Kamil Ahmad – 99 Concise and Comprehensive Hadiths #72

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The speakers discuss the multiple WhatsApp messages and Hadith numbers that reflect the stance of Islam, highlighting the importance of rejecting one's arrogance and not wanting to be associated with the Prophet. They stress the danger of individuals who reject Islam due to arrogance and caution about their appearance. The importance of finding one's heart to be satisfied with what is given to them is emphasized, as well as protecting one's tongue and not giving up on one's hopes. The speakers emphasize the need to prepare oneself for victory and gaining political power, as well as helping people achieve victory and gaining political power.

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			In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious,
		
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			the Most Merciful.
		
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			All praise is due to Allah, Lord of
		
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			the worlds.
		
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			And peace and blessings be upon the best
		
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			of Allah's creation, and upon his family and
		
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			companions, and upon those who are guided by
		
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			his guidance.
		
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			We await his Sunnah until the Day of
		
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			Judgment.
		
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			O Allah, teach us what benefits us, and
		
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			benefit us with what You have taught us,
		
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			and increase us in knowledge.
		
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			And show us the truth as it is,
		
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			and grant us to follow it.
		
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			And show us what is false as it
		
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			is, and grant us to avoid it.
		
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			And make us of those who listen to
		
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			the word, and follow what is good and
		
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			what is bad.
		
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			And peace and blessings be upon you.
		
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			We continue on to Hadith number 72.
		
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			And this Hadith is collected by Imam Muslim
		
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			in his Sahih.
		
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			Narrated by Abdullah Ibn Mas'ud.
		
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			He says, The Messenger of Allah, peace and
		
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			blessings be upon him, said, The
		
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			Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, tells
		
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			us in this Hadith that no one will
		
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			enter Jannah if they have in their heart
		
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			an atom's weight of pride, of arrogance.
		
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			So one of the Sahaba, he heard this,
		
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			so he said, O Messenger of Allah, sometimes
		
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			a man may like for his clothes to
		
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			be good, to have the best of clothes.
		
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			And for his shoes to be nice.
		
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			Basically, this companion, what he understood, was that
		
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			if you wear nice clothes, fancy clothes, the
		
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			latest brand, that this is what the Prophet,
		
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			peace and blessings be upon him, is talking
		
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			about when he is talking about arrogance.
		
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			So the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon
		
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			him, responded by saying, Allah is Jameel.
		
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			He is beautiful.
		
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			And he loves beauty.
		
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			As for Kibr, arrogance and pride, it is
		
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			to reject the truth and to look down
		
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			on others.
		
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			To reject the truth and to look down
		
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			on people.
		
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			And so the Prophet, peace and blessings be
		
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			upon him, basically tells us in this Hadith
		
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			the danger of Kibr, arrogance.
		
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			And how arrogance, anyone who has not a
		
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			lot of arrogance, but even a small amount
		
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			of arrogance, this is the danger of it.
		
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			Even a small amount of arrogance, he is
		
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			going to end up in the Hellfire.
		
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			He won't be able to enter Jannah.
		
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			So this shows us the danger of arrogance.
		
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			But what is arrogance?
		
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			What is Kibr?
		
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			Does it mean someone who likes to dress
		
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			fancy and wear clothes that other people are
		
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			not wearing?
		
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			Or he has new clothes and he likes
		
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			to wear them?
		
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			No, that's not the meaning of it.
		
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			However, arrogant people, they are usually like that.
		
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			People who have arrogance in their hearts, usually
		
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			they are like that.
		
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			And that's why this companion, he thought that
		
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			that's what the Prophet is talking about.
		
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			But it doesn't matter about the outward appearance.
		
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			What matters is what's in the heart.
		
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			What matters is what's in the heart.
		
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			However, what appears on the outside is usually
		
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			a sign of what's on the inside.
		
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			But that's not always the case.
		
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			And that's why the Prophet ﷺ responded by
		
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			telling him what Kibr actually is.
		
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			So he mentioned that it is two things.
		
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			That Kibr, arrogance, is two things.
		
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			Number one, to reject the truth.
		
