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Hamzah Wald Maqbul
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The importance of fasting and understanding one's product is emphasized, as it is crucial for success and achieving success. The "operational component" of the person is crucial for spiritual experiences, while " pest ap credits" can lead to negative emotions. The physical and mental state of the person is linked to satisfaction, "will" is designed to make the rider feel happy, and " hesitation" is designed to activate and excite the heart. The importance of protecting oneself from the virus and not giving things that are not in one's control is emphasized, as it is important for individuals to take advantage of opportunities to protect themselves from shadow Islam and to protect others.

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			Al
		
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			and those of us in good health to
		
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			read the salatul Tarawi.
		
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			May He allow us to make a drak
		
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			of Laylatul Qadr
		
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			Hadith to the Messenger of
		
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			Allah
		
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			Subhanahu
		
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			Wa
		
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			Ta'ala.
		
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			Allah
		
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			Subhanahu
		
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			Wa
		
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			Ta'ala.
		
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			Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Allah. Allah will,
		
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			for that person forgive their their sins whatever
		
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			came before.
		
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			And obviously the the minor sins are forgiven
		
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			just by the act of fasting, and the
		
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			major sins are,
		
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			forgiven
		
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			when a person makes tovah and repents for
		
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			them,
		
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			on the occasion of their having fasted.
		
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			And he gives the same beshara and glad
		
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			tidings
		
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			for
		
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			the one who stands in the nights of
		
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			Ramadan in prayer. And the Uleman say that
		
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			this is the salatul tarawee.
		
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			And he gives the same Bishalah to the
		
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			person who stands the laylatul Qadr in prayer.
		
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			May Allah give us the ability to find
		
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			it, seek it and to to find it
		
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			and that all of these things be accepted
		
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			from us. Say, Ameen.
		
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			So
		
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			what I wanted to talk about because there
		
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			are a lot of complaints that people have
		
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			nowadays,
		
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			especially
		
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			given how hot it is outside
		
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			and especially given how long the fast day
		
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			is,
		
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			and especially given how
		
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			short the night is,
		
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			and the fact that people have other obligations.
		
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			They have to go to work. They have
		
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			to go to school. They have to tend
		
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			to their tend to their day to day
		
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			lives.
		
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			I wanted to talk about what the point
		
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			of the fast is in the first place.
		
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			So because a person when they
		
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			know the
		
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			value of something, the true value of something,
		
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			then they're more willing to pay the price
		
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			for
		
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			it. As a salesperson,
		
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			in order to be successful, you have to
		
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			believe in
		
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			yourself,
		
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			your ability to sell the product you're selling.
		
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			You have to believe in the product that
		
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			it's actually a good product, and you have
		
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			to believe that the price is a fair
		
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			price.
		
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			And, if somebody were to ask you for
		
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			$1,000
		
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			you'd say, I'm not going to give you
		
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			$1,000 That's a lot of money. If someone
		
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			were to tell you that there's a
		
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			very nice and beautiful house,
		
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			it's 4,000 square feet and it has this
		
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			many bedrooms, this many bathrooms and it's newly
		
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			built and everything is professionally done and it's
		
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			only $1,000
		
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			then people even if they didn't have the
		
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			$1,000 they would run race to go borrow
		
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			the money from somebody in order to buy
		
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			that. Why? Because the price is very good
		
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			price for what you're getting in return.
		
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			And the fast itself is what? And in
		
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			order to understand what the value of the
		
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			fast is,
		
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			a person should
		
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			understand first of all what a human being
		
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			is. So human being is
		
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			for the purpose of understanding the value of
		
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			the fast will make the mithal or the
		
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			the likeness of a human being like a
		
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			radio.
		
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			Like a radio. Radio has 2 bands. It
		
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			has a AM band and the FM band.
		
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			And the quality of whatever you're hearing on
		
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			the radio, the quality of sound of whatever
		
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			you're hearing on the radio is is part
		
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			of 2, you know, there's 2 different sides
		
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			to what the quality of what you're going
		
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			to hear is. 1 is how good is
		
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			the radio.
		
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			If it's, you know, piece of garbage radio,
		
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			or very old and the speakers have become
		
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			loose then the clarity of the sound of
		
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			whatever you're gonna hear, from the other end
		
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			is very low.
		
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			And on the flip side, if you live
		
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			very far from the radio station
		
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			or the radio station itself is not putting
		
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			out a sound of, you know, something with
		
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			a high quality sound,
		
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			or the radio station itself is putting
		
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			out something that's not pleasant to listen to
		
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			or not,
		
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			you know, pleasing to a person to, to
		
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			hear, then from that side,
		
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			shortcoming as well. So in order to have
		
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			a good experience, you have to have a
		
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			good radio and the signal that's coming from
		
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			the station should be a good signal. It
		
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			should be a signal of something that you
		
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			like.
		
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			And just like that, the human being, their
		
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			spiritual
		
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			apparatus has 2 bands in it.
		
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			There's 1 one one,
		
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			Puwa behemia in every person and there's one
		
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			Puwa melekiya in every person.
		
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			Behemia means what? The word behemia in Arabic
		
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			means an animal, like a dumb animal. Not
		
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			in the biological sense. In the biological sense,
		
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			all of us are animals. Right? Because we're
		
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			not plants or fungus. Those
		
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			fungus. Well, some of us have our moments.
		
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			But biologically speaking, we're all animals. We're not
		
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			talking about it in that sense. Behemoth is
		
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			an animal like a like a a dumb
		
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			animal and the literal meaning of the word
		
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			dumb.
		
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			Dumb doesn't mean stupid. That's a metaphorical meaning
		
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			of the word dumb. Literally the word dumb
		
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			means mute person who's not able to speak.
		
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			So a behemoth is a dumb animal like
		
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			a cattle or
		
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			or a camel. It's unable to speak.
		
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			So we have Akua behemia. There's a certain
		
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			type of,
		
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			a certain type of,
		
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			you know, reality,
		
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			to us that we share with animals.
		
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			And, that's why biologically we also consider ourselves
		
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			to be animals.
		
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			They have a 4 chambered heart. Other mammals
		
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			have a 4 chambered heart. We have a
		
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			4 chambered heart. They have blood vessels.
		
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			They have veins and arteries. We have veins
		
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			and arteries. They have a brain. Our brain
		
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			is maybe bigger than theirs by a little
		
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			bit, but its function is largely the same.
		
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			You know, they have, you know, even to
		
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			the down to the musculature and to,
		
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			you know,
		
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			many fine details,
		
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			with regards to the anatomy of of other
		
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			animals. We share a lot of a lot
		
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			of the same stuff.
		
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			And, you know, we're animals like they're animals.
		
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			When they get hungry, they wanna eat. When
		
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			we get hungry, we want to eat. When
		
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			they have other desires they wish to fulfill,
		
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			they fulfill them just like human beings do
		
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			as well.
		
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			And this is part of the way Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala created every person.
		
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			So you have this apparatus, this behemi, this
		
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			animal apparatus or animalistic apparatus inside of you.
		
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			It's not good nor is it evil. It
		
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			just is what it is. Right? It's not
		
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			good nor is it evil. It's not immoral.
		
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			Nobody
		
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			says that a snake that eats another
		
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			animal like a rat
		
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			or you know sometimes many snakes actually eat
		
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			other snakes which is kind of creepy. But,
		
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			watch it on YouTube I guess when Ramadan
		
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			is over if you like. But, you know,
		
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			you're not gonna say that this snake is
		
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			immoral for eating. Why? Because when an animal
		
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			is hungry,
		
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			it eats. It's not good or bad. It
		
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			just kind of is what it is. And
		
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			so we have all of us have that
		
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			inside of us.
		
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			And all of us also though have an
		
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			angelic nature inside of us which differentiates us
		
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			from the animals. And part of the angelic
		
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			nature is what is that we have knowledge.
		
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			We can think of things on an abstract
		
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			level that transcends
		
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			physicality.
		
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			When somebody says to you, what is 2+2?
		
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			Just the fact that you can ask this
		
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			question in an abstract manner,
		
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			it means that this question is a philosophical
		
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			question.
		
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			Right?
		
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			The fact that we have any number other
		
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			than 1 is actually a philosophical
		
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			concept.
		
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			Really, you know, what is 5? 5 is
		
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			just 5 ones. The thing that exists is
		
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			the 1. The 5 is a philosophical
		
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			construct that we made up.
		
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			But the angelic nature allows a person
		
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			to function at a level of abstraction which
		
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			transcends
		
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			physicality and transcends
		
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			material
		
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			and it also allows a person to,
		
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			ponder over
		
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			ponder over, you know,
		
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			moral issues, what's right? What's wrong?
		
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			It allows a person to empathize with another.
		
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			And that if you see something wrong happening
		
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			to another person, you intuitively know that it's
		
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			wrong,
		
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			and you intuitively sympathize with that person even
		
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			though you may never go through that same
		
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			problem,
		
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			ever in your life.
		
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			This is part of the angelic nature and
		
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			spiritual nature Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gave to
		
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			each person.
		
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			And the relationship between these two natures is
		
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			like the relationship between the AM and the
		
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			FM band in radio.
		
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			The FM band is obviously superior. This happens
		
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			like in happens, like, in Chicago, for example,
		
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			there's a news station that has a that
		
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			runs in,
		
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			an AM and it runs in FM. I
		
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			don't remember what the what the, what the
		
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			frequency
		
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			of the station is. But if you listen
		
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			to it in the AM, it's the exact
		
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			same station and you flip it to the
		
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			FM. All of a sudden the quality of
		
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			the sound, increases manifold. Even though for a
		
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			new station, you don't need to have, like,
		
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			super high quality sound, You can understand exactly
		
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			what's going on,
		
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			you know,
		
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			in the AM but the clarity of the
		
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			sound is much higher. So just like the
		
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			AM and FM bands, there's a hierarchy, there's
		
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			a superiority of 1 over the other. Just
		
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			like that, the 2 natures
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gave to a human
		
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			being, the animalistic nature and the spiritual nature,
		
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			there's a hierarchy between them. And the hierarchy
		
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			is what? Is the relationship like the relationship
		
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			between a rider and his horse.
		
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			That the horse
		
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			the the rider rides on the horse. The
		
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			rider is superior to the horse. If the
		
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			rider should die, the horse is not going
		
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			to know where to get food from. It's
		
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			not gonna know where to get water from.
		
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			It may die of exposure or starvation.
		
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			It may itself get lost in the desert
		
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			or not even have enough understanding in order
		
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			to,
		
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			look for where
		
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			it might be able to escape or what
		
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			route it might be able to escape from
		
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			the desert is.
		
