Hosai Mojaddidi – Maryam (AS) A Woman Who Tasted the Sweetness of Faith

Hosai Mojaddidi
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The speakers discuss the impact of stories on women, including the importance of not denying one's love for a partner and not over-delivering. They also emphasize the importance of not letting people overburden and not limiting their emotions. The segment emphasizes the power of story for women and how it can restore connection with others. They also mention a woman named Mary who provided assessments to her and how she was impacted by young girls.
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From the Mercy of Allah. Now, there's a hadith, that competitive

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narrative deposits and said, every newborn babies touched by Shavon

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when it's boring, and the baby starts crying because of this

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touch, except for many young men, her son, Thomas panda actually

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protected her hurt in that state's Department. Now, imagine her

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father actually passed away before she was even fourth. Somebody I'm

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never knew her father. So her mother decided to send her to her

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maternal. And so Hannah sister, who was married to Prophet deputy.

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So basically, they took on the charges, and decided to raise her

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in the service of the mess, she can't, and she becomes a student

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of progressivity about profit, just right away, you can see some

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of the openings.

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Right? That she's now becoming a student of comfort.

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So one of the requests or the one of the one of the blessings of

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again, having being in his service was that she had access to the

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masjid. And she was given a special chamber. That was entirely

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hers. Okay. So she's included herself. And this is, you know, as

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a very young girl, this is just what she did. She just had this

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deep, profound love for us to splinters off of family and people

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and she just devoted herself to worship of wholeness. What does

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that really a narrates that there are many times when we would enter

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her room SubhanAllah. After weeks days, she wouldn't step out. And

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she never left her chambers and maybe sort of leave herself but

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she was very, very devoted in her worship. And he would come into

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her muscala. And he would find fruits that were out of season in

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her room.

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Right. So imagine it's summer, and there's winter fruits a lot in her

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room, or expenditure, and there's summer fruits in her room. And so

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you would ask her, where did you get these foods from? You never?

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How did you even get them? Right? It's out of season. And her

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response. She said,

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he said to me away from wherever you bought this and she said, this

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is from on, Verily Allah provide sustenance to those.

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So Allah subhanaw taala would deliver to her beautiful fruits,

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again, we're talking about those who are coming in story of

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medieval knights. And the topic that I was given was to talk about

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the sweetness of faith. So I thought the story really captured

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that. And here's just one example. Again, the sweetness of faith and

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fruits being delivered

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to your room. And of course, a law is capable of all things. So she

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SUPREME LAW spends her days and nights where she rarely sees

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people and then all of a sudden, we know this part of the story,

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right? One day, something strange happens to her someone she's never

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seen before insurance, her room in the form of a man. This is angels

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review, I said, and she's completely frightened and

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terrified. This is a woman, a young girl, not even a woman who

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did not meet with people, and to have suddenly a strange man in her

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room. You can imagine how terrifying that was. For her day,

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she warned him to fear a lot, thinking that he's there to hurt

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her and he tells her mind only a messenger from your Lord to

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provide you to give him a righteous son. So again, you know,

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try and place yourself in her shoes for just a moment. Rewind

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your brain 1000s of years back. Like she's so innocent, has no

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concept of what is happening to her. And he's telling when she's

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about to have a child. Any of us would have, you know, clearly a

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breakdown or some type, but some time a lot in that moment. She

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stunned and says and how can I have a son when you're in such me

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and I do not commit? We get x and he responds that will be your Lord

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says it's easy for me and we will make him assign to the people and

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diversity from us. And it is a matter already decree. So

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basically, almost pilot can do su wills. So she in that moment did

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she pretest she breakdown she rather than hysterics. Her faith

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is now being seriously tested. Right? Her family and Michelle

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she's displayed her devotion clearly. She loves Allah

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paradata he loves her in return is evidence. Now the test is coming.

