Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Marrakesh Sd Ahmad Zarrq Usl of the Path Part 3 12282017

Hamzah Wald Maqbul
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The importance of finding universal principles in traveling and praying is emphasized, as it is crucial to protect oneself from evil behavior and create a clear vision and standards. The speakers also emphasize the importance of avoiding small mistakes and working harder to avoid regret and waste opportunities. The speakers stress the importance of protecting oneself from the "by themselves" feeling of sluggishness and the "by themselves" feeling of sluggishness, as well as seeking knowledge and avoiding wasting opportunities. The speakers emphasize the importance of being a person who brings others out of the state of doing things for no point or pleasure, and the importance of seeking knowledge from young people to avoid wasting opportunities.
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We continue

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with

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the the text of

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the, Usid Ahmad Zarruk,

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the the foundations or universal principles of

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our path.

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So he continues. He says,

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He said that as far as dealing with

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other people on this path,

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the universal

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principles, meaning what you need to get from

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from others

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in in traveling this path. The universal principles

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or foundations are found in 5 things.

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Seeking knowledge in order to,

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execute the command properly.

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This is a

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a a tragedy.

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This is a,

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debacle.

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This is so many calamities

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put into one

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that

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the Ummah, the prophet

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there's so few people from them that even

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care about the most minimum of things.

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And for some reason, people think it's

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possible to pray without knowing how to pray,

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and it's possible to practice the deen without

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knowing what the deen is.

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And everybody it's wajib on them not to

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become a sheikh or Maulana or do dora

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hadith or become you know, get some sort

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of title or sanad.

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But it's Wajib on them to learn

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what is the and the basic that a

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person needs to know.

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And that differs from time to time and

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from place to place

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because the questions that some people ask or

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have other people don't.

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They have to have the basic knowledge of.

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They have to have the basic knowledge of,

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which is not just the 5 pillars,

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but it may include more things than that.

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So the person who gets married has to

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know the fit of marriage. The person who

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works a job has to know the fiqh

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of those transactions that that are relevant to

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it, their job. People need to know all

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of these things. And, that's just to be

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a regular regular, you know, just a regular

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person to execute the fit properly.

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As far as the

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is concerned,

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that knowledge takes on a different

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a different,

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significance as well. As far as Akhida is

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concerned, that knowledge takes on a different significance

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as well.

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So a person needs to

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needs to know these things and learn these

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things.

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And if they are

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not performing their ibadats properly, they're not

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a person who understands how they're supposed to

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pray their fajr or how they're supposed to

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pray their asr or how they're supposed to

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fast

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or doesn't even know who to ask, when

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something comes up and doesn't have access to

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that person or live close to that person

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or whatever,

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then something very seriously has gone wrong.

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So the first is

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the and it's something I don't wanna talk

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about too much because it seems like sometimes

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it's all I talk about,

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but it's it's really important.

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It's, it's extremely important.

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And, also, remember,

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if serving other people is

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is a way of propelling oneself higher in

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the tariq by

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you receiving the reward for whatever progress they

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make,

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then this the service of the the the

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proliferation of knowledge is

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is like robbing the bank twice.

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It's it's it's,

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something that a person learns something one time,

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and then afterward,

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it's used so many times again and again

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by that person.

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That if you teach a person,

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you teach a person how to read the

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fataha, and those are things you guys, you

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know, you guys don't need to become

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great.

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You know, if you learn some if you

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teach someone to recite the or teach somebody

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to recite

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that person, how many times will they recite

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it during during their entire life?

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You'll receive so much reward for it. So

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if seeking knowledge is such an important thing,

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then the help and the proliferation of the

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knowledge is also, is also important, and it's

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a great vehicle for progress.

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And keeping the company of the and of

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the people who are on this path

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so that a person can

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learn vision.

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What is vision? Vision is something completely free.

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You guys are all corporate guys, so you

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probably have to go to these, like, whatever

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vision,

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strategic plan meeting type things.

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And,

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the visions people come up with are utterly

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pathetic.

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Like, as a Muslim, you're, like, crack chuckling

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inside. This is stupid if this is what

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your vision is. You people are all, like,

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pathetic or probably more accurately sick

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that this is what your your goals are

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out of out of your existence and out

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of your work and whatnot.