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			But at the same time the horse is
		
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			doing most of the work.
		
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			The rider,
		
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			unlike the horse is intelligent, he can think
		
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			ahead, he can make decisions, and he can
		
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			plan for the benefit both of the horse
		
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			and of the rider. So your spiritual apparatus
		
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			is like the rider.
		
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			Your animalistic
		
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			apparatus is like the horse.
		
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			And one
		
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			strange, you know, issue that human beings have,
		
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			one strange part of the human experience is
		
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			that sometimes we kind of misunderstand
		
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			this relationship and the way this relationship is
		
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			supposed to be. And so the rider thinks,
		
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			why don't I carry the horse for a
		
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			while? And if you ever
		
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			were to see something like that, a man
		
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			picking up a horse,
		
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			it would look very ridiculous.
		
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			And the the rider was meant to ride
		
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			and the horse was meant to carry. If
		
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			the rider starts carrying the horse, he's gonna
		
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			break his back. It's gonna kill him.
		
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			But we we do that sometimes. We get
		
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			to we this is a tendency that happens
		
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			in human beings that that we tend to
		
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			get that way. And so what happens if
		
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			anyone here is familiar with horse riding and
		
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			I can't claim that I'm super familiar with
		
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			it but if anyone's familiar with horse riding,
		
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			they know that the horse is not just
		
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			born tame
		
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			and they won't naturally grow up being able
		
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			to be ridden by people. They have to
		
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			be trained and they have to be broken.
		
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			They have to be trained and they have
		
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			to be broken. If you don't break the
		
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			horse, if you don't give it,
		
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			give it a training that will,
		
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			that may be harsh at times but that
		
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			will teach that horse how to,
		
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			you know, how to be able to sustain
		
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			the rider.
		
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			That horse might throw the rider from its
		
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			back and kill him. You guys remember from,
		
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			you sisters remember from some time ago, not
		
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			too long ago, there was, the old Superman
		
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			movies,
		
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			the actor who played Superman, Christopher Reeves.
		
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			It's very interesting. He played Superman in the
		
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			movies, and he was just a normal man
		
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			in real life, and Allah taught everybody
		
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			that there's no such thing as Superman. He
		
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			was riding a horse and he was thrown
		
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			from the horse. He broke his neck and
		
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			he lived for a couple of years
		
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			completely paralyzed and finally he succumbed to
		
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			the the effects of his injuries and he
		
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			passed away. And so what happens if the
		
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			if the if the if the horse is
		
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			not broken,
		
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			the horse may do something like this that,
		
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			it cannot control itself when it's startled and
		
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			it will arrest the rider from it and
		
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			it will cause
		
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			a death to its rider or severe injury
		
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			to its rider. And that's the mythal of
		
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			your behemi, your your your animalistic
		
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			nature and your,
		
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			spiritual nature. That the spiritual nature is meant
		
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			to be the rider. It's meant to direct
		
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			the beast of burden.
		
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			The the the the Puah Bahimiya in every
		
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			single one of us. It's meant to direct
		
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			it,
		
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			in a good direction. In a direction that's
		
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			beneficial. In a direction that's,
		
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			you know, brings happiness in this world and
		
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			protects a person from harm in this world
		
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			and will ultimately,
		
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			win for a person's salvation and everlasting life
		
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			in the hereafter and everlasting happiness in the
		
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			hereafter.
		
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			And if that relationship gets inverted,
		
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			in any, you know, in any way, what
		
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			ends up happening? That neither the rider is
		
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			going to survive, the rider is gonna injure
		
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			himself nor is the horse going to have
		
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			a future without a rider.
		
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			And, that's exactly what happens. And so this
		
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			process of fasting is what? This process of
		
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			fasting is a weakening of the
		
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			the resolve of the,
		
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			of the the animalistic nature and a strengthening
		
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			of the
		
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			resolve of the angelic nature. And the 2
		
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			of them, they will have in their resolve
		
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			a,
		
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			you know,
		
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			a a a a type of
		
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			semi antagonistic
		
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			relationship.
		
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			This is the meaning of the hadith of
		
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			the messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam that
		
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			the Deen and the Dunya are like 2
		
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			co wives.
		
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			So this is a gathering of sisters.
		
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			I assume that no woman who is married
		
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			or really
		
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			unmarried would like enjoy that her her husband
		
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			get another wife. Right? So this is something
		
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			the prophet
		
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			said, what? The deen and the dunya are
		
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			like 2 co wives. If you make one
		
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			of them happy, it is necessary that the
		
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			other one will be upset.
		
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			And if you make the other one happy,
		
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			then the first one will be upset with
		
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			you. It's not something that like, you know,
		
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			I don't think it's part of the human
		
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			condition that anyone would anyone would, like,
		
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			look forward under normal circumstances. There may be
		
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			some exceptions, but under normal circumstances, I don't
		
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			think it's a a situation that anyone would
		
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			look forward to that my husband marry another
		
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			wife and then like to see that he's
		
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			serving her and he's doing all these things.
		
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			He doesn't do anything for me. He doesn't
		
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			clean up my house. He doesn't say these
		
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			nice things. So no nobody would be happy
		
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			about that. The din and the dunya are
		
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			going to be like that and that's an
		
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			Ishara
		
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			Latifa.
		
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			It is a subtle,
		
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			a subtle gesture in the direction and a
		
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			subtle allusion to
		
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			the fact that your
		
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			maleki and your behemi nature, your animalistic in
		
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			your
		
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			angelic nature, there will be some sort of
		
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			antagonism, mild antagonism
		
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			between them. And you can teach what happens.
		
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			It's a hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam, I believe it's the last of
		
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			the 40 hadiths that Imam Nawawi
		
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			narrates in his Arba'i Nawawiya.
		
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			He says,
		
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			That none of you will perfect your belief
		
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			and tell their
		
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			their desires are conformant to that which
		
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			conformant to that with which I came. That
		
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			none of you will perfect your belief until
		
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			your desires are conformant
		
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			to that with which I came,
		
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			And so the idea is what? Is that
		
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			when you break your animalistic
		
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			desires,
		
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			you break it in the sense that it
		
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			no longer, it no longer will have its
		
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			own free will.
		
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			Rather, its will and its happiness
		
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			will be only when this the the spiritual
		
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			and the
		
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			angelic side of you becomes happy.
		
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			That's when you know that you have
		
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			perfected your iman in Allah and His Rasool
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam? Because there are people who
		
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			their physical disposition is aligned to and congruent
		
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			with what the sharia of Sayidina Muhammad sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam teaches. There are people physically
		
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			when they hear the name of the prophet
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, it makes them happy.
		
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			There are people physically when they hear the
		
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			call to prayer, they feel the happiness that
		
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			Allah Ta'ala is calling me to his meeting.
		
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			There are people who physically,
		
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			they feel happiness upon the side of the
		
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			Kaaba or and upon the side of the
		
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			masjid of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			There are people physically and psychologically,
		
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			they will feel uplifted when they hear the
		
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			sound of the Quran being
		
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			recited.
		
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			There are people who are physically,
		
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			you know, there's a reaction inside of them,
		
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			right? There's some people that they see a
		
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			woman in hijab or they see a man
		
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			in a beard, they physically have hatred like
		
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			it's a visceral
		
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			gut reaction of hatred or annoyance or anger
		
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			or fear when they see people like that.
		
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			And then there are people who have
		
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			have a very viscerally positive reaction. They see
		
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			the beard and this is the sunnah of
		
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			Sayyidina Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. They see a
		
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			woman covering in in modesty and they say
		
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			this is a pious person who Allah and
		
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			His Rasool
		
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			love. They see pork and they they they
		
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			say, oh my some people they lick their
		
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			lips and their mouth will water and some
		
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			people they will vomit in disgust.
		
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			You know,
		
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			it's one of those things that that if
		
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			you if you break your knaps and you
		
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			train your knaps, you can make it conformant
		
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			to
		
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			what your what your mind, Right? Your mind
		
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			There's a difference between your mind and your
		
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			brain. Right? Your brain is a physical
		
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			apparatus. It's a it's a it's a
		
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			anatomical feature of the human body.
		
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			The mind is the spiritual apparatus
		
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			and they may have some connection with between
		
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			the 2 of them, hopefully they have some
		
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			connection between the 2 of them. But the
		
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			mind is a spiritual apparatus which is the
		
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			rational thinking part of of of your your
		
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			spirit,
		
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			that that that you need to be able
		
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			to I need to we all need to
		
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			be able to bring the
		
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			physical body to heal underneath the mind. And
		
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			what happens when you don't? Right? What happens
		
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			when you don't is people then will,
		
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			you know, commit zina and they will,
		
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			have children out of wedlock, and those children
		
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			will be born and raised without anyone taking
		
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			care of them. And people will become, you
		
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			know, drink and they'll do drugs and they'll
		
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			become addicted to these things. They will they
		
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			will make all sorts of poor choices that
		
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			will make the animalistic apparatus
		
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			happy.
		
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			And even though the mind knows better that
		
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			this is not gonna turn out good for
		
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			me, like, within, like, 24, 48 hours, this
		
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			is going to cause a lot more harm
		
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			than the benefit that it brings.
		
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			But because the people weren't able to break
		
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			the animalistic
		
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			apparatus,
		
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			in front of the spiritual apparatus that Allah
		
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			gave them, they'll make these poor choices again
		
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			and again. And you don't have to even
		
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			believe in the afilah to understand why these
		
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			choices are poor choices.
		
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			And when the afilah comes then we'll realize
		
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			how truly poor those choices were.
		
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			Wal akhiratukhayrun
		
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			wa abuka baltukhirunal
		
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			hayatunya
		
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			wal akhiratukhayrun
		
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			wa abuka
		
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			That, nay indeed you prefer the life of
		
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			this world even though the akhirah, even though
		
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			the hereafter is more intense and it lasts
		
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			forever.
		
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			Even though the afirerah is more intense and
		
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			it lasts forever,
		
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			both in its good and
		
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			in its punishments. May Allah protect us from
		
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			its punishments.
		
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			The idea is what is you and I,
		
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			we need to break the animalistic
		
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			self
		
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			and what happens, right? The nafs is what?
		
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			The nafs is like that. The more you
		
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			feed it, the more it will grow.
		
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			And
		
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			the less you feed it,
		
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			the the the more pliant it will become.
		
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			And we do not believe like, you know,
		
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			many eastern religions believe
		
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			that the body and the physical nature of
		
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			the soul, and it's not just Eastern religions,
		
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			I should say, it's like
		
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			like Aryan
		
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			or Indo European religion believes that the body
		
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			is inherently evil, right? This is something that
		
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			the Christians believe.
		
