Hisham Jafar Ali – Names Of Allah And His Attributes #10 The Creator & Originator

Hisham Jafar Ali
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The speaker discusses the importance of following the creator's teachings and creating something special, such as a new electric or commercial car. They stress the connection between nature and human life and the desire for amazement and respect. The complex nature of the human body and the links between nature and human life are discussed, and the importance of creating a time to reflect on Allah's creation is emphasized. The importance of creating a safe environment for one's comfort is also emphasized. The speaker gives practical advice on staying in a cave and thanking Allah for his knowledge.

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			I just recited a few verses from Surah
		
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			Surah, a few verses in which Allah, Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala, says,
		
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			don't you see how Allah sent water from
		
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			the sky?
		
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			And he brought out through it fruits of
		
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			varying colors.
		
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			And from the mountains,
		
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			you have those in shades of white and
		
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			red, in different colors,
		
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			and those that are in shades of gray
		
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			and black.
		
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			And from the humans and the animals
		
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			and the cattle, you have different colors as
		
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			well.
		
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			It is only those who are
		
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			in awe of Allah.
		
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			They are the true knowers of him. It
		
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			is Allah alone
		
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			who is almighty and all forgiving.
		
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			In this set of verses and many other
		
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			verses in the Quran,
		
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			many many many many verses of the Quran,
		
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			Allah asks us and demands of us that
		
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			we look.
		
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			Not that we look, but he says, why
		
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			are you not why are you not looking?
		
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			How could you not look? You're missing something.
		
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			He asked us to look at his creation,
		
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			at the night and the day, at the
		
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			rain from the sky,
		
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			at the animals, at the birth of a
		
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			child,
		
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			as a leaf as it falls from a
		
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			tree.
		
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			He asked us to look at these things
		
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			and to observe them carefully
		
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			for us to begin to realize the name
		
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			of Allah, Al Khaliq. That is the name
		
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			that we are living with today.
		
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			Al Khaliq
		
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			in the Quran has come so many times.
		
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			So many ways and so many forms and
		
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			so many different contexts, this name has come.
		
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			But what does Al Khalk?
		
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			What is it? What does this name mean?
		
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			And how is it different from human beings?
		
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			A human being could also be a Khaliq,
		
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			but not Al Khaliq, not the Khaliq.
		
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			And we'll explore that and understand that in
		
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			some detail.
		
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			Al Khaliq in Arabic
		
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			or Khalk
		
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			is when you take something from nothing.
		
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			From nothing, you create something.
		
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			And you not just create something,
		
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			you make it for a specific purpose.
		
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			One of the examples that's used in the
		
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			Arabic language is when a baker,
		
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			he has dough,
		
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			and he kneads that dough
		
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			into a specific shape and a specific form
		
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			to have a particular texture and a particular
		
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			taste.
		
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			So in the morning,
		
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			when you're having your anjero bread, or you're
		
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			having your chapati, or you're having you're having
		
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			your parathas,
		
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			or you're having having your naan bread. Whatever
		
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			it is that you eat, know that that
		
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			bread came from dough, and it was squeezed
		
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			and molded and shaped
		
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			into that particular
		
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			product that you're eating.
		
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			This is a form of khalq.
		
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			But how is it different?
		
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			Allah's khalq,
		
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			Allah's creation,
		
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			and the creation of human beings. Human beings
		
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			create things as well, don't we? We create
		
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			mobile phones. We create wood.
		
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			But what's the difference between human beings creating
		
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			something and Allah
		
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			creating something?
		
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			Yes. A human being makes creation from Allah's
		
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			creation.
		
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			Okay. The human being makes a creation from
		
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			Allah's creation.
		
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			So they're not creating something from nothing.
		
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			They're taking something that exists
		
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			and they're changing it. They're cutting it. They're
		
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			molding it. They're
		
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			moving about Allah's creation.
		
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			They're putting it together or taking it apart,
		
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			but a human being cannot make something from
		
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			nothing.
		
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			And this is where the realization appears,
		
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			that Allah is the only one who can
		
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			make something from nothing.
		
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			This name of Allah Al Khareq,
		
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			very often when it comes in the Quran,
		
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			it is almost always paired with another question,
		
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			another request, or another demand from Allah.
		
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			Who can tell me what is the first
		
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			command in the Quran in order? The first
		
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			command.
		
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			This is in order of revelation. This is
		
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			the first thing that was revealed to Mahrassa.
		
