Khalid Latif – Perfecting Your Prayer Essentials of Salah (Hanafi) #06

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The importance of learning the meaning of a prayer in Islam is emphasized, along with the importance of context and understanding the differences in opinion and values online. Prays are recommended for those who want to build deeper understanding of their actions and reasons for them, and working on the completion of the prayer and building a relationship with the time and scenarios is emphasized. The importance of working on these fronts is emphasized, as it separates the prayer.

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			So,
		
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			we were in the last
		
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			few weeks just breaking down the first chapter
		
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			of the Quran,
		
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			Surah Fatiha,
		
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			in deep detail,
		
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			the meaning of it.
		
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			Because we were looking essentially at a concept
		
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			oh, that's still written here.
		
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			It's great that they clean this board.
		
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			Called, Khushurah,
		
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			which, you know, you can talk about in
		
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			terms of humility,
		
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			concentration, focus.
		
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			But the idea is that within our prayer,
		
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			the ritual in and of itself is not
		
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			necessarily seen as an ends but it's a
		
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			means to something.
		
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			And embedded within it are both outward aspects
		
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			and inward aspects. So for a lot of
		
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			us, especially when you're exploring Islam, you're a
		
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			convert to Islam,
		
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			if you're coming back to just learning Islam
		
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			again,
		
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			we're given the black and white and the
		
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			do's and don'ts, but not necessarily those inward
		
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			parts to it. Right? So you can learn
		
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			how to pray with your body, but in
		
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			Islam, you're also learning how to pray with
		
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			your heart.
		
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			Right? There's that inward kinda component to it.
		
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			And one of the inward elements or values
		
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			is this thing of kushua, which is focus,
		
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			concentration.
		
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			This is why we went and did a
		
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			deep dive of that first chapter
		
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			because
		
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			in the Hanafi school, which is the legal
		
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			school that we've been looking at,
		
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			the recitation of the first chapter, Fatihah
		
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			in every cycle of prayer is considered a
		
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			necessary,
		
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			a Wajib act. And today, we're gonna review
		
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			some of the stuff that we talked about
		
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			last semester but in the context of prayer.
		
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			But if you all can continue
		
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			to
		
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			engage the meaning, not just the translation but
		
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			the meaning.
		
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			Right? And there's a nuance difference there because
		
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			you can translate words and then you're just
		
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			playing them in your head, but doesn't mean
		
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			that you're extrapolating
		
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			meaning from it. If you miss those classes,
		
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			they're all recorded, you can go on our
		
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			YouTube channel, they're on our podcast,
		
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			where we break down what these words mean,
		
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			the nuance of them, not using antiquated language.
		
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			Just so you can actually
		
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			connect at a deeper level as you're reciting
		
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			it. Right? The logic being, if I was
		
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			speaking to you all in a language right
		
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			now, then nobody in the room
		
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			knows how to speak. Right?
		
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			I don't know what that language would be.
		
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			What's like a random language that probably no
		
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			one in the room knows how to speak?
		
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			Chinese?
		
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			Chinese? Does anyone know how to speak Chinese
		
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			in the room?
		
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			Right.
		
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			Do people know the language?
		
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			Right? Speaking speaking. I can't speak English. It's
		
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			spoken
		
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			in the Maldives.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Probably most of us don't speak it.
		
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			If I was speaking to you in Devehi,
		
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			after a few minutes, you just wouldn't be
		
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			able to pay attention.
		
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			Not for any other reason other than
		
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			I'm not communicating in a language
		
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			that there's comprehension in. And so the ability
		
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			to maintain focus
		
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			when someone is just throwing random syllables of
		
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			sounds
		
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			is very reasonable to say it's hard to
		
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			pay attention to it. Do you see what
		
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			I mean? Right? So you want to engage
		
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			the meaning of it and build a relationship
		
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			with the meaning of it,
		
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			as best as you can. And simultaneously,
		
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			you're memorizing
		
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			it,
		
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			to start reciting it. Right? And we'll review
		
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			some of these things today,
		
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			but in the obligatory acts
		
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			of
		
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			the prayer in the Hanafi school,
		
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			why
		
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			you don't have to, like, pray in a
		
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			different language. You can pray in Arabic even
		
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			if you don't know Arabic.
		
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			In the Hanafi school, all you have to
		
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			be able to recite
		
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			is
		
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			a single
		
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			verse of the Quran in your prayer. It
		
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			can be any part of the Quran as
		
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			an obligation.
		
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			Right? So the shortest verse of the Quran
		
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			says, So if you just say that, you
		
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			fulfill the obligation.
		
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			It doesn't mean that that's what you're gonna
		
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			do forever, but as you're learning outside of
		
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			the prayer,
		
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			you're gonna add elements to it, which is
		
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			what we're doing in this class over the
		
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			summer.
		
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			How's it been going for those of you
		
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			who have been trying to memorize the first
		
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			chapter?
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			Where are things at right now? How's that
		
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			been as a process?
		
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			Has anybody done any of it?
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			What's that been like? Is it hard? Is
		
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			it not hard?
		
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			It increases your focus in in prayers, especially,
		
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			like, the whole dynamic of prayer changes. You
		
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			really wanna take your time and
		
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			and you you no longer wanna rush the
		
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			thought
		
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			to really understand the meaning.
		
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			Yeah. And that's one of the things, when
		
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			you memorize something,
		
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			you can just start spinning it out. Do
		
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			you know? Like think about things you've memorized
		
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			in your life. Do you know what I
		
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			mean? Right now, probably if we threw on
		
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			something
		
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			that you listened to as a child, all
		
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			the words would just kind of flow back.
		
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			Right? Or when you were in high school
		
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			or maybe some of you are in high
		
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			school,
		
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			or you know, when you were a little
		
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			younger, there's something that you just heard constantly
		
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			that that was something you knew the words
		
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			to like every lyric in it. It just
		
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			comes out instantaneously.
		
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			It sticks with you. Right? And this is
		
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			a challenge with something that has capacity
		
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			to be memorized wrotely.
		
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			You can get to a place where you
		
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			can just spit it out very very easily.
		
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			Do you know? If you ever sit down
		
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			with people who were of your age demographic
		
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			and they can recite to you, like, the
		
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			theme songs of every TV show that they
		
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			ever watched
		
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			from when they were little kids and they
		
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			could do it at a super fast speed.
		
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			It's because you're just kind of engrossed and
		
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			embedded. Right? You don't wanna treat your prayer
		
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			in that way. Do you know what I
		
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			mean? But as the words become memorized
		
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			and they're just there very kinda concretely, wrotely,
		
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			it has that capacity. So pondering, reflecting, contemplating,
		
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			and taking it at a pace that's reasonable
		
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			just adds to the ability to kinda draw
		
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			meaning from it. Right?
		
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			Anything else coming up for people or any
		
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			questions on any of the stuff we've done
		
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			so far?
		
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			How's everybody doing?
		
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			Great. Yeah?
		
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			Sounds sounds great. Yeah. Hey, man.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			So there's gonna be a couple of things
		
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			that we're gonna do today,
		
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			and a little bit of it's gonna be
		
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			review.
		
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			So we've gone through,
		
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			like, the first chapter, Fateh You want to
		
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			give yourself a deadline
		
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			that within the next 2 weeks, that's 14
		
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			days,
		
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			that you should try to memorize that
		
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			and also be in a place where you're
		
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			spending a little time with it every day
		
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			reflecting on its meaning,
		
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			you know? So you're taking something from it,
		
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			just engaging it and
		
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			there are not so many words to it.
		
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			So every day, if you're just engaging a
		
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			couple of words,
		
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			you'll be able to add on to it
		
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			slowly.
		
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			And 14 days is actually a long time.
		
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			And why we want to do that is
		
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			because one of the next things we wanna
		
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			jump into is learning some of the other
		
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			shorter chapters.
		
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			Hey, guys.
		
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			So that
		
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			you can fulfill the rest of that first
		
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			unit of prayer,
		
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			which requires reciting,
		
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			a long verse or a few short verses,
		
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			and we'll look at a couple of other
		
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			shorter chapters.
		
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			Today, what we wanna get into now is
		
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			kinda breaking down some of what becomes
		
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			the different aspects of the prayer.
		
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			And
		
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			some of you were here when we did
		
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			this, but just to review
		
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			everything that goes into
		
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			an action
		
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			within
		
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			Islam is religion can be broken into
		
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			a few different categories,
		
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			right? They're
		
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			all placed into boxes,
		
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			that are categorized
		
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			in kind of a legalistic
		
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			frame.
		
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			And that spectrum
		
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			is something
		
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			that
		
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			we'll look at the words in Arabic and
		
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			in English.
		
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			So, on this end, you have what's called
		
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			Farb,
		
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			which is obligatory.
		
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			These are acts that are required.
		
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			They have to be done.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And the basis of these
		
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			are text
		
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			and meaning
		
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			that are definitive.
		
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			Does that make
		
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			sense?
		
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			So
		
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			we have 5 daily prayers in Islam
		
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			because there's text
		
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			as well as the meaning of text
		
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			that is definitive
		
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			in the performance of those 5 prayers.
		
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			So somebody says, why do Muslims pray 5
		
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			times a day?
		
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			Why do they fast in the month of
		
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			Ramadan?
		
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			Why are they required to perform the pilgrimage
		
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			if they have the means to do so?
		
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			Why do they give a mandatory charity?
		
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			There is a text
		
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			corresponding
		
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			that its meaning
		
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			is concrete,
		
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			definitive
		
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			and the text is also a definitive text.
		
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			Does that make sense?
		
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			On the other end of the spectrum,
		
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			you have what's called Haram
		
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			and this is strictly
		
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			prohibited.
		
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			This also
		
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			has a similar base to it.
		
