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My dearest brothers and sisters,
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we just started
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another
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calendar year of our life.
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And everyone
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is indulging
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and for this matter should indulge
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in moments of retrospection
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and
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reflection
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about about our past
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year
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and past days,
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our gains and losses.
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And this is a healthy practice.
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It is very beneficial
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from time to time
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to engage
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in moments of retrospection,
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to see
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your gains and your losses,
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to think about
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your
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good days and not so good as well
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as
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bad
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deeds. This practice
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is suggested to us
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by our beloved
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prophet
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and by the companions.
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He's reported in the Hadith,
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and please listen carefully to this Hadith be
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because we want
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to apply this Hadith
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in our lives
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every day.
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He
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said
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Bring yourself
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to account
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always
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before
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you are going to be brought
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to the court of Allah
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and he's going to settle the account.
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So bring yourself to account.
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Do the accounting yourself.
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Do the retrospection
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yourself.
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Do the reflection
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yourself
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before
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you are going to be brought to account,
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before
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it is going to be weighed against you
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on the day of judgment.
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So it is very healthy,
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brothers and sisters,
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to engage
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in accountability.
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Spare
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some moments
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every evening be right before you go to
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sleep,
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and
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do a little review
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of your day
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or days
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or years.
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Do a little review in your mind.
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If you find good,
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thank Allah
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If you find
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every night,
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be mindful
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or extra mindful,
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extra cautious
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of violating
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the rights of your brothers and sisters
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because it is not just enough
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to ask Allah's forgiveness.
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You have to settle the account
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of your victims first.
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Otherwise,
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we are all
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going to run the risk,
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and I'm very particular with the word bankrupt
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because this is the word of our beloved
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prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
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One time, he was sitting among the companions,
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and he posed this question to them.
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Do you know
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who is the real bankrupt
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at Hadruna Manil Muflis?
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Do you know
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the bankrupt?
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So the companions answered by saying the bankrupt
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is the one who doesn't have any money
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or assets.
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So they are talking about the literal meaning
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of the word bankrupt.
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The one who doesn't have any money is
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a bankrupt.
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But the prophet
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gave the meaning
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a
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profound
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sense.
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He said, sallallahu
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alaihi wa sallam, the bankrupt
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from among my ummah is the one
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who is going to come with a lot
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of good deeds
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to his credit
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on the day of judgment,
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but he has
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violated
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the rights of his own fellow brothers and
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sisters.
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He backbited.
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He abused.
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He did a lot of bad things to
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his brothers and sisters. He's going to settle
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the account.
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Allah is going to take
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some of his good deeds,
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and we and he will put it to
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the credit of his victims.
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And if his deeds if his good deeds
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fall short of settling the account, what is
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going to happen?
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Some of their bad deeds
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will be
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credited to his record,
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and, eventually, he will go to hellfire.
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Be extra cautious.
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Be extra
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mindful.
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Be extra careful
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of violating the rights of your fellow human
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beings, your fellow brothers and sisters.
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So it is very healthy to engage
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in accountability,
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in a little review,
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moments of review right before you go to
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sleep.
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Why
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again? Mind the hadith of the prophet
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bring yourself into account before you are going
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to be brought
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to account
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in the court of Allah
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Weigh your actions
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before it is going to be weighed against
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you on the day of judgment.
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My dear brothers and sisters,
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we always say time just flew.
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And this is something that we need to
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be aware of.
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Every day
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that goes by
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draws us closer
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to Allah
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Actually,
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Sayyid al Hasan al Basri,
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alayirahmatullah,
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said something very profound.
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He said just we each and every one
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of us is composed
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of time.
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Each and every one of us
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is divided up in time.
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If some time goes by,
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some of us will go by, and
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eventually,
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our time will come in which each and
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every one of us will be a history
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will be
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a history, my dear brothers and sisters.
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Sayedna Umar ibn Khattab
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He heard
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someone
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is saying so and so passed away.
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So and so died.
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So he said
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that
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Omar died.
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Soon, it will be said about Omar himself
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that Omar died,
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and Omar indeed died.
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The best creation
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that Allah
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created our beloved prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
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He died a long time ago.
