Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah Deliberate Patience ICC 03262021

Hamzah Wald Maqbul
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The importance of patient mental health and avoiding suffering is emphasized in Islam. The speaker also criticizes the idea of a bubble on top of the ocean and encourages people to prioritize their health and satisfaction. The importance of learning and reading books is also emphasized, along with avoiding activities and letting fear control behavior. The speaker encourages people to pursue their beliefs and not let fear control their behavior.

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			All praises to Allah. And may his peace
		
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			and blessings be upon his servant and messenger,
		
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			our master Sayyidina
		
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			Muhammad
		
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			By the father of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
		
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			we have reached,
		
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			the bright
		
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			days
		
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			of the month of Shaaban.
		
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			Which means
		
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			there's not much more than half of a
		
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			month left before Ramadan.
		
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			In the past 3,
		
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			we have spoken about
		
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			preparation for this Ramadan both in general
		
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			terms
		
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			as well as
		
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			mentioning some
		
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			matters for consideration given the
		
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			relatively unique circumstances that many of us will
		
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			find ourselves in
		
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			this year.
		
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			This final in this series and indeed my
		
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			final in this masjid is imam.
		
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			I want you to mention
		
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			something
		
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			general,
		
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			something
		
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			related to the principles of
		
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			Ramadan and fasting,
		
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			which is that the messenger of Allah sambalahu
		
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			alaihi wasallam said
		
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			that fasting
		
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			is half of patience.
		
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			If you can fast,
		
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			this is
		
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			half of the knowledge of patience.
		
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			Given that fasting is one of the 5
		
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			pillars upon which Islam is built, the practice
		
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			of Islam is built,
		
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			This means patience is something very great.
		
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			This means what? The sabr is something great.
		
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			Allah ta'ala says in his book,
		
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			indeed
		
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			the reward for
		
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			the patient
		
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			will be furnished for them
		
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			without account.
		
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			Meaning the people who
		
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			are entered in the list of the patient
		
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			on the day of judgement,
		
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			their reward will have
		
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			seemingly no mathematical relationship
		
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			between the amount of patience a person had
		
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			and what they will be provided with on
		
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			the day of judgement.
		
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			And indeed,
		
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			the great maqam and great station of patience
		
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			is corroborated further
		
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			by this hadith of the prophet salallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam.
		
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			That
		
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			patience is half of the deen.
		
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			Just like fasting is half of patience,
		
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			then on top of that patience is half
		
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			of the deen of Islam.
		
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			And there seems to be some
		
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			type of misunderstanding
		
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			amongst people
		
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			when it comes to understanding what patience is.
		
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			Nobody likes to be patient.
		
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			Nobody likes to deal with difficulty.
		
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			Nobody likes to work hard.
		
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			Nobody likes to be sick.
		
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			Nobody likes to be persecuted.
		
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			People don't like to be punished for doing
		
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			what's wrong. People especially don't wanna be punished
		
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			for doing what's right. And yet it happens.
		
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			Yet we go through so many difficulties in
		
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			the day.
		
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			And the most difficult type of difficulty a
		
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			person goes through
		
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			is the one that they do not understand
		
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			why they're going through it.
		
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			This is one of the greatest gifts that
		
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			the deen gives a person.
		
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			Just like a mother, when raising her children,
		
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			will be able to do super human feats.
		
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			Super human feats.
		
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			That a woman,
		
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			although the age we live in, would like
		
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			to deny it is very different than a
		
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			man.
		
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			And from the cardinal virtues of
		
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			being a woman,
		
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			people of fitra rarely would mention physical strength.
		
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			However,
		
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			a mother, in order to serve her child
		
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			from before even having
		
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			having had laid eyes on that child,
		
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			will endure an amount of pain that would
		
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			make a grown man cry.
		
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			And after that, she will continue making sacrifices
		
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			until the day that she dies.
		
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			Why? Because
		
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			she knows what she's suffering for. She knows
		
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			what she's going through difficulty for. It's for
		
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			her child.
		
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			But there are so many things that happen
		
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			to us in life. We have no idea
		
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			why they happen.
		
