Khalid Latif – Perfecting Your Prayer Essentials of Salah (Hanafi) #08

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The importance of learning and practicing Islam is emphasized, including the importance of affirming oneself in prayer, reciting the necessary actions, and reciting the words Allahuorn. The importance of finding a place to feel at home and finding a balance between the elements of the prayer process is emphasized. The importance of learning and adapting to various environments and situations is emphasized, and the importance of learning and learning in a situation where it is not a norm is emphasized.

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			So
		
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			last week,
		
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			we started looking at the actual,
		
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			like, prayer
		
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			and its mechanics.
		
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			And we went through the obligatory parts to
		
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			it.
		
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			I know there's some new people here this
		
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			week.
		
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			There's people who are typically here who aren't
		
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			here with us. So, if it's your first
		
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			time here, we've been recording all the classes.
		
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			You can find them on our YouTube channel.
		
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			You can listen to
		
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			things on our podcast.
		
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			I'm also happy to meet with people 1
		
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			on 1 just to kind of get you
		
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			up to speed.
		
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			But the idea of us doing this is
		
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			to take a deep dive
		
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			into
		
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			what is a foundational element of
		
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			ritual in Islam, the prayer,
		
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			meaning the daily prayers.
		
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			And to present it in a way for
		
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			those who are new to Islam, they might
		
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			have been born into a Muslim family, but
		
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			they're rebuilding their relationship with their faith, their
		
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			converts, they're exploring Islam
		
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			that allows for
		
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			the mode of engagement to be one that
		
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			understands
		
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			kind of where you're at
		
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			in this phase of your life.
		
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			And doesn't necessarily
		
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			become overwhelming
		
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			in a way that it doesn't have to
		
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			be,
		
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			But it's presented in a way that shows
		
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			there's kind of a systematic approach, so you
		
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			don't have to overnight suddenly like learn Arabic,
		
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			for example,
		
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			Or suddenly
		
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			know the meaning of all these different things,
		
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			or have things literally get lost in translation,
		
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			that makes it feel very kind of disconnected
		
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			and foreign. Does that make sense?
		
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			And so already what we've done just to
		
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			get people up to speed,
		
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			we took a deep dive into the first
		
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			chapter of the Quran. It's called Surah Fatiha,
		
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			means the opening. And it's a chapter that's
		
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			recited
		
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			in every unit of prayer.
		
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			It wasn't just a translation
		
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			but to kind of distill like, well, what's
		
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			the meaning behind this, right? Because you could
		
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			even know the translation of something but doesn't
		
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			mean that the words necessarily resonate so well.
		
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			In the coming weeks we're gonna look at
		
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			2 shorter chapters,
		
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			of the Quran,
		
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			and kinda go into those in a little
		
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			bit more detail. Also,
		
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			that as you're learning and memorizing things, you're
		
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			able
		
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			to kinda understand a little bit more of
		
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			what you're talking about.
		
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			And that's kind of the idea, right, in
		
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			building focus and concentration.
		
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			And the example we used at that time
		
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			was, say I was standing here speaking a
		
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			language that no one could speak in the
		
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			room, you know.
		
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			Let's say theoretically, no one in the room
		
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			could speak Chinese. I don't know if anyone
		
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			can speak Chinese in the room. Can any
		
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			of you speak Chinese?
		
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			Yeah. Great. So if I was standing here
		
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			speaking Chinese
		
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			or I just pretended like I could and
		
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			you had no idea because I don't know
		
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			how to speak Chinese but neither do you.
		
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			So I could be making up whatever I
		
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			want to. You fundamentally
		
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			wouldn't be able to build deep concentration
		
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			Not for any other reason other than there's
		
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			just a language barrier.
		
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			So how would you be able to retain
		
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			and absorb
		
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			when the literal meaning of the words is
		
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			something that is beyond our capacity to engage.
		
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			Do you know? Let alone then just how
		
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			overwhelming it can feel trying to memorize
		
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			or regurgitate something,
		
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			as you're simultaneously
		
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			kinda doing everything else that you're doing. It's
		
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			not in a vacuum. Does that make sense?
		
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			So today what we're gonna be looking at
		
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			is a second bucket
		
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			of
		
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			what
		
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			goes into the mechanics of the prayer. I
		
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			like him.
		
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			He kinda takes a deep so last week
		
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			what we talked about
		
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			were the
		
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			obligatory
		
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			aspects,
		
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			what are called the Farud
		
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			aspects
		
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			of the prayer.
		
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			These are things that
		
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			if they're not present, like the prayer doesn't
		
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			count in and of itself. Not the conditions
		
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			outside of the prayer, but what goes into
		
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			the mechanics of the prayer
		
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			and
		
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			what it is that one needs at a
		
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			minimum
		
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			once you are in
		
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			the prayer itself.
		
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			Does anybody remember
		
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			or wanna kinda walk us through some of
		
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			what those were?
		
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			The integrals of the prayer for those who
		
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			were here last week.
		
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			Yeah. Standing?
		
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			Yeah. So standing in the prayer is the
		
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			second
		
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			integral
		
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			of the prayer.
		
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			Like, the literal standing posture in the prayer.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			What was before this?
		
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			Intention.
		
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			Yeah. So the intention was one of the
		
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			conditions outside of the prayer. Right? So you've
		
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			made the intention. What do you do next?
		
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			The wudu is also a condition outside of
		
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			the prayer.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			So I made the intention. How do I
		
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			enter into the prayer?
		
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			It's okay.
		
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			Yeah. So you say Allahu Akbar.
		
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			Right? Some people can say it's something to
		
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			glorify God. This is like the integrals of
		
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			the prayer. Right? It might not
		
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			be what one
		
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			might be accustomed to seeing. It's called the
		
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			Tahrima.
		
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			So you're essentially saying what is that initial
		
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			Allahu Akbar.
		
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			And this like puts you in the state
		
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			of prayer.
		
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			What's next in terms of like the obligations
		
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			of prayer?
		
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			It's okay if people don't remember they weren't
		
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			here last time.
		
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			You can also look at notes you took.
		
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			So when you're standing, like, what do you
		
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			normally do in the standing if you've ever
		
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			seen a Muslim person pray?
		
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			Yeah. So you're gonna recite.
		
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			Right? And
		
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			in the obligations,
		
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			all you have to recite
		
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			is any,
		
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			like short verse
		
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			of the Quran.
		
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			The shortest verse in the Quran is 2
		
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			words. It says, Thummanadir,
		
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			then he looked.
		
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			So if you recite just that,
		
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			you meet the obligatory
		
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			part of the prayer. That's all you have
		
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			to say. Right?
		
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			This is in the obligations.
		
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			It's not what the end product will look
		
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			like as we're going through this, but the
		
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			bare minimum. Which
		
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			if you have a reason as to why
		
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			you would do that, which if you're new
		
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			to Islam or you're new to the ritual
		
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			prayer in Islam, there's not gonna be an
		
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			expectation that you have memorized everything
		
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			right off the bat. Does that make sense?
		
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			Yeah. What was after this?
		
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			What usually comes next if you see it
		
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			like a Muslim person pray from the standing
		
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			what do they do?
		
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			The Yeah. So they're gonna do the bowing
		
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			which is called the.
		
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			And then
		
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			yeah. And then you have a prostration.
		
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			And then
		
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			the last piece.
		
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			Awesome.
		
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			Yeah. You're gonna do a final sitting.
		
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			So this is what is obligatory
		
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			in a prayer.
		
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			The only part where you have to say
		
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			something
		
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			is in this section
		
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			reciting
		
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			any short verse of the Quran.
		
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			When you talk to somebody
		
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			who is Muslim
		
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			they might tell you what is the last
		
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			kind of element of it. You gotta memorize
		
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			this chapter and say all these verses And
		
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			when you're bowing you have to say this,
		
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			and when you're prostrating you have to say
		
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			this, and it can become very overwhelming.
		
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			The idea is that as you are doing
		
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			this in the window of time you are
		
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			at a reasonable pace learning what are the
		
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			other elements.
		
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			These are the obligatory
		
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			parts. So if this doesn't happen in the
		
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			course of the prayer, then the prayer doesn't
		
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			count.
		
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			The next section that we're going to talk
		
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			about now are going to be what's called
		
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			the necessary
		
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			or wajib
		
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			parts to the prayer.
		
