Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Look For Allahs Mercy.mp4

Hamzah Wald Maqbul
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The speakers stress the importance of avoiding negative behavior and not allowing people to waste all water and pollute the air to create a nuclear weapon. They also discuss the negative consequences of the recent explosion and the importance of hedging bets and not being a one-lives with none of one's behavior. The speakers emphasize the need to be mindful of one's behavior and avoiding hedging bets. They also stress the importance of forgiveness and mercy in the face of bad behavior.

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			All praises to Allah, all praises to Allah,
		
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			all praises to Allah, who guided us to
		
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			this, who guided us to Islam, and guided
		
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			us to imam, and who guided us to
		
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			his Mubarak house
		
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			on this Mubarak hour, this Mubarak day, and
		
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			we were not to be guided. Was it
		
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			not that Allah had guided us?
		
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			Oh, Allah, to you is praise as is
		
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			commensurate with the majesty of your countenance and
		
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			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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			subhanahu wa ta'ala be upon his servant and
		
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			messenger, our master, Sayna Muhammad Sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam. May the peace and blessings of Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala be upon him, and upon
		
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			his noble companions and upon his pure wives
		
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			and upon his Mubarik and blessed family and
		
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			progeny and upon all of those who follow
		
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			all of their way until the day of
		
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			judgement.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in his book,
		
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			do not ever lose hope in the mercy
		
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			of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah ta'ala forgives
		
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			all sins. A person
		
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			should be concerned with their actions, they should
		
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			be concerned with their works, they should be
		
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			concerned with their good deeds, and they should
		
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			be concerned with their sins. They should be
		
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			concerned with their good deeds. Why?
		
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			Because they will be
		
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			the key that opens blessings for them in
		
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			this world, and the key that opens
		
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			blessings for them in a high rank with
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala on the day of
		
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			judgment and the hereafter.
		
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			They should be concerned with their good works
		
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			because those are the things by which they
		
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			purchased the and the grace of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala.
		
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			And they should be concerned with their sins.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because their sins are those things that tarnish
		
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			the heart, that rest the heart. If a
		
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			person knows with a car, if you have
		
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			rust on the body of the car, what
		
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			can you do? You can take sandpaper, and
		
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			you can
		
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			wipe the rust off. You can scrape the
		
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			rust off, and then you can paint over
		
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			that place where the car was rusted, and
		
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			the car is not going to rust further
		
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			from that point, it's going to be sealed
		
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			afterward.
		
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			If the paint chips in a place, and
		
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			it starts to rust, you can take sandpaper
		
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			and sand the rust out, and the car
		
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			won't rust anymore. However, if you leave that
		
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			rust there, you don't take care of it,
		
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			you don't sand it, what's going to happen?
		
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			The car will rust more and more and
		
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			more. Sometimes the chip is not from the
		
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			outside of the body, it's from the inside
		
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			of the body. Person doesn't know what's going
		
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			on in the inside. By the time the
		
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			rust comes from the inside out, you can
		
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			see that the, there then becomes a hole
		
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			in the body of the car. Why? Because
		
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			it's rusted completely. It's rusted thorough thoroughly. It's
		
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			rusted from the inside out. There's nothing you
		
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			can do about it. The heart is like
		
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			that. A person who commits a sin,
		
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			right?
		
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			This is not just a clever,
		
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			a clever metaphor that a preacher makes by
		
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			which he plies his trade. This is in
		
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			fact the metaphor that's given to you by
		
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			the book of Allah
		
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			Nay, indeed, this arraigned, this rust has
		
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			encrusted and encased the hearts. Why? Because of
		
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			those bad deeds,
		
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			because of those evil deeds that people used
		
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			to do.
		
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			This rust is something if you don't iron
		
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			it out, the sin itself is not going
		
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			to harm Allah
		
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			This is part of the hubris,
		
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			this is part of the ego, this is
		
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			part of the
		
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			and the, the self aggrandizement of human beings
		
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			that they think what they do is really
		
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			important and it's somehow really, going to affect
		
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			things and change things. Right? You think we
		
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			think we're gonna destroy the earth, so we
		
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			should be environmentalist so that we can save
		
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			the earth. What does the what does the
		
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			dean teach us? The dean teaches us what?
		
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			Everything you take from the earth, you'll be
		
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			questioned about it on the day of judgement.
		
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			So turn the lights off. Don't take more
		
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			electricity than you need. Why? Because you'll be
		
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			questioned about every kilowatt hour and minute, and
		
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			second that you used, and what's even less
		
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			than that, and what's even more than that.
		