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			For something to be strictly prohibited,
		
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			impermissible,
		
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			it has to have a clear text
		
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			as well as clear meaning to the text.
		
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			So don't eat pork
		
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			just means don't eat pork.
		
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			That's what it means.
		
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			What we get as we come closer,
		
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			in the middle,
		
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			you have what's called muba,
		
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			and this just means neutral.
		
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			These are things that are just
		
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			kind of allowed.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So,
		
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			you know,
		
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			the color of this chair,
		
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			It's like just whatever. Right? It's neutral.
		
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			Then you have
		
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			to the left of that,
		
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			what is called Mustahub.
		
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			This is recommended.
		
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			And this has
		
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			a break in it
		
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			that also has
		
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			a word that's called,
		
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			and this is a
		
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			prophetic
		
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			practice.
		
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			When you start to get into this realm,
		
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			you have either text
		
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			or meaning
		
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			that can be probabilistic.
		
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			It's not as concrete.
		
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			Does that make sense?
		
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			And its corresponding
		
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			category
		
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			on this side
		
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			is called which
		
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			means disliked.
		
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			And the similar idea
		
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			that either in text or meaning something is
		
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			probabilistic.
		
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			Why would you have these things?
		
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			And what they do in the Hanafi school
		
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			is they add in the category
		
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			of Wajib
		
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			which has that base that it's a lesser
		
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			degree of obligation.
		
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			So they'll call this necessary
		
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			which is what the recitation of Fatihah is
		
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			in
		
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			the prayer.
		
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			It's not seen as an obligation but a
		
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			necessary
		
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			act
		
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			because the idea is that you don't wanna
		
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			make a claim that something is
		
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			absolutely
		
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			obligatory
		
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			or absolutely
		
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			prohibited
		
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			unless you're really sure that it is.
		
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			Does that make sense?
		
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			And so on this spectrum,
		
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			what ends up happening theoretically
		
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			is that everything to this side
		
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			of the spectrum
		
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			can, at some point or another,
		
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			fit into
		
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			a
		
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			box of permissibility,
		
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			what we call Haram.
		
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			Even if it's something that's disliked,
		
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			so long as you're not doing it consistently
		
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			or with regularity
		
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			because it doesn't fit into the box of
		
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			strict prohibition.
		
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			And the category of disliked can be broken
		
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			into branches too. We don't have to get
		
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			into it in too much detail.
		
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			But everything is going to fit into one
		
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			of these boxes.
		
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			In terms of
		
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			acts that you undertake,
		
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			they're going to fit into one of these
		
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			categories. You don't have to learn the Arabic
		
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			but people are gonna throw the Arabic at
		
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			you.
		
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			And you're gonna unfortunately,
		
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			which I'm really sorry for, have a lot
		
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			of people that don't know what the words
		
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			mean,
		
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			and they're going to tell you something is
		
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			something that it's not.
		
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			This word haram,
		
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			a lot of Muslims like to use it
		
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			all the time.
		
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			Right? And they're gonna make you feel like
		
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			you're a really bad person
		
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			because everything just turns into
		
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			a desire to be on the edge of
		
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			the spectrum.
		
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			Black and white.
		
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			Just definitive,
		
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			right wrong.
		
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			But there's so much more than that that
		
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			exists categorically.
		
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			Does that make sense?
		
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			And when people don't know, like, the technical
		
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			definitions or the basis of things, it doesn't
		
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			mean that they're still not gonna tell you
		
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			something.
		
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			And one of the things you want to
		
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			know is that there's a lot of different
		
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			opinions that exist in different ways. So we're
		
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			looking at prayer
		
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			through one methodology
		
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			that's called the Hanafi school of thought. There's
		
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			other schools and people will do certain things
		
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			differently.
		
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			You just want to see it as kind
		
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			of a mode of existence
		
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			that respects
		
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			differences opinion
		
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			and to not get into a place
		
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			where religion starts to get
		
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			weaponized
		
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			in a way
		
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			that
		
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			really removes God from the equation.
		
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			Do you get what I mean? Does that
		
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			make sense?
		
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			Does it? Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead. How do
		
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			you,
		
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			I find like I I sort of struggle
		
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			with this range a bit.
		
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			In the sense of I, like, I respect
		
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			the demand online, and I'm, like, trying to
		
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			look up singular,
		
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			you know, views on, like,
		
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			dogs.
		
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			For example, like,
		
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			so many scholars
		
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			of different schools say things. Music
		
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			are, like, all these different little things
		
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			have,
		
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			like, comment sections on Instagram. People are just
		
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			going back and forth in different ways, and
		
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			it's kind of hard.
		
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			It's crazy hard. Yeah.
		
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			You know,
		
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			when you're just kinda getting into
		
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			it, not, you know,
		
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			trying to choose, like I would say don't
		
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			do it that way, right? And it's hard
		
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			but what you have as a challenge is
		
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			not
		
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			like inaccessible
		
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			information,
		
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			your challenge is the other extreme, you have
		
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			oversaturated
		
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			access to information.
		
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			There's not a way to distill information,
		
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			do you know? There's all kinds of people
		
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			that write everything online. Do you know what
		
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			I mean? I tell my kids this now
		
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			because my son is 7, my daughter's 10
		
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			and
		
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			they don't inherit technology
		
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			that like people inherited when I was younger
		
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			and kind of went through a process as
		
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			technology develops or some of you inherited
		
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			at even a younger age, but my kids
		
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			are younger than all of you. And sitting
		
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			down and explaining to my son or my
		
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			daughter that everybody on the Internet doesn't tell
		
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			the truth,
		
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			you know,
		
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			and helping them to understand fundamentally that that's
		
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			a concept
		
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			or that everything that's written doesn't necessarily take
		
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			you into consideration.
		
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			Do you know what I mean? And there's
		
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			a disconnect from
		
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			the time of the Prophet Muhammad peace be
		
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			upon him and the way he engages companions.
		
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			There are
		
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			literal people who come for example. Right? A
		
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			man comes to the prophet and says, oh,
		
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			messenger of God, can I kiss my wife
		
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			while I'm fasting?
		
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			And the prophet answers the question and says,
		
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			yes.
		
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			And another person comes shortly thereafter and says,
		
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			can I kiss my wife while I'm fasting?
		
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			And to him, he says, no. It's the
		
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			same exact question, he's given a different answer.
		
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			And one of the companions
		
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			is left in a place of, you know,
		
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			why does this question have different answers?
		
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			Right? And so the prophet contextualizes
		
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			and says, to the person he said no
		
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			to, this was a younger person who was
		
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			recently married.
		
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			And
		
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			he, you know, at a younger age, him
		
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			and his wife, the kiss might lead to
		
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			something
		
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			that gets continuity
		
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			because in our fast, there's
		
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			the fast is broken if you have, like,
		
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			a deeply physical intimate relationship. If you have
		
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			* with someone, you're not allowed to do
		
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			that when you're fasting.
		
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			So the worry is the kiss will lead
		
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			to something else. So to him, he says,
		
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			no. And to the older person, he's a
		
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			little bit more in control. Right? He's like
		
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			an old man, he's It's not gonna go
		
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			anywhere beyond that. So to him he says
		
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			yes. Right?
		
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			You can't fundamentally
		
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			have a q and a site online
		
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			that answers every question
		
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			for you about Islam's relevancy to you. It
		
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			just doesn't work that way.
		
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			And anybody who tells you otherwise, they're wrong.
		
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			There's people who put in their best effort
		
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			and you're trying your best,
		
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			but it's going to have a gap
		
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			for the reason that you're outlining
		
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			because some of these things have to be
		
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			a little bit more contextualized with specificity.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And in the journeys that many of you
		
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			are on,
		
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			whether you're coming back to this, you know,
		
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			at a point you were born into it,
		
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			you converted at some point in your life,
		
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			you're exploring the religion for yourself.
		
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			You want to do it in a way
		
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			that systematic.
		
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			You know what I mean? So while we're
		
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			talking about prayer is because prayer is like
		
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			a very important integral, you know? So learn
		
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			about your prayer,
		
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			right,
		
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			and
		
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			adopt the Quranic Council that says,
		
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			like, when you don't know something, then just
		
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			go and ask somebody who knows, you know.
		
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			And I'm happy to talk to you about
		
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			anything you want. If I don't know like
		
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			an answer,
		
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			I have a ton of people I could
		
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			refer you to, but this is where the
		
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			internet becomes actually really sticky
		
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			because it gives you a lot of information
		
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			without context,
		
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			and it also isn't necessarily always stuff that
		
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			was written with you in mind. Do you
		
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			get what I'm saying? Does that make sense?
		
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			And one of the most important things that
		
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			comes out of what you're saying, it's okay
		
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			to say this really hard.
		
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			Like, it's really tough to navigate all of
		
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			this.
		
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			It's not an easy thing to decipher
		
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			because when you literally have a computer in
		
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			your pocket and you can look up anything,
		
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			and all these things are gonna come and
		
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			spit information back at you,
		
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			it becomes hard to say, how do I
		
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			know which one is what makes sense?
		
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			Does that make sense?
		
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			One of the things that you want to
		
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			understand
		
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			is that
		
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			haram
		
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			is always necessarily
		
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			haram.
		
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			Do you get what I mean?
		
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			Meaning,
		
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			suggest because something is permissible,
		
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			doesn't mean you have to do it.
		
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			Right? You're allowed to eat chicken.
		
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			Doesn't mean you have to do it, but
		
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			you can't eat pork.
		
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			Do you understand?
		
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			There's a difference in the sense that the
		
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			2 don't balance each other out, right? The
		
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			way that you can engage them. Permissibility
		
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			doesn't equate to normativity.
		
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			So just because it can be done a
		
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			certain way doesn't mean that's the only way
		
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			for it to be done.
		