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			So the relationship between this and this
		
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			is this is essentially like the skeleton of
		
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			the prayer.
		
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			And this column is gonna be what adds
		
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			like kind of flesh to the prayer.
		
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			And then next week what we're gonna discuss
		
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			is going to
		
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			be what are the recommended
		
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			practices
		
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			or what are called Sunnah.
		
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			And this is what'll add kind of
		
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			ornamental like beauty to the prayer. Does that
		
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			make sense? So you conceptualize this as your
		
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			physical body.
		
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			Like here is the innermost part of you,
		
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			that skeleton.
		
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			Building upon it now are these necessary actions.
		
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			And
		
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			here is then what is that kind of
		
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			final phase
		
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			of the prayer itself.
		
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			What most people get and what most people
		
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			give right from the onset is this bucket
		
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			right here.
		
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			And it becomes really overwhelming
		
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			as you'll see as we build this list
		
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			out. Is gonna go from just these 6
		
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			things to a lot more stuff that says,
		
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			here, figure all of this out.
		
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			And you don't want to do that in
		
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			a way that is either overwhelming the person
		
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			you're trying to teach
		
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			or also kind of overwhelming yourself if you're
		
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			trying to figure it out. Do you know
		
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			what I mean?
		
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			Because the posture is here and the mechanics
		
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			to this
		
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			make it very simple
		
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			as you're learning these other boxes.
		
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			Right? And you can do this in a
		
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			way that also creates an ease as you're
		
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			getting acclimated to like the schedule of things.
		
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			You know, somebody has not prayed
		
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			5 times a day in their life ever.
		
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			Somebody has never woken up at sunrise before.
		
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			Let alone tries to figure out now, like,
		
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			as they've woken up, Like, how do I
		
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			do this in a way that also
		
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			I am not dealing with dejection because I
		
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			don't know these words. I don't know if
		
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			I'm doing every single thing right. Right?
		
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			But the notion is such that in Islam,
		
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			like God knows his creation better than his
		
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			creation knows
		
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			itself. And so there's going to be a
		
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			pedagogy
		
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			to like teaching
		
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			that isn't just simply enough to say that
		
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			because a Muslim person prays, they know how
		
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			to teach us how to pray. You know,
		
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			and someone might just give you what they
		
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			have in the first place. But if they're
		
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			giving you this last bucket as a first
		
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			step it can create like a lot of
		
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			stress. Do you get what I mean? So
		
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			this is where you want to see like,
		
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			for somebody who's new to it. Somebody's building
		
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			a relationship.
		
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			It becomes a reason as to why they
		
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			would do this. And we're working our way
		
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			towards this box, which we're going to talk
		
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			about this one next week. And we're going
		
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			to go through this section today. Does that
		
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			make sense?
		
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			Okay.
		
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			So where
		
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			you have now in the necessary
		
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			acts
		
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			I'm gonna use a different color marker.
		
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			You're going to have
		
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			And you want to kind of compare these
		
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			2.
		
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			So the necessary
		
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			acts the first one is going to be
		
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			actually saying
		
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			the words Allahu Akbar.
		
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			Whereas here
		
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			you could say something that's just glorifying God
		
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			in some capacity.
		
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			Right? But here now
		
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			the actual words of saying Allahu Akbar
		
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			At the initiation
		
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			of the prayer,
		
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			when you're beginning the prayer in the Tahrimah,
		
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			as opposed to some other form
		
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			of kind of remembrance of God. Does that
		
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			make sense?
		
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			Right? So this phrase wouldn't be something that
		
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			like describes
		
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			God in his essence, but just something that
		
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			is kind of praising God, glorifying God. And
		
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			now here the specifics of it are going
		
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			to be that you say Allahu Akbar
		
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			in this opening
		
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			thing that's called the Tahrima. Right? And for
		
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			those who aren't here,
		
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			like a lot of you have probably heard
		
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			the word haram before.
		
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			It means strictly prohibited.
		
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			So those letters are still in this word.
		
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			Right? Tahrima haram.
		
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			You can hear like the letters in both
		
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			that are similar.
		
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			So the idea with this is that when
		
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			you're entering into prayer,
		
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			you're now rendering for that portion of time
		
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			things that are normally permissible. They're going to
		
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			be impermissible
		
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			for some period of time. Right? Like you're
		
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			not going to be talking to your friend
		
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			while you're praying. You're You're not gonna pick
		
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			up the phone while you're praying. You're not
		
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			eating a sandwich when you're praying. You know,
		
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			I used the example last week where a
		
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			friend of mine who used to live with
		
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			me before I got married. It was like
		
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			the time of our sunset prayer.
		
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			And I said, hey, we gotta pray. And
		
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			he was watching the NBA finals. And you've
		
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			been to my apartment before, with some of
		
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			you have, like their TV faces the direction
		
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			kind of of Mecca.
		
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			And so he said, okay. Let's pray. And
		
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			he just muted the television, but the game
		
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			was still going on. And I was like,
		
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			hey, man. Like, that's not gonna work. And
		
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			he was like, no, it's fine. I'm not
		
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			gonna watch it. And I'm like, no. Like,
		
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			what do you mean? It's literally a flat
		
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			screen right in front of us. How would
		
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			you not watch it? The challenge isn't one
		
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			of anything judgmental,
		
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			but it can't have like simultaneous
		
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			actions
		
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			happening
		
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			in the course of the prayer. You can't
		
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			be like watching TV while you're praying the
		
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			ritual prayer. You know, just like you wouldn't
		
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			be
		
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			like walking or doing different actions simultaneously.
		
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			Right? So the tahrimah
		
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			is putting you in that state that in
		
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			that moment, it's not that it's religiously impermissible
		
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			to talk, but in the course of the
		
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			prayer you're not going to be speaking to
		
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			someone. Does that make sense? So transitioning from
		
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			here to here, the specifics
		
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			of it are that you are going to
		
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			start
		
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			entering the prayer
		
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			with this phrase
		
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			right at the onset.
		
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			Allahu Akbar
		
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			that
		
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			God is
		
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			greater. God is the greatest.
		
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			Does that make sense?
		
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			And you want to think about it from
		
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			the standpoint of mindfulness.
		
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			Right? They're not just words that are being
		
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			uttered,
		
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			but it's giving an affirmation. Right? God is
		
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			greater than that anxiety that I feel. God
		
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			is greater
		
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			than the argument that I have. God is
		
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			greater than the boss who won't let me
		
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			pray this prayer. Right? You're in this space
		
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			where you are now affirming
		
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			that I am here
		
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			standing in front of my creator.
		
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			Islam is a very pure monotheism.
		
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			You don't need somebody who is quote unquote
		
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			religious to lead you in prayer. You don't
		
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			need somebody else to like supplicate to God
		
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			for you. Your prayer is heard across the
		
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			board.
		
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			There's not somebody who can sanctify for you.
		
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			There's not somebody who is more elevated than
		
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			you. Like your voice is as important
		
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			and in this you're affirming that whatever it
		
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			is that I'm stepping away from
		
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			God is greater than this.
		
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			Right? And I'm literally at a moment now
		
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			of replenishment inwardly
		
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			that this is meant to be a spiritual
		
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			exercise
		
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			that is helping me to connect to the
		
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			divine
		
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			and allowing for me to see it as
		
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			a means to something not as an ends.
		
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			Does that make sense? Right? So that initial
		
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			Allahu Akbar
		
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			it's giving that affirmation.
		
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			The second
		
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			necessary act is the recitation
		
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			of the first chapter,
		
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			which is called
		
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			Al Fatiha,
		
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			meaning
		
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			the opening.
		
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			If you miss, like, the 3 or 4
		
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			weeks that we went through each verse, I
		
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			would recommend listening to the podcast, listening to
		
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			it on YouTube, or just shoot me an
		
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			email and we can kinda talk it out.
		
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			Because there's a lot of depth that's in
		
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			this chapter and there's a reason as to
		
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			why
		
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			it's something that is supposed to be recited
		
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			in every cycle of prayer again and again
		
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			that you can pull so much from it.
		
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			Do you know? And translations are important. You
		
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			don't want to knock translations.
		
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			I was talking to somebody
		
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			just earlier today who is interested in becoming
		
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			Muslim
		
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			and he saw 2 translations of the Quran
		
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			on my desk and he said do you
		
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			think there's a limitation to me just engaging
		
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			the translation?
		