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The problem is is that there are people

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who hang out with those people so much

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so much so much that they they imbibe

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whatever state that those people have.

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And a person is supposed to obviously

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earn a living and all of this other

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stuff. There's not only nothing wrong with it.

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It's also part of the dean. But a

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person has to protect themself. Just like if

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you're a blacksmith, just the fact that you

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work around fire doesn't mean that you should

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be coming home burned every day. You need

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to protect yourself from

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from the, from the evil effects of of

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that that trade.

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And,

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one of the ways to do so is

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to keep the the company of the of

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the

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because the the not meaning the, like, whatever

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group that's outlawed in Egypt right now. We're

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talking about, we're talking about who the people

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who are your brothers on the on the

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tariq, the people who keep the same aspiration

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and goals that you do,

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or the sisters, if it's sisters.

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Why? Because

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those people will help you to have a

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correct vision. When you sit in their mudslist,

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the things that seemed important,

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at work or the things that seemed important

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when you were in, you know, whatever, middle

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school or high school or whatever, hanging out

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with college goofball buddies or,

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or whatever it may be. Those things, all

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of a sudden, they become laughable, and a

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new set of things become important. It helps

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a person to helps a person to

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keep correct vision and to keep correct standards

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with regards to how they should live their

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life, and what's important, what's not important.

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And the third is that a person should

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leave leave seeking,

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leave seeking dispensations

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in in in matters

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or seek

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creative interpretations

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regarding matters of deen,

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in order to protect oneself,

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in order to protect oneself and protect one's

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deen. What are dispensations dispensations

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is that every single time, you know, someone

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says you have to wash your feet. Someone

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says you can wipe over your socks. You

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wipe over your socks. Somebody says that you

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can, you know, you can, you know, whatever.

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You have to pray with her, and someone

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says you don't then you just skip with

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her. And somebody says you you know, you

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have to pay, you know, $7 in zakatul

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fitr. Another person says you have to pay

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$5, so you go $5.

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The idea is that there's no,

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well,

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I guess, to varying degrees, there may, in

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certain instances, not be a correct, a right,

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or a wrong answer.

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But the idea that a person is seeking

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out,

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an opinion just because it's easier.

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Not because one thinks it's correct, but because

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it's easier.

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That itself is haram, and it's also, like,

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poison for a person's deen in terms of

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their saluk.

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And a person who wishes to preserve their

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deen should sometimes take the harder opinion not

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because not because of anything else except for

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just to, like like, shake the nuffs to,

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like, you know, get a cheap shot in

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on the nuffs on the way out.

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Because,

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a person who who does that and

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in Filki issues, it's bad enough.

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In issues, it's really, really weird. It gets

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strange sometimes because there are certain parts of

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the din that that the the people we

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live around, they don't find palatable.

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And

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because of

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our endearing wish to be friends with everybody

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all the time and have everybody love us,

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We oftentimes

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will

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find weird understandings of of Islam.

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Somebody came to me and said, oh, sheikh

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so and so told me that the the

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Nasara, before they die, say, will come to

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them and ask them, you know, that I'm

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not the son of God. You believe that,

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don't you? And then, if they accepted Allah,

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I will forgive them for their

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shit.

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And

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I'm

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like,

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what?

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Did you really hear your sheikh say this

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with his own 2 lips? No. No. So

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and so told me. I'm like, I'm pretty

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sure he didn't say that.

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People have these weird things that that there

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are just certain things about the din that

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they feel bad or embarrassed about it, so

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they wanna interpret them in different and weird

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ways. Or they'll hear something

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that, like, you know, some

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speaker professional speaker and preacher will say that

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sounds really cool,

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and it's all, like, very, like, you know,

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Islam is about

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making sure that the environment is organic

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and that, you know, women and children are

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always,

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floating in the air because air is important

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in Islam. Like, they'll say weird things like

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that that sound like they should be, like,

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really deep and wonderful and whatever,

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but it's not the kitab of Allah Ta'ala

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and it's not the sunnah of the prophet

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sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, or they're calling to

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something and that it's not

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entirely clear how this is connected with the

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wahi

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of of the Quran or the sunnah of

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the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Those things,

