Johari Abdul-Malik – Thanks Giving & Forgiving

Johari Abdul-Malik
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The speaker discusses the importance of happiness and the importance of not allowing things to break the connection with one's creator. They also emphasize the success of finding happiness through regular acts of praising and thanking Allah and offer tools for those who may not have them. The importance of regular acts of praising and thanking others is emphasized, as it is an obligation to find people in the Philippines to empower them. The speaker also emphasizes the need to find people in the categories to help with happiness and empowerment, and offers aid to others.

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			First, beginning
		
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			praising Allah,
		
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			seeking Allah's guidance and Allah's forgiveness,
		
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			and bearing witness that there is nothing worthy
		
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			of worship except Allah and Allah alone,
		
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			and bearing witness that Muhammad ibn Abdullah is
		
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			the last of his prophets
		
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			and messengers,
		
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			He said, don't worry about it. Right?
		
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			First, I want to begin the khutbahatuljumah
		
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			by asking
		
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			something from you.
		
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			Usually
		
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			the second khutbah in Dar al Hijra
		
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			is almost always given by our imam, Sheikh
		
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			Shakir.
		
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			And until just a few minutes ago,
		
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			I was praying
		
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			he would show up
		
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			because he had a surgery a few days
		
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			ago,
		
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			and he's recovering, but sometimes
		
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			you get a kind of feeling that you
		
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			know that it's the day of Jum'ah and
		
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			you're gonna get yourself
		
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			together.
		
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			And so I was hoping if the imam
		
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			felt strong enough that he would walk in,
		
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			and subhanallah, even if he had to sit
		
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			down,
		
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			that he would give the khutbah today.
		
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			So while I'm grateful to Allah
		
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			to be your khatib for today,
		
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			really I was making dua that I would
		
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			not be your khatib for today.
		
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			But I want to give you, alhamdulillah,
		
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			just a very, very short reminder.
		
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			Yesterday
		
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			in America,
		
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			in the United States of America,
		
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			the day was called
		
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			Thanksgiving.
		
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			And I want to remind everyone, subhanAllah,
		
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			that even though they call this day Thanksgiving,
		
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			I like to rename it.
		
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			I like to rename it.
		
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			But, alhamdulillah,
		
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			I want to first give thanks to Allah,
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			for Sheikh Shakir to have a full recovery,
		
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			the inalah.
		
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			With that, I want
		
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			perhaps, subhanAllah,
		
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			to remind you and to remind myself
		
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			that although yesterday was the National
		
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			Day of Family Dinner in America,
		
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			and subhanallah,
		
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			we know the power and the effect of
		
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			families
		
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			having dinner together.
		
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			For many of us who grew up in
		
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			another age where families
		
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			got together for
		
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			dinner every day,
		
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			Now we have left that family dinner tradition,
		
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			and so the mom eats one time and
		
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			the dad eats another time, and the children,
		
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			they just get their food on the run.
		
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			And they've talked about, in society,
		
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			the negative effects
		
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			of not having family time.
		
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			And so, alhamdulillah,
		
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			I want to remind you
		
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			about a day I'm going to call it,
		
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			thanks
		
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			gathering
		
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			for giving.
		
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			Well, alhamdulillah,
		
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			thanks gathering for giving,
		
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			because
		
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			I want to let you in on a
		
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			secret, subhanallah,
		
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			that you have because you are blessed to
		
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			be a Muslim.
		
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			You're blessed to be a Muslim.
		
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			You're blessed to be someone who says,
		
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			I take my guidance
		
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			by submitting my will to the will of
		
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			the one who created me,
		
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			so that I might be successful in this
		
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			life and in the hereafter.
		
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			There are many people who are looking for
		
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			this.
		
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			It's called happiness.
		
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			We might say salaam.
		
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			Salaam more than peace,
		
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			tranquility,
		
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			health,
		
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			to be, alhamdulillah,
		
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			in in a state where your relationship with
		
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			your creator
		
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			causes you to be relaxed.
		
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			You have hope when other people have despair
		
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			because you have acquired
		
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			this something
		
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			that comes from Allah
		
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			Allah reminds us in Surat Arun that those
		
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			who believe
		
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			and whose hearts are filled with the satisfaction
		
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			of their remembrance
		
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			to Allah,
		
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			then without any doubt,
		
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			these people signed in the remembrance of Allah,
		
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			zakinah,
		
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			tranquility,
		
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			happiness.
		
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			You find it.
		
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			If you are in that relationship with Allah,
		
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			and when nothing is breaking that relationship, you
		
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			begin to feel at peace.
		
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			I want to remind you about
		
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			this day,
		
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			and I invite you over this weekend, bayidnila,
		
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			to to have some family time and some
		
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			time to give thanks to Allah.
		
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			The real hamdan, the real shukr is for
		
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			Allah, not for the turkey.
		
