Johari Abdul-Malik – Forgiveness Is About Resilience

Johari Abdul-Malik
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The importance of forgiveness in Islam is discussed, with emphasis on the Prophet's actions that allow individuals to live their lives and achieve their dreams. The speaker also highlights the history and importance of forgiveness, including the forgiveness of mistakes and finding one's own success. forgiveness is a priority for human beings, and a program to help people attend missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed missed
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Praising Allah and thanking Allah

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for having gathered us

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on this

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day, the last Jumuah

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before

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the month of Ramadan.

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And, walhamdulillah,

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that Allah has lived,

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allowed us to live,

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to see the dawn of Ramadan.

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We thank Allah

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for having

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sent to us

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a way of life,

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that if we follow it,

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we will be the most successful.

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We will be successful, be it nila, in

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this life

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and in the hereafter.

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If you were

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to think, walhamdulillah,

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about the mechanisms,

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the system

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that Allah has laid out for us.

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The Prophet

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describes to us

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that in this way of life, this

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this siraat,

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that we're on this this path,

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that there are

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periods of time

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in which Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,

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forgives.

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Forgiveness, walhamdulillah,

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from one salah to the next salah.

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Now, I want you to think about it

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for a minute. There are people, walhamdulillah,

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struggling with difficult

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aspects of their lives.

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Some of them, they commit crimes. Some of

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them, they use drugs. Some of them, they

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have inappropriate,

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actions or relationships.

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And they're trying to beat

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their addiction to these problems. But if they

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can go from one salah,

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just ask Allah, get me to the next

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salah.

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And if I make some mistake,

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let me ask for forgiveness.

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Allah will forgive me.

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From 1 Jumuah to the next Jumuah,

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forgiveness.

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So

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whatever we did from last week to this

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week,

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We ask Allah to accept our prayer,

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our request for Allah's

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on this day in the so

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that Allah can wipe away

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the sins that we had since the last

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Jumuah.

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And by the way, if you don't think

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you had any sins since the last Jumuah,

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ask Allah to forgive you for saying that.

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And from 1 Ramadan

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to the next Ramadan.

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And so maybe

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some of us have

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the kinds

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of sins or disobedience to Allah that

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the regular

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washing,

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the prophet he said,

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when the person makes and they come out

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and the water is dripping,

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it's like the sins are dripping off of

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them.

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But maybe some of us, we have more

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industrial

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type dirt.

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We want to get it off of us.

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Shaharamadan.

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Seeking in the month of Ramadan,

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the forgiveness from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

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And you know that this narration ends that

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and from the beginning to Hajj.

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Some people,

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maybe they have something they did.

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They want Allah to forgive it and it's

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big.

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Satan won't leave him alone.

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So they go for Hajj. That

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Allah can give them the gift

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of his Makfira.

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I want to say a few words about

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this because I

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if you look in

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Christianity or Judaism or others,

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you will find

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them concerned about the issue of how do

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they get rid of

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their sins.

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And they have different rituals or beliefs.

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The crucifixion, they believe this is going to,

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absolve them from their sin. Everybody is concerned

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about how do you get rid of

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their sins.

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The Jews have Yom Kippur,

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day of atonement, where they try to get

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the the the dirt off of them.

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Everybody has it.

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But there's something unique in Islam

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about

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the kind of

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forgiveness

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that Allah offers us.

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Rafara

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is like I want you to think maybe

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like if you commit a crime.

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You commit a crime and you go in

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and you say,

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the lawyer is going to get me off.

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I plead guilty,

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but I'm going to get off with no

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no time served.

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I won't go to jail.

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But still,

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you have a criminal record

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because you plead guilty.

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Maybe there are some people, they have a

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political connection.

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They're incarcerated,

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but they can get a pardon

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from the governor or the president.

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They're pardoned.

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But if you look in their record,

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there's going to be the charge of that

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crime on their record.

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The Rasul

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they said he used to make istighfar.

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Some some rewire say

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70 times, others say a 100 times a

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day,

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even though

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he doesn't commit sins like us.

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So for us, we're trying to think about

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what is

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this thing

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that Allah is offering us something better

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than having,

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our sentence dropped

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or having,

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our pardon.

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This is not what Allah is offering us.

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Allah is offering us

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the kind of forgiveness

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where your record is expunged.

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When they look in the record, they say,

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what about such and such that you did?

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They can't find any record

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because Allah has expunged the record of your

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sins.

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In the month of Ramadan, this is what

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is at stake for us in this

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particular

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unit

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of time for us to go through a

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process by which,

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if Allah accepts our prayers and our fasting

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and our standing in the night and our

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spending in Allah's cause, that Allah will bring

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us out

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of the month of Ramadan, alhamdulillah,

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with the reward of his ghafarah.