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it's better to better to take a pass

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on them. In fact, sometimes those people,

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even the weird things that they say, they

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may have a basis completely in the kitab,

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and so until you understand what that is,

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you know, you can just kind of, like,

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put that in the suspended category. You can

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have a good opinion of other people,

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but

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not take something as an authority of

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authority authoritative in the deen until unless you

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see how it's connected to the to the

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Wahi. And there are some things like this,

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like the Masnavi and Mulana Rumi. It's not

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completely

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it's not completely obvious

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how how certain

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are connected to the book of Allah. If

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you actually study it, you know, and you

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read its commentaries or you sit with and

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read it, you'll be like, wow. This is

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just like

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this is completely

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in line with that.

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If you haven't seen that or if that

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doesn't seem like the case to you, you

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can leave it. You can move on. The

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Deen the Deen is not the Deen of

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the Masnavi. It's that of Allah and His

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Rasool Allahu Alaihi Salam.

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And the Masnavi Mulan Arumi is something that's

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been attested to by generations of Ulama, centuries

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that intervene between now and then. Something you

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hear at a conference may not be as

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as solid. Maybe, but, you know, like I

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said, if I'm if if I'm if, you

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know, if the,

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despite their praise for one thing, say it's

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okay to let it go, then the thing

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that's inferior,

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almost certainly, you don't have to hold on

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to it. And this is

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this is what what I mean when I

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say Islam evangelism. It's not just that I'm

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jealous of other people because they have a

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bigger following and a bigger crowd. Honestly, I

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could give less of a damn.

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The and if if I couldn't, then inshallah,

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may Allah make me such that I could

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give. That's not the thing that upsets me.

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The thing that upsets me is what? How

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can you stand up and give a ban?

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Or how can you write a post from

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the beginning to the end? Has nothing to

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do with the of of of the Quran

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as soon as the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa

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sallam. You'll see this. There are people who

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write feel goody things and they say feel

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goody things and tell feel goody stories. It's

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not immediately intuitive what what part of the

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deen a person is explaining in this. Right?

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That's what the word means.

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Means to one thing for one thing to

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be separate from the other. Means to show

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what the differences are between explain things,

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in detail.

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And so when a person

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when a person gets up and says something

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that maybe a Christian pastor could have used,

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like, you know, said, like, inshallah, take the

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out of it, and it could have been

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a a sermon in a church. Then even

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if the teaching is not bad,

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there could be on a human level something

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very good in that teaching.

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But it that's not the role of the

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of

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deen to just tell stuff that people should

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already know anyway.

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Rather,

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it should be to either

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teach people what they don't know or to

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persuade people to,

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come onto the path of the prophet

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in a more in a more complete and

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perfect way.

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So a person these types of things, some

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people have a predilection for them. That's a

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really bad sign. If a person finds themselves

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inclining to those things,

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then,

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know that the that those

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those strange interpretations

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that, you know, sound wonderful and sound cool,

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that's that's harmful for a person in their

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in their in their progress on the.

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And,

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being

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being

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strict in a person's timing,

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in a person's schedule, daily schedule,

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in their,

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Where the what are the means to

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come to to arrive.

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So the word is,

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the it translates as the litany

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of prayers that a person says in the

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day, whether it be prayers

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or whether it be the recitation of the

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Quran or different adkar and things like that.

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Whatever weird the person takes, the person should

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be very

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very

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strict in its timings.

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It's called the weird why because through it

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comes the the help of Allah. It's like

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your daily

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your daily job that your paycheck, your spiritual

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paycheck comes through.

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In fact, it's interesting. One of the words

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for a job is

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and is also a word for for I

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mean, it means the same thing as weird,

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which is your daily

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your

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daily,

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liquor and and and prayers that you do.

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Because

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keeping timings properly is,

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something that that will

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make a person

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constantly aware. If you're able to skip your

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word by having forgotten it,

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then time passes by without your

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without your understanding and knowing. And this is

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one of the great benefits of saying the

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the the salat 5 times a day on

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on time

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is that it makes you very aware of

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the passage of time, what part of the

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day is done, what part of the day

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is is left,

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and,

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maybe a person of heedlessness, whether they're Muslim

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or not,

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days weeks years of their life go by,

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and they don't know where it went, and

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they don't have anything that they've they've done

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for themselves.

