Johari Abdul-Malik – Your Future Is Now

Johari Abdul-Malik
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The speaker discusses the success of Islam in global society, citing news stories of people showing up at----
The speaker talks about the importance of Islam in global society, including massing in prayer and fasting, weightless weights, and learning to handle one's behavior. They emphasize the importance of rewarding individuals for their actions and walking in the example of their Rasool. The speaker emphasizes the need for individuals to live in a healthy and rewarding life.
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Up and down.

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Today,

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I want to remind you.

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And I was asked earlier today by some

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journalists,

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how do you feel as an as a

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community

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when you see what's going on around the

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world?

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I told them,

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if you look around the world now,

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you will find,

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1 point

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5,000,000,000

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Muslims

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who are all saying, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar,

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Allahu Akbar.

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There's nothing like Allah. Allah is amazing,

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and we are the followers of Allah

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We are following the example of Rasulullah

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And I'm gonna tell you right now our

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greatest

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blessing.

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For all of us, walhamdulillah,

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we heard,

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We said that we believed in Allah.

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And we followed it

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with the obedience to Allah when Allah said,

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fasting is ordered for you.

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I grew up a Christian.

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And but but by the way, I love

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my family,

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but I can tell you

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they wish they had Ramadan,

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because

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they see the

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power that comes when people

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practice

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now

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what the prophets practiced before.

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When they see that people are giving

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Zakat

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now,

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like they gave it 14 centuries ago.

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When they see people reading the book of

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Allah

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like they read it in the language that

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it came in 14

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centuries ago. We're doing it now.

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That, that

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means

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that for us,

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our future

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is a blessed future.

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How do I know?

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Because I see it now.

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Right now is the only time that you

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have.

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You don't have yesterday.

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If you didn't fast yesterday,

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yesterday is gone.

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If you didn't pray yesterday, yesterday is over.

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If you didn't give yours a cut before

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this salah, you missed it.

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What is critical

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in the life of a believer is what

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you are doing

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right now.

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And right now, today, alhamdulillah,

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I don't care what country in the world

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you go to,

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you will find Muslims gathering,

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praising Allah,

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having

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successfully

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spent the month of Ramadan

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in prayer and fasting, and spending in the

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night

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standing, worshiping Allah, residing the Quran,

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recommitting ourselves.

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Not yesterday.

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The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, when the Quran

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stopped coming,

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some say it was a few days, some

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mufasareen,

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they say maybe 40 days.

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And then Allah reveals through the agency of

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Jibril,

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Your future

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is better than your past.

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Don't let Shaitan

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fool you.

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By the way, everybody have their own personal

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private VIP

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Shaitan.

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All month Shaitan has been quiet.

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Now that Ramadan is over, he gonna come

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to you.

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Yell Osama.

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Now that Ramadan is over, you know, we

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can go back to

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doing what we used to do. You know?

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Yeah. That's what he's gonna tell you.

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You say, well, no. No. No. No. You

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don't understand.

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That was my past.

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In Ramadan, I trained myself.

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I used to lie. Now in Ramadan, I

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said, you know what? If I'm gonna fasten

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Ramadan, I can't lie.

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Oh, yeah. I used to cheat a little

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bit,

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but in Ramadan, I said, no. I'm going

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to train myself.

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No more cheating.

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I'm not talking about you.

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Yeah. You know, you used to neglect your

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family sometimes, but in Ramadan, you try to

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be a better father, better mother, better child.

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Tell Shaytan

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that was in the past.

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Now

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I'm better, and guess what?

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Allah forgave me.

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I made tawba in Ramadan.

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I stood at night, I asked Allah, Allah

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forgive me.

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You Allah, guide me. I asked Allah to

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fix all of my problems in Ramadan.

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So that when I leave the month of

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Ramadan, I leave clean.

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I leave clean.

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Allah forgave me.

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1 man, he said, amen. Well, how does

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that work?

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You know, I talk to a lot of

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media. Chinese media is here today.

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I said it's like this. If you can

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imagine,

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when you're trying to train,

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a boxer,

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what they do is they'll put weights on

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his wrist,

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and they'll put weights on his ankle. They

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might even put some weights on his waist.

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And then he goes, and he's jogging, and

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he's punching,

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but he's weighed down by the weights.

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We have been weighed down in the month

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of Ramadan,

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restraining,

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holding ourselves back.

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We feel tired.

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But now that Ramadan is over, you can

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tell Shaitan.

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Now that I took the weights off my

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hands,

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and I took the weights off my feet,

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I can be like Muhammad Ali. I can

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fly like a butterfly,

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and I'll sting you like a bee.

