Husain Sattar – Preventing Our Imaan from Melting

Husain Sattar
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The speakers discuss the challenges of preserving life and creating frozen ice cube, emphasizing the importance of having a responsibility and choosing the coolest company to hang around with. They stress the importance of being a good choice and acknowledging the decision to hang around is dependent on individual needs. The speakers emphasize the need to be flexible and keep a memory of one's actions and gatherings, as it is crucial to preserve their lives. They also emphasize the importance of being a blessing in the world and not just a source of blessing.

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			There's a lot of different ways that you
		
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			can look at life and
		
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			people will define life in so many different
		
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			ways. People will define life based on one's
		
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			achievements, based on what type of bank balance
		
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			they end up with.
		
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			So many people have so many different definitions
		
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			of life, and people are continuously writing books
		
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			about this subject.
		
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			Anyway, one way that you can think about
		
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			life is that
		
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			the definition of life is to survive with
		
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			iman.
		
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			The definition of life or you can say
		
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			the goal of life is to survive with
		
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			iman.
		
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			So what happens is that Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala, he blesses
		
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			each of us in particular and all of
		
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			the community in general
		
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			to somehow come into this blessing called iman.
		
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			Now everybody's story is different. Maybe somebody received
		
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			this blessing from their parents.
		
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			Maybe somebody received this blessing when they went
		
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			to college. Maybe somebody received this blessing because
		
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			they knew some Muslims,
		
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			who they were working with, and then they
		
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			came into the fold of the deen.
		
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			Everybody receives the blessing differently, and there's a
		
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			lot of different avenues to to receive it.
		
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			But once a person receives it, everybody carries
		
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			the same responsibility,
		
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			and that is is that has to be
		
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			preserved.
		
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			So that's the challenge.
		
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			What it what has to happen is that
		
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			on the last day when you breathe your
		
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			last breath,
		
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			you have to have iman.
		
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			This is the challenge.
		
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			Now
		
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			iman
		
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			is like an ice cube,
		
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			and the world is like a oven.
		
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			So what we have to do is we
		
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			have this responsibility
		
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			of carrying this ice cube,
		
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			and we have to keep it frozen
		
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			and preserve it,
		
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			and then present it on the day of
		
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			judgment.
		
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			This is what, basically, one way you can
		
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			think about it.
		
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			But at the same time, there's this world
		
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			there's this fire there's this world around us,
		
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			which is basically, like, on fire.
		
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			And anytime we expose ice to the wrong
		
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			environment,
		
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			obviously,
		
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			it's going to melt.
		
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			So what we have to recognize is that
		
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			in the process of preserving this iman, which
		
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			is like an ice cube,
		
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			we are not independent, we're dependent.
		
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			We're not independent,
		
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			we're dependent.
		
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			And this is something that we often forget.
		
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			Everyone in this room, doesn't matter who you
		
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			are,
		
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			everyone in this room is absolutely
		
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			dependent
		
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			to preserve their ice.
		
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			What do I mean by that? What I
		
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			mean is that we are dependent on the
		
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			environment.
		
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			Okay? The for example, we're not gonna survive
		
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			if we don't come to the Masjid.
		
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			If you're not coming to the Masjid, which
		
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			is the one of which is one of
		
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			the very few places in this life
		
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			where the environment is cool, and it's like
		
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			a freezer, and it allows your your iman
		
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			to gel together again,
		
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			and to reform
		
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			into that frozen ice cube.
		
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			If we don't regularly come into that into
		
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			that environment, we're gone.
		
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			We're dependent. We're not independent. We don't survive
		
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			independently
		
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			away from the source of the din, you
		
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			know, away from the key places of the
		
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			din.
		
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			Without that environment, we are gone.
		
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			So to make these assumptions, right, that this
		
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			iman was given to me by my parents
		
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			and so automatically it's gonna go to my
		
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			children, uh-uh, that doesn't work that way. It
		
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			does not work that way. We are dependent
		
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			to preserve this imam.
		
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			Similarly,
		
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			we're we're dependent on the company that we
		
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			keep.
		
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			Look, if you keep the company of people
		
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			who sin all the time,
		
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			those people when every time they sin, they're
		
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			producing a fire.
		
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			In fact, Hazrat Abu Bakr he used to
		
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			announce to the people at the time of
		
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			Isha,
		
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			come extinguish
		
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			the fire that you created under your own
		
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			feet.
		
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			Meaning, that as a human being, people make
		
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			mistakes, and when we make mistakes, those create
		
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			a sort of sort of mini fire
		
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			underneath our own feet. And so what happens
		
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			is when we come to the masjid, we
		
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			extinguish that fire, if you hang around with
		
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			people who have no concern to extinguish that
		
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			fire, then those sparks eventually become big flames,
		
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			and those big flames produce tremendous heat.
		
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			Now what happens is then you go and
		
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			you hang around that group of people, and
		
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			here you are with this small little piece
		
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			of ice and you're hanging around 10 people
		
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			on fire.
		
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			So what's gonna happen? You're gonna melt.
		