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Whereas,

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once a person starts praying 5 times a

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day and wondering when the next prayer time

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comes in, it engenders a certain type of

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halal kefia, which is presence with Allah,

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that that a person should should be aware

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of those things.

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And this has to do with other things

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as well with, you know, with

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special reference to when a person wakes up

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and when they go to sleep, what do

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they do during certain times of the day.

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It's good to work hard, but your job

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shouldn't ever be allowed to overwhelm

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all of your time.

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And this is a culture that we have

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in America. Americans, in some ways, work harder

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than than anyone else in the world. We

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do have plenty of lazy people, but that's

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part of the human condition. In general, we

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take less vacation. We work harder than other

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people do. And the people at work

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want to make it such that you feel

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your future is at work. So they'll put

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in a fridge with, like, free Coke or

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something stupid like that. And, like, awesome. Like,

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I'm gonna stay at work because this Coke

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is free or whatever. Whereas that 50¢ you

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would have paid for it at the grocery

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store is a a small price to pay

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for being a human being.

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The the idea is that that that you

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should have a for your work as well,

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and, it shouldn't spill into other things. It

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shouldn't spill into your

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It shouldn't spill into your family time with

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your,

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with your with your spouse or with your

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parents or with your brothers and sisters.

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It shouldn't spill into your time for seeking

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knowledge. It shouldn't spill into your time for

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making the zikr. It shouldn't spill into your

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time for for for whatever things that that

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are relevant to the affairs of the Muslims

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that you're you do, whether it's meeting other

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people, going to the masjids for events, things

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like that.

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You should make.

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And the thing is that if you give

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every day, like, from 9 to 5, say,

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I'm actually gonna work, you'll get a lot

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done. Nobody does anything at work. Everybody's sitting

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there checking their Facebook and their Twitter and

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chit chatting and spend the whole time walking

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to the damn coffee machine and coming back

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and this and that. There's really no need

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for that. Just do your work while you're

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at work. It'll make your paycheck more halal,

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and then it gives you time for for

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other things. If you're not able to make

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davdav or okat, you're not gonna make anything.

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You're not gonna make you may get by

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at work. You're not gonna get anything in

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Tasawwuf at all.

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And this is something that,

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this is something that that you'll see Hazratanmi

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It said that that he used to keep

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his schedule so fastidiously

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that you had to schedule shaking hands with

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him.

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Go to the secretary, find open time. He'll

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give you the time. You shake hands with

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him. You have your, like, whatever, 2 minutes

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of of small talk, and that's it. Even

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his own when it was time when they

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would come to visit for him, he had,

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like, an hour that he would write in

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the day. And he wrote so many books.

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All it was at 1 hour, I'm just

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gonna write. And, through the barakah of that

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hour, so many books came out and so

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many beneficial books.

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And many of the, unfortunately, their books are

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not

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their books. They're just somebody, like, they just

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wrote down their bands while they're giving them.

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And there's so much barakah in that. When

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you write your own book, though, it's completely

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a whole another level because you have to

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think about what you're gonna write, and you

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pick your words very, very, very cautiously, and

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you have control over the the way the

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final product comes up.

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And so there's so much benefit in in

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his books because they're written with that higher

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level of thoughtfulness,

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amongst other things.

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And

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that

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that baraka is not gonna come until you're

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able to fix a time for

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things. If you're able to fix a time

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for things, there's no reason that all of

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us shouldn't be the father of the Quran

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or all of us shouldn't, you know, do

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great things

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in our lives, every single one of us.

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And the problem is that the potentiality for

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that is there in every single human being.

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Not everyone can do everything, but everyone can

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do something great.

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And,

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the potentiality is there in every single human

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being, and we make choices, like small choices

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every day in our life to

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not

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do that and not be that. And, it's

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really it's really sad for all of us.

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Allah forgive us for wasting the opportunities. We

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haven't given us to take the opportunities that

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we missed in the future again.

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But

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the of persons

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walked, go to sleep after Isha.

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The best it's good for your health. The

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best sleep that a person receives is between

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Isha and between midnight.