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			They believe that the flesh is born of
		
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			sin, that man is born of sin, that
		
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			the flesh is inherently evil and it only
		
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			drives a person toward evil. As Muslims we
		
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			have a much more balanced view of this
		
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			issue.
		
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			That the flesh and
		
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			the physical apparatus of a person,
		
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			if you make it your master, it will
		
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			always pull you toward bad decision making.
		
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			Bad decision making pulls you toward evil. It
		
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			will always lead you toward bad decision making.
		
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			Not because
		
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			it in and of itself is evil,
		
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			but because it's just a bad decision. So
		
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			if you're a snake,
		
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			you know, eating anything that moves, it's not
		
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			a bad decision. It's a very rational decision
		
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			because you're a snake. If you're a human
		
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			being and you try to behave like a
		
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			snake, that's a bad decision.
		
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			And that will also lead to something that's
		
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			immoral for you as a as a human
		
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			being.
		
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			So what do you need to do?
		
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			The the the nafs, which is what we
		
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			talk about the the the spiritual apparatus of
		
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			a person that's more
		
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			intimately connected with the animalistic nature.
		
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			The nafs is not something you can do
		
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			without. Okay?
		
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			If we believe the physical nature was evil,
		
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			then the most logical thing for a person
		
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			to do, and the most
		
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			morally upright thing for a person to do
		
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			would be to kill themself,
		
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			to commit suicide. Why? Because you're evil. By
		
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			killing yourself, you purge your evil from this
		
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			world.
		
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			And indeed there are,
		
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			there are several
		
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			traditions that
		
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			that, that actually advocate for that. Right? There's
		
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			a religion in India called Jainism
		
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			and the highest the highest, virtue that a
		
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			person can can do from amongst deeds and
		
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			Jainism is that you strip yourself naked, you
		
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			walk into the forest and you starve yourself
		
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			to death.
		
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			Death because you kill yourself and starve why?
		
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			Because you don't wanna harm another living being
		
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			in order to sustain your life. We don't
		
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			believe like that.
		
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			Dunya khulatatlakum
		
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			wa antukulatul
		
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			lil akhirah Allah ta'ala's Messenger salallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam told us what?
		
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			The dunya was created for you. Go eat
		
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			and drink from it. Go enjoy it. It
		
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			was created for you. But remember that you
		
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			were created for the akhirah, you weren't created
		
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			for the dunya. So we don't have this
		
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			we don't have this extremism. Right? Like even
		
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			in Christianity,
		
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			for example,
		
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			you know, their highest
		
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			forms of of of devotion to God involve
		
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			celibacy,
		
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			they involve
		
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			vows of silence, fasting, monasticism. These are things
		
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			that are actually forbidden in our, in our
		
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			religion.
		
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			And people people did those things why? To
		
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			totally kill and destroy
		
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			their nafs because they thought that the nafs
		
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			was inherently evil. Now tell me something, if
		
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			the most morally upright and virtuous of of
		
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			this Ummah,
		
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			if all of us became celibate, then there
		
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			would be the next gen next generation of
		
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			moral morally upright people. Nobody,
		
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			like, we we genetically,
		
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			like, you know, give the Darwin award to
		
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			piety. So piety is a baquasi
		
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			nonsense type of
		
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			of of genetic predisposition.
		
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			And so let's just like, you know, remove
		
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			them from the gene pool. And that's actually
		
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			what's happened in in in in some society.
		
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			In fact, that's a different topic. I don't
		
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			wanna go down that that that that road.
		
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			But the thing is that what? That,
		
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			you know, if everybody were to do that,
		
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			if they were to be celibate and withdraw
		
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			from society and not participate in society anymore,
		
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			then what would happen? The marketplaces,
		
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			the hospitals, the streets,
		
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			the governments, the the,
		
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			schools, all of these things would be left
		
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			to the people who have no care about
		
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			the the afirah at all. And what will
		
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			that do? It will perpetuate an evil future
		
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			for us.
		
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			And this is not the sunnah of the
		
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			prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, this is not
		
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			the way of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam. And honestly, this is the easy way.
		
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			This way is easy, it's a cop out.
		
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			This is one of the reasons why fasting,
		
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			the said, Abdullah ibn Amr ibn Asir radhiallahu
		
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			alaihi wa ta'ala an hooma. He asked the
		
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			Prophet
		
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			about fasting, and the Prophet
		
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			told him to fast on the Ayam al
		
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			Abir on the white days, 3 days every
		
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			month. He says, I can do more. He
		
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			says, You Rasool Allah, I can do more.
		
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			So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam told him,
		
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			fast
		
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			every Monday Thursday.
		
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			He said, You Rasool Allah, I can do
		
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			more. What did he tell him? He says,
		
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			fast
		
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			every fast
		
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			of Dawud alaihis salam which is every other
		
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			day.
		
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			And the idea is that the person who
		
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			fasts every other day, they'll have written for
		
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			them the reward of having fasted
		
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			every day. Because fasting every every other day
		
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			is actually harder than than than fasting every
		
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			day. If you fast every day, your disposition
		
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			will become accustomed to it. You'll adjust your
		
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			schedule that you'll sleep at certain times and
		
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			you'll wake up at certain times and you'll,
		
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			you know, you'll eat certain food. You adjust
		
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			yourself to it. And so the difficulty is
		
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			gone. The path of our Nabi salallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam is harder than the path of
		
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			monasticism.
		
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			Because even if it's difficult to live a
		
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			life of celibacy, and it's difficult to live
		
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			a life
		
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			of of abstinence and it's difficult to live
		
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			a life of
		
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			of of, you know, of fasting every day
		
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			and it's difficult to live a life of
		
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			withdrawal from the dunya. If you did it,
		
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			you will eventually become accustomed to it. Sooner
		
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			rather than later, you will become accustomed to
		
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			it and that will become your life for
		
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			you. But the Nabi
		
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			his sunnah
		
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			is is is even more narrow and more
		
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			constricted and more difficult,
		
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			of a path to take than that path.
		
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			Why? Because we have to
		
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			we have to get,
		
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			the upper hand
		
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			of the angelic self over the animalistic self,
		
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			and then we have to go and and
		
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			and uh-uh bring that
		
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			angelic nature into society in order to make
		
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			it better.
		
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			And we need to still mix with the
		
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			people, and we still need to, go to
		
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			work, and we still need to have children,
		
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			and raise children. We still I mean this
		
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			is a superiority. Imagine
		
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			the Christians and the Muslims as well but
		
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			for different reasons. We hold up Sayyidha, Sayyidha
		
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			Maryam alaihis salam
		
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			as being a model of virtue, as being
		
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			a model of virtue. And the Christians specifically
		
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			one
		
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			of the virtues of Sayyidha Mariam
		
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			that they hold up is what? That she's
		
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			the virgin Mary. That she's the virgin Mary.
		
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			That she was
		
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			a virgin.
		
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			Even though according to their tradition, she marries
		
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			and and according to rewaiyat and our tradition
		
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			as well, she gets married after saying that
		
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			Isa alaihi salam, is born. But she was
		
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			she was a virgin up until that point.
		
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			He was born from a virgin birth, alayhis
		
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			salaam.
		
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			Now tell me whose maqam is higher? Whose
		
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			maqam is higher? Right? The one who was
		
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			who never who never
		
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			consummated a marriage,
		
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			and she was a virgin until a certain
		
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			point and then afterwards she get she got
		
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			married and lived a normal life. Or somebody
		
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			like Saydai Aisha
		
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			who was 18 at the time of the
		
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			prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's passing away from
		
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			this world.
		
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			She was what? She was 18 at the
		
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			time of the prophet. She was a teenager
		
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			when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam passed
		
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			away from this world. And her she married
		
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			him and her marriage was consummated.
		
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			And by the text of the Quran, she
		
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			was not allowed to or able to marry
		
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			anyone else and she lived until a great
		
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			age, until a great age. She lived until
		
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			her sixties,
		
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			Who whose virtue is higher? The one who
		
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			who was a virgin after who was a
		
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			virgin after having never
		
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			consummated a marriage or the one who had
		
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			who had experienced that life and experienced that
		
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			that experience and then afterward had so much
		
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			control over their nafs that that that she
		
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			never, went back to it and never complained
		
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			about it ever in her life. This is
		
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			the difference between the path of Sayna Muhammad
		
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			Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam and
		
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			the other paths. It's more difficult. It requires
		
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			more control over yourself.
		
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			And this is what the fasting does. The
		
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			fasting, what does it do?
		
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			It's like breaking the horse. You don't let
		
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			the horse run wild. You don't let the
		
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			horse order you around or take you wherever
		
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			it wants to go. You're the rider. You're
		
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			the one who should tell the horse where
		
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			to go. And when the horse acts up,
		
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			it needs to be it needs to be
		
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			sent back to training. It needs to be
		
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			sent back to being broken. And this happens
		
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			to every single one of us that when
		
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			the year passes by,
		
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			our nafs
		
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			you know,
		
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			month by month, day by day, week by
		
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			week, the nafs gets a little bit more
		
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			out of tune with what it's supposed to
		
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			be doing.
		
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			And so now in this time, we say
		
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			to it what? We say to it, pipe
		
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			down. We're sick and tired of hearing you.
		
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			Always saying I wanna eat this. Always saying
		
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			I wanna do this. Always saying I'm
		
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			arguing with so and so, and I'm having
		
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			a fight with so and so, and I'm
		
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			upset with so and so, and I'm jealous
		
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			with so and so. And, my you know
		
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			you know,
		
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			obsessing about obsessing about material things and obsessing
		
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			about, you know, so and so clothes and
		
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			so and so's car and so and so's
		
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			house and all of these things. This is
		
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			nonsense.
		
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			These things are all perishing. They're all perishing
		
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			from this dunya.
		
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			Nice car the nicest car you buy. You
		
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			can buy the most a 100,000, 200, $300,000
		
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			car. It's not it's not nobody's going to
		
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			pay even $1,000 for it in 10 years.
		
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			That's the way this that's the way this
		
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			duniya works.
		
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			It's not even something you have to, like,
		
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			wake up the yama in order to understand
		
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			that that's the way it is. You have
		
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			to be able to reorient yourself and focus
		
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			on those things that last forever
		
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			in order to understand how important they are
		
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			and in order to stop focusing on those
		
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			things that are going to perish because you
		
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			know, the thing that's finite
		
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			is nothing in comparison to the thing that's
		
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			infinite. If any of you have taken calculus
		
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			before, you do limits or whatever. Sometimes you
		
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			do a limit of a fraction. Right? So
		
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			you end up with a with a with
		
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			a with a fraction.
		
