Kamil Ahmad – Craving for Jannah

Kamil Ahmad
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The history of Islam is discussed, including the rise of Islam in India and the United States. The importance of faith and patience in achieving success in military warfare is emphasized, along with the need for a strong faith in the Prophet's promise to cure a woman with seizures. The need for self reflection and a strong faith in the Prophet's promise is also emphasized.
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a war.

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for Cardiff fellows and how we and

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Allah subhanahu wa Johanna.

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He did not create us uselessly without any purpose.

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That's a Hasebe atom and namao Harlequinade

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will come either to Jehovah soon.

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Do you think that we have created you uselessly without any purpose and that you would

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not be returning to us.

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And so even though this is the case, and even though most of us realize it, and know it for a fact that we believe in

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the reality is that most of us are living lives

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of heedlessness. And so the clock is ticking away

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until it will be too late.

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And before we know it,

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we will come to the realization

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that we wasted most of our lives.

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And then we will be standing before Allah subhanho wa Taala on that day.

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The day in which will last how to how to describe the a woman

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you love man he was

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on the day that we will gather the people of Taqwa We will gather them as an honorable delegation, when as to call him Oh God, Nina, Elijah hen never will.

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And as for the criminals, we will drag them on that game to the Hellfire in a thirsty state.

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However, my dear brothers and sisters among their servants of Allah subhanaw taala, without a word of people who took it seriously. They were hateful and conscious of Allah subhanahu wa tahona driven by their desire for what Allah subhanho wa Taala has prepared

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for the righteous and the people of Taqwa.

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And so it was they were a people who put forward the desire of Allah, over their own personal desires. And they worked hard and diligence, in patience, sacrificing everything that they had to earn, what is with Awasum showing them what to highlight.

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So they are those who craved the reward of Allah. They are those who craved and were thirsty for Genja.

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And they worked hard to attain.

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And so let us hear some of the stories of those individuals from the best of generations. The generation of the companions rhodiola, who have

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our first example

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comes from a story of an orphan boy

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wanted to build a wall between his house and the house of his neighbor.

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So as he was building this wall, a tree came in the way

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and this tree belonged to his neighbor.

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And so he could not continue building unless he cut out unless he was able to cut the tree down or include it in his property. So he went to his neighbor and asked him, but the neighbor refused.

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And so he said to him, you have many trees. Why don't you just give me this one tree. He refused

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So the orphan, he had no other choice but to go to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam with his complaint.

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So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam summoned the neighbor

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and asked him, Why don't you give him the tree?

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So the neighbor? He said, No, it's my right. I don't want to give it to him.

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So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.

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He said to him, give him the tree in exchange for a tree and Jana.

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However, even that wasn't enough for this man.

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And so, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam could not do anything more. He couldn't take the rights of others.

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And so the orphan was saddened by the situation.

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But among the companions of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam who were present in that gathering, was a companion.

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Who went to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and his name was a Buddha. He said, here are Sudha wa

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if I buy that tree

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will I have the same offer of a tree and Jana? So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said yes.

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So I'm with Dr. Ravi Allahu, and he went to that man.

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And he said,

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do you know about my orchard?

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So other was famous in Medina, for a garden that he had a huge orange orchard of deep palm trees. It is said that there were 400 to 600 trees on his property. Not only that, but he also had a beautiful house that he and his wife and his family used to live in.

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And so the man said, Yes, of course.

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We all know about your orchard.

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So I said to him,

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the orchard is yours, as long as you give me that tree.

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That's so the man looking at a Buddha.

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He said, Are you crazy? One tree in exchange

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for your entire orchard. A Buddha said yes.

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So the man agreed.

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Know Buddha gave him his orchard.

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After that, Buddha goes to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he goes to the orphan he says, the tree is yours.

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And then he goes to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and says Ya rasool Allah.

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Do I now have my tree in Jannah?

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So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,

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how many trees for aboda and Jana, and he kept on repeating that.

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And it didn't end there.

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Then went

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to his family.

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He went to his house, and he called his wife to come out.

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That's it. We've sold this property.

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She asked him who have you sold it to? For what price? He said for a tree and Jana?

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What was her reaction? They were about to be homeless.

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What was her reaction?

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She said, Allahu Akbar.

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What a great deal you have made over DACA.