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			People reject the truth because of arrogance.
		
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			Either fully or partially.
		
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			So those who reject Islam, past and present,
		
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			they rejected Islam primarily because of arrogance.
		
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			As Allah tells us throughout the Qur'an,
		
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			in so many ayat, in so many countless
		
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			number of ayat, Allah tells us the reason
		
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			why they reject the truth is because of
		
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			arrogance.
		
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			اِسْتِكْبَارًا مُسْتَكْبِرِينَ يَسْتَكْبِرُونَ And if you look at
		
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			the people who the Prophet ﷺ was sent
		
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			to, the kuffar of Quraysh, his people, they
		
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			didn't reject Islam because they didn't think it
		
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			was not the truth.
		
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			They knew deep down inside it is the
		
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			truth.
		
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			But it was arrogance that prevented them from
		
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			accepting it.
		
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			And that's why Allah has mentioned so many
		
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			ayat mentioning the punishment of this kind of
		
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			arrogance.
		
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			This kind of kuffar is worse than the
		
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			kind of kuffar where a person is ignorant
		
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			of the truth.
		
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			Where he doesn't accept Islam because he doesn't
		
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			know what Islam is.
		
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			Maybe the proofs never came to him or
		
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			he didn't bother searching for the truth.
		
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			But imagine someone the truth comes to him
		
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			and he recognizes it as being the truth
		
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			and he rejects it.
		
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			And that's why the Prophet ﷺ says here
		
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			that whoever has even an atom's weight of
		
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			arrogance in his heart, he will enter Jannah.
		
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			So that is rejecting the truth fully.
		
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			Someone who rejects Islam, the truth of Islam.
		
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			Rejecting the truth partially, this concerns Muslims.
		
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			A Muslim can land into the same rejection
		
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			of the truth because of arrogance.
		
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			For example, many Muslims who don't follow Islam
		
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			according to how it is in the Qur
		
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			'an and the Sunnah.
		
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			They follow it based on their customs and
		
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			traditions.
		
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			So if someone comes to them and says,
		
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			look Allah says this in the Qur'an
		
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			and the Prophet ﷺ has taught us this.
		
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			He may reject that because of arrogance.
		
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			He may reject that because of arrogance and
		
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			there are many examples of this.
		
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			There are many examples of this.
		
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			Like who are you to tell me?
		
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			That kind of attitude.
		
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			That kind of attitude falls under this hadith
		
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			of rejecting the truth because of arrogance.
		
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			So we need to be extremely careful.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ said the second thing
		
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			that kibr entails is looking down on the
		
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			people.
		
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			Looking down on others.
		
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			And this usually results from being
		
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			self-amazed.
		
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			Having self-amazement.
		
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			There are some people who think they're all
		
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			that.
		
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			And they think they're better than everyone else.
		
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			So because they have that quality in their
		
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			heart, they end up looking down on everyone
		
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			else.
		
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			They end up looking down on everyone else.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ tells us, بِحَسْبِ مِرِئٍ
		
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			مِنَ الشَّرِّ أَن يَحْقِرَ أَخَاهُ الْمُسْلِمِ It is
		
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			enough evil for a person to have, you
		
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			know, evil.
		
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			It's enough for him to look down on
		
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			his Muslim brother.
		
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			Just having that trait makes someone evil.
		
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			So you could be a righteous, pious Muslim
		
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			who prays and very religious.
		
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			But if you look down on others, then
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ is saying you're evil.
		
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			So again, we need to be extremely careful.
		
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			Kibr is something dangerous.
		
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			Having arrogance in our hearts, as the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ says here, having a small amount in
		
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			Adam's weight of it will prevent you from
		
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			entering Jannah.
		
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			Now, in this hadith, the Prophet ﷺ says
		
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			that Allah is Jameel.
		
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			We learn from that that one of the
		
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			names of Allah is Jameel.
		
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			That one of the names of Allah is
		
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			Jameel.
		
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			And that He loves beauty.
		
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			And Jameel means beautiful.
		
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			And what that means regarding Allah is two
		
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			things.
		