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			But when you open the most half,
		
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			Yes. Oh, yes. You had it. You had
		
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			it. Yes.
		
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			Now, Sheikh, there'll be a lot of hands
		
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			up after this. Are you ready, Sheikh? Are
		
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			you ready, Sheikh? This was a special.
		
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			This is a Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
		
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			oh people, meaning all humanity.
		
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			This is a universal
		
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			now this is universal request.
		
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			Worship your Lord who created you and those
		
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			before you,
		
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			I e, worship him because he created you.
		
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			When you realize he created you, he's the
		
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			Khalik, you're automatically moved to worship him. I'll
		
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			give you another example.
		
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			The most visionary human beings on this earth
		
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			are the ones that create something,
		
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			something special.
		
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			When Steve Jobs first invented the iPhone,
		
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			there was a lot of following for this
		
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			man. How many people bought his books,
		
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			his watched his movie, read his autobiography? Today,
		
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			when Elon Musk invented the first electric car,
		
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			the first commercial electric car, how many people
		
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			follow him? They are devoted to him. They
		
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			are they are kind of they're they're running
		
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			after him. Why? Because he's invented something remarkable,
		
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			just as Steve Jobs did with the Apple
		
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			with the first Macintosh computer.
		
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			When a human being invent something
		
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			remarkable, unique,
		
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			you've never seen anything like it, other human
		
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			beings automatically start to
		
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			this it's like a magnet.
		
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			They start to feel a pull towards them.
		
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			They start to be curious about them. Who
		
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			are they? Where are they from? How did
		
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			they do this?
		
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			It almost sometimes turns into some kind of
		
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			worship.
		
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			People then devote themselves. People are fans of
		
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			this person. People will,
		
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			buy t shirts. They'll sacrifice their home and
		
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			their money, etcetera, to get this product or
		
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			to follow this person to get all the
		
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			Apple products.
		
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			This starts to become a mindset of followership.
		
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			And this is a human being making some
		
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			imperfect thing
		
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			from other creations of Allah.
		
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			He's taken metal, steel, wood, and he's made
		
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			something.
		
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			And this causes such a huge group of
		
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			people to be obsessed with this person.
		
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			This is Allah placed this in the human
		
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			DNA,
		
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			that when a person sees something uniquely made,
		
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			something that was made in an intelligent way,
		
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			something that was made for a special purpose,
		
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			something that no other person would be easy
		
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			would easily make,
		
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			a human being automatically feels amazed.
		
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			This amazement that you feel in Arabic, we
		
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			call
		
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			it. It's an amazement,
		
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			but you're also in awe. Your jaw drops.
		
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			You say, wow.
		
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			How could this be? This in Arabic, you
		
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			call.
		
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			When you have an amazement of some something
		
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			or somebody, you're amazed by it, but you
		
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			also have a bit of fear, a bit
		
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			of respect.
		
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			It's like when one of these, you know,
		
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			big inventors or celebrities, Henry Ford,
		
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			Tesla,
		
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			Elon Musk, when they walk past a crowd,
		
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			what happens to people? They drop behind them.
		
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			They're shocked. People start crying.
		
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			They're in awe. They're amazed. They're scared. Just
		
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			they're shivering just to be around this person.
		
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			The same way
		
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			just as people are amazed by human products
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells
		
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			us in his own words
		
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			if you are amazed by this iPad and
		
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			this iPhone and this electric car
		
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			Why haven't you looked at the sky above?
		
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			Don't you find that impressive?
		
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			Why did they never look up at the
		
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			sky above
		
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			How was it made?
		
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			How was it beautified?
		
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			And it has no cracks in it.
		
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			And the earth was made flat out for
		
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			you so you can walk,
		
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			so you can farm land.
		
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			It was made for you. It's like everything
		
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			was as they say, you you were born
		
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			with a golden spoon. Everything was made perfect
		
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			just for you to come and sit on
		
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			it.
		
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			And yet
		
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			Allah
		
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			You walk past these signs every day.
		
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			And every night,
		
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			but nothing ever comes into your mind.
		
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			This is the most dangerous thing.
		
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			Is for us,
		
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			before,
		
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			100 of years ago, people would look at
		
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			this world and they would be overwhelmed with
		
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			the idea and the conclusion it must have
		
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			a creator, al Khaliq.
		
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			However, today, we are worse
		
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			because we don't even look at Allah's creation.
		
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			What is it that stops us from appreciating
		
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			the Khalq, the creation of Allah?
		