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So this is for us to surprise here for a moment, when we reflect on

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the stories, whether it's the profits of these incredible

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people that you know, the stories that we hear of other people as

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well,

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who are tested, despite their incredible faith, we have to then

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come back and remember that yet that that is just the, you know,

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the what happens on our people are tested, every single one of us

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will face tests in this life. And it's just part of being here part

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of this experience, because the video is designed to test us. So

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we have this is from almost says, you know, do they say that they

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believe and they don't expect to be tested. So he's telling us

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right and in their expense tests. Right? This part of how is she

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thought, of course, he will, you know, this is part of his tactic

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to make you question, doubt, put doubt in yourself doubt in a love

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that just fill you with all of these negative negative thoughts

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when the tests come. But the response that you have, really is

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where you prove your faith, how you respond to this. So

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if you protest, why me, woe is me, or you reject it, and you are

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angry, I actually heard this from a before where he expressed anger,

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like, this is an injustice, I don't deserve this, I did

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everything right. And as the hot up, you know, people get really,

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really angry sometimes because they don't understand almost have

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this decree. But again, if you have that concrete in your head,

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you're very clear on that, that you will be tested with how you

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respond is where you grew your faith, then it becomes clear that

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accepting the Creoles

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is the best choice instead of resisting, right. And that's

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exactly what she did. So it's the kind of law as steady as she is.

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She accepts her degree, to realize breathes in to her role. And she

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comes.

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She goes through all the horrible signs of pregnancy. And then the

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rumors of course, the strike. People notice these things, right,

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even though she was,

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you know, in her chambers, when she did not leave you for

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specific things, people notice she's growing, she's

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experimenting, and cell phone while rumors began to spread. So

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she decided that point, again, I want you to think about her age

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and the incredible pressure she must have felt to protect her

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reputation, right to protect the reputation of her families. She

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makes this decision as a young girl who barely ventured out of

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her chambers, let alone walked alone in the, you know, into the

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streets of where she works, she made the decision to completely

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leave. Right, so she leaves and runs away.

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According to the fear, she ran away. And when she reached that

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area between a sham in Egypt, she was overcome by Labor paints.

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And another narration this took place eight miles from the Sacred

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House of Jerusalem in a village in Bethlehem. So just you know if

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you've ever been in these parts of the world that you can visualize

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that. But she went really far from her

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from her home from her chambers.

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And she knew that she was going to be tested with the birth. She knew

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people were not a sister who were already spreading rumors about

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her, they would not believe her story. And, you know, especially

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because she was known to be so developed, right? And now to

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imagine that people are spreading rumors about her that she's a

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foreign caterer, she's done this horrible deal. She just knew that

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she couldn't depend on anything. She had to do this by herself. So

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in her anguish and pain, and I'm just imagining these words coming

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from her, she said wood that I had died before this and had been

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forgotten and out of sight. So sometimes, you know, this, things

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can get overwhelming for you, right? I mean, here's this little

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girl, pretty much young girl going through such a deep tribulation.

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And don't you know, people often get very

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sanctimonious and self righteous when they judge people's pain and

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rush and they don't realize that people process and cope

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differently. And if you make a momentary statement out of pain,

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or just, you know, it's overwhelming you don't let someone

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shame you and make you feel like

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I made a statement of cover and what's wrong with you. You see

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people even after someone dies, a loved one, they're already being

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policed about what they should should say,

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This is wrong. And you have to stop that as a community and

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realize that sometimes in the moment, because you will become so

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overwhelmed, and they don't understand they made a statement

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by the ocean, just die, you know, and that's not doesn't mean that

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they're terrible people, and they all have faith, and they don't

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have even a means not a moment, their heart is broken. And they

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really don't understand and you should reach out with empathy and

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love. And with compassion instead of judgments. Gender is very, very

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ugly quality. And we, you know, unfortunately, though, it's just

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very common that people will react that way. So here, we just look at

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this example. She made a statement like that, because I was too

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overwhelming for her.

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Right, but she reviews, divining striper self Rolando, she is

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hailed as one of the four perfect women.