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			I said, no. Like when you think about
		
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			where Islam started, it starts in a Mecca
		
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			in Arabia
		
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			and it now extends.
		
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			And the communities that are in existence at
		
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			that time are not all Arabic speaking communities.
		
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			There's Byzantines,
		
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			and Persians, and Romans, and huge empires
		
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			in Abyssinia, what is Ethiopia, and so many
		
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			other places where people don't speak Arabic.
		
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			And when people are going to exchange ideas
		
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			and have conversations,
		
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			and they're talking about this new religion that
		
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			exists now in Mecca.
		
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			They're talking through translation.
		
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			They're engaging in translation.
		
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			Where you can find meaning
		
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			through knowing primary language. Nobody can say that
		
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			that's not something that's advantageous,
		
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			but it doesn't mean that where you're at
		
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			is some place that is somehow not also
		
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			where you're supposed to be. Like you're working
		
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			towards something. Do you know what I mean?
		
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			So you want to
		
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			build that relationship with it and not just
		
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			the translation but the meaning
		
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			and that is going to be something that's
		
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			a necessary act. Right? Which is where we
		
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			were telling people that you want to start
		
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			to memorize it
		
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			and have it be one of the first
		
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			things that you're adding now
		
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			to this part of the prayer.
		
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			This is going to happen in the standing
		
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			position.
		
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			So in that standing,
		
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			you're going to recite this,
		
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			and it's going to be recited
		
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			as a necessary
		
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			act. Does that make sense? Does anybody have
		
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			any questions on that?
		
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			What I would suggest if you haven't started
		
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			to memorize it already
		
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			just like week by week. You are spending
		
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			time like learning each verse,
		
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			you listen to it online,
		
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			and you just go at a pace that
		
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			makes sense for you. Because this is happening
		
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			as you are learning this in a reasonable
		
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			amount of time, you know. And reasonable is
		
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			very subjective.
		
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			But if you have the capacity
		
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			to kind
		
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			of recognize your ability to just absorb and
		
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			take in words,
		
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			We could probably right now, for example, I
		
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			don't know how old any of you are.
		
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			I'm 40 years old now at this point
		
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			in my life. And I know my white
		
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			beard probably tells a little bit about that.
		
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			But like, you know,
		
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			Khalid and I have some whites in our
		
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			hair. And I'm pretty sure like we could
		
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			put on something that we listened to in
		
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			the 90s, right? Or in the 80s that
		
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			we haven't listened to for decades.
		
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			And it would just flow from us like
		
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			we were hearing it yesterday, you know. That's
		
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			the capacity you're built with, right? You can
		
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			take in things and they will just like
		
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			come in some capacity
		
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			out because they're stored within you in a
		
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			place that you're not necessarily paying attention to.
		
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			So if you just go word by word
		
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			or verse by verse and be at a
		
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			place where you're patient.
		
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			The advantage of this not being here
		
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			is that you don't have to start with
		
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			an anxiety that says this doesn't count unless
		
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			this is happening.
		
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			Do you get what I
		
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			mean? And it allows for you to now
		
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			have a pursuit that says, like, hey, you
		
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			know what? There's not a time frame on
		
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			this that says I have to learn this
		
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			by tomorrow.
		
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			So I can go at a pace that
		
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			works for me, but I also still have
		
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			to recognize the pace that I can go
		
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			at. Do you know what I mean? So
		
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			if every day you're just learning one of
		
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			the words to the verse
		
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			then in a couple of weeks you would
		
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			have the whole thing under your belt.
		
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			Does that make sense?
		
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			So this first chapter is important
		
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			and it's in the necessary acts. That's why
		
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			we started with this so that we could
		
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			have that relationship with it. Does anybody have
		
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			any questions on this piece?
		
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			Does it make sense?
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			And building off of this you're going to
		
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			recite
		
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			1 long verse
		
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			or 3 short verses
		
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			from
		
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			any part of the Quran.
		
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			And that's why we're gonna look at those
		
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			2 chapters
		
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			in the coming week. One is called, which
		
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			in Arabic,
		
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			it means essentially like,
		
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			a multitude of, like, blessings.
		
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			Right? Like,
		
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			if you have any familiarity with Arabic as
		
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			a language,
		
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			words are built off of, like,
		
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			kind of patterns
		
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			with root letters.
		
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			Does that make sense? Is that like a
		
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			good description?
		
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			No. It's not. I can tell from your
		
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			faces. Great. Like, in,
		
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			in Arabic,
		
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			if you have,
		
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			the word for prostration is sajda
		
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			in Arabic.
		
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			And the place of prostration
		
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			is called masjid.
		
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			Right? It's got the same letters, right? A
		
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			book in Arabic is Kitab
		
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			and the word for office in Arabic is
		
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			Maqtab.
		
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			And the word
		
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			for library is Maqtaba.
		
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			Right? It's got the same letters. You see
		
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			what I mean? Right? So things follow patterns
		
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			and you just stick the letters in the
		
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			patterns
		
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			and they'll denote like a meaning.
		
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			And so
		
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			the word
		
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			for example, like the word for like
		
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			a lot of stars in Arabic is.
		
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			Right? Like we were just in Northern California,
		
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			my family and I. And my kids, like
		
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			we've taken them to different places before.
		
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			But if you ever been in the mountains
		
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			of Northern California,
		
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			or parts of like Reno, Nevada at night.
		
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			It's just like an open sky filled with
		
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			like beautiful array of stars. It's amazing to
		
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			see. It's very replenishing,
		
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			right? To go out into these places in
		
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			Islam
		
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			is very much so like a religion that's
		
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			based off of kind of having
		
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			this elemental relationship with the world around you.
		
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			We make
		
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			our kind of washing up for prayers with
		
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			water. You know, our prayers ourselves are based
		
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			off of like a cyclical pattern of the
		
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			sun. It's telling you to look at the
		
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			natural world around you.
		
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			So when there's like all of these stars
		
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			surrounding us
		
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			that would be described as kokab. Right? Just
		
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			like
		
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			thousands of stars all around you. The word
		
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			Gautha,
		
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			like you can hear how it has the
		
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			same kind of pronunciation as kokab. Gautha.
		
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			So Gautam isn't just blessing,
		
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			but it's like
		
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			tons of blessings.
		
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			You know, that chapter
		
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			is a chapter that like most Muslims memorize
		
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			because it's super short. Right? And there's a
		
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			ton of people who they just read that
		
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			in the prayer. It's got a lot of
		
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			deep meaning to it. The other chapter we're
		
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			going to look at is called Ikhlas
		
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			which is
		
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			sincerity.
		
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			And it talks a lot about like who
		
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			God is in Islam.
		
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			And next week we'll do a deep dive
		
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			into that.
		
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			And that's one of the also necessary components
		
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			is that you're
		
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			learning
		
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			and you're reciting either one long verse or
		
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			3 short verses
		
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			these two things
		
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			they're done in
		
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			the first
		
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			2
		
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			cycles of
		
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			each obligatory
		
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			prayer
		
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			and
		
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			in every cycle
		
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			of a voluntary prayer.
		
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			So if we just take a pause at
		
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			these three steps,
		
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			do you see how this is a lot
		
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			more than just this?
		
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			Right?
		
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			Yes or no?
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			And can you imagine
		
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			if this is what you were expected to
		
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			do
		
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			right from the minute, like, you become Muslim,
		
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			it's obligatory upon you to say your prayers.
		
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			So if somebody had to do even a
		
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			portion of these things or we're teaching somebody,
		
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			Okay. Now you got to do this, this,
		
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			this, and this, and this. Right? And they're
		
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			like, how? Like, how do I do this?
		
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			Do you know what I mean?
		
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			And all kinds of things that you'll see
		
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			people are trying to figure out that create,
		
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			like, more
		
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			stress.
		
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			Whereas, like, this is supposed to be a
		
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			replenishing act not an act that creates distress.
		
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			You see?
		
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			So this
		
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			is
		
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			like the next necessary act.
		
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			Any questions on this?
		
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			Yes? No?
		
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			Okay.
		
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			Then the next necessary act is to prostrate.
		
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			With
		
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			most of the forehead,
		
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			and the hard part
		
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			of the nose
		
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			touching the ground.
		
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			So your nose has 2 parts to it.
		
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			Right? This thing right here. Right? I got
		
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			a big nose, so it's easy to kinda
		
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			like look around. You can see, like, this
		
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			is the soft part of your nose. Right?
		