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			The numerator of which is in is, infinity
		
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			and the denominator of which is a finite
		
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			number. Or the numerator of which is a
		
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			is is a finite number and the denominator
		
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			of which is infinity?
		
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			If you have like 2 over infinity and
		
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			then 4 over infinity, which one is a
		
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			bigger number?
		
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			2 over infinity or 4 over infinity? Which
		
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			one is a bigger number? Both of them
		
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			are 0. Both of them are basically they're
		
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			they're they're they're they're infinitesimal.
		
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			It doesn't matter anymore. Right? So what does
		
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			it matter if you drove a Toyota or
		
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			you drove a Lexus in the Denia?
		
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			Does that actually have anything to do with
		
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			your worth as a human being? Has absolutely
		
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			nothing to do with your worth as a
		
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			human being.
		
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			There are people, forget about driving cars, there
		
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			are people who don't own cell phones, there
		
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			are people who are in refugee camps somewhere
		
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			in the world. Right? The person who has
		
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			quality,
		
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			He he he he doesn't care about what's
		
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			the way you look. He doesn't care about
		
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			your body, your physical,
		
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			makeup.
		
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			He doesn't care about your
		
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			wealth. How are you gonna impress Allah to
		
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			Allah with your with your car? He made
		
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			the entire heavens and the earth from nothing.
		
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			How are you going to impress him? He
		
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			doesn't care about any of those things. But
		
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			what does he do? He looks inside of
		
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			your heart and if he sees somebody
		
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			whose heart he he loves, then he he
		
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			has
		
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			and it comes in the hadith of the
		
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			prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. He has
		
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			he has he's been soft and he's delicate
		
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			and caring and nurturing
		
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			for for that person, with that person.
		
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			We have to understand that these are things
		
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			that, you know, people might say, okay, we
		
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			came on a Friday, a fast day. We
		
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			have other things to do. It's not like
		
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			this guy is giving us news flash that,
		
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			that,
		
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			you know, your, you know, your heart matters
		
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			more than your property and your wealth. But
		
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			the fact of the matter is still we
		
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			have to remind one another and we have
		
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			to say it to one another again and
		
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			again. And it's an act of piety to
		
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			say it again and again to yourself and
		
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			to say it to others again and again.
		
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			Why? Because the counter message is being said
		
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			again and again and again. The counter message
		
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			is being said again and again and again
		
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			both on the tongue and and and through,
		
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			subtle isharah, like through microaggressions
		
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			that, that are perpetrated on people of, of
		
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			belief from the dunya and from Shaikhan,
		
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			you know, throughout the day, through advertising and
		
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			through subtle innuendos people make, comments people make,
		
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			things people say
		
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			by non Muslims and by unfortunately Muslims as
		
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			well. In fact, some of the the the
		
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			most fierce advocacy
		
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			of
		
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			of of materialism
		
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			happens from Muslims, maybe from our own relatives
		
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			sometimes.
		
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			And the fact of the matter is we
		
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			have draw a line. You don't have to
		
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			get into an argument with your relatives but
		
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			inside of your heart you have to draw
		
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			a line. You have to say no. I
		
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			no. I refuse to,
		
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			be one of those people
		
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			who values my own self worth based on,
		
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			like, material things. I refuse it.
		
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			And if there's a,
		
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			you know, the a really beautiful example of
		
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			why
		
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			your value is not based on your materialism,
		
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			it's Ramadan,
		
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			because you don't even drink during the day,
		
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			you don't indulge any of your shahawat during
		
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			the day, you're not supposed to look at
		
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			the haram, you're not supposed to listen to
		
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			the haram, you're not supposed to see the
		
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			haram. On top of that, the couple of
		
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			hours you have in the evening, right, you
		
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			spend listening to the book of Allah
		
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			which was revealed for free, and it was
		
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			propagated for free and it was taught for
		
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			free, and it's read in the salatul Tarawih
		
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			for free. This is one of the most
		
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			disgusting
		
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			and ugly innovations that that that we've picked
		
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			up as a community this time is that
		
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			now they even paid the the the the
		
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			the Quran reciter for
		
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			a salary for reciting, which is Haram according
		
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			to majority of the, majority
		
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			of the Ulema. It's nothing wrong with giving
		
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			a gift to somebody
		
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			or recognizing that somebody spent their time,
		
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			you know, preparing the recitation of the Quran
		
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			and Salatul Taraweeh.
		
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			In fact, it's good because we have to
		
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			have common sense that if we starve the
		
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			people who who bring us this benefit, then
		
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			we're not gonna have that benefit anymore. But
		
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			contractually to say, I will recite
		
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			and you have to give me this much
		
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			money and I'll recite in that. This is
		
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			something that is completely
		
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			it's completely haram. And it's very interesting. People
		
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			a lot of people, if you tell them,
		
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			well, what's the difference between giving someone a
		
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			gift the end of it at the end
		
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			of the recitation of the Quran versus just
		
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			writing it down in a contract. And the
		
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			subtlety of difference between the 2 of them
		
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			is like the difference between someone's wife and
		
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			someone's girlfriend.
		
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			For a person who's not who doesn't, you
		
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			know, not attuned to spiritual,
		
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			matters, the 2 of them may look very
		
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			similar. You go out to dinner with 1,
		
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			you go out to dinner with the other,
		
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			and you have this relationship with 1, and
		
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			you have this relationship with the other. Even
		
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			though one of them is something that Allah
		
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			Ta'ala sanctions and and and blesses and is
		
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			happy with and is pleased with and the
		
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			other is part of the road to
		
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			Indeed, it's a gross,
		
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			indecency.
		
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			And what an evil path it is, what
		
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			an evil path it is.
		
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			But there's a difference between these things. And
		
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			you, you know, when you're fasting and in
		
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			the month of Ramadan,
		
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			you realize that despite your
		
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			turning away from the dunya,
		
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			saying that Salman al Farsi radiAllahu ta'ala who
		
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			narrates in a long hadith regarding the virtues
		
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			of Ramadan,
		
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			that it is a
		
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			a a a such a month
		
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			that the risk, the the provision of the
		
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			believer is increased in it, which is completely
		
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			counterintuitive.
		
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			It's the month in which the person turns
		
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			away from the dunya the most. Right? Your
		
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			coworkers, when you tell them I fast, like,
		
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			you fast from sunset to sundown?
		
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			No. Actually, it's from dawn to sundown. What
		
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			does that mean? This means, like, an extra
		
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			hour and 50 minutes.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			But you guys at least can have water.
		
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			Right? No. No. Not even water?
		
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			Don't you die from that? Well, apparently not
		
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			because we're doing it and we're not dead
		
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			yet. So,
		
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			you know, like, for for a person like
		
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			that, it makes no sense whatsoever. They think
		
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			that you're not gonna make you're not gonna,
		
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			you're not gonna make more money in this
		
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			month. You're not gonna have more provision. You're
		
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			not gonna enjoy yourself more. In fact, you
		
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			know, whatever
		
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			forecast analysts will say that the GDP of
		
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			nations should plummet in this month. Even though
		
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			they actually go up, there's more risk of
		
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			business. This is like the holiday season. This
		
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			is like the from Black Friday to to
		
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			to,
		
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			whatever, Boxing day season in the Muslim world.
		
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			The businesses do more,
		
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			the people make more money, people eat more
		
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			than they eat in this month. It's a
		
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			hadith the hadith of the prophet salallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam is very clear about it and
		
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			Allah makes Tasneel of it in real life.
		
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			It is the month in which the provision
		
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			of the believers actually increased.
		
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			It's increased. Why? Because the dunya was created
		
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			for your service, you were created for the
		
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			akhirah, you were created for the service of
		
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			Allah
		
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			You do what you were made for and
		
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			the dunya will come to you. And this
		
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			is something that is actually empirical evidence for
		
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			it in this month.
		
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			And so,
		
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			if you, if you cannot keep that behemi
		
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			and that
		
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			animalistic
		
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			nature in check, you cannot break it, you
		
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			can't tell it. Look,
		
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			you're not the one who runs things. You're
		
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			not even the one that that that that's
		
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			benefiting us
		
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			from the 2 from the 2 of us,
		
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			right? The 2 of you inside,
		
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			right? The animalistic nature and the angelic nature.
		
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			You're not the one who makes this ship
		
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			run because
		
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			this is what happens, you know, people to
		
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			be practical. We're the ones who make all
		
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			the money and you guys are praying all
		
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			day, this is nonsense. No, it's not like
		
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			that at all. It's not like that at
		
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			all. And the month of Ramadan is a
		
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			proof, it's a proof of of that. That
		
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			that's the time that you cut off your
		
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			animalistic nature the most and that's the time
		
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			that you enjoy yourself most in this world.
		
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			So imagine how much benefit it will be
		
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			for the akhirah.
		
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			Right? That's the time that you put the
		
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			put the,
		
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			animalistic nature in check. And let me tell
		
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			you something about the animalistic nature. Like we
		
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			said, we're not like the Christians. We're not
		
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			like the people of the Indic religion that
		
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			believe that the the the physical body is
		
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			evil and that the highest moral virtue is
		
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			to kill it or destroy it. Rather, we
		
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			say, when a person works on the nafs
		
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			long enough, fasts for enough months, prays enough
		
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			tahajjud,
		
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			makes enough zikr on their tongue and inside
		
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			of their heart, and does all of these
		
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			things enough
		
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			wakes up for fajr again and again, one
		
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			day will come, your alarm won't go off,
		
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			you'll wake up anyway because that's just your
		
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			animalistic nature becomes accustomed to that. The one
		
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			who reads the Hajjd everyday, that person impossible
		
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			for them to misfajr.
		
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			Right? Your nature will become like the hadith
		
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			of the Prophet SAW. Your hawaii will literally
		
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			become your desires will become
		
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			the greatness of the deen in your life
		
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			and you'll start seeing great results. But if
		
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			you never get there and you're always
		
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			struggling with your animalistic
		
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			nature, that struggle Allah indeed rewards you for
		
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			it. But that struggle is not the the
		
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			the the goal of Islam. That struggle is
		
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			the prerequisite
		
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			for living the life that the Sahaba and
		
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			that our pious
		
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			predecessors lived. And if we keep
		
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			bringing a very weak game in that struggle
		
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			against our own selves, how will we make
		
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			it to
		
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			the other levels where the help of Allah
		
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			Ta'ala will come down for us? How will
		
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			we make it to the other levels where
		
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			we will build civilization?
		