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So again, take comfort that these are human emotions, and we're

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allowed to be human.

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So

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she finally is

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and is incredibly weak. And all over again, imagine her situation.

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She's under a tree. There's nobody. I mean, anybody, how many

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students here have delivered a child? Right? How many have been

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completely alone, delivering a child like nope, not a single

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soul? I think so. The idea of going through something like that,

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for the first time as a young, fragile age 10 is terrifying.

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That's how a lot

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you know, when you have almost a potluck on your side, you can get

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through anything. And her story is a perfect example. So here, she's

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under this tree or family, husband, no siblings, nobody holds

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her hand to comfort her through what she's just been through.

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So she, of course, is in this agonizing state, with some kind of

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love her Lord was guiding her all along, the voice came down to her

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in that state, do not grieve. Your Lord has provided very few there

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was a stream, right for her to have fresh water and fold it and

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shake toward you the trunk of the palm tree, it will draw upon you

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right and fresh sheets. So this was called on to her. So eat and

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drink and be contented. And if you see

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these analyses, remember a direct order to her. If you see anybody,

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any human being, say, indie I have valid to the most versatile,

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abstention. So I will not speak to anybody.

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So somehow the law does such a powerful thing. She's gone through

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so much. She didn't feel like she could count on any human being.

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And I was part of that because again, confirming you don't need

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any of them. You don't need to talk to any of them.

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Okay, I am with you.

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The people actually went out

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spreading, they're very concerned about what happened to her. She

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just disappeared out of thin air. They went out to vote for her

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people are asking other people along the way. If they saw her,

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they actually found a shepherd. And he said that he didn't see her

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but he saw something very strange that he'd never seen before. I

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said he saw a bright lights and his cattle, all of them

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did something that he hadn't seen before they prostrated in the

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direction of where the light came from. So somehow on the witness

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that all we said at that time

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with his legs was shining so bright. So he pointed them in

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Mary in the meantime, her gathered some strength and she decided at

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that point to collect herself. She remember that she was ordered to

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do do not talk to anybody. She collected herself. She gathered

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her new infant

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please, of course please

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don't please. So haha, and she decided to head back.

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So she now is walking back and she actually runs into the very group

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that went out to look for her.

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And they you know, surrounded her and now it's there until it is

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your man as a young girl. You have this new Barbie and you cannot

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tell

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You've been ordered to silence. And they're all standing there.

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What are you doing? You know, the shame that you brought a color

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family, you know, like, accusing her of all of this, but how could

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you do this? How could you do this to them? They treated us so well

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he took you in when your father passed away, and she just has to

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stand up. She's taking their abuses, taking their acquisitions

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approach, she just didn't do it all by herself.

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All she could do was communicate through sign language like, you

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know, just trying to like, let them know, they're about battery.

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And so suddenly,

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she points to the right.

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And they said, how can we like because she tried to tell them

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like I'm talking to you.

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Just wasn't any like, if you want answers, and then like, what, how

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can we speak to this?

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Young, maybe how can we speak to someone.

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This is crazy, more, you know, acquisitions, more abuses are

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launched. And then somehow, worse, we believe others capable of

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anything. So he created that infant, Isa, sleeves and he

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responds, indeed, I am the servant of all law. He has given me a

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searcher and made me a Prophet. And he has made me blessed

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wherever I am, and doesn't join the army prayer and so fat as long

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as I remain alive, it made me dutiful to my mother, and he does

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not make the Election tyrant and peace is army the day I was born

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and the day I will die. And the day I pray. So I

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really just imagine if

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this is it. This is why I always say you don't need to defend

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yourself. You don't need to speak to anybody. I will do that for

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you. And of course, immediately, her honor was restored. And

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everybody felt terrible. The accusations are false that they

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thought of her and it was elevated her amongst and she had gone

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somewhere peacefully with her son, she never married again to shame

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team that title of the Virgin Mary, until she left this world.

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There are so many incredible lessons from this story that we

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can draw on first before we continue. Anybody have any

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questions or comments to share?