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			You guys tell me. What is it that
		
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			stops us
		
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			from sitting
		
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			and just staring at the sky
		
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			and appreciating the leaves and the trees and
		
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			the soil and the plant and the animals?
		
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			Yes.
		
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			Lots
		
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			of inventions.
		
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			Lots of inventions.
		
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			What else?
		
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			Some people
		
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			so, some, there might be life. There might
		
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			be home to death somewhere.
		
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			You might be your it's hectic, busy life.
		
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			You're too busy to look up.
		
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			What else?
		
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			Sorry. Too much distraction.
		
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			Technology.
		
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			This is the killer.
		
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			Too much comfort. Too much comfort. We're very
		
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			comfortable.
		
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			You know, we don't interact. You know, before
		
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			for someone to know Maghrib time, 100 of
		
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			years ago, did they have a 4:22 PM?
		
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			Did they have a clock to look at?
		
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			For them to know Maghrib time, they had
		
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			to look at the sun and the horizon.
		
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			For them to know fajr time, they had
		
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			to look at the black and the white
		
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			thread on the horizon.
		
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			For them
		
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			to do, they had to go in search
		
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			of water.
		
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			For them to eat food, they had to
		
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			go in search of wood or coal in
		
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			order to create fire. People's day to day
		
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			lives are connected to to nature, to the
		
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			world around them.
		
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			It's
		
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			the moment we disconnected from nature
		
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			is when we started people started disbelieving in
		
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			God.
		
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			This is why
		
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			when we had the industrial revolution, when human
		
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			beings created factories and machines,
		
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			people stopped working in farms, and they started
		
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			working in factories.
		
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			It was at this moment in history
		
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			that Europe started to say God doesn't exist
		
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			because they were detached from nature.
		
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			Today today,
		
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			if you leave Manchester City
		
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			and you go into the countryside,
		
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			into Macclesfield,
		
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			into Leek, into Buxton,
		
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			you will see religious communities still live there.
		
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			They are religious. They still worship God. They
		
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			still pray to him. They still pray at
		
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			the dinner table.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Why is it that people who disbelieve in
		
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			God mostly live in the city,
		
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			and people who are connected to God live
		
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			mostly in the countryside?
		
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			The psychologists or sociologists are telling us something.
		
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			There's a connection.
		
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			If we become blind to the creation of
		
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			Allah, we will be become blind to Allah
		
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			himself.
		
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			We will become ungrateful to him. We will
		
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			become distant from him. We will not realize
		
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			that he is Al Khalq,
		
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			albari,
		
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			al Musawir, lahu al asma'ul Husna.
		
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			Allah uses other names of his to describe
		
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			his creation in the Quran. Who can give
		
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			me some of these other names?
		
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			To describe him as the creator, the originator,
		
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			the designer.
		
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			Al Musawwir.
		
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			What's the root word of Musawwir? Who can
		
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			tell me?
		
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			To make something in a particular picture, shape,
		
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			form.
		
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			When Allah uses this name, Al Musawwir, in
		
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			the Quran, he uses it in what context?
		
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			What is He
		
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			shaping?
		
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			Wood, clay,
		
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			buildings?
		
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			His creations.
		
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			Specifically human beings.
		
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			Allah says in the Quran, he shaped you,
		
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			and he shaped you in the best way,
		
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			in the most beautiful way. What does that
		
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			mean?
		
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			We have 10 brothers sitting here. Each of
		
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			them have a nose that has a different
		
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			shape.
		
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			One person's nose looks like a Boeing 747.
		
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			Another person's nose looks like the Eiffel Tower.
		
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			Everyone's nose has been shaped differently. There's no
		
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			2 are the same.
		
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			I'm a twin.
		
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			I have a sister that was born at
		
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			the same time as me, but 4 minutes
		
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			later, I never let her forget.
		
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			I'm 4 minutes older.
		
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			We are born at the same time, but
		
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			we look nothing alike.
		
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			He formed you. He shaped you. Your features.
		
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			And he made your features beautiful in their
		
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			own way.
		
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			This is another name of Allah. And that
		
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			caused us to look carefully
		
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			at the greatest of Allah's creation,
		
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			human beings.
		
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			What is it that makes this creation of
		
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			Allah special compared to everything else he made?
		
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			Anybody else? He says, al aqal, the mind.
		
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			I think the mind is one part, but
		
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			there's something else that makes human beings because
		
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			animals have a brain too. They have a
		
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			aqal, not the same kind of aqal, but
		
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			they have a brain as well.
		