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			If our greatest,
		
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			what you call
		
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			aspiration in life is to become a doctor
		
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			or to buy a certain type of house
		
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			or to buy a certain type of car,
		
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			How will we make how will we make
		
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			civilization like our forefathers did?
		
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			Right? We have a our civilization at one
		
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			time used to make everything. Right?
		
00:39:37 --> 00:39:40
			The literally the mathematics needed in order to
		
00:39:40 --> 00:39:41
			run your GPS, it's all
		
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			by Muslim ulama that the the the the
		
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			the research that they did and the the
		
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			uh-uh work they did on mathematics in order
		
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			to be able to find the qibla from
		
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			different parts of the world. We had civilization
		
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			and now what do we have? Now we're
		
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			all chasing the dunya.
		
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			How weak is our civilization? There's not one
		
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			airline in the entire
		
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			world that I've ever seen that even has
		
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			a lota on the airplane. That's how how
		
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			how weak our civilization has become
		
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			in order to implement its values. We cannot
		
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			even clean ourselves properly in public places after
		
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			using the bathroom. How are we gonna be
		
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			able to so it's a Sheikh. How am
		
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			I gonna have a lot on the airline?
		
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			You know how much an airplane costs? A
		
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			Boeing 787
		
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			costs cost 100 of 1,000,000 of dollars just
		
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			one airplane, and you cannot run an airline
		
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			on an airplane. You have to hire staff.
		
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			You have to hire, you know, you have
		
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			to have international trade
		
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			connections, you have to have this license from
		
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			several different governments, you have to have blah
		
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			blah blah all of these things. Yes. How
		
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			are you gonna build anything on that level?
		
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			How are you gonna reach tawfiq from Allah
		
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			to Allah with anything on that level? How
		
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			are you going to train people who memorize
		
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			over a 100,000 hadith, mathir, and sanit? That
		
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			person is like a walking computer. How are
		
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			you gonna
		
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			how are you gonna have nation states in
		
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			which in which the poor are taken care
		
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			of? How are you gonna have nation states
		
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			in which the rights of minorities are taken
		
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			care of? How are you gonna have,
		
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			a masajid in which the the adhan is
		
00:41:01 --> 00:41:03
			called and in which people learn about their
		
00:41:03 --> 00:41:05
			deen and they learn about, about the material
		
00:41:05 --> 00:41:07
			sciences of this world. How are you gonna
		
00:41:07 --> 00:41:09
			have that complete way of life that's implemented
		
00:41:09 --> 00:41:12
			like our forefathers implemented it if we cannot
		
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			even get our own nufus under control. This
		
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			is a shame of the time we live
		
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			in. Even our ulema,
		
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			Allah forgive us and
		
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			forgive them as well That that even our
		
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			ulama are people that that right now the
		
00:41:23 --> 00:41:25
			pool of the dunya has attracted them so
		
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			much that they're struggling with these things. How
		
00:41:27 --> 00:41:29
			can we get there until we break the
		
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			nafs itself? And when you understand that that's
		
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			the price you need to pay in order
		
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			to receive the help of Allah Ta'ala and
		
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			receive the tawfiq of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			then you realize
		
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			that fasting for a couple of days not
		
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			such a big deal, it's not such a
		
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			bad thing.
		
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			Now that's the concept I've
		
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			spoken about. I'm pretty sure it's not a
		
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			new concept to anybody, and I'm pretty sure
		
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			that,
		
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			you know, it's not a a surprise for
		
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			anybody what,
		
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			what was said. But the bonus round on
		
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			top of it is what? Is that we
		
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			are just like physically, if you're if you're
		
00:42:04 --> 00:42:06
			in hot heat, you'll start to sweat. If
		
00:42:06 --> 00:42:08
			you're in extreme cold, you'll start to shiver.
		
00:42:08 --> 00:42:10
			You get affected by by by external,
		
00:42:12 --> 00:42:14
			environments. Right now we've talked about the radio.
		
00:42:14 --> 00:42:15
			We're not talking about the station.
		
00:42:16 --> 00:42:18
			Right? That there are stations out there that
		
00:42:18 --> 00:42:19
			are putting out different signals that are affecting
		
00:42:19 --> 00:42:21
			our spiritual apparatus as well.
		
00:42:22 --> 00:42:24
			Now we've talked about, you know, how the
		
00:42:24 --> 00:42:26
			spiritual self should break the physical self so
		
00:42:26 --> 00:42:27
			that it can ride the physical self and
		
00:42:27 --> 00:42:29
			the physical self will then carry it to
		
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			do these great things and will serve it,
		
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			and it will become part of part of
		
00:42:33 --> 00:42:36
			the, person's physical nature. Right? Because there are
		
00:42:36 --> 00:42:38
			certain people, people a lot created them with
		
00:42:38 --> 00:42:40
			different dispositions. One of the things that we
		
00:42:40 --> 00:42:42
			have a mistake about regarding piety
		
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			is that we think that piety,
		
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			nowadays, we follow the Christian model of piety
		
00:42:47 --> 00:42:49
			which is what? That a pious person is
		
00:42:49 --> 00:42:51
			someone with a strong angelic self and a
		
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			weak animalistic self. Which is whereas this is
		
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			obviously a type of piety that's mashaAllah, if
		
00:42:57 --> 00:42:59
			Allah gives it to us, it's it's a
		
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			great blessing.
		
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			But the piety of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
00:43:02 --> 00:43:04
			wa sallam and the sahaba radiAllahu anhu wasn't
		
00:43:04 --> 00:43:06
			like that. The piety of the prophet sallallahu
		
00:43:06 --> 00:43:08
			alaihi wa sallam, the sahaba radiAllahu anhu was
		
00:43:08 --> 00:43:10
			one of a person having a strong
		
00:43:10 --> 00:43:11
			animalistic
		
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			nature and a strong spiritual nature. And they
		
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			were but both of them were in harmony
		
00:43:16 --> 00:43:17
			with one another. They weren't fighting with one
		
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			another that one day I feel like I
		
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			wanna be Hafiz of Quran and the other
		
00:43:21 --> 00:43:23
			day I'm trying to, like, stop myself from
		
00:43:23 --> 00:43:24
			overeating or the other day I'm trying to
		
00:43:24 --> 00:43:27
			stop myself from indulging my other desires. Right?
		
00:43:27 --> 00:43:29
			No. The the desire has actually become that
		
00:43:29 --> 00:43:31
			person has that same type of physical animalistic
		
00:43:31 --> 00:43:33
			desire but they have the desire for good,
		
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			not for evil. That that, you know, they
		
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			have the desire for good and not for
		
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			evil. That's what that's what the the the
		
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			piety, the Sahaba Radiallahu Anhum was and it
		
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			has a superior superiority
		
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			over the the piety of a person who
		
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			has a strong angelic nature and a weak
		
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			animalistic nature even though there's khair in that
		
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			as well. But coming coming forth going forward
		
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			from that,
		
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			right, that there are
		
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			spiritual influences around a person all over the
		
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			place. There is something mentioned in the Quran.
		
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			Right? Al Mala ul A'ala. Right? And it's
		
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			mentioned in the hadith of the prophet
		
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			Alaihi which is literally
		
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			translates to the highest council which is what
		
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			the angels that are that are in the
		
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			highest part maqam of Jannah, that the angels
		
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			are very numerous in in type and in
		
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			nature and in rank. And it comes in
		
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			the hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam that there are angels, they have ranks
		
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			higher, some of them are and higher ranks
		
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			over the others. The angels and the spirits
		
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			that are in the highest rank in the
		
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			creation of Allah Ta'ala and they're called Al
		
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			Mala Ul A'la. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala assigns
		
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			to them
		
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			that that if he has a commandment in
		
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			the world, if he wishes he makes that
		
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			commandment happen directly himself and if he wishes
		
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			some of them he gives to them that
		
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			you make this thing happen in the world.
		
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			And so what do they do? They have
		
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			they they have a spiritual presence that they
		
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			focus
		
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			on the world that inspires people to do
		
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			what's good and to do what's right. The
		
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			wahi was the inspiration that came on the
		
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			heart of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam directly
		
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			from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			But there are other types of inspirations that
		
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			come. That's why when you sit in the
		
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			company of a pious person,
		
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			that person's how will spiritually inspire you. And
		
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			there are certain people who actually literally, even
		
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			though physically they're very far away from the
		
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			but they keep the company of the because
		
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			in spiritual matters,
		
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			physical distance doesn't mean anything. Physical proximity may
		
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			be a hijab. You may have a person
		
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			who lives in the family in the household
		
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			of a pious person and their proximity is
		
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			a hijab between that person between themselves and
		
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			the piety of that person. And then maybe
		
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			people are physically far from the the the
		
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			Haram Sharif but their
		
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			heart is with Allah ta'ala making
		
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			in a moment.
		
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			Or their heart is with the Rasul
		
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			in a moment or in every moment.
		
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			And
		
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			that's the the the the spiritual world. Right?
		
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			Just like you can have a conference call
		
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			of, like, 15 people
		
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			at the same time from disparate parts of
		
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			the the the world that they're they're together
		
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			even though they're physically apart, but somehow they're
		
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			together.
		
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			A person's heart may be like that. The
		
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			more control you have
		
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			over your animalistic
		
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			self,
		
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			the more open the receiver of your heart
		
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			is to receiving the signal of the
		
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			That is the signal which
		
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			that that that incites and excites and drives
		
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			a person toward doing what is good.
		
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			And if the receiver, the mirror of your
		
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			heart is polished and clean, it will receive
		
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			that inspiration by day and by night. It
		
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			will receive that inspiration by day and by
		
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			night to the point where a person may
		
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			be physically a human being but they're doing
		
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			the work of an angel in this world.
		
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			And there are also
		
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			Right? And
		
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			in his own book
		
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			literally says that they also have a wahi
		
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			that they have.
		
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			And and it's not like the wahi of
		
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			Allah ta'ala. Rather this is the wahi of
		
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			shayateen.
		
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			This is the inspiration and the revelation of
		
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			shayateen. And there are people literally walking around.
		
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			Some of them they have beards and they
		
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			have topis and they have hijabs and niqabs
		
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			and god knows what. But because the receiver
		
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			is tuned to the wrong station,
		
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			even though their their brain tells them zinai
		
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			is haram
		
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			eating don't eat the haram, don't be a
		
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			glutton, don't be
		
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			a materialistic person. But they walk around in
		
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			the form of the pious
		
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			but their heart is like the heart of
		
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			a crocodile or the heart of a snake,
		
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			that they're just walking around,
		
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			receiving this this signal inside of their head
		
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			to do to do, you know, just to
		
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			be a snake, just to be a reptile,
		
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			just to, you know, feed yourself and to,
		
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			just not live for anything other than than
		
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			your own gratification and to do evil things
		
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			and evil thoughts. Now tell me something, all
		
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			of us,
		
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			Our rational
		
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			faculty
		
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			teaches us that there's no benefit in going
		
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			to the hellfire. Right? But if your if
		
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			your your radio station is tuned to the
		
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			wrong if your radio is tuned to the
		
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			wrong station
		
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			and it's receiving the wrong signal, even if
		
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			you wanna do what's good, what's gonna end
		
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			up happening?
		
