Parables of the Quran – Parable #14 – Scholars Who Prefer the Dunya

Kamil Ahmad

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What do you

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wanna

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move on after that?

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Terrible

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and this is moving on

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off

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versus 175

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was an editor's

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what lining him never a lady, Tina,

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Tina, Salome

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youporn, Amina Laval we

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know who the hell wanna know, Elon law we were

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permitted, who

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will be in LA he has

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to have their legal matter. Only lady in the booty Tina proposals will also falls on I know whom the

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loss of Hannah who was the highlight here those are off

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and receive them the news

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of the one who we gave knowledge of our bad person.

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But then he threw them away

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and pursued him and he became us.

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And if we had willed, We would have elevated him thereby. But he belonged to the earth and followed his own desire.

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So his example,

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like a dog,

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if you face the dog, he can

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hold his tongue.

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Or if you leave him, you don't, he's still

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that

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denied our yet to release them for ease that

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they will

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this parable that I was going to give this

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is concerning those abandon the knowledge.

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Knowledge of this theme has given them the abandoned their own their,

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their desire.

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So Allah tells us that the one who obtained the knowledge or had given them is like a dog

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that is always panting

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panting, the cold it's

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always sticking over on

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walk around wherever you see it.

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So this verse is I

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read what

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he wrote on what was a

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burning desire.

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They say that it was revealed about a man

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from ancient times.

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Benny is

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and this is according in Massoud, for the long run, and several others from among us.

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And this man,

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some have named him that his name was spelled wrong.

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Well, I'm in that role.

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And so, he was basically a scholar.

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of then

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they say that he lived to study them, but then later on, he deviated from that.

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And so it was

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revealed this

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for a long time of profit prophet solo

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in particular, the Jews,

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Medina

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who had been waiting for ages.

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And when this off he was

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and so they had a knowledge of the truth

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their scriptures

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is why these Jews settled in Medina

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came and settled in Medina, for this very,

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they have always understood

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despite,

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go to Baccarat

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tells us that you know they were waiting for him. Finally, they

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rejected him.

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butanna had given him knowledge

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of his Scripture

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tells us that he had given him his idea, meaning knowledge of the Scripture

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that Allah had not given to anyone else.

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But instead, this man decided to abandon it

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and abandon

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acting by this knowledge. Instead, he chose to follow his desires, referring this life over the neck.

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So a lot compared him to a dog.

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And the dog is one of the dirtiest animals

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whose only concern is

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to quench his thirst

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to fill its stomach,

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which is why you always find the dog, sticking his tongue

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wherever it goes into licking things, it's sniffing whatever it comes across.

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And so, this man

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is like a dog.

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In that his only concern

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is fulfill his temporary desire.

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Whether he finds it or not.

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And so whether you chase after him,

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admonishing him trying to give him or her

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trying to advise him or give him our advising him

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telling him Look,

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you know, Allah has blessed you with knowledge.

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You shouldn't be doing this. You shouldn't be committing these sins, you shouldn't be chasing after your however, your desires. Whether you chase him

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after him

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or you leave him

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it's the same.

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He's not gonna change.

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Us, just like the dog.

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allinial has Dr. tokuyama.

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If you were to chase after the dog, he would still be panting with his tongue go. If you were to leave him, he would be in that same state, always looking for some way to fulfill

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fulfill its desires to fill it stomach.

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And this is only found in dogs.

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This is only found in dogs always thirsty, quench their thirst with anything.

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And so notice how was upheld who attacked it says here

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that he gave this man his

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loss of Hannah who says that he gave him he's a young

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lady,

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Tina, Tina,

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the one who a lot we gave him our ion. Notice

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reflector. Allah says we gave him our irons.

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But it was not alone. We

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is iron from this man

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noticer versus LLP as they say, you know who it now we gave him our IRA. But then what is the last a lot does not say. But then we took away

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his knowledge that we had given to him. We took away our IR from him

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and Santa homina

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he, this man is the one who threw them away.

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And sulla homina he threw away the act that was given to him the knowledge it was he abandoned the knowledge

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and then

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what is the law say after that

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was

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a terrible shape.

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So

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as a result,

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a thought chased after him. And he became one of those who's a straight.

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And so, what caused him to go spring? Yes. But when,

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when he himself chose to take that.

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And this is a lesson that we learn a very, very important lesson that we learned concerning dieting and misguided

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Yes, both l hedaya. And abdominal guidance and misguidance we attribute it to a lot in the hands of a lot.