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			That Allah is beautiful in every way.
		
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			Far more beautiful than anything of His creation.
		
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			But we can never comprehend or imagine that
		
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			beauty.
		
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			Because it's beyond anything that we have ever
		
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			seen.
		
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			And number two, all of Allah's attributes are
		
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			beautiful.
		
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			All of Allah's names and attributes are attributes
		
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			of beauty and perfection.
		
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			And Allah loving beauty means two things as
		
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			well.
		
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			Allah loving beauty means two things as well.
		
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			Number one, outer beauty.
		
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			So, taking care of oneself by keeping oneself
		
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			neat and tidy outwardly.
		
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			As the Prophet ﷺ says that cleanliness is
		
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			half of Iman.
		
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			It's not proper for a Muslim to live
		
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			with a messy and dirty appearance.
		
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			And number two, inner beauty.
		
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			Which is the beauty of one's akhlaq and
		
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			one's manners and one's behavior.
		
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			The next hadith is found in Sahih Muslim
		
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			as well.
		
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			Hadith of Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As.
		
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			The
		
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			Prophet
		
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			ﷺ says that he has succeeded.
		
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			The one who embraces Islam and he is
		
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			given, he is provided with sufficient rizq, sufficient
		
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			provision, sustenance.
		
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			And number three, Allah makes himself sufficient.
		
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			Allah makes him to be satisfied with what
		
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			he has.
		
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			Whenever success is mentioned in the Qur'an
		
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			or in the sunnah, the word falah.
		
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			Whenever it's mentioned in the Qur'an or
		
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			in the sunnah, it refers primarily to the
		
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			success of the akhira.
		
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			But it also includes success in this dunya.
		
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			It also includes success in this dunya.
		
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			And here the Prophet ﷺ gives us three
		
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			qualities that we should have in order to
		
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			attain that success.
		
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			The first, and these three, the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			is saying that if you want success, you
		
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			have to have all these three.
		
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			He didn't say or.
		
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			He didn't say either this or that.
		
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			He said and.
		
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			So each one of these three.
		
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			What are they?
		
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			Number one, Islam.
		
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			Right.
		
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			Whoever, whoever follows a deen other than Islam.
		
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			He's going to be in the akhira, he's
		
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			going to be from among the losers, not
		
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			the successful ones.
		
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			And without Islam, no matter what you have
		
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			of the dunya, it's worthless.
		
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			You could be the richest person on earth.
		
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			You could be the healthiest person on earth.
		
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			You can have anything of the dunya.
		
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			But without Islam, you're nothing.
		
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			You're a loser without Islam.
		
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			And then after that, if you're a Muslim
		
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			and you have rizq, which is sufficient, then
		
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			you're better than a Muslim who's struggling to
		
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			make ends meet.
		
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			And so a poor Muslim, he has to
		
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			rely on others and he has to go
		
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			around begging.
		
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			And then there could be some who Allah
		
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			gives them rizq.
		
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			So you're a Muslim and you're rich.
		
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			Or you have enough to make ends meet.
		
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			But then you're not satisfied.
		
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			And so that's why the Prophet ﷺ says,
		
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			and Allah makes you satisfied with what he
		
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			has given to you.
		
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			These are the three qualities that if they
		
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			come together in a person, he is the
		
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			most successful person on earth.
		
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			Because he has taken care of his deen
		
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			and his dunya.
		
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			He has taken care of his deen and
		
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			his dunya.
		
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			As for those who have Islam and they
		
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			have money and they have enough rizq, but
		
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			they're still not satisfied with what Allah has
		
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			given to them, then what are they going
		
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			to do?
		
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			They're going to constantly be chasing after the
		
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			dunya.
		
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			And that's going to make them forget about
		
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			their akhirah.
		
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			That's going to make them forget about their
		
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			akhirah.
		
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			And that's why they don't have complete success.
		
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			But if Allah has made you to be
		
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			satisfied with what he has given to you,
		
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			and even if you have the bare minimum
		
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			to make ends meet, then you are far
		
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			better than the one who has a lot
		
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			more than you, but he's not happy.
		