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			By reminding you of something as I remind
		
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			myself,
		
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			let us not forget on this day that
		
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			there is a celebration
		
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			of
		
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			the victory
		
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			of the survival of settler colonialists.
		
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			They survived because of the generosity
		
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			of their host,
		
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			And America has repaid that hospitality
		
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			by taking over the entire country.
		
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			I always remember the native people when I
		
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			think about Thanksgiving, I always think about the
		
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			native people.
		
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			The remnants of them are
		
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			either in the reservation,
		
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			and many of them are now called undocumented
		
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			immigrants, they were here first.
		
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			When you see the Latino
		
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			brother and sister
		
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			from Mexico, Mexico used to go all the
		
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			way up
		
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			until they had the the purchase. They negotiated
		
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			and purchased
		
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			part of it and took over part of
		
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			it, the western territory.
		
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			And so I never forget the day
		
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			of the
		
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			sacrifice.
		
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			And I want you to know that some
		
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			of the poorest people in America
		
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			live on reservations,
		
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			not in the ghetto.
		
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			They live on reservations.
		
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			But I still say that even with the
		
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			phenomenon of stolen
		
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			land,
		
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			a nation built by stolen labor,
		
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			my descendants who were brought from Africa
		
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			built this nation.
		
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			After
		
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			centuries of slavery
		
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			and of colonial occupation,
		
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			I still believe
		
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			that this is a great country.
		
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			It has become a great country.
		
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			Despite
		
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			all of the negative circumstances,
		
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			we still have a lot to be thankful
		
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			for in this country. Alhamdulillah, in Virginia, I'm
		
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			not a slave anymore.
		
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			I can eat and drink wherever I want
		
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			to go.
		
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			It is a nation that has come to
		
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			welcome immigrants freely, not the way they used
		
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			to.
		
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			And so, alhamdulillah,
		
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			notwithstanding
		
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			that history and whatever personal
		
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			family stories that we have, we have, alhamdulillah,
		
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			much to be thankful to Allah for.
		
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			But today, alhamdulillah,
		
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			in that thanks, in that hamdulillah,
		
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			I want to share
		
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			something with you
		
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			that I learned
		
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			out of this gratitude
		
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			and thanks for Allah.
		
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			Some months ago I watched a movie. I
		
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			know some of you don't think I I
		
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			watch movies.
		
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			I watched the movie.
		
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			I'm I'm gonna have it I didn't go
		
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			to the movie. I watched it on Netflix.
		
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			My wife said, let's watch a movie.
		
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			So, alhamdulillah,
		
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			after the show we sat down, we watched
		
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			this movie.
		
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			Called, alhamdulillah,
		
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			happiness.
		
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			Happy, the movie.
		
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			Happy,
		
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			the movie.
		
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			And wallahi,
		
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			I learned in the movie
		
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			something that I knew from the Quran
		
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			and the sunnah of the prophet, sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wasallam, but they put it together in a
		
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			very nice way.
		
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			In a way it made it easy for
		
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			you to understand the big picture about Islam.
		
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			And all Muslims, I wish I had more
		
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			time, but
		
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			time is time is short, always.
		
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			The prophet he
		
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			said, People marry for four reasons.
		
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			1,
		
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			for beauty.
		
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			2,
		
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			for wealth,
		
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			3
		
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			for status.
		
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			But he said the best reason to marry?
		
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			Deen.
		
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			I'm gonna show you something from the movies.
		
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			They said, alhamdulillah, look at this.
		
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			They said that
		
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			when people
		
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			are looking to become happy, whether it's in
		
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			America or in other countries, everyone that they
		
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			surveyed for the movie said,
		
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			I would be happy, I would be in
		
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			tranquility, I would be at peace if I
		
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			could be
		
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			richer.
		
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			If I had more wealth, I'd be happy.
		
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			They say, okay, well
		
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			if you had that, what else would make
		
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			you happy?
		
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			They say, I'd like to be more beautiful.
		
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			2.
		
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			Person said, well if I had wealth and
		
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			I had beauty, I'd wanna have status.
		
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			If I'm the employee, I wanna be the
		
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			manager. If I'm the manager, I wanna be
		
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			the vice president. If I'm the vice president,
		
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			I want to be the president. If I'm
		
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			the president, I want to be the CEO.
		
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			They're always running
		
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			after something to try to make them happier,
		
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			more satisfied.
		
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			And all of them are
		
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			extrinsic.
		
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			Outside of themselves,
		
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			all of it is external.
		
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			The movie said, you know what
		
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			really contributes significantly
		
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			to happiness?
		
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			If you have this
		
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			right,
		
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			this
		
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			muscle
		
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			of flesh in your body, then if it's
		
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			right, your whole body is right.
		
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			Kulbun Salim. How do you get it?
		