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Yes. So after the birth of the Santa Fe, she didn't undergo any

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other

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VR this all of your what happened to him was also a test for her as

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a mother. Yes.

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He was alive.

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Yes. According to Yes.

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Yes, I

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talked about she was

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that she actually

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was a healer. And

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mashallah, there might be different accounts of her history.

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So much on scholarship at this beautiful. I'm sure it's true

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Shama, but for the most part, it was in her again, countless just

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note about her that she felt the majority of the majority of her

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time she spent in her chambers

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in devotion.

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So, you know, the, the lessons are hard to pull from this because

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there's so many actually proceed her story

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in a sense that we looked at her other right, let's look to Hannah,

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and the power of sincere God, because it's very natural. For

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some of us who've been wanting or yearning for something. Maybe

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you've been making off for weeks for months, maybe even years right

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for a specific thing. And it enters our hearts like you know,

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it was a lot of the same stuff a lot of people have these thoughts

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to see here me. Am I there's something wrong with me? Am I not

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worthy? Where do you think these types of thoughts come from? 100%

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If you ever have a thought about software alone, that listening to

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you really tear every piece that statement up, it's his last words,

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right? Because almost nobody hears everything. He's had knowledge of

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everything. So the idea that he doesn't listen to software the

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last one or something is outside of our we don't believe in that.

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He listens to everything. There's nothing that escapes his

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knowledge. So write that in there. You have to first know that's what

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says appreciate it.

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But then even when he makes you doubt your self worth, because a

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particular thought isn't being answered, I can't tell you how

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many people I've talked to that immediately raced to that judgment

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about themselves, that there's something wrong with me. Because

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I'm not my answer. My God isn't the answer.

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Supine a lot. You know, how many people in history? Or how many

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stories? Have you heard of people who've been tested and tried by

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something being withheld from them? Or a loss? Right? You never

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does anything suffered more than he did. So suffering? Not, you

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know, getting your dog answered, or not having, you know, this

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happy, perfect, I don't even know, you know, what, what we think, you

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know, sort of ideals we create about, about life here on Earth,

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but like, those are not proofs of anybody's standing alone. If, in

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fact, the opposite is true, that people who are closer to them are

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tested.

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So you have to reject those thoughts right away and say,

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actually, if I'm being tested in sha Allah, this is a good sign.

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I'm being purified, right? We all sin, we all are heedless, we all

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do things that we shouldn't do. And so this dunya is

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that we should, we should welcome being purified in this world, as

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opposed to living it up and having, you know, thinking that

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we're, everything's fine. And then someone showing up on the Day of

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Judgment, full of surprises, I don't want to know, we don't want

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to surprise somebody in judgment, right? We don't want to think that

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oh, because I pray five times a day, and I've worked out and I

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faster in Oman, and everything just seemed so perfect and good.

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That you know, then you show up and stuff like that. The balance

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is not in your favor. That's not we shouldn't want. So it should

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look like no one. If these are happening to me in this world. And

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even though they're difficult to bear, I have to be patient. How do

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I just have to accept that this is a real true blessing for most.

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And so that's the power of you know, again, sincere go out. And

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she wanted a child for many, many years. And it took that one moment

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where she, you know, saw this beautiful exchange and the mother

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burning their check what she made that daughter, sometimes

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they say, oh, and that will bring you to your knees. Right? Because

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of that,

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of your devotion in that moment. So if you're, if you're asking

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like, you know, prepare your disciple, Allah give you this, and

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it's kind of like a rush job.

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You know, the Quality Matters sometimes. And so if you have a

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need, that you've wanted fulfilled, for example, and you've

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never once thought to make up for the hedges, but yet, you wonder,

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why isn't it being answered, maybe that's the vehicle that you need

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to take, that's the means with which the dog might be accepted.