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			The dean teaches us, be careful about how
		
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			much water you use because you'll be asked
		
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			about every drop. And with every drop you
		
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			use, you'll be expected to have done something
		
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			useful with it. The deen teaches us, be
		
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			concerned with how much money you take from
		
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			this world because every cent of it, you're
		
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			going to have to give a give a
		
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			hisaab. Every cent of it, you're going to
		
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			have to give account for. Right? The deen
		
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			teaches us not to ask for more, but
		
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			to ask for not to ask for more
		
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			and more and more. The only thing that
		
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			keeps asking for more and more and more
		
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			is a cancer. We have several oncologists in
		
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			the in the in the in the crowd
		
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			today. You can ask them. That's the only
		
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			thing that asks for more without end. And
		
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			what does cancer do to a person? It
		
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			kills them. It sends them to the graveyard.
		
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			You understand what I'm saying? It's not a
		
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			it's not a it's a, you know, it's
		
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			not something that's that's going to have a
		
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			long life, or it's not something that's gonna
		
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			last for a long time. The cancer kills
		
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			the host, it doesn't kill the entire world
		
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			around us. So we have so much hubris,
		
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			we have so much ego, and so much
		
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			and we're so self aggrandized. We think we're
		
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			so important. That what? That we have to
		
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			save the earth. We have to save the
		
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			earth. Trust me. There's nothing that human beings
		
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			can do that's going to destroy the earth.
		
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			There's nothing that that right now as of
		
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			yet, we haven't invented anything that destroy. If
		
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			we waste all the water, if we pollute
		
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			all the air, if we pollute all of
		
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			the,
		
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			the the earth, and we you know, to
		
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			send toxicity into the earth, everything,
		
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			the earth will be just fine. The earth
		
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			will be just fine if we use all
		
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			the nuclear weapons, god forbid. I don't know
		
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			what Shaytan
		
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			inspired a human being to make something like
		
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			a nuclear weapon. I don't know which person,
		
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			you
		
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			know, slapped at night without making wudu for
		
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			God knows how many years, and you know,
		
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			ate filthy things, and thought filthy things, and
		
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			lived filthy things for so long that shaitan
		
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			would come inside their mind and say, hey,
		
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			it's a good idea. Why don't we make
		
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			something like this? But whatever, they made it,
		
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			and now they have enough power
		
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			to kill the entire population of the earth
		
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			in less time it takes
		
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			less time than it takes to order a
		
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			pizza from Domino's.
		
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			Guess what? The Earth has survived worse than
		
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			that. The Earth has survived most worse than
		
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			that. If you read anything about, like, paleo,
		
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			paleobiology,
		
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			they say that the, distinction
		
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			sorry, extinction events. There's these massive extinction events
		
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			that happen right, in the KT boundary and
		
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			etcetera. Like, all these, like, every something like
		
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			7 70000000 years. Right? A meteor will slam
		
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			into the earth that's, like, 6 miles wide.
		
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			And they say that every time something like
		
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			that happens, there's a trauma that that they
		
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			theorize that occurred in the earth, which was
		
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			so harsh that it's something like a 1000
		
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			times worse than all of the nuclear blast
		
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			that the earth has ever that the earth
		
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			could make from the stock pile of weapons
		
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			that we have combined, a 1000 times that.
		
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			What we have is enough to kill everybody,
		
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			those those those meteor slamming to the earth
		
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			were explosions that are a 1000 times worse.
		
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			They say that those explosions were so horrible
		
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			that not only did it cause a, a
		
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			cloud of blackness to cover the earth, It
		
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			said that it rained molten molten rock. It
		
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			rained molten rock
		
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			for years after such a blast because of
		
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			the amount of heat that that was created
		
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			from that that destruction. And guess what? The
		
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			earth is just fine. Didn't happen once. It
		
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			happened probably happened half a dozen times.
		
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			70, 80% of the species on the earth
		
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			are extinct from such an explosion, and the
		
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			earth is just fine. You're not gonna kill
		
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			the earth. I'm not gonna kill the earth.
		
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			If you're gonna save someone, it's gonna be
		
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			yourself. In this world, your own children, in
		
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			this world, and the Aqirites yourself, you're gonna
		
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			save. You're not gonna save anybody.
		
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			Right? So don't think your sins, your sins
		
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			are bad, my sins are bad.
		
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			Okay? Your sins are bad, my sins are
		
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			bad because they're an active rebellion against Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala. Against the one who gave
		
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			you a mother and gave you a father.
		