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			They said, how do you get it? They
		
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			studied people around the world. They found people
		
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			are significantly
		
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			happier,
		
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			who are regularly
		
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			having gratitude
		
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			for what they have.
		
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			That if you say, Subhanallah,
		
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			Allahu Akbar, La Illa Allah,
		
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			looking at what you have,
		
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			you are likely
		
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			to be more happy. The more time you
		
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			spend thinking about Allah's blessing on you, the
		
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			more happy you will be.
		
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			Gratitude.
		
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			So wow. And by the way, that means
		
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			it doesn't matter how much you have,
		
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			but having gratitude for what you've got
		
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			makes a difference.
		
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			I don't mean to be complacent, I don't
		
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			want you to think, Imam Johari said, Just
		
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			be complacent, I'm not saying that.
		
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			The second thing that they found,
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			1st, shukr.
		
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			2nd,
		
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			I'm letting your mind think now. Are you
		
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			thinking? What could be the most second thing?
		
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			Jannah!
		
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			If you spend time in jannah,
		
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			people who have good relationships,
		
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			their families meet, they get together with their
		
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			friends.
		
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			The subhanallah,
		
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			people who get together, they have community,
		
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			they tend to be happier than people who
		
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			go it alone.
		
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			Look at all the shooters they have now.
		
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			They talk about the shooting in school, the
		
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			teenager, whatever. Most of them,
		
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			they're all their friends on Facebook.
		
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			But real human relationships,
		
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			lacking.
		
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			Alhamdulillah,
		
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			to have
		
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			time to spend
		
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			with friends and family,
		
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			even if you don't get along with them
		
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			all the time,
		
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			increases your happiness.
		
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			So when the prophet
		
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			says that salah and jamaat is 25 or
		
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			7 times better,
		
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			What's it about? It's about jamaat.
		
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			There's more barakah in the food with more
		
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			hands.
		
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			Right? If you're eating and you eat with
		
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			somebody else in the hand, you feel happier.
		
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			I know sometimes you go to
		
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			some of these restaurants
		
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			Alain?
		
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			No, after. Okay okay okay.
		
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			You go to some restaurants, you just get
		
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			a fancy restaurant, you get so little food
		
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			you can't even share it with nobody.
		
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			But with hamdilar, the family style, there's more
		
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			barakah when there's more hands.
		
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			The third thing that they found after saying
		
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			hamdan shukr,
		
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			the second being in July,
		
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			the third thing that they found,
		
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			doing something
		
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			Doing something for others, expecting nothing in return.
		
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			Volunteering.
		
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			Going to help somebody,
		
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			you say, I don't want anything, this is
		
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			I'm gonna give sadaqah, somebody has a problem,
		
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			I hear about it, subhanAllah,
		
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			I rush to do it.
		
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			And the hadith says, in the way that
		
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			your right hand
		
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			doesn't know what your left hand is doing.
		
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			We don't want anybody to know.
		
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			They said this, SubhanAllah,
		
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			statistically
		
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			increases
		
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			people's
		
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			happiness.
		
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			I'm going to invite you, alhamdulillah,
		
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			as a lover of Allah,
		
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			make yourself happy
		
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			by regularly
		
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			engaging
		
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			in acts of praising and thanking
		
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			Allah for what you have. My mother used
		
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			to say before she passed away,
		
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			as you go through life in search of
		
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			your goal,
		
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			keep your eye on the doughnut
		
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			and not the whole.
		
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			Think about what you have,
		
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			not thinking about what the other person has
		
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			and what you don't have.
		
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			The prophet
		
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			said, if you wanna have gratitude for where
		
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			you are, don't look at people who have
		
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			more than you, look down at people who
		
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			have less than you. When you look there,
		
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			you say, oh, subhanAllah,
		
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			Allah blessed me with so much.
		
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			Gratitude, alhamdulillah.
		
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			Stay in jama'ah. Get together.
		
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			Just do the drop in. Go by
		
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			Fulan Fulan's house. Not going to sala alaykum,
		
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			I just came by just to give you
		
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			a salaam. I don't want anything from you
		
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			just to be together with you. SubhanAllah.
		
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			And the third,
		
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			make it a habit, to
		
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			do acts of of charity, of goodness.
		
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			Whether you have money or don't have money,
		
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			but go out for
		
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			Do something
		
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			that Allah might make your way easy
		
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			and add to your happiness.
		
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			So Allah
		
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			gives and forgives, and man gets and forgets.
		
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			Hamdan Shukar,
		
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			staying in jama'a, please brothers, come forward.
		
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			You know, I love the day after thanksgiving
		
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			because there are many Come forward, brothers. I
		
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			ask you, come forward. I'm looking at you.
		
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			Well I, my son, when he was little,
		
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			he used to cover his eyes and think
		
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			that if if he if I couldn't if
		
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			he couldn't see me,
		
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			that he became invisible.
		