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			And this part is the hard part of
		
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			your nose. So when you're prostrating,
		
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			like this part of your nose should also
		
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			ideally be touching the ground.
		
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			Why are these mechanics important
		
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			in Islam?
		
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			Right? What do you think?
		
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			What I want you to do just because
		
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			now we're getting into things
		
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			that have mechanical
		
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			elements to them.
		
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			You wanna build an understanding of like why.
		
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			Like why is this something that
		
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			has like this much kind of detail to
		
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			it. If you can turn to the person
		
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			next to you, if you don't know their
		
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			names already just exchange names. You want to
		
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			start to think, right? The Quran is a
		
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			text and invites on every page it's reader
		
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			to not mute their intellectual capacity,
		
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			but to utilize their intellectual capacity. Right? To
		
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			be aware, to reflect, to contemplate.
		
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			So why are these things like things that
		
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			actually play a role
		
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			to
		
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			have some element
		
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			of kind of spiritual upliftment. And they're not
		
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			just like a checkbox to be able to
		
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			kind of assess am I good at this
		
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			or not? Do you get what I mean?
		
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			Like, why would it be defined in this
		
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			much detail? If you can turn to the
		
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			person next to you and just talk it
		
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			out for a couple of minutes, like, what
		
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			comes to mind? And then we'll come back
		
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			and discuss. Go ahead.
		
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			Okay. So what are some of the things
		
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			we're coming up with?
		
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			Like, why would this get to these details?
		
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			Why are they important to think about?
		
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			What did you discuss?
		
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			Do you wanna say something?
		
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			Uh-oh. You don't wanna say something?
		
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			Why don't you tell us what you talked
		
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			about?
		
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			I actually
		
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			always use my forehead. I was never
		
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			told about the nose.
		
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			And I was thinking since
		
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			Oh, interesting. Yeah. Amazing. What else?
		
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			And not just, like, limited to the prostration,
		
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			but all the mechanics. Right? Yeah. Go ahead.
		
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			We were sharing,
		
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			I said that it's best practice.
		
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			I said Hasid mentioned something about, like, humility
		
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			and,
		
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			like, how you present yourself in the very
		
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			past.
		
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			Okay. Like, what does that mean?
		
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			Like,
		
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			it's like how we sit on the ground
		
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			compared to sitting in shoes.
		
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			It's, like, the most the closest you are
		
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			to Allah is when you're
		
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			on on at ground level. So it's like
		
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			when you're prostrating,
		
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			it's
		
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			like you're in such that, like, that's the
		
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			closest you come to
		
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			engaging with Allah. Like, you're at the most
		
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			humblest
		
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			Yeah. Amazing. And what do you mean by
		
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			best practice?
		
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			Like, it's like,
		
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			like at work, we oftentimes
		
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			recommend to people, like, how to best
		
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			do something. Granted they don't have to do
		
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			it, but then somewhere down the line they
		
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			email us telling us this doesn't work. It's
		
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			kinda like that. It's
		
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			like you if you ask me what is
		
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			how do you get the maximum
		
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			cross screening
		
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			results that you can get? Like,
		
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			your face being
		
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			like, your vision being blocked, your face in
		
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			that position.
		
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			That that is how you do it. Not,
		
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			you know, still being able to kind of
		
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			look out of your peripheral ears. So like
		
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			something like that. Like
		
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			that makes sense. Just thinking of more What
		
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			is like the yield supposed to be? Yeah.
		
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			As at the end of this? Like what's
		
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			the impact
		
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			like, theoretically through all this supposed to be?
		
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			I worship.
		
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			Yeah. But to to in order to achieve
		
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			what?
		
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			Like a God consciousness, like a baqa.
		
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			Yeah. Right? So something that's internal.
		
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			Right? The external is meant to have an
		
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			impact
		
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			and it's it's a spiritual exercise. What else
		
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			anybody else? What did you discuss?
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			Structure of the so on. Yeah. And so
		
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			the word beta in Arabic means innovation. Right?
		
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			So you're not adding new things and these
		
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			kinds of things.
		
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			But think about any exercise that you have.
		
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			Do you know? And what the impact is,
		
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			and how you relate to it individually.
		
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			If you've never, for example, like, run before.
		
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			I used to run track.
		
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			I had played football. I was supposed to
		
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			play in college. You can tell because I'm
		
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			just a massive huge person. I'm sure, you
		
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			know, that's what you thought as soon as
		
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			you saw me.
		
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			And I got injured in my senior year
		
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			of high school, so I didn't end up
		
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			playing in college and recruiting stopped. I had
		
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			multiple concussions.
		
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			And
		
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			I did that for a while. I had
		
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			a trainer and, you know, all these kinds
		
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			of things.
		
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			And I have 2 children. My daughter's 10.
		
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			My son is 7. They're amazing. I love
		
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			them both.
		
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			And I remember seeing my daughter run,
		
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			like once some years ago, and I turned
		
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			to my wife and I was like, she
		
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			runs so weird.
		
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			Like
		
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			when she runs, it looks so crazy when
		
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			she runs. My wife said stop talking about
		
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			your child. Right?
		
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			But it's not just about,
		
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			like, what you look like, but what it's
		
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			actually doing to your body.
		
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			If you don't if you most of us,
		
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			if we went to a physical therapist,
		
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			you know, and you just show them how
		
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			you step,
		
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			and where and how our walking isn't done
		
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			properly.
		
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			Again. It's like
		
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			a slow yield
		
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			on really messing up kind of your physical
		
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			being. Do you get what I mean? Right?
		
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			Or you go to a doctor
		
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			and you go to the dentist. I don't
		
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			know how many of you go to the
		
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			dentist.
		
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			I particularly don't go to the dentist as
		
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			much as I should.
		
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			And where and how you can talk to
		
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			the dentist. And the dentist will say, like,
		
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			if you don't start doing these things, you
		
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			will not have teeth in your mouth when
		
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			you are older.
		
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			Right? It's a prescription
		
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			that necessitates
		
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			understanding
		
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			a connection to a regimen
		
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			that then yields something. That if you deter
		
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			from it, like that's fine, but it's going
		
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			to have consequential
		
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			impact. It's a spiritual exercise.
		
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			It's gonna have mechanics. They're meant to, like,
		
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			go into a place. Does it mean you
		
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			would get nothing from it? No. If I
		
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			run ugly up a mountain, I still ran
		
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			ugly up a mountain, and I probably build
		
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			up endurance and lung capacity,
		
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			but it's not getting to the maximum
		
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			of what I could yield if I was
		
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			doing it formulaically
		
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			correctly. Do you know?
		
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			If I had never, like, exercised before. Right?
		
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			If any of you have tried to lift
		
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			weights. The first part to it, you're not
		
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			gonna lift as much as you automatically could
		
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			because you're getting used to, like, the balance
		
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			of something. Right? And doing something you've never
		
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			done before.
		
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			And when you do it for like a
		
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			month or a year, you're that much more
		
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			kind of innate in the practice. You get
		
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			what I mean? Does that make sense? So
		
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			these mechanics are outlined as the best practice
		
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			that allows for us to be able to
		
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			recognize
		
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			that in Islam,
		
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			like, God is telling you the best way
		
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			to engage in building a connection to him.
		
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			And
		
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			all of these things go in a sense
		
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			of 2 fold. 1, there's an ideal that
		
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			you wanna get to, which is that end
		
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			form.
		
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			And working your way to it is gonna
		
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			be a process.
		
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			And 2,
		
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			that that end result
		
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			is going to be what is not, like,
		
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			outwardly the goal, but inwardly will yield the
		
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			maximum potential
		
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			as a spiritual
		
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			exercise
		
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			for the deepest connection to God. Do you
		
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			see what I'm saying?
		
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			Does that make sense?
		
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			Right?
		
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			So as we start to go through some
		
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			of these things,
		
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			does it make a difference?
		
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			It makes a difference in terms of just,
		
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			like, the intentionality
		
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			behind it and recognizing
		
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			that I'm not the one that is determining
		
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			the best way to do this. Like, this
		
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			is being outlined for me, and I want
		
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			to have particulars with it. Do you get
		
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			what I mean? Does that make sense?
		
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			But just as you're starting out again, it's
		
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			a little bit more simple than that. Do
		
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			you know? Because you're getting used to things.
		