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			Against the one against the one who was
		
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			the literally the mercy that that that that
		
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			that incubated you in the womb of your
		
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			mother. Who was literally the one who gave
		
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			you air and gave you water, who gave
		
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			you all of these things, who gave you
		
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			existence itself, who gave you existence itself,
		
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			Who's the one who called you to his
		
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			way? Who's the one who forgave you every
		
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			time you asked him for forgiveness?
		
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			A person in Islam, is there any sin
		
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			that a person can sincerely make tawbah from?
		
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			Sincerely repent from that Allah will not forgive?
		
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			There is no such sin. If somebody says
		
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			there's such a sin, we say that person
		
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			has an problem. We say that this person
		
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			has an problem because they've invented against the
		
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			deen of Allah
		
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			that which is not in it. Does not
		
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			Allah
		
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			himself say what?
		
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			Right?
		
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			Don't give up hope in Allah
		
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			It's a commandment of the deen. Don't give
		
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			up hope
		
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			in Allah
		
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			Why?
		
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			He forgives all sins. Your sins are never
		
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			going to be so much that they're gonna
		
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			harm Allah or anger him so much that
		
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			it's gonna overpower his mercy. It doesn't work
		
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			that way. It doesn't work that way. The
		
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			worst sin is the sin of shaitaan, which
		
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			is takampur. Allah told them,
		
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			prostrate in front of Adam
		
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			and he didn't do so. Why? Because his
		
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			arrogance forbade him from obeying the commandment of
		
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			Allah
		
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			That's what made him shaitaan.
		
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			It's his arrogance.
		
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			If your sins are so big in your
		
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			eyes, that's not a sign of humility. It's
		
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			a sign of arrogance. How will Allah forgive
		
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			me? My sins are so here. This is
		
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			a sign of arrogance. Such a person who
		
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			says such a thing or thinks such a
		
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			thing is.
		
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			Why? Because your sins are nothing in front
		
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			of him. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who created
		
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			the heavens and the earth, the
		
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			that we live in, 15,000,000,000 light years from
		
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			the core to the edge of it. We're
		
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			one galaxy out of literally billions of galaxies,
		
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			and billions of galaxy clusters, and millions of
		
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			galaxies super clusters. We're smaller when compared to
		
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			the size of the than
		
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			than what a a a a a, grain
		
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			of sand is to us,
		
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			Not just a little bit smaller, much smaller,
		
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			much smaller.
		
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			The size, it's very interesting how the creation
		
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			was made. It's very interesting how this creation
		
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			was made.
		
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			There is the,
		
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			the the the macro,
		
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			level of the universe, the size of galaxy
		
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			super clusters, etcetera, etcetera.
		
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			And then there's the micro level of the
		
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			universe, which is what? Like photons and, like,
		
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			you know, like, when you get to the
		
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			level of quanta. It's very interesting. Right? The
		
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			scientific notation that we use to describe very
		
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			large things, and that we that we use
		
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			to describe very small things, On that scale
		
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			from one side to the other, human beings
		
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			are right in the middle.
		
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			Half of the stuff in the world is
		
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			bigger than us, half the stuff in the
		
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			world is smaller than us. So that we
		
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			can understand something. Can you see a bacteria?
		
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			No. You can't see a bacteria with your
		
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			eyes. If some of you can, you're tripping,
		
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			man. You need to, like, you know, clean
		
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			up for a couple of days because it's
		
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			not you cannot see a bacteria. You understand
		
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			what I'm saying? You can't see it. Okay?
		
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			Can a bacteria
		
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			right? What's what's,
		
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			what's the greater
		
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			gap? Between the size of a human being
		
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			and the size of a bacteria, or between
		
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			the size of a bacteria and the size
		
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			of an atom?
		
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			What's between a bacteria and an atom is
		
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			a greater gap than the size of a
		
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			human being to a bacteria. Both of bacteria
		
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			and human beings are extremely large when? Can
		
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			compared to the the level and scale of
		
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			atoms.
		
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			Extremely large. Okay? You can't even see a
		
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			bacteria. You definitely can't see an atom. You
		
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			definitely can't see, like, a neutron or a
		
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			proton. Right? Most of what we see outside
		
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			is empty space. It seems like it's solid.
		
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			It's most of it is empty space. If
		
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			you look at a a an atom,
		
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			the nucleus of the atom is 1 it
		
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			is is that the
		
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			the simile of the nucleus of an atom
		
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			to the size that the atom takes up
		
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			with its electrons and everything with its electron
		
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			orbitals and whatnot, is like the analogy of
		
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			someone placing a golf ball in the middle
		
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			of a football field.
		
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			Right? The atom is all empty space. The
		
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			the the nucleus, what we consider, quote unquote,
		
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			solid, is just like a golf ball in
		
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			the middle of it. Right? Can you see
		
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			that neutron? Can you see that proton? Absolutely
		
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			not. That neutron and proton is made up
		
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			of quarks. Can you see those quarks? No.
		