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			The default is
		
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			that in pretty much all acts that are
		
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			mundane,
		
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			everything is permissible
		
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			unless somebody can tell you there's a reason
		
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			that it's impermissible.
		
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			The onus is on someone to be able
		
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			to explain to you why is music not
		
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			x, y, or z. Why is a dog
		
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			x, y, or z. And there's a plethora
		
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			of,
		
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			opinions on this. Right? And nobody can deny
		
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			that. There is.
		
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			On the other end of it, not in
		
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			mundane acts, but in devotional acts.
		
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			The default is that it is considered
		
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			impermissible
		
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			unless there's a reason that one can prove
		
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			that it's permissible.
		
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			Right? So why we pray in Islam the
		
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			way we pray these 5 daily prayers
		
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			is based off of evidences, not just I
		
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			think I feel. Do you get what I
		
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			mean?
		
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			And the ratio between in the mundane, what
		
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			is permissible and impermissible,
		
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			is like a 1,000 to 1.
		
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			So for every one thing that you can't
		
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			do, you can't eat pork, but you can
		
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			eat like everything else.
		
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			Do you know?
		
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			You can't drink wine
		
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			but you can drink like millions of different
		
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			juices. Do you know what I mean? And
		
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			that's literally like the way the ratio kind
		
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			of functions itself. Do you know? But
		
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			principally, this
		
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			and this
		
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			has like basis to it. What you want
		
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			to do is just try your best, right?
		
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			And when we talked about this, you know,
		
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			my Monday night, Halukkah, that some of you
		
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			come to, this is where the idea is,
		
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			like, you talk to people of knowledge.
		
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			It's not always like religious scholars, right? Like
		
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			I wasn't feeling so well last week.
		
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			I appreciate some of you reached out. I
		
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			think at this class last week, I was
		
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			breathing really heavily and then that night, I
		
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			actually like couldn't breathe at all when I
		
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			was sleeping. So on Thursday, I ended up
		
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			going to the doctor and they sent me
		
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			to the hospital
		
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			ER where I sat for a bit.
		
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			I'm doing well now. But when I was,
		
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			like trying to figure out what's wrong with
		
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			me,
		
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			everybody had an answer for what was wrong
		
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			to me, you know. I was talking to
		
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			someone, they were like, you know, you sound
		
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			like you're out of breath, and I was
		
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			like, yeah, I'm having strain breathing. They're like,
		
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			oh, it's probably your allergies, right? Or maybe
		
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			you ate something.
		
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			And I said, how do you know? Like
		
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			I wasn't trying to be rude, I was
		
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			like, what? Like how do you know, right?
		
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			You're not a doctor, you know what I
		
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			mean?
		
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			And for me,
		
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			you know, a couple weeks ago, a good
		
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			friend of mine who was a little older
		
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			than me, he passed away, we buried him
		
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			in California.
		
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			There were a lot of different things kind
		
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			of like floating in my head. So the
		
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			doctor
		
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			at the urgent care was like go to
		
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			the ER and I was like, yeah, I'm
		
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			gonna go to the ER. Why would I
		
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			not?
		
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			I'm gonna go ask the doctors who are
		
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			trained.
		
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			That's what the verse means, right? Ask people
		
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			who know. It doesn't just mean ask the
		
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			religious scholar.
		
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			In Islam, interdisciplinary
		
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			modes of engagement are also really important
		
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			in being able to
		
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			create like legal rulings.
		
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			Do you know? So if somebody is gonna
		
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			talk to you about mental wellness for example,
		
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			they need to not just be somebody who
		
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			knows like ritual and theology
		
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			but also has a background in mental health.
		
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			If somebody is going to talk to you
		
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			about any discipline or any area of expertise,
		
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			you would engage people across like areas of
		
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			expertise. Do you know what I mean? Do
		
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			other people have this issue when they're navigating
		
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			stuff online?
		
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			Yes. So what what do you do?
		
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			Close the app? Mhmm. Oh, great.
		
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			What app is it that you're closing? Instagram.
		
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			Instagram.
		
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			Yeah. Don't
		
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			look, your hearts are precious
		
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			regardless of where your religious journeys take you,
		
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			you don't want to
		
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			engage your celestial self
		
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			through sound bite information.
		
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			Do you know?
		
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			And you're just going at a pace that
		
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			makes sense. So when there's so much information
		
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			you can absorb, it doesn't mean that all
		
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			of it is at the time that you
		
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			need to absorb it, right? There's a structure
		
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			to learning also
		
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			and learn the things that are more integral
		
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			and kind of just go at a pace
		
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			that makes sense and talk to people, right?
		
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			Ask people what it is that that's there.
		
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			Somebody had their hand raised. Do you have
		
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			your hand raised? No.
		
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			I was just gonna say, like, when I
		
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			look something online,
		
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			I usually go, like, to different events or,
		
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			like, must and ask about it just to
		
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			confirm,
		
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			if it's right or wrong.
		
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			So it looks like one way just to
		
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			confirm that, one of the top is right.
		
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			Hold on.
		
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			Yeah. And if you have somebody that you
		
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			can ask those questions of, that's great. And
		
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			that's the whole idea. Right? Like, you talk
		
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			to somebody
		
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			who knows.
		
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			And being able to understand,
		
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			like, how might they relate to you coming
		
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			from your culture, coming from, you know, your
		
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			heritage, you're new to Islam.
		
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			Right? Somebody who's gonna also be empathetic and
		
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			they're listening. You know, they know you enough
		
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			because in that example that I gave, the
		
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			prophet knows where these people are coming from.
		
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			He's not throwing just like random information at
		
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			them. He knows and is seeing them as
		
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			a whole individual.
		
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			It's not like a drive by like Q
		
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			and A. Do you know what I mean?
		
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			So you you have to see yourself as
		
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			somebody that's worth more than that. Do you
		
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			know what I'm saying? Does that make sense?
		
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			So everything is gonna fit into one of
		
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			these boxes.
		
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			Obligatory,
		
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			necessary,
		
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			recommended,
		
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			neutral,
		
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			disliked,
		
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			strictly prohibited.
		
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			And
		
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			we are focusing
		
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			right now
		
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			in the prayer section
		
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			on like necessary acts
		
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			because to perform prayer
		
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			in the Hanafi school,
		
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			the obligatory acts, they're all pretty simple, right?
		
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			It's just going through the postures,
		
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			having a final sitting
		
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			and reciting
		
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			just one short verse of the Quran
		
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			and that suffices. Do people pray that way?
		
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			No, they don't
		
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			like in general
		
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			but
		
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			when there's a reason to, right? You're new
		
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			to it, you're learning it, You're still fulfilling
		
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			the obligation
		
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			and we're adding to it as we go
		
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			along. Does anybody have any other questions on
		
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			this? I know I went through it really
		
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			fast,
		
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			just because we did this a few months
		
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			ago in more detail
		
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			but anything that doesn't make sense, it's also
		
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			totally fine. We can go at a slower
		
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			pace on it.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			Like in the prayer? Yeah. We're gonna talk
		
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			about it all. But in the Hanafi school,
		
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			in the Farahid,
		
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			the obligatory acts of prayer,
		
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			you only have to read
		
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			like any short verse of the Quran. It
		
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			doesn't have to be Fatihah. Yeah. So the
		
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			shortest verse says,
		
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			If you just said that, that suffices.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			So any questions on these boxes, these categories?
		
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			The way that this builds itself up is
		
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			not like in a very
		
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			kind
		
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			of homogeneous way.
		
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			It doesn't work that way
		
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			because
		
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			you have very few obligations and very few
		
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			pro prohibitions,
		
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			and there's a lot in the middle that
		
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			is gray because we're so diverse and different
		
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			from each other. Right? Imagine if each one
		
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			of you in this room
		
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			had to lose your sense of individualism
		
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			and identity,
		
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			right? To be Muslim is to not commit
		
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			cultural apostasy of some kind, Right? You become
		
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			linked now
		
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			to your own innate identities,
		
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			and it influences the way kinda religion
		
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			manifests
		
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			and custom
		
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			and culture
		
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			impacts the way kinda things are practiced.
		
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			Do you know?
		
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			And so these are the words that we're
		
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			gonna be using
		
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			as we kinda go through the elements of
		
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			prayer
		
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			and talk about them in a little bit
		
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			more detail.
		
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			So I know some of you were here
		
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			when we
		
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			talked about this some months ago,
		
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			and feel free to chime in.
		
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			So we're gonna look first at the conditions
		
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			of prayer, and the book that we had
		
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			told people, if you have it, it's called
		
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			Ascent to Felicity.
		
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			If you don't have the book, you could
		
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			also pull up a PDF online of it,
		
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			where we'll go through it. And this section
		
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			is on
		
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			page 74,
		
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			the conditions of prayer.
		
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			In
		
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			Arabic,
		
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			the word for condition
		
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			is called
		
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			And these are things that exist outside of
		
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			prayer, meaning these things need to happen
		
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			and be in place
		
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			in order for the prayer to be performed.
		
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			So if they're not in place,
		
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			then the prayer
		
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			Yeah. Like a in
		
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			if you speak Urdu in Hindi, it's the
		
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			same word.
		
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			What do you mean to make the
		
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			Ascent to Felicity.
		
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			Yeah. And you could take a minute if
		
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			people wanna pull it up.
		
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			You find it online, but also it's not
		
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			a big deal. We're gonna write these things
		
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			up on the board. Yeah.
		
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			So
		
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			what this means is if you don't have
		
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			these things
		
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			at the onset of the prayer,
		
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			the validity of the prayer is not met.
		
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			Validity
		
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			meaning, like, there's mechanics, there's prerequisites.
		
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			The acceptance of something is between God and
		
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			the person.
		
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			But in order for one to
		
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			deem it valid,
		
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			the mechanics that are outlined, they have to
		
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			be in place
		
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			based off of the categories. So the obligatory
		
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			ones, if those aren't there, it doesn't work.
		