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			Yeah. Yes, Asad. The soul? The soul.
		
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			And not just any soul, but the soul
		
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			that yearns for Allah.
		
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			And it yearns for what is greater.
		
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			Animals and human beings both eat, sleep, and
		
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			excrete.
		
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			They reproduce.
		
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			This is between all human beings and all
		
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			animals.
		
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			Animals think, they communicate.
		
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			But what makes human beings special
		
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			is that soul that Allah placed within us
		
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			that needs Allah
		
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			It connects to him. That's why you don't
		
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			see any animal masjids, animal temples,
		
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			animal universities. But you see human beings from
		
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			the very beginning of time till today, human
		
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			beings always looked for a creator. They worshiped
		
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			a creator.
		
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			We live in society today, in a world
		
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			today, where many people you come across will
		
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			be non Muslims, and many of them will
		
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			not believe in God.
		
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			And you might one day come across the
		
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			question,
		
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			what's the evidence, what's the proof that God
		
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			exists in the first place?
		
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			I want you to tell me, from the
		
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			name of Allah we are discussing Al Khalik,
		
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			how would you explain to your neighbor,
		
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			your colleague,
		
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			your friend at school
		
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			that this world could not exist without our
		
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			creator? Who wants to explain to me?
		
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			Yes.
		
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			How is the sky?
		
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			How is there a sky without pillars?
		
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			Okay. He's saying how is there a sky
		
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			without pillars? You're explain to me more.
		
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			Everything is small. A building has walls to
		
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			all the Yeah. But the sky is not
		
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			ready to hold it. Okay. Beautiful. So building
		
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			has has
		
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			a structure to hold it up, but the
		
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			sky doesn't have anything to hold it. Yes.
		
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			Yeah. What did water get
		
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			here? Sorry?
		
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			How did water get here in the 1st
		
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			place? That's a deeper question than how rain
		
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			happens. Yes.
		
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			Something cannot come from nothing. Beautiful. To be
		
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			some someone who have to be the initial
		
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			necessary.
		
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			Something
		
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			something cannot come from nothing.
		
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			Beautiful.
		
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			Yes.
		
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			The complexity of human body. Allahu, how old
		
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			are you, young man?
		
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			14. 14. Masha'Allah. He's giving a very complex
		
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			answer. The complexity of the human body.
		
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			Beautiful.
		
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			Allah
		
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			talks about this complexity of the human body
		
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			in the Quran with his name, Al Khalq.
		
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			Allah
		
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			says,
		
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			One of the greatest evidences Allah gives us
		
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			of Him being the creator of everything
		
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			is he says, look at how you came
		
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			into being.
		
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			He says there was a nutfa, a drop
		
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			of fluid, a drop of liquid.
		
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			This nutfa, this drop of liquid became alakah,
		
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			a small piece of flesh.
		
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			This piece of flesh became a, a larger
		
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			piece of flesh.
		
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			This larger piece of flesh got bones,
		
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			But then
		
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			after bones and flesh,
		
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			something happened.
		
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			A dead person is bones and flesh too.
		
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			Something happened between bones and flesh
		
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			and you today.
		
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			Allah
		
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			says,
		
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			then we create made a new creation out
		
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			of it. That is the soul.
		
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			The life that is breathed into this flesh
		
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			and bones.
		
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			This is something that there is no explanation
		
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			for.
		
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			You see, the world today,
		
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			the Western world today understands everything as materials.
		
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			I'll give you an example.
		
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			Sayed Muhammad.
		
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			You're depressed?
		
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			Very good. Depression is just hormones in your
		
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			brain. So we'll give you some tablets,
		
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			and your hormones will be fine tomorrow, so
		
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			you'll be fine.
		
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			There is no acknowledgment that there is something
		
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			more than
		
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			flesh and bones. There is something deeper there
		
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			within the human being. This is what Allah's
		
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			point,
		
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			human being is not just bones and flesh,
		
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			something else is there within this human being.
		
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			Nobody can explain it. If you give a
		
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			scientist, if you give anybody a bunch of
		
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			bones and flesh and you say make a
		
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			human being out of this, they cannot even
		
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			create Frankenstein.
		
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			They cannot do anything with it. The soul
		
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			is the
		
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			that is something that is exclusive to Allah.
		
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			That's why when Allah tells us about the
		
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			soul in the Quran, Allah says,
		
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			O Muhammad, they ask you about the soul.
		
