Hussain Kamani – Jumuah 01-11-2024

Hussain Kamani
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The importance of decision making and the emotions that come with it is emphasized, along with the need for people to be mindful of their actions and words. Loyalty and empathy are also discussed, as well as the importance of shrouds and finding one's journey to Islam. The speaker gives advice on finding the right person for a job and finding the right benefits, emphasizing the importance of finding the right person for a job and dedicating one's life to their mission.

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			on the authority of Sayyiduna Abu Huraira radiyallahu
		
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			anhu.
		
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			The same narration is found in many collections
		
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			of hadith, including in the Mishkat al-Masabih.
		
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			And the author in Mishkat presents it under
		
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			the chapter of tawakkul, reliance on Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala.
		
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			Relying on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
		
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			such an important part of what we do
		
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			as Muslims, how we live our lives, the
		
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			decisions we make, the degrees that we study,
		
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			the jobs that we take on, the people
		
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			we marry, the schools that we send our
		
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			children to, the cities we live in.
		
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			Because at any point when we are making
		
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			a decision, there are so many factors at
		
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			play, to the self, to the family, greater
		
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			factors, education.
		
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			And it's almost impossible to make the perfect
		
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			decision, because it eludes you.
		
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			You make one decision and you feel like
		
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			you did it right, and then a few
		
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			months down the line, you see someone else
		
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			driving another car.
		
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			And then you begin to doubt yourself.
		
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			Did I make the right decision?
		
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			You move into a neighborhood, and then you
		
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			realize someone moved into another neighborhood.
		
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			And you begin to ask yourself that question.
		
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			Did I actually move to the right neighborhood?
		
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			And this could cause a spiral effect in
		
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			the mind of the human being and unravel
		
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			the insan, where they no longer believe in
		
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			what they do.
		
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			They can't make a decision without being followed
		
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			by paralysis.
		
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			There are people who I know who say
		
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			openly that I struggle with even making the
		
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			decision of getting married.
		
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			The idea, I have someone there, this is
		
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			a good person.
		
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			My family is saying this is a good
		
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			person.
		
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			But what if I make a mistake here?
		
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			What if later on, five years down the
		
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			line, ten years down the line, let alone
		
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			that person doing wrong to me, what if
		
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			I do wrong to them?
		
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			I don't trust myself in this moment.
		
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			What if I make a mistake in this
		
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			aspect of my life or that aspect of
		
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			my life?
		
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			And this is where that idea of tawakul
		
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			really comes into play.
		
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			Tawakul is so beautiful because it'll impact you
		
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			from different aspects of life.
		
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			Sometimes you'll just be losing and you need
		
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			something to hold on to, and that's where
		
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			you hold on to tawakul, reliance on Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			One time two individuals were presented to Rasulullah
		
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			ﷺ on a matter, and Nabi ﷺ passed
		
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			a verdict.
		
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			After he passed the judgment, one of the
		
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			individuals, he left, and he was the one
		
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			that the judgment was passed against.
		
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			Now you can imagine, you have a dispute,
		
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			hopefully you're right, you put your heart into
		
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			it, effort into it, your argument, and then
		
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			the verdict doesn't go in your way.
		
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			And if you think about it, not only
		
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			did the verdict not go in his way,
		
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			but the one who passed the verdict against
		
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			him was Rasulullah ﷺ.
		
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			That's gotta add a little bit of weight
		
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			too.
		
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			That's gotta add a little bit of thickness
		
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			to what he's experiencing.
		
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			And when he's leaving, Rasulullah ﷺ says to
		
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			him, that say, حَسْبِيَ اللَّهُ وَنِعْمَ الْوَكِيلُ Say
		
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			this, حَسْبِيَ اللَّهُ, Allah is sufficient for me.
		
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			Because if you try to win every debate
		
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			in life, if you try to win every
		
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			argument in life, you will be miserable.
		
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			You can't win all of them.
		
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			You can win one maybe, based off of
		
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			your perspective, but another one you may not
		
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			win.
		
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			You're sitting with 10 friends and you're having
		
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			a night together, and someone makes one remark,
		
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			another person makes another remark, the third one
		
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			makes another remark.
		
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			If you try to track all those remarks,
		
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			you will go crazy here.
		
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			How many battles do you want to win?
		
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			How many arguments do you want to win?
		
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			How many statements would you like to win?
		