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			So this is not
		
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			a
		
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			inside of the prayer
		
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			group that we're gonna talk about. This is
		
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			what's happening before you start to pray. Does
		
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			that make sense? Yeah.
		
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			So first
		
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			condition
		
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			is that you have to be
		
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			in a state
		
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			of
		
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			ritual purity.
		
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			And this
		
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			means
		
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			you're free
		
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			from
		
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			what's called minor
		
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			or major
		
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			impurity.
		
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			So what does that mean?
		
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			This is what we call, like, being in
		
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			a state of wudu.
		
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			And we, like, talked about wudu
		
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			for,
		
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			I think, like, 5 weeks,
		
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			you know, to people remember. Right? Does anybody
		
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			any of you here for that? Some of
		
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			you were here. Right? Yeah. We talked about
		
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			it for a while. Right? So what we'll
		
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			do
		
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			is the way that you're washing up for
		
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			prayer.
		
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			So if somebody says, I'm gonna pray, but
		
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			I'm not making my will do. We're not
		
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			gonna go through the steps of it right
		
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			now. I can do that with you all
		
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			at some point, but I'm just gonna outline
		
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			what these conditions are.
		
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			This is
		
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			a
		
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			necessary condition, like, you have to have wudu
		
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			in order to make your ritual prayer. Yeah.
		
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			I think you spoke about wudu. My only
		
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			question about wudu is You can ask anything.
		
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			Oh. Yeah. Does it have to follow that
		
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			order?
		
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			No.
		
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			Not in the Hanafi school.
		
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			So in the Hanafi school, we'll do is
		
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			not seen as a devotional act.
		
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			So intention is not necessary,
		
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			the order is not. The verse that we
		
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			looked at in the Quran
		
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			for wudu, just a quick recap,
		
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			it doesn't include the mouth or the nose.
		
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			So what are recommended acts in wudu in
		
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			the Hanafi school
		
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			are
		
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			the rinsing of the mouth, the nose,
		
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			the number of times you will wash a
		
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			body part,
		
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			and the order of it.
		
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			The other things are obligatory.
		
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			Right? So the washing of the face,
		
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			the arms up to and including the elbows,
		
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			the head. So the face
		
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			constitutes from the top of the forehead
		
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			to underneath your chin and earlobe to earlobe.
		
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			It's the face.
		
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			You're gonna go up to
		
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			your
		
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			elbow,
		
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			including it, so above it.
		
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			And when you watch, water has to get
		
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			on every part of the body.
		
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			So you're for example, if you fold your
		
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			arm in, like water can miss right here.
		
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			So you'll open this up and wash in
		
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			here, both
		
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			arms. The head, you're wiping over the head.
		
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			Right? Taken from it. So if you put
		
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			water on your hands, you can take these
		
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			three fingers,
		
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			and you're gonna rub them over your head,
		
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			and you take this finger put it on
		
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			the inner side of your ear,
		
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			and then you take your thumb, and you
		
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			rub it on the outer part of your
		
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			ear, right? Because it's all new water. You
		
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			see?
		
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			So if
		
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			Does that make sense?
		
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			Yeah? And then your feet, you're gonna
		
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			put your,
		
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			go through every,
		
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			like toe on your foot and wash up
		
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			to your ankle
		
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			on both feet,
		
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			and that constitutes
		
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			a valid will do.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			Can you just take a shower?
		
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			Yeah. You can just take a shower
		
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			and that counts.
		
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			And in the Hanafi school, if you take
		
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			a shower and you don't make the intention
		
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			for wudu, you still have wudu
		
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			because intention is not a necessary
		
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			act for wudu in the Hanafi school.
		
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			Yeah. So is that why when he makes
		
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			the it's only like
		
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			Yeah. Because it's also just, like, more of
		
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			a symbolic thing. Right? Because you're taking the
		
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			dirt and you're kinda going through it in
		
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			a spiritual kind of way. Yeah. Yeah.
		
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			So if you're taking, like, a shower and,
		
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			you didn't like,
		
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			like, what's going on your mouth or your
		
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			nose, is that
		
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			do you have to go back and just
		
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			No. Because those are recommended parts to it.
		
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			Right? And why do you want to know
		
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			these things?
		
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			Right? Is because certain things are situational,
		
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			and we talked about this a lot in
		
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			detail. For example,
		
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			in different schools of thought, what's the minimum
		
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			you have to do of your head varies.
		
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			In the Hanafi School, it's a 4th of
		
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			your head. In some schools, you literally just
		
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			have to do a portion of your hair,
		
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			right? So
		
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			you can be,
		
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			a woman who wears a headscarf, and you're
		
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			in a middle of a workplace
		
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			that is not conducive to Islamic practice,
		
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			and you're all kinda scarfed up,
		
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			and you don't wanna, like, unravel and unravel
		
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			again, so you just can stick your hand
		
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			underneath it. Do Do you know what I
		
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			mean?
		
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			But knowing the Fiqh is helpful
		
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			because it allows for you to be able
		
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			to adapt in certain situations.
		
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			Do you know? That's why we wanna take
		
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			these things slowly and do a deep dive
		
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			into them, so that there's not just about
		
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			like
		
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			learning Islam, but there's a philosophy to learning.
		
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			And when you go online or you just
		
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			talk to somebody who's Muslim,
		
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			they might just throw the end result at
		
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			you and not get you to a place
		
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			that helps you know how to maneuver in
		
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			situations. Does that make sense? Right?
		
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			Yeah, go ahead.
		
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			Women should not wear acrylic nails because that
		
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			invalidates their wound.
		
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			As long as whatever you're wearing doesn't prevent
		
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			water from getting to every part, right? So
		
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			I'm wearing like a ring right now. I'd
		
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			have to remove the ring,
		
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			you know? I got on some beads. I
		
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			take off the beads
		
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			because the water has to hit every part
		
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			of the skin,
		
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			right? So if somebody has a barrier of
		
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			anything,
		
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			right? That then prevents water from getting to
		
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			something, then the wudu is not complete.
		
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			But if it's something that's water permeable,
		
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			then that's a different
		
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			circumstance.
		
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			Do you see?
		
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			So the notion is to understand the principle,
		
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			you can't have a barrier. Like my shirt,
		
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			I can't wash over the shirt because it's
		
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			creating a barrier.
		
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			Right? So that's the same idea conceptually.
		
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			Does that make sense? Yeah. So
		
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			in order for
		
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			you to stand in prayer, you gotta be
		
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			in a state of will do.
		
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			So this is the first condition
		
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			outside of the prayer.
		
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			You need to be in this state
		
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			of purity, ritual purity.
		
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			Minor
		
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			impurity,
		
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			you use the restroom, you woke up from
		
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			a long sleep,
		
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			you weren't just dozing,
		
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			you know, things like that, you pass wind,
		
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			major impurity,
		
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			you're coming out of a menstrual cycle.
		
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			If you have like a nocturnal emission,
		
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			you know, some type of like sexual
		
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			experience
		
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			that would then require doing what's called a
		
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			which is a shower
		
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			that essentially incorporates the will do,
		
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			as well
		
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			as like a,
		
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			shower,
		
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			on top of that, that has, like, a
		
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			process to it. That's condition number 1. Any
		
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			other questions on that?
		
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			So condition number 2,
		
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			there can't be anything that
		
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			is
		
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			filthy
		
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			on
		
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			your clothes,
		
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			body,
		
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			or place of prayer.
		
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			And so what constitutes filth?
		
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			Like urine,
		
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			alcohol,
		
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			things like this.
		
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			There's narrations in our tradition that say, the
		
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			entire world is a mosque, like a place
		
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			of prayer.
		
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			And there's narrations that also qualify this that
		
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			say the entire world is a place of
		
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			prayer
		
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			except
		
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			like bathrooms
		
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			and graveyards.
		
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			Right? So for example, it might make logical
		
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			sense why someone couldn't pray where there's a
		
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			toilet.
		
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			Right?
		
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			In and of itself, there's a chance that
		
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			there might be, like, urine somewhere on the
		
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			ground or something to that effect.
		
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			So you can pretty much pray any place,
		
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			but in terms of location, you want to
		
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			make sure that it's clean.
		
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			The default understanding
		
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			is
		
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			that everything is clean
		
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			unless there's a reason to believe that it's
		
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			not clean.
		
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			So you can walk through the streets of
		
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			Manhattan
		
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			and you can see Muslim people praying everywhere.
		
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			There's Muslim people that pray on top of
		
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			their taxi cabs, there's Muslim people that pray
		
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			now they do, right? There's people that pray,
		
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			you know, in the parks, on the sidewalks,
		
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			there's people that pray like all over the
		
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			place.
		
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			And someone could say, oh, it's New York.
		
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			It's gross. Like this and that.
		
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			But there's unless there's a reason
		
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			that you know that it's not clean, the
		
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			default is that things are clean.
		
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			Does that make sense?
		
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			So you could go. When you have a
		
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			prayer mat,
		
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			it's not seen as
		
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			a sacred object
		
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			in Islam.
		
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			Right? It's not a sanctified
		
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			object.
		
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			Essentially, what you're doing with the mat is
		
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			you're just carrying something that you know is
		
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			definitively
		
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			clean.
		
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			And you put it down, and then where
		
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			you're gonna be praying is like a clean
		
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			place to pray.
		
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			Does that make sense?
		
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			So that place of prayer,
		
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			your body has to also be
		
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			clean of anything filthy.
		
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			Right? So you can't have things on your
		
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			physical
		
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			being
		
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			and your clothing
		
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			as well.
		
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			Right? And there's kinda parameters
		
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			around this,
		
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			but there are things that are taken seriously.
		
