, you

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smashed the car to pieces. Is anyone gonna

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be able to call the police and then

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say this person committed a crime, take them

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to jail? No. You called the police the

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last well, did he steal the car? No.

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Did he does he owe money on the

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car? No. He paid for it in cash.

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Did he,

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you know, is there some sort of EPA

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regulation he's violating?

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This is Indiana. They really don't care so

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much about those things here.

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Well, why are you calling us? Why are

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you wasting our time?

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If you call us again, we'll take you

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to jail. Now if a person can buy

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a car in cash,

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with cash he didn't print,

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from a job that someone else is giving

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him pay a paycheck from, with an education

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that they received from somebody else, tuition paid

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by somebody else, by a scholarship or by

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their parents or by somebody else.

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If that person can buy the car and

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they have the right to do with it

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whatever they want to once their ownership is

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complete over that car, then what do you

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think about

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Allah who created the entire heavens and earth

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from nothing?

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The one who created entire the entire heavens

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and the earth from nothing.

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That one, his ownership and his right over

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his creation is greater than the rights of

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people like you and I in 2016

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in the great state of Indiana.

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This is something we don't think about and

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we don't want to think about and we

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don't understand,

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But it is a reality.

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There's nobody if he makes a decision

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that will be able to then

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appeal or overturn that decision.

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Allah

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the definition of justice in our is what?

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Allah decides. It's the hadith, the dua of

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the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.

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Oh, I am your slave and the son

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of your slave man and the son of

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your slave woman.

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My forelock is in your hand.

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Whatever you command regarding me, that's the thing

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that will come to pass.

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Whatever your judgement is, that's my definition of

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justice. Allah who's right over everybody is absolute.

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The one who doesn't need a reason, who

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doesn't need a reason in order to punish

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his slave. The one in front of whom

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even the

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even

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the infallible and sinless

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prophet salayahu alayhi wasalam,

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when they come in front of him, they

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fear him,

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and they say that Allah to Allah who

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promised them Jannah, only promised it to them

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from his mercy, that Allah

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the one who doesn't fear his punishment.

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That's an injustice, and this is an excess

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on the part of the slave against his

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master. Rather, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who has

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the right to do whatever he wants, he

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is the one who wrote on himself that

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his mercy will outstrip his wrath. This is

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not because of a right that you and

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I have, nor is it because of some

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sort of grace or virtue that we possess.

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Rather this is Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in

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his sovereignty

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picking something for himself,

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choosing something for himself that we are the

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beneficiaries of. And we must recognize that that's

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the that's the scenario. The scenario is not

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because we're Muslims or because we, pray 5

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times a day or because we're from a

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certain country or we speak a certain language,

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that we deserve the the forgiveness of Allah

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to the exclusion of all other people. Rather

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what? Because of Allah grace and his mercy.

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Nothing that we did, it's all because of

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his grace and his mercy

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And what is grace? What is fadul from

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Allah?

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Say because of the grace of Allah ta'ala

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and because of his mercy,

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let the people rejoice because of that. It

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is better than those material things that people

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spend their lives trying to gather. What is

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the grace of Allah The fumbled of Allah

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is that

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that blessing, that gift that we did nothing

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to earn. It is that blessing and that

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gift that we did nothing to earn. And

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it is that blessing and that gift that

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we can do nothing to repay.

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It is that blessing and gift that we

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can do, nothing to repay. So Allah

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who has hidden the excuses for his mercy,

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has hidden the excuses for his forgiveness,

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has hidden the the the excuses for the

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slave whose destiny was written for the fire.

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Every single one of us by the testimony

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of the Rasul has

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a place prepared for us already by name,

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and by individual in the fire, that Allah

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has hidden the excuse to free us from

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the fire in every part of his creation.

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And our job is to look for those

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excuses.

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We don't say that we enter into Jannah

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because of our good deeds. We don't say

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that we'll enter paradise by our good deeds,

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but by the grace and mercy of Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala. And in that sense, the

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failure is not the one

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not the person who's not able to be

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perfect in this life. The failure is the

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person who cannot even try.

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None of us is able to be there's

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no hadith or no eye of the Quran

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in which it says that the believer is

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the one who's perfect and commits no sins.

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The believer is the one who what? Who

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constantly repents and constantly constantly seeks the fadl

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of Allah ta'ala

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and constantly follows a bad deed with a

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good one so that the effect of the

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bad deed can be erased.