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			At some point you have to let it
		
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			go.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ is saying to this
		
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			individual, when a verdict is passed against you,
		
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			you should say, حَسْبِيَ اللَّهُ وَنِعْمَ الْوَكِيلُ Allah
		
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			is sufficient for me.
		
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			Remember this, if someone does dhulm on you,
		
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			if someone oppresses you, if someone says something
		
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			that breaks your heart, the best thing you
		
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			could do is remain silence and let Allah
		
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			ﷻ deal with that person and the outcome
		
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			they have to face.
		
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			One day Rasulullah ﷺ was in a gathering
		
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			and Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq r.a,
		
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			his beloved friend and companion was next to
		
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			him.
		
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			And a person came, and he began to
		
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			speak harshly to Abu Bakr as-Siddiq r
		
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			.a. Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq r.a
		
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			remained silent.
		
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			That person was trying to provoke him, and
		
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			Abu Bakr as-Siddiq r.a maintained his
		
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			composure.
		
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			And he provoked him more, and Abu Bakr
		
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			as-Siddiq r.a maintained his composure.
		
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			Didn't engage with him.
		
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			Until finally a point came where Abu Bakr
		
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			as-Siddiq r.a, he opened up the
		
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			floodgate.
		
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			And he gave it to that guy.
		
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			He started going back in on him.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ, he left the gathering.
		
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			Later on Abu Bakr as-Siddiq r.a
		
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			said, He was saying ill to me, you
		
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			said nothing.
		
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			But when I spoke back, when I defended
		
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			my honor, when I started saying something back
		
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			to him, you left?
		
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			In that moment someone would assume that that
		
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			action of Rasulullah ﷺ was possibly betrayal.
		
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			You don't walk away from your friend when
		
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			they speak.
		
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			You sit by their side and you encourage
		
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			them that I'm with you, we're here together.
		
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			But the Prophet ﷺ, he said to Abu
		
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			Bakr as-Siddiq r.a, I remain in
		
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			that gathering as you remain silent.
		
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			Because as that person was being disrespectful to
		
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			you, the mala'ika were handling that person.
		
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			The mala'ika were dealing with the affair
		
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			of that person.
		
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			That person was writing himself off.
		
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			Imam Shawkani r.a, he has a whole
		
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			book dedicated to the riwayah, مَنْ عَادَالِي وَلِيًّا
		
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			فَقَدْ آذَنْتُهُ بِالْحَرْبِ That whoever says, whoever brings
		
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			animosity or tries to bring a battle to
		
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			one of my friends, I wage war against
		
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			that person.
		
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			وَاللَّهُ وَلِيُّ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ And the believers are the
		
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			friends of Allah SWT.
		
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			There is this wilayah amma, a general form
		
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			of friendship that is offered to any person
		
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			that says, لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول
		
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			الله.
		
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			Allah SWT says, اللَّهُ وَلِيُّ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا Allah
		
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			is the friend of those who are believers.
		
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			So sometimes your silence is all you need
		
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			to do.
		
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			And in his book, قَطْرُ الْوَلِي عَلَى حَدِيثِ
		
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			الْوَلِي I'm forgetting the first part of the
		
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			name of the hadith book that he wrote.
		
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			But it's on this riwayah, مَنْ عَادَالِي وَلِيًّا
		
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			فَقَدْ آذَنْتُهُ بِالْحَرْبِ Imam Shawkani wrote a whole
		
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			book dedicated to this.
		
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			And he talks about this there.
		
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			That there are certain things that will destroy
		
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			you.
		
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			And one of the things that will destroy
		
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			you is messing with the honor of another
		
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			Muslim.
		
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			No matter how right you might be, no
		
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			matter what the context of it might be.
		
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			It might just be, you know, something family
		
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			related.
		
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			It might be a Saturday evening barbecue that
		
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			the discussion got out of control and someone
		
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			got really heated and they said something they
		
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			shouldn't have said.
		
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			A person's words can end up dropping them
		
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			in the pit of the fire of *
		
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			more than their deeds can take them to
		
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			Jannah.
		
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			This is the riwayah of Sayyiduna Mu'adh
		
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			ibn Jabal r.a. وَهَلْ يَكُبُ النَّاسَ عَلَى
		
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			وَجُوهِهِمْ إِلَّا حَصَائِدَ أَلْسِنَتِهِمْ That what else will
		
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			land people on the faces in the fire
		
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			of *?
		