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That Allah,

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before Rahim,

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Allah's

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mercy

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is

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followed.

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What's leading is Allah's forgiveness, his ghafarah.

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That's what we want.

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In this month, walhamdulillah,

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this upon us.

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If we

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set ourselves aright and say, subhanallah,

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I'm going to get out of the month

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of Ramadan.

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What Allah has promised people.

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That you will be in a state of

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taqwa.

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And that state, insha'Allah,

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should then guide you and protect you after

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Allah has forgiven you.

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There are many people

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who think they assume that we will make

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it into the month of Ramadan.

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I hope they're right.

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Because,

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the reward of this forgiveness,

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and to live through it,

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even to find in the last 10 days,

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has a whole lifetime of forgiveness.

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There's something about forgiveness, and we're gonna talk

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about it in the second half of the

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khutba,

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that should be amazing for us as an

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ummah.

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Because it's not just enough

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to say, okay, I've been forgiven.

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Allah forgave me.

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But it should give us an extra gift

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when we come out of this process

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to make us better.

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We ask Allah

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to accept us,

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that we might live into the month of

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Ramadan,

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that we might taste the sweetness, is prayer.

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That we might, in the month of Ramadan,

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enjoy,

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the guidance and the shefa of the Quran,

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that Allah

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would forgive us of our sins and

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enter

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us

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in

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his.

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Brothers and sisters,

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I I used to to to really wonder

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about something.

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I used to wonder

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I hear, you know,

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Allah talk about in the Quran,

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Adam alaihis salam.

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And the Malaika look,

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and they say to Allah, you're creating Adam?

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I mean,

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you know, we

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we worship you. We we obey you. We

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we don't deviate from you.

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And and you're gonna create Adam, and you

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told us something about Adam,

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that Adam

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has free will.

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Adam has free will.

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And

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if Adam has free will,

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we already know from seeing the jinn

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that if they have free will, some of

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them are gonna obey, some of them are

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gonna disobey.

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And Allah informs in Malaika, I know something

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about Adam that you don't know.

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That you're gonna be amazed

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at

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Adam alaihis salaam

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and Adam and Hawa's descendants

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are going to amaze you.

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They say he's gonna he's gonna shed blood.

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Yeah. But Allah is telling them, but there's

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something else.

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Then the hadith of the prophet

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tells us,

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if

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we,

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human beings,

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did not

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disobey Allah

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and then ask Allah for forgiveness,

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Allah would destroy us

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and create a people

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who

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they would make mistakes.

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They would sin.

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And then they would turn to Allah for

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forgiveness.

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This always seemed like a paradox to me.

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I don't understand.

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I began reflecting from the words of one

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of my teachers and said, subhanallah,

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how do human beings

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get better?

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How do you get better?

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They said, show me someone who has never

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made a mistake,

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and I'll show you someone who has never

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done anything.

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When they invented the incandescent light bulb,

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they failed

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999

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times.

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I I don't believe it was 999.

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It seemed too perfect for me. But, you

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know, that's how they write history, you know.

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It's not the Quran.

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But on the thousandth time,

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they get it right.

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This is the lesson that we're learning from

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this. Allah created us knowing we're gonna go

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out. We're gonna try things. We're gonna make

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mistakes.

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But how do you get better?

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They said the year that Babe Ruth I

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don't know if you know who Babe Ruth

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is, famous baseball player. The year that he

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made the most home runs in baseball,

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that's the year he struck out the most.

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Human beings have to go out and try

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and struggle

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and fail.

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You want to start a business?

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Be prepared to fail

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and fail again.

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And every time you fail, what do you

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do?

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You sit down, you reflect, you look at

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what you have done wrong,

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you try to correct

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the mistakes that you made.

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You make restitution if you have to.

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Creditors or people that you already had faith

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in you, you let them down.

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You make a recommitment, and

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then you come out again.

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But with Allah, it's even better.

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That when you go through that process with

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Allah,

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Allah wipes your debt clean.

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Allah doesn't hold it against you.

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Because Allah knows that by nature,

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you're going to make mistakes.

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My challenge to you today, walhamdulillah,

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to think about leveraging the month of Ramadan,

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to expiate you from the sins of those

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mistakes,

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that when you come back out,

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you come back out stronger,

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better,

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improved.

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And if we were not a people who

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had the capacity of, what some call Tahsin,

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Tahsin, the ability

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to to to have accent, to improve yourself.

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What's the point?