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			If you've never, like, prostrated your head to
		
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			the ground, you gotta get used to it.
		
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			Right? If you've ever been here when somebody
		
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			takes their shahada or they convert after jummah.
		
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			And I'm usually sitting just on my knees
		
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			because I've been sitting like that for a
		
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			long period of time. Right? People come and
		
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			they try to, like, mimic it, and then
		
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			their legs fall asleep, and they can't move.
		
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			And then when they try to stand up,
		
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			they, like, fall over. Because it never, like,
		
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			sat like that before. Do you know?
		
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			And I'll say it to them, you don't
		
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			have to sit like this. Like, it's not
		
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			something that's a part of this thing. You
		
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			can stay in the chair. You can do
		
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			this or that. But
		
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			it's something that there's a wisdom to it
		
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			being a gradual progression
		
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			because you have to get accustomed to even
		
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			being in those positions if you've never done
		
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			it before. Right? Who bows on a daily
		
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			basis?
		
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			Do you know?
		
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			And so just getting used to the posture.
		
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			Do you see what I mean? Right? Who
		
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			puts their forehead on the ground on a
		
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			daily basis?
		
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			Right? And just getting accustomed to it, and
		
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			then working your way to a place where
		
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			it becomes more precise. Does that make sense?
		
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			So here, this is now,
		
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			necessary
		
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			component
		
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			that you are prostrating in that way. Can
		
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			I erase this?
		
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			Yeah? Okay.
		
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			You're gonna have
		
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			then the performance
		
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			of
		
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			a second prostration
		
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			Before moving on
		
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			to other parts of the prayer.
		
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			So when I'm praying,
		
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			right,
		
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			I'm gonna be in the standing position,
		
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			I'm reciting
		
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			those verses from the Quran,
		
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			I'm going down into a bowing position,
		
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			And what we said was like standing,
		
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			if we were to give a definition to
		
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			it, is that you're standing straight enough that
		
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			your arms couldn't touch your knees.
		
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			Right? That's like the standing position.
		
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			And the bowing
		
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			is that you are bent enough so that
		
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			you could touch your knees.
		
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			Right? You want to be in a place
		
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			where as much as it is, it's creating
		
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			this kind of like 90 degree angle.
		
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			And from the bowing,
		
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			you're back in a standing position.
		
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			And then from here, you're going into a
		
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			prostration,
		
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			and you're gonna do that twice
		
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			in every cycle of the prayer when you're
		
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			going down. Does that make sense? Right? As
		
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			opposed to doing it just at a minimum
		
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			one time.
		
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			Do you get what I mean? Yeah?
		
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			Okay.
		
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			Then this one is gonna be really important
		
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			because it's easy to get away from it.
		
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			You want to be still
		
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			in
		
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			every,
		
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			integral
		
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			of the prayer.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			Does that include when you have the scratch
		
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			or something? What do you mean? Like, doing
		
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			it itchy?
		
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			Yeah. If you have, like, a itch, you
		
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			know, you could scratch it. Right? But as
		
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			you're building this as a spiritual exercise, what
		
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			people will say is like,
		
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			where your heart now starts to be present
		
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			in prayer, it starts to become like what
		
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			is kinda
		
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			overseeing the rest of your being. Do you
		
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			know? So it doesn't mean you become like
		
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			devoid of your surroundings necessarily. Like when you're
		
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			taught to lead the prayer, for example, right,
		
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			you have to be able to hear what's
		
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			going on around you. Because if you make
		
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			a mistake in the recitation,
		
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			somebody behind you is gonna correct you.
		
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			You can't hear them correct you if you
		
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			can't, like, hear what's going on around you.
		
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			Right? You're not in this, like, Jedi night
		
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			moment
		
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			where all of your senses are suddenly just
		
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			zeroed in to, like, what's right ahead of
		
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			you.
		
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			Or when you're taught to lead the prayer,
		
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			you're taught for example
		
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			to listen. Like if a baby cries,
		
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			you know, the prophet Muhammad peace be upon
		
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			him, he would shorten like the recitation of
		
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			the prayer. Because you don't want to cause
		
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			difficulty to the parent, you know. You're in
		
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			a place where you have like kids in
		
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			your life, right, and you hear them crying
		
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			in whatever capacity.
		
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			Like, do you get what I mean? Right?
		
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			So you want to limit
		
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			movements
		
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			unnecessarily,
		
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			in the course of your prayer. Right? But
		
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			stillness
		
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			is both in terms of, like, your actual
		
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			form in it, as well as, like, when
		
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			you're reaching, like, certain postures in the prayer.
		
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			Right? So I don't wanna, like, go up
		
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			and then down and up and down and
		
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			up and down without any kind of, like,
		
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			rest of it.
		
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			You know? Because then it's just, like,
		
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			not separate motions,
		
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			but just one, like, big movement altogether.
		
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			Right? And each of these is meant to
		
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			be its own posture. This becomes really hard
		
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			for people, you know?
		
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			Right? Like
		
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			there's,
		
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			social experiments that are done where individuals
		
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			are put in a place
		
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			of isolation,
		
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			and they're given like nothing
		
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			other than there's a button in the middle
		
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			of the room. And they're told, if you
		
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			push the button, it's going to shock you.
		
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			You know?
		
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			And then they're just left to their own
		
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			devices in the room.
		
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			And statistically,
		
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			like most people push the button.
		
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			Right?
		
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			More men
		
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			push in a higher number of times than
		
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			women,
		
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			and you'll have some that push it just
		
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			like a little bit, a couple of times,
		
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			a handful of times. And then there's some
		
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			people who are, like, pushing it a 100
		
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			times. Right? You're like, why would you do
		
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			that? Because people don't know how to be
		
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			with themselves.
		
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			Do you know what I mean? There's like
		
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			this constant need of having to exert,
		
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			relationship of something outward.
		
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			I don't know how to be still. Right?
		
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			In modernity,
		
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			there's so much that is amazing. You know,
		
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			we can literally land on Mars. We're in
		
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			a place where you can understand things at
		
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			a subatomic level. We could, right now, live
		
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			stream this to people all over the world.
		
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			I get emails from people after who aren't
		
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			here in person. I'm listening to this from
		
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			this part of the country. I'm listening to
		
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			this from here. I'm on your podcast here
		
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			or there. Right? Which is great.
		
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			Modernity also has certain gaps, and one of
		
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			the biggest gaps in the prism of modernity
		
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			is the diminishing of places of stillness.
		
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			That people don't know how to rest.
		
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			Do you know? And they don't know how
		
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			to find rest. That's why this is an
		
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			amazing pedagogy on teaching
		
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			because the idea isn't to create anxiety through
		
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			prayers, to create stillness through prayer. And you
		
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			wanna find stillness in each of these postures.
		
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			Right? You wanna be in a place where
		
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			you don't kinda
		
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			deny yourself,
		
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			but allow for yourself to take breaths in
		
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			the course of your prayer. Right? Let that
		
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			be something that releases, like, stress and allows
		
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			for you to have that much more focus.
		
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			Do do you get what I mean? Does
		
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			that make sense?
		
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			The next is gonna be
		
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			the first
		
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			sitting
		
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			in a prayer. So here we have as
		
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			an obligation a final sitting.
		
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			Right?
		
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			But this is going to be a first
		
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			sitting.
		
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			Prayers take place in units, cycles. In Arabic
		
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			it's called raka.
		
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			And you're gonna have, like, 2 cycles of
		
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			prayer, 3 cycles of prayer, 4 cycles of
		
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			prayer.
		
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			In anything that's more than 2,
		
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			there is going to be 2 sittings.
		
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			If you have 2
		
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			cycles of prayer, the sittings are just going
		
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			to be like 1 in the sense of
		
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			you're in that kneeling position
		
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			as, like, a culmination to the prayer. Does
		
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			that make sense?
		
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			So that first sitting is one of the
		
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			necessary acts in the course of the prayer
		
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			as well.
		
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			Then there's a part to this that after
		
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			we do
		
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			those 2 chapters
		
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			that you're gonna learn to recite in the
		
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			first cycle of prayer, there's something that's called
		
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			the,
		
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			And this is something
		
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			that you're going to recite
		
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			in each sitting
		
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			of the prayer.
		
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			So in a 2 cycle prayer you do
		
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			this once.
		