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			What else will drop people flat in the
		
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			fire of * if it isn't for what
		
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			their tongues have harvested?
		
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			If it isn't for that body language?
		
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			If it isn't for that harshness, that passive
		
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			aggressive tug of war that we have constantly
		
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			going on with those that are around us?
		
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			Let it go!
		
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			When you stop being passive passive aggressive with
		
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			people, when you start being kind and loving
		
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			to people, when you give a chance for
		
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			people to celebrate who they are, their sacrifices,
		
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			and you empathize with them and wrap an
		
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			arm around them, you will notice that whatever
		
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			you think you were holding back, whatever harm
		
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			that you think you were afraid of, in
		
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			reality you are now giving birth to a
		
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			positive strong human being.
		
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			Someone that can go far, someone that can
		
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			do great things.
		
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			Human beings lose their ceiling once you embrace
		
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			them with love and this was the method
		
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			of Rasulullah ﷺ.
		
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			Our Prophet of Allah did not guide his
		
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			flock, did not raise his children, did not
		
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			lead his jama'ah through fear and intimidation.
		
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			It wasn't through silence or through very sharp
		
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			verdicts.
		
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			Rasulullah ﷺ raised the ummah.
		
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			He raised an ummah that put their lives
		
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			on the line for him in the battlefield
		
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			who are ready to die for him.
		
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			Where does that loyalty come from?
		
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			Where does loyalty come from that a person
		
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			is willing to put their wife and their
		
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			children on the line for another person if
		
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			it isn't from muhabba, if it isn't love.
		
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			Love will take you there.
		
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			Ishq will take you there.
		
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			Silatul rahim will take you there.
		
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			A smile when you give salam to someone
		
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			will take you there.
		
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			Holding on to someone's hands as you're walking
		
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			with them or maybe embracing them around the
		
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			shoulder, that'll take you there.
		
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			Giving them food when they see hunger in
		
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			your face, that'll take you there.
		
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			Knowing that while you're sleeping he is awake
		
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			during the night making du'a for the
		
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			ummah, that'll take the ummah there.
		
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			These other methods of trying to control or
		
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			manage the affair of, you know, whether it's
		
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			at work or whether it's family, whether it's
		
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			in a classroom or wherever your life takes
		
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			you.
		
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			The truth is that they have a short
		
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			-lived life cycle.
		
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			It isn't long.
		
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			Study humanity and history.
		
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			Ibn Khaldun rahim allahu ta'ala, he talks
		
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			about his 150, 150, 150.
		
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			Three generations later, empires fall.
		
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			A part of it is this because we
		
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			have a short-lived cycle of love and
		
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			empathy and also just building people.
		
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			The Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam's example is so
		
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			profound, it's so phenomenal that 1400 years later
		
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			you have people that loved him because his
		
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			love was genuine.
		
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			So, the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said to
		
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			that companion that was leaving and the verdict
		
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			was passed against him, that say in this
		
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			moment, even though you feel defeated right now,
		
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			even though your heart is hurting, you must
		
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			be aching with pain.
		
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			حَسْبِيَ اللَّهُ وَنِعْمَ الْوَكِيلُ Allah is sufficient.
		
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			Allah will take care of me.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will handle my
		
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			affairs.
		
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			You know how many times Rasulullah salallahu alayhi
		
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			wasalam went to sleep at night in pain
		
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			for 13 years.
		
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			And even the years in Medina Munawwara, how
		
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			much pain he must have carried in his
		
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			heart.
		
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			But at the end of every night, حَسْبِيَ
		
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			اللَّهُ وَنِعْمَ الْوَكِيلُ حَسْبِيَ اللَّهُ وَنِعْمَ الْوَكِيلُ And
		
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			for parents that are sitting here, you have
		
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			to remember this.
		
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			That at the end of the day, you
		
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			can't carry that against your children, that harshness,
		
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			that anger, that frustration that they are now
		
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			saying حَسْبِيَ اللَّهُ وَنِعْمَ الْوَكِيلُ against you.
		
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			That can't be the truth.
		
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			That can't be the way we raise our
		
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			families.
		
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			At the end of the day, a child
		
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			should know that yes, my parent was harsh
		
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			with me.
		
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			Maybe my teacher was a little strict with
		
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			me in the classroom.
		