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			So this is why
		
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			at
		
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			our tradition, you have like
		
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			not just the utilization for example of toilet
		
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			paper when you go to the bathroom because
		
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			it's not fully removing
		
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			but you use water as kind of a
		
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			cleansing agent to be able to remove excrement
		
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			fully from your body. Do you know?
		
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			So condition number 2,
		
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			that there's nothing
		
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			like dirty, impure
		
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			on anything
		
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			of your being or the place that you're
		
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			going to be praying in as well.
		
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			And you wanna try your best, Right? In
		
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			some of these situations and it can get
		
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			tricky especially for people
		
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			who they're the only Muslim in their family.
		
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			Their family doesn't know that they're Muslim, you
		
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			know? And we wanna think about this within
		
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			reason, and this is another reason why you
		
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			don't wanna look up on the internet certain
		
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			things or just kinda speak off the top
		
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			of your head because you're gonna have to
		
00:43:10 --> 00:43:12
			try your best in certain situations
		
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			and circumstances.
		
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			And for some people, when you're in a
		
00:43:17 --> 00:43:18
			Manhattan apartment
		
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			where everybody is on top of each other
		
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			and you don't want your family to know
		
00:43:22 --> 00:43:23
			that you're Muslim,
		
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			like the only place you can go by
		
00:43:25 --> 00:43:28
			default to pray and still be safe is
		
00:43:28 --> 00:43:30
			gonna be, like, in a bathroom. Do you
		
00:43:30 --> 00:43:32
			know? Does that make sense?
		
00:43:32 --> 00:43:35
			And so these definitive statements become really hard,
		
00:43:35 --> 00:43:36
			like, yeah, you shouldn't be praying in the
		
00:43:36 --> 00:43:38
			bathroom. That's the default.
		
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			But sometimes there's
		
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			kinda context that people are listening to what
		
00:43:42 --> 00:43:43
			you're saying.
		
00:43:44 --> 00:43:45
			And just because they hear you say it,
		
00:43:45 --> 00:43:47
			they're gonna take it as, well, then I
		
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			just maybe shouldn't pray at all. Do you
		
00:43:50 --> 00:43:52
			get what I mean? Right? And it's like,
		
00:43:52 --> 00:43:54
			no, man. Like, you gotta talk to the
		
00:43:54 --> 00:43:56
			person and really hear hear where they're at.
		
00:43:57 --> 00:43:58
			Does that make sense?
		
00:43:59 --> 00:44:02
			Yeah. Go ahead. So we're turning to, like,
		
00:44:02 --> 00:44:04
			feels like if someone is pulling on, they
		
00:44:04 --> 00:44:04
			can't
		
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			afford to, like, have food clothes or
		
00:44:08 --> 00:44:10
			If your clothes are dirty, like, say, I,
		
00:44:10 --> 00:44:12
			you know, haven't washed my shirt in a
		
00:44:12 --> 00:44:14
			week or something. That's not what it is.
		
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			But if somebody got something that was considered
		
00:44:17 --> 00:44:18
			ritually impure,
		
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			say, there was urine on my shirt, you
		
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			know, like
		
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			or you know, something similar, all you do
		
00:44:24 --> 00:44:25
			is wash it off.
		
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			I don't have to like throw away my
		
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			shirt. It doesn't have to be laundered.
		
00:44:30 --> 00:44:31
			The recommended
		
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			like practice is to have water flow over
		
00:44:33 --> 00:44:34
			that spot
		
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			like at least, you know, a handful of
		
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			times, 3 times to 7 times. If you
		
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			do it once fully, like that's suffices also,
		
00:44:42 --> 00:44:44
			but you just rinse it off. Do you
		
00:44:44 --> 00:44:45
			know what I mean?
		
00:44:45 --> 00:44:47
			Does that make sense? Yeah. But it has
		
00:44:47 --> 00:44:49
			nothing to do with like social class or
		
00:44:49 --> 00:44:50
			socioeconomic
		
00:44:50 --> 00:44:53
			background or anything like that. You know? Yeah.
		
00:44:53 --> 00:44:54
			You mentioned alcohol.
		
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			What about alcohol and the other perfumes? You
		
00:44:58 --> 00:44:59
			know? What's your opinion on that?
		
00:45:00 --> 00:45:02
			It depends on what the source of the
		
00:45:02 --> 00:45:03
			alcohol is.
		
00:45:03 --> 00:45:06
			Right? And if there's alcohol that's made of
		
00:45:06 --> 00:45:06
			wine,
		
00:45:07 --> 00:45:09
			sorry, of grapes, like fermented grapes and dates,
		
00:45:10 --> 00:45:12
			Those in the Hanafi school are categorically different
		
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			from other types of alcohols and synthetic alcohols
		
00:45:16 --> 00:45:17
			and these kinds of things. Yeah.
		
00:45:18 --> 00:45:19
			If you come to Jummah on Friday, I
		
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			don't know if you guys read Jummah last
		
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			Friday. We were talking about, like, 4 hadith
		
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			that are foundational hadith,
		
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			from a text that's called the Sunan of
		
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			Abu Dawood
		
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			where it's got like tons of hadith in
		
00:45:31 --> 00:45:33
			it but the author says, if you know
		
00:45:33 --> 00:45:36
			these 4 hadith from this book, like they
		
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			sufficed you for everything.
		
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			And one of those says, the halal is
		
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			clear and the haram is clear and in
		
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			between them are doubtful things
		
00:45:44 --> 00:45:46
			that many people don't know about. Right? And
		
00:45:46 --> 00:45:48
			we'll talk about some of this more in
		
00:45:48 --> 00:45:50
			that. There's things of doubt. It's better to
		
00:45:50 --> 00:45:53
			to leave them. But if they're actually doubtful,
		
00:45:53 --> 00:45:54
			you know?
		
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			Okay.
		
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			The third is
		
00:46:01 --> 00:46:02
			you cover
		
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			what
		
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			is called your aura.
		
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			This is the Arabic word,
		
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			but it's essentially like
		
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			the parts of your body that you are
		
00:46:21 --> 00:46:23
			required to have covered at a minimum in
		
00:46:23 --> 00:46:24
			your prayer.
		
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			For men,
		
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			it is
		
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			from your navel to below your knees,
		
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			and for women, it's everything other than your
		
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			face and your hands and your feet.
		
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			And
		
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			within that,
		
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			like, you wouldn't have a man show up
		
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			to pray
		
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			with just like the lower part of their
		
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			body covered, you know. Like if I come
		
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			to Juman on Friday
		
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			and all I got has a towel wrapped
		
00:46:50 --> 00:46:53
			around my waist, I'm pretty sure somebody's gonna
		
00:46:53 --> 00:46:54
			have a problem with it. Do you know
		
00:46:54 --> 00:46:57
			what I mean? But we're talking about within
		
00:46:57 --> 00:46:58
			the prayer,
		
00:46:58 --> 00:47:01
			there are parts of the body that have
		
00:47:01 --> 00:47:02
			to be covered,
		
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			and you're getting yourself ready.
		
00:47:06 --> 00:47:08
			The common thread through all of this
		
00:47:09 --> 00:47:10
			is that you're building
		
00:47:11 --> 00:47:12
			a presence
		
00:47:12 --> 00:47:14
			prior to getting into prayer,
		
00:47:14 --> 00:47:16
			right? The same way we're saying,
		
00:47:16 --> 00:47:19
			you can read the first chapter differently if
		
00:47:19 --> 00:47:21
			you know what it means, and you're gonna
		
00:47:21 --> 00:47:23
			go through it a little bit more slow.
		
00:47:23 --> 00:47:26
			So in each of these things, it's not
		
00:47:26 --> 00:47:28
			like a checkbox that's meant to create anxiety,
		
00:47:29 --> 00:47:31
			it's a checkbox that's meant to create consciousness,
		
00:47:32 --> 00:47:34
			right? Did I wash up for the prayer?
		
00:47:34 --> 00:47:36
			Are my clothes like clean? I'm gonna go
		
00:47:36 --> 00:47:38
			stand in front of God. Do you know?
		
00:47:38 --> 00:47:40
			Like, what's the state that I'm standing in
		
00:47:40 --> 00:47:44
			front of God in? Right? Is everything kinda
		
00:47:44 --> 00:47:45
			dressed the way that it needs to be
		
00:47:45 --> 00:47:46
			dressed?
		
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			And it's not to kinda
		
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			anthropomorphize
		
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			one's relationship with God, but think about how
		
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			it is that you
		
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			would look to
		
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			dress
		
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			in anticipation of any
		
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			event or occasion
		
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			that you know already has
		
00:48:01 --> 00:48:04
			its own criteria for expectation
		
00:48:04 --> 00:48:05
			of a dress code.
		
00:48:06 --> 00:48:07
			You walk into
		
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			a gala, they're gonna expect you to be
		
00:48:09 --> 00:48:12
			wearing something. It's a wedding day, you're gonna
		
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			be expected to wear something. You're gonna go
		
00:48:14 --> 00:48:16
			to a funeral. You're not gonna show up
		
00:48:16 --> 00:48:17
			to a funeral
		
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			in a tank top and a pair of
		
00:48:19 --> 00:48:21
			pink shorts, right? It's gonna be disrespectful
		
00:48:22 --> 00:48:23
			to the event. Do you know what I
		
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			mean? And if you try to do something
		
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			that just doesn't make sense
		
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			out of deference to the occasion,
		
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			somebody is gonna say to you, why are
		
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			you dressed like that?
		
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			Do you know? Like do you know what
		
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			you're going to do?
		
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			Right?
		
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			So similarly,
		
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			the idea is as we're going through these
		
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			5 or 6 conditions,
		
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			they're meant to create consciousness.
		
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			Regardless of how it is that you choose
		
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			to dress outside of your prayer,
		
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			you want to be on top of this
		
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			within the course of your prayer.
		