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Yes, I was.

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However,

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those who a lot misguide those who have law allows for them to go astray.

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And who does not do that?

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Because he is unjust the panel with

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a law does not do that.

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without a reason,

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the individual himself

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rather a lot only causes them to go straight after the the chip itself, he themselves goes the path of his guide

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as we can see here in this industry and throughout the world and that is what you find.

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You will find a single example in the Quran, where Allah subhanahu wa tada

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tells us that

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these kuffaar cause them to go astray without themselves having chosen the path of misguidance

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always mentions how they themselves choose that path. For example wasn't Hannah who Allah says in Surah two soft Bella Mazda whoa whoa whoa whoa cool down

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when he saw

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when they deviated

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then Allah cause their hearts to deviate

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a lot did not initiate the deviation rather it was at themselves who initiated

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also was a parent who says

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in the Latina cafo for Baccarat in the Latino car furusawa calling him and Doctor whom Eminem tunes your home. Now you mean those who just believe

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it is the same for them whether you warn them or you do not warn them? They will not believe

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why because they have chosen that path to not believe

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they have chosen the path of disbelief. They don't want to believe and then what does the law say right after that. But um Allahu Allah, Ruby him, why is he him? Why are beside him have a shower, follow him as an AVI therefore has set a seal over their hearts and upon their hearing, and over their vision is avail

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for them is a painful punishment, a great punishment. Why?

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Because they chose that themselves.

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There are many lessons that we learned from this parable.

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Among these lessons is first of all,

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this parable was given concerning those who sell their Deen for the price of the dunya

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those who sell their Deen or the price of the dunya especially

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scholars

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who have deviated

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and other people of knowledge,

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Allah subhanho wa Taala granted them knowledge of his Deen and they became scholars

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and

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they decided to follow their However,

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their desires

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instead of

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preferring the knowledge and implementing it, they decided to follow their desires.

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And so, Watson had a hotel is giving us this for such

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or such people and we have so many such people unfortunately today.

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Yesterday we used to see them as being very knowledgeable.

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And today, look at where they are.

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They have become people of the dunya chasing after the dunya

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and the worst part of it is that they use the D

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To pursue the dunya

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they use this element is knowledge that Allah has granted them. And they use that status to chase after the dunya.

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So

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what a humiliating,

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terrible example Allah has given us 13 such people that their example is like that of a doc.

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The second lesson that we learn is

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that we should be aware of choosing to leave guidance after law has guided us. If a law has made you to be one of those who Allah has guided

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to practice this need

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to be a committed Muslim.

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Beware

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of burning,

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don't turn back

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on the street,

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remain steadfast upon it,

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don't turn back,

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you do them

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a thorn he will find you as fresh meat ready to pounce upon you.

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Because what did the law say here? Who shaved on

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when he decided to throw away the eye at the knowledge that we had given him a font faced after him

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took advantage of the situation.

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That is a way of shape on wherever is opportunity.

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And so if Allah has given you guidance,

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and you're following the strict path, he were awesome slacking off. Because once you slack off,

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and you start become lazy, and you start turning to the desires of your knifes in that which Allah has made her on.

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And you basically invaded shape on the come and lead you astray.

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The third lesson that we learned here is that knowledge alone does not release a person.

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knowledge in itself

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is not what elevates people.

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That's why Allah says here, when I was in a lot of China,

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if we had willed, We would have elevated him with this knowledge.

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And so if knowledge alone is what raises a person, then Iblees would have been

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elevated.

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As police had no

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police had knowledge that

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even we human beings didn't have

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he was elevated to the point because of his data and whatnot. What had elevated him to be in the rent the company of the angels who are developed during the loss of Hannah hutan.

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But then

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he went straight,

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disobeyed the law.

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What is the law do

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a lot of the way that elevated status that he had brought him down.

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And so knowledge alone is not what elevates a person.

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But rather, what elevates a person

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is

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to have a desire for that knowledge, and then to learn it and then to prefer it over everything else.

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Learn the knowledge of the deen

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read the path of tolerability of seeking knowledge

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and

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not just learn it for the sake of knowledge

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for the sake of

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patience

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and preferring it over everything, especially over the desires of your naps.

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The fourth lesson is that we human beings

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are created us

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of two things.

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What defines a human being is not just our body and our flesh.

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That's how science

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defines a human being.

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But rather, Allah subhanahu wa Donna meet us a few things.