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			And in a 3 cycle prayer and 4
		
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			cycle prayer, you're going to
		
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			do it twice.
		
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			Right? The first part of it is replicating
		
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			a conversation that takes place,
		
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			between the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him,
		
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			and God,
		
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			over the course of,
		
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			a really vividly described,
		
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			like, moment
		
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			where the prophet is taken from his home
		
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			to the city of Jerusalem.
		
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			There he prays with every prophet
		
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			in
		
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			a act of just kinda
		
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			overall religious
		
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			kinda
		
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			bond and unity.
		
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			And from Jerusalem he's taken into the heavens,
		
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			meets like a different prophet at every level
		
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			of heaven,
		
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			and ultimately
		
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			at the
		
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			kind of end culmination of
		
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			it, engages
		
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			in a direct conversation with God. And in
		
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			the course of that, you have the first
		
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			part of the which
		
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			is a conversation
		
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			with the prophet
		
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			and God,
		
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			Where it's essentially
		
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			like starting,
		
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			saying,
		
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			like, greetings
		
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			and well-being is like for God.
		
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			And all things that are good and prayers.
		
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			And the prophet is then given a response,
		
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			that
		
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			there's like a greeting of peace descended to
		
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			him. And then he responds again
		
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			that,
		
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			that greeting of peace is upon all of
		
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			us as well as like those who
		
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			are the righteous servants of God. Right? But
		
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			customary and the prophet, and we'll go into
		
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			it more deeper,
		
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			and explain each word. But it's like a
		
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			characteristic that whenever the prophet is given an
		
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			opportunity for a unique
		
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			blessing or privilege,
		
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			he's constantly asking for things for like all
		
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			of humanity,
		
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			for all people, like,
		
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			intercession,
		
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			you know, paradise, heaven, etcetera.
		
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			And then embedded in this is that you
		
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			say, like, the shahada
		
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			in some capacity.
		
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			And that's where you might see people, like,
		
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			raising their finger and this kind of stuff.
		
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			But this is something that's a necessary act
		
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			in each sitting of the prayer.
		
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			Then you're going to
		
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			to say salaam
		
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			at the
		
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			end of the prayer.
		
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			So in the obligations,
		
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			that's not like an obligatory
		
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			act.
		
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			Right? What you would do here is just
		
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			like end the prayer. You do an act
		
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			that one could easily discern is outside of
		
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			the course of the prayer. You know? You
		
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			like reach for your coffee. You like do
		
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			this. You do that. Do you you know
		
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			what I mean? Does that make sense? Yeah.
		
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			And then if you're leading in prayer,
		
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			right, the one leading the prayer,
		
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			recites
		
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			out loud
		
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			in the first two cycles
		
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			of an obligatory prayer.
		
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			So
		
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			the first prayer of the day is at
		
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			sunrise,
		
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			and the 4th prayer is at sunset, and
		
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			the 5th is at night.
		
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			And if you pray,
		
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			in
		
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			congregation, the person leading the prayer
		
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			is,
		
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			going to recite out loud,
		
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			in those first two cycles. The first chapter,
		
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			Surah Fatihah, and the portion of the Quran
		
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			that they're reading.
		
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			In the 2 middle prayers, like the one
		
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			that's at noon and in the mid afternoon,
		
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			it's not recited out loud.
		
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			And,
		
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			when you're reading alone,
		
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			In the other prayers or if you're leading
		
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			alone,
		
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			you read silently.
		
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			And silently means like
		
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			where if somebody was standing next to me,
		
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			like that person might be able to hear
		
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			what I'm saying.
		
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			But,
		
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			like, someone on the other side of the
		
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			room couldn't hear what I was reciting. Does
		
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			that make sense?
		
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			Okay. There's 2 other parts that fit to
		
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			this
		
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			that,
		
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			are related to the Eid prayer
		
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			as well as, like, another prayer is called
		
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			the wither prayer that we'll talk about another
		
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			day. We're taking, like, a quick pause here.
		
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			But what I'd love for you to do
		
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			is just talk about what you're taking away
		
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			from this, any kind of questions that come
		
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			up,
		
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			and then I'll be right back and we'll
		
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			wrap up with a couple of other things.
		
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			Yeah? Okay.
		
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			So where are people at? Where did you
		
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			take from this so far? What were you
		
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			talking about
		
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			in your kind of groups and conversations?
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			I was nice enough to talk to Hector
		
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			That,
		
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			I was sharing that being born into Islam,
		
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			I'm happy that you're breaking this down because
		
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			as a kid, you only know, like, what
		
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			I was saying the extreme right, which is
		
00:52:14 --> 00:52:14
			the sunnah.
		
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			So as growing up, if you don't do
		
00:52:17 --> 00:52:18
			it
		
00:52:19 --> 00:52:20
			like the sunnah,
		
00:52:20 --> 00:52:22
			sometimes people start pointing at you. Like, hey.
		
00:52:22 --> 00:52:24
			You missed this or you missed that,
		
00:52:25 --> 00:52:27
			or that wasn't correct. Or like, oh, it's
		
00:52:27 --> 00:52:29
			not you know, the whole prayer is, like,
		
00:52:29 --> 00:52:32
			not valid anymore. But I was telling Hector
		
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			that I'm happy that you kinda broke it
		
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			down like this
		
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			because,
		
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			it makes me feel better because maybe as
		
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			a kid,
		
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			like, I was technically doing everything right on
		
00:52:43 --> 00:52:46
			the left. Right? Like on a technical basis.
		
00:52:47 --> 00:52:49
			And even people in my family who,
		
00:52:50 --> 00:52:52
			didn't know how to read all the surahs
		
00:52:52 --> 00:52:54
			or knew how to do it,
		
00:52:55 --> 00:52:56
			that people may would have criticized,
		
00:52:57 --> 00:52:59
			they were technically doing
		
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			it correct.
		
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			So I was just saying that I'm happy
		
00:53:03 --> 00:53:05
			that I'm learning it,
		
00:53:05 --> 00:53:07
			how you're learning it even though I was
		
00:53:07 --> 00:53:09
			born born into Islam that
		
00:53:10 --> 00:53:11
			makes me feel better.
		
00:53:11 --> 00:53:13
			Yeah. So thank you. I'm glad to hear
		
00:53:13 --> 00:53:14
			that. Yeah.
		
00:53:14 --> 00:53:16
			Any other things that come up for people
		
00:53:16 --> 00:53:18
			with thoughts, reflections on things?
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			Great.
		
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			So what you wanna start to do is
		
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			as you're exploring
		
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			it, again, like, think out this part
		
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			and recognize.
		
00:53:33 --> 00:53:35
			Like, whatever part of the journey that you're
		
00:53:35 --> 00:53:38
			in is not something that requires you to
		
00:53:38 --> 00:53:39
			know everything
		
00:53:40 --> 00:53:40
			before
		
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			you become Muslim.
		
00:53:43 --> 00:53:44
			Right?
		
00:53:44 --> 00:53:47
			And where and how you might be building
		
00:53:47 --> 00:53:49
			a relationship again if you were born into
		
00:53:49 --> 00:53:49
			Islam,
		
00:53:50 --> 00:53:51
			being able to recognize
		
00:53:52 --> 00:53:52
			that
		
00:53:52 --> 00:53:53
			there's
		
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			different modes through which we can engage some
		
00:53:55 --> 00:53:58
			of this. It it still creates like an
		
00:53:58 --> 00:53:58
			ease
		
00:53:59 --> 00:54:00
			and we're working our way
		
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			towards like an end product.
		
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			And we want to start to
		
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			build a relationship with some of those necessary
		
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			parts. So you're going to like memorize the
		
00:54:11 --> 00:54:13
			first chapter of the Quran, Surah Fateha,
		
00:54:14 --> 00:54:16
			and then some of those smaller chapters that
		
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			we talked about and kinda plunge into it
		
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			a little bit.
		
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			So a couple of other things.
		
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			I know we're kind of at a time
		
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			that we normally stop. If anybody has to
		
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			leave, feel free.
		
00:54:28 --> 00:54:30
			But just to go through a couple of
		
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			things really quickly,
		
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			we're going to resume kinda
		
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			looking at the alphabet again,
		
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			which we had done, like, some weeks ago
		
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			and went through the first handful of letters.
		
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			I'm going to
		
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			bring those whiteboards
		
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			that,
		
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			Kiara brought for everybody and we'll pass those
		
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			out so that you can start to practice
		
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			that in real time.
		