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			You're gonna melt. So what are you? You
		
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			are dependent on your company.
		
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			Now a lot of times, it people think,
		
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			well, okay, I'm grown up, so it doesn't
		
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			matter. I'm an adult, this doesn't matter anymore.
		
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			I've reached the age of 60. This doesn't
		
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			matter anymore. It applies to everyone.
		
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			Now the circumstances might be different. Okay. When
		
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			you're a college student, it depend it's gonna
		
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			be who do you hang around with. Right?
		
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			When you're choosing a spouse, it's gonna be
		
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			who do you get married to? Are you
		
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			gonna get married to fire? Are you gonna
		
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			get married to ICE? Right? If you get
		
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			married to ICE, then hopefully the ICE will
		
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			join together and it'll keep things cool. If
		
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			you get married if you just say, well,
		
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			I'm not gonna worry about the dean. I'm
		
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			just gonna pick, you know, based on, you
		
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			know, a, b, and c criteria that I
		
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			made up on on my own, then what's
		
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			gonna end up what happening is that that's
		
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			gonna melt your iman eventually. And eventually, you'll
		
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			end up with left with nothing
		
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			except a memory.
		
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			So we have to be very, very cognizant
		
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			of the fact that we're dependent. Now it
		
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			may be that we're dependent on the company
		
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			in this way, but at the same time,
		
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			what we have to recognize is that we
		
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			have to select the coolest company we can.
		
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			Now it's funny because
		
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			people, they they wanna hang around cool people.
		
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			Right? So they always say, I choose these
		
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			these guys are cool. I'm gonna hang around
		
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			them. We have to choose the coolest people
		
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			we can. And by cool, I mean literally
		
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			cool. Not not literally cool, figuratively in this
		
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			in the in the iman sense.
		
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			What does that mean? It means people who
		
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			regularly interact with the Quran. Because when you
		
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			hang around them, the coolness of their iman
		
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			will come into your your heart as well.
		
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			It'll help to keep things cool. People who
		
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			are scholars. Why? Because the scholars are the
		
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			source of iman. You know? They're the ones
		
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			who allow you to preserve. Now they're the
		
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			beauty of hanging around your scholars and your
		
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			is
		
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			that not only do you get your iman
		
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			cool, but they also take a little pad
		
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			of ice and throw it back on top
		
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			as well. You know, it's like going to
		
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			the snow cone factory. The guy who sells
		
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			the snow cones, he's in the middle of
		
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			the park. It's 80 degrees, a 100 degrees
		
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			outside, but he keeps a little refrigerator,
		
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			and then he's allowed he's able to give
		
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			you a snow cone. Right? And then you
		
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			can you're able to enjoy it. So it's
		
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			the same thing. The olamah, the moshayach of
		
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			the community, what they are, they're little machines
		
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			that produce snow cones. So when you go
		
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			to them, they just put a little bit
		
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			of extra ice in your heart beyond the
		
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			fact that they're able to keep you cool
		
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			as well.
		
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			So, again, you have to always remember that
		
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			you're dependent. Now these decisions if you recognize
		
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			this one thing that I am always dependent,
		
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			then it makes the decisions in life very
		
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			easy. So when you're sitting there and thinking,
		
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			should I go to the masjid for Isha
		
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			or not, you have to say, no. Wait
		
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			a minute. I'm extremely dependent.
		
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			Because if that ice turns into water, it's
		
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			impossible to preserve. You know, if you're if
		
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			you have a piece of ice in your
		
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			hand and it slowly melts and then it
		
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			turns into water and you're trying to keep
		
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			it, you're not gonna be able to keep
		
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			it. It's fluid. It's gonna you're not gonna
		
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			be able to hang on to it. It's
		
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			the ice that can be hung on to.
		
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			So when you're sitting there and thinking, okay,
		
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			it's 8 o'clock. I'm really tired. You know
		
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			what? I had a hard day. Do I
		
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			need to be at a shop or not?
		
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			No. I need to be there. I'm totally
		
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			dependent on that gathering. I have to be
		
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			there. Why? 1, because it's the masjid and
		
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			it's cool. 2, because all the people who
		
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			are gathering together are also people that have
		
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			been blessed with iman as well. So when
		
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			a bunch of people with ice come together,
		
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			obviously, they're gonna be able to keep each
		
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			other's
		
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			ice preserved. And that's why you'll see in
		
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			the winter, someday when there's a tremendous ice
		
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			storm and then all of a sudden the
		
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			temperature you know how we have those weird
		
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			days where there's all this snow, then all
		
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			of a sudden one day the temperature turns
		
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			50. But even in 50, 60 degrees, you'll
		
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			see some snow will remain.
		
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			Where? Where the plows came together and pushed
		
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			all the snow into a big mountain.
		
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			That's where the snow remains. That's because all
		
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			that ice is together. So even in the
		
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			heat of 50 or 60 degrees, it remains
		
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			preserved. Everything else melts away.
		
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			So when we're sitting and thinking about what
		
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			am I gonna do with Isha, we have
		
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			to get to the masjid because we're dependent
		
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			on Isha. Without it, we don't exist.
		