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Or set up, there's so many different ways that we can almost

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like expedite, you know, our draw, right? And you have to look at

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what those opportunities are fasting, giving, you know,

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activity in the service of people feeding people who are hungry,

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doing things like that are ways to inshallah increase the, the

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chances of your dog being answered, sometimes you just say

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God is asking for gifts and shoulders. Good enough, never

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limit that. Take it to the next level, because it could just be

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that one moment of absolute sincerity, where your heart is

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broken, and you're crying, and you're just like y'all please, I

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really need this, as opposed to, you know, just sort of casually

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mentioning something. So think about that equality.

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And then think also about what Hannah did when she received news

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about her pregnancy. This is also another great lesson opportunity

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for us that when we want something for like single sisters, for

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example, are sisters who do want children, sisters who are married

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and maybe they they're sad, they're having difficulty with

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their spouses. When you're making the offer something if you're

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stuck on just the material thing that you want. You're also

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limiting the power to take your advice to the next level. Right?

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So if you want to be married, don't want to be married just to

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be coupled and have a fairytale life just so that you can buy a

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house and have you know

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with perfect wedding and all the things that people dream up about

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marriage, we made the intention in that moment that I want to be

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married so that I can have, you know, they can do incredible

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things for y'all along with my partner, that my partner and I are

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like, we're, you know, the next board members of MCC are like, you

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know, doing amazing things for this community. We're out there

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serving, you know, Southern Lee for kids Life Foundation, you're

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helping orphans, but we're, there's much more meaning in our

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union than just the material from a worldly aspect, right. Or if you

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want a child the same way that made her, you know, she balance

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was that she was going to raise her child in service of him. Take

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that, you know, take your dog for a child's at that level. Like I

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don't want to just childhood how to be getting co DS or s chakra

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stroller, like pulling too close and taking pictures. Right? And

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then you're not so good at

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what you want this child for? Why? You know, in our cultures, I know

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many of our cultures, it's like a numbers game with women, right?

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You have one shot one shot, you have two wins, your next is never

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enough.

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For what purpose? You know, for what purpose? Do we bring children

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into this world? This is a place of difficulty of challenge. If

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it's selfish, things are so cute nowadays, ask Allah, whether we

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carry by name, you know, it's like so limiting, so worldly. But how

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about because I want them to be the next. You know, so I haven't

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been

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I want them to do amazing. Very, I want them to do amazing things.

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These are the kinds of,

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you know, intention, we should add for, for whatever we want in this

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world, even for wealth.

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You know, if you want wealth, have a good internship, but that

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wealth, if you want success in your job and your work, whatever

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it is that you want us to give you from the world, it's okay to ask.

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But it beautifying the attention by attaching it to love for him as

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well. It's not just whatever benefit you get. And this is what

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we've learned from him this example.

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She could have, you know, throw it right and write that in there, you

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know, invite all her friends called, you know, this is how we

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react to us. But she took a moment to really to feel the weight of

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what happened to her, someone else had that opens doors for you. If

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you're really engaged, if you just found that you're pregnant. If you

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are falling in love in the moment right now with someone

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to take a moment to really appreciate what's happening.

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Take a moment to really pause and look at that blessing those type

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of feelings even if you already have children.

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Really, and how many times do we sit there and look at them. And

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just today, for example, I

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just happen to have that I was looking at my son, as he said,

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strange. And he said, Why is this child like? Well, I said somehow,

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like I sometimes look at you and I can't believe your son.

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Because for so many years, I wanted a child and I didn't think

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I've ever had it

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for eight years, posted it and

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I just accepted that.

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And then all of a sudden gave me this child and now he's

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10 years old. So I was just looking at it because I had that

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moment like somehow what a gift. Right? How often do we do that for

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what we have?

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Not for what we want but for what we have. So we have to take those

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moments where you really stop and even you know if you're married to

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your husband and

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all of your

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shaving shirts all of

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that is never close

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yeah, they can drive us crazy. Crazy too, but it's important

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to

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share these

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good work

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but you know it's a

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important to just stop and think past all of the things that annoy

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you or bother you. And just look at this person and say Subhana wa

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Shawlette, he works. And he's a good provider, because a good

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father, and just say no.