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			Say, oh, Muhammad, tell them the soul
		
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			is from the exclusive creations of Allah.
		
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			And you will only know very little about
		
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			the soul. Till today,
		
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			it is the biggest
		
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			confusion for neuroscientists, psychologists.
		
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			Why do human beings have a consciousness? Why
		
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			do we have a soul? Doesn't make sense.
		
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			Nobody can explain it. Nobody can reproduce it.
		
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			This is the evidence Allah
		
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			gives us.
		
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			He's pointing to us in the Quran.
		
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			Allah points to us. When you see the
		
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			leaf falling from the tree, think what caused
		
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			it to fall from the tree. Ultimately,
		
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			yes,
		
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			gravity pulled on the leaf. There was something
		
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			else acting on the ground. But ultimately, you
		
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			will say, what caused it all?
		
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			There was something at the beginning that caused
		
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			all of it.
		
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			There's something another version of this name, Al
		
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			Khaleq, that comes in the Quran. It's buried.
		
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			Alba no. With the same root letters, Khalaqa.
		
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			A different
		
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			version of this name. Al Khalaq. Al Khalaq.
		
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			Who can remember we talked about Ghafoor and
		
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			Ghafar?
		
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			The difference between these two names.
		
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			What is the difference between Ghafoor, the forgiving,
		
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			and Ghafar?
		
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			Anybody remember?
		
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			Yes?
		
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			It's Sheikh, this one, £100.
		
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			No
		
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			pressure. Yes, Sheikh. Tell me.
		
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			We accept payment in rupees as well, inshallah,
		
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			if you cannot afford £5. Yes, Sheikh. Tell
		
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			me.
		
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			Like,
		
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			how many of their age, how many people
		
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			are there just still playing Fortnite in their
		
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			houses, and they are here telling me the
		
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			difference between Ghafoor and Ghafar. It's, you know,
		
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			it's it's really something to be appreciated.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			And the first command of the Quran, honestly,
		
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			it is something may Allah subhanallah, everybody's may
		
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			Allah subhanallah, make our children of the ulema.
		
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			Ameen arabai alamin. And may Allah convert this
		
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			curiosity
		
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			and this intelligence for His sake.
		
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			Ameen arabai alamin. And for all of us,
		
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			Al Ghafoor in Arabic,
		
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			when a verb goes from Ghafoor to Ghafar,
		
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			Faul to Faal,
		
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			it denotes exaggeration.
		
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			So Ghafar is not just the forgiving, but
		
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			the one who forgives
		
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			again and again frequently.
		
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			For example, habaz.
		
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			So a habis is someone who bakes bread.
		
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			Khubs. Right? Bread.
		
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			Habaz
		
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			means someone who is baking bread again and
		
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			again and again and again, constantly, again and
		
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			again.
		
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			So it means exaggeration,
		
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			either a lot of bread or constantly doing
		
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			the thing. Now we come to halakh.
		
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			Al Khalik is the one who creates. You
		
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			could create just once and never again, but
		
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			halakh is the one that's creating every moment.
		
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			You have to really understand what that means.
		
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			Anybody remembers the example I gave a long
		
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			time ago? I'll give it again.
		
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			The famous experiment done by a psychologist.
		
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			There's a dog,
		
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			And every time he gives the dog food,
		
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			he rings the bell, and then he gives
		
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			the dog food.
		
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			Yeah? Pavlov, the famous psychologist. He rings the
		
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			bell, ding a ding ding ding ding ding
		
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			ding, and he gives the dog food. He
		
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			rings the bell, ding a ding ding ding
		
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			ding. He gives the dog food.
		
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			When he keeps doing this, after the 10th
		
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			time, when he rings a bell, ding a
		
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			ding a ding a ding, the dog starts
		
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			salivating. He starts getting thirsty.
		
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			Why? Why is the dog getting hungry?
		
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			Because
		
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			he
		
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			thinks the the the bell is connected to
		
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			the food. The dog thinks the bell is
		
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			connected to the food.
		
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			But one day, he rings the bell and
		
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			there's no food.
		
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			The dog doesn't realize somebody else is ringing
		
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			the bell and somebody else is bringing the
		
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			food. The dog creates a relate creates a
		
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			connection between the two.
		
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			Now I'll give you relationship with Allah
		
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			The way we look at things, we look
		
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			at them from a dunya perspective.
		