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			And how many rich people out there, they're
		
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			not happy with what Allah has given to
		
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			them, and they want more and they want
		
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			more and they want more, and they keep
		
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			on chasing after the dunya.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ tells us that true
		
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			richness is not having material possessions.
		
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			True richness is not having all the luxuries
		
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			of the dunya.
		
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			But true richness, he says, is the richness
		
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			of the heart.
		
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			Meaning, to be satisfied and content at heart
		
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			with what Allah has given to you.
		
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			Now this does not mean that a Muslim
		
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			should not seek more of the dunya.
		
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			That's not what we're saying here.
		
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			But what we're saying here is that at
		
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			heart you should be satisfied, should be content
		
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			with what Allah has given to you.
		
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			If you have that quality of contentment, then
		
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			seek the dunya, no problem.
		
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			The next hadith is narrated by Imam Ahmad
		
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			in his Musnad and also Ibn Majah.
		
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			And scholars of hadith have differed over its
		
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			authenticity.
		
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			Some graded it as being da'if.
		
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			Others, Shaykh al-Albani grades it as hasan.
		
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			This is the hadith of Abu Ayyub al
		
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			-Ansari.
		
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			He says, وَأَجْمِعِ
		
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			الْيَأْسَ مِمَّا فِي أَيْدِ النَّاسِ He says that
		
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			a man came to the Prophet ﷺ and
		
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			said, Ya Rasulullah, give me a reminder, a
		
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			mawa'idha, an admonition, and keep it short.
		
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			Give me a reminder that's short.
		
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			And so the Prophet ﷺ gave him three
		
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			things to stick to.
		
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			Number one, he said, when you get up
		
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			to pray, then pray the salah of a
		
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			farewell person.
		
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			Pray the salah, that kind of salah where
		
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			you are bidding farewell to the dunya.
		
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			This is number one.
		
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			Number two, and do not speak.
		
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			Don't say anything that you will have to
		
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			be sorry for tomorrow.
		
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			And number three, have despair in what is
		
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			in the hands of the people.
		
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			Gather despair or helplessness or hopelessness in your
		
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			heart for what is in the hands of
		
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			the people.
		
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			So firstly, irrespective of whether the hadith is
		
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			authentic or not, the scholars say the meaning
		
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			is correct.
		
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			The meaning mentioned in this hadith can be
		
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			found in so many other ahadith.
		
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			And so the first part, the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			explains to this companion how he should be
		
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			focused in his salah.
		
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			And we talk a lot about khushu'a,
		
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			being in a state of khushu'a in
		
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			our salah.
		
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			And many people ask, how can I do
		
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			that?
		
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			Because whenever we pray, shaytan comes to us.
		
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			And he takes us to a different world.
		
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			Some of us, we don't know what we
		
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			even said in our salah.
		
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			And so there are so many tips that
		
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			can be given to improve your khushu'a
		
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			in your salah.
		
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			But this is one of the best tips.
		
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			This is one of the best pieces of
		
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			advice.
		
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			As the Prophet ﷺ says here, when you
		
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			get up to pray, imagine as if this
		
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			is your last salah.
		
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			How would you pray if you knew that
		
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			after I say salam, I'm never going to
		
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			pray another salah in this dunya again.
		
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			That's it.
		
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			I'm leaving.
		
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			I'm departing from this dunya.
		
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			How would you pray?
		
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			You wouldn't pray it like you pray it
		
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			today.
		
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			That's for sure.
		
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			And so when you remind yourself that this
		
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			could be your last salah, it will help
		
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			you to focus and pray with khushu'a
		
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			and humility, to pray with ihsan, as if
		
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			you are seeing Allah, or knowing that Allah
		
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			is watching you, your every word, your every
		
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			movement, and your every thought.
		
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			And the reality is that we should pray
		
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			every salah with that in mind.
		
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			That this could be our last salah.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because none of us knows when we're going
		
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			to die.
		
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			This could really be our last salah.
		
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			Realistically speaking, chances are there that this could
		
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			be your last salah.
		
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			So why not pray every salah as if
		
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			it's your farewell salah?
		
