Hussain Kamani – Jumuah 06-09-2024

Hussain Kamani
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The heart is the qwork that keeps humans desire and love. It is the only one that can stop a love person from becoming a love person until they stop doing things that make them happy. The importance of love and commitment to the Prophet's love for society is crucial for success in life. The speaker shares a story about a woman who lost everything and committed suicide, but ultimately lost everything for being close to the Prophet. The importance of love and commitment to the Prophet's love for society is emphasized.
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As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

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The Insan is a very fascinating creation of

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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At times when you look at the human

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being, so small, yet the impact is so

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global and so broad, so magnificent.

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The small brain of the human being can

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accomplish great things.

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You read through the pages of human history

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and there are these people who shine, who

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are unstoppable, who had conviction, who harnessed their

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energy to do things beyond what billions of

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people who breathed the same air were able

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to do.

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How does a human being reach such high

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potential?

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How does one human being or a group

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of human beings yield such great value?

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There are so many factors that come into

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play.

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Naturally, Qabuliyah from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,

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Tawfiq from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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But if you look at the human being,

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the Insan at the center of it, there

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are some realities that you will find there

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too.

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The right foundation will exist.

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The correct world view will be in place.

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The right akhlaq will exist for that human

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being.

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If any of these things are out of

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balance, their ability to benefit humanity begins to

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tank.

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So they have to balance these things very

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carefully, ensuring they don't waste their time with

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the wrong knowledge and they dedicate to the

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correct knowledge.

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That they're not just going with what they

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think needs to be done, they're really carefully

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balancing and reflecting on and studying and taking

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from mentors and teachers what actually should be

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done.

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Someone hands off a vision to them.

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You will find that their character is balanced,

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where they have empathy and care for humanity.

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They understand that the way they wish to

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be treated must be the way they treat

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others for meaningful impact.

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Otherwise, if there is a discrepancy there, one

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of these interactions will be inhumane.

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And there will be dhulm on someone, which

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will pull away whatever barakah was to be

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in that interaction.

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Fear is no way to manage a group

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of people or to bring impact or change.

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For that, there needs to be genuine empathy

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and sympathy.

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That you're able to wake up for another

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person and raise your hands and cry in

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front of Allah for the congregation that you

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lead.

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For the people that you are responsible over,

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that they are a part of those moments

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that your hands are raised, you have that

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much mahabba for them.

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You will find in these people that there

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isn't an excessive amount of confidence, because that

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will destroy a person.

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And neither is there no confidence, because that

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depletes a person of energy.

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Their confidence will be just right, where they

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understand what they're capable of doing, yet not

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overflowing out of humility and reliance on Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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That, ya Allah, You guide me.

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You hold my hand.

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You take me where I need to go,

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because I can have all of the qabiliyah,

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but it will be nothing without Your hubuliyah.

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All the capacity within the human being could

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be correct, but if there isn't acceptance from

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, something is missing.

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And one of the most important parts of

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the human being's machine for this to work,

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for this factory to output, is at the

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center, tucked away, is the heart of the

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insan, the qalb.

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Until the heart isn't convinced, the human being

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is limited.

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There's only so much you can do.

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For all of this to align, there is

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a need to give undivided attention to the

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qalb that lies at the center of you.

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, He created this

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qalb of the insan.

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It's so powerful, so profound, because once it

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finds its purpose, once it is purified, once

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it learns to love in a meaningful way,

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nothing can stop that human being.

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No prison, no wall, nothing can stop that

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person.

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The hard thing is getting people to love.

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Helping them understand that until you don't turn

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inward, no matter how beautiful your voice is,

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or your face is, or how strong you

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are, or how skilled you are in a

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sport, all of this doesn't mean anything.

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No matter how much wealth you have, it

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doesn't mean anything until first you have truce

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with your own qalb, your own heart.

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Otherwise, at the center of that person that

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everyone is praising is a human being that

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is quietly crumbling into non-existence.

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That qalb, that heart needs to be firm.

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يَا مُثَبِّتَ الْقُلُوبِ ثَبِّتْ قُلُوبَنَا عَلَى الدِّينِكِ O

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the one who brings firmness in the heart.

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Therefore, the act that is connected to the

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heart is called mahabba.

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If you turn to this wazifa of the

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heart, this loving act, and you go to

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the roots of that Arabic word mahabba, it

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originates from three letters, ha, ba, and ba.