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And so they left

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all of that behind.

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And they lived after that a very simple life.

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Later on,

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in one of the great battles that took place in the time of the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasallam. The Battle of ushered

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in which the Muslims were caught off guard,

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and only a handful of the Sahaba remained steadfast with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam until the end,

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was

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furious until he was martyred.

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When the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam after the battle came to see his companions were murdered, he found the body of data

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So when he saw his body, he said, oh a Buddha. Now how many trees you have in Jannah?

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So this was a practical example

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of what Allah subhanaw taala says, when he says Mandela de la her Cadogan, Hasson for you will die for a hula hoop and Kathy Euro,

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who will lend to Allah a good loan so that Allah could multiply it for him in multitudes

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What did they lose? And what did he gain?

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He lost the property in this dunya. He lost some trees.

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He lost some material wealth. But the question is, what did he get in return?

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And so these were people. These were people.

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These were people who were thirsty for what Allah had in store for them.

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So they worked hard

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until they attain the reward of Allah.

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Our second example,

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comes from the battle of better

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a very decisive battle in the history of Islam.

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When the Muslims went out, unprepared, having no experience whatsoever in military warfare, being outnumbered.

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Being a weapon.

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It's a win, they reach the battlefield.

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The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam

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raised his hands to Allah, begging him for his victory and his aid.

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Then he turned to the Companions

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wanting to lift their momentums and their spirits.

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He turned to them and he said,

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he turned to them and he said, Stand up.

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Stand up

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for agent

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for a Jenner

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that expands the heavens and the earth.

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And then he sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, by a by him, in whose hand is the soul of Mohammed, whoever fights facing the enemy, not turning their backs, no matter how. No matter how bad the battle becomes, no matter what he doesn't turn his back fleeing.

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For him is Jana.

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So one of the companions by the name of Rumi Imam.

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He said, Yeah, rasool Allah.

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He said, Yeah, rasool Allah. Is it really as wide as the heavens and the earth?

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And so the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said yes, to at that time this companion, or may Ravi Allahu he had some dates in his hand and he was chewing. He looked at them.

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And he said,

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By Allah,

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it would be too long of a leaf.

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If I was to eat these dates,

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and finish them,

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he said, there's no time to lose. What am I doing? And so he threw the dates and charged against the enemy, and thought, until he was martyred. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that he is in Jannah.

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And so my dear brothers and sisters, these were people who crave Jannah and they did everything that they could to attain it and they did not hesitate. They did not waste any time to get there.

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So these people will not only did certain acts, certain great acts that we have seen examples of,

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but they were also a people who stayed away from certain things.

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They were a people who showed patience

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and patience in our deen is required in three cases.

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Firstly, over the commandments of Allah,

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over worshiping Allah, Allah has told us to do certain things we need to be patient and do those things. And secondly, patience when it comes

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To refraining from that which Allah has forbidden,

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exercising patience and not doing what Allah has made haram. And thirdly, patience over adversity, patience over the misfortunes, the calamities that Aurora decrees for us.

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And so in this next example

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we have an example

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of his hobby,

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a woman

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who showed that kind of patience.

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And so there was a woman in Medina

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who Allah had tried and tested with a certain illness.

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She had epilepsy.

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And so she would have seizures.

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She would have the seizures that would cause her to be lonely.

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Everyone would stay away from her. No one would want to be around her.

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People would make fun of her, the kids would love her.

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So what is your story?

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Later on after the death of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. Although even at birth of the Allahu and the great companion,

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he says to his students are taught in Abbey Road.

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He says to his students do want to see a woman from the people of Ghana.

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So his student, he said, Yes, of course. What do you mean a woman from the people agenda?

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So Abdullah ibn Abbas, he said, look at that woman over there.

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Do you see that black woman?

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He said she is from the inhabitants of Jana.

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She's still alive.

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But she has been promised to Jana, by the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam.

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So, Abdullah ibn Abbas, Robbie Allahu, and he says,

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this woman, she used to have seizures.

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And as a result,

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your job would come off, and she would become exposed.

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So she went to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and said, Yeah, rasool Allah.

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I would like you to pray to Allah for me to cure me of this illness.

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So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam

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be being the compassionate messenger that he was.

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He said,

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If you want, I could do that.