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			We light a match
		
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			and the wood goes on fire. So we
		
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			think the spark caused the fire,
		
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			but we don't realize
		
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			Allah caused the spark
		
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			and Allah created the fire.
		
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			This is Khalak.
		
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			He every moment he creates,
		
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			but in our mind we think that they
		
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			connected.
		
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			You know, like the water cycle. Who can
		
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			describe to me the water cycle? If you
		
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			remember GCSE biology.
		
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			What's the water cycle roughly? Who can tell
		
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			me?
		
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			Yes. If we these 2 keep answering all
		
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			the questions, there's nothing left for the rest
		
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			of us. Yeah. How how do we get
		
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			the rain? Can anyone tell me yes gentleman
		
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			at the back? Yes.
		
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			Yeah. The water condense from the sea to
		
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			the sky
		
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			and then it becomes clouds
		
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			and it's rain. Now when we see this,
		
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			we think
		
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			the sea
		
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			caused the water to go up and the
		
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			clouds caused
		
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			the rain to happen. But actually,
		
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			Allah created the water in the sea. He
		
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			created the condensation that brought it up. And
		
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			every moment Allah is creating,
		
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			but we in our mind are creating the
		
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			connections.
		
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			This is what it means to appreciate Al
		
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			Khallak.
		
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			You know what it means? That when you
		
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			get your paycheck at the end of the
		
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			month, it didn't come from your boss.
		
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			It came from Allah.
		
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			Allah created the boss and he created the
		
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			payslip as well.
		
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			But we start to associate with other people.
		
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			My wife cooked the food.
		
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			My husband repaired the car. We don't realize
		
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			Allah
		
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			is the creator of it all.
		
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			Allah says in the Quran, you didn't throw
		
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			the arrow. It is Allah
		
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			who caused you to throw the arrow.
		
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			You have to appreciate this.
		
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			And this is what Tawhid one of the
		
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			meanings of Tawhid
		
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			is that you don't see all of the
		
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			people and the means and the causes on
		
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			this earth.
		
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			Every time something happens,
		
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			you just look and you see the one
		
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			cause of it all, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			Let's say today you get in a fight
		
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			with your neighbor
		
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			or your mechanic
		
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			or you get scammed online, you're trying to
		
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			buy something.
		
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			Rather than blaming this person, this person is
		
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			up, this person, this person taking your anger
		
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			out on this person, you see Allah is
		
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			teaching me patience.
		
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			Allah is frustrating me. He's teaching me patience.
		
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			You see the direct cause of it all,
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			So what Hal Hafid al Maqrizi said in
		
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			the 3rd century, I think the 3rd century
		
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			Hijri, he said,
		
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			Tawhid used to mean people used to understand
		
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			tawhid,
		
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			meaning
		
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			that you don't see the effects of people.
		
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			You see Allah
		
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			as the one who caused everything.
		
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			But today, people have made tawhid just definitions
		
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			and and segregations
		
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			and things they have memorized, but they don't
		
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			appreciate Allah
		
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			behind it all.
		
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			This is the meaning of Allahu Al Khalaq,
		
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			the one who constantly and repeatedly
		
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			creates.
		
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			There are other names that Allah uses for
		
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			his creation in the Quran.
		
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			Somebody mentioned just now, al Bayri.
		
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			Al Bayri has only come in the Quran
		
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			once, other than Suratul Hashr.
		
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			Yes, Hafaf.
		
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			Where is al Bari in the Quran? There
		
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			is no cash prize for this. Sheikh Muhammad
		
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			Ali has mouths to feed. Oh, shay. K.
		
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			So let's not do this to Sheikh Muhammad.
		
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			Yes. Al Bari.
		
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			In Surat Al Baqarah,
		
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			But it's without the l.
		
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			Yes, gentlemen.
		
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			You have 10 more seconds.
		
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			No pressure.
		
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			Masha Allah. He's too old for a price
		
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			check.
		
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			Some some of the prices are deferred to
		
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			afterlife,
		
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			inshallah. Allah says in the Quran.
		
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			When Musa said to his people, you have
		
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			wronged yourself,
		
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			by worshiping the calf, the cow.
		
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			So repent, seek forgiveness from Al Bari.
		
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			What is Al Bari?
		
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			Al Bari in Arabic
		
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			is the one who makes something in such
		
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			a way where it has no mistakes and
		
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			no flaws.
		
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			Fakhruddin Razi
		
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			he said,
		
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			why in this ayah, of all of Allah's
		
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			names, why did he say seek forgiveness from
		
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			albari?
		