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			And next week, we'll start to look at
		
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			the recommended acts, which is that last bucket.
		
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			And we'll look at those 2 chapters,
		
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			the 2 shorter ones, so we can start
		
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			to build a relationship with some of those
		
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			things. I know there's some people who weren't
		
00:55:08 --> 00:55:11
			here like, months ago when we talked about,
		
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			like, a similar breakdown to how to wash
		
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			up for prayer,
		
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			and what are the kind of obligatory aspects
		
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			and the necessary aspects of these kinds of
		
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			things. So why are these things important for
		
00:55:22 --> 00:55:23
			example?
		
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			Well, there's other situations beyond just learning how
		
00:55:26 --> 00:55:27
			to pray
		
00:55:27 --> 00:55:29
			that you want to know what are the
		
00:55:29 --> 00:55:32
			necessary components and the obligatory components.
		
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			Because
		
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			you might have to, in a situation,
		
00:55:36 --> 00:55:39
			do something that's not like the norm. Right?
		
00:55:39 --> 00:55:40
			So right now, for example,
		
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			is the window of time for the 4th
		
00:55:43 --> 00:55:45
			prayer, the 3rd prayer of the day, the
		
00:55:45 --> 00:55:47
			Asar prayer, which is the mid afternoon prayer.
		
00:55:48 --> 00:55:50
			Right? The next prayer of the day doesn't
		
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			start for a little less than an hour.
		
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			So you still have some time. Do you
		
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			know what I mean?
		
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			But,
		
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			like, these prayers have windows of time. So
		
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			say, for example, you woke up tomorrow morning,
		
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			and you're Muslim,
		
00:56:04 --> 00:56:06
			and you're supposed to be praying.
		
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			And the first prayer of the day, the
		
00:56:09 --> 00:56:09
			prayer,
		
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			it goes right now from, like, 4 AM
		
00:56:13 --> 00:56:13
			ish
		
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			till about 5:45
		
00:56:15 --> 00:56:16
			in the morning.
		
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			And you wake up tomorrow at 5:40 in
		
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			the morning.
		
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			You get what I mean? You have 5
		
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			minutes
		
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			to
		
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			wash up and pray the prayer. Does that
		
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			make sense?
		
00:56:28 --> 00:56:29
			So situationally,
		
00:56:30 --> 00:56:32
			like, when you're washing up for prayer, you
		
00:56:32 --> 00:56:34
			might only do the obligatory
		
00:56:34 --> 00:56:36
			parts to it. And you might have to
		
00:56:36 --> 00:56:38
			just do what's the bare minimum
		
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			so that you actually pray within the course
		
00:56:42 --> 00:56:43
			of the window of time. Do you get
		
00:56:43 --> 00:56:46
			what I mean? And you can adapt to
		
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			it. Right? It's not like the ideal,
		
00:56:49 --> 00:56:52
			but that circumstance might come up. Do you
		
00:56:52 --> 00:56:55
			get what I'm saying? Right? Or situationally,
		
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			for example, you're at the workplace,
		
00:56:58 --> 00:57:00
			and you have to figure out how am
		
00:57:00 --> 00:57:00
			I Muslim
		
00:57:01 --> 00:57:03
			in a place that Islam is not the
		
00:57:03 --> 00:57:03
			norm.
		
00:57:04 --> 00:57:06
			Like what do I do in these situations
		
00:57:06 --> 00:57:08
			that's different from when I'm in the comfort
		
00:57:08 --> 00:57:09
			of my own apartment?
		
00:57:09 --> 00:57:11
			Or if my family is not Muslim, and
		
00:57:11 --> 00:57:13
			they don't know that I'm Muslim. Like how
		
00:57:13 --> 00:57:15
			do I kind of manage some of these
		
00:57:15 --> 00:57:16
			things still
		
00:57:16 --> 00:57:19
			that require me to be able to still
		
00:57:19 --> 00:57:20
			get done what I need to get done,
		
00:57:21 --> 00:57:22
			but in a place situationally
		
00:57:23 --> 00:57:25
			where I know how to adapt and apply
		
00:57:25 --> 00:57:26
			it
		
00:57:26 --> 00:57:29
			that other people might not understand the nuance
		
00:57:29 --> 00:57:32
			of that. Right? And the generalization I'm comfortable
		
00:57:32 --> 00:57:34
			making is, like, sometimes people who are born
		
00:57:34 --> 00:57:35
			into it,
		
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			they don't get what it's like to actually
		
00:57:37 --> 00:57:38
			convert into it.
		
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			And they don't know how to kind of
		
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			give it to us in a way that
		
00:57:43 --> 00:57:45
			allows for us to think about this like
		
00:57:45 --> 00:57:45
			situationally.
		
00:57:46 --> 00:57:46
			Do you know?
		
00:57:47 --> 00:57:49
			And see where there is like flexibility and
		
00:57:49 --> 00:57:51
			see where there's malleability.
		
00:57:51 --> 00:57:53
			Do you get what I mean? It doesn't
		
00:57:53 --> 00:57:53
			mean that everybody
		
00:57:54 --> 00:57:57
			who is kind of giving us instruction
		
00:57:57 --> 00:57:59
			is in a place where they're doing it
		
00:57:59 --> 00:57:59
			maliciously.
		
00:57:59 --> 00:58:01
			But people are only going to give to
		
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			you what you possess, what they possess in
		
00:58:04 --> 00:58:04
			the first place.
		
00:58:05 --> 00:58:07
			And they're going to think about it in
		
00:58:07 --> 00:58:07
			this way.
		
00:58:08 --> 00:58:09
			I want you to be able to relate
		
00:58:09 --> 00:58:10
			to this
		
00:58:10 --> 00:58:13
			whether you are Muslim or not in a
		
00:58:13 --> 00:58:14
			way that allows for you to think this
		
00:58:14 --> 00:58:15
			out situationally
		
00:58:16 --> 00:58:17
			so it doesn't create anxiety.
		
00:58:18 --> 00:58:19
			But you can be like, oh, man.
		
00:58:20 --> 00:58:22
			I just woke up and there's 5 minutes
		
00:58:22 --> 00:58:25
			left to pray. You know? I was stuck
		
00:58:25 --> 00:58:26
			in that meeting,
		
00:58:26 --> 00:58:28
			and I didn't know how to tell my
		
00:58:28 --> 00:58:30
			boss that I gotta leave. Or I was
		
00:58:30 --> 00:58:32
			taking this exam, and I lost track of
		
00:58:32 --> 00:58:34
			time. And there's, like, 3 minutes to get
		
00:58:34 --> 00:58:36
			this thing done. Do you get what I'm
		
00:58:36 --> 00:58:39
			saying? Right? The ability to adapt.
		
00:58:39 --> 00:58:41
			I'll give you a better example. Like when
		
00:58:41 --> 00:58:42
			you wash up for prayer,
		
00:58:43 --> 00:58:45
			there's a chapter in the Quran that has
		
00:58:45 --> 00:58:46
			a verse
		
00:58:46 --> 00:58:48
			that is the basis for the washing up.
		
00:58:49 --> 00:58:50
			And it mentions
		
00:58:51 --> 00:58:53
			everything in the washing up of the prayer,
		
00:58:53 --> 00:58:54
			your body parts,
		
00:58:55 --> 00:58:57
			other than the mouth and the nose. So
		
00:58:58 --> 00:59:01
			you're gonna wash, like, your face. You're gonna
		
00:59:01 --> 00:59:04
			wash your arms up to the elbows. You're
		
00:59:04 --> 00:59:07
			gonna wipe over your head. You're gonna wash
		
00:59:07 --> 00:59:08
			your feet up to the ankles. Your hands
		
00:59:08 --> 00:59:10
			get washed in the course of this as
		
00:59:10 --> 00:59:11
			well.
		
00:59:11 --> 00:59:14
			The verse doesn't mention the number of times
		
00:59:14 --> 00:59:17
			you wash something. The order in which it's
		
00:59:17 --> 00:59:17
			watched,
		
00:59:18 --> 00:59:19
			is not an obligation.
		
00:59:19 --> 00:59:21
			Do you know? These kinds of things as
		
00:59:21 --> 00:59:23
			well as the rinsing of the mouth and
		
00:59:23 --> 00:59:23
			your nose.
		