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Like, I was getting someone who comes home.

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And he, if I call him and say, pick up this from the grocery

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store, Sure, anything else you need, and he's very tired, and

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half the time they're exhausted, but they're still like, pick up

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things, right? And do things in sha Allah, or he comes in the

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house. And he's, you know, at least a little helpful here. And

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they're just thank God and be very grateful for that you have a warm

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body, a companion, because there are a lot of people who want that.

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They're really lonely, and they're isolated, and they have never felt

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a loving touch before. So if you've had that in your life, make

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sure to follow us upon the four. But we can do this for every

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little thing, you know, and this is true gratitude is that you take

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count all the blessings, and you really, really ponder where you

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would be without those blessings. And that what it does is it

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instantly

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should restore

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your connection homeless, because you realize that all along, he's

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been he continues to give you every day,

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every day we breathe with ease. I mean, just think about that. If

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you've ever had a terrible chest cold or a sinus infection, how

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miserable Are you right? Today, this fall, there's only going to

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be once a year, a week or two. But for the rest of the year, you read

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fine. There's so many things to be grateful for.

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But when you reflect on, again, what you have, this is what it

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does, it increases your love for him to pile up. Where would where

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would we be without this? Where would we do that is compassion.

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And all of us, even those who reject Him for denying that they

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still have siblings at his mercy.

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So this is

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the most generous or

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another thing to also remember is the power of the story for women

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in general. Because Providence, certainly,

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you know, he took married to his mother's care, but she had a

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profound effect on him.

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He's a prophet of Allah. Here, he sees this young girls. In her

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devotion, it seems coming to her and he's just like, he was

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incredibly impacted by her. So he actually in his old age, having no

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children, because of seeing Mary's devotion, he turned to us and how

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about and he said, My Lord D, my bones have weakened, and my

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headedness filled with white and never have been in my supplication

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to my Lord, I'm happy. And indeed, I fear the successes afternoon My

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wife is embarrassed. So give me from yourself an heir, who will

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inherit me and inherit from his family of Jacob, and make him my

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word easy to you. This law of Zakah yet was the cause of Mary

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saw an old man being impacted by young girls falling on girls in

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here, don't let anybody ever limit you, or make you think that you

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can't do as much as a mannequin. Right? This is a perfect example

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of the impact that a young girl

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unprofitable one. So he was thought of that again, do you we

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give you good tidings of a boy who whose name will be John? Yeah, we

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have not assigned to any before this thing. And he said, My Lord,

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how will I have a boy with my wife has been barren, and I have

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reached extreme old age and an angel. Thus it will be your Lord

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says is easy for me. I've created you before, while you were

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so far off. So again, reflecting that a prophet was impacted by a

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girl. So these are all just good things to just take for as women,

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that there's so many beautiful gems in our history, that really

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again, show us how those elevated us and then we have to know these

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stories we have to learn from other women and that's why my

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Sharma has documented here and all of the

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people who work with her these events I'm just here as a guest.

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It's so important that we continue these

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these lessons these classes. And we learned for you hear these

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examples and we inspire each

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other

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and

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also left on this

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is

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spots to be found?

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Again, like, where do you get this and she just, this is from Allah.

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Verily Allah provides assessments to whom he wills without limits.

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So sometimes we impose limits on ourselves, but we have to really

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have the best available. So he says, what? I'm in the opinion of

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my servant. So if you think, Well, I was a pilot, and then anything's

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possible those,

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the more you have conviction in that, the more you will preview

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it.

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But if you doubt that, no, no, no, and you let those doubts enter.

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That's what you're gonna see. You won't have confirmation or you'll

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have that confirm for you. But you won't get get what you want.

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Because you're filled with doubt. So. So here, we have to realize

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it's really very much in our hands.