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			So when we say that this earth this
		
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			earth is like a grain of sand compared
		
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			to the, entire cosmos, the Samadunya,
		
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			this is an exaggeration, it's much smaller than
		
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			a grain of sand. You can see a
		
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			grain of sand, you can pick it up,
		
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			you can touch it. You can even look
		
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			at it in a microscope. Right?
		
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			The the analogy of what the size of
		
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			the planet that we're on is with comparison
		
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			to what? With comparison to, the size of
		
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			the universe
		
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			is like something that's so small, you cannot
		
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			only not see with your naked eye, you
		
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			can't even see it with a microscope, you
		
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			can't even see it with electron microscope. How's
		
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			an electron microscope gonna be make you able
		
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			to resolve the size of a quark when
		
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			the electron itself is made up of several
		
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			quarks itself? It doesn't it's so small. It's
		
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			like it's something like.
		
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			Right? If you at this point, you're like,
		
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			wow, that's really small. I don't exactly get
		
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			what he's saying except for that he's saying
		
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			it's really smart, small. That's because it's that
		
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			small. You're not gonna be able to understand
		
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			how small it is. That's how small it
		
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			is. So why is it that a person,
		
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			good thing Allah cannot
		
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			forgive my sins? When we're so we're so
		
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			insignificant, we're like less than a bacteria, we're
		
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			less than a quark in front of this
		
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			universe,
		
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			And this universe is the smallest of 7,
		
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			7 universes Allah Ta'i created, all of which
		
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			are dwarfed by the arsh of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala.
		
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			And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's existence is so
		
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			much greater than the arsh that is something
		
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			without
		
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			any.
		
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			So his existence is something that there's you
		
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			cannot make any analogy to
		
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			it. Allah doesn't care about your sins, you
		
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			can pollute it. It's a hadith of the
		
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			Prophet
		
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			Even if your sins are as far as
		
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			the eye can see. Right? You can see
		
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			all the way to the sun, you can
		
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			see stars and galaxies literally that are, you
		
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			know, light years away. If your sins fill
		
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			all of that, and you ask Allah for
		
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			forgiveness with with what? With sincerity, Allah is
		
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			there to forgive you. It's like, you know,
		
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			when you're a kid. Right? Most of people
		
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			are not going to understand this. In fact,
		
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			mostly even the kids are not gonna understand
		
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			this analogy. But for those of you who
		
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			went to elementary school before the age of
		
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			political correctness,
		
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			even if you are Muslim, you'll remember what
		
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			the Easter egg hunt was.
		
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			What was the Easter egg hunt? Right? They
		
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			put, like, obviously, we don't do this in
		
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			the Iqbal school and nowadays, the schools know
		
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			that not everyone celebrates Easter, so very rarely
		
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			will they do things like this. Well, what
		
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			is the Easter egg hunt? They do this
		
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			thing for the children to celebrate Easter. What
		
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			painted eggs have to do with, say, Nai'l
		
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			Isa alaihis salatu alsalam. I have no idea,
		
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			and I I think that really nobody does.
		
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			But at any rate, it's something fun for
		
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			the kids to do, which is that they
		
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			hide candies and they hide fun stuff, Right?
		
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			Everywhere around the school, in their yard, in
		
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			the in the in the classroom,
		
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			behind things, everywhere, and they say to the
		
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			kids, okay, go look and find and everybody
		
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			will look in different places and they'll find
		
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			something. It's a fun thing for the children
		
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			to do. It's fun. I I'm not saying
		
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			it's halal, it's in fact haram. In fact,
		
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			we shouldn't do it, but it's something that
		
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			we've all gone through for those of us
		
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			at least who went to elementary school at
		
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			that age in America. Right? Now imagine the
		
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			delight and the joy of a child when
		
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			he looks
		
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			behind something, which is normally boring,
		
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			which is normally plain, which normally you'll get
		
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			yelled at for looking behind. But this time,
		
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			say, hey, go look for it, and you
		
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			look behind, you say, oh, it's like a
		
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			chocolate. How wonderful is that? Okay? There's very
		
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			few things that are more sincere than the
		
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			love of small children for chocolate. There are
		
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			very few things more sincere than the love
		
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			of large people for chocolate for most of
		
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			us
		
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			Right? What is it? How happy would you
		
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			be? How wonderful would it be? Right? Allah
		
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			has literally hid hid the chocolate of his
		
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			mercy,
		
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			and the sweet the sweet redemption of his
		
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			of Tawbah behind every single every single atom
		
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			in this universe.
		