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			You're gonna receive constant suggestions to do what's
		
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			bad. It's either today or tomorrow, you're gonna
		
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			follow one of them, if not all of
		
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			them.
		
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			And even if you're a person, may not
		
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			be a half of the Quran, may not
		
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			be from a super religious family, may not
		
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			be have the super best company in the
		
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			world, may not,
		
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			you know,
		
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			just be a person who tends to work
		
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			like, you know, piety like other people do.
		
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			But if you're constantly receiving
		
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			good encouragement
		
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			in your heart
		
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			in the spiritual realm. You're constantly receiving good
		
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			encouragement and you're constantly receiving good suggestions. What's
		
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			gonna end up happening? Good is gonna start
		
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			looking good to you. You're gonna do some
		
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			good. You may not do as much good
		
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			as another person. You're gonna do something good.
		
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			You're definitely not gonna do anything bad by
		
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			it, are you? Not gonna harm you in
		
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			any way, is it? Even to love a
		
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			good deed in and of itself is a
		
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			good deed. At least it will teach you
		
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			the love of good deeds. And this is
		
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			this is what exactly what fasting does, Right?
		
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			That hour before iftar,
		
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			what is a person thinking about? Right? If
		
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			a person is not thinking about dunya, they're
		
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			not thinking about all of these. This is
		
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			why it's Makru actually did talk about
		
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			food, especially as the time when we start
		
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			comes because that's like that's like spiritually that's
		
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			like your best hour of the day. That's
		
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			like a really beautiful time.
		
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			That's the time that your heart is the
		
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			cleanest because the animalistic nature that hijacks your
		
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			opportunity to be a good person all the
		
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			time, it's been weakened. It's like, you know,
		
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			you can't kill it. But as far as
		
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			being alive, it's like in the weakest state
		
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			that it's gonna be at. And that's the
		
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			time that your heart will receive this, this
		
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			good signal and this virtuous signal from the
		
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			and
		
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			from from from from all of the good
		
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			things, from the recitation of the Quran. That's
		
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			why the recitation of the Quran, the Taraweeh,
		
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			is right after
		
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			right after a person opens their fast. You
		
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			just eat a little bit and then you
		
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			go to
		
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			because the good message of the Quran, when
		
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			you're full and you're sitting on your couch
		
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			and slouching on your sofa
		
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			and,
		
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			you know,
		
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			comatose because your animal nature is satiated,
		
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			at that time, spiritually you're very weak. It's
		
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			like that polar opposite. And if someone tells
		
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			you to read the Quran or somebody tells
		
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			you to give sadaqa for the poor, somebody
		
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			tells you to do something
		
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			like that,
		
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			you know, what are what what are you
		
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			gonna do? I mean, you're
		
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			you're you're comatose. You're completely
		
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			without any sense at that point. Whereas this
		
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			is a time where spiritually you're of the
		
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			most heightened sense and you're most in tune
		
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			to
		
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			receive those suggestions
		
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			and for them to to to help you
		
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			to become the better person that Allah Ta'ala
		
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			wishes for, you know, that Allah Ta'a commands
		
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			for you to be and that you wish
		
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			to be yourself.
		
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			And,
		
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			you know, when you understand what the what
		
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			the the benefit of it is, then maybe
		
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			a person shouldn't complain so much about how
		
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			long the fast day is or how late
		
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			the is
		
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			because,
		
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			you know, literally you're, you know, you're not
		
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			making
		
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			a sacrifice. A sacrifice is when you give
		
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			something for you lose something, you know, for
		
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			the sake of someone you love or something
		
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			you love. Here you're giving the animal nature
		
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			and Allah is giving you the the the
		
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			giving you the spiritual nature in return and
		
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			as a bonus you get your animal nature
		
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			back but in a much better state, in
		
00:51:08 --> 00:51:10
			a better much better condition than than than
		
00:51:10 --> 00:51:11
			what you, gave it up in in the
		
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			first place. And that's that's something good, that's
		
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			something worthwhile in this world. And Yom Ubdi
		
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			Yama
		
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			when you know Allah Ta'ala will show the
		
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			accounting of whole nations
		
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			in front of the
		
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			arranged ranks and array of angels
		
00:51:26 --> 00:51:28
			and jinn and mankind and Ambiya alaihimusaatu
		
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			Wasallam. Even Shaitan is not going to be
		
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			exempted from showing up on that day. If
		
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			because of your fast Allah Ta'ala forgave you
		
00:51:35 --> 00:51:38
			your sins that came before, nobody will regret
		
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			that. That's actually
		
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			the greatest,
		
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			triumph that a person can make on that
		
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			day. That day a person will forget all
		
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			of his hunger and thirst of this word.
		
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			Hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			the person who will go to the fire,
		
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			who had the most benefit and enjoyment in
		
00:51:54 --> 00:51:55
			this world,
		
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			which is a lot more benefit and enjoyment
		
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			than any of us are having. Trust me.
		
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			He will be asked or she will be
		
00:52:00 --> 00:52:02
			asked, you know, did you ever see a
		
00:52:02 --> 00:52:05
			good day? I said, Wallahi, my Lord, I
		
00:52:05 --> 00:52:06
			never saw a good day in my life.
		
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			And the person who had the most,
		
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			the most
		
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			difficulty in this world from the people of
		
00:52:12 --> 00:52:13
			Jannah.
		
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			And we're not we don't have any difficulty
		
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			compared to them. Astaghfirullah, Allah Ta'al forgive us.
		
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			Yesterday I raised I was at a fundraiser
		
00:52:20 --> 00:52:21
			for
		
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			Islamic Relief,
		
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			raising money for people in Burma.
		
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			Astaghfirullah, Allah Ta'ala protect us and forgive us
		
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			our brothers and sisters over there. No country
		
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			from the Muslim world speaks up for them.
		
00:52:35 --> 00:52:36
			And in fact they shoot at them when
		
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			they try try to come to the border
		
00:52:37 --> 00:52:39
			of Bangladesh or when they try to go
		
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			to Malaysia or Indonesia.
		
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			These people are literally taken out of their
		
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			homes and herded into camps.
		
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			They are they call them camps, they're prisons.
		
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			They say ostensibly
		
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			the prisoners,
		
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			sorry the guards there are there for the
		
00:52:52 --> 00:52:55
			protection of of of of know, our of
		
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			of, Burmese Muslims.
		
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			And what what's the reality? The reality is
		
00:52:59 --> 00:53:02
			that guns aren't facing outside. They're facing inside
		
00:53:02 --> 00:53:03
			to shoot anyone if they try to leave.
		
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			And they're subject to regular humiliation. In an
		
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			entire camp with a 100,000 people in it,
		
00:53:09 --> 00:53:11
			they have clinics that are only allowed to
		
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			run for 9 hours,
		
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			in a week. And those the people in
		
00:53:15 --> 00:53:16
			that camp, they're not allowed to go to,
		
00:53:17 --> 00:53:19
			any of the regular hospitals. If they get
		
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			sick of people's children, they die because even
		
00:53:21 --> 00:53:23
			though there's a hospital within walking distance,
		
00:53:24 --> 00:53:25
			they're not allowed to get go to the
		
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			hospital. They're not allowed to marry without government
		
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			permission. The government put a ban on them
		
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			that you cannot have more every couple cannot
		
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			have more than one child. They're literally literally
		
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			ethnically cleansing these people.
		
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			And you know
		
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			people who suffer trauma more than that, someone
		
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			who felt like that will be called Yomotiyam
		
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			and asked by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			You know, did you ever see a hard
		
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			day in your life? Say, Yeah, Rabi, I
		
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			never saw a hard day in my life.
		
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			Why? Because the reward from Allah Ta'ala that
		
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			they will make a person forget all of
		
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			these things. And that's the goal that every
		
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			one of us should should set and keep
		
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			for ourselves.
		
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			So the the talk is over. I just
		
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			wanted to mention also,
		
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			because I brought it up and that's the
		
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			reason that I've come today to Decatur,
		
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			is that, I'm raising money on behalf of
		
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			Islamic Relief
		
00:54:14 --> 00:54:17
			for the poor in over 22 countries,
		
00:54:18 --> 00:54:21
			places like Burma, places like the Horn of
		
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			Africa, places like South Sudan,
		
00:54:23 --> 00:54:24
			places like Syria,
		
00:54:25 --> 00:54:26
			where we're helping
		
00:54:34 --> 00:54:35
			not servicing at all,
		
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			and in their resettlement in places like Germany
		
00:54:38 --> 00:54:40
			and other places where, you know, these people
		
00:54:40 --> 00:54:43
			who come basically to spare their own lives,
		
00:54:43 --> 00:54:46
			you know, and who gladly go back home
		
00:54:46 --> 00:54:47
			if there's a home to go back to.
		