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			I'm looking at you, come forward, brother stand
		
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			up, they need to sit down.
		
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			Hamdan Shukar,
		
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			staying in JAMA,
		
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			doing things.
		
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			Today,
		
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			there is a great
		
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			tragedy going on now
		
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			in the Philippines,
		
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			and I know always there's something going on
		
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			somewhere in the world.
		
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			We have been asked today by Islamic Relief
		
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			to provide some Islamic
		
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			relief
		
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			to the people in the Philippines.
		
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			And I want you to understand that this
		
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			is a part of your zakah.
		
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			It is an obligation upon you
		
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			to find people in the categories, and one
		
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			of those categories
		
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			are the people who are in the Philippines
		
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			now, whether they are Muslim or otherwise.
		
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			That when you will hand the Ilah say,
		
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			we, the Muslims, we did something to help
		
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			you.
		
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			We didn't say you have to take this
		
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			book and read it at all, and we'll
		
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			give you food. No.
		
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			Then, well, hamdi'ilah,
		
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			it is our obligation to our fellow human
		
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			being,
		
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			and it will be, the, a tremendous dawah.
		
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			How do I know?
		
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			Because I'm the product of someone else's dawah.
		
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			That I met Muslims who, they extended themselves
		
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			to me, feisa billillah.
		
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			I always observe their akhlaq,
		
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			praying and fasting,
		
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			spending in Allah's cause,
		
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			alhamdulillah, coming in jama'ah and praying being together.
		
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			I said, man, what is that?
		
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			They said, oh, this is Islam.
		
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			And finally, well, alhamdulillah,
		
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			Allah guided me like he guided many of
		
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			us.
		
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			Today I want to ask you after the
		
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			salah
		
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			to look for a moment down at the
		
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			people.
		
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			100 of 1,000 have no home.
		
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			They have no food.
		
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			They're looking for
		
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			resources.
		
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			They're crying out why the world has so
		
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			much,
		
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			but they're slow
		
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			to give us relief.
		
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			I'm going to ask you after salah just
		
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			to stay with us for 5 minutes. And
		
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			according to the statistics
		
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			that are supported by the Quran,
		
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			you will become happier.
		
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			Maybe you'll say, did I do anything today
		
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			of benefit?
		
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			What did I do today?
		
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			What did I do yesterday?
		
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			I don't remember if I did any Did
		
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			I do anything yesterday?
		
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			But subhanallah,
		
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			today I'm going to do something,
		
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			and when I do it, alhamdulillah,
		
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			Allah will make my way easy.
		
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			There will be a tranquility in my heart
		
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			when I look on the television, in the
		
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			news, I see people are begging.
		
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			They're drinking rotten water.
		
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			And you say, subhanallah, today,
		
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			I did something to make a difference.
		
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			We ask Allah
		
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			to have mercy on us.
		
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			For us
		
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			to have gratitude for what Allah has provided.
		
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			We ask Allah
		
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			to provide from us a benefit to others.
		
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			Oh, Allah, we ask that you keep us,
		
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			constantly in your remembrance, you Allah, as we
		
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			remember you, you Allah, that you would remember
		
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			us. Oh, Allah, keep us steadfast in our
		
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			prayers, you Allah. Oh, Allah, sometimes we forget
		
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			where the source of our risk comes from.
		
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			We are busy running, you Allah. Oh Allah,
		
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			help us that we might 5 times a
		
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			day focus our attention and thank you, you
		
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			Allah, for what you have done for us.
		
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			Oh Allah, we ask you for a blessing
		
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			on our families, you Allah. Oh, Allah, on
		
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			our children, alhamdulillah.
		
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			On our wives and husbands, you Allah. Oh,
		
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			I gather our families together, you Allah, in
		
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			security, you Allah. Oh, Allah, provide for us
		
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			rizkuntayubun,
		
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			you Allah. Provide us a righteous risk, you
		
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			Allah. Righteous income, a righteous wealth, and preserve
		
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			it, you Allah. That we might spend from
		
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			it in your cause.
		
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			Oh, Allah, we ask that you might answer
		
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			our prayer.
		
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			Those who are having difficulties, you Allah. Oh,
		
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			Allah, if you would answer our prayer,
		
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			oh, Allah, make our way easy in this
		
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			life. Oh, Allah, give us tranquility in our
		
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			hearts. Forgive us of our sins, oh, Allah,
		
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			and enter us
		
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			after this life into your paradise.
		
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			Oh, Allah, we ask for your mercy and
		
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			your peace on the prophet
		
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			and on his family and on his companions
		
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			and all of the MBI, you Allah, and
		
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			those who follow the way of Haqq, you
		
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			Allah, of truth until the day of judgment.
		
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			Amin.