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			Number two, the importance of protecting our tongue.
		
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			As the Prophet ﷺ has mentioned on more
		
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			than one occasion, the danger of the tongue.
		
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			And how most people, what will land them
		
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			in the hellfire is what their tongue spoke.
		
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			And so we need to think twice and
		
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			thrice before we say something.
		
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			As the Prophet ﷺ says, Whoever guarantees for
		
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			me what is between his two jaws, meaning
		
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			his tongue, and what is between his two
		
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			legs, meaning his private part, I guarantee him
		
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			Jannah.
		
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			I guarantee him Jannah.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ says that sometimes a
		
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			man, he'll say a word that he never
		
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			thought about.
		
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			He carelessly says one word.
		
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			This one word will land him in the
		
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			hellfire a distance further than that between the
		
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			east and the west.
		
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			Or that between the heavens and the earth.
		
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			And here the Prophet ﷺ says, Do not
		
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			say anything that you will be sorry for
		
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			tomorrow.
		
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			Don't say anything that you'll have to excuse
		
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			yourself for tomorrow.
		
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			That you will regret.
		
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			And so most of us, we don't think
		
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			before we speak, and then that lands us
		
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			in trouble.
		
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			And then later on we regret.
		
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			We wish we hadn't said it.
		
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			And finally, despair in what is in the
		
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			hands of the people.
		
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			This brings us to the previous hadith.
		
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			Here the Prophet ﷺ is telling us that
		
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			we shouldn't be looking at what others have.
		
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			Be happy with what Allah has given to
		
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			you.
		
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			Be satisfied.
		
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			Don't keep on looking at others.
		
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			Oh, others have that, I want it too.
		
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			So and so has that, I want it
		
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			too.
		
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			No, just be hopeless.
		
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			Meaning, don't hope for what is in the
		
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			hands of the people.
		
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			Don't hope for what's in their hands.
		
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			Lose hope.
		
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			And this tells us the importance of what
		
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			is known as zuhid in Islam.
		
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			Living a life in which we don't attach
		
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			ourselves to the dunya.
		
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			And we take as little as we can
		
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			with us to our akhirah.
		
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			Finally, one last hadith we'll cover for tonight.
		
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			And this is the hadith of Mus'ab
		
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			ibn Sa'd.
		
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			And this is in Bukhari.
		
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			Sahih al-Bukhari.
		
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			Mus'ab ibn Sa'd was the son of
		
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			Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas.
		
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			The great companion, Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas.
		
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			He says that the Prophet ﷺ said, Do
		
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			you not get victory and help?
		
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			And do you not get rizq?
		
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			Except through the weak among you?
		
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			Now, other narrations of this hadith give us
		
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			a more complete picture as to why the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ said this.
		
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			Basically, Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas, the famous companion,
		
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			he started to think that because of his
		
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			power, his strength in jihad, because of his
		
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			wealth, that he was better than the weak
		
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			among the Muslims.
		
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			Those who had less.
		
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			And he thought that victory will come to
		
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			the Muslims and wealth will come to the
		
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			Muslims through the powerful among us.
		
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			So the Prophet ﷺ wanted to dispel this
		
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			idea.
		
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			And so he said this.
		
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			Right?
		
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			When it comes to victory, when it comes
		
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			to rizq and sustenance and wealth, there are
		
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			two ways of acquiring it.
		
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			One is through material means that Allah has
		
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			given to us in this dunya.
		
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			And Allah has commanded us to do that.
		
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			When it comes to jihad against the enemies,
		
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			Allah says in the Qur'an, وَأَعِدُوا لَهُمْ
		
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			مَا اسْتَطَعْتُمْ مِنْ قُوَّةٍ Don't go to war
		
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			without any weapons.
		
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			No, prepare yourselves.
		
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			Because you can't win without strength, without military
		
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			power.
		
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			The same thing with rizq.
		
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			You have to work for it through material
		
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			means in the dunya to acquire wealth and
		
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			rizq.
		
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			But that is not the only way.
		
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			There is another way which is far more
		
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			important that most people neglect.
		