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The ba has a shada on it.

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That's where you get the word hubb from,

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or the beloved is called hibb.

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Mahabba, these three words, when you look at

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them, aslan, they come in the meaning of

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thabat, luzum.

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So they would refer to thabat and luzum

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means to commit, to anchor yourself down somewhere.

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That you're traveling somewhere and then you find

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a place and you say this is appropriate,

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you anchor it down.

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You put your pegs in the ground that

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this is where I need to be.

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I can't be moved from here.

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This is important that my heart, its qalb,

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its nature is qalb.

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Like tumbleweed to just turn and twist and

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go whatever direction the wind takes it.

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But now mahabba stops the qalb from taqlib,

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from moving around.

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And it forces it to commitment that no,

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I need to be here, I need to

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stop, put myself in this place.

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And this is one of the differences between

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meaningful love and unfortunately a lot of what

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we see in today's world in the name

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of love.

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What we see in today's love, whether it's

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on the shows, whether it's in movies, or

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unfortunately in our own families, is self-serving

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partial commitments.

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It's all about what I can take.

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It's about what I'm going to get.

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It's very shallow.

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It's very temporary.

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That I will stop wherever I see there

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is a worldly benefit.

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If someone will do something small for me,

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I'll be with them.

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But once they turn against me or do

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something I no longer desire, I'm not interested

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in that.

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It's a tabi'i love.

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And I say tabi'i here because the

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ulema, when they look at love, they divide

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it into two categories.

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There is that which is tabi'i, which

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is a'am.

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Tabi'i means natural.

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This sort of love is common.

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It applies to human beings.

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It applies to animals and everything else that

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has ability to move and has a heart.

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An animal loves too.

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Today it loves this fruit, and if that

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fruit of that tree continues to produce, it

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will continue to eat from there.

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And when the tree no longer produces, the

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mahabba of that animal transitions to another tree.

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And then from there, another tree.

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It's a very fleeting form of love.

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But then there is a second form of

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love that goes beyond the tabi'a of

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the insan, the natural, innate inclinations of the

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human being, to what we call ikhtiyari.

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There is a very conscious moment that a

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human being commits to or an act or

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a being and says, this is something that

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I need.

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This is someone that I need.

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And that ikhtiyar is outside of the realm

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of the haywan, the animal.

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The animal cannot engage in that act of

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ikhtiyar.

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That ikhtiyar is only for the insan because

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave aql, qalb,

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bayan, all of this to the human being.

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Where the human being gets to choose.

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The human being is able to engage in

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a rational exercise.

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So now the brain is constantly churning through

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information that it receives through the different senses.

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And it's trying to figure out what the

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correct moral value is and where there is

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a positive or negative moral value.

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What kind of person should I be?

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What interaction matters?

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Which relationships have high yielding value and which

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ones are actually meaningful?

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What suits me?

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What doesn't suit me?

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We're always making those calculations.

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And as we go through those aqli calculations,

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now we are pushed to making decisions.

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And as we make those decisions in life,

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they have an impact on what we love.

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So a person that is constantly making decisions

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in their life that are net positive for

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a dunyawi outcome, what they will love will

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also be that.

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Whatever takes them to that net positive dunyawi

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outcome.

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So they will love the car.

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They will love the home.

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They will love the vacation.

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They'll love the new iPhone that's about to

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drop in three days.

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They'll love all that stuff because it has

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so much value.

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It brings joy and happiness.

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They'll sit there and look at a person's

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home and smile.

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Drive up and down a street that they

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have no business being in.

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That they have dudes broke, but they're still

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driving there looking at the houses and smiling.

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What would it be like?

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And there's another person who is constantly thinking

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about the akhira.

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وَذَكِّرْ فَإِنَّ الذِّكْرَ تَنْفَعُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أُذْكُرُ اللَّهَ ذِكْرًا

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كَثِيرًا This person is remembering Allah, thinking of

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the akhira.

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They understand that today's accomplishments don't mean anything

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if they're not tethered to the ultimate success

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in the hereafter.

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A person who's reflecting on every day as

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a block that leads to Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala.

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That this step leads to the next step

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and the one after that.

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And ultimately all of this connects me to

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my one true reality.

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لا إله إلا الله And that I have

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to stand in front of Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala.

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And no friend and no teacher or no

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student, no child will be with me.

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It'll be me standing in front of my

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Creator and my Allah will ask me.