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			There is nothing,
		
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			literally nothing, not here in the house of
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, nor in the most
		
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			filthy of places,
		
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			physically or spiritually,
		
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			nor in the best of people, nor in
		
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			the worst of people, nor in an animal
		
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			or a plant, nor in any object animate
		
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			or inanimate, except for within it. There is
		
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			something
		
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			Allah has hidden for you by which you
		
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			will not only have your sins forgiven, by
		
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			which Allah
		
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			from His grace and mercy will trade your
		
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			sins for good deeds. Imagine that every sin
		
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			you did in your life, you'll get credited
		
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			for it,
		
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			if you make tawba. What do I mean?
		
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			Come to the house of Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala, make and pray 2 rakas and ask
		
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			for his forgiveness, he forgives you. Go to
		
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			the street. Right? Pick up a piece of
		
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			garbage from there, put it in your pocket
		
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			or go throw it in the garbage can,
		
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			and ask Allah for his forgiveness, he'll forgive
		
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			you. Go to the mall, say salaam to
		
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			somebody that you know or somebody that you
		
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			don't know, or smile at somebody whether he's
		
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			a Muslim or not a Muslim and be
		
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			kind to that person. Ask Allah for his
		
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			forgiveness, he'll forgive you. Go to the zoo
		
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			and make
		
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			that you're going to feed the animal something
		
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			for the sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			and ask his forgiveness, he'll forgive you. Go
		
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			to go to somebody is shouting and screaming,
		
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			protesting around the Masjid with semi automatic and
		
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			god knows even automatic weapons saying blank Islam,
		
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			blank your prophet, blank your Quran,
		
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			blank this, blank that, blank the other thing.
		
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			Go buy a bottle of bottled water. You
		
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			don't even have to buy a coke because
		
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			that will cost you 50¢ A bottle of
		
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			water, you could probably get bulk at Costco
		
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			or Sam's Club or whatever
		
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			for, like, 15¢.
		
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			Give them a bottle of water instead of
		
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			instead of, you know, returning evil with evil.
		
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			From his
		
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			It comes what? That he didn't use to
		
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			repay evil with evil, rather he used to
		
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			forgive other people. He used to forgive other
		
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			people and he used to, like, forget about
		
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			it, not bother them about whatever bad things
		
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			that they did ever again. Right? Do it
		
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			and ask Allah for his forgiveness,
		
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			he'll forgive you. Now imagine, is there any
		
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			place a rock is in the way of
		
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			somebody? You put the rock in the side,
		
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			ask for his forgiveness, he'll forgive you. It's
		
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			all it's all there. It's all there. The
		
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			only person who gives up hope in the
		
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			mercy of Allah Ta'ala is the one who
		
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			has vastly underestimated
		
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			the scale of his mercy, or the one
		
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			who has vastly overestimated
		
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			the importance of themselves and the importance of
		
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			their sins.
		
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			Within this context, we narrate a hadith of
		
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			the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. What did
		
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			he say?
		
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			He said that he came up to the
		
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			right? This the pulpit from which the
		
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			is given. This pulpit is not to be
		
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			used for anything other than the.
		
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			I I remind the small children of politeness.
		
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			Okay? With politeness. Don't play on the pulpit.
		
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			Don't play on the member. Why? Because this
		
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			is the maqam of the messenger of Allah
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. It's an of his
		
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			that we have this. It's an of it.
		
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			Why? It's the one the place that he
		
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			stood in, he gave his teachings, and no
		
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			one stands in this place and gives the
		
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			teaching except for the teachings of the Messenger
		
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			of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And we
		
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			don't take that lightly. We don't take that
		
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			lightly. We don't put, you know, our stuff
		
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			and our clothes and whatnot on it. No.
		
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			This is a place of
		
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			Amana. Right? He himself, Mubarak
		
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			sallam came up under his mimbar. The only
		
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			one who should be allowed on the mimbar
		
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			of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is
		
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			the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam or his
		
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			authorized representatives.
		
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			The people of knowledge are the heirs of
		
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			the prophets. May Allah forgive us for not
		
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			having prepared people of knowledge that people like
		
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			myself have to stand here so that we
		
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			can complete our,
		
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			our and the obligations that Allah taught put
		
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			upon us. But aslanoon should be able to
		
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			stand here except for a person of knowledge
		
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			and a person of taqwa, a person who
		
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			is an authorized representative of the Messenger of
		
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			Allah.
		
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			He came up and ascended his own Mubarak
		
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			Pulpit
		
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			Imagine.
		