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			Somebody gets into a car accident. I don't
		
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			know why.
		
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			Somebody catches a particular disease. I don't know
		
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			why.
		
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			Why me and not why another person?
		
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			People don't know why.
		
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			One of the greatest gifts of this deen
		
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			is what?
		
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			Is to relieve you and to relieve me
		
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			from the burden of why.
		
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			Allah ta'ala says in his book,
		
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			Allah ta'ala is not to be asked why?
		
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			Even though Allah ta'ala has the right to
		
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			ask all of his creation why.
		
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			The Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam gave us this
		
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			gift. How wondrous is the affair of the
		
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			believer. For indeed indeed his affair, all of
		
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			it is good.
		
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			If he is touched by
		
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			happiness,
		
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			he is thankful and it's good for him.
		
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			And if he's touched by affliction,
		
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			he's patient and it's good for him.
		
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			It's no longer your
		
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			problem why.
		
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			Rather,
		
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			the slave is given a job to
		
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			do and the slave does what he's commanded
		
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			and the lord commands.
		
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			That is the natural order of things.
		
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			And the Lord from his generosity has promised
		
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			the slave, not because of compulsion or necessity,
		
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			but because of his generosity.
		
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			That whoever at least puts in a good
		
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			faith effort to fulfill the work that he's
		
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			given.
		
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			The fulfillment of that work is what?
		
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			Is that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will keep
		
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			that person's honor in this world and the
		
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			hereafter.
		
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			Not the least of which is that they
		
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			will enter Jannah forever.
		
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			A place where there's no deprivation,
		
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			a place where there's no sadness, a place
		
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			where there's no hunger, a place where there's
		
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			no poverty, a place where there's no separation.
		
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			A place where not even the least of
		
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			discomfort will be tolerated.
		
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			As a recompense
		
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			for the
		
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			effort as a recompense for the deeds
		
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			that were attempted by the slave
		
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			in this place of difficulty and in this
		
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			place of test.
		
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			So the first thing is that people run
		
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			away from patience
		
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			like a person runs from death.
		
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			And the fact of the matter is
		
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			nothing useful
		
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			that is to be
		
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			achieved in life
		
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			can ever happen without patience.
		
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			There's nobody who made it to the NBA
		
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			without
		
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			suburb.
		
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			There's nobody who's scored 20, 30 points in
		
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			a game
		
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			without having that ball in their hand
		
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			since the time they were a child and
		
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			constantly
		
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			throwing it out the hoop.
		
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			There's no doctor
		
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			who became a doctor except for through patients.
		
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			There's no engineer who became an engineer except
		
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			for through patients.
		
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			There's no king or prince or president
		
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			who made what they made except for through
		
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			Extreme difficulty, and suffering setbacks,
		
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			and going through all sorts of
		
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			tests and tribulations that tested their meddle.
		
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			That tested their resolve.
		
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			Muslim, kafir, democrat, republican, black, white, purple.
		
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			No exception.
		
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			No exception at all.
		
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			This is the first issue that we have
		
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			is that we run from patience as if
		
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			we run away from death,
		
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			but we should remember the hadith of the
		
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			prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam. That
		
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			jannah, the hijab of jannah is what? It's
		
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			it's things
		
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			that the nafs that the nafs finds
		
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			unpleasant, unattractive.
		
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			The gift wrapping that Jannah comes in is
		
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			what? Is all of those things that the
		
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			naf doesn't like.
		
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			Hunger and thirst, which literally are part of
		
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			the fast.
		
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			Deprivation,
		
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			which is part of the fast.
		
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			Getting yelled at by the imam in the
		
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			khutbah for not turning your phone off.
		
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			Nobody likes it, but it's for your own
		
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			good.
		
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			Imam doesn't hate you. Imam loves you, that's
		
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			why he's here.
		
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			It's good for you, but nobody wants it.
		
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			I wouldn't like to get yelled at.
		
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			Nobody likes it, but it's good for you.
		
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			Literally, it is the gift wrapping that Jannah
		
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			comes in. According to who? According to the
		
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			rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			So we shouldn't run from this patience. We
		
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			shouldn't have this irrational fear of it.
		