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عَنْ عُمْرِهِ فِي مَا أَثْنَهِ وَعَنْ شَبَابِهِ فِي

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مَا أَبْلَهِ وَعَنْ مَالِهِ مِنْ أَيْنَ اِكْتَسَبَهُ وَفِي

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مَا أَنْفَقَهُ Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will

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ask him, tell me about your salah.

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will ask him,

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tell me about your relationships.

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, all these questions,

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all the duties that we have in this

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world, one by one they will come up.

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And I have to answer Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala.

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And to answer Allah I need actions and

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in order to have meaningful sincere actions, I

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need a heart.

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And for that heart to do its thing,

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the mind needs to be processing things in

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the correct world view.

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And a Muslim's world view is the akhirah.

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And as long as I'm thinking the akhirah,

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the heart will be inclined towards that akhirah.

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And when the heart is inclined towards the

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akhirah, the a'mal, the actions that will then

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come from that heart will also be akhirah

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driven.

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They will be driven towards the hereafter.

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the Qur

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'an, He calls us towards His love.

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وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَشَدُّوا حُبًّا لِلَّهِ Don't just know

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you're Allah, don't just say that I worship

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Allah or I'm a believer.

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Intellectually, ikhtiyaran, out of your own, you know,

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volition.

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Think about this, that what will I do

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in this dunya or the next without the

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love of Allah?

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What if I show up to Allah and

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Allah says to me that did you ever

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love me?

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Did you ever think about me?

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Did you ever feel pain at my distance?

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How did you feel at the end of

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the week at the thought that you didn't

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remember me this day?

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When you were struggling, did I come to

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your heart?

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Did I come to your mind?

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When the world was tugging you in different

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directions, when you were crumbling under the pressure

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of work and family and health, was I

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with you or did you walk away from

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me?

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Because there is no existence without Allah subhanahu

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wa ta'ala.

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All of this, the fact that this earth

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remains exactly where it is without pulling inwards

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or outwards and the gravity forces that hold

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it in place are nothing short of perfection.

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Then within that earth there is this beautiful

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dunya we live in that has gorgeous trees

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and canyons and mountains and beautiful gardens and

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rivers flowing of all the colors that I

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could enjoy exist within this dunya.

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And then within all of that beauty, second

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to none in this solar system, in this

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galaxy, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the

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beauty of this dunya created the insan.

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Second to none.

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And then within this insan, Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala, this insan could have been so

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ajeeb.

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It could have been so different.

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There could have been a hundred million infinite

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number of possibilities of what you and I

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were and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave

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that insan aql.

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He gave that insan a qalb, a heart.

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He gave that insan a tongue to speak.

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He gave that human being hands and feet

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to move around.

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He gave that insan a forehead to do

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a sajdah in front of him.

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He gave that insan ears so we can

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hear the mu'adhin say to us, Come

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to success.

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Everything out there is a little wild.

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Come to success.

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Come to salah.

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Come to tawheed.

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Come to shahada.

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Come to allahu akbar, allahu akbar.

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After all of this muhabba and after all

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of this kindness, the insan is still conflicted

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on who to love and who not to

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love.

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Ah, the irony of that.

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How did this happen?

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How did that happen?

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Did we stop seeing?

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Did we stop feeling?

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Did we stop listening?

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Have we become that blind?

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You talk about magic and delusion and dajjal.

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The West over the last 300, 400 years

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has pulled off the greatest trick of humanity.

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We've all been duped.

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They casted over us the sheet of materialism

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and made human beings forget about their creator.

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Locked them into some fascinating little system of

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there's this hamster that we, the pets, have

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been put into.

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Run, run, run with no outcome awaiting you.

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Forget why Allah created you.

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala created you for

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His muhabba.

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He created you for His love.

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And to teach you how He should be

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loved.

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To teach you how He should be worshipped.

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To teach you how He should be remembered.

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He sent to this dunya the most perfect

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human being whose scent was more beautiful, was

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more sweet than anything in this dunya.

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Whose smile brought joy to the saddest of

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hearts.

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Whose presence brought warmth to those that were

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outstranded and shivering.

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Whose presence was light for a deep, dark

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world.

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Who entered into this dunya and came down

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from the mountain and went to his wife

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Khadija radiyallahu anha and said to her, I've

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been granted the crown of prophethood.

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It's time to do this.

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And Khadija radiyallahu anha says, I'm with you.