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I know that shaitan

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comes to you after you have made a

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mistake, after you make tawba.

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Shaitan comes to you and says,

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don't believe Allah forgave you.

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I know you.

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I know you.

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I know when you I was there when

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you were lying.

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Now you're trying to act like

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a lover forgives you for the stuff that

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you do. Not gonna happen.

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You're going to *

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along with me.

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I promised the law on the day of

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judgment. That's what Shaitan, I'm telling you the

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truth. Shaitan said, I'm telling you the truth.

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I'm going to *

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and I'm taking you with me

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because you're worthless.

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You have all those sins

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and you're a hypocrite.

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You go back and you fail again.

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He says, Isn't that one of the signs

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of hypocrisy?

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A person who they ask for forgiveness

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and then they go back and they do

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it again.

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Now we take Shaitan as our teacher.

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You have to tell Shaitan, excuse me.

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I know that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala forgives

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sins.

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That's the that's Allah's business.

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Allah can forgive sins up to the heavens.

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And guess what?

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I believe in Allah,

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and I believe that Allah forgave me.

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I believe that we went through the month

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of Ramadan

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over a 1000000000 Muslims,

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and we ask Allah for forgiveness,

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and Allah is forgiving us,

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so we don't come out depressed.

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Man, I got all these mistakes. Man. I

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ain't never gonna I ain't never gonna I

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keep failing all the time. Get up.

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Ask the Lord to forgive you.

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Fast, pray,

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feed the hungry,

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and say to yourself, You Allah, I know

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what I did is wrong. I hate it.

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I'm not going back. I'm going to try.

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Ask you to forgive me, You Allah.

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And don't take anything for granted.

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Allah

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can forgive us.

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Brothers and sisters, I just wanna close by

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saying to you that I'm always reminded of

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a man from this community,

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not not Dar Hijra, but in Northern Virginia,

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who died

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days

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before the month of Ramadan.

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And when they investigated his death, the police

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said no,

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we don't know how he died.

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They said it must be suicide.

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The Muslim said it can't be suicide. This

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is a brother, he's a very faithful brother

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in the community. He's a leader, he knows

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Allah, he knows the Quran.

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No way.

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Police said, well, that's all we have.

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This is why how how do how do

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you know?

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His family said because he went to Costco

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that day to buy his favorite cereal for

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suhoor.

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Not their favorite, his favorite.

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He was organizing

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his affairs to prepare for Ramadan,

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but he didn't make it.

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Well, alhamdulillah,

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We believe Allah rewarded

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him

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from his intentions.

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After salal, I'm going to ask you,

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don't assume that you will live into the

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month of Ramadan.

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Help us, alhamdulillah,

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to support those who are fasting. We have

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a program,

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one of the greatest

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iftar programs in America,

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where every night we feed

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almost a 1000 people

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every night.

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Families, women, children, everybody.

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I I can think of a few ways

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that it's easier

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to get the benefit of this month,

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besides your prayer and your fasting,

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than to feed those who are fasting and

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those who are in need.

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And I know some of the families, some

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of them,

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when I see them

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you're not going to believe this, you see

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some of them. And I go over to

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the family and say, assalamu alaykum, and the

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brothers say, Islam.

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I said, okay.

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His walaikum salaam is not right.

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He's here with his family because he needs

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food.

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In this county, 1 out of 5 children

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go to bed with their stomachs empty every

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night in Fairfax County.

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So you don't we don't know who we're

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feeding in Ramadan. Some who are fasting and

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some who are starving.

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And so we ask you, alhamdulillah,

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after the salah, I'm going to ask you

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to raise your hand. It costs a

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$195 to feed

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1 person

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per night in the month of Ramadan.

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I'm gonna ask you after the salah

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if you will join us

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to be, walhamdulillah,

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part of the army

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that will provide, walhamdulillah,

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for those who are fasting and those without

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food.

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Oh, god, guide us among those whom you

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have guided. Oh, god, protect us among those

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whom you have protected.

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You Allah, help us

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that our prayer might be accepted, that you

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might cause us to live into the month

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of forgiveness,

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the month of shahar Ramadan.

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Oh Allah, we pray, walhamdulillah,

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those who are suffering with difficulties, You Allah,

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whether around the corner or around the world.

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Walhamdulillah,

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that you might help them and help us,

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to be emissaries of your peace.

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Oh Allah, we ask

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for your mercy and your peace on the

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prophet Muhammad

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and upon his family and companions,

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and upon all of the Ambia, you Allah,

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and those who follow the way of your

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Haqq, you Allah, until the day of judgment,

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Amin.

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