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			But on top of that, we also still
		
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			have a misconception about what patience is.
		
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			There was a famous exchange between
		
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			2 of the
		
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			in the old times.
		
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			Both of them were people who were travelers
		
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			of the spirit on the spiritual path, so
		
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			they asked one another.
		
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			You tell me my brother, what do you
		
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			define as patience? People used to have these
		
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			types of discussions. Now we talk about, you
		
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			know, Teslas and,
		
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			Lexuses and, we talk about real estate and
		
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			Bitcoin and GameStop and these things. In the
		
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			old days, the people used to be fascinated.
		
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			They used to capture their attention.
		
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			They used to be fascinated by spiritual matters,
		
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			so they used to talk about them. So
		
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			2 of them are shayef, they said, what
		
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			does patience mean to you?
		
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			So the first
		
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			says, to me patience is that if Allah
		
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			gives you something,
		
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			you should be pleased with it.
		
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			And if Allah denies you something you want,
		
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			then you should be patient.
		
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			Then you should also keep it together, you
		
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			shouldn't fall apart.
		
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			The second says, this is
		
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			the definition that we give in my country
		
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			to the patients of dogs.
		
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			To the patients of
		
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			dogs.
		
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			By the way, it's a very high
		
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			I don't mention the story in order to
		
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			belittle.
		
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			Whoever is able to do that, but when
		
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			Allah gives you something, you're happy. And when
		
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			Allah decides that something you want, you don't
		
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			get that you'd be patient. This is also
		
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			a very great maqam.
		
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			There are many qualities that dogs have inside
		
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			of them. If a human being were to
		
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			bring inside of him or her,
		
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			that person would be a great person.
		
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			But the second sheikh says what? He says
		
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			that this is the patience
		
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			amongst my people. This is the patience we
		
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			call the patience of dogs.
		
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			What is true patience?
		
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			True patience is something that that involves some
		
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			sort of a plan.
		
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			True patience is not you
		
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			being a bubble of frost
		
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			on top of the ocean getting tossed here
		
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			and there.
		
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			Putting no effort into
		
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			a plan,
		
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			putting no effort into a goal,
		
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			putting no effort into
		
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			realizing
		
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			or seeing yourself,
		
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			the ones you love, your business,
		
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			your neighbors, your family, your children, your deen,
		
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			your ummah.
		
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			Get somewhere better than what it was from
		
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			before.
		
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			If you have a goal,
		
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			your goal is to lose weight,
		
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			you're gonna have to skip dessert. Not just
		
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			once,
		
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			several times.
		
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			It's going to burn.
		
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			But the patience you have at that burning,
		
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			that patience is not like, oh, well I
		
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			wanted dessert but I didn't get it today
		
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			so I'm gonna be patient. No. It's patience
		
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			and it's employed
		
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			as a tool that allows you that helps
		
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			you to prosecute a plan.
		
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			You see patience, like we said before,
		
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			is not the refuge of fools,
		
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			is not the refuge of the deprived,
		
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			It's not the refuge of victims.
		
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			Patience is the very tool through which greatness
		
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			is achieved. There is no other route to
		
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			greatness
		
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			other than patience.
		
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			If someone were to hand you your aspirations,
		
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			I wanna become a doctor, here's your medical
		
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			degree. Are you gonna be a good doctor?
		
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			No.
		
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			Someone handed you the rules. Say, Here's the
		
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			scepter. You're a khalifa. You now rule the
		
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			entire world. I promise you a person who
		
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			receives it without without earning it, without going
		
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			through the
		
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			difficulty, without, you know, going through the ropes.
		
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			That person will destroy the entire world right
		
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			before your eyes.
		
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			And it will be much faster than you
		
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			think. And if you don't believe me, see,
		
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			see how brothers and sisters fight with one
		
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			another
		
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			for the mirof, for the inheritance of their
		
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			fathers
		
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			without earning it.
		
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			See how quickly people go from 1,000,000 and
		
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			tens of 1,000,000, 100 of 1,000,000 to absolutely
		
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			nothing.
		