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I'm light because Allah has forgiven me.

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The prophet, sallallahu alayhi wasalam, he said, Allah

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forgives sins

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from one salah to the next salah.

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From one Jum'ah to the next Jum'ah, Allah

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forgives sin.

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And from 1 Ramadan to the next Ramadan,

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and from the beginning until Hajj.

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Well, alhamdulillah,

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Allah's promise is true.

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And so alhamdulillah,

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you have been making salah after salah, jumah

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after jumah in Ramadan.

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And now you have completed the month, walhamdulillah,

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you're free.

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Tell shaitan,

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my future wasn't just talking to Muhammad sallallahu

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alaihi wa sallam. He was talking. Allah was

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talking to all of us.

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We're

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free

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because our deen is based on now.

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May Allah continue us, alhamdulillah,

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in our worship now,

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In our prayer now.

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In our fasting

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now.

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That Allah would judge these times

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among our best.

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That Allah would forgive us in this life

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and grant us the reward of his jannah

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ma'abraar.

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You have no idea

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how wonderful

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you look.

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How wonderful you look.

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The prophet has asked his companions, if you

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bathe in a river 5 times a day,

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not like the river we have.

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See, back then they had clean river.

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Brother Hassan, they had clean rivers back then,

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not like polluted like now.

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They said, walhamdulillah,

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if you bathe in a river 5 times

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a day, how much dirt can you get

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on you?

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They said, You Rasool Allah, no significant amount.

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He said, Salat is like that.

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You're clean.

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And then Ramadan is like that, you're clean.

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But guess what?

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Now that you're clean, Allah wants something more

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from you.

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Many of you, I know you have a

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wife.

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You heard what I said?

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A wife.

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You have a wife.

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And your wife, sometimes she wants to know

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whether you love her or not.

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So she says, yeah,

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yeah Habibi,

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do you love me?

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You say, yes,

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I love you.

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She said, no, Habibi,

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do you really,

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really love me?

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You say, yeah.

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The husband, he goes to the wife, he

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said, I have everything.

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Do you love me?

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She said, yes.

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I love you. So no. No. No. No.

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No. I wanna know,

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do you really,

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really

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love

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me?

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So you say, yeah.

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Your children come to you and they say,

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Baba, do you love me?

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Say, yes, I love you. You're my children.

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I love you. They say, no, Baba, do

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you really really really really love me?

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You start saying, you know what?

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They want something.

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And they don't want something yesterday.

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They want to know what are you gonna

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do for me now.

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Allah judges us based on our now.

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Walhamdulillah,

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I'm inviting you from the love of Allah.

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Keep doing

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what you're doing now

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because your future

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is now.

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Your future is now.

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Your future

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is

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now.

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If you want to go to Jannah,

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then look at what you're doing now. If

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what you're doing now will get to the

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Jannah, then what happened in that, you're in

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Jannah.

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If you're a student and you're studying and

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you're reading the book, you're doing the exercises,

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then

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you know your future is going to be

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to go to college, to become a physician,

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whatever you wanna be, because you know what

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you're doing now.

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You wanna be a good husband, you wanna

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make sure you don't wanna get it divorced,

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then

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don't be a good husband in the future.

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You gotta be a good husband

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now.

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You want to have a bright future with

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your wife, with your health, you got to

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be a good wife now.

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If you want to be a successful

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loving child, you got to be a good

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child

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now. Don't say, well, Bob, I'm gonna behave

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next week.

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Your future is now.

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And, Alhamdulillah,

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Allah is so merciful

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that Allah counts most

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what you do before you die.

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The moment, that moment,

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now.

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We ask Allah to

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reward us now.

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For what we're doing now,

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to forgive us for what we did then,

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and to make our

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marching orders.

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Oh, I accept our now, you Allah. Oh,

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I accept our fasting now, you Allah. Oh,

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I accept our our

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now,

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you Allah. Oh, Allah, accept our du'a now,

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you Allah. Oh, Allah, help us

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to increase our love for you now, you

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Allah. Oh, Allah, help us to walk in

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the example of your Rasool,

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now, you Allah. Oh, Allah, that you might

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reward us now with the best in this

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life and the best in the hereafter.

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InshaAllah. What's the important

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Believe me, my people were in America.

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I'm wearing my, my,

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Saharah,

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Moroccan Saharah.

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What time is it? Juma prayer is 115.

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People thought slavery would never end.

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It's been a 150 years.

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They took they took Islam from us.

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A 150 years later,

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Islam fastest growing.

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So

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