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His sunnah is present with us, but he,
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as a human being,
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died.
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This is the best of the creation of
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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, but still he died.
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Each and every one of us, my dear
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brothers and sisters,
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is going to die.
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You are going to die, oh,
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prophet Muhammad,
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and everybody else is going to die.
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Again,
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Al Imam al Shafi'i
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he said something very profound about time.
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He said,
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time is like
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is as sharp as the sword.
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If you don't cut it, it will cut
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you.
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If you do not cut it
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by spending it wisely,
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it will cut you, my dear brothers and
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sisters.
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That's why the companions as well used to
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meet each other.
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They would not part
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until one of them
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recites
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a small Surah
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to the other,
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a small Surah
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to the other,
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reminding them
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about the value of
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time.
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And this is the Surah
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that, again, Imam Shafi'i said,
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if nothing of the Quran was revealed to
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the ummah of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
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except
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this Surah,
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it would have been sufficient been sufficient for
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them
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only if they reflected
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on the meaning of this Surah, and this
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is Surah
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by
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the time.
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When Allah
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takes an oath
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about something, it is an indication
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that this thing is very crucial,
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is very significant in the eyes of Allah
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by the time.
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So Allah
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is telling us
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mankind is indeed in loss. This is a
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general ruling,
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but Allah has made an exception.
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Except.
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And then Allah
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listed 4
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categories
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of people.
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And I'm going to spend the rest of
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the Khutba
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elaborating
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on the qualities
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of the good investors,
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the good investors
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in time.
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The good investors in time. But before that,
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let me just draw your attention to a
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event
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on Fridays.
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Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, tells us,
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and please listen
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with your hearts and minds.
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This is verse for those of you, brothers
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and sisters, who
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if you want to go home and reflect
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more
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on these two verses, it is chapter 18,
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Sur Al Kahf,
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verse 103-104.
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103-104.
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Please do your homework
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because it has an important message for all
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of you, my brothers and sisters, and for
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myself.
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Allah is telling us
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in the meaning,
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shall I tell you
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about
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the greatest
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losers
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in their
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deeds, in their works?
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Those
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of you,
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Allah is telling us in the meaning,
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who spend a lot of efforts
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in this life,
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but in vain.
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Again,
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shall I tell you about the greatest losers
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in their
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works? Those of you
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who spend a lot of efforts
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thinking that
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they are doing so well.
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Now I want all of you, my dear
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brothers and sisters,
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to ask the forgiveness of Allah
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and to ask Allah's refuge
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so that he would not include us among
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such people
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who are doing so
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good in life.
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So may Allah
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include us among the good investors.
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The people,
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when they do good, they will
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feel
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the goodness inside, and they will bear the
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fruit
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of good deeds on the day of judgment.
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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and Surah Al Furqan,
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he talks to us
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about a frightening scene.
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Some people
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Some people will come to Allah with mountains
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of good deeds.
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All disappear.
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Why?
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Again, go back to the hadith I shared
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with you earlier
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about bankruptcy,
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the real bankruptcy,
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because they messed up
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with the rights of their fellow human beings.
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So my dear brothers
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and sisters, Allah is saying mankind is indeed
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in loss except
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those number 1 who
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believe, who have iman.
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From here until tomorrow, and it will not
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suffice.
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But I want
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all of you to think about iman
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in 3
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ways,
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3 aspects,
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and decreases.
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Iman
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goes up
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and sometimes
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goes down. So it is not a fixed
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state.
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It goes up how
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and it goes down how
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our scholars say
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that with good deeds and decreases with
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bad deeds.
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So it is not just
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you know
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the 6 articles of iman
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and you are now all set.
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No. Actually, every day is a test.
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Every day is an opportunity
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so that we can
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go up.
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The bar is up
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with good deeds
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and that we try as much as we
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can
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not sinking.
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Our iman also can sink with bad deeds.
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That's the first
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aspect about iman. The second aspect about iman
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that the house of iman
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house of Iman
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is not with the limbs,
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is not with the organs.
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Where is Iman?
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Iman
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is in the hearts, my dear brothers and
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sisters.