00:54:48 --> 00:54:50
			That these people are being treated like the
		
00:54:50 --> 00:54:52
			riffraff of the earth and we know they're
		
00:54:52 --> 00:54:53
			not the riffraff of the earth. They're our
		
00:54:53 --> 00:54:55
			brothers and sisters, they are us and the
		
00:54:55 --> 00:54:58
			only difference between them being the situation they're
		
00:54:58 --> 00:55:00
			in and we us being in situations that
		
00:55:00 --> 00:55:01
			we're in
		
00:55:01 --> 00:55:03
			is that, the Fadl of Allah
		
00:55:04 --> 00:55:06
			Otherwise, we're no smarter than they are. We're
		
00:55:06 --> 00:55:08
			definitely not more pious than they are. We're
		
00:55:08 --> 00:55:10
			not more hardworking than they are. It's just
		
00:55:10 --> 00:55:11
			the Fadl of Allah that He gave us
		
00:55:11 --> 00:55:13
			what He gave and He gave them what
		
00:55:13 --> 00:55:16
			He gave and Allah didn't command us to
		
00:55:16 --> 00:55:18
			feel guilty about having a good life
		
00:55:18 --> 00:55:21
			and He didn't command us to kill ourselves
		
00:55:21 --> 00:55:24
			because other people are having difficulty. But what
		
00:55:24 --> 00:55:26
			He did command us to do is to
		
00:55:26 --> 00:55:27
			feel some sympathy with their plight in whatever
		
00:55:27 --> 00:55:29
			we're able to give that we should give
		
00:55:30 --> 00:55:31
			it. So Insha'Allah,
		
00:55:32 --> 00:55:33
			I will be in the,
		
00:55:34 --> 00:55:35
			I will be in the Masjid
		
00:55:36 --> 00:55:39
			tonight raising money. If there's anybody who's not
		
00:55:39 --> 00:55:40
			gonna be there at that time,
		
00:55:41 --> 00:55:41
			or
		
00:55:42 --> 00:55:44
			and wishes to, give some
		
00:55:44 --> 00:55:46
			donation of Zakat or of Sadaqa,
		
00:55:47 --> 00:55:49
			Islamic Relief has an 11%
		
00:55:49 --> 00:55:52
			administrative overhead, which means all
		
00:55:52 --> 00:55:54
			expenditures that Islamic Relief
		
00:55:54 --> 00:55:55
			has,
		
00:55:57 --> 00:55:58
			89%
		
00:55:58 --> 00:55:59
			of them go to,
		
00:55:59 --> 00:56:01
			go to our projects and 11% of them
		
00:56:01 --> 00:56:03
			go to running the administration
		
00:56:04 --> 00:56:04
			of
		
00:56:05 --> 00:56:08
			the corporation, the non profit corporation in America.
		
00:56:11 --> 00:56:14
			But that means that it's guaranteed that 89¢
		
00:56:14 --> 00:56:16
			of your dollar that's spent is going
		
00:56:16 --> 00:56:19
			to reach the poor. In reality it's more
		
00:56:19 --> 00:56:21
			than that because some people donate for the
		
00:56:21 --> 00:56:23
			general fund for the administrative costs and some
		
00:56:23 --> 00:56:26
			people donate for the other specific funds. But
		
00:56:26 --> 00:56:28
			if you wish to be very scrupulous regarding
		
00:56:28 --> 00:56:31
			your Zakat calculation, you can you can, you
		
00:56:31 --> 00:56:32
			know, you can
		
00:56:32 --> 00:56:34
			see that, you know, if you pay from
		
00:56:34 --> 00:56:36
			zakat that 89¢ on the dollar is counted
		
00:56:36 --> 00:56:38
			for salatakat and 11¢ on the dollar is
		
00:56:38 --> 00:56:40
			counted as 89¢ on the dollar is counted
		
00:56:40 --> 00:56:43
			as zakat, and 11¢ on the dollar is
		
00:56:43 --> 00:56:45
			counted as a sadaqa for sustaining this,
		
00:56:45 --> 00:56:46
			this work.
		
00:56:47 --> 00:56:47
			And,
		
00:56:48 --> 00:56:50
			you know, the or Aleman mentioned that there
		
00:56:50 --> 00:56:52
			are different benchmarks or gauges,
		
00:56:53 --> 00:56:56
			based upon which your zakat will receive more
		
00:56:56 --> 00:56:57
			reward and less reward.
		
00:56:57 --> 00:56:59
			One of them is that
		
00:57:00 --> 00:57:01
			a husband and wife cannot give to each
		
00:57:01 --> 00:57:03
			other and parents and children cannot give to
		
00:57:03 --> 00:57:05
			each other. But other than that, the most
		
00:57:05 --> 00:57:08
			reward for zakat is to give to a
		
00:57:08 --> 00:57:10
			relative and the closer the relative the better.
		
00:57:10 --> 00:57:11
			So if you have a poor brother or
		
00:57:11 --> 00:57:11
			sister,
		
00:57:12 --> 00:57:13
			if you give to them you'll receive more
		
00:57:13 --> 00:57:14
			reward than giving
		
00:57:15 --> 00:57:16
			to to a cousin
		
00:57:16 --> 00:57:18
			so long as they're actually,
		
00:57:18 --> 00:57:19
			Azigoth eligible.
		
00:57:20 --> 00:57:22
			And then the second benchmark is what is,
		
00:57:23 --> 00:57:24
			piety
		
00:57:24 --> 00:57:26
			that if you give to a more pious
		
00:57:26 --> 00:57:28
			person, you receive reward rather than giving to
		
00:57:28 --> 00:57:31
			a less pious person. And the 3rd benchmark
		
00:57:31 --> 00:57:32
			is need.
		
00:57:32 --> 00:57:34
			Is that if a person, you know, is
		
00:57:34 --> 00:57:36
			struggling and cannot pay next month's rent and
		
00:57:36 --> 00:57:38
			another person if you don't feed him today,
		
00:57:38 --> 00:57:39
			they'll die of starvation.
		
00:57:39 --> 00:57:41
			And there's more reward to giving to the
		
00:57:41 --> 00:57:42
			latter than giving to the former even though
		
00:57:42 --> 00:57:43
			both are valid recipients.
		
00:57:44 --> 00:57:46
			And so if you, you know, wish to
		
00:57:46 --> 00:57:47
			know why this is a good deal for
		
00:57:47 --> 00:57:48
			you,
		
00:57:49 --> 00:57:51
			even if it's 89¢ on the dollar, then
		
00:57:51 --> 00:57:53
			I tell you that Islamic Relief is reaching
		
00:57:53 --> 00:57:55
			those people in the world that have nobody
		
00:57:55 --> 00:57:58
			to reach them and nobody to reach them.
		
00:57:58 --> 00:58:00
			Nobody to help them. There are literally places
		
00:58:00 --> 00:58:03
			where people are left to die and, whatever
		
00:58:03 --> 00:58:05
			we give them they get and whatever, you
		
00:58:05 --> 00:58:07
			know, we don't give there's nobody else who
		
00:58:07 --> 00:58:09
			cares for them. And, can you believe this?
		
00:58:09 --> 00:58:11
			You know, there's one thing, you know, everybody
		
00:58:11 --> 00:58:12
			I I hope inshallah,
		
00:58:13 --> 00:58:14
			you know, we can get the envelopes out
		
00:58:15 --> 00:58:17
			from from from the car. I'll give them
		
00:58:17 --> 00:58:17
			to you.
		
00:58:18 --> 00:58:20
			But, you know, the bare minimum, my request
		
00:58:20 --> 00:58:22
			is everyone who's able to afford to do
		
00:58:22 --> 00:58:23
			so,
		
00:58:23 --> 00:58:23
			that,
		
00:58:24 --> 00:58:26
			500 something 518
		
00:58:26 --> 00:58:28
			sorry. From 516 to $788,
		
00:58:30 --> 00:58:33
			which it depends on the country. But
		
00:58:33 --> 00:58:35
			anywhere between $516 and $788
		
00:58:36 --> 00:58:37
			depending on the specific country you choose because
		
00:58:37 --> 00:58:40
			of different costs of living, you can sponsor
		
00:58:40 --> 00:58:41
			an orphan for a year.
		
00:58:42 --> 00:58:43
			And our Nabi
		
00:58:44 --> 00:58:45
			himself was an orphan
		
00:58:45 --> 00:58:48
			and, the the tawajah of Allah, Allah's rahman
		
00:58:48 --> 00:58:50
			has been experienced again and again on the
		
00:58:50 --> 00:58:51
			orphans of this Ummah that they end up
		
00:58:51 --> 00:58:53
			becoming some of the greatest people of this
		
00:58:53 --> 00:58:53
			Ummah.
		
00:58:54 --> 00:58:56
			Imam Shafi'i was an orphan, Imam Malik was
		
00:58:56 --> 00:58:57
			an orphan.
		
00:58:58 --> 00:59:00
			Many of our many of our great olema
		
00:59:00 --> 00:59:01
			and mashay for orphans.
		
00:59:01 --> 00:59:02
			And,
		
00:59:02 --> 00:59:04
			you know, you can sponsor an orphan for
		
00:59:04 --> 00:59:06
			that small amount of month. It comes out
		
00:59:06 --> 00:59:08
			to something like, say, it's 40 something dollars
		
00:59:08 --> 00:59:08
			a month
		
00:59:09 --> 00:59:11
			to sponsor an orphan. Can you believe there
		
00:59:11 --> 00:59:13
			are orphans on on the waiting list?
		
00:59:13 --> 00:59:15
			There are orphans. And they literally come to
		
00:59:15 --> 00:59:17
			Islamic Relief because it's the largest Muslim charity
		
00:59:17 --> 00:59:19
			in the world. And,
		
00:59:20 --> 00:59:22
			and and they have because of because the
		
00:59:22 --> 00:59:24
			sheer size of the operation, the ability to
		
00:59:24 --> 00:59:26
			reach disasters and emergency situations
		
00:59:27 --> 00:59:29
			quickly. And so people have the option of
		
00:59:29 --> 00:59:32
			going to the Red Cross or going to,
		
00:59:32 --> 00:59:34
			you know, some other European
		
00:59:36 --> 00:59:36
			or Western
		
00:59:37 --> 00:59:38
			aid agency,
		
00:59:38 --> 00:59:41
			which really all many of them, all they
		
00:59:41 --> 00:59:43
			are just like missionary work by other means.
		
00:59:43 --> 00:59:45
			Right? Because they're not missionary work toward Christianity,
		
00:59:45 --> 00:59:47
			although some of them are that as well.
		
00:59:47 --> 00:59:49
			But they're missionary work toward materialism,
		
00:59:51 --> 00:59:51
			And they
		
00:59:52 --> 00:59:53
			they they don't wanna go to them. When
		
00:59:53 --> 00:59:55
			they see the Islamic Relief
		
00:59:55 --> 00:59:58
			banner and they see the the the message
		
00:59:58 --> 00:59:59
			with the 2 minarets and the logo,
		
01:00:00 --> 01:00:02
			many people are actually illiterate, right? That's why
		
01:00:02 --> 01:00:04
			they say we wanna we wanna go to
		
01:00:04 --> 01:00:06
			the Masjid people, we're the Masjid people. Can
		
01:00:06 --> 01:00:08
			you believe that the children they come to
		
01:00:08 --> 01:00:09
			us and they're orphans on the waiting list?
		