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			He ascended his own Mubarik pulpit
		
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			and he said, Amin 3 times.
		
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			The sahaba
		
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			They said, Why is he saying Amin?
		
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			So it was said to him, when you
		
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			came up on your pulpit,
		
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			right, obviously not during the.
		
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			Right? It was later said, when you came
		
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			up on your pulpit, you said, Amin 3
		
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			times. We never see you say 'amin' 3
		
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			times like that before. Is this a new
		
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			sunnah? Is there something we're missing? Why is
		
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			it you said 'amin' 3 times? And the
		
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			messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said
		
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			what? Said, when I was ascending my pulpit,
		
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			the angel Jibril Alaihi Salam, the angel Gabriel
		
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			came to me, and he said to me
		
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			3 things. And after every one of those
		
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			three things, he said to me, say Amin.
		
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			He commanded me to say Amin.
		
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			The first thing is what? He said to
		
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			me,
		
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			if
		
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			somebody reaches the month of Ramadan,
		
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			it's just around the corner. This Jum'ah, the
		
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			next Jum'ah at Shaaban, and then the Jum'ah
		
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			after that is Ramadan.
		
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			Right? The jum'ah after that will be in
		
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			the month of Ramadan. Only one jum'ah intervenes
		
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			between us and the first jum'ah of Ramadan.
		
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			Said if a person reaches Ramadan,
		
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			not complete. If a person reaches Ramadan, and
		
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			he managed to stumble through Ramadan and not
		
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			be forgiven,
		
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			then that person Allah has cursed them.
		
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			Say, Amin. And the prophet salallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam said, Amin. I was I was translating
		
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			the hadith, but
		
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			I mean it's if the Messenger of Allah
		
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			was commanded to say
		
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			then then it's not distant that we should
		
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			say to the same thing as well. What
		
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			did he say? If you if somebody
		
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			if somebody reaches Ramadan and still manages to
		
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			fumble through it, not even fumble, it takes
		
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			a certain amount of finesse to get through
		
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			Ramadan and not be forgiven,
		
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			then know that truly that person has been
		
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			cursed. There are certain people, Allah ta'ala, their
		
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			fortune gives them something in their fortune high,
		
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			and someone in in their fortune something someone
		
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			is given something low, and something very,
		
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			very horrible. Right? To be shaitan, it's not
		
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			good it's not good fortune.
		
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			It's not good. Allah
		
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			for that for that shaitan. Obviously, we're pleased
		
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			with whatever Allah decides.
		
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			But for him, it's not good. Nobody would
		
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			want to be that that shaitan. Right? This
		
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			is what this is a of the people
		
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			who are cursed by
		
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			Allah That they managed to fumble and bumble
		
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			through Ramadan without fasting,
		
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			without
		
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			praying,
		
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			without praying tarawee, without giving an access of
		
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			sadaqah,
		
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			without making dua, without reading Quran, without whatever
		
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			they they manage to, like, miss every single
		
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			opportunity,
		
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			that person truly is one cursed by Allah
		
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			It's not easy. It's difficult. A person has
		
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			to be consciously trying to miss out on
		
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			the forgiveness of Allah for them to be
		
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			in that maqam.
		
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			This is something very important to understand.
		
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			Okay? There is saying Abu Bakr, alayahu, who
		
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			is a hadith that the messenger of Allah
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam described the different gates
		
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			of Jannah.
		
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			The gate of Jannah that the people of
		
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			the prayer will enter through. The gate of
		
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			Jannah that the angel will call people of
		
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			the prayer to come and enter paradise through.
		
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			The gate of fasting that the angels will
		
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			call the
		
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			people of fasting to enter to paradise too.
		
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			The gates of that,
		
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			that the angels will call the people
		
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			of charity to enter paradise
		
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			through.
		
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			Abu
		
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			Bakr
		
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			Look at him. Right? The out strippers, the
		
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			ones who come in 1st place, are the
		
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			ones who come in 1st place. Those are
		
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			the ones who Allah brings close to them.
		
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			Right? What did he ask as a question?
		
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			Look at the how high is him and
		
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			his spiritual courage was, and his spiritual ambition
		
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			was. What did he say? He said, You
		
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			Rasool Allah, is there anyone who's gonna be
		
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			called by more than one gate?
		
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			And then Nabi saw something, what did he
		
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			say? He
		
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			says, You Abu Bakr. Yes. There will be
		
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			people called by more than 1 gate. Some
		
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			people will be called by all of the
		
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			gates, and it's my hope that you'll be
		
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			one of them.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Try to be the one who's called from
		
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			all gates. Try to be the one who
		
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			hits every one of the prizes, finds every
		
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			one of the Easter egg hunt. You understand
		
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			what I'm saying? Obviously, we don't compare Ramadan
		
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			to an Easter egg hunt, but you understand
		
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			what I'm saying. Try to be the one
		
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			who bags every single one of the prizes
		
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			if you can.
		