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			At a minimum,
		
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			what happens
		
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			is if more than
		
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			a quarter of a limb
		
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			that is meant to be covered in the
		
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			course of a prayer becomes uncovered,
		
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			then the prayer itself
		
00:49:11 --> 00:49:12
			doesn't have validity.
		
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			Does that make sense?
		
00:49:16 --> 00:49:18
			Which also goes on the other end, you
		
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			don't wanna be the Haram police. There's somebody
		
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			standing in prayer, and you're like pulling on
		
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			their clothes,
		
00:49:25 --> 00:49:27
			and measuring this and that. Right?
		
00:49:28 --> 00:49:29
			Now if you have multiple
		
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			things that are supposed to be covered that
		
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			are not like beyond a quarter,
		
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			but the sum total of them
		
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			exceeds now a quarter of what is
		
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			the minimal,
		
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			like, sized limb of covering, then that also
		
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			becomes a problem.
		
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			Does that make sense?
		
00:49:49 --> 00:49:52
			So, you know, just be ready to pray
		
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			when you gotta pray. And if you gotta
		
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			carry clothes with you, then carry some clothes
		
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			with you to cover yourself up. You know?
		
00:49:58 --> 00:50:00
			Yeah. So just to be clear,
		
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			everything from right here
		
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			to a little bit below the
		
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			knee needs to be covered. The minimum for
		
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			a man is from below the navel to
		
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			below the knee. In my arms.
		
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			Yeah. But you should be covered, like, with
		
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			a shirt and everything. The challenge that most
		
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			men have, right, generalization
		
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			is that their backsides fall out of their
		
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			pants, you know? So wear a belt. Do
		
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			you know what I mean? If you come
		
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			to Jomana on Friday, right, or you ever
		
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			come to pray when there's
		
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			No. I said, where does that happen? Where
		
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			does it happen? Oh my god, man. I
		
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			wish I could unsee the things that I'm
		
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			seeing. Where does it happen? It happens
		
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			every single place you can imagine.
		
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			Right? And this is a challenge because religion
		
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			tends to be a boys club,
		
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			you know. Most Muslim men are only identifiably
		
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			understood to be Muslim because they walk next
		
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			to a woman who's wearing a scarf on
		
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			her head. There's hijab for men as much
		
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			as there's hijab for women in Islam.
		
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			And within this, like again, how you choose
		
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			to dress outside
		
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			of prayer
		
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			like is a different conversation. In the course
		
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			of your prayer, you wanna make sure that
		
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			you're covered up the way that is meant
		
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			to be covered.
		
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			And within that, not think about it in
		
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			terms of minimums.
		
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			But what becomes challenging for many men is
		
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			that
		
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			when they bend over, like their pants are
		
00:51:23 --> 00:51:26
			rolling down and their backsides get exposed, and
		
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			it happens a lot for people. So if
		
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			you wear a belt, get a t shirt,
		
00:51:30 --> 00:51:32
			tuck it into your pants. Right?
		
00:51:32 --> 00:51:35
			This is why like culturally you see in
		
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			many Muslim communities,
		
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			Indian subcontinent,
		
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			the Gulf,
		
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			Indonesia, Malaysia,
		
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			a lot of African countries,
		
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			like shirts go down
		
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			past the waist for men,
		
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			right? Because
		
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			you don't have any idea, right? I'm wearing
		
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			these black skinny jeans right now, you know,
		
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			which probably
		
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			somebody like me does not need to be
		
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			wearing them, but I got a long shirt
		
00:51:59 --> 00:52:01
			on. So when I pray, doesn't matter if
		
00:52:01 --> 00:52:04
			something's rising up or down because it's covered.
		
00:52:04 --> 00:52:06
			Right? And in our culture, you see it
		
00:52:06 --> 00:52:07
			embedded. If you go to Philly
		
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			and you see African American culture is very
		
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			influenced and hip hop culture is very influenced
		
00:52:13 --> 00:52:13
			by
		
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			Islam in terms of the way dress has
		
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			kind of manifested in a lot of different
		
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			ways. And it's adopted from these ideals.
		
00:52:22 --> 00:52:24
			Right? From, you know, how it is that
		
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			you're covering yourself in these ways. So in
		
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			the course of your prayer for men, just
		
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			make sure, like, this is a big challenge
		
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			for men. Like, you're not exposing,
		
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			like, your backside in any way. Yeah. Sorry.
		
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			Just just making sure I can pray with,
		
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			like, push my sleeves. You can wear a
		
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			t shirt. I mean, you can wear it.
		
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			Yeah. And also, this is, do you ever
		
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			take your demerall's
		
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			style? Me? Yeah. I do. I don't wear
		
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			it 24 hours a day. Yeah.
		
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			And I wear it I take it off,
		
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			but
		
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			for, you know, in in my understanding, right,
		
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			they say,
		
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			like the prophet Muhammad
		
00:52:59 --> 00:53:01
			was never without his head uncovered
		
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			other than
		
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			when he would go on pilgrimage,
		
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			he would be dressed in,
		
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			these 2, like, white unstitched garments.
		
00:53:10 --> 00:53:12
			And they said the companions of the prophet
		
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			were never without their head uncovered in prayer.
		
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			You know, it's a sign of humility.
		
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			It's not an obligation though. Do you know
		
00:53:19 --> 00:53:19
			what I mean?
		
00:53:20 --> 00:53:22
			Right? But the bigger thing, right,
		
00:53:22 --> 00:53:23
			if you're a man and you get one
		
00:53:23 --> 00:53:25
			of these on, but your butt's falling out
		
00:53:25 --> 00:53:28
			of your pants, like that's screwing up your
		
00:53:28 --> 00:53:30
			prayer. Do you get what I mean? So
		
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			invest in a belt,
		
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			like pull up your pants. Does that make
		
00:53:34 --> 00:53:35
			sense? Yeah.
		
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			Okay.
		
00:53:37 --> 00:53:38
			And for women,
		
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			it's the same concept.
		
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			You're gonna have everything
		
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			covered,
		
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			other than the face,
		
00:53:46 --> 00:53:47
			hands and feet.
		
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			There's,
		
00:53:51 --> 00:53:52
			and that's also
		
00:53:53 --> 00:53:56
			kinda despite what you're kinda dressed outside,
		
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			it's a separate conversation in the course of
		
00:53:58 --> 00:53:59
			the prayer.
		
00:53:59 --> 00:54:00
			Like, you're covering,
		
00:54:01 --> 00:54:04
			the parts of the body also, and it's
		
00:54:04 --> 00:54:05
			a precondition
		
00:54:05 --> 00:54:07
			of the prayer. You know? And you wanna
		
00:54:07 --> 00:54:11
			think about it in terms of just, like,
		
00:54:11 --> 00:54:13
			the event, the occasion. Do you know what
		
00:54:13 --> 00:54:15
			I mean? Like, what is it that I'm
		
00:54:15 --> 00:54:17
			really getting myself ready for here?
		
00:54:17 --> 00:54:18
			And
		
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			what is kind of the criteria, the dress
		
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			code of the event?
		
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			Okay.
		
00:54:25 --> 00:54:26
			Then, 4th,
		
00:54:28 --> 00:54:29
			the condition
		
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			is
		
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			you're facing
		
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			towards
		
00:54:36 --> 00:54:37
			the Kaaba,
		
00:54:42 --> 00:54:43
			which is Mecca.
		
00:54:49 --> 00:54:49
			So
		
00:54:50 --> 00:54:52
			technology can help in a lot of different
		
00:54:52 --> 00:54:54
			ways with this, but it also can be
		
00:54:54 --> 00:54:55
			something that's pretty
		
00:54:56 --> 00:54:57
			not so good.
		
00:54:59 --> 00:55:01
			We could probably have everybody open up a
		
00:55:01 --> 00:55:03
			compass on their phone, and majority of you
		
00:55:03 --> 00:55:05
			would have a compass that kind of aligns
		
00:55:05 --> 00:55:05
			properly,
		
00:55:06 --> 00:55:07
			but some of you would also have them
		
00:55:07 --> 00:55:10
			be just kinda all over the place. Right?
		
00:55:10 --> 00:55:11
			So this religion
		
00:55:12 --> 00:55:13
			also has us
		
00:55:14 --> 00:55:17
			very much deeply connected to things that are
		
00:55:17 --> 00:55:19
			elemental. Right? You make water with will do.
		
00:55:19 --> 00:55:21
			You know, our prayers are based off of
		
00:55:21 --> 00:55:22
			a cyclical pattern
		
00:55:23 --> 00:55:23
			of the
		
00:55:24 --> 00:55:27
			sun. You can tell direction literally from, like,
		
00:55:27 --> 00:55:29
			the place of the sun in the horizon.
		
00:55:30 --> 00:55:32
			So where and how
		
00:55:33 --> 00:55:33
			you can
		
00:55:34 --> 00:55:36
			very easily, if you don't know where you
		
00:55:36 --> 00:55:37
			are, you try your best.
		
00:55:37 --> 00:55:39
			Like, the sun is
		
00:55:40 --> 00:55:40
			either
		
00:55:41 --> 00:55:43
			Which which is it? Is the sun rising
		
00:55:43 --> 00:55:44
			or setting in the west?
		
00:55:46 --> 00:55:48
			The sun's in the wind. The sun rise
		
00:55:49 --> 00:55:51
			rises then in the east. Right?
		
00:55:51 --> 00:55:54
			So it's gonna be going on a cycle.
		
00:55:54 --> 00:55:57
			So if you know the sun is coming
		
00:55:57 --> 00:55:57
			up
		
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			until noon time
		
00:56:00 --> 00:56:02
			from one end, and it's going down
		
00:56:03 --> 00:56:06
			post noon till sunset the other way, then
		
00:56:06 --> 00:56:08
			you know what East and West is. Right?
		