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That that that sleep is restful. There's a

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certain

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type of rest you'll get from that sleep

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that you won't get from any other time.

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Just like that, the that a person takes

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during the day, you don't just sleep for

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3 hours. Even if you take a nap

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for half an hour, there's something that the

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body gets out of that that they won't

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get for the rest of the night. And

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if you need more sleep, then there are

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that a person could sleep with. Right? But,

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you know, don't sleep after Assur. Don't between

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and Assur. Don't sleep,

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after until the sun rises because those times,

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they're they're harmful for a person, for for

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for a person in their in their sleep.

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And people experience that that you're very sluggish

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and groggy. It takes you, like, much longer

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to the body to get going again.

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Because,

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when a person, you know, wakes up,

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the body, like, gives a jolt of of

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of of different kind of hormones and and

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and and things like that to the body

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to wake it up. And then once it's

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has all that stuff floating around when you're

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sleeping, you're not resting because it has all

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that stuff floating around. And then when your

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body finally cleans all those things out, then

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it can't give you the jolt again when

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you wake up the second time. You're gonna

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be sluggish for for for some time,

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both in your body and your mind. The

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mind needs to sleep, by the way.

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That your brain needs to sleep in order

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to to put its house in order as

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well. And,

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it's

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Islam is difficult.

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It's even more difficult when you're stupid. So

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try to, you know, do all those things

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that will save your brain function Inshallah.

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And the 5th the 5th point is,

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That the 5th the 5th thing is that

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a person is their with themselves, that a

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person should always accuse

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their own nafs in every matter,

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so that that person may leave

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may may may be safe from Hawa.

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What is Hawa? It's your own vain desire.

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Your

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is something that, like, yeah, I'm hungry, and

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so my will do everything it can to

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eat. Yeah. I have this desire. It will

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do everything it can to face chase the

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desire. Hawaii is something different. Hawaii is acting

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without, you know, behaving with no point, behaving

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pointlessly.

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There's so many things that people do every

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day that are pointless. Hawaii is different than

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nafs because there's no the nafs, at least

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you're indulging,

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or or or ingratiating some sort of desire

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of yours.

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The Hawaii, there's no desire you're ingratiating. You're

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just doing something for no reason just to

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be

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stupid. People used to do weird things like

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the you know, just like go kill animals

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or,

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you know, break things or,

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you know, act stupid, act silly in a

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way that doesn't

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garner a person any benefit whatsoever.

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This is also part of this is also

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part of,

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this is also part of a human being

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that they have that in

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them. The the the the masha'i say that

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the enemies of the Saliq are for

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they're the nafs and shaitan and the duniya

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and Hawa.

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And this is what Hawa is. This is

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how a person protects themselves from it, which

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is what to constantly accuse enoughs in every

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matter.

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Something wrong happens, something right happens, whatever it

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is, you accuse yourself that this is my

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fault for for for having chosen this. What

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do you mean if something right happens? When

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something right happens, there's, like, another chapter of

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weird things that can happen. That a person

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does something good, they might become

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arrogant because of it, or they may take

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credit for it even though Allah Ta'ala obviously

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set it up for them and made it

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easy for them. They may,

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you know, use the fact that they're right

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to look at someone else as wrong,

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and a person should blame the nafs in

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every single

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accuse the nafs and be suspicious. So the

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is

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is a accusation,

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or or blame

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that if a person does something right, so

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this is not something that I did myself.

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This is something Allah gave me. And if

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he didn't make it so easy for me

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to do,

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you know,

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then then I shouldn't think that I would

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have done it. And the benefit of it

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is is that you a person that brings

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them out of the state of doing things

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for,

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and it

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it gives them salama. It gives them protection

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from wasting what good that they have and

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then making further further mistakes.

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So the sheikh continues,

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He said that the the calamity of seeking

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knowledge was when you know seeking knowledge has

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gone wrong,

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when you seek it from

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young people,

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people who are just children.

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It doesn't necessarily mean they say Imam Imam

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Shafi'i used to teach darsh before he was

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balek. So he would teach people, like, during

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Ramadan, they would be fasting and he'd be

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eating and drinking. That's fine. Those are exceptions.

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The person the person

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who exhibits some sort of maturity,

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that's different. All of those people are very

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rare.