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			We should read history, masha'Allah, the greatest historian
		
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			in the history of
		
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			history, Ibn Khaldun.
		
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			We can, you know, say, oh look, he
		
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			was a Muslim and he invented sociology and
		
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			this and that and and you know, feel
		
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			good about ourselves. We should read those books
		
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			as well.
		
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			We should read those books as well. He
		
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			mentions he says it takes just 4 generations
		
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			for a dynasty, no no matter how powerful
		
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			they are, just 4 generations under normal
		
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			circumstances.
		
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			80 years.
		
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			To make a state, no matter how powerful
		
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			it is, to make it
		
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			shift
		
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			from rise into decline.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because by the time the 4th generation is
		
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			born,
		
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			they no longer remember the difficulties of struggle
		
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			in order to
		
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			build
		
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			the dynasty their forefathers had.
		
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			Rather they assume that power,
		
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			order,
		
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			enjoyment
		
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			are just a natural state of life.
		
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			If this doesn't describe the state of this
		
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			ummah,
		
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			whether
		
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			somewhere else around the world or even inside
		
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			of this very masjid,
		
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			That we have been handed a Quran,
		
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			we didn't have to compile it and we
		
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			didn't have to memorize it.
		
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			We've been handed a salat,
		
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			we didn't have to struggle for it. No
		
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			one ever oppressed us.
		
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			No boot
		
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			of a military occupation ever kicked us for
		
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			making sajdah toward Allah ta'ala.
		
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			We have the books of hadith.
		
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			We have the books of tafsir.
		
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			There are places, people who are alive. Maybe
		
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			some people even in this
		
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			gathering, in this jum'ah.
		
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			That merely having them inside of your house
		
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			will get you killed.
		
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			Merely having them inside of your house will
		
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			get you deported to a gulag, to a
		
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			a a labor camp in Siberia, for which
		
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			you will never return.
		
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			We have all of these things,
		
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			we didn't have to struggle in order to
		
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			earn them.
		
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			And so we no longer
		
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			value them. We think that this is the
		
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			way it always is and it always was.
		
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			And it's not the way it always is
		
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			always was.
		
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			The kingship of our forefathers was wasted by
		
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			generations.
		
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			Those companions of the messenger of Allah salallahu
		
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			alayhi wa sallam, from whom many of us
		
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			are descended in this gathering.
		
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			Those people who accepted Islam at their hands,
		
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			or the ones who accepted Islam at the
		
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			hands of those who accepted it at their
		
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			hands. From whom
		
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			which many of us are descendants.
		
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			And from whom all of us, the silsila
		
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			of our Islam,
		
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			even if a person took shahada this morning,
		
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			they took it from somebody who took it
		
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			from somebody who took it from those people.
		
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			Because we took it for granted, because we
		
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			haven't struggled,
		
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			what happens?
		
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			We waste the patrimony that was gifted to
		
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			us by our forefathers in iman.
		
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			And we're not deterministic people.
		
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			The reason for studying history, the reason for
		
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			thinking about these things and talking about these
		
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			things,
		
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			it's not in order to say this is
		
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			your fate. You have to end this way.
		
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			You have to live this way. You have
		
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			to die this way.
		
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			Rather, the person who understands the danger in
		
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			things
		
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			can avoid it.
		
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			The person who understands the danger of car
		
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			accidents can always put his seat belt on.
		
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			He can also elect not to do so.
		
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			But and there's a difference in outcome between
		
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			the person who, you know, flies through their
		
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			windshield and lands
		
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			30 meters in front of their car
		
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			and the person who's safe.
		
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			We still have these opportunities.
		
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			And one of the beautiful things about Ramadan
		
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			is what? On top of its being an
		
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			act of worship that we do in order
		
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			to make our rabb pleased with us,
		
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			We also remember through the difficulty of that
		
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			fast,
		
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			through the avoiding those things that the nafs
		
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			likes.
		
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			Avoiding the TV, avoiding the music, avoiding the,
		
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			you know, endless stream of doom scrolling on
		
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			Facebook and kitty cat videos on YouTube.
		
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			And refreshing your,
		
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			different accounts,
		
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			it hurts. You want to do it.
		