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			And fear that you're gonna be one of
		
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			those, and I'm gonna be one of those
		
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			who misses all of them, who misses all
		
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			of them. What is it? It's a maqam
		
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			of Allah, Ta'ala, is cursed. A person shouldn't
		
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			have an irrational fear, but the fear should
		
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			be what? It should drive you that, listen,
		
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			we need to not be slacking off, you
		
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			know, we need to not be, laissez faire
		
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			about this this thing. This is an opportunity
		
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			that's coming.
		
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			We need to be we need to hedge
		
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			our bets. We need to put some time
		
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			into our salat, some time into our,
		
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			siam, into our fasting, some time into our
		
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			energy and money into our sadaqa.
		
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			Right? Is not only just money, by the
		
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			way. It's also your volunteer time. It's also
		
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			the way your behavior with other people. It's
		
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			a number of things. Some effort into all
		
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			of these different categories,
		
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			so that if one of them doesn't work
		
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			work out for us, if we botch one
		
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			of them, this happens. Is who here in
		
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			the Masjid every time everything that they do,
		
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			they do it right the first time? If
		
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			it's one of you,
		
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			I need to sit and take some lessons
		
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			for you. The rest of us, the normal
		
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			ones amongst us, we botch things from time
		
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			to time. So hedge your bets a little
		
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			bit, you know? Try to try try to
		
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			try to get a little bit of everything,
		
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			so that you don't become one of those
		
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			who leaves with none of anything.
		
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			Right? Why? Because the one who leaves with
		
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			none of anything, the one who gets to
		
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			Ramadan without being forgiven,
		
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			what did the Messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam what was he commanded to say
		
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			to? He commanded to say to this person
		
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			being
		
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			cursed. The second the second thing that the
		
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			angel Jibril
		
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			mentioned. What did he mention? He said,
		
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			the one and the one who grows up,
		
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			and reaches either both of his parents or
		
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			even one of his parents while they're still
		
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			alive, and they're not able to do anything
		
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			for them, any khidma for them, any service
		
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			for them,
		
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			that person who's not able to do anything
		
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			by which they'll be forgiven, that person is
		
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			truly cursed to say, Amin, and the prophet
		
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			said, Amin.
		
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			Now with your family and your parents, it's
		
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			obviously very tricky, and it's frustrated. Sometimes you
		
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			do everything that you can do. If somebody
		
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			here has their parents that are pleased with
		
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			them, this is a This
		
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			is such
		
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			a such a blessing that there's no no
		
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			we cannot measure it or compare it to
		
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			another blessing. So, big du'a for us as
		
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			well. There are many people who what? They
		
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			will serve their parents as best as they
		
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			can, their parents still won't be happy with
		
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			them. Don't worry about that. Do the best
		
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			that you can. Even if your parents don't
		
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			appreciate it, Allah appreciates it. It's not going
		
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			into a black hole, your and your money,
		
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			and your time that you spend for them,
		
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			your love you spend with them. It's not
		
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			going to a black hole, it's going somewhere
		
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			good. Don't fight with them, don't try to
		
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			educate them about how to be a good
		
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			person, or how to follow the deen. They
		
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			don't care what your opinion is usually. Right?
		
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			Usually, they don't care. They say, Imam Abu
		
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			Hanifa.
		
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			Imam Abu Hanifa. Right? The Sahib al Mila
		
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			Al Hanafiya, the patron of the Mila of
		
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			Sayidna Ibrahim alaihisatu as salam. The one that
		
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			the ulama, gave him the of al imam
		
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			al a'von.
		
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			His own mother wouldn't
		
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			listen to his opinions on fiqh. In fact,
		
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			she would send him to the other alamaqouf,
		
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			I say, what
		
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			is his opinion on this issue?
		
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			So he would go to people, and he
		
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			would say he would say, he'd say, what's
		
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			your opinion on such and such issue? This
		
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			is Sheikh, you're like the, like you're the
		
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			imam of the entire milah, you're you're the
		
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			you're the most learned faqih in all of
		
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			Kufa. What are we gonna say in front
		
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			of you? He's like, Listen man, my mom
		
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			told me to ask you, so just, you
		
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			know, don't bust my chops. Give me the
		
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			What what whatever your answer is, I'm taking
		
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			it, but I'm not here for like, you
		
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			know, a debate.
		