00:56:09 --> 00:56:10
			West is gonna be there
		
00:56:10 --> 00:56:12
			and East is gonna be there.
		
00:56:12 --> 00:56:15
			So North is this way, so Northeast is
		
00:56:15 --> 00:56:17
			like this which is why we're praying like
		
00:56:17 --> 00:56:18
			this in the room.
		
00:56:18 --> 00:56:21
			Right? In the United States, the direction towards
		
00:56:21 --> 00:56:23
			Mecca is Northeast,
		
00:56:24 --> 00:56:26
			and you could get to like specific degree
		
00:56:26 --> 00:56:27
			marks.
		
00:56:27 --> 00:56:29
			When you're not in front of the Kaaba
		
00:56:29 --> 00:56:30
			and Mecca,
		
00:56:31 --> 00:56:32
			there's a leeway
		
00:56:33 --> 00:56:35
			of 45 degrees in either direction.
		
00:56:36 --> 00:56:38
			Right? You're just trying your best.
		
00:56:38 --> 00:56:40
			So you don't have to be spot on
		
00:56:41 --> 00:56:43
			every single time that you're going to do
		
00:56:43 --> 00:56:45
			this. And you go to some Masjid because
		
00:56:45 --> 00:56:46
			of the leeway
		
00:56:46 --> 00:56:47
			and they're restricted
		
00:56:48 --> 00:56:49
			by space constraints,
		
00:56:50 --> 00:56:50
			they
		
00:56:50 --> 00:56:51
			position
		
00:56:51 --> 00:56:52
			slightly off
		
00:56:53 --> 00:56:55
			the exact direction in order
		
00:56:55 --> 00:56:56
			to have
		
00:56:56 --> 00:56:59
			kind of the structure of the congregation be
		
00:56:59 --> 00:57:01
			built out a little bit more feasibly.
		
00:57:01 --> 00:57:02
			Do you know?
		
00:57:03 --> 00:57:04
			In Manhattan,
		
00:57:04 --> 00:57:06
			you know, an easy way is to just
		
00:57:06 --> 00:57:08
			think your face uptown and you kinda angle
		
00:57:08 --> 00:57:11
			to the right. Right? Because streets are going,
		
00:57:12 --> 00:57:14
			south to north and avenues are going west
		
00:57:14 --> 00:57:17
			to east. No. Avenues are going south to
		
00:57:17 --> 00:57:19
			north and streets are going west to east.
		
00:57:19 --> 00:57:19
			Right?
		
00:57:20 --> 00:57:21
			And so that kinda helps.
		
00:57:22 --> 00:57:23
			But you're facing towards
		
00:57:24 --> 00:57:26
			the Kaaba, you're facing towards Mecca.
		
00:57:26 --> 00:57:28
			And, you know, if you don't know how
		
00:57:28 --> 00:57:30
			to figure it out, you ask somebody. Right?
		
00:57:31 --> 00:57:33
			If nobody knows, you just try your best.
		
00:57:33 --> 00:57:35
			If you're in a place where you have
		
00:57:35 --> 00:57:35
			constraints
		
00:57:36 --> 00:57:37
			and you just have no way of doing
		
00:57:37 --> 00:57:39
			it, you still pray the prayer in its
		
00:57:39 --> 00:57:39
			time.
		
00:57:40 --> 00:57:43
			Does that make sense? Yeah. So this is
		
00:57:43 --> 00:57:44
			the next,
		
00:57:45 --> 00:57:45
			condition.
		
00:57:46 --> 00:57:48
			You're facing towards Mecca.
		
00:57:49 --> 00:57:50
			5,
		
00:57:50 --> 00:57:53
			the time of prayer has come in.
		
00:58:01 --> 00:58:02
			So what that means is
		
00:58:03 --> 00:58:06
			you are not able to pray a prayer
		
00:58:07 --> 00:58:09
			before the time the prayer commences.
		
00:58:11 --> 00:58:12
			Does it make sense?
		
00:58:13 --> 00:58:16
			But there's windows of time.
		
00:58:16 --> 00:58:18
			So the number of students I sit with
		
00:58:18 --> 00:58:20
			at NYU for example,
		
00:58:20 --> 00:58:23
			who are 1st year students, 2nd year students,
		
00:58:23 --> 00:58:25
			and they are freaked out of their minds
		
00:58:25 --> 00:58:27
			because they have to now adapt a new
		
00:58:27 --> 00:58:30
			structure. Someone graduates and they go to work
		
00:58:30 --> 00:58:33
			for the first time, or people use language
		
00:58:33 --> 00:58:36
			very irresponsibly, and they'll say, it's better to
		
00:58:36 --> 00:58:37
			do x.
		
00:58:37 --> 00:58:39
			That better doesn't mean obligatory.
		
00:58:41 --> 00:58:42
			Do you get what I mean?
		
00:58:43 --> 00:58:44
			So you have
		
00:58:45 --> 00:58:46
			like an entire
		
00:58:47 --> 00:58:49
			cyclical pattern of the sun.
		
00:58:49 --> 00:58:51
			Say this is the horizon.
		
00:58:52 --> 00:58:55
			So the first prayer of the day
		
00:58:55 --> 00:58:57
			is called Fedr.
		
00:58:58 --> 00:58:59
			And if we were to look at this
		
00:58:59 --> 00:59:00
			from the standpoint
		
00:59:01 --> 00:59:01
			of
		
00:59:02 --> 00:59:03
			degree marks,
		
00:59:07 --> 00:59:08
			There's a time
		
00:59:09 --> 00:59:09
			where
		
00:59:10 --> 00:59:11
			there's like
		
00:59:11 --> 00:59:14
			the sun is approaching the horizon. Right? And
		
00:59:14 --> 00:59:16
			you should go watch the sunrise so you
		
00:59:16 --> 00:59:18
			can think about this in this way. Do
		
00:59:18 --> 00:59:19
			you know what I mean? And if you
		
00:59:19 --> 00:59:21
			can't see the sunrise from where you are
		
00:59:21 --> 00:59:22
			in the boroughs,
		
00:59:22 --> 00:59:24
			go on a, like, trip. We'll take everybody
		
00:59:25 --> 00:59:27
			upstate. And we'll just watch the sunrise.
		
00:59:27 --> 00:59:29
			You know? So as the sun is getting
		
00:59:29 --> 00:59:31
			closer to the horizon,
		
00:59:31 --> 00:59:33
			what are the first colors that you're seeing
		
00:59:33 --> 00:59:34
			come above the horizon
		
00:59:35 --> 00:59:36
			in a sunrise?
		
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			Red.
		
00:59:37 --> 00:59:40
			Red. Right? So when you start to see
		
00:59:40 --> 00:59:41
			redness
		
00:59:41 --> 00:59:43
			above the horizon,
		
00:59:43 --> 00:59:45
			like the time of fudger is starting.
		
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			Does that make sense?
		
00:59:47 --> 00:59:48
			Right?
		
00:59:49 --> 00:59:50
			Now,
		
00:59:50 --> 00:59:53
			was it getting closer to the horizon?
		
00:59:53 --> 00:59:55
			How does this sky start to change color?
		
00:59:56 --> 00:59:58
			Yellow. And then what happens?
		
01:00:01 --> 01:00:03
			Like, what color is the sky right now?
		
01:00:05 --> 01:00:08
			It's white. It's white. Right? Yeah. So you're
		
01:00:08 --> 01:00:10
			going from red, orange, yellow to white.
		
01:00:11 --> 01:00:13
			That's the entire time of Fudger.
		
01:00:14 --> 01:00:17
			Fudger stops when a portion of the sun
		
01:00:17 --> 01:00:19
			is visible above the horizon.
		
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			At that point in time, you cannot pray
		
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			until the sun is completely above the horizon.
		
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			So you have this whole window of time
		
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			to pray fajr.
		
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			It doesn't have to be prayed right at
		
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			the minute that it starts. You have an
		
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			entire window of time to pray the Fudger
		
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			prayer. Does that make
		
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			sense? So when you look on an app,
		
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			and there's prayer
		
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			times, it'll give you a time for fudger
		
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			starting,
		
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			and it'll give you the time for sunrise.
		
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			You're praying in between that window.
		
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			You then have
		
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			the second prayer of the day is called
		
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			Dhuhr.
		
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			So when the sun
		
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			is coming down from its zenith,
		
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			this is when the goers starts.
		
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			So
		
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			right before
		
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			and after, when it's immediately
		
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			above,
		
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			like
		
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			straight up, that's a time that you're also
		
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			not supposed to pray. It's called the Zawal
		
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			time. And just a few minutes before and
		
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			a few minutes after. So today,
		
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			like, if Dolhurst starts at 102,
		
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			you wouldn't pray at, like, 12
		
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			56,
		
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			1250
		
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			ish, or sorry. That's too much time. You
		
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			wouldn't pray at, like, 1257
		
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			or so, give or take. Right?
		
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			You start to pray after the time comes.
		
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			And some people make this mistake. If you
		
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			come to Jummah on Friday,
		
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			right, the time for is the time that
		
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			Jummah starts. People walk in, they just start
		
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			praying in that time that you're not supposed
		
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			to be praying.
		
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			This goes until
		
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			the time of Asar,
		
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			which is,
		
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			in the Hanafi school, there's 2 opinions.
		
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			There's
		
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			the
		
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			twice the length of your shadow
		
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			or one time the length of your shadow.
		
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			Most people pray at one time the length
		
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			of your shadow. It's earlier time and twice
		
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			the length is a little later in the
		
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			afternoon.
		
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			Then
		
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			you have from thehir till the time your
		
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			shadow is twice its length to pray
		
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			Right? So today,
		
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			that would be
		
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			from 1 o'clock in the afternoon
		
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			until almost 5 o'clock if you do the
		
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			earlier time until after 6 o'clock if you
		
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			do the later time. Right? You can see
		
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			where somebody would get stressed out if they
		
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			thought I could only play it right at
		
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			the very first minute.
		