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			He says,
		
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			because if Allah
		
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			made everything with no mistakes and no flaws,
		
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			how is it that you duped yourselves?
		
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			You lost your mind and you worshiped a
		
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			cow, which has so many mistakes and so
		
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			many limitations and so many flaws.
		
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			So return back to the one who has
		
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			no mistakes and no flaws.
		
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			Make a u-turn. This is what a toba
		
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			is. Toba is to return, to come back.
		
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			You've gone so you've lost your mind so
		
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			far that you're worshiping a cow. Please take
		
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			a u-turn. Come back to the one who
		
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			has no mistakes and no flaws.
		
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			I want to end this dars with the
		
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			verse that I began this dars.
		
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			I recited in the beginning of this lesson
		
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			a number of verses from Surah Fathir.
		
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			And at the end of these verses, Allah
		
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			says,
		
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			Those that are most amazed by Allah from
		
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			all his creation, from all his slaves, are
		
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			the ulama.
		
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			Many people use this verse to say the
		
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			scholars, meaning the scholars of Islamic knowledge, of
		
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			the Quran and the Sunnah, etcetera,
		
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			that those who are the scholars, the true
		
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			scholars are those who are cautious, who are
		
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			amazed, who are in awe of Allah. As
		
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			many of the earliest Muslims Salaf used to
		
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			say,
		
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			in. And even this is found in the
		
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			biblical scriptures in the old and new testament.
		
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			The fear of God is the beginning of
		
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			wisdom.
		
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			And some of the salaf used the same
		
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			similar wording.
		
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			That being being amazed by Allah and loving
		
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			Him and fearing Him, this is really what
		
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			knowledge should bring you towards.
		
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			But what
		
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			is this ayah referring to?
		
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			What knowledge should one have?
		
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			What knowledge would you learn that would make
		
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			you amazed by Allah?
		
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			The previous verses, what are they talking about?
		
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			If you look at the context of this
		
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			verse,
		
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			the previous verses are talking about the different
		
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			shades of colors in Allah's creation. In mountains,
		
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			in the earth, in the rain, in the
		
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			fruits.
		
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			And then Allah says,
		
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			those who are most cautious, fearful of Allah
		
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			are the ulama, the knowledgeable ones.
		
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			1 of the scholars of tafsir,
		
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			he said
		
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			that the knowledge you need to know
		
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			in order to be amazed by Allah and
		
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			fear of Allah and love of Allah is
		
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			to know about his creation.
		
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			And today, we have more knowledge about the
		
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			creation of Allah than we have ever had
		
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			in the history of humankind.
		
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			Umar al Khattab could never look into a
		
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			telescope,
		
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			Nobody
		
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			back in the day could see the James
		
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			Webb Telescope and the Milky Way and space
		
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			and the beauty of what Allah has created.
		
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			They did not know the details of the
		
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			bees and the ants on this earth and
		
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			how they move and how they
		
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			how they,
		
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			how they socialize and how they how they
		
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			feed each other and how they work with
		
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			the flowers and the plants,
		
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			this knowledge of Allah's creation was never known
		
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			in the past.
		
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			And it as we learn more about Allah's
		
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			creation, so we become more devoted to Him,
		
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			so we become more amazed by Him,
		
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			so we become more fear of Him and
		
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			more in love with Him.
		
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			So every parent should take their children outdoors,
		
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			Take their children to the peak district. And
		
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			if you're indoors and the weather is bad,
		
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			watch documentaries about nature.
		
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			Watch documentaries, these BBC documentaries about planet Earth,
		
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			about space, about the forest, about the seas.
		
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			Turn off the cartoons and let them be
		
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			amazed. And if you are an adult, ability
		
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			to wander, to walk on the streets and
		
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			look at the trees and look at the
		
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			plants and listen to the birds chirping in
		
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			the morning.
		
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			That should there should be some time in
		
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			our diary for this. People forget.
		
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			When the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam received the
		
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			first revelation, where was he sitting?
		
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			In a cave. What was he doing in
		
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			a cave?
		
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			He was reflecting.
		
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			He was thinking.
		
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			Do you know how far this cave was
		
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			from his house?
		
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			Anybody know?
		
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			About 6 miles.
		
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			Not 6 miles on a nice tarmac road,
		
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			6 miles in the Makkan terrain with the
		
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			mountains and the rough.
		