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			But at the end of the day, they
		
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			made dua for us.
		
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			They smiled and they said, don't worry about
		
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			it.
		
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			We'll start again tomorrow.
		
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			It's okay.
		
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			And next day at lunch, they're not going
		
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			to pass some passive aggressive comment about what
		
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			you did the day before or the week
		
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			before.
		
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			And now the kid's like, man, I got
		
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			to have a dinner with dad again and
		
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			he's going to bring that issue up.
		
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			That's not the way this works.
		
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			Let it go.
		
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			Let it go.
		
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			You reminding someone of their failure again and
		
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			again isn't going to make them feel better.
		
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			It might make you feel better in the
		
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			moment.
		
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			It might make you feel happy.
		
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			That yes, I brought someone down or I
		
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			pushed them in the corner.
		
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			And that person's kindness may have been such
		
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			that they remain silent.
		
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			But remember that silence of Abu Bakr as
		
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			-Siddiq radiAllahu anhu.
		
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			When the oppressed is silent, the anger of
		
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			Allah descends on the oppressor.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ said, اتقي دعوة المظلوم.
		
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			Beware of the prayer of the oppressed one.
		
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			Why is that?
		
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			فَإِنَّهُ لَيْسَ بَيْنَهَا وَبَيْنَ اللَّهِ الْحِجَابُ Because between
		
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			that prayer and Allah, there is no veil.
		
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			Sahih B.
		
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			Mishkat narrates this hadith of Abu Hurairah radiAllahu
		
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			anhu under the chapter of Tawakkul.
		
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			And I want to share this diwaya with
		
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			you.
		
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			It's one of my favorite narrations from the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			Our Rasul ﷺ said, المؤمن القوي خير وأحب
		
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			إلى الله من المؤمن الضعيف.
		
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			A strong believer is superior and more beloved
		
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			to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala than a
		
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			weaker believer.
		
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			The ulama engage in this discussion.
		
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			What does it mean that the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			is saying that one with strength, the one
		
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			with weakness, the one with strength is greater
		
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			than the one who is weak?
		
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			Now there are different interpretations here.
		
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			Some went with the literal and said that
		
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			this refers to physical strength.
		
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			And the reason why the Prophet ﷺ is
		
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			speaking of this physical strength is because when
		
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			a person has physical strength, they're able to
		
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			do things that the other may not be
		
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			able to do.
		
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			They're able to maybe lift something, or walk
		
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			somewhere, or maybe fight in a battle, or
		
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			maybe construct something, or maybe work with their
		
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			strength and earn money and give in sadaqah.
		
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			That strength of theirs enables them to worship
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Like Nabi ﷺ said regarding the sahaba who
		
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			had more wealth.
		
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			The companions who didn't have wealth, they complain,
		
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			O Messenger of Allah, they're able to do
		
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			more and good than we are.
		
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			Then the Prophet of Allah said, okay, your
		
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			way of giving sadaqah is these adhkar.
		
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			And then they said, O Messenger of Allah,
		
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			we started doing those adhkar to catch up
		
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			to them, but now they're doing those adhkar
		
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			as well.
		
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			So Rasulullah ﷺ at the end of it
		
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			said, that is the favor of Allah, He
		
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			gives to who He wills.
		
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			So a person that has strength has that
		
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			favor of Allah, an edge.
		
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			That they can do more, potentially, right?
		
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			Potentially they can do more than the other
		
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			person.
		
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			The reason why I said potentially twice is
		
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			because in today's world, strength is more aesthetics
		
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			than it actually is functional, right?
		
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			And sometimes we ask ourselves and wonder if
		
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			this strength that we are running after in
		
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			today's world in the gyms actually has to
		
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			do with serving or functionality in any way
		
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			at all, and more to do with the
		
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			way you're perceived and seen, and it's lathered
		
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			against us on the Day of Judgment.
		
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			Like in our Book of Deeds, this is
		
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			another hujjah against us.
		
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			That you spent your time, you know, in
		
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			a way that isn't appropriate for you.
		
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			So what you do with it really boils
		
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			down to whether it's khair or a fitnah
		
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			for you, like anything in the world.
		
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			Your wealth can be khair for you, or
		
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			it could be a fitnah, a trial against
		
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			you.
		
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			المؤمن القوي.
		
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			Now some other ulama, they say, no, this
		
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			is referring to قوة إيمانية.
		