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			That most people overlook.
		
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			And that is the non-material.
		
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			That is the non-material means.
		
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			And that is the strength of iman and
		
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			tawakkul.
		
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			Reliance on Allah.
		
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			And making dua to Allah.
		
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			And having our hearts attached to Allah.
		
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			That He is going to bring us victory
		
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			and He is going to bring us rizq,
		
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			etc.
		
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			And that's why the Prophet ﷺ says that
		
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			it is through the weak among us, those
		
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			who don't have wealth, those who don't have
		
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			strength, it is through them that Allah brings
		
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			victory.
		
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			It is through them that Allah brings us
		
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			wealth and rizq.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because their hearts are more attached to Allah
		
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			than the rich and the powerful.
		
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			Even if they may be Muslims.
		
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			As in this example.
		
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			This exact example of Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas.
		
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			He was a Muslim.
		
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			But he overlooked this.
		
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			And he was from the elite, from Quraysh,
		
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			from the noble, from the strong.
		
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			So the point is that our victory comes
		
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			from those whose hearts are attached to Allah.
		
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			Because Allah tells us in the Qur'an
		
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			that our victory only comes from Allah.
		
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			It doesn't come from anywhere else.
		
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			Yes, we have to take the steps for
		
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			it.
		
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			And that includes taking material means.
		
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			But that is not the essence of it.
		
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			Because we can have all the material means
		
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			in the world.
		
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			We can have all the military power in
		
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			the world.
		
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			If Allah decides not to give us victory,
		
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			He won't give it to us.
		
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			But rather it is through relying upon Allah.
		
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			As Allah says, وَمَن نَصْرُ إِلَّا مِنْ عِنْدِ
		
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			اللَّهِ The help and the victory only comes
		
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			from Allah.
		
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			It doesn't come from anywhere else.
		
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			And we can see this again throughout our
		
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			history.
		
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			Whenever Muslims have been victorious, it was when
		
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			they were weak.
		
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			It was when they were outnumbered.
		
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			It was when they were less powerful.
		
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			It was when the odds were against them.
		
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			This is the sunnah of Allah.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And so whoever thinks that today, for example,
		
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			that the plight of our Muslim brothers in
		
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			Palestine will only come to an end if
		
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			we call on the United Nations for help,
		
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			or the other countries for help, whoever thinks
		
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			that, he's mistaken.
		
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			He's mistaken.
		
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			But rather it's going to come from the
		
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			people themselves.
		
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			The Muslims on the ground over there.
		
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			And we've seen this.
		
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			We've seen this throughout what's been happening recently.
		
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			That look at how helpless these people are.
		
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			With no outside support.
		
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			With nothing in their hands.
		
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			Yes, they've had to sacrifice a lot.
		
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			And they will have to sacrifice a lot
		
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			more.
		
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			But we shouldn't think for even one moment
		
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			that that means they're going to be defeated.
		
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			It's not going to happen.
		
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			They're not going to be defeated.
		
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			Because if that was the case, then they
		
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			would have been defeated a long time ago.
		
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			They would have been defeated a long time
		
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			ago.
		
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			It's been more than a year.
		
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			And yet, the greatest military power on earth,
		
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			with the aid of the greatest military power
		
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			on earth, cannot defeat them.
		
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			And what does it tell you?
		
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			It tells you that victory comes from Allah,
		
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			and it comes from our weak.
		
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			When you go on the ground over there,
		
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			you see how these Muslims, their hearts are
		
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			attached to Allah.
		
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			You can see it from their words.
		
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			They're not calling on the powers of the
		
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			world.
		
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			They've given up on them.
		
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			They're calling on Allah.
		
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			And they're constantly reminding the ummah that that
		
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			is where the victory is going to come
		
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			from.
		
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			Obviously, that doesn't mean we shouldn't help them.
		
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			That doesn't mean we shouldn't strive to do
		
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			what we can.
		
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			But the point here is, as the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ says, that the help comes from the
		
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			poor among us, or the weak and the
		
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			powerless among us.
		
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			And Allah knows best.
		
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			We'll stop with that.