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Allow me to have a body that is made of clay

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as we don't have family history

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What from what I needed him from clean,

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from dust,

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from dirt, from the ground,

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what religion from the ground,

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we have a body that is made of clay.

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And the second thing is that we are made of a spirit.

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That is from a loss of Hannah who

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we are made of a spirit and a body,

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our body is of clean.

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And our spirit is from Allah Subhana

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Allah Subhana, who breathed

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the soul that he created into Adam.

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So, you have a choice.

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And I want to I want you to really ponder over this.

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You have a choice,

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either

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the ground

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and satisfy your bodily pressures.

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because your body is made of clay is made of this earth.

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And you can satisfy your bodily pleasures with what is on Earth, this dunya

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could satisfy your body

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or

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you can rise upward

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and elevate yourself to heaven.

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That we were

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that is

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by nurturing your spirit your soul, that is where it is from above it is from Allah soprano.

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Notice how our body is made of the earth

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what is lower our spirit can

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either

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you satisfy your bodily pleasures or you rise upwards to the heaven that

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that we were kicked out of.

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And these are the only voices that you have a loss of Hannah who is not it says sort of chumps the heavens

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or the whoredom in the sir

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you only have one of two people.

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Law says he has succeeded

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he has succeeded the one

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who purifies his

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arm and disarm and he has lost he is a loser The one

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who instills his soul with corruption he corrupt

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and

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those are for an allowance of Hana Hana

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as

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referred to

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being satisfied with the dunya

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sticking to the ground

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there are other places as well.

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This intuitively are off here in this area that we went through

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your Allah subhanho wa Taala says how this man

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What did he do?

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Well, no * Nah, nah, nah.

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If we had willed we could have elevated him with our IRA with this knowledge.

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What does it show us not

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to the knowledge

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of the Quran of this Deen we elevate ourselves and elevate our soul

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towards heaven that were kicked out of.

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However, this man, what did he do?

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instead of choosing the elevated law says well our kin ledger l o v sub r Hawa. Instead, he clung to the ground with earth.

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He remained clinging to the earth

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and followed his desire.

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This is one example elsewhere in the Quran, Allah Allah subhanho wa Taala also

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refers to being satisfied with the dunya as clinging to the ground.

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So Allah says in sort of over

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Yeah, you Latina Avenue,

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mera la comida de la la comunidad de serie de la

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Can

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you believe what is wrong with you? That when it is said to you that out March 4, in the path of Allah

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meaning in Jihad

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What is wrong with you when when the call is made for he had to go and fight

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that you stick to the ground if

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you remain holding the ground

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then Allah says Allah Litem will hire Junior,

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meaning

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Are you satisfied with the dunya over the euro

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for now Mata dunya, fille de la Colleen

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what is the temporary enjoyment of the dunya compared with the Acura except very little.

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And so, this shows us how Allah subhanho wa Taala refers to being satisfied with the dunya that we have as being sticking to the ground. And basically what it means is what we meant that our bodies are made of clay of the ground. And you have the choice, if you want you can satisfy your bodily pleasures,

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but it will be at the expense of neutering

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which is not from this earth.

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from Allah from above.

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The last lesson that we learned here

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is that there is nothing worse

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than loving the dunya

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and preferring to hella

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desires, the whim

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also Hernan who Allah says in Surah, two nezhat

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whereas total hire to do

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that in FEMA here.

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As for the one who transgresses all down

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and prefers the leaf of the dunya

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then indeed jahannam will be his

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other hand.

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Man hoffa mcomber Obi Wan

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Nutter.

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As for the one

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who fears standing before his Lord

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and he prevents

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his knifes from its However, its whims and desires,

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then indeed, Jenna will be his abode

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have one of

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either you are of those

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who prefer the life of the dunya over the asker

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and if you do that, then the path that you are trading is the path leading to Jana.

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You can be among those who prevent themselves when their desire when the handcuffs are needed. How are

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they prevent

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they're not following it. What does the law senior law says? Those who fear standing before a lot

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even Mr. ruder have a long run he says this area refers to the one who is about to commit sin.

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Then

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remembers health standing before a loss

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on the Day of Judgment being brought down

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for committing this

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awesome a comma b he fears standing before his Lord.

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One result

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prevent is knifes following its desire.

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We ask Allah subhanho wa Taala to make us from among those who purify their souls and who prefer the axiom over the dunya without we come to the end of this lesson in this session.

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masala walk with Scylla Mahal anabaena Mohammed parlor and he also be he regimen. salaam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.