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			The Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam is talking
		
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			about imani strength, that a person believes in
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with strength.
		
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			What does it mean to believe in Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala with strength?
		
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			How does a person's strength increase in their
		
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			belief in Allah?
		
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			How their strength increases is by not giving
		
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			up on Allah no matter what the circumstances
		
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			are.
		
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			Think about the iman of a person who
		
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			the doctor has said, you are going to
		
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			die.
		
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			I try to put myself in those shoes
		
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			sometimes and just reflect.
		
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			There's no hope left for that person from
		
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			this perspective, from this conversation.
		
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			Their kids are maybe rubbing their arm, saying
		
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			it'll be okay.
		
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			Maybe the wife kisses the husband on the
		
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			forehead, it'll be okay.
		
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			They're gonna start giving this person medicine.
		
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			And you see in that moment that this
		
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			person probably has no hope.
		
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			Who do they go to?
		
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			Who do they ask?
		
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			The material was supposed to be the solution
		
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			to all of our loneliness.
		
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			And this doctor just said right now that
		
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			I will no longer be offering you that
		
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			support anymore.
		
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			But what you'll notice, for the people of
		
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			sajdah, for the people who said la ilaha
		
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			illallah, those people of sadaqah, the people of
		
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			Quran, the people who worship Allah during their
		
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			life, when they're in that final moment and
		
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			the doctor says that your time is limited,
		
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			that individual with a smile says, Hasbi Allah,
		
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			wa ni'mal waki.
		
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			It's okay.
		
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			I'll spend this time in the remembrance of
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			I'll spend this time reflecting on Allah.
		
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			There was a friend of mine who was
		
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			an imam.
		
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			His father became very sick and he was
		
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			hospitalized also.
		
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			Palliative care, just end of life.
		
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			So he asked me one day to come
		
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			visit his father.
		
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			I'll never forget this incident.
		
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			I went to visit his father, and his
		
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			father wasn't able to speak towards the end
		
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			of his life.
		
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			He had very, strained his throat a lot
		
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			and so he would whisper in most of
		
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			his words and statements and even that would
		
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			sound scuffled and it wasn't clear.
		
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			So we sat down with him and I
		
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			asked him, Is it okay, uncle, if I
		
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			read some Quran in front of you?
		
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			So he said, Of course.
		
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			So I started reading Surah Yasin.
		
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			As I started reading Surah Yasin, his wife
		
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			was next to him.
		
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			He just started taking his hand and kind
		
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			of striking her, like this, getting her attention.
		
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			And then he said something and I had
		
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			no idea what he said.
		
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			So then his wife came in nearby and
		
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			he said it again.
		
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			So she got up from her chair, went
		
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			to the cupboard behind us.
		
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			There was a closet there.
		
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			She went to the hospital closet, pulled out
		
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			his topi, his hat, and put it on
		
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			his head.
		
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			He then smiled at me.
		
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			That was his gesture of, Now you can
		
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			continue reading your Surah Yasin.
		
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			I think everyone in the room knew that
		
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			what he was doing was no religious obligation.
		
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			It wasn't a shari'i obligation, however, it
		
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			was an obligation of muhabba for him.
		
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			He knew his life.
		
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			And he knew what was ahead of him.
		
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			And he knew what mattered.
		
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			So even though the Quran was being recited,
		
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			he didn't have a voice to speak with.
		
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			Allah knows my state as I read that
		
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			Yasin.
		
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			Because seeing that iman crushed me.
		
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			That he said, Stop, stop, stop.
		
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			Go get my hat.
		
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			Put his hat on his head.
		
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			And then he listened to Surah Yasin.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ is teaching in his hadith,
		
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			المؤمن القوي.
		
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			A strong believer, the one that doesn't give
		
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			up on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			خير وأحب إلى الله من المؤمن الضعيف وفي
		
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			كل خير.
		
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			Then the Prophet of Allah says, And in
		
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			both, and in all there is good.
		
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			Why is there good in both of them?
		
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			Because the Prophet of Allah described them as
		
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			المؤمن.
		
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			This one may be stronger, that one may
		
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			be weaker, but at the end of the
		
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			day they're all believers.
		
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			So there is good in all of them.
		
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			Now Rasulullah ﷺ takes us to the next
		
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			part of this riwayah.
		
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			And I'm going to invoke توكل again.
		