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			Right? Maybe once we miss it, twice we
		
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			miss it, the 3rd time it's over. We
		
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			have we have just drops of water and
		
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			a memory left. Alright? Similarly, we're absolutely dependent
		
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			on our company.
		
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			The gatherings that are established by our moshayah
		
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			and our ulama,
		
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			they're mandatory on us.
		
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			Now you say, brother, what do you mean
		
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			mandatory? Allah only created few things that are
		
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			mandatory. Yeah. I don't mean literally mandatory. I
		
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			mean, as if they're mandatory.
		
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			They're mandatory on the individual who recognizes
		
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			that his iman is essential to preserve.
		
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			Because for us, the rest of the environment
		
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			is totally on fire. You know, this isn't
		
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			some Islamic,
		
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			country where and maybe not in Islamic country,
		
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			the situation is not even any better, but
		
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			it's not some sort of we're not in
		
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			Mecca and Medina
		
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			where wherever you go, you're gonna be safe.
		
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			You go to the market and it's relatively
		
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			safe. And this isn't the environment that we're
		
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			in. So we're absolutely dependent absolutely dependent on
		
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			the gatherings where there are scholars, where there
		
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			are
		
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			etcetera.
		
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			And then finally and not finally, actually, but
		
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			just along this paradigm, you have to recognize
		
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			that this is going to be your case
		
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			for the rest of your life.
		
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			You will never be independent. And the moment
		
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			you deem yourself to be independent,
		
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			you can be guaranteed that this is over.
		
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			You're not gonna survive. You have to always
		
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			see yourself as dependent. So what does that
		
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			mean? You always keep yourself close to the
		
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			community. You always keep your children close to
		
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			the community. Whenever you make a decision about
		
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			where you're gonna hang out and where they're
		
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			gonna be and who they're gonna be with,
		
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			you keep them close to the community because
		
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			it's in that gathering that we all remain
		
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			preserved.
		
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			So for example,
		
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			simple decision like, where am I going to
		
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			live? Okay. I can move out, you know,
		
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			I don't know, 500 miles away, and I
		
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			can get a nice big house and it'll
		
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			be a lot cheaper, but there's almost some
		
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			living there. Big mistake.
		
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			Big mistake. Because you'll be in a big
		
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			house, but you're gonna be left with nothing
		
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			but a memory. So what was the benefit
		
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			then? You know, then it ends up leading
		
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			into sadness.
		
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			So we have to recognize
		
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			that when we make decisions, we make decisions
		
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			as dependents.
		
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			So you have to then understand that I
		
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			have this this piece of ice, and if
		
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			I can even preserve a bit of it
		
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			and I can present it to my lord,
		
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			then I'm going to be accepted into
		
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			his agenda. But I have to preserve it.
		
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			Now people say it's not fair, you know,
		
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			you got iman from your parents and you
		
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			got iman from here and there. It's all
		
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			fair. That's not what we're being judged by.
		
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			You're being judged by your ability to preserve
		
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			it, not by where you got it from.
		
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			And then go one step beyond that, the
		
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			hope is is that, you know, our generation,
		
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			perhaps a 100 years from now, would be
		
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			preserved. But if we melted our ice, what
		
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			do we expect to give to our children?
		
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			They'll they're dependent on us.
		
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			Unless our iman is intact, what are we
		
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			gonna pass on to the next generation?
		
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			So these again, you can see the the
		
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			issue of our dependent dependence goes far beyond
		
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			ourselves. It actually spreads into many, many generations
		
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			down the line. So we have to be
		
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			extremely
		
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			particular about the decisions that we make, extremely
		
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			particular about who we hang out with, where
		
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			we spend our free time, what gatherings we
		
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			join, where we
		
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			live, when we come to the Masjid. All
		
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			of these things are extremely important, and
		
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			everything every one of these types of gathering
		
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			is a blessing.
		
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			Even I'm telling you, even for me, I
		
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			mean, when I sit down and look at
		
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			my schedule, I say, okay,
		
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			I have to come here. Because otherwise, I
		
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			might be doing a 1,000 things. I'm the
		
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			one person who has to be here. Everybody
		
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			else can go someplace else. I have a
		
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			wedding, this, that. I have to be here.
		
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			But for me, it's the best blessing in
		
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			the world because, actually, I have to be
		
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			here. Not because I have to be here
		
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			because then what will happen if I'm not
		
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			here. I have to be here for myself.
		
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			Right? Everybody brings their ice with them, and
		
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			it helps to cool me down as well.
		
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			So we're all dependent on each other. We
		
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			all receive benefit from one another. That's the
		
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			beauty of the gathering.
		
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			But, anyway, always remember this,
		
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			because you never know where you'll be or
		
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			where you'll end up or a year from
		
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			now or someplace else. But if you just
		
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			keep this one principle in mind, it will
		
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			save you from much heartache, both in this
		
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			life and the hereafter. So may Allah
		
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			give us a Tawfiq to be able to
		
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			preserve this piece of ice which we've been
		
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			given called iman.