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			It would take roughly
		
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			approximately 1 hour for him to walk from
		
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			his house to this cave. Why?
		
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			Why would he go 1 hour away from
		
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			home to sit in a cave before any
		
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			revelation came?
		
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			Everybody needs some time in a cave,
		
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			even if it's not a real cave.
		
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			If you put your phone on flight mode,
		
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			airplane mode, you are in a cave.
		
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			Sometimes when your kids go to sleep, turn
		
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			off the devices
		
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			and go and look at the sky outside
		
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			in the garden with a cup of green
		
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			tea.
		
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			This is your cave. We all need time
		
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			in the cave.
		
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			Seven people in the cave, a whole surah
		
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			was named after them, Suratul Kahf. The prophet
		
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			salallahu
		
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			alayhi wasalam received his first revelation in the
		
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			cave, the cave of Hera. The prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam received revelation in the cave
		
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			of Thawr when he's alone with Abu Bakr.
		
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			Caves are very important to us. And if
		
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			you can't create a physical one, then create
		
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			a a space and a time when you
		
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			can just reflect you and Allah and nobody
		
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			else.
		
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			You might be waiting for your order in
		
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			a restaurant. But if you can drown out
		
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			all the noises and all the bills and
		
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			all the notifications and all the people from
		
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			your mind, and you can sit there and
		
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			say
		
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			you have achieved the status of being in
		
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			the cave.
		
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			Find your cave wherever you may be. This
		
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			is the practical thing I can give you
		
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			from today.
		
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			If we are distant from Allah's creation,
		
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			we are distant from Allah. If our children
		
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			are distant from Allah's creation,
		
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			nothing can bring them to Allah.
		
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			There is in Manchester City of Manchester, there
		
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			are stargazing societies, people that come with telescopes
		
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			just to admire the skies. There's no Muslims
		
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			there.
		
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			No Muslims. We are too busy
		
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			eating on Wamslow Road. That's our when we
		
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			were when we are bored, we go to
		
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			eat food. There are other people who, when
		
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			they are bored, they are just looking at
		
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			the stars in the sky.
		
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			Allah told us to look at the stars
		
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			in the sky, and we are not we're
		
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			not for these are commandments of Allah.
		
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			Go and look at the sky. We don't
		
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			fulfill these commandments.
		
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			But other commandments of Allah Allah forbid us
		
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			from to
		
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			sleep for eat and drink, but don't go
		
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			excessive. We like to go and eat excessively.
		
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			Something to think about for all of us.
		
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			In this ayah, Allah
		
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			shows us that those who have ilm
		
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			of this creation of Allah, those who know
		
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			this creation of Allah, they will be in
		
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			awe, in fear, in love of Him. And
		
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			this aya, there are some aya's that come
		
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			after it. Who can tell me the verse
		
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			that comes after it?
		
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			Who can tell you what comes after it?
		
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			The following verses
		
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			are about the Quran and those who are
		
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			attached to the Quran.
		
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			And this verse has come right in the
		
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			middle, which shows
		
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			that if you want to be a person
		
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			who is amazed by Allah to connect with
		
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			Allah, you need the 'ilm, the knowledge of
		
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			2 things. Number 1, the creation of Allah
		
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			in the mountains and the birds and the
		
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			skies. And number 2, the book of Allah.
		
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			The scholars used to say
		
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			that this Quran
		
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			this Quran,
		
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			these are the signs of Allah that you
		
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			can recite,
		
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			and the universe around you is
		
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			These are the signs of Allah that you
		
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			don't need to recite.
		
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			They said some of the scholars used to
		
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			say that the universe around us
		
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			is Quran.
		
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			It is a it is a sign. These
		
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			are the this is the Quran around you,
		
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			but it's not reciting.
		
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			It's you can't recite it, but these are
		
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			the miracles around you.
		
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			And with this, we conclude our lesson on
		
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			appreciating the khalk of Allah and the name
		
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			of Allah. Al Khaliq,
		
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			Al Bayri
		
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			Al Musawir, Lahul Asma'ul Husna. And one of
		
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			the duas the prophet
		
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			used to make daily, twice a day,
		
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			and it has the name of Allah Al
		
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			Khaliq in it.
		
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			Oh Allah, you are my Lord. None worthy
		
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			of worship but you,
		
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			you created me from nothing.
		
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			Of course, I am your slave.
		
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			Sayyudulistighfar.
		
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			Make dua to Allah with his names, and
		
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			remember him and appreciate his creations.