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			You know we talked about توكل from one
		
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			perspective of ظلم today, being مظلوم.
		
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			Now I want to talk about توكل from
		
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			another perspective.
		
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			This time we're going to go to توكل
		
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			from a perspective of making decisions in life.
		
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			What to do, what not to do.
		
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			Your parents are asking you, that, beta would
		
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			you like to memorize the Quran?
		
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			How about you go study at a seminary?
		
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			Why don't we take you to Sunday school?
		
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			Why don't you take an evening Quran class?
		
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			And in your mind you're doing it because
		
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			it's your parents' decision, but you will learn
		
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			to do something properly when it becomes your
		
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			decision.
		
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			Your friend takes you to the gym, you
		
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			go to the gym.
		
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			Two different things.
		
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			When it's your decision, it's different.
		
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			And this is why the ulama, when they
		
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			talk about marriage, if you go to the
		
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			legal definition of nikah in a fiqh book,
		
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			there are many definitions that are given, but
		
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			one of the key things that you'll find
		
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			in those definitions, open up hidayah or any
		
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			of the fiqh books, they'll say that al
		
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			-aqdu or al-ijab wal-qabulu bittaradi.
		
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			That a proposal and acceptance bittaradi with willingness
		
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			from both parties.
		
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			Because if there isn't willingness from both parties,
		
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			you can't have a successful marriage.
		
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			Legally and even beyond that.
		
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			You have to be willing to go into
		
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			it.
		
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			It has to be your will.
		
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			It has to be you saying, no, I
		
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			believe in this.
		
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			Sometimes people come to their understandings of what
		
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			benefits them and what brings good to them,
		
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			very easily.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has given some
		
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			people a taqlidi mindset.
		
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			They're okay with being followers.
		
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			They don't need to search everything themselves.
		
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			That's a personality type.
		
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			That they see mama and baba do something,
		
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			so they just realize that if mom did
		
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			it that way and it worked out for
		
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			her, I don't need to go in a
		
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			big circle to figure it out.
		
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			I'll just do what she did and that'll
		
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			be easy for me.
		
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			And then there are other people who are
		
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			different, who need to find their journey there,
		
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			which is okay.
		
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			Sayyiduna Umar ibn al-Khattab radiallahu anhu's
		
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			journey to Islam was very different from Abu
		
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			Bakr as-Siddiq radiallahu anhu's journey to Islam.
		
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			One person's Islam was pure taqlidi.
		
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			Sayyiduna Abu Bakr as-Siddiq radiallahu anhu had
		
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			no questions.
		
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			Taqlid of Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
		
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			Umar radiallahu anhu's journey was different.
		
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			He had to go through the grinder and
		
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			go here and go there.
		
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			And right when he hit rock bottom, he
		
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			found the next part of this hadith.
		
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			The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, احرس
		
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			على ما ينفعك.
		
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			Keep looking for what benefits you.
		
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			Keep searching for good in your life.
		
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			Focus on what you need.
		
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			Not what everyone's doing.
		
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			Don't get into the hype that everyone's doing
		
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			something so I'm gonna do that as well.
		
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			Everyone's traveling to Banff to take a picture
		
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			at Lake Louise so I'm gonna go there
		
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			as well.
		
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			Calm down.
		
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			احرس على ما ينفعك.
		
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			Ask yourself, is this the right time for
		
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			you to go to Lake Louise?
		
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			Is this the right time for you to
		
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			go?
		
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			Do you have the finances?
		
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			Have you thought this through?
		
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			Are you gonna do all of that for
		
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			one picture?
		
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			احرس على ما ينفعك.
		
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			Think about what benefits you.
		
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			And then, as a part of figuring out
		
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			what benefits you, do shura.
		
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			Never underemphasize the importance of shura.
		
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			When you find yourself not consulting other people,
		
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			even if it comes in your strategy, like
		
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			we'll go back to parenting again, or we
		
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			can go to teaching if you'd like, that
		
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			as a teacher, when I figure out what
		
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			I'm going to be teaching and how I'm
		
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			going to be teaching, it's beneficial for me
		
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			to sit with people who are teachers and
		
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			run it past them.
		
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			Sit with scholars, run it past them.
		
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			You're about to take on a tech job.
		
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			You're about to take on some job, you
		
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			know, in any other, you know, cyber security.
		
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			Take a moment and talk to other people.
		