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So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi

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Wasallam who says, the one who feeds the

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one who is fasting, that person, their neck

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will be liberated from the fire. This is

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a very good deal, brothers and sisters. This

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is the best bang for your buck you're

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going to get. This is the best deal

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that you and I are going to get.

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It's a deal that we don't even deserve.

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If someone were to tell you right now,

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okay, I ask you right now, can I

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have a $1,000?

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A person would say, no. That's like a

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lot of money. Maybe $5, $20, I'll give

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it to you. Some of us maybe,

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doing well. Maybe they'll give, you know, drop

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a drop a $100 on somebody. A $1,000

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is just too much money. What if

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I said to you, a $1,000 and I'll

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give you

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10 acres of land with a building that's

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just as big as this building on

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it. Everyone would run for it. They would

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borrow money if they didn't have the money.

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They would say thank you to the one

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who gave them that offer. Why? Because you're

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getting, in return,

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far more than what you put into it.

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Far more than what you put into it.

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And you're humbled that you even had the

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opportunity to transact in such a transaction.

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He says, what?

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This is

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what said, what? The one who feeds the

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one who is fasting?

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That

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person, their

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their their their neck which was enslaved to

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the fire, their neck will be freed from

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the slavery of the fire. May Allah make

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us from amongst those people in this month

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of Ramadan, in this night, in this day,

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in this very minute, in this very Mubarak

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hour. May Allah make all of us from

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those people. Say, amen.

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And the third the third thing that the

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prophet

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mentioned, the third benefit of feeding the one

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who was fasting is what?

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Is what? That the person who gives to

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feed the one who was fasting receives the

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reward of the one who was fasting without

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diminishing from their reward one bit.

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The one who gives to feed the one

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who is fasting,

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receive the reward for reward of the one

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who is fasting without diminishing from their reward

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one bit. What is this? Those of us

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who have the opportunity of spending Ramadan in

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the Muslim world see this, that this is

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one of the customs of the Muslims, that

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when it's time for iftar, what do people

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do? It's almost like a game show. They

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grab the plate of dates, and they're handing

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out dates to everybody.

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Why? Because they wanna have the reward of

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the person who is fasting. Indeed, said the

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Salman al Farsi, radiAllahu anhu, who was from

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the Ashab Sufa,

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Sufa from the the poor people, the poor

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guests. They used to call them euphemistically the

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guests of Islam. He was from the poor

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people who had nowhere to live, no one

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to house them, and the prophet sallallahu alaihi

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wasallam taught them about the deen because they

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had no job or no work to do

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in the day.

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Sayedna Salman al Farisi radiAllahu anhu says that

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the asked, not all of us are able

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to even afford to feed ourselves. How are

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you gonna feed the the people who are

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fasting? The messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi wa

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sallam responded how?

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He said, what? This counts even for a

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person who gives a sip of water to

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somebody when they when they are fasting. This

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counts for someone who even gives a date

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to the one who has one date to

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the one who is fasting. This counts for

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the person who even gives a taste of

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milk to the one who is fasting.

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This is what? This is the Nabi

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training this ummah. Now tell me something, if

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you give a date to somebody who is

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fasting the whole day, will they be satiated?

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Will they be full after after eating a

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date? No. But one of the the the

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customs of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was

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what? Is that he used to reduce the

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practice of the deen Saas to to the

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degree that what? That everybody could practice it.

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So that everybody has the habit of practicing.

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So that when a person is asked in

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the name of Allah and His Rasool Sallallahu

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Alaihi Wa Salam to give from that which

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they love. And everybody loves money. It's the

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one of the most sincere forms of love

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that we have in our in our culture.

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Right? Everybody loves money so that when asked

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to give from what you love, every single

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one of the Sahaba radiAllahu on whom rich

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and poor, everybody, they gave for the sake

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of Allah.

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Nobody said no. They gave what they had.

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Even if they had to cut a date

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in half and give that as sadaqa, they

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would give it as sadaqa. This is the

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meaning of of of of of

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savior, face from the fire even through half

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of a date. This is real. There are

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some people, they only had half of a

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date to give, and they gave it, and

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the mocked them. They say, what? The the

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sadaqa is something? The sadaqa is something that

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you should you're gonna hope for reward from

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Allah And and the munabbatim mocked them, and

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Allah mocked them back. Them hypocrites mocked those

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people who gave in sincerity.