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			He says, Well, I don't know. I don't
		
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			know the answer to that question. Why don't
		
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			you tell me what the answer is, and
		
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			then I'll tell you tell it to you,
		
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			and then you can go tell your mom
		
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			that he said such and such thing. Right?
		
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			That's the way the dunya works sometimes. Right?
		
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			So don't give up hope just because your
		
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			parents are not like super,
		
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			you know, pleased with you because you never,
		
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			you know,
		
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			the one who doesn't become a doctor because
		
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			you never become a doctor, the one who
		
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			doesn't become a sheikh because you never became
		
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			a sheikh because the one who's not a
		
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			haf is because you never become a haf
		
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			is the haf is doctor sheikh because you
		
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			didn't do the other thing. Don't worry about
		
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			those things. Allah is the one who you
		
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			do it for, and Allah is the one
		
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			who rewards you. He'll see what you do,
		
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			and he'll see what you don't do. He's
		
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			the one who rewards for it. But if
		
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			anyone can go through and manage to avoid
		
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			doing anything for their parents whatsoever,
		
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			and their parents die in such a state,
		
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			and that person isn't forgiven. Your parents are
		
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			just a vehicle, it's like something you look
		
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			behind your parents, you'll find jannah. Right? If
		
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			you're able to avoid them in such a
		
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			way that you don't get jannah because of
		
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			your inability to have served them, then Einul
		
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			Jibril alaihis salam said to the Prophet
		
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			commanded him that that, These people are cursed,
		
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			you say, Amin, and the Prophet
		
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			The one who was sent as a mercy
		
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			to the world was forced to say, Amin,
		
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			to testify to how cursed such a person
		
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			is.
		
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			And the last, and not the least, perhaps,
		
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			the most important of the 3. The Nabi
		
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			said to him by Sayyidina Jibril, that whoever
		
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			and whoever your name, your Mubarak name, your
		
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			Mubarak name, your Mubarak name is mentioned in
		
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			front of that person. And that person doesn't
		
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			say the salat and salam after your name
		
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			because of which they're not forgiven their sins,
		
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			they're not shown the fadhu and the mercy
		
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			of Allah
		
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			And say that,
		
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			that whoever say say to the people, Yeah,
		
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			Muhammad, if you if you love Allah, then
		
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			follow me, so that Allah may love you,
		
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			and forgive your sins, and Allah
		
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			is forgiving and merciful.
		
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			Right? The one who your Mubarak name
		
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			is mentioned in front of him, and he
		
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			cannot say the benediction of
		
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			the benediction of peace and blessings upon your
		
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			Mubarak and blessed name. Afterward,
		
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			that person who can get through their life
		
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			without saying
		
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			after the mention of your name, because of
		
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			which they're not forgiven, truly such a person
		
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			is cursed. And the prophet
		
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			Prophet is commanded to say, Amin by the
		
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			angel Jibril
		
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			And he said, Amin.
		
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			And this is the this is
		
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			the the the the diagram, the map of
		
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			Allah's creation. That for your intents and purposes,
		
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			and my intents and purposes, it's a treasure
		
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			hunt behind every single thing is the blessings
		
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			of Allah, the rahma of Allah. Behind every
		
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			single thing is the blessings of Allah and
		
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			the mercy of Allah to Allah, the forgiveness
		
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			of Allah to Allah, the acceptance of Tawba
		
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			from the slaves. The only thing that we're
		
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			short is people to look for it. The
		
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			only thing we're short is people to look
		
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			for it, to look to it, to have
		
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			hope in it, to have the Himma, to
		
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			be courageous enough, to have the courage to
		
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			say Allah. I I I regret my sins.
		
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			I regret my sins. Whatever I enjoyed from
		
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			it, even that I don't enjoy it anymore.
		
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			Whatever bad came from it, I regret it.
		
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			And whatever good you have prepared for me
		
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			as long as you've given me life, as
		
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			long as you put breath in my lungs,
		
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			I I will look for your mercy. I
		
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			will ask for your mercy, and I have
		
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			hope. I have and good hope that I'll
		
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			receive it. Allah
		
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			give all of us so much tafib, we're
		
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			small, we're small creations, we're less than the
		
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			microbe and the quark and the whatever Allah
		
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			is in his knowledge, that's that's even smaller
		
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			than that, we're less than all of those
		
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			things, and our Lord is great. He's greater
		
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			than everything put together, and he wrote for
		
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			himself as a law over himself
		
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			that his mercy will outstrip his wrath, and
		
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			we're the ones looking for his mercy. May
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us not amongst
		
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			those who are cursed but amongst those who
		
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			are forgiven.