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And the two of them start this journey.

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Ups and downs.

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Lost a family.

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Loss of life.

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Torture.

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Struggle.

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It's so much easier to just give up

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and do what we do.

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Why don't I just bury myself in my

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job.

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And bury myself in my work and my

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education.

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But the prophet of Allah saw a dream.

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That these followers of mine, this family of

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mine, these human beings, need to be taught

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what love is.

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And I will show them how to love

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Allah.

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I will show them how to be obedient

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to Allah and how for the heart to

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be committed to Him, regardless of the thunderstorm

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that surrounds you or the tornado that you

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sit right in the eye of.

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The love of a believer can never be

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stopped.

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You can't decrease it.

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You can't cut it.

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You can't stifle it.

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It's so profound.

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It's so powerful.

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And the prophet ﷺ, over this journey of

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23 years, he guides mankind.

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And every person he touches, every person he

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sees, those who believe in him, those who

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join him on this journey, become an extension

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to the legacy of Rasulullah ﷺ.

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And through history, as you travel for 1400

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years, whether it's in some Java island or

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whether it's some Saharan desert or whether it's

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some thick jungle in Asia, all of these

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people, wherever they are, as they connect to

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the Prophet of Allah, they become shining stars

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and guiding lights for humanity to follow until

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the Day of Judgment.

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If you see one of them, you'll know

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what you're looking at.

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There are very few.

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But when you see them, hold on to

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them.

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Because there are a lot of illusions in

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today's world.

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Reality is rare because not too many people

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are willing to commit to it and pay

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the price for reality.

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Muhabbah isn't cheap.

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It comes at a cost.

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One of my teachers used to say to

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us that you guys look at us today,

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we sit here, give durus and lectures, but

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there was a time in our life that

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we were tested by Allah ﷻ.

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And his exact words, Shaykh Mubeen's here, he

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knows.

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He said, حَمْنَ بَغَيْرْ دَالْكِ دَالْ كَايِيهِ That

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there was a time in our life that

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Allah really tested us.

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What was supposed to be food wasn't even

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food, but we had to eat it because

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the heart and mind called for some food.

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So we would dip our bread in there

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and eat it.

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It comes with a challenge.

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Open Shaykh Abdul Fattah Abu Ghuddah صَفَحَاتْ مِنْ

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صَبْرِ الْعُلَمَاءِ And look at the challenges and

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struggles these ulama had to face.

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Where they would sit together, four muhaddithun sitting

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together, giants.

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They're all sitting together, and no one has

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any food, no one has anything to eat.

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And they make an intention that maybe one

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will go to work while the other study.

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And as the next morning comes in, a

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person comes and knocks on their door and

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says, the leader, the king of the time

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has sent a gift for you guys.

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He saw a dream and Rasulullah ﷺ told

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him to take care of you.

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لا إله إلا الله The sacrifices of these

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people.

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Imam Bukhari رحمة الله عليه does wida' to

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his mom and dad at the age of

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16 in hajj.

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And then he doesn't see them for decades

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because he's dedicating his life to studying this

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deen of Rasulullah ﷺ given to him by

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Allah ﷻ.

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Learn to love the Prophet of Allah.

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We are in the month of Rabiul Awwal.

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And this has been a month historically where

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people rethought what their heart was doing.

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They reignited that love for the Prophet of

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Allah ﷺ.

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It's where families got together before their children

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were put to sleep, in particular in this

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month.

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And they would send salawat upon the Prophet

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ﷺ.

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They would open up a seerah book and

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they would read through the biography of the

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Prophet ﷺ.

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Where every person would, you know how they

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have November this month and beard month and

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mustache month and, you know, dopey month.

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Every month they're trying to revive some tradition.

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Where Muslims in this month would say this

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is a month for us to revive the

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sunnah of Rasulullah ﷺ.

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So use these days of this month to

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connect with the Prophet of Allah.

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Think about the impact the love of Rasulullah

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ﷺ had on the companions.

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Love is not something intangible.

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I don't want you to think this is

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some mystical, philosophical concept I'm speaking of.

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In our deen, there are very hard, easy

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ways.

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When I say hard, I mean objective.

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These are hard things.

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They're not just soft ideas.

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Very objective ways that you can increase your

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love for the Prophet of Allah.

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Nabi ﷺ teaches us, send salawat upon me.