00:59:24 --> 00:59:25
			Why do you want to know these things
		
00:59:25 --> 00:59:26
			situationally?
		
00:59:26 --> 00:59:27
			Right?
		
00:59:27 --> 00:59:28
			I had some students
		
00:59:29 --> 00:59:32
			who called me as the sun was setting
		
00:59:32 --> 00:59:34
			and that window of time, the 4th prayer
		
00:59:34 --> 00:59:35
			time is coming to a close. This is
		
00:59:35 --> 00:59:38
			in the winter and they're sledding in Central
		
00:59:38 --> 00:59:39
			Park. And they're,
		
00:59:39 --> 00:59:41
			like, what do we do? Like, we have
		
00:59:41 --> 00:59:43
			to wash up for prayer. Can we use
		
00:59:43 --> 00:59:46
			the snow? The answer is, like, yes. You
		
00:59:46 --> 00:59:47
			can use snow.
		
00:59:47 --> 00:59:49
			There are different types of water you can
		
00:59:49 --> 00:59:52
			wash up with and clean snow. Not like
		
00:59:52 --> 00:59:55
			yellow snow, but white snow you can wash
		
00:59:55 --> 00:59:55
			up with.
		
00:59:56 --> 00:59:58
			And they have to be able to know
		
00:59:58 --> 00:59:59
			in that circumstance,
		
01:00:00 --> 01:00:03
			like, how to make wudu to wash up
		
01:00:03 --> 01:00:04
			with snow.
		
01:00:04 --> 01:00:06
			If somebody tells you,
		
01:00:06 --> 01:00:07
			you have to,
		
01:00:08 --> 01:00:08
			obligatory,
		
01:00:09 --> 01:00:11
			rinse out your mouth and your nostrils.
		
01:00:12 --> 01:00:13
			What are these guys gonna do? Like shove
		
01:00:13 --> 01:00:15
			snow up their nose?
		
01:00:15 --> 01:00:15
			Right?
		
01:00:16 --> 01:00:18
			But how would you know the difference
		
01:00:18 --> 01:00:21
			if what somebody told you is not something
		
01:00:21 --> 01:00:23
			that you can adapt situationally?
		
01:00:24 --> 01:00:26
			It's just the end result
		
01:00:26 --> 01:00:28
			and at the end of it, you're like
		
01:00:28 --> 01:00:30
			shoving snow in your socks
		
01:00:30 --> 01:00:33
			and you're gargling snow. Do you get what
		
01:00:33 --> 01:00:36
			I'm saying? Right? Does that make sense? So
		
01:00:36 --> 01:00:38
			we wanna learn it in these ways
		
01:00:39 --> 01:00:39
			methodically
		
01:00:40 --> 01:00:42
			so that you can then learn how to
		
01:00:42 --> 01:00:44
			adapt in the course of it. Right? And
		
01:00:44 --> 01:00:46
			that's why I'm saying let me know if
		
01:00:46 --> 01:00:48
			you miss some of those things. We could
		
01:00:48 --> 01:00:49
			go through it. You know, like, if you
		
01:00:49 --> 01:00:51
			wear a headscarf
		
01:00:51 --> 01:00:53
			and you have to wipe up for you
		
01:00:53 --> 01:00:55
			wash up for prayer.
		
01:00:55 --> 01:00:58
			Right? The minimum that you have to wash
		
01:00:58 --> 01:00:58
			in some opinions
		
01:00:59 --> 01:01:01
			is just a fourth of your head. In
		
01:01:01 --> 01:01:04
			some opinions, it's just like any part of
		
01:01:04 --> 01:01:07
			your hair. So if I'm already kinda like
		
01:01:07 --> 01:01:10
			wrapped up and I'm in this, like, non
		
01:01:10 --> 01:01:11
			Muslim environment
		
01:01:11 --> 01:01:13
			that isn't conducive to this and I'm washing
		
01:01:13 --> 01:01:14
			up in the bathroom,
		
01:01:15 --> 01:01:17
			like, I don't have to take everything off.
		
01:01:17 --> 01:01:19
			I could just, like, stick my head under
		
01:01:19 --> 01:01:21
			my scarf. So it doesn't create more anxieties.
		
01:01:21 --> 01:01:23
			Do you know what I mean? It might
		
01:01:23 --> 01:01:24
			not have to do anything with washing up
		
01:01:24 --> 01:01:26
			for prayer, but it's just like it took
		
01:01:26 --> 01:01:28
			me so long to put this on to
		
01:01:28 --> 01:01:30
			begin with. Now I have to kind of
		
01:01:30 --> 01:01:31
			unravel it and do it. Do you get
		
01:01:31 --> 01:01:34
			what I'm saying? Right? And so we want
		
01:01:34 --> 01:01:35
			to learn it in this way
		
01:01:35 --> 01:01:37
			so that you're able to then think out
		
01:01:37 --> 01:01:38
			in scenarios
		
01:01:39 --> 01:01:41
			something that allows for it to be easily
		
01:01:41 --> 01:01:44
			adapted to. You're gonna say something? Yeah. Thank
		
01:01:44 --> 01:01:46
			thank you. I just had a quick technical
		
01:01:46 --> 01:01:49
			question. Yeah. You talked about even talking about
		
01:01:49 --> 01:01:50
			the window of prayer.
		
01:01:51 --> 01:01:54
			I cut my prayers pretty close to keep
		
01:01:54 --> 01:01:55
			1 wudu.
		
01:01:55 --> 01:01:57
			Now when you for a hypothetical
		
01:01:57 --> 01:02:00
			situation, like say, I know this is not
		
01:02:00 --> 01:02:02
			Maghrib time, but say Maghrib
		
01:02:02 --> 01:02:03
			is at 8:30.
		
01:02:04 --> 01:02:08
			Do I have to finish the entire Asar
		
01:02:08 --> 01:02:09
			prayer right at
		
01:02:10 --> 01:02:13
			or, like, before the azan for Madhrib?
		
01:02:13 --> 01:02:15
			Yeah. You have to finish the prayer before
		
01:02:15 --> 01:02:17
			the time of the next prayer comes. Or
		
01:02:17 --> 01:02:18
			can I be in Asar prayer and then
		
01:02:18 --> 01:02:20
			the azan is going off? No. You can
		
01:02:20 --> 01:02:21
			finish the prayer,
		
01:02:22 --> 01:02:24
			but you wanna pray the prayer in its
		
01:02:24 --> 01:02:26
			entirety before the next prayers window starts.
		
01:02:27 --> 01:02:28
			Does that make sense?
		
01:02:29 --> 01:02:31
			No. Like, if you started to pray Asar.
		
01:02:32 --> 01:02:34
			Not yet. One minute to go before Maghrib.
		
01:02:34 --> 01:02:37
			Yeah. You wanna finish it before Maghrib starts.
		
01:02:37 --> 01:02:39
			But that Asr prayer is valid even though
		
01:02:39 --> 01:02:41
			Yeah. If you pray it during Maghrib time,
		
01:02:42 --> 01:02:43
			then you're praying it late.
		
01:02:44 --> 01:02:46
			Like, the entirety of it should be prayed
		
01:02:46 --> 01:02:48
			prior to the next prayer window coming in.
		
01:02:48 --> 01:02:50
			Does that make sense? Oh, but I might
		
01:02:50 --> 01:02:51
			have. But you wanna then that's why, like,
		
01:02:51 --> 01:02:54
			it's it's like you're doing what's the minimum
		
01:02:54 --> 01:02:56
			parts to it so it gets done. Do
		
01:02:56 --> 01:02:58
			you know? So if you stand to pray
		
01:02:59 --> 01:03:01
			and there's like 2 minutes to pray, and
		
01:03:01 --> 01:03:02
			in the first standing,
		
01:03:03 --> 01:03:05
			like you decide to recite
		
01:03:05 --> 01:03:07
			the longest chapter of the Quran, then,
		
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			you know, you're not understanding, like, the technical
		
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			aspects to it. Do you know what I
		
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			mean? So the performance of the prayer and
		
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			its window of time
		
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			is something
		
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			that
		
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			kinda trumps,
		
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			like, the longevity of a cycle of prayer.
		
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			Do you get what I mean? Like the
		
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			praying in its window of time is really
		
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			important.
		
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			So let's take a pause here and we'll
		
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			pick up next Wednesday.
		
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			And we'll see everybody then.
		
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			Thank you.