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short one, any questions about that? This is from last. But it

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comes in Sharla, maybe a cigar someone else? Maybe it's, you

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know, this promise is true. When you go to difficulty. In

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Charlotte, it's easy. Sometimes if you've endured a lot, and you

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suffer, especially if you're in a press situation right now, don't

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underestimate your dog. Right? There's not there's incredible

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offensive power in the lobby of the press. So if you're in a

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situation where you are not, you know, someone's taking your rights

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from you, and you're feeling the effects of that don't limit your

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thought just keep pushing wake up for the edge and ask us for that

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turn to Him. And inshallah His promises true, you will be

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relieved. But you know, we like I said, we have to believe in that.

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Yeah, pain. worry if you have a lot, the one who will approve you,

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right.

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Any questions?

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Oops, a few is left. The instructions. I'm out. We're gonna

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go until eight o'clock. And then

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there's a secret here. So I think those really want you guys to

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attend that talk, Shama.

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Any questions or comments?

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Such a large group? No. Yes. Well, I was just gonna show off, you

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know, I haven't tried this, everything. Sometimes I think it's

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your job, you get shown what a lot feels in ways that you don't even

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realize.

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I remember that, like, two years ago, I was with someone who was my

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closest friend. And I was with her as she was taking her last

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breaths.

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But it was watching that, and is sad. And, you know, as you know,

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depressing, and mournful as it is, the thing that I learned was that

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everything happens for a reason.

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And then you get to see in the most elementary way, everything

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Allah says is true, like, you see the last breaths you see, you

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know, that it can, you know, death comes to all of us, because I just

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talked to her, you know, it can come like a beast, it's just, you

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know, for some people, it can be the worst of it, it can be like a

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beast thing. And you see, when you see it, you know, it's was like,

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for me personally, as difficult as it was, maybe a person, it's

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still, it's still a blessing, because you get to be reminded

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that, you know, we're all going to be there. Unless we pray to Allah

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subhanaw taala, we do our best to follow what he's put us on as a

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path. You know,

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we have to set what we want the next life to be like, when

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you're reflecting on death is definitely one of the most

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rewarding things that sounds like dark because our society runs.

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Like,

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why would you do that? And so depressing. But actually, as you

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said, when you actually reflect on that what it means death is a

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process but what is the ultimate destination? Right, is that your

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child step closer to us. But it makes you appreciate the value of

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what time you have here, especially when you see someone

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your own peer group, I'm assuming right, someone who's close to you

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and age go now

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little girl she was she was my adopted mom. And she had taken her

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shahada at the age of 65. And then she thought at the age of 69, she

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learned Arabic and probably prefer on

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some.

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So, I mean, the best thing that they came is that all the sisters

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that came to the hospital because we, this is one of the few

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chapters who actually know that death is coming. We knew we were

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obviously a problem. So we knew it was coming. And we were able to

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read so I guess, see for her, we were able to keep reminding her as

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the breath, we're going to choose three breaths. We were reminding

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her what to say when the angels come reminding her say Lila, it

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was really as hard and difficult as the situation on the

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cross. It was still a it was actually as morbid as this might

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sound was someone who was actually a beautiful situation, because we

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actually had the opportunity of helping somebody, take that next

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step. And sometimes you just have to be envious of the fact that now

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they get to see where they stand with us. I know it's unfortunate,

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but it was just a sad yet amazing experience to be with someone. I

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relate to that very much I lost my father three years ago, alone have

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won all of us

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because we can feel that I mean, it's just a very spiritual

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experience to watch someone go, especially Nyan shallow on St.

00:41:40 --> 00:41:44

Lucia. And they're finally free from those constraints of this

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world. We live in this body that was you know, they were separate.

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We just felt peace. It was incredibly peaceful for us. We

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were setting

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and I said and we just said how hard he walked in this year. It

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was like some of euphoria that we think that we're crazy because

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we're just like smiling and we had already cried. We cried for weeks

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watching. suffer. It was a moment he says allow your pilot to

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say

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so

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good

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