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And chances are whoever it is, whatever, like,

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whoever that kid on YouTube who's, like, giving

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ban into the void and accusing everybody of

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being weird, whatever. That person is probably not,

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like,

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level of people.

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The the seeking knowledge, the the the calamity

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of it is,

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keeping

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the company of

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those who are

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very young in age

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or who are very raw in their intellect

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that their mind doesn't seem to work well,

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or in deen, that they may know what

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they're talking about, but you see that you,

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you know, you never seen the person pray

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sunnah in your lifetime or something like that,

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or you see the person, you know,

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whatever, having a smoke afterward outside. You don't

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have to say, oh, this person's evil.

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You don't have to make any judgment about

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that person.

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All, you know, all the point of this

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is that you don't don't seek knowledge from

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people like that.

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Or somebody who talks about stuff, but there's

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no

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there's no methodology in what they say or

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talking. It's not illogical. It's just they're

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just giving stories. It's like,

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it's

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like, yeah. Anyway, I'm not gonna say because

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people get upset because because that but some

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people, they like telling stories, and they don't

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know what the point of the story is.

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And it's okay to tell stories every now

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and then, but there should be a point

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and it should be clear what it is.

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The person who doesn't get back to any

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point or any methodology or any logic or

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reasoning or rationality,

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or foundational,

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foundational

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principle in the talk that they're giving,

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those people seeking knowledge from them is is

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going to be calamity because you will drink

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their confusion into you until it becomes part

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of your own state.

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And you know that keeping the company of

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the

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and

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the, the

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and the brothers in the tariq

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is gone wrong,

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when a person

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they spend their time wasting time.

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Correct

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is what?

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Correct

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is,

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taking,

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learning something, benefiting something, doing some sort of

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service.

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Waste of time, Sukhba, is what? Oh, Sheikh,

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like this literally, this is a thing with

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people. This annoys me to no end.

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The person won't come to Darce,

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they're busy. But they'll invite you to dinner

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afterward, or they'll take you to chai afterward,

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coffee afterward.

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If that was the case, you should just

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quit the tarita and like take up time,

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full time work as being like

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a kitchen, like a cook or

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or barista at a at a at a

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at a store because that's your entire function

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in the deen.

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Allah created the best and most elective his

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servants to what?

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To, like,

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learn his ma'arifah and to worship him properly.

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Your function is to make chai for those

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people or to buy lunch for those people,

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which is great. It's better than it's still

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a high maqam. But

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the first point in the entire book was

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what? Or sorry. In the sorry. Not in

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the entire book. The first point in in

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the prerequisites for the first five was what?

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Ulul Hima, a person should shoot higher than

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these things.

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And

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it's great to, like, go out and have

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coffee and lunch and things like that.

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I know how to make coffee in my

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own house. And I know I I I

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know how to make lunch in my own

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house. And, like, going from place to place

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or meeting different people

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is a drain on me, and it would

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have been easier for me just to have

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a regular job and make my own coffee

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and make my own lunch.

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The point is what? The the person should

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come and benefit from the and they should

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come and benefit from the from the, from

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from the teaching, and they should come and

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benefit from the learning and all of these

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other things.

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If you're just hanging out

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and doing all the stuff that a normal

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human being would do with with your or

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with your and you don't do those things

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that are actually giving you some sort of

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benefit,

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then you've

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taken the suhbah of people without getting any

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of the benefit. It's like somebody handed you

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handed you, like, the grapevine, but there's no

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grapes on it. Someone handed you a branch,

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but of the orange tree, there's no oranges

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on it. There's no fruit from what you're

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what you're getting. You're just getting the stem

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of it,

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and then saying, oh, look. You know, I

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spent so much time. So many years, I've

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been meeting so and so. You've been meeting

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him and shooting the breeze with him.

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So see what you benefit from it. Because

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people think everything is magic. Right?

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That somehow you're gonna, you know, you meet

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so and so, and then before you die,

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you know, like, he's gonna come to you

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in the form of an angel and, like,

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sprinkle fairy dust on you, and you'll fly

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there or

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whatever. That's not the way it works. There

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are the sprinkle fairy dust and fly in

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the air people. Whoever they are, they got

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it through making

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for their whole life and from scrupulous adherence

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to the dean and from doing those things

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that would make a normal man cry,

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for years on end.