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			This will give you further conviction because not
		
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			only are you walking in with 20 years
		
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			of your experience, but I get to grab
		
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			40 years from this uncle, and 40 years
		
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			from this auntie, and 20 years from this
		
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			brother, and 10 years from this young person.
		
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			Collectively now, my decision is based off of
		
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			150 years of experience.
		
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			That's so powerful.
		
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			That's so profound.
		
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			احرس على ما ينفعك.
		
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			Seek goodness wherever it is.
		
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			Shura, talk to other people.
		
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			Look for different perspectives.
		
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			Be okay with even taking advice from your
		
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			khasam, from your opposition.
		
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			Someone who you know doesn't like you.
		
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			Go and sit with that person and take
		
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			their advice.
		
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			Remember this, you don't have to act upon
		
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			all the advice in the world.
		
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			You don't have to act upon all the
		
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			advice in the world.
		
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			I remember reading a letter that my teacher,
		
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			my Shaykh, Yusuf wrote to his mentor, Shaykh
		
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			Zakaria Kandahari.
		
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			And he said that he was in England
		
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			back in the day, small Muslim community, the
		
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			Islamic scene was still being established.
		
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			So he wrote this letter saying that, Shaykh,
		
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			there are so many movements and organizations that
		
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			are coming into existence and everyone wants scholars
		
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			to lead them, but there are such few
		
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			scholars that I'm being dragged in every direction.
		
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			The Tabligh Jama'ah people are telling me
		
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			to join them.
		
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			The conference people are saying join us.
		
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			The relief people are saying join us.
		
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			The political people are saying join us.
		
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			And I want to dedicate my life to
		
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			the madrasah for the reason you sent me
		
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			here to focus on.
		
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			So then he wrote back in response to
		
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			him, that give everyone your du'as but
		
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			focus on your mission.
		
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			When someone comes to you, if it's outside
		
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			of your mission, give them your du'as.
		
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			My du'as are with you, Habibi.
		
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			May Allah give barakah.
		
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			But I have to focus on, what I
		
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			decided to be, my mission and goal.
		
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			And after you've decided what's good for you,
		
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			after you've come to that conclusion, now turn
		
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			to Allah.
		
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			This is where istikhara comes in.
		
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			Seek consultation and then ask Allah.
		
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			And do not give up.
		
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			Don't fall short on yourself.
		
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			Don't backtrack.
		
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			And don't think, as at the end Nabi
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says, فَلَا تَقُلْ لَوْ أَنِّي
		
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			فَعَلْتُ كَانَ كَذَا وَكَذَا And don't say, if
		
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			you hit some burden or some bumps along
		
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			the way, that, man, I could have done
		
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			this, man, I could have done that, I
		
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			could have done this, if I had done
		
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			this, if I had done that.
		
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			You see the emphasis that I'm putting on?
		
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			The I shoulda, coulda, woulda, if.
		
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			Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is saying, فَإِنْ أَصَابَكَ
		
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			شِيءٌ لَا تَقُلْ لَوْ أَنِّي فَعَلْتُ كَانَ كَذَا
		
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			وَكَذَا وَلَكِنْ قُلْ Rather say, صَدَّرَ اللَّهُ وَمَا
		
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			شَاءَ فَعَلْ Allah destined, whatever He willed, occurred.
		
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			فَإِنَّ لَوْ For indeed, the word, if, تَفْتَحْ
		
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			وَعَمَلَ الشَّيْطَانِ opens the doors of Shaytan.
		
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			May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
		
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			grant us strength in our moments of weakness.
		
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			May He grant us clarity in our moments
		
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			of confusion.
		
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			And may Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A
		
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			'la support us where we prepare to fall.
		
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			May we always rely on to Him, hold
		
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			on to Him.
		
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			May we be examples of the sunnah.
		
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			May we be inspirers of khayr to the
		
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			people around us.
		
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			May we lift them, may we guide them.
		
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			May we be a wall that interlock with
		
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			one another.
		
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			So we serve the Ummah of Rasulullah ﷺ
		
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			with pride, glory.
		
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			May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
		
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			accept from us all.
		