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For the one that sends the most salawat

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upon me will be closest to me on

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the Day of Judgment.

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The Arabs would say, مَنْ أَحَبَّ شَيْئًا أَكْثَرَ

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ذِكْرَهُ Whoever loves something, remembers it abundantly.

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You know, when I visit Muslim countries, you

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will find an old, frail lady or old,

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frail man that's sitting at some store under

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a shutter, selling some, you know, small, humble

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products behind.

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The guy probably doesn't know too much about

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business or finances, doesn't have some advanced degree

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from Kellogg or anything like that.

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But he's sitting there and doing salawat upon

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the Prophet.

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Allahumma salli alaihi wa sallim.

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Allahumma salli alaihi wa sallim.

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La ilaha illallah.

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How simple and beautiful were these people.

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How simple.

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They would have these dusty books with thin

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paper full of du'as they would read

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every morning.

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You guys know what I'm talking about?

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They don't know what's in there.

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A lot of times, unfortunately, bid'at as

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well.

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But that's not the point.

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The point right now is their commitment, their

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devotion.

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That they knew what had to be done

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and they did it.

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This nation has learned too much and that's

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come at a cost of us losing our

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actions.

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We've become too smart for ourselves, unfortunately.

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A part of love is intellectual, but so

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much of love, going back to the origins

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of that word, involves just committing that I'm

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gonna do this.

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The Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam said, One

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of you cannot be a complete believer until

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I am more beloved to him.

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Hatta akuna habba ilayhi min walidihi wa waladihi

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wa an-nasi ajma'een.

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Until I am more beloved to him than

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his father, than his child, and all of

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mankind.

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And the muhaddithun say, Why did the Prophet

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of Allah mention father first, child second?

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Even though naturally, the child is loved more

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by the father than the father will ever

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be loved by the child.

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Everyone loves their child more.

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No matter how much the children say, Baba,

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I love you more than you love me.

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It's nonsense.

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The parent will mi'ah fil mi'ah,

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always love their child more.

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Intahal kalam.

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That's it.

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But why is there taqdeem here?

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Because every human being has a father, not

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everyone has a child.

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So Nabi salallahu alayhi wasalam, the message appeals

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to everyone.

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Hatta akuna habba ilayhi min walidihi wa waladihi

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wa an-nasi ajma'een.

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You need to love the Prophet of Allah.

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You live in a world where prophets are

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not loved, they're not even mentioned, people don't

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care for them, they barely care for God.

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But a Muslim's identity lies in that.

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You cannot be robbed of this.

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Because if your Prophet is taken away from

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you, your revelation is taken away from you,

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then how do you know what your world

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view is?

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Where will you find examples?

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Where will you anchor yourself when your ship

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begins to rock?

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Who will you go to?

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Whose life will you reflect on?

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Whose legacy will you take from when you're

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sad, and when you've lost someone, and when

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you're in pain?

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Turn on the TV and look at these

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bozos?

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You're gonna go look at what these people

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have to offer?

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A'aturuku sunnata habibi liha'ul a'il

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humaqa' For these fools?

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Am I going to leave this rich legacy

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that people lived and died for?

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That on their deathbed, Bilal radiyallahu anhu is

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saying that, ah, what a beautiful day, finally

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I will be with the Prophet.

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This is muhabba, my friends.

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You don't know how difficult life must have

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been for Bilal after the Prophet.

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But love isn't quitting.

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That's what Bilal teaches us.

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Love isn't about quitting.

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It's about commitment.

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Thabaat wal luzoon.

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It's about sticking firm that if I loved

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him, I will live by his legacy.

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And 1,400 years from now, a group

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of ragtag Muslims will gather together in Carrollton,

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Texas, and remember my story of love.

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That tomorrow I will be with the Prophet.

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Every day since he left, I had to

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remind myself what I was doing and why

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I was doing it.

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So I conclude today's khutba with this reminder

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for us all.

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Look for true love.

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Look for love that is connected to its

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root.

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Look for love that involves change in your

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life, that is more than just words and

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thoughts that results in actions, that you can

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lean on when your heart is at unrest,

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love that motivates you and encourages you, love

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for Allah, love for his Prophet, love for

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the Quran, love for the righteous, love for

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standing in front of Allah, on the Day

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of Judgment.

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May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accept from

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us all.

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Rizwanullah ta'ala alayhim ajma'een.

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Aqeem al salam.

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Aqeem.

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Aqeem.

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