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			Your fingers will twitch.
		
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			But through that difficulty, what do you do?
		
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			You build the capacity in yourself
		
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			so that even if you get to a
		
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			day when you can eat and drink,
		
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			everybody
		
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			don't have to fast anymore.
		
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			But still you have a skill set through
		
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			which you can push yourself to prosecute and
		
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			achieve
		
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			those things that you otherwise were unable to
		
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			do when you were a prisoner
		
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			of your own fear of discomfort, when you
		
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			were a prisoner of your own.
		
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			Fear of those things that we shouldn't fear.
		
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			Allah tells us one of the last things
		
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			Allah tells us to the prophet
		
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			This day, the people who disbelieved have given
		
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			up hope that we'll ever be able to
		
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			do anything about these
		
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			obstinate
		
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			muslims.
		
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			They've given up hope.
		
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			They'll go to the moon, they'll go to
		
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			Mars, but they're never gonna be able to
		
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			take this deen away from us.
		
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			They've given up hope, so don't fear them.
		
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			Allah says, Don't fear them
		
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			and fear me.
		
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			This day I have
		
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			perfected you for your religion.
		
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			And I have completed my favor upon you.
		
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			And I have chosen this Islam, the submission
		
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			as a way of life for you.
		
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			So don't worry. Don't worry about other stuff.
		
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			Your bills will get paid.
		
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			Corona is economically adverse.
		
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			Allah the will make another stimulus,
		
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			and half of Cuyahoga County will eat and
		
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			drink free money just so that Allah can
		
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			deliver the aid to you.
		
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			Don't worry. Don't fear these things. Fear Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			and have a plan that's worthy of a
		
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			Muslim to have for yourself,
		
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			for your life, for your spouse, for your
		
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			children, for your relatives, for your masjid.
		
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			For our masjid,
		
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			for our ummah.
		
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			Have a plan worth planning.
		
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			You can plan start by planning your Ramadan
		
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			out and have a bigger plan and a
		
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			bigger goal worth having and worth planning.
		
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			And the day you have to go through
		
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			the difficulty like the person who's on a
		
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			diet and they have to skip dessert.
		
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			Say, what tastes better, my dessert or my
		
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			being healthy?
		
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			You skip the dessert. It's okay.
		
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			Say, I don't even want it anymore.
		
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			Fool yourself. Lie to yourself
		
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			the first time, the second time, the third
		
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			time. You'll believe it on the 4th time.
		
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			I promise you.
		
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			When you miss something, you skip something for
		
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			the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Say, I don't even want this thing.
		
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			I don't even want this thing even though
		
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			the body wants it, even though the limbs
		
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			want it,
		
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			even though the nafs wants it.
		
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			But that's not who you are. The nafs
		
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			is what you share and what I share
		
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			in common
		
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			with monkeys and with dogs.
		
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			So that's not me.
		
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			What I want is what makes my rab
		
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			happy. What I want is the thing that
		
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			makes me look like one of the angels,
		
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			not like something that belongs in a zoo.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give all of us
		
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			so much tawfiq. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			make all of us turn
		
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			our eyes away
		
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			from
		
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			the dog treats
		
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			that half of humanity have
		
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			turned themselves into pets by chasing.
		
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			And give us the tawfiq of following the
		
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			sunnah of the angels.
		
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			Give us tawfiq to follow the sunnah of
		
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			the odiya of Allah ta'ala.
		
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			Give us tawfiq to live our life in
		
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			such a way that we would be proud.
		
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			And it's hard, it's difficult. Neither am I
		
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			perfect nor is anybody else perfect. May Allah
		
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			give us a tawfiq to do good deeds,
		
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			and on the day of judgment, accept from
		
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			us the good that we did, the best
		
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			of what we did. And may Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala from his fable and his karam
		
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			overlook
		
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			and let us forget
		
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			those things other than that that that we
		
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			did. Allah
		
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			make us better people than who we are
		
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			and give us a life better than our
		
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			life. Give us time better than our time.
		
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			Give us words better than the words that
		
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			we've had so far. Give us something better.