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			الحمد لله رب العالمين إِنَّ اللَّهُ وَمَلَائِكَتَهُ يُصَلُّونَ
		
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			عَلَى النَّبِيِّ يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا صَلُّوا عَلَيْهِ
		
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			وَسَلِّمُوا تَسْلِمًا اللهم صلِّ على سيدنا محمد وعلى
		
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			آل سيدنا محمد كلما ذكره الذاكرون وكلما غفل
		
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			عن ذكره الغافلون رَبَّنَا آتِنَا فِي الدُّنْيَا حَسَنَةً
		
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			وَفِي الْآخِرَةِ حَسَنَةً وَقِنَا عَذَابِ النَّارِ رَبَّنَا هَبْ
		
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			لَنَا مِنْ أَزْوَاجِنَا وَذُرِّيَاتِنَا قُرَّةَ أَعْيُّنَ وَجَعَلْنَا
		
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			لِلْمُتَّقِينَ إِمَامًا يَا رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ اللهم حبِّب إلينا
		
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			الإيمان وزيِّنه في قلوبنا وكرِّه إلينا الكفر والفسوق
		
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			والعسيان واجعلنا من الراشدين اللهم آتِ نفوسنا تقواها
		
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			وزكِّها أنت خير من زكَّاها أنت وليها ومولاها
		
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			اللهم هدينا فيمن هديت الله
		
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			أكبر الله أكبر الله أكبر الله أكبر أشهد
		
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			أن لا إله إلا الله أشهد أن لا
		
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			إله إلا الله أشهد أن محمد رسول الله
		
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			أشهد أن محمد رسول الله هيا على الصلاة
		
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			هيا على الصلاة هيا على الفلاح هيا على
		
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			الفلاح قد قامت الصلاة قد قامت الصلاة الله
		
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			أكبر الله أكبر لا إله إلا الله الله
		
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			أكبر الحمد لله رب
		
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			العالمين الرحمن الرحيم مالك يوم الدين
		
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			إياك نعبد وإياك نستعين إهدنا الصراط المستقيم صراط
		
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			الذين أنعمت عليهم غير المغضوب عليهم ولا
		
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			الضالين يسألك
		
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			الناس عن الساعة قل إنما علمها عند
		
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			الله وما يدريك لعل الساعة تكون قريبا إن
		
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			الله لعن الكافرين وأعد لهم سعيرا خالدين فيها
		
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			أبدا لا يجدون وليا ولا نصيرا
		
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			يوم تقلب وجوههم في النار يقولون يا ليتنا
		
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			أطعنا الله وأطعنا الرسول وقالوا ربنا
		
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			إنا أطعنا سادتنا وكبراءنا فأضلون
		
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			السبيلا ربنا آتهم ضعفين من العذاب والعنهم لعنا
		
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			كبيرا يا أيها الذين آمنوا لا تكونوا
		
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			كالذين آذوا موسى فبرأه الله مما قالوا وكان
		
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			عند الله وجيها يا أيها الذين آمنوا اتقوا
		
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			الله وقولوا قولا سديدا يصلح لكم أعمالكم ويغفر
		
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			لكم ذنوبكم ومن يطيع الله ورسوله فقد فاز
		
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			فوزا عظيما الحمد
		
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			لله رب العالمين الرحمن الرحيم مالك يوم الدين
		
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			إياك نعبد وإياك نستعين إهدنا الصراط المستقيم صراط
		
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			الذين أنعمت عليهم غير المغضوب عليهم ولا
		
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			الضالين الأخلاء
		
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			يومئذ بعضهم لبعض عدو إلا المتقين يا عبادي
		
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			لا خوف عليكم اليوم ولا أنتم تحزنون الذين
		
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			آمنوا بآياتنا وكانوا مسلمين ادخلوا الجنة أنتم
		
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			وأزواجكم تحبرون يطاف عليهم بصحاف من ذهب
		
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			وأكواب وفيها ما تشتهيه الأنفس وتنذ الأعين
		
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			وأنتم فيها خالدون وتلك الجنة التي
		
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			أورثتموها بما كنتم تعملون لكم فيها فاكهة
		
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			كثيرة منها تأكلون إن المجرمين في عذاب
		
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			جهنم خالدون لا يفتر عنهم وهم فيه مبلسون
		
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			وما ظلمناهم ولكن كانوهم الظالمين ونادوا يا
		
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			مالك ليقضي علينا ربك قال إنكم
		
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			ماكثون الله أكبر سمع
		
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			الله لمن حمده الله أكبر السلام
		
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			عليكم ورحمة الله السلام عليكم ورحمة الله