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If you want me to pray to arrive for your cure, I can do that, and no one will cure you.

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But then he presented another option for her.

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He said, or if you want,

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you could be patient and live with this for the rest of your life. In exchange for Jana, your award will be nothing but gender guaranteed Jana.

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So these were the two options before her.

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Most of us would probably choose the first. Why?

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Because we want relief.

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We want a comfortable life. We don't want difficulties in our lives. We don't want to be patient.

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Not only that,

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but we don't have certainty in our hearts,

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about the Promise of Allah and what awaits

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the servants of Allah in that era.

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But that was not the case for that generation. And so this woman, she said, yeah rasool Allah, I choose the first option, I will be patient. However,

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when I have these seizures, I become exposed my hijab comes off. So pray to Allah, for that not to happen. And so the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam me to ask for her for that not to happen

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sallallahu alayhi wa early he was when he was learning women serology he walked us around who era yo Mateen for Taco wah wah Hakata aqua, rocky goofy theory when Najwa

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These were stories

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of a few of many

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other people who believed in the Promise of Allah and His Messenger, a belief of unwavering certainty, causing them to have Allah

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to be thirsty and crave

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for what Allah subhanahu wa Tada

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has promised, is believing servants. And so they did everything that they could to attain it, not lingering behind,

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not being slow to move, but putting in everything that they had, putting in everything that they had in exchange for it.

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My dear brothers and sisters,

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the reward of Allah

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is not something cheap.

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It is something valuable, something expensive.

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valuable commodities come at a very high price. And so the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam alluding to this fact he said, Allah in the similar to what he learned here, that the product

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is expensive.

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What is the product of Allah?

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What is it that Allah is offering to us?

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And what is it

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that those few went into this transaction with a wall

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and they earned and they bought that product of Allah. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Allah in Silla, Allah,

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Allah in silico, why?

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The product of Allah is expensive, and the product of Allah is Jana.

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But we're brothers and sisters, after we have heard these stories, we need to do some self reflection. And we need to ask ourselves, do we crave Jana? Like they did? Where do our priorities lie? What do we crave? And why?

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We need to ask ourselves, what is it that we crave in our lives?

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And why

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do we crave what we have in this dunya? What we may have or what we may not have? Or do we crave?

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What Allah is offering to us that we don't see today? But he has told us of it. We all know and we all believe in gender. We know and we believe that it is real. But why is it that most of us did not crave it like they did. Our desire for this dunya is greater. Why? Because this dunya is before our eyes.

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We see it, we smell it, we touch it.

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Whereas the Euro

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it is something that we have been thrilled about.

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But we cannot see it today. And that is the poster Allah sometimes for the see we will believe in the world of the unseen and strive for it and work hard for it.

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Believe in that, or the belief in that will be weak.

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So my dear brothers and sisters, we need to do some self

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perfection. And we need to ask ourselves, what have we done?

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What have we done in our lives,

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for the reward that Allah has promised, what have we sacrificed of our time of our sleep of our Shahara? Walton, our desires, of our,

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of our sweat of our blood,

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we need to ask ourselves, where we stand today, before it is too late. And so as long as you are still breathing, you still have a chance. But we like those who Allah tells us, about them, while our Torah even more than AQIS who see him and or be him. If only you could see the criminals when they are brought before Allah on that day, with their heads down. Rebecca, Rebecca over Florida with me

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for Regina Solly hand in,

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they will say to our on that day.

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Our Lord, man we see now we hear

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more we can see what we will pull the boat and we disbelieved in the dunya now we can see it. Now we hear so set us back so that we can do some good deeds, because now we believe in more control. Now you have certainty, but now it is too late.

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The difference between us and that generation was their level of European for them what they were told the bow of the Acura

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It was as if they could see it before their eyes today. But for us, and for many, we won't believe in anything until we can see it.

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And so it's time for us to wake up now.

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It's time for us to wake up now and get serious and work hard.

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As Allah subhanho wa Taala has told us number three Harada failure Melilla, Milan for this

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meaningful agenda.

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Those who want to work let them work

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was either early failure, turnover cinematography soon, and in that

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that's all that let those who want to compete.

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Let them compete. We ask Allah subhanho wa Taala to make us from the inhabitants of Jannah

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and to grant us to feel

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