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When asked in the name of Allah and

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his Rasool, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,

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don't say why is this person asking me

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for money? Everybody's asking for money. Give to

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give to that person.

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If you have a lot, give a lot.

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If you have a little, give a little.

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If you have nothing to give, give them

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du'a. So this person is doing a farqifa,

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and this person is serving the ummah. The

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Nabi alayhis salatu waslam who said,

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I am the guardian and the protector of

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the one who has no one to care

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for them, no one to guard them, no

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one to protect them. That's my job,

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Whoever wishes to take up the mission and

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the task of the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,

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let them also consider that mission their own.

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If you cannot go and feed the people

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of the world, then give them the money

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to feed 1 person. If you cannot do

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that, at least make the dua for them.

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At least when you see somebody who's doing

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this work, be happy about it. So that

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Allah may give you your portion from that

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work as well. The dabi salallahu alaihi wasallam

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himself was commanded by the messenger of Allah,

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but commanded by

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Allah As for the one who comes and

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asks you, never never repulse them harshly. In

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fact, say the Anas bin Malik narrates

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that the messenger of Allah

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That the messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

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was never asked for anything after the advent

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of Islam, except for he gave it. If

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he had something, someone asked him, he would

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give it. If he didn't have what he

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was asked, he wasn't able to give, he

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would seek forgiveness from such a person. Let

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us revive these noble and lofty.

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Let us revive these noble and lofty

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prophetic, characteristics

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inside of our lives, inside of our this

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day, inside of this hour. And I want

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to leave you with one last small snippet

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from this hadith that's in the Salman al

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Farsi

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narrated. You know how when we have children,

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it's a good habit. You should give your

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children $5, $10, tell them, go put it

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inside the the donation box for the masjid.

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Go give it to a poor person. Go

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give it for charity.

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Why? It's not even their money. You're giving

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them the money. All they're doing is they're

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putting it in the box. But when they

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put it in the box, and they see

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mama and baba as uncle as big brother

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is happy with them, big sister is happy

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with them, it makes them what?

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It makes them, it

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makes their heart feel good about doing good

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deeds. It trains them to do good deeds,

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it makes them feel good about doing good

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deeds. We should train them to do those

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things, just like we train

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our young ones and

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our our our beloved ones, our little ones,

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to good character

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and to good conduct.

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Just like that Allah

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He's the one, his messenger, sallallahu alaihi wa

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sallam, this entire hadith describe describes all of

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the benefits and all of the the the

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virtues of giving and of generosity in this

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noble month. And

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then while the Nabi also said

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And this is such a month that the

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provision of the believer is also increased in

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it. Meaning what? Allah who's asking you to

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give more, the Nabi salallahu alaihi wasallam was

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asking you to give more, they also say

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives you more as

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well. He's the one who gave you. Everybody

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will eat well tonight. There's nobody, even a

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broke person. Everybody eats well in Ramadan.

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Everybody eats well.

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Ghazali,

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he says

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he he he says that the person who

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eats as much in Ramadan to eat outside

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of Ramadan

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is is is missing the point. And the

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one who eats more in Ramadan than he

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eats outside of Ramadan,

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that person is, like, even further away from

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from what he or she should supposed to

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be doing. Right? So from amongst our ulema,

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especially the Muaddiddeen, they said, well, this is

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this is a good philosophical point, but what

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are we supposed to do? The Messenger of

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Allah himself, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,

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himself said, this is the month in which

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the provision of the believer is increased. Do

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we know the provision is is written by

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. If he wrote that

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you're gonna eat it these days, what are

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you gonna do except for eat? Say before

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you start and when you're done. That's That's

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really all you can do sometimes.

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Allah

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give all of us. Allah give us that

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what he gave us that we spend for

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his sake so that it can be something

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we benefit from forever. May give us from

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his grace and bounty in this world. May

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give us from his grace and bounty in

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the hereafter. May Allah help those people who

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are going to dig through garbage in order

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to eat their iftar and their suhoor and

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this ummah, and they're there every single day

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doing it. And when they when they eat,

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they say bismillah, and when they're finished, they

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say, alhamdulillah.

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May Allah

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give them the help in this world and

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give us the help that we need for

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the hereafter.

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