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A man is
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in the hearts,
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and this is why people,
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the Bedouin Arabs
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claimed
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that we have attained faith.
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No. You have not attained faith.
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Because faith did not penetrate
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into
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your hearts.
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So, again, number 2, the house of iman
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is in
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the hearts.
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What is our hearts, my dear brothers and
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sisters, nowadays?
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If you open your heart
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and you are the best judge,
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you are the best judge.
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The imams and the ulemas
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cannot
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see your hearts. Only Allah
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knows what is in the heart. What is
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in your heart?
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Is it the dunya
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alone?
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Is it your work?
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Is it your business?
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Is it your house?
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Is it Allah? In in there, you'll find
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Allah, his messenger.
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You are the best judge,
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but rest assured
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that iman
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is in the hearts.
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Number 3 about iman.
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Iman will not be complete
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without good deeds.
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Once iman is not going to be complete
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without carefully to this
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Our beloved prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
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defined iman
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in such a clear cut way.
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He said
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Eman
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consists of some 60
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or
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some 70 branches.
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Eman consists
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of some 60 or
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70
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branches.
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The highest branch
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is
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La ilaha illallah.
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The lowest
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branch
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is that you
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from the road of Muslims, no. We don't
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find this from any road.
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This is part of your iman,
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and modesty
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is a branch of the faith. This hadith
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is narrated
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by imam Bai Haqqi,
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and you can look up
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what
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these
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60
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some branches or 70
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some branches.
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You will see
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the the comprehensive
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nature of the faith.
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You will see being nice and good to
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your parents
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is part of the faith.
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You will see feeding hungry people is part
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of the faith.
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You will see doing dawah engaging
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Islam
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with others is part of the faith.
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The inner struggle
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is part of the faith.
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Praying on time is part of the faith.
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Being nice to our sisters
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and women
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is part of the faith.
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You could see that Islam is really
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no. Islam is very comprehensive.
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It is the rights of Allah
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and the rights of fellow human beings.
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So
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sincerely for Allah
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and in accordance with the way of the
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beloved prophet
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is considered
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a good deed.
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And number 3,
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This is where the community
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comes in.
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This is where the community comes in because
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the meaning here is that
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those who mutually
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advise one another,
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those who mutually
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recommend one another to stick to truth
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and to stick to patience.
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And you know
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this time and age, it is full of
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confusion.
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We need to band together
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so that we can stick to truth,
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and we need to advise each other
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so that we can stick
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to patience and perseverance
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in these difficult
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times.
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And, Inshallah, I'm going to elaborate further
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on these points in,
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this evening forum, Inshallah.
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My dear brothers and sisters,
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each and every one of us
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is going to stand in front of Allah
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Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
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And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
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is going to bring us to account.
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One zero
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one without
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translators,
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without helpers,
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without attorneys,
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without supporters
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will be speaking to Allah
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alone. Even though we might forget
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that we have messed up with Allah
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or with our fellow human beings,
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but Allah does not forget, my dear brothers
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and sisters.
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Each and every day, Allah
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brings us to life.
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I, as much as you can,
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to keep the bar
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raised up,
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to keep your faith
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in a good shape,
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to increase in good deeds.
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In this time and age,
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I think
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each and every one of us will not
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be saved
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by his
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or herself
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if we band to
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and this community is a blessing.
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So keep visiting the community
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to get nourishment,
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to get support.
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You will be stronger.
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When you come to this masjid, when you
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get involved in the so many activities
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of this beautiful mosque
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in interfaith,
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and this is one of the hallmarks
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of this center
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in
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knowledge sharing
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and seeking
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And in so many
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community activities,
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you will be strong,
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my dear brothers and sisters. You will be
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strong.
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Our beloved prophet
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said that the wolf
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will get the sheep that is away from
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the herd.
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All of you, and may Allah
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make us spend each and every moment wisely.
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May Allah
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grant us success.
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May Allah
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grant all of us forgiveness
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and gather us together
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in the company of our beloved prophet
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May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala have mercy on
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our sisters.
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May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
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protect and
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guide
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the
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imams
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of this community.
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May Allah
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guide
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and forgive
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all the generous brothers and sisters who have
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been
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supporting this great center.