01:00:10 --> 01:00:12
			So the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam who
		
01:00:12 --> 01:00:15
			said, Ana wali umandawaliye lahu. I am Thee
		
01:00:15 --> 01:00:16
			the the guardian
		
01:00:22 --> 01:00:23
			sallallahu alaihi
		
01:00:24 --> 01:00:26
			wa sallam out of his or her iman
		
01:00:26 --> 01:00:28
			and ghayra for this deen. Then let them,
		
01:00:29 --> 01:00:31
			you know, let them let these children know
		
01:00:31 --> 01:00:32
			that there's still someone from your brothers and
		
01:00:32 --> 01:00:34
			sisters who care, That that you don't have
		
01:00:34 --> 01:00:35
			to be on the waiting list, that we'll
		
01:00:35 --> 01:00:37
			take care of you. You don't have to
		
01:00:37 --> 01:00:39
			go to, somebody who's gonna demean you and
		
01:00:39 --> 01:00:41
			humiliate you and try to rest your iman
		
01:00:41 --> 01:00:43
			away from you in order to receive will
		
01:00:43 --> 01:00:46
			help. Uh-uh Allah Ta'ala is the one who
		
01:00:46 --> 01:00:47
			gives help and we're happy to participate in
		
01:00:47 --> 01:00:49
			that process as well. So inshallah,
		
01:00:50 --> 01:00:52
			you know, maybe if we can have someone
		
01:00:52 --> 01:00:54
			go to the car and get the envelopes
		
01:00:54 --> 01:00:55
			before the sisters leave,
		
01:00:56 --> 01:00:58
			from the trunk, you can fill those out
		
01:00:59 --> 01:01:00
			and then check them.
		
01:01:01 --> 01:01:03
			Even if you don't have your if you
		
01:01:03 --> 01:01:04
			if you don't have your money or you
		
01:01:04 --> 01:01:05
			don't have your your,
		
01:01:06 --> 01:01:08
			you know, checkbook or card or soon.
		
01:01:09 --> 01:01:09
			But
		
01:01:12 --> 01:01:12
			just
		
01:01:13 --> 01:01:15
			to, you know, just to, soon.
		
01:01:16 --> 01:01:18
			But just to, you know, just to
		
01:01:19 --> 01:01:22
			take the take advantage of the opportunity because
		
01:01:22 --> 01:01:23
			the majlis in which
		
01:01:24 --> 01:01:26
			the mention of Allah and His Rasool Sallallahu
		
01:01:26 --> 01:01:28
			Alaihi Wasallam and the Mubarak mention of his
		
01:01:28 --> 01:01:28
			deen,
		
01:01:29 --> 01:01:31
			was made and the Mubarak mention of his
		
01:01:31 --> 01:01:32
			book was made Jallawalla.
		
01:01:33 --> 01:01:34
			And so this is a majlis of iman.
		
01:01:35 --> 01:01:37
			And, just like a person when they go
		
01:01:37 --> 01:01:38
			to a party, they like to enjoy. That's
		
01:01:38 --> 01:01:40
			the enjoyment of this majlis is that while
		
01:01:40 --> 01:01:42
			the iman is in your heart, you should
		
01:01:42 --> 01:01:43
			also take the opportunity to,
		
01:01:44 --> 01:01:47
			to, give yourself the happiness of having implemented
		
01:01:47 --> 01:01:49
			some of what what you,
		
01:01:49 --> 01:01:51
			what you learned. And even if someone is
		
01:01:51 --> 01:01:52
			in the room that doesn't have $516
		
01:01:53 --> 01:01:55
			or doesn't have $1,000 or whatever to give
		
01:01:55 --> 01:01:57
			for the sake of Allah Ta'ala.
		
01:01:57 --> 01:01:59
			This is the Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
		
01:02:00 --> 01:02:01
			he used
		
01:02:02 --> 01:02:04
			to go for sadaqa, he'd actually particularly go
		
01:02:04 --> 01:02:06
			to the women and collect sadaqa from them
		
01:02:06 --> 01:02:07
			as well separately.
		
01:02:08 --> 01:02:10
			And he his sunnah is what? That you
		
01:02:10 --> 01:02:11
			should,
		
01:02:11 --> 01:02:12
			that you should
		
01:02:12 --> 01:02:15
			protect yourself from the fire even if through
		
01:02:15 --> 01:02:16
			half of a date. And the idea is
		
01:02:16 --> 01:02:18
			that half of a date is not going
		
01:02:18 --> 01:02:20
			to feed the world. But what is it?
		
01:02:20 --> 01:02:21
			It's not about the world, it's about you
		
01:02:21 --> 01:02:23
			and me. And what is it about you
		
01:02:23 --> 01:02:24
			and me? That He wanted us to have
		
01:02:24 --> 01:02:26
			the tarbiyah that whenever anyone asks for the
		
01:02:26 --> 01:02:28
			sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala we never
		
01:02:28 --> 01:02:30
			say no. If we have very little, if
		
01:02:30 --> 01:02:32
			someone is broke, then let them give the
		
01:02:32 --> 01:02:34
			quarter that they have in their pocket. And
		
01:02:34 --> 01:02:36
			if somebody doesn't have a quarter in their
		
01:02:36 --> 01:02:39
			pocket, let them not leave before making du'a
		
01:02:39 --> 01:02:41
			sincerely to Allah Ta'ala for, you know, for
		
01:02:41 --> 01:02:43
			the success of this work and for those
		
01:02:43 --> 01:02:45
			children and for those refugees and for those
		
01:02:45 --> 01:02:47
			oppressed people all around the world, you know,
		
01:02:48 --> 01:02:50
			that are living living these difficulties. Let them
		
01:02:50 --> 01:02:53
			at least not grudge them giving a dua
		
01:02:53 --> 01:02:55
			because the miserly person is not the one
		
01:02:55 --> 01:02:58
			who couldn't give $10,000. You know maybe some
		
01:02:58 --> 01:02:59
			of us can't give that. You know I
		
01:02:59 --> 01:03:00
			can't I can't give that.
		
01:03:00 --> 01:03:02
			I don't have that to give.
		
01:03:02 --> 01:03:04
			But the miserly person is the one who
		
01:03:04 --> 01:03:06
			who did who couldn't even give anything. Who
		
01:03:06 --> 01:03:07
			couldn't even give a dollar. Couldn't even give
		
01:03:07 --> 01:03:08
			a dua
		
01:03:08 --> 01:03:09
			at the end of it. So let Allah
		
01:03:09 --> 01:03:10
			Ta'ala inshaAllah
		
01:03:11 --> 01:03:13
			count us amongst the generous inshaAllah so that
		
01:03:13 --> 01:03:15
			he can also have his generosity toward us
		
01:03:16 --> 01:03:17
			and not count us amongst the miserably that
		
01:03:17 --> 01:03:19
			we give whatever we are able to inshaAllah
		
01:03:19 --> 01:03:22
			before we leave. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala give
		
01:03:22 --> 01:03:23
			all of us so much stuffy.
		
01:03:32 --> 01:03:34
			Q and a, or is that that it?
		
01:03:34 --> 01:03:35
			Let me find out.
		
01:03:38 --> 01:03:40
			Yeah. Just grab the the pens.
		
01:03:41 --> 01:03:41
			Yes.
		
01:03:42 --> 01:03:43
			Just hand you just hand it through the
		
01:03:43 --> 01:03:46
			door. Slide under. So, inshallah, we'll slide the
		
01:03:46 --> 01:03:48
			the the, envelopes
		
01:03:48 --> 01:03:49
			through the door, inshallah.
		
01:03:50 --> 01:03:52
			If anyone wishes to give inshallah, you're more
		
01:03:52 --> 01:03:52
			than welcome.
		
01:03:53 --> 01:03:54
			And you know, if you don't give to
		
01:03:54 --> 01:03:56
			if you don't give to this, then give
		
01:03:56 --> 01:03:58
			to somebody inshallah, give to the Masjid, give
		
01:03:58 --> 01:04:00
			to your relatives. Don't let he
		
01:04:02 --> 01:04:04
			was the most generous in this month,
		
01:04:04 --> 01:04:06
			and he used to give everything he had
		
01:04:06 --> 01:04:07
			anyway. So the question comes up, what does
		
01:04:07 --> 01:04:09
			it mean that he was most generous in
		
01:04:09 --> 01:04:11
			this month? It means that he used to
		
01:04:11 --> 01:04:13
			give everything he had anyway, and this month
		
01:04:13 --> 01:04:15
			he would give even more quickly. People don't
		
01:04:15 --> 01:04:16
			know this about the Prophet
		
01:04:16 --> 01:04:18
			Alaihi Wasallam. I don't know, Isa, if you
		
01:04:18 --> 01:04:21
			knew this or not. Nabi alaihi salatu salam,
		
01:04:21 --> 01:04:23
			if he had any money above and beyond
		
01:04:23 --> 01:04:25
			his means or his needs for the day,
		
01:04:25 --> 01:04:26
			he would, he would,
		
01:04:27 --> 01:04:28
			go and give it, he would find poor
		
01:04:28 --> 01:04:30
			people and give it to them. He would
		
01:04:30 --> 01:04:31
			never sleep with saving any money.
		
01:04:32 --> 01:04:34
			And if he sometimes what would happen is
		
01:04:34 --> 01:04:35
			he would go look for poor people and
		
01:04:35 --> 01:04:37
			nobody would take the money because they didn't
		
01:04:37 --> 01:04:39
			need it because he trained them also not
		
01:04:39 --> 01:04:40
			to ask.
		
01:04:41 --> 01:04:43
			And so if he had money he couldn't
		
01:04:43 --> 01:04:43
			give away,
		
01:04:44 --> 01:04:45
			he wouldn't sleep in his home that night.
		
01:04:45 --> 01:04:47
			He would sleep in the masjid that night.
		
01:04:48 --> 01:04:49
			So
		
01:04:49 --> 01:04:51
			in in Ramadan he would be even quicker
		
01:04:51 --> 01:04:53
			in giving like that. Obviously I'm not telling
		
01:04:53 --> 01:04:54
			you to empty out your bank accounts.
		
01:04:56 --> 01:04:59
			Because, you know, maybe maybe, you know, the
		
01:04:59 --> 01:05:01
			life we lead is not, you know, it
		
01:05:01 --> 01:05:03
			is not conducive toward that.
		
01:05:03 --> 01:05:04
			But, you know,
		
01:05:05 --> 01:05:08
			just became malai yudra kukuluu lai yudra kukuluu.
		
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			It's a precept of our sacred law that
		
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			the thing that you cannot do completely, you're
		
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			also not allowed to leave completely.
		
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			So, inshallah, if you have something to give
		
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			from your generosity, give. May Allah give you
		
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			a long and happy life
		
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			and protect you from all sorts of ills
		
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			and difficulties and put Barakah for you and
		
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			your and your parents and in your children
		
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			and in your brothers and sisters and your
		
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			spouses and in all of your homes inshaAllah
		
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			and make you people who are beautiful in
		
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			this world and beautiful in the hereafter.