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Then that type of kind of weird and

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fancy stuff happens. It doesn't happen just because

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you had coffee with someone twice.

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The

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the calamity of leaving

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leaving,

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legal dispensations and strange interpretations in the deen

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is that you start to feel sorry for

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yourself. Oh, look. I went through all this,

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and I'm going through all this difficulty. And

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look at me. You know? I'm so tired,

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and I'm this and I'm that and the

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other thing,

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that you you shouldn't start feeling sorry for

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yourself. If you do that, then you're getting

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the wrong lesson out of out of having

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having,

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having

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left

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left dispensations

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and

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and and spurious interpretations.

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And the

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the calamity of

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being strict with your time.

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We'll come back to this point.

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And the calamity with regards to blaming the

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nafs

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in every

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matter is that if you keep doing that,

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it will get better and better.

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And, he will one day,

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you might one day,

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admire how wonderful your the hal in your

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your state is,

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and, how much istikama you have. Even though

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Allah

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that the nafs

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is such that that even if you try

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your best to be just,

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still, it's justice isn't gonna be wrong.

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And Allah,

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and, the the noble one the son of

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the noble one said the Yusuf Alaihi

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Salam Alaihi Musaam.

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He said that I do not

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I do not,

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hold my my self blameless.

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I don't hold my nafs blameless. Why? Because

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the nafs, the the self and the ego

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is

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always commanding ever commanding to evil, except for

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the one that, my lord has has mercy

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on.

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And

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it's really interesting that the the the

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the problem with blaming the nuffs

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is that if you blame it enough,

00:31:52 --> 00:31:54

you'll start to admire it,

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which is

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you just did you're you just stop blaming

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it at some point.

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The I idea is that when it when

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it's

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being bad, it's easy to blame it because

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what?

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Because you could see with your eyes what's

00:32:08 --> 00:32:10

bad about it. When it's being good, it's

00:32:10 --> 00:32:12

hard because you can't see that anymore.

00:32:13 --> 00:32:15

But once you can't see it anymore, then

00:32:15 --> 00:32:17

it will start doing evil things that it

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wasn't able to do from the beginning.

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The sins of, like, regular heedless people are

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not like the sins of of good people

00:32:23 --> 00:32:24

who go wrong.

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So a person should always

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keep their keep their in check-in. This is

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why our used to do things like that.

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You know? It's not just one of them.

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So many of them generation after generation. If

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somebody

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did something good or saw something good from

00:32:38 --> 00:32:39

themselves,

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then

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that you would find that person,

00:32:52 --> 00:32:53

cleaning the bathroom

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in the middle of the night.

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And,

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what's what's what what's that about? What do

00:33:01 --> 00:33:03

they have, like, a lack of janitorial services

00:33:03 --> 00:33:05

in in the old days or in Madars

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or this? It's not about any of that.

00:33:07 --> 00:33:09

What is it? What is it? A person

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has to remind themselves that this is what

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our maqam is in the deen and our

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maqam is in front of Allah subhanahu wa

00:33:15 --> 00:33:16

ta'ala.

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And anything Allah gave us higher than that,

00:33:19 --> 00:33:21

then it's from his father and a person

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shouldn't be

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a person shouldn't be

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a heedless of that. It's like the master

00:33:26 --> 00:33:28

asked a slave to sit at the table.

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There's a way that the slave should sit

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at the master's table. The

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slave sits at the master's table. Obviously, he's

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gonna eat food that

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that's better than the food that he usually

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eats.

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But there's a way that he's supposed to

00:33:40 --> 00:33:42

sit there. How is he supposed to sit

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there?

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There's not enough salt in the food. This

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I know you're gonna get kicked off. You

00:33:46 --> 00:33:47

get lost. Go eat corn with the hogs

00:33:47 --> 00:33:48

now.

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That's not, you know, that's not your place.

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And so a person should should constantly be

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aware of that last day.

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They they mock it up and and something

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good Allah has going for them, they they

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screw it up and and then they lose

00:34:02 --> 00:34:03

that benefit.

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give all of us

00:34:05 --> 00:34:06

tawfiq.

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