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			Do you get what I'm saying?
		
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			This is where better is like an arbitrary
		
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			term,
		
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			you know, because people have a lot of
		
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			different things going on. So you just pray
		
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			it within the window of time
		
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			that it has to be prayed.
		
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			And then the 4th prayer of the day
		
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			so this is where we have Asar,
		
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			here's Zohar,
		
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			And then you have sunset
		
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			is the Maghrib time that goes until
		
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			the time of Isha,
		
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			which is night,
		
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			and you have these windows again to pray
		
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			these times.
		
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			So the time of the prayer has to
		
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			come in
		
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			for the prayers
		
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			validity, its performance. Right? So you can't pray
		
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			over here
		
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			because it's not the her time yet. It's
		
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			gotta be after the time has come in.
		
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			Does that make sense?
		
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			Yeah?
		
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			Yeah. Go ahead. I read one something online
		
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			that it said, like,
		
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			and Oscar could be prayed together and then
		
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			upgrade the ship.
		
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			Like, conditions.
		
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			Like, if you can't make that a certain
		
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			time, you can combine it. You can combine
		
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			the prayers if you're traveling.
		
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			There are some opinions that say if there's,
		
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			like, immense hardship,
		
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			then you can combine prayers also.
		
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			But the hardship has to be something
		
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			that is kinda ascertained,
		
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			in conjunction with, like, advice from somebody who's
		
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			a religious scholar. Do you know?
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			But those are things that are there. Like,
		
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			I was in
		
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			Canada,
		
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			and there's parts of Canada, for example, where,
		
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			like,
		
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			comes in
		
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			at
		
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			11 something,
		
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			and ish shows that, like, midnight and fudgers
		
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			at 2 in the morning. You know? And
		
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			there's, like, times of the year where it's
		
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			just perpetual sunlight or perpetual darkness in some
		
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			parts of the world. People have to kind
		
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			of adapt. You know what I mean?
		
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			And so they have religious scholars there
		
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			who say because
		
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			of, like, people's work schedules and need for
		
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			sleep and whatever else,
		
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			that they'll pray Isha and Maghrib together
		
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			just for those 2 months in the summer
		
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			where that time is constrained. Right? But they're,
		
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			like, coming together on a consensus
		
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			with it. You know? So there is room
		
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			for these kinds of things,
		
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			but individually, you'd wanna talk to somebody who
		
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			who kinda knows. You know? Yeah. You had
		
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			your hand raised?
		
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			What's?
		
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			Is like in its literal sense, it means
		
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			just standing
		
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			and what people refer to is like like
		
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			a optional night prayer where you stand.
		
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			It's like an extra prayer.
		
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			It just means, like, praying extra stuff at
		
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			night.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			Then
		
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			you have what's called the intention
		
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			And the intention is what distinguishes
		
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			the prayer you're about to perform.
		
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			So you're making the intention for the prayer.
		
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			Right? So we'll talk about these more in
		
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			detail next week, but for example, in the
		
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			Fajr prayer, you have 2 cycles
		
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			of recommended prayers, sunnah prayers, and 2 cycles
		
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			of obligatory, farth prayers.
		
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			The only difference
		
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			in the performance of those prayers
		
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			is the intention.
		
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			In one cycle, you're going to say, I
		
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			intend to pray
		
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			2 units
		
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			of recommended prayer
		
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			for Fajr,
		
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			and finishing the intention. Right? For your sake
		
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			facing
		
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			Mecca, make it easy for me and accept
		
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			it from me. Intention can be done in
		
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			English, doesn't have to be done in Arabic,
		
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			and it's expressed,
		
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			the place of intentions
		
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			on the tongue and in the heart. Right?
		
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			We wanna start bringing presence and all of
		
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			it still, like you can see a thread
		
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			of just consciousness going through this. Right?
		
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			Making sure I'm washed up, there's nothing dirty
		
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			on me, I'm dressed properly.
		
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			I'm facing towards Mecca.
		
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			The time is there, and now I'm affirming
		
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			why I'm going to do what I'm going
		
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			to do before I do it. And
		
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			that intention,
		
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			is not considered a part of the prayer.
		
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			It is
		
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			prior to its outside of the prayer.
		
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			And then you have the last
		
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			component
		
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			which is called the harima
		
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			and it's gonna be on this list and
		
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			next week when we talk about the obligatory
		
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			acts of prayer, which will be a much
		
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			quicker conversation.
		
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			It'll be also the first one on that
		
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			because some people consider it to be
		
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			a
		
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			condition
		
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			for the validity of the prayers commencing, and
		
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			some people consider it to be
		
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			a obligatory act of the prayer. But in
		
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			both instances, it's an obligation.
		
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			This is an opening invitation,
		
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			you know,
		
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			where,
		
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			you're saying like the you'll see people when
		
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			they pray, they'll do like the initial Allahu
		
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			Akbar.
		
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			Right? That's the.
		
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			It has the word,
		
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			like, the letters for haram in it.
		
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			Right? Which what did we say the word
		
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			haram means? Strictly
		
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			prohibited. Strictly prohibited. Right? So what's happening when
		
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			you do this
		
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			is you're now making things that are permissible
		
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			impermissible.
		
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			So you're entering into the prayer with this,
		
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			and you're basically saying, hey,
		
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			in general, it's okay for me to talk
		
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			on my phone,
		
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			but in my prayer, it's not permissible for
		
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			me to talk on my phone.
		
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			In my prayer, I'm facing only towards Mecca.
		
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			I'm not moving around.
		
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			Right? In my prayer, I'm not talking to
		
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			anybody next to me, I'm only talking to
		
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			God.
		
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			So embedded in the word is the idea
		
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			that you're rendering certain things now
		
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			that you could normally do, you won't do
		
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			them in the course of the prayer. And
		
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			all of these are things that are happening
		
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			before you start the prayer. These are conditions,
		
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			Shrut,
		
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			of the prayer itself.
		
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			Does that make sense?
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			So let's take a pause here.
		
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			What you wanna do
		
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			is work on Fatihah
		
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			between this week and next week, it's memorization.
		
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			And
		
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			what we wanna also do is if you
		
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			have any questions on wudu,
		
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			bring them for next week whether you were
		
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			here when we reviewed it in detail like
		
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			some months ago or not.
		
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			And,
		
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			if you haven't already,
		
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			try to build a relationship with the timings
		
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			of the prayer.
		
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			Just like the windows of time,
		
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			acquaint yourself with them.
		
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			Right? This is a really important part of
		
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			the prayer. It's called the
		
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			sanctity of time.
		
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			Right? And there's
		
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			a understanding spiritually the same way we talked
		
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			about focus, kushurah.
		
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			In Islam,
		
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			the way that we worship is outlined through
		
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			direct
		
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			understanding
		
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			from God and God's messenger.
		
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			So,
		
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			I couldn't tell you why
		
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			these are the best times to pray these
		
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			prayers,
		
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			but they're fundamentally
		
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			the best time to pray them because this
		
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			is when God said to pray the prayers.
		
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			And if you're doing them outside
		
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			of those timings, then you're cutting yourself off
		
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			from the blessing of those timings,
		
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			and the transformational nature of the prayer
		
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			kinda gets left out. Right? So
		
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			it also shouldn't take a while to do
		
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			the prayer as such.
		
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			In that initial stage
		
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			that we've talked about the obligations
		
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			which doesn't have you go through every single
		
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			step of it,
		
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			but you wanna be ready for it. Do
		
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			you know what I mean? You start to
		
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			think, right? Between this week and next week,
		
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			what are things that come up for you
		
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			that make it hard? Do you know? That
		
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			we can talk out here like we did,
		
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			you know, some months ago.
		
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			Like how can you anticipate
		
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			being in a state of will do? It
		
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			doesn't mean you have to make will do
		
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			every time you pray.
		
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			If there's nothing that broke your will do,
		
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			then you could have will do the whole
		
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			entire day if you needed to, right? And
		
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			you start to think from the standpoint of
		
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			like, this spiritual exercise
		
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			is nourishment for my inner self, the way
		
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			food is nourishment for my physical self. Let
		
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			me not think about these two things separate
		
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			from each other, but how does my physical
		
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			and metaphysical relate to one another? You know?
		
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			So if I know it's hard for me
		
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			to make will do at work, then maybe
		
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			what I eat at breakfast isn't something that's
		
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			gonna have me
		
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			breaking my wudu like when I'm in the
		
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			office. Do you know?
		
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			I can time like my meals. I'm a
		
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			little bit more strategic in my routine. Do
		
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			you get what I mean? Right?
		
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			But you're putting like an idea that in
		
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			Islam, which you get out of something
		
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			is heavily connected to like what you're putting
		
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			into it, you know. You can see what
		
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			something's a priority based off of your kind
		
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			of overall engagement in that capacity.
		
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			So think about it and try to build
		
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			a relationship with the time and come with
		
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			like scenarios, questions,
		
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			and then we'll start going through the obligatory
		
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			acts
		
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			and the necessary acts, and
		
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			look at 2 short chapters
		
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			of the Quran. Also, we'll break it down
		
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			the way we broke down fatiha
		
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			and start to go through some of the
		
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			meanings
		
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			of the other words that we're saying in
		
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			the different positions. Right? Like, what are the
		
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			words mean when we're in the bowing position?
		
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			You know, what is the words mean when
		
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			we're in the prostrating positions? Does that make
		
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			sense?
		
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			Okay. Oh, and if you can come on
		
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			Friday, it's fried chicken Friday, for Joma. So
		
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			come and have lunch with us too. But,
		
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			otherwise, we'll see everyone next week.
		
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			Thank you.